Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 38 38
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 2,361 1,730 1,863
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.33% 5.22% 4.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 5.77% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,473 1,159 1,186
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £407 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £597 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.00% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 49 39
10th Percentile £19.25 £15.50 £17.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.25 £24.34
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.40 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% -10.43% +2.27%
75th Percentile £53.87 £51.25 £55.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £71.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £24.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +45.83% -12.73% +20.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Business Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,102 30,004 32,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.46% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,718 18,629 19,703
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,326 1,885 1,303
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.52 £65.00 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.25
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.02% -2.94%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -11 2,040 £500 - 3,967
UK excluding London -13 1,069 £473 -4.35% 2,077
London -2 1,059 £500 -1.96% 2,095
Work from Home -3 667 £515 +3.00% 1,664
North of England -13 275 £450 - 512
South East -12 252 £500 -2.91% 538
Midlands -8 229 £470 -6.00% 350
West Midlands -15 171 £470 -8.83% 233
North West -13 148 £500 +12.36% 313
Scotland +22 128 £425 -15.00% 162
South West -29 115 £500 +3.90% 190
Yorkshire -5 103 £431 -4.17% 157
East Midlands +5 57 £475 +15.15% 117
East of England -20 57 £600 +20.00% 200
North East -30 28 £350 -22.22% 44
Wales 0 19 £350 +7.69% 55
Northern Ireland -1 14 £334 -37.86% 91

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 180 (7.62%) SharePoint
2 102 (4.32%) Confluence
3 57 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (1.78%) Apache
5 41 (1.74%) Apache Spark
6 36 (1.52%) SAS
7 17 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.34%) CMS
10 7 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.30%) IIS
10 7 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.25%) Mendix
12 5 (0.21%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.17%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.13%) Kentico
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.085%) Apache Superset
15 2 (0.085%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 369 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
4 42 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
5 38 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.89%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.64%) Revit
8 14 (0.59%) Navisworks
9 12 (0.51%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.47%) AutoCAD
10 11 (0.47%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
11 3 (0.13%) Productboard
12 2 (0.085%) Civil 3D
12 2 (0.085%) CPLEX
12 2 (0.085%) Notion
13 1 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 25 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
4 17 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 16 (0.68%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 16 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 16 (0.68%) Primavera
6 15 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
8 10 (0.42%) Aladdin
8 10 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
8 10 (0.42%) Workday HCM
9 9 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.34%) iTrent
10 8 (0.34%) Oracle Payroll
11 7 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
12 6 (0.25%) Maximo
13 5 (0.21%) Cloudability
14 4 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,802 (76.32%) Power Platform
2 752 (31.85%) Azure
3 285 (12.07%) AWS
4 236 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 206 (8.73%) PowerApps
6 202 (8.56%) Snowflake
7 201 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
8 161 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 127 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
10 122 (5.17%) Microsoft Copilot
11 119 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 114 (4.83%) dbt
13 113 (4.79%) Serverless
14 107 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
15 106 (4.49%) GCP
16 90 (3.81%) Amazon S3
17 76 (3.22%) GitHub
18 74 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
19 71 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
20 63 (2.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.55%) SSL
2 11 (0.47%) Firewall
3 9 (0.38%) Broadband
3 9 (0.38%) DNS
4 7 (0.30%) VPN
5 6 (0.25%) Network Security
6 2 (0.085%) CTI
6 2 (0.085%) Internet
6 2 (0.085%) NAS
6 2 (0.085%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.085%) SAN
6 2 (0.085%) VoIP
6 2 (0.085%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.042%) 5G
7 1 (0.042%) DHCP
7 1 (0.042%) Mobile Backhaul
7 1 (0.042%) MQTT
7 1 (0.042%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.042%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.042%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,797 (76.11%) Power BI
2 387 (16.39%) Data Warehouse
3 288 (12.20%) Tableau
4 201 (8.51%) Data Lake
5 166 (7.03%) SQL Server
6 164 (6.95%) Power Query
7 140 (5.93%) Metadata
8 84 (3.56%) Star Schema
9 75 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (3.13%) Looker
10 74 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 71 (3.01%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 71 (3.01%) Relational Database
12 70 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
13 60 (2.54%) Semantic Layer
14 57 (2.41%) BigQuery
15 53 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
15 53 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
16 49 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
17 43 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 186 (7.88%) JIRA
2 114 (4.83%) Git
3 45 (1.91%) GitLab
4 25 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (0.42%) RStudio
7 8 (0.34%) Selenium
7 8 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.34%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.30%) JMeter
8 7 (0.30%) MLflow
9 6 (0.25%) Postman
9 6 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.21%) ERwin
10 5 (0.21%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.17%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.17%) JDeveloper
11 4 (0.17%) JUnit
12 3 (0.13%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 766 (32.44%) Social Skills
2 631 (26.73%) Finance
3 571 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 159 (6.73%) Banking
6 110 (4.66%) Retail
7 81 (3.43%) Manufacturing
7 81 (3.43%) Marketing
8 67 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 62 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 52 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 52 (2.20%) Local Government
12 42 (1.78%) Legal
13 30 (1.27%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (1.06%) Publishing
16 24 (1.02%) Law
17 23 (0.97%) Billing
18 22 (0.93%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 561 (23.76%) Analyst
2 386 (16.35%) Developer
3 287 (12.16%) Data Engineer
4 275 (11.65%) Senior
5 255 (10.80%) Data Analyst
6 243 (10.29%) Architect
7 169 (7.16%) Lead
8 155 (6.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 151 (6.40%) Consultant
10 129 (5.46%) Business Analyst
11 124 (5.25%) Data Architect
12 104 (4.40%) Power BI Developer
13 68 (2.88%) Project Manager
14 64 (2.71%) Senior Developer
15 63 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 61 (2.58%) Power Platform Developer
17 60 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
18 59 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
19 49 (2.08%) Performance Analyst
20 46 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (5.08%) PySpark
2 114 (4.83%) Terraform
3 107 (4.53%) REST
4 80 (3.39%) .NET
5 79 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
6 43 (1.82%) Kafka
7 35 (1.48%) React
8 29 (1.23%) JSON
9 28 (1.19%) SOAP
10 25 (1.06%) HTML
10 25 (1.06%) Middleware
11 21 (0.89%) XML
12 18 (0.76%) CSS
13 14 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
14 13 (0.55%) Pandas
15 12 (0.51%) OAuth
15 12 (0.51%) RESTful
15 12 (0.51%) SPFx
16 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
17 10 (0.42%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 138 (5.84%) Data Structures
2 100 (4.24%) Management Information System
3 97 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 78 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 73 (3.09%) Cloud Native
6 65 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 36 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.44%) NHS
10 31 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 30 (1.27%) Clustering
12 26 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
13 24 (1.02%) Reference Data
14 23 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (0.93%) CMDB
16 21 (0.89%) FMCG
17 19 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
18 17 (0.72%) Replication
18 17 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (2.50%) Windows
2 35 (1.48%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.14%) Linux
4 25 (1.06%) Unix
5 8 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.25%) AIX
7 5 (0.21%) Android
7 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.13%) VMS
9 2 (0.085%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,012 (42.86%) Analytics
2 755 (31.98%) Data Modelling
3 600 (25.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 549 (23.25%) Agile
5 516 (21.86%) Decision-Making
6 496 (21.01%) AI
7 420 (17.79%) ETL
8 403 (17.07%) Visualisation
9 402 (17.03%) Data Governance
10 394 (16.69%) CI/CD
11 392 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
12 390 (16.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 378 (16.01%) Data Engineering
14 362 (15.33%) DevOps
15 358 (15.16%) Data Pipeline
16 351 (14.87%) Migration
17 336 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 332 (14.06%) Validation
19 297 (12.58%) Data Analysis
20 256 (10.84%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 1,083 (45.87%) SQL
2 507 (21.47%) Python
3 214 (9.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 113 (4.79%) JavaScript
5 92 (3.90%) C#
6 85 (3.60%) PowerShell
7 80 (3.39%) T-SQL
8 65 (2.75%) PL/SQL
9 49 (2.08%) R
10 44 (1.86%) Java
11 29 (1.23%) TypeScript
12 18 (0.76%) VBA
13 13 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.51%) Bicep
15 11 (0.47%) Bash
16 8 (0.34%) LookML
16 8 (0.34%) Scala
17 6 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.21%) Groovy
18 5 (0.21%) Korn
Qualifications
1 418 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 324 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 164 (6.95%) Degree
4 65 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 59 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.40%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.14%) PMI Certification
11 26 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 20 (0.85%) PMP
13 12 (0.51%) CISSP
14 11 (0.47%) ACCA
14 11 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 11 (0.47%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.42%) CIMA
15 10 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.30%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 612 (25.92%) Data Quality
2 110 (4.66%) QA
3 83 (3.52%) PMO
4 76 (3.22%) GDPR
5 48 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 26 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 26 (1.10%) SLA
7 20 (0.85%) GRC
8 19 (0.80%) ISO 19650
9 12 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
10 10 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.30%) NIST
13 6 (0.25%) COBIT
14 5 (0.21%) GMP
14 5 (0.21%) IFRS
14 5 (0.21%) Solvency II
15 4 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.17%) NCSC
15 4 (0.17%) P3O
System Software
1 46 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 35 (1.48%) Docker
3 15 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.085%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.042%) HDFS
6 1 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 34 (1.44%) Grafana
3 19 (0.80%) Ansible
4 16 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.55%) SCOM
6 7 (0.30%) Control-M
6 7 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (0.25%) SCCM
8 1 (0.042%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.042%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.042%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.042%) Kibana
8 1 (0.042%) Nagios
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.042%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.042%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 796 (33.71%) Microsoft
2 294 (12.45%) Databricks
3 238 (10.08%) Oracle
4 142 (6.01%) SAP
5 91 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 75 (3.18%) Google
7 56 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 46 (1.95%) Informatica
9 34 (1.44%) Alteryx
10 29 (1.23%) Workday
11 27 (1.14%) Splunk
12 25 (1.06%) Remedy
13 23 (0.97%) Denodo
14 17 (0.72%) Adobe
14 17 (0.72%) Autodesk
15 16 (0.68%) Dynatrace
15 16 (0.68%) VMware
16 15 (0.64%) BMC
16 15 (0.64%) OpenAI
17 14 (0.59%) Talend