Business Intelligence Contracts

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 47 54
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,866 2,102 3,904
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.94% 4.39% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 4.95% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 1,446 2,823
10th Percentile £300 £308 £358
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £719 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 51 43
10th Percentile £18.67 £15.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.75 £16.03
Median hourly rate £30.30 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% +19.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £55.33 £50.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £72.00 £45.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £22.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +27.07% +7.74% +13.51%

All Process and 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 32,485 42,500 74,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.01% 88.78% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,581 28,844 51,955
10th Percentile £308 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,261 1,574 1,700
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.93 £16.46
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.95 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% +36.28% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £43.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +75.00% +38.89%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Top 17 Contract 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 11 October 2024. 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 +12 1,678 £500 -2.44% 1,055
London +10 858 £523 -0.48% 395
UK excluding London +13 843 £475 -4.04% 701
Work from Home +5 596 £491 -1.75% 1,304
South East +22 231 £510 +2.00% 157
North of England +17 188 £450 -5.26% 213
Midlands +6 159 £448 -6.91% 108
South West 0 149 £525 -4.55% 80
West Midlands +6 128 £450 -7.69% 78
North West +7 108 £447 -4.84% 113
Yorkshire +40 76 £485 -3.00% 65
Scotland +14 61 £434 -8.63% 46
East of England -4 41 £425 -9.33% 65
East Midlands +8 30 £375 -11.76% 30
Wales +5 17 £425 -8.11% 17
Northern Ireland -6 12 £525 +133.33% 22
North East -16 6 £450 -13.04% 37

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 153 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 55 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 33 (1.77%) Oracle Workflow
5 31 (1.66%) Confluence
6 22 (1.18%) Apache
7 15 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 14 (0.75%) SAS
9 12 (0.64%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 6 (0.32%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.21%) Appian
11 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.16%) IIS
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) CMS
13 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.11%) Traefik
13 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 186 (9.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
8 2 (0.11%) Trello
9 1 (0.054%) CATIA
9 1 (0.054%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.054%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 54 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.82%) Aladdin
3 21 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (1.07%) Oracle EBS R12
5 15 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 12 (0.64%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 12 (0.64%) Oracle iProcurement
8 11 (0.59%) NEC Housing
8 11 (0.59%) Oracle HRMS
8 11 (0.59%) Oracle Internet Expenses
9 9 (0.48%) Cognos Business Intelligence
9 9 (0.48%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.27%) OPENHousing
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,110 (59.49%) Power Platform
2 513 (27.49%) Azure
3 191 (10.24%) PowerApps
4 168 (9.00%) AWS
5 162 (8.68%) Power Automate
6 151 (8.09%) Microsoft 365
7 126 (6.75%) Dynamics 365
8 105 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 99 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 73 (3.91%) Snowflake
12 54 (2.89%) GCP
13 53 (2.84%) Serverless
14 42 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
15 40 (2.14%) Azure Functions
16 38 (2.04%) SaaS
17 35 (1.88%) GitHub
18 33 (1.77%) Entra ID
19 30 (1.61%) OCI
20 29 (1.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.61%) Firewall
2 18 (0.96%) SAN
3 14 (0.75%) Internet
4 13 (0.70%) LAN
5 11 (0.59%) WAN
6 10 (0.54%) VPN
7 9 (0.48%) NAS
8 8 (0.43%) BGP
8 8 (0.43%) OSPF
9 7 (0.38%) DAB
9 7 (0.38%) EIGRP
9 7 (0.38%) FTP
9 7 (0.38%) Intranet
10 6 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.32%) DMVPN
10 6 (0.32%) Softphone
11 5 (0.27%) Skype
12 4 (0.21%) DNS
12 4 (0.21%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,104 (59.16%) Power BI
2 262 (14.04%) Data Warehouse
3 255 (13.67%) Tableau
4 214 (11.47%) SQL Server
5 128 (6.86%) Data Lake
6 100 (5.36%) Big Data
7 93 (4.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 87 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 86 (4.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 68 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 56 (3.00%) Power Query
12 54 (2.89%) Metadata
13 49 (2.63%) Qlik Sense
14 41 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
15 39 (2.09%) NoSQL
16 35 (1.88%) MySQL
16 35 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
17 34 (1.82%) Data Mining
18 33 (1.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
18 33 (1.77%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 76 (4.07%) JIRA
2 50 (2.68%) Git
3 27 (1.45%) Visual Studio
4 19 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
5 17 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.80%) GitLab
7 12 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.32%) ERwin
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (0.27%) MSI
9 5 (0.27%) Postman
9 5 (0.27%) tSQLt
10 3 (0.16%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.16%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.11%) kappa
11 2 (0.11%) Poetry
11 2 (0.11%) Selenium
11 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 729 (39.07%) Finance
2 501 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 451 (24.17%) Public Sector
4 373 (19.99%) Marketing
5 371 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
6 334 (17.90%) Manufacturing
7 321 (17.20%) Telecoms
8 311 (16.67%) Electronics
9 141 (7.56%) Banking
10 48 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
12 44 (2.36%) Front Office
13 41 (2.20%) Investment Banking
14 38 (2.04%) Legal
15 34 (1.82%) Retail
16 26 (1.39%) Local Government
17 25 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
18 24 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
19 19 (1.02%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 462 (24.76%) Analyst
2 422 (22.62%) Developer
3 198 (10.61%) Senior
4 187 (10.02%) Data Analyst
5 175 (9.38%) Architect
6 166 (8.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 143 (7.66%) Data Engineer
8 120 (6.43%) Consultant
9 118 (6.32%) Power BI Developer
10 105 (5.63%) Lead
11 101 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 98 (5.25%) Business Analyst
13 77 (4.13%) Senior Analyst
14 56 (3.00%) Power Platform Developer
15 52 (2.79%) Administrator
16 49 (2.63%) Data Architect
16 49 (2.63%) Power BI Analyst
17 48 (2.57%) Financial Analyst
18 45 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
19 42 (2.25%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (4.50%) .NET
2 59 (3.16%) PySpark
3 52 (2.79%) HTML
4 48 (2.57%) CSS
4 48 (2.57%) XML
5 37 (1.98%) REST
6 36 (1.93%) Web Services
7 28 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 28 (1.50%) JSON
8 25 (1.34%) .NET Framework
8 25 (1.34%) Kafka
9 19 (1.02%) ASP.NET
10 18 (0.96%) HTML5 Canvas
11 17 (0.91%) ADO
11 17 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (0.80%) SOAP
13 11 (0.59%) OAuth
13 11 (0.59%) YAML
14 10 (0.54%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (0.54%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 72 (3.86%) Management Information System
2 68 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 53 (2.84%) Data Structures
4 38 (2.04%) Hedge funds
5 35 (1.88%) NHS
6 33 (1.77%) Derivative
6 33 (1.77%) Fixed Income
7 32 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 30 (1.61%) Equities
10 24 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.07%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
13 19 (1.02%) Reference Data
14 18 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 18 (0.96%) CMDB
15 15 (0.80%) Low-Code
15 15 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (6.81%) Windows
2 52 (2.79%) Windows Server
3 32 (1.71%) Linux
4 20 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 17 (0.91%) Unix
6 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.27%) Android
7 5 (0.27%) VMS
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.11%) AIX
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.054%) Debian
11 1 (0.054%) Solaris
11 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (23.69%) Agile
2 438 (23.47%) Analytics
3 396 (21.22%) Data Modelling
4 327 (17.52%) Programme Management
4 327 (17.52%) Visualisation
5 319 (17.10%) Digital Marketing
6 315 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
7 274 (14.68%) ETL
8 225 (12.06%) Data Visualisation
9 222 (11.90%) Data Analysis
10 185 (9.91%) Decision-Making
11 177 (9.49%) DevOps
12 164 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 158 (8.47%) Scrum
14 151 (8.09%) Migration
15 146 (7.82%) Data Governance
16 138 (7.40%) Data Management
17 137 (7.34%) Project Management
18 124 (6.65%) Data Integration
18 124 (6.65%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 758 (40.62%) SQL
2 346 (18.54%) Python
3 106 (5.68%) PowerShell
4 93 (4.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 85 (4.56%) C#
5 85 (4.56%) JavaScript
6 69 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 60 (3.22%) PL/SQL
8 59 (3.16%) R
9 49 (2.63%) Java
10 27 (1.45%) VBA
11 16 (0.86%) Scala
12 14 (0.75%) Bash
13 11 (0.59%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.54%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.48%) Bicep
16 6 (0.32%) C++
17 5 (0.27%) C
17 5 (0.27%) VB
18 4 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 292 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 269 (14.42%) Degree
3 182 (9.75%) SC Cleared
4 102 (5.47%) DV Cleared
5 74 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 32 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (1.71%) PMI Certification
8 29 (1.55%) PMP
9 14 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.59%) CISSP
12 10 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.38%) CISA
14 6 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.27%) ACCA
15 5 (0.27%) CIMA
15 5 (0.27%) CISM
15 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Architect
16 4 (0.21%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (10.24%) Data Quality
2 46 (2.47%) QA
3 39 (2.09%) SLA
4 35 (1.88%) GDPR
5 33 (1.77%) PMO
6 32 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.75%) GxP
8 11 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.32%) HL7
9 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.27%) NIST
11 4 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.21%) GRC
11 4 (0.21%) MiFID
11 4 (0.21%) RMADS
12 3 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 82 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.54%) Docker
6 10 (0.54%) vSphere
7 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.27%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.054%) HDFS
11 1 (0.054%) NFS
11 1 (0.054%) Samba
11 1 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.054%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 40 (2.14%) Terraform
2 23 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.80%) SCCM
4 13 (0.70%) Ansible
5 10 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.32%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.32%) VxRail
8 5 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 3 (0.16%) AirWatch
10 3 (0.16%) SCOM
10 3 (0.16%) vRealize
10 3 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 2 (0.11%) Consul
11 2 (0.11%) Istio
11 2 (0.11%) Nessus
11 2 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 455 (24.38%) Microsoft
2 412 (22.08%) SAP
3 159 (8.52%) Oracle
4 132 (7.07%) Databricks
5 66 (3.54%) ServiceNow
6 52 (2.79%) VMware
7 46 (2.47%) Google
8 34 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.77%) Bloomberg
10 32 (1.71%) BISAM
11 29 (1.55%) Alteryx
12 26 (1.39%) Cisco
13 21 (1.13%) IBM
14 19 (1.02%) Cognos
15 16 (0.86%) Adobe
16 13 (0.70%) NEC
17 12 (0.64%) Citrix
17 12 (0.64%) Cloudera
17 12 (0.64%) Fortinet
17 12 (0.64%) Informatica