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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,901 1,826 2,114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.40% 5.04% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.00% 5.85% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,263 1,170 1,459
10th Percentile £293 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £714 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.03% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 37 54
10th Percentile £16.50 £19.93 £14.65
25th Percentile £18.59 £25.25 £20.18
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £29.91
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +0.30% +10.86%
75th Percentile £38.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £64.28 £66.74 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.54 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -14.41% +27.08% +1.60%

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 31,669 31,225 41,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.01% 86.16% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,839 18,782 27,829
10th Percentile £297 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.43% -3.16%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,104 1,592
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -18.92% +23.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.53 £33.00 £43.83
% change year-on-year -31.73% -24.70% +51.64%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Top 18 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 12 November 2025. 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 -1 1,689 £500 - 2,114
UK excluding London -4 875 £484 -1.22% 1,313
London 0 847 £500 -0.99% 1,041
Work from Home -3 557 £500 - 968
North of England -9 204 £425 -10.53% 301
Midlands -3 189 £500 +11.11% 258
South East -13 176 £515 +0.49% 428
West Midlands -4 146 £525 +16.67% 172
South West -1 137 £525 - 120
North West -7 115 £419 -11.84% 180
Yorkshire -18 72 £450 -7.22% 88
East of England +18 70 £518 +15.00% 110
Scotland +6 62 £500 +11.11% 60
East Midlands +4 42 £406 -4.47% 85
Wales 0 21 £308 -23.13% 29
North East -2 17 £175 -55.70% 34
Northern Ireland 0 16 £525 - 25
Channel Islands -3 1 - -

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
1 155 (8.15%) SharePoint
2 57 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (2.47%) Confluence
4 45 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 44 (2.31%) Apache
6 39 (2.05%) SAS
7 35 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
8 18 (0.95%) WebLogic
9 11 (0.58%) Skype for Business
10 10 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2003
10 10 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
10 10 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2010
10 10 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
10 10 (0.53%) HCL Notes
10 10 (0.53%) Office Communications Server
10 10 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
11 9 (0.47%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 8 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
13 7 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 325 (17.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.21%) Trello
9 2 (0.11%) Maple
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.053%) Notion
10 1 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 61 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 15 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
5 14 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
7 9 (0.47%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
7 9 (0.47%) Primavera
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.37%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.37%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.32%) SAP MDG
11 5 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 4 (0.21%) CA PPM
12 4 (0.21%) Eloqua
12 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,210 (63.65%) Power Platform
2 539 (28.35%) Azure
3 226 (11.89%) AWS
4 187 (9.84%) Power Automate
5 176 (9.26%) PowerApps
6 134 (7.05%) GCP
7 128 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
8 127 (6.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 121 (6.37%) Dynamics 365
10 112 (5.89%) Snowflake
11 108 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
12 103 (5.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 64 (3.37%) dbt
14 60 (3.16%) SaaS
15 53 (2.79%) Serverless
16 46 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
17 41 (2.16%) Entra ID
18 39 (2.05%) GitHub
19 38 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
20 37 (1.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.21%) Wireless
2 20 (1.05%) DNS
3 16 (0.84%) VPN
4 12 (0.63%) DHCP
5 11 (0.58%) SAN
6 10 (0.53%) DDNS
6 10 (0.53%) LAN
6 10 (0.53%) Unified Communications
6 10 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.47%) VoIP
8 7 (0.37%) Internet
9 6 (0.32%) Skype
10 5 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.26%) Firewall
10 5 (0.26%) Network Security
10 5 (0.26%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.26%) WAN
11 4 (0.21%) PSTN
12 3 (0.16%) BGP
12 3 (0.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,196 (62.91%) Power BI
2 269 (14.15%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (13.62%) Tableau
4 116 (6.10%) SQL Server
5 109 (5.73%) Data Lake
6 101 (5.31%) Power Query
7 83 (4.37%) Metadata
8 72 (3.79%) Oracle Reports
9 68 (3.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 63 (3.31%) Relational Database
11 59 (3.10%) BigQuery
12 52 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 51 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 47 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 44 (2.31%) Looker
16 41 (2.16%) Big Data
17 39 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
18 38 (2.00%) Oracle Database
19 33 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (1.74%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 133 (7.00%) JIRA
2 90 (4.73%) Git
3 34 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.58%) GitLab
4 11 (0.58%) MLflow
5 10 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 10 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.42%) DBeaver
7 7 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.32%) ERwin
9 4 (0.21%) Clang
9 4 (0.21%) GCC
9 4 (0.21%) NeoLoad
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.21%) Storybook
9 4 (0.21%) Subversion
10 3 (0.16%) JUnit
10 3 (0.16%) Postman
11 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 725 (38.14%) Finance
2 719 (37.82%) Social Skills
3 395 (20.78%) Analytical Skills
4 387 (20.36%) Public Sector
5 269 (14.15%) Marketing
6 253 (13.31%) Manufacturing
7 232 (12.20%) Telecoms
8 212 (11.15%) Electronics
9 131 (6.89%) Banking
10 52 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 52 (2.74%) Retail
11 51 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.16%) Legal
13 35 (1.84%) Investment Banking
14 33 (1.74%) Local Government
15 27 (1.42%) Front Office
16 25 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 429 (22.57%) Analyst
2 301 (15.83%) Developer
3 202 (10.63%) Data Analyst
4 180 (9.47%) Data Engineer
5 155 (8.15%) Lead
6 141 (7.42%) Architect
7 135 (7.10%) Senior
8 125 (6.58%) Consultant
9 114 (6.00%) Business Analyst
10 92 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 70 (3.68%) Power BI Developer
12 63 (3.31%) IT Support
13 62 (3.26%) Data Architect
14 47 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 46 (2.42%) Project Manager
16 43 (2.26%) Desktop Support
17 42 (2.21%) Power Platform Developer
18 41 (2.16%) Oracle Developer
19 38 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
19 38 (2.00%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (3.84%) REST
2 63 (3.31%) .NET
3 57 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 55 (2.89%) PySpark
5 32 (1.68%) Kafka
6 31 (1.63%) HTML
7 30 (1.58%) SOAP
8 26 (1.37%) JSON
9 25 (1.32%) Pandas
10 21 (1.10%) Web Services
11 20 (1.05%) CSS
11 20 (1.05%) RESTful
12 16 (0.84%) React
13 15 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
13 15 (0.79%) Middleware
13 15 (0.79%) XML
14 14 (0.74%) NumPy
14 14 (0.74%) SailPoint
14 14 (0.74%) scikit-learn
15 11 (0.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
1 50 (2.63%) Data Structures
2 44 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (2.26%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.16%) Onboarding
5 39 (2.05%) Data Centre
6 35 (1.84%) Cloud Native
7 33 (1.74%) Low-Code
8 32 (1.68%) Management Information System
8 32 (1.68%) NHS
9 25 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.10%) Replication
11 20 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 18 (0.95%) Derivative
13 18 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.79%) Equities
17 13 (0.68%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 81 (4.26%) Windows
2 53 (2.79%) Linux
3 33 (1.74%) Unix
4 31 (1.63%) Mac OS
5 30 (1.58%) Android
6 13 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.053%) AIX
10 1 (0.053%) Solaris
10 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (32.25%) Analytics
2 500 (26.30%) Data Modelling
3 421 (22.15%) Agile
4 416 (21.88%) Visualisation
5 380 (19.99%) Problem-Solving
6 303 (15.94%) ETL
7 290 (15.26%) Decision-Making
8 266 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 262 (13.78%) Data Analysis
10 251 (13.20%) Data Governance
11 243 (12.78%) Data Visualisation
12 235 (12.36%) Programme Management
13 229 (12.05%) Actionable Insight
14 224 (11.78%) Migration
15 222 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 216 (11.36%) DevOps
17 212 (11.15%) Digital Marketing
18 198 (10.42%) Data Pipeline
19 185 (9.73%) CI/CD
20 173 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 815 (42.87%) SQL
2 390 (20.52%) Python
3 107 (5.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 75 (3.95%) C#
5 71 (3.73%) JavaScript
6 69 (3.63%) PowerShell
7 61 (3.21%) R
8 54 (2.84%) PL/SQL
9 49 (2.58%) Java
10 33 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.37%) VBA
12 20 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.95%) Scala
14 13 (0.68%) Bash
15 12 (0.63%) C++
16 10 (0.53%) Groovy
17 8 (0.42%) Bicep
17 8 (0.42%) Korn
18 6 (0.32%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 397 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 333 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 163 (8.57%) Degree
4 48 (2.52%) DV Cleared
5 38 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 29 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 17 (0.89%) ACCA
12 16 (0.84%) CIMA
13 14 (0.74%) CISSP
14 12 (0.63%) PMP
15 9 (0.47%) CESG Certified Professional
16 8 (0.42%) CFA
16 8 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.37%) CBAP
17 7 (0.37%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (15.26%) Data Quality
2 100 (5.26%) GDPR
3 79 (4.16%) QA
4 65 (3.42%) PMO
5 54 (2.84%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.10%) NIST
8 14 (0.74%) COBIT
8 14 (0.74%) SLA
9 13 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.58%) IFRS
11 10 (0.53%) NCSC
12 9 (0.47%) GRC
12 9 (0.47%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.47%) RMADS
13 8 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.42%) MiFID
14 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.37%) GxP
14 7 (0.37%) JSP 440
System Software
1 63 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 50 (2.63%) Docker
3 10 (0.53%) Brightmail
3 10 (0.53%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.053%) Firmware
6 1 (0.053%) HDFS
6 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.053%) vSphere
6 1 (0.053%) Xen
6 1 (0.053%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 52 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 50 (2.63%) Terraform
3 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.63%) SCCM
4 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
5 9 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.37%) Ansible
6 7 (0.37%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.26%) Grafana
8 4 (0.21%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.21%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.16%) Kibana
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
9 3 (0.16%) vRealize
10 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.11%) SCOM
10 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 516 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 312 (16.41%) SAP
3 246 (12.94%) Oracle
4 135 (7.10%) Databricks
5 62 (3.26%) Google
6 59 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 58 (3.05%) Cisco
8 50 (2.63%) ServiceNow
9 35 (1.84%) Talend
10 26 (1.37%) Denodo
10 26 (1.37%) Informatica
11 25 (1.32%) Alteryx
12 24 (1.26%) Apple
12 24 (1.26%) HP
12 24 (1.26%) Splunk
13 23 (1.21%) Dell
14 22 (1.16%) Dynatrace
15 18 (0.95%) AppDynamics
16 15 (0.79%) Adobe
16 15 (0.79%) Remedy