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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 36 43
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 2,010 1,714 1,985
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.41% 5.08% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.14% 5.75% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 1,118 1,391
10th Percentile £300 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £625
90th Percentile £670 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -2.55% +1.03% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 36 55
10th Percentile £15.90 £20.63 £15.43
25th Percentile £19.44 £22.66 £20.64
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -14.91% +17.53%
75th Percentile £25.00 £46.25 £50.38
90th Percentile £48.03 £64.73 £76.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.55 £27.13 £23.24
% change year-on-year -16.86% +16.72% -12.70%

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 32,744 29,791 38,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.06% 88.28% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 18,168 25,704
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,071 964 1,544
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%
75th Percentile £51.23 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.31 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.16% -30.00% +40.63%

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 26 December 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 26 December 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 26 December 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 1,802 £488 -2.50% 2,363
London +4 938 £492 -5.15% 607
UK excluding London -8 877 £478 -2.55% 2,018
Work from Home 0 559 £500 -2.44% 1,059
North of England -13 219 £425 -5.56% 436
Midlands -2 204 £500 +11.11% 382
South East -14 182 £500 -2.20% 607
West Midlands -6 149 £525 +10.53% 210
South West -8 119 £525 - 211
North West -6 113 £400 -19.19% 209
Yorkshire 0 86 £450 - 193
East of England +6 70 £550 +15.79% 250
East Midlands +6 55 £371 -8.46% 155
Scotland 0 54 £500 +13.64% 84
Wales -2 20 £239 -26.54% 58
North East -7 20 £390 -6.02% 36
Northern Ireland -3 12 £550 +4.76% 19
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
1 176 (8.76%) SharePoint
2 62 (3.08%) Confluence
3 56 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 53 (2.64%) Apache
4 53 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (2.14%) SAS
6 28 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 19 (0.95%) HCL Notes
8 16 (0.80%) WebLogic
9 13 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
10 8 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.40%) Skype for Business
11 7 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
11 7 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
11 7 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
11 7 (0.35%) Mendix
11 7 (0.35%) Office Communications Server
11 7 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 335 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.30%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.25%) Trello
9 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.20%) Notion
10 2 (0.100%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
5 14 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
7 10 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
7 10 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
8 9 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.35%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.35%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
12 5 (0.25%) Primavera
13 4 (0.20%) CA PPM
13 4 (0.20%) Loan IQ
13 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
13 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,316 (65.47%) Power Platform
2 608 (30.25%) Azure
3 233 (11.59%) Power Automate
4 224 (11.14%) AWS
5 209 (10.40%) PowerApps
6 165 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
7 150 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 139 (6.92%) GCP
9 131 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
10 129 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
11 119 (5.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 114 (5.67%) Snowflake
13 65 (3.23%) Serverless
14 59 (2.94%) dbt
15 57 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
16 55 (2.74%) SaaS
17 50 (2.49%) GitHub
18 45 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
19 40 (1.99%) Azure Functions
19 40 (1.99%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.14%) Wireless
2 17 (0.85%) DNS
2 17 (0.85%) VPN
3 12 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (0.55%) LAN
4 11 (0.55%) Unified Communications
5 10 (0.50%) DHCP
6 9 (0.45%) Skype
7 8 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (0.40%) Firewall
7 8 (0.40%) Network Security
7 8 (0.40%) SAN
8 7 (0.35%) DDNS
9 6 (0.30%) BGP
9 6 (0.30%) HTTP
9 6 (0.30%) Internet
9 6 (0.30%) OSPF
9 6 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.30%) WAN
10 4 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,304 (64.88%) Power BI
2 277 (13.78%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (12.89%) Tableau
4 132 (6.57%) Data Lake
5 124 (6.17%) SQL Server
6 97 (4.83%) Power Query
7 96 (4.78%) Metadata
8 79 (3.93%) Oracle Reports
9 74 (3.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 60 (2.99%) BigQuery
11 58 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 57 (2.84%) Relational Database
13 53 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 47 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 46 (2.29%) Oracle Database
16 43 (2.14%) Big Data
17 42 (2.09%) Looker
18 40 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
19 39 (1.94%) Star Schema
20 35 (1.74%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 156 (7.76%) JIRA
2 106 (5.27%) Git
3 45 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 14 (0.70%) GitLab
5 14 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.40%) MLflow
7 7 (0.35%) DBeaver
7 7 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.25%) ERwin
8 5 (0.25%) NeoLoad
8 5 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.20%) Postman
9 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.15%) Storybook
General
1 777 (38.66%) Finance
2 735 (36.57%) Social Skills
3 407 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
4 397 (19.75%) Public Sector
5 265 (13.18%) Marketing
6 246 (12.24%) Manufacturing
7 213 (10.60%) Telecoms
8 204 (10.15%) Electronics
9 152 (7.56%) Banking
10 63 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 63 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (2.34%) Retail
12 43 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.79%) Legal
14 32 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.49%) Local Government
16 27 (1.34%) Financial Institution
16 27 (1.34%) Front Office
16 27 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 27 (1.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 450 (22.39%) Analyst
2 315 (15.67%) Developer
3 214 (10.65%) Data Engineer
4 196 (9.75%) Data Analyst
5 160 (7.96%) Senior
6 158 (7.86%) Lead
7 145 (7.21%) Architect
8 137 (6.82%) Consultant
9 128 (6.37%) Business Analyst
10 97 (4.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 65 (3.23%) Power BI Developer
12 62 (3.08%) Data Architect
13 61 (3.03%) IT Support
14 55 (2.74%) Project Manager
15 51 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
16 49 (2.44%) Power Platform Developer
17 42 (2.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 42 (2.09%) Data Scientist
18 40 (1.99%) Azure Engineer
18 40 (1.99%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (4.43%) REST
2 73 (3.63%) PySpark
3 68 (3.38%) .NET
4 59 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
5 38 (1.89%) Kafka
6 35 (1.74%) JSON
7 32 (1.59%) Pandas
8 29 (1.44%) SOAP
9 28 (1.39%) HTML
10 23 (1.14%) scikit-learn
11 22 (1.09%) React
12 20 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
12 20 (1.00%) Web Services
12 20 (1.00%) XML
13 18 (0.90%) NumPy
14 17 (0.85%) RESTful
15 16 (0.80%) Middleware
16 15 (0.75%) .NET Framework
17 13 (0.65%) CSS
17 13 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 73 (3.63%) Data Structures
2 62 (3.08%) Product Ownership
3 56 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 50 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 39 (1.94%) Low-Code
8 36 (1.79%) Cloud Native
9 33 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 33 (1.64%) NHS
10 29 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (0.85%) Replication
14 15 (0.75%) PMI
15 14 (0.70%) Derivative
15 14 (0.70%) FMCG
15 14 (0.70%) IoT
16 13 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (4.08%) Windows
2 40 (1.99%) Linux
3 34 (1.69%) Mac OS
4 33 (1.64%) Android
4 33 (1.64%) Unix
5 20 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.050%) Solaris
9 1 (0.050%) VMS
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (34.18%) Analytics
2 540 (26.87%) Data Modelling
3 444 (22.09%) Agile
4 418 (20.80%) Visualisation
5 376 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
6 346 (17.21%) ETL
7 323 (16.07%) Decision-Making
8 305 (15.17%) Data Governance
9 289 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 269 (13.38%) Data Analysis
11 260 (12.94%) DevOps
12 255 (12.69%) Migration
13 252 (12.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 239 (11.89%) Actionable Insight
15 236 (11.74%) Data Visualisation
16 230 (11.44%) Programme Management
17 222 (11.04%) Data Pipeline
18 221 (11.00%) CI/CD
19 208 (10.35%) Digital Marketing
20 197 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 841 (41.84%) SQL
2 429 (21.34%) Python
3 112 (5.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 92 (4.58%) C#
5 80 (3.98%) JavaScript
6 74 (3.68%) R
7 60 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 56 (2.79%) PowerShell
9 42 (2.09%) Java
10 41 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.74%) VBA
12 25 (1.24%) TypeScript
13 23 (1.14%) Scala
14 13 (0.65%) Bicep
15 11 (0.55%) Formula Language
15 11 (0.55%) LotusScript
16 10 (0.50%) Groovy
17 9 (0.45%) Bash
18 8 (0.40%) C++
19 7 (0.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 413 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 350 (17.41%) SC Cleared
3 193 (9.60%) Degree
4 44 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 36 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 24 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.09%) PMP
11 17 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.60%) ACCA
13 11 (0.55%) CIMA
13 11 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.50%) CISSP
15 9 (0.45%) CFA
15 9 (0.45%) MBA
16 8 (0.40%) CBAP
17 6 (0.30%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (16.77%) Data Quality
2 120 (5.97%) GDPR
3 104 (5.17%) QA
4 77 (3.83%) PMO
5 59 (2.94%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.55%) GRC
9 11 (0.55%) SLA
10 9 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.45%) IFRS
11 8 (0.40%) Basel III
11 8 (0.40%) NCSC
12 7 (0.35%) NIST
13 6 (0.30%) GxP
13 6 (0.30%) RMADS
14 5 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.25%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 63 (3.13%) Docker
2 7 (0.35%) Brightmail
2 7 (0.35%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.100%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.050%) HDFS
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.050%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.050%) vSphere
4 1 (0.050%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 69 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 58 (2.89%) Terraform
3 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.65%) SCCM
5 7 (0.35%) Ansible
5 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.30%) Grafana
7 4 (0.20%) Kubeflow
7 4 (0.20%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.15%) Kibana
8 3 (0.15%) vRealize
9 2 (0.100%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.100%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.100%) SCOM
9 2 (0.100%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.050%) CEMLI
10 1 (0.050%) Control-M
10 1 (0.050%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.050%) WSUS
Vendors
1 570 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 307 (15.27%) SAP
3 272 (13.53%) Oracle
4 177 (8.81%) Databricks
5 75 (3.73%) Google
6 65 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 63 (3.13%) Cisco
8 58 (2.89%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.94%) Talend
10 35 (1.74%) Informatica
11 30 (1.49%) Denodo
12 28 (1.39%) Splunk
13 25 (1.24%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.24%) HP
14 24 (1.19%) Apple
15 23 (1.14%) Dell
16 21 (1.04%) Alteryx
17 19 (0.95%) AppDynamics
17 19 (0.95%) Lotus
17 19 (0.95%) OpenAI