Business Intelligence Contracts

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 47 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,943 2,632 4,271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.58% 4.64% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 5.17% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,338 1,868 3,161
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +5.10%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £708 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 42 47
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.43 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -23.81% +43.18%
75th Percentile £46.56 £53.56 £45.56
90th Percentile £79.63 £58.53 £57.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.86 £25.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.04% +25.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,539 50,904 80,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.04% 89.75% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,560 35,264 56,167
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £440 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,684 1,915
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.51
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +6 1,687 £500 - 1,347
London +11 868 £525 -1.32% 570
UK excluding London +1 844 £450 -5.26% 898
Work from Home +14 772 £488 -2.50% 641
North of England +1 193 £450 -5.26% 215
South East -8 188 £425 - 256
South West +4 168 £533 +1.43% 103
Midlands +5 143 £425 -10.53% 167
North West -10 114 £450 - 132
West Midlands +3 104 £431 -12.66% 111
Scotland +44 81 £480 +1.05% 43
Yorkshire +5 70 £450 -10.00% 65
East of England -27 52 £410 -8.89% 75
East Midlands -1 38 £375 -14.29% 56
Wales +22 15 £500 +33.33% 36
Northern Ireland +9 14 £500 +17.65% 12
North East +7 8 £663 +20.45% 19

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
1 130 (6.69%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.21%) Confluence
3 37 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 32 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.34%) SAS
6 21 (1.08%) Apache
7 12 (0.62%) MTS
7 12 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.15%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.10%) CMS
11 2 (0.10%) Jadu
11 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.10%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.051%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 209 (10.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.41%) SPSS
8 3 (0.15%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.10%) InVision
9 2 (0.10%) Revit
9 2 (0.10%) Sketch
9 2 (0.10%) Trello
10 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 51 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.75%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (0.98%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.62%) Endur
7 12 (0.62%) EuroRunner
7 12 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 11 (0.57%) Aligne
8 11 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
8 11 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
11 7 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
12 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
12 5 (0.26%) Oracle HRMS
13 4 (0.21%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,205 (62.02%) Power Platform
2 556 (28.62%) Azure
3 214 (11.01%) Power Automate
3 214 (11.01%) PowerApps
4 138 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
5 131 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
6 128 (6.59%) AWS
7 126 (6.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 115 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
9 64 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 55 (2.83%) Snowflake
11 54 (2.78%) GCP
12 50 (2.57%) Entra ID
13 43 (2.21%) GitHub
13 43 (2.21%) Serverless
14 42 (2.16%) OCI
15 32 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 29 (1.49%) Azure Functions
17 26 (1.34%) Google Analytics
18 21 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.03%) Firewall
2 12 (0.62%) VPN
3 11 (0.57%) 4G
3 11 (0.57%) HTTP
4 10 (0.51%) DNS
5 9 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.41%) FTP
7 7 (0.36%) 3G
7 7 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (0.36%) Unified Communications
7 7 (0.36%) Wireless
8 6 (0.31%) Internet
8 6 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
9 5 (0.26%) LAN
9 5 (0.26%) WAN
10 4 (0.21%) 3GPP
10 4 (0.21%) Intranet
10 4 (0.21%) LTE
10 4 (0.21%) MegaStream
10 4 (0.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,188 (61.14%) Power BI
2 266 (13.69%) Data Warehouse
3 231 (11.89%) Tableau
4 228 (11.73%) SQL Server
5 143 (7.36%) Data Lake
6 133 (6.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 88 (4.53%) Big Data
7 88 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 83 (4.27%) Metadata
9 66 (3.40%) NoSQL
10 65 (3.35%) Relational Database
11 60 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 57 (2.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 46 (2.37%) Power Query
14 39 (2.01%) Qlik Sense
15 37 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
16 35 (1.80%) QlikView
17 31 (1.60%) MySQL
18 30 (1.54%) BigQuery
19 29 (1.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 118 (6.07%) JIRA
2 33 (1.70%) Git
3 23 (1.18%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.98%) ERwin
5 18 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.77%) GitLab
7 11 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.51%) Postman
9 9 (0.46%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.21%) NUnit
11 3 (0.15%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.10%) Appium
12 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.10%) GoCD
12 2 (0.10%) kappa
12 2 (0.10%) RStudio
12 2 (0.10%) XCTest
12 2 (0.10%) XCUITest
12 2 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 712 (36.64%) Finance
2 542 (27.90%) Social Skills
3 437 (22.49%) Analytical Skills
4 434 (22.34%) Public Sector
5 336 (17.29%) Marketing
6 303 (15.59%) Manufacturing
7 296 (15.23%) Telecoms
8 267 (13.74%) Electronics
9 89 (4.58%) Retail
10 85 (4.37%) Banking
11 61 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.11%) Legal
13 36 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
16 31 (1.60%) General Ledger
17 30 (1.54%) Front Office
18 28 (1.44%) Local Government
19 27 (1.39%) Publishing
20 23 (1.18%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 455 (23.42%) Analyst
2 342 (17.60%) Developer
3 214 (11.01%) Architect
4 205 (10.55%) Data Analyst
5 188 (9.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 167 (8.59%) Senior
7 157 (8.08%) Data Engineer
8 150 (7.72%) Consultant
9 131 (6.74%) Power BI Developer
10 113 (5.82%) Lead
11 109 (5.61%) Business Analyst
11 109 (5.61%) Data Architect
12 87 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 79 (4.07%) Project Manager
14 65 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
15 61 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
16 54 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.21%) Power BI Analyst
18 42 (2.16%) Power Platform Developer
18 42 (2.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (3.14%) .NET
2 52 (2.68%) JSON
3 44 (2.26%) XML
4 40 (2.06%) PySpark
5 37 (1.90%) HTML
6 35 (1.80%) CSS
7 34 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
8 18 (0.93%) REST
9 17 (0.87%) Web Services
10 16 (0.82%) RESTful
11 15 (0.77%) .NET Framework
12 13 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.67%) JSON Schema
12 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
13 12 (0.62%) SOAP
14 11 (0.57%) AngularJS
14 11 (0.57%) jQuery
14 11 (0.57%) Node.js
15 10 (0.51%) ADO
16 9 (0.46%) React
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.04%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.60%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.35%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.24%) NHS
5 33 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (1.60%) Reference Data
7 27 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.13%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 18 (0.93%) Market Risk
11 16 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.72%) CMDB
12 14 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.67%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.67%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.62%) Life Science
14 12 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 77 (3.96%) Windows
2 36 (1.85%) Linux
3 21 (1.08%) Unix
4 17 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.82%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.46%) VMS
7 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.26%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.10%) Android
9 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (23.62%) Analytics
2 403 (20.74%) Data Modelling
3 395 (20.33%) Agile
4 325 (16.73%) Visualisation
5 319 (16.42%) ETL
6 297 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
7 284 (14.62%) Programme Management
8 275 (14.15%) Digital Marketing
9 263 (13.54%) Data Analysis
10 224 (11.53%) Data Visualisation
11 222 (11.43%) DevOps
12 174 (8.96%) Migration
13 171 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 160 (8.23%) Project Management
15 149 (7.67%) Data Management
16 140 (7.21%) Data Governance
17 133 (6.85%) Decision-Making
18 125 (6.43%) Data Integration
19 123 (6.33%) Data Analytics
20 115 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 754 (38.81%) SQL
2 312 (16.06%) Python
3 105 (5.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 82 (4.22%) C#
4 82 (4.22%) PowerShell
5 68 (3.50%) JavaScript
5 68 (3.50%) T-SQL
6 54 (2.78%) R
7 48 (2.47%) Java
8 38 (1.96%) PL/SQL
9 27 (1.39%) Scala
10 19 (0.98%) VBA
11 15 (0.77%) VB
12 11 (0.57%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.41%) Bash
14 8 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.36%) XPath
15 7 (0.36%) XQuery
16 6 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 257 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 195 (10.04%) Degree
3 185 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 58 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 55 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (0.93%) CISSP
8 18 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (0.77%) PMP
10 13 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.57%) CISM
12 8 (0.41%) Postgraduate
13 7 (0.36%) CIMA
14 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.26%) CESG Certified Professional
15 5 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
16 4 (0.21%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (8.65%) Data Quality
2 77 (3.96%) QA
3 44 (2.26%) PMO
4 41 (2.11%) GDPR
5 33 (1.70%) SLA
6 16 (0.82%) GxP
7 15 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.46%) HL7
9 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.36%) CDISC
10 6 (0.31%) NIST
11 5 (0.26%) GAMP
11 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.26%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.26%) RMADS
11 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.15%) GRC
14 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.72%) Docker
4 8 (0.41%) NFS
5 7 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.26%) HDFS
6 5 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.10%) vSphere
10 1 (0.051%) Firmware
10 1 (0.051%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 23 (1.18%) Terraform
2 19 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.57%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.21%) Puppet
6 4 (0.21%) QRadar
7 3 (0.15%) Ansible
7 3 (0.15%) Nessus
7 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.10%) Grafana
8 2 (0.10%) Kibana
8 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.10%) SCCM
8 2 (0.10%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.10%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.051%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.051%) SCOM
Vendors
1 536 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 383 (19.71%) SAP
3 183 (9.42%) Oracle
4 125 (6.43%) Databricks
5 50 (2.57%) Google
5 50 (2.57%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.01%) Informatica
8 36 (1.85%) Alteryx
9 24 (1.24%) Remedy
10 19 (0.98%) Adobe
10 19 (0.98%) Sparx
11 14 (0.72%) Atlassian
11 14 (0.72%) Bloomberg
12 12 (0.62%) BISAM
12 12 (0.62%) CA
13 11 (0.57%) Ariba
13 11 (0.57%) VMware
14 10 (0.51%) Cisco
14 10 (0.51%) Talend