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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 47 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,981 2,699 4,327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.63% 4.65% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 5.17% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,928 3,190
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.19% +4.34%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £714 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 44 45
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.78 £12.12
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.26 £24.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -18.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £43.75 £44.81 £46.67
90th Percentile £77.90 £58.08 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.86 £25.13 £23.00
% change year-on-year -9.02% +9.24% +14.29%

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 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +4 1,713 £500 - 1,243
London +12 886 £525 -1.32% 507
UK excluding London 0 844 £450 -5.26% 781
Work from Home +13 802 £500 - 656
North of England +1 193 £450 -5.26% 193
South East -2 192 £425 -5.56% 173
South West +3 169 £535 +1.90% 93
Midlands +4 134 £425 -5.56% 175
North West -1 119 £453 +0.56% 112
West Midlands +2 93 £450 -8.86% 110
Scotland +48 85 £478 +0.53% 42
Yorkshire +1 64 £450 -10.00% 60
East of England -29 53 £393 -12.78% 78
East Midlands +5 40 £375 -11.76% 65
Wales +20 15 £500 +33.33% 25
Northern Ireland +12 13 £500 +17.65% 11
North East +11 9 £663 +32.50% 21

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 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.22%) Confluence
3 34 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.31%) SAS
6 21 (1.06%) Apache
7 12 (0.61%) MTS
8 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.15%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.10%) Jadu
13 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.10%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.050%) Exchange Server 2013
14 1 (0.050%) GeoServer
Applications
1 204 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.40%) 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 (0.050%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 52 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (1.77%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.91%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
7 13 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 12 (0.61%) Endur
8 12 (0.61%) EuroRunner
8 12 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.56%) Aligne
9 11 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
10 10 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
12 7 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
13 6 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
14 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
14 5 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 4 (0.20%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,199 (60.52%) Power Platform
2 551 (27.81%) Azure
3 210 (10.60%) PowerApps
4 208 (10.50%) Power Automate
5 135 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
6 133 (6.71%) AWS
7 127 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
8 123 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 115 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
10 67 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 59 (2.98%) Snowflake
12 56 (2.83%) GCP
13 50 (2.52%) Serverless
14 47 (2.37%) Entra ID
15 43 (2.17%) OCI
16 42 (2.12%) GitHub
17 32 (1.62%) Azure Functions
18 29 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
19 24 (1.21%) Google Analytics
19 24 (1.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.11%) Firewall
2 13 (0.66%) VPN
3 12 (0.61%) HTTP
4 11 (0.56%) 4G
5 10 (0.50%) FTP
6 9 (0.45%) DNS
7 8 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.35%) 3G
8 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
9 6 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (0.30%) LAN
9 6 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
9 6 (0.30%) WAN
9 6 (0.30%) Wireless
10 4 (0.20%) 3GPP
10 4 (0.20%) 5G
10 4 (0.20%) 5G NR
10 4 (0.20%) Internet
10 4 (0.20%) Intranet
10 4 (0.20%) MegaStream
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,181 (59.62%) Power BI
2 279 (14.08%) Data Warehouse
3 229 (11.56%) SQL Server
3 229 (11.56%) Tableau
4 147 (7.42%) Data Lake
5 136 (6.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 90 (4.54%) Metadata
7 87 (4.39%) Big Data
7 87 (4.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 66 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 60 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 60 (3.03%) Relational Database
10 59 (2.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 50 (2.52%) Power Query
12 37 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
13 36 (1.82%) Qlik Sense
13 36 (1.82%) QlikView
14 32 (1.62%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.51%) Looker
16 29 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 120 (6.06%) JIRA
2 36 (1.82%) Git
3 23 (1.16%) ERwin
4 21 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 21 (1.06%) Visual Studio
5 17 (0.86%) GitLab
6 14 (0.71%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.50%) Postman
9 6 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.20%) NUnit
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
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
General
1 745 (37.61%) Finance
2 554 (27.97%) Social Skills
3 472 (23.83%) Public Sector
4 433 (21.86%) Analytical Skills
5 371 (18.73%) Marketing
6 341 (17.21%) Manufacturing
7 332 (16.76%) Telecoms
8 304 (15.35%) Electronics
9 91 (4.59%) Retail
10 81 (4.09%) Banking
11 63 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.07%) Legal
13 38 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.62%) Local Government
16 31 (1.56%) General Ledger
16 31 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
17 30 (1.51%) Publishing
18 29 (1.46%) Front Office
19 25 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 441 (22.26%) Analyst
2 337 (17.01%) Developer
3 227 (11.46%) Architect
4 202 (10.20%) Data Analyst
5 178 (8.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 174 (8.78%) Data Engineer
7 170 (8.58%) Senior
8 149 (7.52%) Consultant
9 126 (6.36%) Power BI Developer
10 119 (6.01%) Lead
11 114 (5.75%) Data Architect
12 105 (5.30%) Business Analyst
13 91 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 88 (4.44%) Project Manager
15 68 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
16 60 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
17 57 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
18 48 (2.42%) Power BI Analyst
19 47 (2.37%) Support Engineer
20 37 (1.87%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.13%) .NET
2 57 (2.88%) JSON
3 43 (2.17%) XML
4 42 (2.12%) PySpark
5 35 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (1.62%) HTML
7 31 (1.56%) CSS
8 18 (0.91%) REST
9 17 (0.86%) RESTful
9 17 (0.86%) Web Services
10 15 (0.76%) .NET Framework
11 14 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.66%) JSON Schema
12 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (0.56%) jQuery
13 11 (0.56%) Node.js
13 11 (0.56%) SOAP
14 10 (0.50%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.50%) Kafka
15 9 (0.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 95 (4.80%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.53%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.28%) NHS
4 62 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 31 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.56%) Reference Data
6 31 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 21 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 20 (1.01%) Market Risk
10 17 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (0.76%) Social Media
12 14 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.71%) CMDB
12 14 (0.71%) Data Centre
12 14 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.66%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.61%) Life Science
14 12 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.84%) Windows
2 35 (1.77%) Linux
3 22 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.01%) Unix
5 16 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.40%) VMS
7 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.10%) Android
9 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.050%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (23.98%) Analytics
2 427 (21.55%) Data Modelling
3 397 (20.04%) Agile
4 336 (16.96%) ETL
5 330 (16.66%) Visualisation
6 322 (16.25%) Programme Management
7 312 (15.75%) Digital Marketing
8 288 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
9 268 (13.53%) Data Analysis
10 225 (11.36%) Data Visualisation
11 216 (10.90%) DevOps
12 182 (9.19%) Migration
13 171 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 163 (8.23%) Data Management
15 161 (8.13%) Project Management
16 151 (7.62%) Data Governance
17 132 (6.66%) Decision-Making
18 128 (6.46%) Data Integration
19 125 (6.31%) Data Analytics
20 122 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 740 (37.35%) SQL
2 320 (16.15%) Python
3 107 (5.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 85 (4.29%) PowerShell
5 79 (3.99%) C#
6 68 (3.43%) T-SQL
7 65 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 54 (2.73%) Java
8 54 (2.73%) R
9 39 (1.97%) PL/SQL
10 33 (1.67%) Scala
11 16 (0.81%) VBA
12 13 (0.66%) VB
13 12 (0.61%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.56%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.35%) Bash
16 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.35%) XPath
16 7 (0.35%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 264 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 194 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 187 (9.44%) Degree
4 57 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (0.86%) CISSP
9 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 13 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.61%) PMP
12 10 (0.50%) CISM
13 8 (0.40%) Postgraduate
14 7 (0.35%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.35%) CIMA
15 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
16 5 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (8.83%) Data Quality
2 81 (4.09%) QA
3 47 (2.37%) GDPR
4 45 (2.27%) PMO
5 28 (1.41%) SLA
6 15 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.76%) GxP
7 9 (0.45%) HL7
8 7 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.35%) CDISC
9 6 (0.30%) NIST
10 5 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.25%) GAMP
10 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.25%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.25%) RMADS
11 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.15%) IFRS
12 3 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (0.76%) Docker
4 8 (0.40%) NFS
5 6 (0.30%) HDFS
5 6 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.15%) Firmware
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.050%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.050%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (1.51%) Terraform
2 19 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.56%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.20%) Puppet
6 4 (0.20%) QRadar
7 3 (0.15%) Ansible
7 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.10%) CA Service Virtualization
8 2 (0.10%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.10%) Grafana
8 2 (0.10%) Kibana
8 2 (0.10%) Nessus
8 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.10%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.10%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 532 (26.86%) Microsoft
2 429 (21.66%) SAP
3 178 (8.99%) Oracle
4 132 (6.66%) Databricks
5 51 (2.57%) Google
6 48 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 46 (2.32%) Informatica
8 36 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 34 (1.72%) Alteryx
10 24 (1.21%) Sparx
11 23 (1.16%) Remedy
12 16 (0.81%) Adobe
13 15 (0.76%) Talend
14 14 (0.71%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.71%) Bloomberg
14 14 (0.71%) CA
15 12 (0.61%) BISAM
16 11 (0.56%) Ariba
17 10 (0.50%) Dell
17 10 (0.50%) VMware