Business Intelligence Contracts in England

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 45 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,702 2,364 3,482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.66% 4.81% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 5.33% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,713 2,635
10th Percentile £300 £300 £332
25th Percentile £401 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +5.64%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £735 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 45 43
10th Percentile £12.75 £15.08 £12.06
25th Percentile £17.10 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.22 £25.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -15.83% +42.86%
75th Percentile £48.75 £51.00 £45.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £57.85 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £24.34 £25.13 £31.50
% change year-on-year -3.11% -20.24% +43.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in England

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +13 876 £525 -0.94% 512
North of England +3 200 £450 -5.26% 213
South East -5 187 £425 -2.86% 184
South West +3 169 £538 +2.38% 101
Midlands +1 133 £425 -10.53% 184
North West -1 121 £464 +3.06% 121
West Midlands +3 92 £450 -8.86% 116
Yorkshire +3 69 £450 -10.00% 68
East of England -28 52 £410 -8.89% 72
East Midlands +7 40 £375 -11.76% 68
North East +8 9 £663 +32.50% 24
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 101 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.94%) Confluence
3 32 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.12%) SAS
6 16 (0.94%) Apache
7 12 (0.71%) MTS
8 6 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Jadu
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.059%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.059%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
Applications
1 165 (9.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.35%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.47%) SPSS
8 3 (0.18%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) InVision
9 2 (0.12%) Revit
9 2 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 40 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.70%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (1.06%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.71%) Endur
7 12 (0.71%) EuroRunner
8 11 (0.65%) Aligne
9 6 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
10 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.24%) SAP BPC
12 3 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
12 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 1,022 (60.05%) Power Platform
2 486 (28.55%) Azure
3 166 (9.75%) PowerApps
4 161 (9.46%) Power Automate
5 116 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (6.58%) AWS
7 108 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
8 106 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 95 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
10 56 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 47 (2.76%) Snowflake
12 43 (2.53%) Entra ID
13 41 (2.41%) GCP
14 39 (2.29%) Serverless
15 32 (1.88%) GitHub
16 30 (1.76%) Azure Functions
16 30 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (1.29%) OCI
18 20 (1.18%) PaaS
19 19 (1.12%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.23%) Firewall
2 12 (0.71%) VPN
3 7 (0.41%) 3G
3 7 (0.41%) 4G
3 7 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
3 7 (0.41%) FTP
3 7 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 6 (0.35%) DNS
4 6 (0.35%) Wireless
5 5 (0.29%) HTTP
5 5 (0.29%) LAN
5 5 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.29%) WAN
6 4 (0.24%) Internet
6 4 (0.24%) MegaStream
6 4 (0.24%) Network Security
7 3 (0.18%) Intranet
7 3 (0.18%) SNMP
7 3 (0.18%) SSH
7 3 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,010 (59.34%) Power BI
2 256 (15.04%) Data Warehouse
3 214 (12.57%) SQL Server
4 198 (11.63%) Tableau
5 125 (7.34%) Data Lake
6 122 (7.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 86 (5.05%) Metadata
8 81 (4.76%) Big Data
9 79 (4.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 66 (3.88%) NoSQL
11 57 (3.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 55 (3.23%) Relational Database
13 47 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 39 (2.29%) Qlik Sense
15 33 (1.94%) Power Query
16 31 (1.82%) QlikView
17 30 (1.76%) MySQL
18 28 (1.65%) BusinessObjects
19 26 (1.53%) Data Mining
19 26 (1.53%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 85 (4.99%) JIRA
2 26 (1.53%) Git
3 23 (1.35%) ERwin
4 18 (1.06%) Visual Studio
5 17 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 14 (0.82%) GitLab
7 11 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.59%) Postman
9 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.24%) NUnit
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.12%) Appium
11 2 (0.12%) git-flow
11 2 (0.12%) GoCD
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.12%) Subversion
11 2 (0.12%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 667 (39.19%) Finance
2 479 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 400 (23.50%) Public Sector
4 376 (22.09%) Analytical Skills
5 336 (19.74%) Marketing
6 313 (18.39%) Manufacturing
7 301 (17.69%) Telecoms
8 278 (16.33%) Electronics
9 87 (5.11%) Retail
10 79 (4.64%) Banking
11 60 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (1.82%) Legal
13 30 (1.76%) General Ledger
14 29 (1.70%) Front Office
15 28 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 28 (1.65%) Publishing
16 26 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 26 (1.53%) Local Government
17 24 (1.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 373 (21.92%) Analyst
2 294 (17.27%) Developer
3 198 (11.63%) Architect
4 170 (9.99%) Data Analyst
5 159 (9.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 148 (8.70%) Senior
7 141 (8.28%) Data Engineer
8 122 (7.17%) Consultant
9 112 (6.58%) Data Architect
10 109 (6.40%) Lead
11 106 (6.23%) Power BI Developer
12 97 (5.70%) Business Analyst
13 77 (4.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 75 (4.41%) Project Manager
15 56 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
16 53 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
17 46 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
18 41 (2.41%) Power BI Analyst
19 37 (2.17%) Support Engineer
20 35 (2.06%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.06%) JSON
2 48 (2.82%) .NET
3 38 (2.23%) XML
4 34 (2.00%) HTML
5 33 (1.94%) PySpark
6 28 (1.65%) CSS
7 18 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
8 16 (0.94%) REST
8 16 (0.94%) Web Services
9 14 (0.82%) HTML5 Canvas
9 14 (0.82%) RESTful
10 13 (0.76%) JSON Schema
10 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (0.59%) .NET Framework
11 10 (0.59%) Node.js
12 9 (0.53%) jQuery
12 9 (0.53%) SOAP
13 8 (0.47%) ADO
13 8 (0.47%) AngularJS
13 8 (0.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.23%) Management Information System
2 65 (3.82%) Data Structures
3 63 (3.70%) NHS
4 57 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 31 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (1.76%) Onboarding
6 30 (1.76%) Reference Data
7 23 (1.35%) Hedge funds
8 22 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 15 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (0.82%) Market Risk
12 13 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (0.71%) Data Centre
13 12 (0.71%) Derivative
13 12 (0.71%) Equities
13 12 (0.71%) Fixed Income
13 12 (0.71%) Life Science
13 12 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.17%) Windows
2 35 (2.06%) Linux
3 19 (1.12%) Unix
3 19 (1.12%) Windows 10
4 15 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.47%) VMS
6 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.29%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.12%) Android
8 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.059%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (22.86%) Analytics
2 379 (22.27%) Data Modelling
3 351 (20.62%) Agile
4 295 (17.33%) Programme Management
5 286 (16.80%) Digital Marketing
6 285 (16.75%) ETL
7 277 (16.27%) Visualisation
8 244 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
9 235 (13.81%) Data Analysis
10 183 (10.75%) DevOps
11 178 (10.46%) Data Visualisation
12 156 (9.17%) Migration
13 154 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 147 (8.64%) Project Management
15 137 (8.05%) Data Governance
16 132 (7.76%) Data Management
17 116 (6.82%) Data Architecture
17 116 (6.82%) Decision-Making
18 114 (6.70%) Data Integration
19 110 (6.46%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 650 (38.19%) SQL
2 271 (15.92%) Python
3 88 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 76 (4.47%) PowerShell
5 64 (3.76%) C#
6 60 (3.53%) T-SQL
7 53 (3.11%) JavaScript
8 44 (2.59%) R
9 33 (1.94%) Java
9 33 (1.94%) PL/SQL
10 30 (1.76%) Scala
11 14 (0.82%) VBA
12 11 (0.65%) MATLAB
12 11 (0.65%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.41%) Bash
13 7 (0.41%) XPath
13 7 (0.41%) XQuery
14 6 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.35%) VB
15 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 220 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 169 (9.93%) Degree
3 154 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 14 (0.82%) PMP
10 13 (0.76%) CISSP
11 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.41%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.41%) CIMA
12 7 (0.41%) Postgraduate
13 6 (0.35%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.35%) CISM
13 6 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.29%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (9.69%) Data Quality
2 72 (4.23%) QA
3 46 (2.70%) GDPR
4 31 (1.82%) PMO
5 23 (1.35%) SLA
6 14 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.59%) GxP
8 9 (0.53%) HL7
9 7 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.35%) NIST
11 5 (0.29%) GAMP
11 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.29%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.29%) RMADS
12 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.18%) GRC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.18%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 49 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.76%) Docker
4 8 (0.47%) NFS
5 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.29%) HDFS
6 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.18%) Firmware
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.059%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.12%) Terraform
2 17 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.53%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.24%) Puppet
6 4 (0.24%) QRadar
7 3 (0.18%) Ansible
7 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.12%) CA Service Virtualization
8 2 (0.12%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.12%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) Nessus
8 2 (0.12%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.12%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.059%) CASB
9 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.059%) VxRail
Vendors
1 439 (25.79%) Microsoft
2 378 (22.21%) SAP
3 135 (7.93%) Oracle
4 111 (6.52%) Databricks
5 46 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.53%) Informatica
7 38 (2.23%) Google
8 37 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 33 (1.94%) Alteryx
10 24 (1.41%) Sparx
11 23 (1.35%) Remedy
12 16 (0.94%) Adobe
13 14 (0.82%) Bloomberg
13 14 (0.82%) Talend
14 12 (0.71%) BISAM
14 12 (0.71%) CA
15 10 (0.59%) Dell
15 10 (0.59%) VMware
16 9 (0.53%) Hyperion
17 8 (0.47%) Cisco