Business Intelligence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 38 43 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 843 1,122 1,538
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.14% 4.77% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 5.33% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 807 1,185
10th Percentile £258 £214 £300
25th Percentile £363 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 28 36
10th Percentile £11.00 £12.70 £12.15
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.87 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.86 £26.23 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +7.04% +25.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.06 £43.95
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.78 £51.09
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,192 21,035 27,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.42% 89.50% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 14,534 19,060
10th Percentile £250 £256 £237
25th Percentile £379 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,280 1,365
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.55
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +3 200 £450 -5.26% 213
South East -5 187 £425 -2.86% 183
South West +3 169 £538 +2.38% 101
Midlands +1 133 £425 -10.53% 183
North West -1 121 £464 +3.06% 121
West Midlands +3 92 £450 -8.86% 116
Scotland +49 84 £480 +1.05% 40
Yorkshire +3 69 £450 -10.00% 68
East of England -28 52 £410 -8.89% 70
East Midlands +7 40 £375 -11.76% 67
Wales +22 15 £500 +33.33% 33
Northern Ireland +11 13 £500 +17.65% 10
North East +8 9 £663 +32.50% 24
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.37%) Confluence
3 19 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.78%) SAS
5 8 (0.95%) Apache
6 7 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.12%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.12%) Jadu
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 114 (13.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.47%) SPSS
8 3 (0.36%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 13 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.07%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
4 8 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.36%) Maximo
8 3 (0.36%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.24%) iTrent
9 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
10 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 534 (63.35%) Power Platform
2 205 (24.32%) Azure
3 75 (8.90%) Power Automate
4 71 (8.42%) PowerApps
5 69 (8.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
7 35 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (3.56%) Snowflake
9 29 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (2.85%) AWS
11 24 (2.85%) OCI
12 19 (2.25%) Entra ID
13 17 (2.02%) Serverless
14 14 (1.66%) GCP
15 12 (1.42%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 8 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
18 7 (0.83%) Google Sheets
18 7 (0.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.66%) Firewall
2 7 (0.83%) 3G
2 7 (0.83%) 4G
2 7 (0.83%) VPN
3 6 (0.71%) Unified Communications
4 4 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (0.47%) FTP
4 4 (0.47%) HTTP
4 4 (0.47%) MegaStream
5 3 (0.36%) DNS
5 3 (0.36%) LAN
5 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.36%) WAN
5 3 (0.36%) Wireless
6 2 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.24%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.24%) Network Security
6 2 (0.24%) SAN
6 2 (0.24%) Skype
6 2 (0.24%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 526 (62.40%) Power BI
2 110 (13.05%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (10.44%) Tableau
4 78 (9.25%) SQL Server
5 63 (7.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 55 (6.52%) Data Lake
7 43 (5.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 34 (4.03%) Relational Database
9 27 (3.20%) Power Query
9 27 (3.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 25 (2.97%) Metadata
11 22 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
12 20 (2.37%) BusinessObjects
13 17 (2.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 16 (1.90%) Big Data
14 16 (1.90%) MySQL
14 16 (1.90%) Qlik Sense
15 14 (1.66%) Data Mining
16 12 (1.42%) GIS
Development Applications
1 50 (5.93%) JIRA
2 12 (1.42%) Git
3 10 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (0.71%) GitLab
6 5 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.47%) ERwin
7 4 (0.47%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
9 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.24%) kappa
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (0.12%) GoCD
10 1 (0.12%) Gradle
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 297 (35.23%) Finance
2 219 (25.98%) Social Skills
3 216 (25.62%) Public Sector
4 193 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
5 166 (19.69%) Manufacturing
6 163 (19.34%) Marketing
7 158 (18.74%) Telecoms
8 144 (17.08%) Electronics
9 36 (4.27%) Retail
10 24 (2.85%) Legal
11 21 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 15 (1.78%) Local Government
15 13 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.19%) Law
17 9 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.95%) Banking
18 8 (0.95%) Billing
19 7 (0.83%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 207 (24.56%) Analyst
2 151 (17.91%) Developer
3 111 (13.17%) Data Analyst
4 96 (11.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 77 (9.13%) Architect
6 71 (8.42%) Senior
7 68 (8.07%) Data Engineer
8 67 (7.95%) Power BI Developer
9 51 (6.05%) Lead
10 48 (5.69%) Consultant
11 45 (5.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 44 (5.22%) Project Manager
13 36 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
14 32 (3.80%) Support Engineer
15 30 (3.56%) Data Architect
16 29 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
17 26 (3.08%) Business Analyst
18 23 (2.73%) Power BI Analyst
19 20 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
20 18 (2.14%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (1.78%) HTML
3 14 (1.66%) .NET
4 13 (1.54%) CSS
5 12 (1.42%) XML
6 6 (0.71%) ADO
6 6 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.71%) Web Services
7 5 (0.59%) PySpark
7 5 (0.59%) SOAP
8 4 (0.47%) D3.js
8 4 (0.47%) JSON
8 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (0.47%) Middleware
8 4 (0.47%) REST
9 3 (0.36%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.36%) Flask
9 3 (0.36%) Pandas
10 2 (0.24%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.24%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.93%) NHS
2 43 (5.10%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.49%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (1.66%) CMDB
6 12 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.19%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.07%) Life Science
8 9 (1.07%) LIMS
9 6 (0.71%) Digital Signage
9 6 (0.71%) PKI
9 6 (0.71%) Smart Meter
10 5 (0.59%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.59%) DTCC
10 5 (0.59%) e-Health
10 5 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.59%) Market Risk
11 4 (0.47%) FMCG
11 4 (0.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.22%) Windows
2 18 (2.14%) Windows 10
3 12 (1.42%) Linux
3 12 (1.42%) Unix
4 9 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.83%) VMS
6 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.59%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (23.37%) Analytics
2 154 (18.27%) Programme Management
3 147 (17.44%) Digital Marketing
4 143 (16.96%) Visualisation
5 140 (16.61%) Data Modelling
6 134 (15.90%) ETL
7 121 (14.35%) Data Analysis
8 117 (13.88%) Agile
9 111 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (10.32%) Data Visualisation
11 84 (9.96%) Migration
12 73 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 71 (8.42%) Project Management
14 67 (7.95%) Data Management
15 60 (7.12%) DevOps
15 60 (7.12%) ERP
16 56 (6.64%) Data Analytics
17 53 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 50 (5.93%) Decision-Making
19 46 (5.46%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 303 (35.94%) SQL
2 97 (11.51%) Python
3 45 (5.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 36 (4.27%) T-SQL
5 23 (2.73%) C#
6 21 (2.49%) PowerShell
7 19 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.02%) R
9 13 (1.54%) Java
10 10 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.19%) Scala
11 7 (0.83%) VBA
12 4 (0.47%) VB
13 2 (0.24%) ABAP
13 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.12%) Bicep
14 1 (0.12%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.12%) Julia
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 129 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 96 (11.39%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.83%) Degree
4 33 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 16 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.07%) CISSP
8 8 (0.95%) PMI Certification
8 8 (0.95%) PMP
9 5 (0.59%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (0.47%) CISM
10 4 (0.47%) CLAS
10 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.36%) ACCA
11 3 (0.36%) CIMA
11 3 (0.36%) HNC
11 3 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 33 (3.91%) QA
3 24 (2.85%) PMO
4 18 (2.14%) GDPR
5 14 (1.66%) SLA
6 9 (1.07%) HL7
7 8 (0.95%) GxP
8 7 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.59%) GAMP
9 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.59%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.59%) RMADS
10 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.47%) NIST
11 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 9000
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 23 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.59%) Docker
3 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.71%) Terraform
4 4 (0.47%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.36%) Ansible
6 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (0.24%) Nessus
6 2 (0.24%) SysTrack
6 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.12%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) SCOM
7 1 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 203 (24.08%) SAP
2 199 (23.61%) Microsoft
3 65 (7.71%) Oracle
4 44 (5.22%) Databricks
5 25 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.37%) Remedy
7 16 (1.90%) Google
7 16 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.78%) Alteryx
9 12 (1.42%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.19%) CA
10 10 (1.19%) Informatica
11 8 (0.95%) VMware
12 7 (0.83%) Ab Initio
12 7 (0.83%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.83%) Trillium
13 6 (0.71%) Hyperion
14 5 (0.59%) Autodesk
14 5 (0.59%) Cisco
14 5 (0.59%) IFS