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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 47 50
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,950 2,642 4,263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.58% 4.65% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.31% 5.17% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,343 1,868 3,159
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% +5.64%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £713 £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 43 46
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.60 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -21.95% +46.43%
75th Percentile £46.56 £53.36 £45.84
90th Percentile £79.63 £58.30 £57.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.86 £25.13 £23.00
% change year-on-year -9.02% +9.24% +19.48%

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 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
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% -6.54%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +7 1,693 £500 - 1,237
London +13 870 £525 -0.94% 491
UK excluding London +4 843 £450 -5.26% 796
Work from Home +16 780 £496 -0.75% 831
North of England +3 195 £450 -5.26% 199
South East -1 190 £425 -2.86% 186
South West 0 168 £538 +2.38% 105
Midlands +4 137 £425 -10.53% 171
North West -6 117 £453 +0.56% 117
West Midlands +7 98 £450 -8.86% 110
Scotland +45 81 £480 +1.05% 40
Yorkshire -4 69 £450 -10.00% 63
East of England -25 53 £405 -10.00% 65
East Midlands -2 38 £375 -11.76% 61
Wales +23 15 £500 +33.33% 30
Northern Ireland +10 14 £500 +17.65% 10
North East +9 8 £663 +32.50% 20

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
1 127 (6.51%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.26%) Confluence
3 37 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.38%) SAS
6 21 (1.08%) Apache
7 12 (0.62%) MTS
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.15%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.10%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Jadu
12 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.10%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.051%) Exchange Server 2013
13 1 (0.051%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 206 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.67%) 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 52 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.92%) 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 (0.56%) Aligne
8 11 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
8 11 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
12 6 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
13 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
14 4 (0.21%) Maximo
14 4 (0.21%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,201 (61.59%) Power Platform
2 557 (28.56%) Azure
3 210 (10.77%) PowerApps
4 209 (10.72%) Power Automate
5 136 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
6 131 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
7 129 (6.62%) AWS
8 126 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 112 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
10 65 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 56 (2.87%) GCP
11 56 (2.87%) Snowflake
12 47 (2.41%) Entra ID
13 43 (2.21%) GitHub
13 43 (2.21%) OCI
13 43 (2.21%) Serverless
14 32 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
15 29 (1.49%) Azure Functions
16 26 (1.33%) Google Analytics
17 22 (1.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.03%) Firewall
2 12 (0.62%) VPN
3 11 (0.56%) 4G
3 11 (0.56%) 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 1,183 (60.67%) Power BI
2 270 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
3 231 (11.85%) SQL Server
4 226 (11.59%) Tableau
5 143 (7.33%) Data Lake
6 134 (6.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 89 (4.56%) Big Data
7 89 (4.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 86 (4.41%) Metadata
9 66 (3.38%) NoSQL
10 63 (3.23%) Relational Database
11 59 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 59 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 46 (2.36%) Power Query
13 39 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
14 37 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
15 35 (1.79%) QlikView
16 30 (1.54%) BigQuery
16 30 (1.54%) Looker
16 30 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 118 (6.05%) JIRA
2 33 (1.69%) Git
3 22 (1.13%) Visual Studio
4 21 (1.08%) ERwin
5 18 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.77%) GitLab
7 11 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.51%) Postman
9 4 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.21%) NUnit
10 3 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.10%) Appium
11 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.10%) GoCD
11 2 (0.10%) kappa
11 2 (0.10%) RStudio
11 2 (0.10%) XCTest
11 2 (0.10%) XCUITest
General
1 721 (36.97%) Finance
2 536 (27.49%) Social Skills
3 449 (23.03%) Public Sector
4 432 (22.15%) Analytical Skills
5 351 (18.00%) Marketing
6 320 (16.41%) Manufacturing
7 312 (16.00%) Telecoms
8 283 (14.51%) Electronics
9 90 (4.62%) Retail
10 84 (4.31%) Banking
11 62 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.26%) Legal
13 37 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
16 31 (1.59%) General Ledger
17 29 (1.49%) Front Office
18 28 (1.44%) Local Government
18 28 (1.44%) Publishing
19 24 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 446 (22.87%) Analyst
2 337 (17.28%) Developer
3 219 (11.23%) Architect
4 200 (10.26%) Data Analyst
5 185 (9.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 169 (8.67%) Senior
7 160 (8.21%) Data Engineer
8 150 (7.69%) Consultant
9 129 (6.62%) Power BI Developer
10 116 (5.95%) Lead
11 112 (5.74%) Data Architect
12 107 (5.49%) Business Analyst
13 86 (4.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 82 (4.21%) Project Manager
15 65 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
16 64 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
17 55 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
18 45 (2.31%) Support Engineer
19 43 (2.21%) Power BI Analyst
20 41 (2.10%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (3.13%) .NET
2 52 (2.67%) JSON
3 43 (2.21%) XML
4 40 (2.05%) PySpark
5 37 (1.90%) HTML
6 35 (1.79%) CSS
7 34 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
8 18 (0.92%) REST
9 17 (0.87%) RESTful
10 16 (0.82%) Web Services
11 14 (0.72%) .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 (0.56%) AngularJS
14 11 (0.56%) jQuery
14 11 (0.56%) Node.js
15 10 (0.51%) ADO
16 9 (0.46%) React
Miscellaneous
1 97 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.59%) Data Structures
3 64 (3.28%) NHS
3 64 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 33 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (1.59%) Reference Data
6 30 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.08%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 19 (0.97%) 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 75 (3.85%) Windows
2 36 (1.85%) Linux
3 21 (1.08%) Unix
4 17 (0.87%) Windows 10
4 17 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.46%) VMS
6 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.26%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.10%) Android
8 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (23.64%) Analytics
2 408 (20.92%) Data Modelling
3 393 (20.15%) Agile
4 328 (16.82%) Visualisation
5 320 (16.41%) ETL
6 301 (15.44%) Programme Management
7 291 (14.92%) Digital Marketing
7 291 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
8 263 (13.49%) Data Analysis
9 225 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
10 220 (11.28%) DevOps
11 175 (8.97%) Migration
12 172 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 162 (8.31%) Project Management
14 154 (7.90%) Data Management
15 143 (7.33%) Data Governance
16 132 (6.77%) Decision-Making
17 124 (6.36%) Data Integration
18 123 (6.31%) Data Analytics
19 118 (6.05%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 745 (38.21%) SQL
2 310 (15.90%) Python
3 107 (5.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 82 (4.21%) PowerShell
5 81 (4.15%) C#
6 69 (3.54%) T-SQL
7 66 (3.38%) JavaScript
8 52 (2.67%) R
9 48 (2.46%) Java
10 38 (1.95%) PL/SQL
11 28 (1.44%) Scala
12 16 (0.82%) VBA
13 13 (0.67%) VB
14 11 (0.56%) MATLAB
14 11 (0.56%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.41%) Bash
17 7 (0.36%) XPath
17 7 (0.36%) XQuery
18 6 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 257 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 195 (10.00%) Degree
3 186 (9.54%) SC Cleared
4 58 (2.97%) DV Cleared
5 55 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (0.92%) CISSP
8 18 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (0.77%) PMP
10 13 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.56%) CISM
12 8 (0.41%) Postgraduate
13 7 (0.36%) CIMA
14 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.26%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.26%) CESG Certified Professional
15 5 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (8.56%) Data Quality
2 78 (4.00%) QA
3 45 (2.31%) GDPR
4 44 (2.26%) PMO
5 28 (1.44%) SLA
6 16 (0.82%) GxP
7 14 (0.72%) 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 51 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.97%) 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 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.10%) Firmware
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.051%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 25 (1.28%) Terraform
2 19 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.56%) 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%) CA Service Virtualization
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%) SCOM
Vendors
1 530 (27.18%) Microsoft
2 403 (20.67%) SAP
3 180 (9.23%) Oracle
4 129 (6.62%) Databricks
5 51 (2.62%) Google
6 49 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 42 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 40 (2.05%) Informatica
9 35 (1.79%) Alteryx
10 24 (1.23%) Remedy
11 21 (1.08%) Sparx
12 19 (0.97%) Adobe
13 14 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.72%) Bloomberg
13 14 (0.72%) CA
14 12 (0.62%) BISAM
15 11 (0.56%) Ariba
15 11 (0.56%) Talend
15 11 (0.56%) VMware
16 10 (0.51%) Cisco