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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 45 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,694 2,238 3,350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.55% 4.76% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 5.29% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 1,596 2,545
10th Percentile £281 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +5.05%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £619
90th Percentile £722 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 42 41
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.20 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.36 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.22 £23.38 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -13.36% +22.64%
75th Percentile £53.44 £53.75 £43.95
90th Percentile £80.45 £62.58 £59.38
UK median hourly rate £24.34 £22.75 £26.49
% change year-on-year +7.00% -14.12% +17.73%

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 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +14 864 £524 -0.24% 447
South East -1 207 £425 - 163
North of England -6 207 £450 -5.26% 227
South West -2 164 £533 +1.43% 110
Midlands -3 133 £425 -10.53% 119
North West -12 112 £450 - 141
West Midlands +2 96 £439 -12.25% 66
Yorkshire +9 86 £463 -7.50% 66
East of England -32 50 £375 -16.67% 61
East Midlands -3 36 £375 -11.76% 51
North East +9 8 £663 +45.60% 21
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
1 107 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 37 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.48%) Confluence
5 20 (1.18%) SAS
6 18 (1.06%) Apache
7 11 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
8 9 (0.53%) MTS
9 7 (0.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.12%) CMS
13 2 (0.12%) IIS
13 2 (0.12%) Jadu
13 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.059%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 171 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.42%) MS Visio
4 38 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.65%) 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 38 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.65%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (1.12%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.53%) Endur
8 9 (0.53%) EuroRunner
9 8 (0.47%) Aligne
10 7 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
11 6 (0.35%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.35%) Oracle HRMS
12 5 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
12 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 4 (0.24%) Shopify
14 3 (0.18%) OPENHousing
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,057 (62.40%) Power Platform
2 497 (29.34%) Azure
3 178 (10.51%) PowerApps
4 175 (10.33%) Power Automate
5 122 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
6 110 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
8 104 (6.14%) AWS
9 103 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 59 (3.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 52 (3.07%) Snowflake
12 48 (2.83%) Entra ID
13 32 (1.89%) GCP
13 32 (1.89%) Serverless
14 31 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
15 30 (1.77%) GitHub
16 27 (1.59%) Azure Functions
17 23 (1.36%) PaaS
17 23 (1.36%) SaaS
18 22 (1.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.18%) Firewall
2 9 (0.53%) VPN
3 8 (0.47%) 3G
3 8 (0.47%) 4G
4 7 (0.41%) FTP
4 7 (0.41%) Unified Communications
5 6 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (0.30%) Internet
6 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.30%) Wireless
7 4 (0.24%) DNS
7 4 (0.24%) HTTP
7 4 (0.24%) LAN
7 4 (0.24%) MegaStream
8 3 (0.18%) Intranet
8 3 (0.18%) Network Security
8 3 (0.18%) SSL
8 3 (0.18%) WAN
9 2 (0.12%) SAN
9 2 (0.12%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,046 (61.75%) Power BI
2 232 (13.70%) Data Warehouse
3 212 (12.51%) SQL Server
4 209 (12.34%) Tableau
5 127 (7.50%) Data Lake
6 126 (7.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 89 (5.25%) Big Data
8 82 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 78 (4.60%) Metadata
10 73 (4.31%) NoSQL
11 71 (4.19%) Relational Database
12 55 (3.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 54 (3.19%) Qlik Sense
14 49 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
15 43 (2.54%) MySQL
16 36 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
17 32 (1.89%) Power Query
18 31 (1.83%) Data Mining
19 29 (1.71%) QlikView
20 28 (1.65%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 78 (4.60%) JIRA
2 29 (1.71%) Git
3 20 (1.18%) Visual Studio
4 19 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 15 (0.89%) ERwin
6 11 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.59%) GitLab
7 10 (0.59%) Postman
8 7 (0.41%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.24%) NUnit
10 3 (0.18%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.12%) Appium
11 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.12%) git-flow
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.12%) XCTest
11 2 (0.12%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.12%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.059%) PVCS
12 1 (0.059%) Toad
General
1 638 (37.66%) Finance
2 464 (27.39%) Social Skills
3 383 (22.61%) Analytical Skills
4 380 (22.43%) Public Sector
5 306 (18.06%) Marketing
6 281 (16.59%) Manufacturing
7 274 (16.17%) Telecoms
8 251 (14.82%) Electronics
9 93 (5.49%) Banking
10 81 (4.78%) Retail
11 58 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.83%) General Ledger
12 31 (1.83%) Legal
13 30 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.71%) Front Office
15 28 (1.65%) Local Government
16 25 (1.48%) Publishing
17 24 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
18 22 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (1.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 392 (23.14%) Analyst
2 310 (18.30%) Developer
3 179 (10.57%) Architect
4 178 (10.51%) Data Analyst
5 171 (10.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 139 (8.21%) Senior
7 132 (7.79%) Data Engineer
8 123 (7.26%) Consultant
9 105 (6.20%) Power BI Developer
10 99 (5.84%) Lead
11 97 (5.73%) Data Architect
12 92 (5.43%) Business Analyst
13 76 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 59 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
15 57 (3.36%) Project Manager
16 44 (2.60%) Power Platform Developer
17 43 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
18 40 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
19 39 (2.30%) Data Scientist
20 37 (2.18%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.01%) .NET
2 47 (2.77%) HTML
3 45 (2.66%) JSON
4 40 (2.36%) XML
5 39 (2.30%) CSS
6 31 (1.83%) PySpark
7 20 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 20 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (0.89%) .NET Framework
8 15 (0.89%) REST
8 15 (0.89%) Web Services
9 13 (0.77%) JSON Schema
10 12 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (0.71%) RESTful
11 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (0.59%) Node.js
13 8 (0.47%) ADO
13 8 (0.47%) jQuery
13 8 (0.47%) SAML
13 8 (0.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 66 (3.90%) Data Structures
3 58 (3.42%) NHS
4 54 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 30 (1.77%) Reference Data
6 27 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.30%) Hedge funds
9 17 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 13 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (0.71%) Derivative
11 12 (0.71%) Equities
11 12 (0.71%) Fixed Income
11 12 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (0.71%) Low-Code
12 11 (0.65%) Freedom of Information
13 10 (0.59%) CMDB
13 10 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.60%) Windows
2 32 (1.89%) Linux
3 18 (1.06%) Unix
4 15 (0.89%) Windows 10
4 15 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.59%) VMS
6 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.24%) Android
8 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (22.20%) Analytics
2 371 (21.90%) Data Modelling
3 362 (21.37%) Agile
4 279 (16.47%) Visualisation
5 270 (15.94%) ETL
6 267 (15.76%) Programme Management
7 259 (15.29%) Digital Marketing
8 252 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
9 230 (13.58%) Data Analysis
10 184 (10.86%) Data Visualisation
11 178 (10.51%) DevOps
12 148 (8.74%) Migration
13 142 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 131 (7.73%) Project Management
15 122 (7.20%) Data Governance
15 122 (7.20%) Decision-Making
16 116 (6.85%) Data Management
17 115 (6.79%) Data Analytics
18 111 (6.55%) Scrum
19 110 (6.49%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 663 (39.14%) SQL
2 258 (15.23%) Python
3 83 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 77 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 69 (4.07%) C#
6 67 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 63 (3.72%) T-SQL
8 41 (2.42%) R
9 37 (2.18%) PL/SQL
10 30 (1.77%) Java
11 19 (1.12%) Scala
12 18 (1.06%) VBA
13 11 (0.65%) MATLAB
13 11 (0.65%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.47%) VB
15 7 (0.41%) Bash
15 7 (0.41%) XPath
15 7 (0.41%) XQuery
16 6 (0.35%) C++
17 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 228 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 198 (11.69%) Degree
3 148 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (2.18%) Master's Degree
7 28 (1.65%) PMI Certification
8 26 (1.53%) PMP
9 25 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.65%) CISSP
12 9 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.41%) Postgraduate
14 6 (0.35%) CIMA
15 5 (0.30%) CISM
15 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.24%) CESG Certified Professional
16 4 (0.24%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (9.50%) Data Quality
2 71 (4.19%) QA
3 36 (2.13%) GDPR
4 32 (1.89%) SLA
5 31 (1.83%) PMO
6 15 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.53%) GxP
8 8 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.47%) HL7
9 5 (0.30%) GAMP
9 5 (0.30%) NIST
10 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.24%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.24%) RMADS
11 3 (0.18%) GRC
11 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.059%) IFRS
13 1 (0.059%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.059%) P3O
System Software
1 51 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.65%) Docker
4 10 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 5 (0.30%) NFS
5 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.24%) vSphere
7 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.059%) Firmware
8 1 (0.059%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (1.00%) Terraform
2 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (0.53%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.24%) Nessus
5 4 (0.24%) Puppet
5 4 (0.24%) QRadar
6 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.18%) SCCM
7 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.12%) Ansible
7 2 (0.12%) Kibana
7 2 (0.12%) SysTrack
7 2 (0.12%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.12%) vRealize
7 2 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.059%) CASB
8 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.059%) VxRail
Vendors
1 454 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 354 (20.90%) SAP
3 139 (8.21%) Oracle
4 102 (6.02%) Databricks
5 65 (3.84%) ServiceNow
6 49 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 38 (2.24%) Alteryx
8 36 (2.13%) Google
8 36 (2.13%) Informatica
9 23 (1.36%) Remedy
10 20 (1.18%) Adobe
11 15 (0.89%) Sparx
11 15 (0.89%) VMware
12 14 (0.83%) Bloomberg
13 13 (0.77%) CA
14 12 (0.71%) BISAM
15 11 (0.65%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.59%) Talend
17 9 (0.53%) Cisco
17 9 (0.53%) Dell