Business Intelligence Contracts in Scotland

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 84 55
Rank change year-on-year +36 -29 +27
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 82 83 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.83% 3.10% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 3.36% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 61 102
10th Percentile £163 £363 £345
25th Percentile £363 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year - -0.73% +12.59%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £538
90th Percentile £663 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.10% +4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £21.98 - £18.10
25th Percentile £22.49 - £20.88
Median hourly rate £24.26 - £26.00
75th Percentile £39.46 - £31.50
90th Percentile £48.03 - £34.50
UK median hourly rate £25.34 £24.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.41% -18.33% +36.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,869 2,473 3,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.21% 92.38% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,727 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.09
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +31 42 £550 +15.79% 16
Glasgow +20 34 £425 -12.82% 12
South Lanarkshire +9 4 £480 +6.67% 1
Fife +1 1 - - 4
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.88%) Confluence
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (24.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (6.10%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (4.88%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (4.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 60 (73.17%) Power Platform
2 23 (28.05%) Power Automate
3 20 (24.39%) PowerApps
4 18 (21.95%) Azure
5 10 (12.20%) OCI
6 6 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.88%) GCP
8 3 (3.66%) Adverity
8 3 (3.66%) Google Data Studio
8 3 (3.66%) Google Sheets
8 3 (3.66%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.66%) Sprout Social
9 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.22%) AWS
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (73.17%) Power BI
2 10 (12.20%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (9.76%) Tableau
4 6 (7.32%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (4.88%) Star Schema
6 3 (3.66%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.44%) Big Data
7 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.22%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.22%) DTS
8 1 (1.22%) Metadata
8 1 (1.22%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.22%) Power Query
8 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (18.29%) JIRA
2 3 (3.66%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.22%) Git
3 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 35 (42.68%) Public Sector
2 29 (35.37%) Finance
3 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
4 24 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.98%) Marketing
6 7 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (7.32%) Electronics
7 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
7 6 (7.32%) Telecoms
8 5 (6.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Local Government
9 1 (1.22%) Military
9 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (40.24%) Analyst
2 18 (21.95%) Data Analyst
3 13 (15.85%) Developer
4 11 (13.41%) Senior
5 9 (10.98%) Consultant
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Data Analyst
7 7 (8.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 6 (7.32%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Report Analyst
9 5 (6.10%) Power Platform Consultant
10 4 (4.88%) Architect
10 4 (4.88%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.88%) Operations Analyst
10 4 (4.88%) PMO Analyst
10 4 (4.88%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Product Manager
11 3 (3.66%) Data Modeller
11 3 (3.66%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (4.88%) .NET
3 3 (3.66%) CSS
3 3 (3.66%) HTML
3 3 (3.66%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (3.66%) React
3 3 (3.66%) RESTful
4 2 (2.44%) ADO
4 2 (2.44%) Middleware
4 2 (2.44%) Regular Expression
4 2 (2.44%) REST
4 2 (2.44%) SOAP
5 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.22%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.10%) DTCC
1 5 (6.10%) Market Risk
2 4 (4.88%) CMDB
2 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.66%) Social Media
4 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.44%) iPhone
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.22%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Windows
1 2 (2.44%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.15%) Analytics
2 22 (26.83%) Data Analysis
3 20 (24.39%) Data Visualisation
3 20 (24.39%) Visualisation
4 14 (17.07%) Data Modelling
5 13 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.63%) Agile
7 11 (13.41%) ERP
8 10 (12.20%) Data Management
9 9 (10.98%) Decision-Making
9 9 (10.98%) DevOps
10 8 (9.76%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (7.32%) CRM
11 6 (7.32%) Digital Marketing
11 6 (7.32%) ETL
11 6 (7.32%) Performance Metrics
11 6 (7.32%) Product Backlog
11 6 (7.32%) Programme Management
11 6 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (7.32%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) SQL
2 6 (7.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 6 (7.32%) Python
3 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.22%) Java
4 1 (1.22%) Scala
4 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (18.29%) SC Cleared
1 15 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) PMO
2 4 (4.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) QA
4 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 39 (47.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.85%) Oracle
3 11 (13.41%) Atlassian
3 11 (13.41%) Databricks
4 6 (7.32%) SAP
5 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.66%) Brandwatch
6 3 (3.66%) Facebook
6 3 (3.66%) Google
6 3 (3.66%) Hootsuite
6 3 (3.66%) IDERA
6 3 (3.66%) Instagram
6 3 (3.66%) Twitter
6 3 (3.66%) YouTube
7 2 (2.44%) Cadence
7 2 (2.44%) HP
7 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.44%) Samsung
8 1 (1.22%) Informatica
8 1 (1.22%) Sybase