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 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 39 47 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,936 2,579 4,147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 4.60% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 5.13% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,825 3,055
10th Percentile £284 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -3.10% +4.24%
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 56 42 46
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.03 £12.30
25th Percentile £17.12 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.34 £24.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -18.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £44.74
90th Percentile £80.00 £62.58 £57.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.12 £25.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -12.42% +12.22% +11.80%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
England +6 1,691 £500 - 1,226
London +17 871 £525 - 498
UK excluding London +2 850 £450 -5.26% 750
Work from Home +9 739 £476 -4.90% 585
North of England -3 202 £450 -5.26% 211
South East -4 201 £425 - 183
South West -2 165 £533 +1.43% 107
Midlands -1 135 £425 -10.53% 125
North West -10 115 £450 -1.37% 128
West Midlands +4 99 £440 -9.74% 79
Scotland +36 82 £475 - 46
Yorkshire +11 78 £450 -10.00% 64
East of England -32 49 £375 -16.67% 64
East Midlands -6 35 £375 -14.29% 46
Wales +21 15 £500 +33.33% 18
Northern Ireland +7 11 £400 -8.57% 11
North East +8 8 £663 +26.19% 21

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 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.81%) Confluence
4 29 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.39%) SAS
6 21 (1.08%) Apache
7 13 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.52%) MTS
9 6 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.10%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) IIS
12 2 (0.10%) Jadu
12 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.10%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.052%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.052%) Mendix
Applications
1 202 (10.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (2.32%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.62%) 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 (0.052%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 48 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.70%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.98%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
6 12 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 10 (0.52%) Endur
7 10 (0.52%) EuroRunner
7 10 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.46%) Aligne
8 9 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
9 8 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
11 6 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.26%) MIS ActiveH
12 5 (0.26%) NEC Housing
12 5 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,206 (62.29%) Power Platform
2 558 (28.82%) Azure
3 216 (11.16%) PowerApps
4 214 (11.05%) Power Automate
5 138 (7.13%) Dynamics 365
6 129 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (6.25%) AWS
8 120 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
9 116 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 66 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 62 (3.20%) Snowflake
12 51 (2.63%) Entra ID
13 48 (2.48%) GCP
14 41 (2.12%) GitHub
15 38 (1.96%) OCI
15 38 (1.96%) Serverless
16 31 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 27 (1.39%) Azure Functions
18 26 (1.34%) Google Analytics
19 25 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.08%) Firewall
2 12 (0.62%) 4G
3 10 (0.52%) VPN
4 8 (0.41%) 3G
4 8 (0.41%) FTP
4 8 (0.41%) HTTP
5 7 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (0.36%) Unified Communications
6 6 (0.31%) DNS
6 6 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.31%) Wireless
7 5 (0.26%) Internet
7 5 (0.26%) LAN
8 4 (0.21%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.21%) Intranet
8 4 (0.21%) LTE
8 4 (0.21%) MegaStream
8 4 (0.21%) Network Security
8 4 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,190 (61.47%) Power BI
2 257 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
3 232 (11.98%) Tableau
4 223 (11.52%) SQL Server
5 143 (7.39%) Data Lake
6 136 (7.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (4.80%) Big Data
8 92 (4.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 85 (4.39%) Metadata
10 71 (3.67%) NoSQL
11 70 (3.62%) Relational Database
12 60 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 58 (3.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 46 (2.38%) Power Query
15 43 (2.22%) Qlik Sense
16 35 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
16 35 (1.81%) MySQL
16 35 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
17 34 (1.76%) QlikView
18 31 (1.60%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 107 (5.53%) JIRA
2 34 (1.76%) Git
3 23 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 17 (0.88%) ERwin
6 11 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.52%) GitLab
7 10 (0.52%) Postman
8 9 (0.46%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.21%) NUnit
10 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.10%) Appium
11 2 (0.10%) git-flow
11 2 (0.10%) kappa
11 2 (0.10%) RStudio
11 2 (0.10%) XCTest
11 2 (0.10%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 705 (36.42%) Finance
2 532 (27.48%) Social Skills
3 434 (22.42%) Public Sector
4 428 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
5 330 (17.05%) Marketing
6 301 (15.55%) Manufacturing
7 295 (15.24%) Telecoms
8 265 (13.69%) Electronics
9 92 (4.75%) Banking
10 87 (4.49%) Retail
11 63 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (1.96%) Legal
13 35 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.65%) General Ledger
14 32 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.50%) Front Office
15 29 (1.50%) Local Government
16 28 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
17 27 (1.39%) Publishing
18 22 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 455 (23.50%) Analyst
2 349 (18.03%) Developer
3 214 (11.05%) Architect
4 207 (10.69%) Data Analyst
5 192 (9.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 161 (8.32%) Senior
7 154 (7.95%) Data Engineer
8 150 (7.75%) Consultant
9 127 (6.56%) Power BI Developer
10 107 (5.53%) Data Architect
10 107 (5.53%) Lead
11 102 (5.27%) Business Analyst
12 88 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 72 (3.72%) Project Manager
14 69 (3.56%) Senior Analyst
15 56 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
16 50 (2.58%) Power Platform Developer
17 49 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
18 43 (2.22%) Power BI Analyst
19 37 (1.91%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.20%) .NET
2 48 (2.48%) JSON
3 42 (2.17%) HTML
3 42 (2.17%) XML
4 36 (1.86%) CSS
4 36 (1.86%) PySpark
5 33 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (0.88%) .NET Framework
6 17 (0.88%) REST
6 17 (0.88%) RESTful
7 16 (0.83%) Web Services
8 15 (0.77%) HTML5 Canvas
9 14 (0.72%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.67%) JSON Schema
11 12 (0.62%) React
12 11 (0.57%) ADO
12 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.57%) Node.js
13 10 (0.52%) jQuery
13 10 (0.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.22%) Management Information System
2 71 (3.67%) Data Structures
3 64 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.10%) NHS
5 32 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (1.60%) Reference Data
7 27 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.14%) Hedge funds
9 17 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 15 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (0.77%) Market Risk
11 14 (0.72%) CMDB
11 14 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (0.67%) Low-Code
12 13 (0.67%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.62%) Data Centre
13 12 (0.62%) Derivative
13 12 (0.62%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 79 (4.08%) Windows
2 32 (1.65%) Linux
3 19 (0.98%) Unix
4 16 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 16 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.52%) VMS
6 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.10%) Android
9 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (23.50%) Analytics
2 402 (20.76%) Data Modelling
3 396 (20.45%) Agile
4 321 (16.58%) Visualisation
5 309 (15.96%) ETL
6 287 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
7 282 (14.57%) Programme Management
8 274 (14.15%) Digital Marketing
9 261 (13.48%) Data Analysis
10 223 (11.52%) Data Visualisation
11 209 (10.80%) DevOps
12 169 (8.73%) Migration
13 165 (8.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 148 (7.64%) Data Management
15 147 (7.59%) Project Management
16 139 (7.18%) Data Governance
17 137 (7.08%) Decision-Making
18 126 (6.51%) Data Analytics
19 121 (6.25%) Data Integration
20 116 (5.99%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 751 (38.79%) SQL
2 303 (15.65%) Python
3 102 (5.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 84 (4.34%) PowerShell
5 79 (4.08%) C#
6 71 (3.67%) T-SQL
7 70 (3.62%) JavaScript
8 52 (2.69%) R
9 45 (2.32%) Java
9 45 (2.32%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.08%) Scala
11 19 (0.98%) VBA
12 15 (0.77%) VB
13 14 (0.72%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.62%) MATLAB
15 8 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.36%) Bash
16 7 (0.36%) XPath
16 7 (0.36%) XQuery
17 6 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 260 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 207 (10.69%) Degree
3 181 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 57 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 19 (0.98%) PMP
10 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 12 (0.62%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) Postgraduate
14 6 (0.31%) CIMA
15 5 (0.26%) CESG Certified Professional
15 5 (0.26%) CISM
15 5 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (8.83%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.93%) QA
3 44 (2.27%) PMO
4 39 (2.01%) GDPR
5 36 (1.86%) SLA
6 15 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.72%) GxP
8 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.41%) HL7
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
12 4 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.15%) GRC
13 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.62%) Docker
4 9 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.26%) HDFS
5 5 (0.26%) NFS
6 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.052%) Firmware
8 1 (0.052%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (1.14%) Terraform
2 19 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.21%) Nessus
6 4 (0.21%) Puppet
6 4 (0.21%) QRadar
7 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.10%) Ansible
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 (0.052%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.052%) WMI
9 1 (0.052%) WSUS
Vendors
1 534 (27.58%) Microsoft
2 385 (19.89%) SAP
3 176 (9.09%) Oracle
4 121 (6.25%) Databricks
5 57 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 52 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 48 (2.48%) Google
8 38 (1.96%) Alteryx
8 38 (1.96%) Informatica
9 23 (1.19%) Remedy
10 18 (0.93%) Adobe
11 17 (0.88%) Sparx
12 14 (0.72%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.72%) Bloomberg
12 14 (0.72%) CA
13 12 (0.62%) BISAM
13 12 (0.62%) VMware
14 11 (0.57%) Ariba
14 11 (0.57%) Cisco
15 10 (0.52%) Talend