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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,940 2,570 4,162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.48% 4.61% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 5.15% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,319 1,801 3,071
10th Percentile £281 £300 £356
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +5.05%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £611
90th Percentile £707 £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 43 46
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.05 £12.53
25th Percentile £17.12 £21.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £22.75 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -14.12% +20.41%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £44.74
90th Percentile £80.00 £62.15 £57.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.73 £25.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year -13.08% +36.99% -9.32%

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 36,910 49,947 79,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 89.66% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,591 34,538 56,189
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,563 1,686 1,877
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +7 1,694 £500 - 1,159
London +15 864 £524 -0.24% 445
UK excluding London +2 860 £450 -5.26% 735
Work from Home +8 729 £475 -5.00% 637
South East +1 207 £425 - 161
North of England -5 207 £450 -5.26% 229
South West 0 164 £533 +1.43% 111
Midlands -4 133 £425 -10.53% 119
North West -13 112 £450 - 141
West Midlands +1 96 £439 -11.14% 66
Yorkshire +11 86 £463 -7.50% 68
Scotland +30 81 £470 -2.34% 49
East of England -29 50 £375 -16.67% 61
East Midlands -4 36 £375 -11.76% 51
Wales +20 15 £500 +33.33% 13
Northern Ireland +5 12 £400 -8.57% 10
North East +8 8 £663 +45.60% 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
1 129 (6.65%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.80%) Confluence
4 30 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.39%) SAS
6 23 (1.19%) Apache
7 14 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
8 9 (0.46%) MTS
9 7 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 6 (0.31%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
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%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.052%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 206 (10.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.27%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.57%) 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 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.65%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.98%) Aladdin
4 18 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.67%) 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%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.46%) Endur
8 9 (0.46%) EuroRunner
8 9 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
9 8 (0.41%) Aligne
9 8 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
11 6 (0.31%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
11 6 (0.31%) Oracle HRMS
12 5 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,217 (62.73%) Power Platform
2 558 (28.76%) Azure
3 219 (11.29%) PowerApps
4 218 (11.24%) Power Automate
5 138 (7.11%) Dynamics 365
6 129 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (6.24%) AWS
9 118 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 67 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 64 (3.30%) Snowflake
12 52 (2.68%) Entra ID
13 47 (2.42%) GCP
14 41 (2.11%) GitHub
15 38 (1.96%) OCI
16 35 (1.80%) Serverless
17 31 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (1.39%) Azure Functions
18 27 (1.39%) Google Analytics
19 25 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.03%) Firewall
2 12 (0.62%) 4G
3 9 (0.46%) VPN
4 8 (0.41%) 3G
4 8 (0.41%) FTP
4 8 (0.41%) HTTP
5 7 (0.36%) Unified Communications
6 6 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.26%) DNS
7 5 (0.26%) Internet
7 5 (0.26%) Wireless
8 4 (0.21%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.21%) 5G
8 4 (0.21%) 5G NR
8 4 (0.21%) Intranet
8 4 (0.21%) LAN
8 4 (0.21%) LTE
8 4 (0.21%) MegaStream
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,201 (61.91%) Power BI
2 247 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
3 238 (12.27%) Tableau
4 223 (11.49%) SQL Server
5 144 (7.42%) Data Lake
6 138 (7.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 95 (4.90%) Big Data
8 92 (4.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 80 (4.12%) Metadata
10 79 (4.07%) Relational Database
11 73 (3.76%) NoSQL
12 58 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 57 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 54 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
15 46 (2.37%) Power Query
16 43 (2.22%) MySQL
17 36 (1.86%) BusinessObjects
17 36 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
18 32 (1.65%) QlikView
19 31 (1.60%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 107 (5.52%) JIRA
2 34 (1.75%) Git
3 22 (1.13%) Visual Studio
4 20 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 15 (0.77%) 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%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.10%) git-flow
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.10%) XCTest
11 2 (0.10%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 706 (36.39%) Finance
2 527 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 439 (22.63%) Public Sector
4 431 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 336 (17.32%) Marketing
6 303 (15.62%) Manufacturing
7 299 (15.41%) Telecoms
8 270 (13.92%) Electronics
9 97 (5.00%) Banking
10 84 (4.33%) Retail
11 62 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (2.06%) Legal
13 33 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.65%) General Ledger
15 31 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (1.55%) Local Government
17 29 (1.49%) Front Office
18 27 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
19 25 (1.29%) Publishing
20 22 (1.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 457 (23.56%) Analyst
2 352 (18.14%) Developer
3 207 (10.67%) Data Analyst
4 206 (10.62%) Architect
5 196 (10.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 159 (8.20%) Senior
7 151 (7.78%) Data Engineer
8 149 (7.68%) Consultant
9 127 (6.55%) Power BI Developer
10 109 (5.62%) Lead
11 100 (5.15%) Business Analyst
11 100 (5.15%) Data Architect
12 87 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 69 (3.56%) Senior Analyst
14 66 (3.40%) Project Manager
15 52 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
16 51 (2.63%) Power Platform Developer
17 49 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
18 41 (2.11%) Power BI Analyst
19 39 (2.01%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.30%) .NET
2 52 (2.68%) HTML
3 47 (2.42%) JSON
4 46 (2.37%) CSS
5 42 (2.16%) XML
6 35 (1.80%) PySpark
7 33 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
8 22 (1.13%) AngularJS
9 18 (0.93%) .NET Framework
10 17 (0.88%) REST
10 17 (0.88%) RESTful
11 16 (0.82%) Web Services
12 15 (0.77%) HTML5 Canvas
13 13 (0.67%) JSON Schema
14 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.57%) React
15 10 (0.52%) ADO
15 10 (0.52%) jQuery
15 10 (0.52%) Node.js
15 10 (0.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.61%) Data Structures
3 59 (3.04%) NHS
3 59 (3.04%) Product Ownership
4 32 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (1.60%) Reference Data
6 27 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.13%) Hedge funds
9 17 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 15 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (0.72%) CMDB
12 13 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (0.67%) Low-Code
12 13 (0.67%) Market Risk
13 12 (0.62%) Data Centre
13 12 (0.62%) Derivative
13 12 (0.62%) Fixed Income
13 12 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 84 (4.33%) Windows
2 33 (1.70%) Linux
3 19 (0.98%) Unix
4 18 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.52%) VMS
7 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.21%) Android
9 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (23.09%) Analytics
2 402 (20.72%) Data Modelling
3 400 (20.62%) Agile
4 323 (16.65%) Visualisation
5 307 (15.82%) ETL
6 288 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
7 286 (14.74%) Programme Management
8 278 (14.33%) Digital Marketing
9 260 (13.40%) Data Analysis
10 224 (11.55%) Data Visualisation
11 209 (10.77%) DevOps
12 166 (8.56%) Migration
13 158 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 143 (7.37%) Data Management
15 141 (7.27%) Project Management
16 138 (7.11%) Decision-Making
17 130 (6.70%) Data Governance
18 126 (6.49%) Data Analytics
19 120 (6.19%) Scrum
20 119 (6.13%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 754 (38.87%) SQL
2 298 (15.36%) Python
3 99 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 84 (4.33%) PowerShell
5 81 (4.18%) C#
6 80 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 71 (3.66%) T-SQL
8 51 (2.63%) R
9 45 (2.32%) PL/SQL
10 43 (2.22%) Java
11 22 (1.13%) VBA
12 21 (1.08%) Scala
13 15 (0.77%) TypeScript
13 15 (0.77%) VB
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
1 264 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 218 (11.24%) Degree
3 182 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 62 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 28 (1.44%) PMP
9 27 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.72%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.57%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) Postgraduate
14 6 (0.31%) CIMA
15 5 (0.26%) CISM
15 5 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
15 5 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.21%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (8.71%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.87%) QA
3 44 (2.27%) PMO
4 39 (2.01%) SLA
5 37 (1.91%) GDPR
6 15 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.72%) GxP
8 9 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.41%) HL7
10 7 (0.36%) CDISC
11 5 (0.26%) GAMP
11 5 (0.26%) NIST
12 4 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.21%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.21%) RMADS
13 3 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.15%) GRC
13 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 53 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.57%) Docker
4 10 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.26%) HDFS
5 5 (0.26%) NFS
5 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.21%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.21%) vSphere
7 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.052%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.052%) Firmware
8 1 (0.052%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 23 (1.19%) Terraform
2 19 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.82%) 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
6 4 (0.21%) SCCM
7 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.10%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.10%) Ansible
8 2 (0.10%) Grafana
8 2 (0.10%) Kibana
8 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.10%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.10%) vRealize
8 2 (0.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.052%) VxRail
Vendors
1 534 (27.53%) Microsoft
2 389 (20.05%) SAP
3 178 (9.18%) Oracle
4 120 (6.19%) Databricks
5 69 (3.56%) ServiceNow
6 51 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.58%) Google
8 39 (2.01%) Alteryx
9 38 (1.96%) Informatica
10 23 (1.19%) Remedy
11 20 (1.03%) Adobe
12 15 (0.77%) CA
12 15 (0.77%) Sparx
12 15 (0.77%) VMware
13 14 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.72%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.62%) BISAM
15 11 (0.57%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.52%) Ariba
16 10 (0.52%) Talend