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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 48 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,975 2,688 4,303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.59% 4.64% 4.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 5.17% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,369 1,913 3,176
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -3.10% +4.51%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £715 £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 45 46
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £25.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -20.00% +42.05%
75th Percentile £46.56 £48.75 £46.53
90th Percentile £79.63 £57.85 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.86 £25.25 £24.50
% change year-on-year -9.48% +3.06% +21.74%

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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +6 1,711 £500 - 1,208
London +14 880 £525 -0.94% 474
UK excluding London +3 846 £450 -5.26% 771
Work from Home +13 794 £500 - 650
North of England +2 199 £450 -5.26% 202
South East -1 190 £425 -5.56% 168
South West +2 170 £538 +2.38% 91
Midlands +2 134 £425 -8.11% 175
North West 0 121 £464 +3.06% 113
West Midlands -1 93 £450 -7.69% 107
Scotland +42 83 £480 -0.26% 35
Yorkshire +2 68 £450 -10.00% 66
East of England -23 52 £410 -8.89% 69
East Midlands +6 40 £375 -11.76% 68
Wales +19 15 £500 +50.94% 28
Northern Ireland +10 13 £500 +17.65% 10
North East +11 9 £663 +32.50% 23

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 (6.53%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.18%) Confluence
3 35 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.32%) SAS
6 21 (1.06%) Apache
7 12 (0.61%) MTS
8 7 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.15%) CMS
10 3 (0.15%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.10%) Jadu
11 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.10%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.051%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.051%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 204 (10.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.23%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.71%) 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 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (1.77%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.91%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.61%) Endur
7 12 (0.61%) EuroRunner
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 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
12 6 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
13 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 4 (0.20%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,199 (60.71%) Power Platform
2 555 (28.10%) Azure
3 209 (10.58%) PowerApps
4 206 (10.43%) Power Automate
5 137 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (6.78%) AWS
7 127 (6.43%) Dynamics 365
8 125 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 113 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
10 67 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 59 (2.99%) Snowflake
12 57 (2.89%) GCP
13 49 (2.48%) Serverless
14 47 (2.38%) Entra ID
15 43 (2.18%) GitHub
16 42 (2.13%) OCI
17 32 (1.62%) Azure Functions
18 30 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
19 24 (1.22%) Google Analytics
20 23 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.11%) Firewall
2 13 (0.66%) VPN
3 11 (0.56%) 4G
3 11 (0.56%) HTTP
4 10 (0.51%) FTP
5 9 (0.46%) DNS
6 8 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.35%) 3G
7 7 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
7 7 (0.35%) Wireless
8 6 (0.30%) LAN
8 6 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (0.30%) WAN
9 4 (0.20%) 3GPP
9 4 (0.20%) Internet
9 4 (0.20%) Intranet
9 4 (0.20%) LTE
9 4 (0.20%) MegaStream
9 4 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,181 (59.80%) Power BI
2 277 (14.03%) Data Warehouse
3 232 (11.75%) SQL Server
4 226 (11.44%) Tableau
5 150 (7.59%) Data Lake
6 135 (6.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 91 (4.61%) Metadata
8 90 (4.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 88 (4.46%) Big Data
10 66 (3.34%) NoSQL
11 63 (3.19%) Relational Database
12 60 (3.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 59 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
14 50 (2.53%) Power Query
15 39 (1.97%) Qlik Sense
16 36 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
17 35 (1.77%) QlikView
18 32 (1.62%) BigQuery
19 30 (1.52%) Looker
19 30 (1.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 118 (5.97%) JIRA
2 35 (1.77%) Git
3 23 (1.16%) ERwin
4 20 (1.01%) Visual Studio
5 18 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 16 (0.81%) GitLab
7 13 (0.66%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.51%) Postman
10 5 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.20%) NUnit
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.10%) Appium
13 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.10%) GoCD
13 2 (0.10%) kappa
13 2 (0.10%) RStudio
13 2 (0.10%) XCTest
13 2 (0.10%) XCUITest
General
1 742 (37.57%) Finance
2 546 (27.65%) Social Skills
3 469 (23.75%) Public Sector
4 432 (21.87%) Analytical Skills
5 368 (18.63%) Marketing
6 338 (17.11%) Manufacturing
7 329 (16.66%) Telecoms
8 301 (15.24%) Electronics
9 90 (4.56%) Retail
10 82 (4.15%) Banking
11 63 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.08%) Legal
13 38 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.57%) General Ledger
15 31 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 30 (1.52%) Publishing
17 29 (1.47%) Front Office
17 29 (1.47%) Local Government
18 24 (1.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 441 (22.33%) Analyst
2 335 (16.96%) Developer
3 226 (11.44%) Architect
4 202 (10.23%) Data Analyst
5 181 (9.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 171 (8.66%) Senior
7 170 (8.61%) Data Engineer
8 149 (7.54%) Consultant
9 127 (6.43%) Power BI Developer
10 119 (6.03%) Lead
11 114 (5.77%) Data Architect
12 105 (5.32%) Business Analyst
13 89 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 87 (4.41%) Project Manager
15 66 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
16 62 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
17 57 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
18 47 (2.38%) Support Engineer
19 46 (2.33%) Power BI Analyst
20 37 (1.87%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.14%) .NET
2 56 (2.84%) JSON
3 43 (2.18%) XML
4 42 (2.13%) PySpark
5 36 (1.82%) HTML
6 34 (1.72%) CSS
7 33 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
8 18 (0.91%) REST
9 17 (0.86%) RESTful
9 17 (0.86%) Web Services
10 15 (0.76%) .NET Framework
11 14 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.66%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.66%) JSON Schema
12 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (0.56%) jQuery
13 11 (0.56%) Node.js
13 11 (0.56%) SOAP
14 9 (0.46%) ADO
14 9 (0.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 97 (4.91%) Management Information System
2 69 (3.49%) Data Structures
3 66 (3.34%) NHS
4 63 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 31 (1.57%) Reference Data
6 31 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 23 (1.16%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 19 (0.96%) Market Risk
11 17 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.71%) CMDB
12 14 (0.71%) Data Centre
12 14 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (0.71%) Social Media
13 13 (0.66%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.61%) Life Science
14 12 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.85%) Windows
2 36 (1.82%) Linux
3 21 (1.06%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.01%) Unix
5 16 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.41%) VMS
7 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.10%) Android
9 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (24.00%) Analytics
2 421 (21.32%) Data Modelling
3 398 (20.15%) Agile
4 332 (16.81%) ETL
5 331 (16.76%) Visualisation
6 320 (16.20%) Programme Management
7 309 (15.65%) Digital Marketing
8 286 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
9 269 (13.62%) Data Analysis
10 225 (11.39%) Data Visualisation
11 220 (11.14%) DevOps
12 179 (9.06%) Migration
13 171 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 161 (8.15%) Data Management
15 160 (8.10%) Project Management
16 151 (7.65%) Data Governance
17 132 (6.68%) Decision-Making
18 128 (6.48%) Data Integration
19 126 (6.38%) Data Analytics
20 119 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 745 (37.72%) SQL
2 320 (16.20%) Python
3 107 (5.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 84 (4.25%) PowerShell
5 80 (4.05%) C#
6 69 (3.49%) T-SQL
7 67 (3.39%) JavaScript
8 54 (2.73%) R
9 51 (2.58%) Java
10 39 (1.97%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.67%) Scala
12 16 (0.81%) VBA
13 13 (0.66%) VB
14 12 (0.61%) MATLAB
14 12 (0.61%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.35%) Bash
16 7 (0.35%) XPath
16 7 (0.35%) XQuery
17 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 262 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 193 (9.77%) Degree
3 192 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 57 (2.89%) DV Cleared
5 51 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (0.91%) PMI Certification
9 17 (0.86%) CISSP
10 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.76%) PMP
11 13 (0.66%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.51%) CISM
13 8 (0.41%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.41%) Postgraduate
14 7 (0.35%) CIMA
15 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
16 5 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.95%) QA
3 47 (2.38%) GDPR
4 45 (2.28%) PMO
5 28 (1.42%) SLA
6 15 (0.76%) GxP
7 14 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.46%) HL7
9 7 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.35%) CDISC
10 6 (0.30%) NIST
11 5 (0.25%) GAMP
11 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.25%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.25%) RMADS
12 4 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.15%) GRC
13 3 (0.15%) IFRS
13 3 (0.15%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 53 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (0.76%) Docker
4 8 (0.41%) NFS
5 6 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.25%) HDFS
6 5 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.15%) Firmware
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.051%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (1.47%) Terraform
2 19 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.61%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.20%) Puppet
6 4 (0.20%) QRadar
7 3 (0.15%) Ansible
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%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.10%) Grafana
8 2 (0.10%) Kibana
8 2 (0.10%) Nessus
8 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.10%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.10%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 528 (26.73%) Microsoft
2 425 (21.52%) SAP
3 178 (9.01%) Oracle
4 133 (6.73%) Databricks
5 51 (2.58%) Google
6 48 (2.43%) Salesforce
7 45 (2.28%) Informatica
8 40 (2.03%) ServiceNow
9 34 (1.72%) Alteryx
10 24 (1.22%) Sparx
11 23 (1.16%) Remedy
12 16 (0.81%) Adobe
13 14 (0.71%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.71%) Bloomberg
13 14 (0.71%) CA
13 14 (0.71%) Talend
14 12 (0.61%) BISAM
15 11 (0.56%) Ariba
16 10 (0.51%) Dell
16 10 (0.51%) VMware