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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 46 49
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,931 2,624 4,196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 4.64% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 5.18% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 1,868 3,102
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +5.37%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £709 £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 40 46
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.23 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.24 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% -18.33% +39.53%
75th Percentile £46.56 £53.75 £43.95
90th Percentile £79.63 £60.45 £57.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.86 £25.25 £22.75
% change year-on-year -9.48% +10.99% +16.67%

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 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +7 1,681 £500 - 1,358
London +14 867 £525 -0.47% 595
UK excluding London +2 838 £450 -5.26% 944
Work from Home +9 755 £488 -2.50% 677
North of England 0 192 £450 -5.26% 215
South East -2 191 £425 - 319
South West +1 168 £532 +1.33% 105
Midlands +3 138 £425 -8.11% 151
North West -6 112 £450 - 133
West Midlands +4 100 £438 -10.26% 92
Scotland +28 78 £478 -0.78% 53
Yorkshire 0 71 £450 -10.00% 62
East of England -26 51 £405 -10.00% 72
East Midlands -1 37 £375 -11.76% 58
Wales +22 15 £500 +50.94% 28
Northern Ireland +11 14 £500 +14.29% 11
North East +8 8 £663 +20.45% 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
1 130 (6.73%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.97%) Confluence
3 37 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.35%) SAS
6 21 (1.09%) Apache
7 13 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
8 12 (0.62%) MTS
9 6 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.16%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.10%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Jadu
12 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.10%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.052%) GeoServer
Applications
1 200 (10.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (2.33%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.41%) SPSS
8 3 (0.16%) 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 50 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.71%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (0.98%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.62%) Endur
7 12 (0.62%) EuroRunner
7 12 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 11 (0.57%) Aligne
8 11 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
13 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 1,197 (61.99%) Power Platform
2 552 (28.59%) Azure
3 213 (11.03%) Power Automate
4 212 (10.98%) PowerApps
5 133 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (6.73%) Dynamics 365
7 124 (6.42%) AWS
8 118 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
9 117 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 62 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 60 (3.11%) Snowflake
12 52 (2.69%) GCP
13 50 (2.59%) Entra ID
14 42 (2.18%) GitHub
15 41 (2.12%) OCI
16 38 (1.97%) Serverless
17 31 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (1.40%) Azure Functions
19 26 (1.35%) Google Analytics
20 24 (1.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.04%) Firewall
2 12 (0.62%) VPN
3 11 (0.57%) 4G
3 11 (0.57%) HTTP
4 10 (0.52%) DNS
5 9 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.41%) FTP
7 7 (0.36%) 3G
7 7 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (0.36%) Unified Communications
7 7 (0.36%) Wireless
8 6 (0.31%) Internet
8 6 (0.31%) LAN
8 6 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
9 5 (0.26%) WAN
10 4 (0.21%) 3GPP
10 4 (0.21%) Intranet
10 4 (0.21%) LTE
10 4 (0.21%) MegaStream
10 4 (0.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,181 (61.16%) Power BI
2 254 (13.15%) Data Warehouse
3 235 (12.17%) Tableau
4 226 (11.70%) SQL Server
5 142 (7.35%) Data Lake
6 132 (6.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (4.82%) Big Data
8 90 (4.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 82 (4.25%) Metadata
10 67 (3.47%) NoSQL
11 66 (3.42%) Relational Database
12 57 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 57 (2.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 47 (2.43%) Power Query
14 39 (2.02%) Qlik Sense
15 36 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
16 34 (1.76%) QlikView
17 33 (1.71%) BusinessObjects
18 31 (1.61%) MySQL
19 30 (1.55%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 111 (5.75%) JIRA
2 34 (1.76%) Git
3 23 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 18 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 17 (0.88%) ERwin
6 13 (0.67%) GitLab
7 11 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.52%) Postman
9 9 (0.47%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.21%) NUnit
11 3 (0.16%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.10%) Appium
12 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.10%) kappa
12 2 (0.10%) RStudio
12 2 (0.10%) XCTest
12 2 (0.10%) XCUITest
General
1 707 (36.61%) Finance
2 530 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 437 (22.63%) Public Sector
4 426 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (17.30%) Marketing
6 303 (15.69%) Manufacturing
7 297 (15.38%) Telecoms
8 268 (13.88%) Electronics
9 87 (4.51%) Retail
10 85 (4.40%) Banking
11 62 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (2.02%) Legal
13 36 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 31 (1.61%) General Ledger
16 30 (1.55%) Front Office
16 30 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
17 28 (1.45%) Local Government
18 27 (1.40%) Publishing
19 23 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 450 (23.30%) Analyst
2 342 (17.71%) Developer
3 210 (10.88%) Architect
4 206 (10.67%) Data Analyst
5 188 (9.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 162 (8.39%) Senior
7 154 (7.98%) Data Engineer
8 150 (7.77%) Consultant
9 131 (6.78%) Power BI Developer
10 111 (5.75%) Lead
11 109 (5.64%) Business Analyst
12 106 (5.49%) Data Architect
13 86 (4.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 78 (4.04%) Project Manager
15 65 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
16 59 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
17 52 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
18 44 (2.28%) Power Platform Developer
19 42 (2.18%) Power BI Analyst
20 39 (2.02%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.21%) .NET
2 51 (2.64%) JSON
3 44 (2.28%) XML
4 39 (2.02%) HTML
5 37 (1.92%) CSS
5 37 (1.92%) PySpark
6 33 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
7 17 (0.88%) REST
7 17 (0.88%) RESTful
7 17 (0.88%) Web Services
8 16 (0.83%) .NET Framework
9 14 (0.73%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (0.67%) JSON Schema
11 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (0.62%) SOAP
12 11 (0.57%) AngularJS
12 11 (0.57%) jQuery
12 11 (0.57%) Node.js
12 11 (0.57%) React
13 10 (0.52%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 96 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.63%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.21%) NHS
5 32 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (1.61%) Reference Data
7 27 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.14%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 17 (0.88%) Market Risk
11 15 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.73%) CMDB
13 13 (0.67%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.67%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.67%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.94%) Windows
2 36 (1.86%) Linux
3 21 (1.09%) Unix
4 17 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.47%) VMS
7 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.10%) Android
10 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (23.51%) Analytics
2 399 (20.66%) Data Modelling
3 394 (20.40%) Agile
4 327 (16.93%) Visualisation
5 311 (16.11%) ETL
6 289 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
7 285 (14.76%) Programme Management
8 276 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
9 263 (13.62%) Data Analysis
10 223 (11.55%) Data Visualisation
11 215 (11.13%) DevOps
12 171 (8.86%) Migration
12 171 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 157 (8.13%) Project Management
14 147 (7.61%) Data Management
15 139 (7.20%) Data Governance
16 132 (6.84%) Decision-Making
17 124 (6.42%) Data Analytics
18 123 (6.37%) Data Integration
19 113 (5.85%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 747 (38.68%) SQL
2 308 (15.95%) Python
3 105 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 84 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 82 (4.25%) C#
6 70 (3.63%) JavaScript
7 66 (3.42%) T-SQL
8 55 (2.85%) R
9 48 (2.49%) Java
10 43 (2.23%) PL/SQL
11 23 (1.19%) Scala
12 19 (0.98%) VBA
13 15 (0.78%) VB
14 13 (0.67%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.52%) MATLAB
16 8 (0.41%) Bash
16 8 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.36%) XPath
17 7 (0.36%) XQuery
18 6 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 258 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 202 (10.46%) Degree
3 181 (9.37%) SC Cleared
4 60 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 54 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.78%) PMP
11 12 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.62%) CISSP
12 8 (0.41%) Postgraduate
13 6 (0.31%) CIMA
13 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.26%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (0.26%) CISM
14 5 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
15 4 (0.21%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.88%) QA
3 44 (2.28%) PMO
4 39 (2.02%) GDPR
5 36 (1.86%) SLA
6 16 (0.83%) GxP
7 15 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.47%) HL7
9 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
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
11 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.16%) GRC
14 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.62%) Docker
4 9 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.41%) NFS
6 5 (0.26%) HDFS
6 5 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 1 (0.052%) Firmware
9 1 (0.052%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (1.14%) Terraform
2 19 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.21%) Puppet
6 4 (0.21%) QRadar
7 3 (0.16%) Ansible
7 3 (0.16%) Nessus
7 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
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%) SCOM
Vendors
1 532 (27.55%) Microsoft
2 387 (20.04%) SAP
3 179 (9.27%) Oracle
4 119 (6.16%) Databricks
5 50 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.54%) Google
6 49 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 38 (1.97%) Informatica
8 36 (1.86%) Alteryx
9 23 (1.19%) Remedy
10 20 (1.04%) Adobe
11 17 (0.88%) Sparx
12 14 (0.73%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.73%) Bloomberg
13 13 (0.67%) CA
13 13 (0.67%) VMware
14 12 (0.62%) BISAM
15 11 (0.57%) Ariba
16 10 (0.52%) Talend
17 9 (0.47%) Hyperion