Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 35 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 25 31 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.17% 3.88% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 4.66% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 20
10th Percentile £383 £356 £178
25th Percentile £394 £358 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £375 £438
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £462 £513 £688
90th Percentile £472 £600 £704
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £20.55 - -
25th Percentile £23.62 £12.75 -
Median hourly rate £28.98 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +114.67% - -
75th Percentile £34.10 £14.25 -
90th Percentile £37.01 £19.95 -
England median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £33.66
% change year-on-year +6.83% -10.87% +34.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Business Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 675 665 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.55% 83.13% 86.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 412 535
10th Percentile £218 £263 £213
25th Percentile £340 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -9.09% +6.45%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £627 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the East Midlands

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the East Midlands

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the East Midlands

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Derbyshire +4 6 £463 +68.18% 9
Leicestershire -2 6 £430 +1.18% 16
Nottinghamshire -7 5 £413 -31.25% 16
Northamptonshire -16 4 £415 +14.48% 11
Lincolnshire - 2 £500 - 4
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.00%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (72.00%) Power BI
2 9 (36.00%) Tableau
3 7 (28.00%) Big Data
4 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (20.00%) Hadoop
5 5 (20.00%) Power Query
5 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (8.00%) Data Mining
7 2 (8.00%) QlikView
8 1 (4.00%) Metadata
8 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
8 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) Selenium
1 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
2 4 (16.00%) Retail
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.00%) Local Government
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Police
5 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Analyst
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Power BI Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Data Scientist
5 2 (8.00%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Junior
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Excel Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) HR Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Junior Data Scientist
6 1 (4.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Analytics
1 11 (44.00%) Visualisation
2 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (36.00%) Data Visualisation
3 7 (28.00%) Data Analysis
3 7 (28.00%) ETL
4 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Data Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.00%) Data Extraction
6 3 (12.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (12.00%) Data Management
6 3 (12.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (12.00%) Kanban
6 3 (12.00%) Logistics
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) R
4 3 (12.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CISA
2 1 (4.00%) CISM
2 1 (4.00%) CISSP
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) COBIT
3 1 (4.00%) ISO 19650
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) RSA Archer
1 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.00%) Cognos
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) Rapid7