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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 34 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 69 21 40
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.19% 3.81% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.82% 4.42% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 6 25
10th Percentile £333 £211 £172
25th Percentile £370 £279 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +10.13% -11.76%
75th Percentile £527 £480 £519
90th Percentile £596 £494 £558
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile £15.60 £18.95 £10.28
25th Percentile £19.88 £19.63 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.91 £21.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% +55.56% -33.56%
75th Percentile £24.77 £22.13 £17.99
90th Percentile £30.46 £22.65 £26.34
England median hourly rate £24.41 £28.60 £24.22
% change year-on-year -14.64% +18.11% -3.14%

All Process & 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 882 475 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.10% 86.21% 78.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 318 410
10th Percentile £200 £205 £200
25th Percentile £383 £328 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £412
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +6.86% -8.44%
75th Percentile £540 £525 £562
90th Percentile £610 £591 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 31 56
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.81 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.17 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +11.00% -9.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.91 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.63 £33.75 £38.75
England median hourly rate £46.65 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.47% -20.36% -2.25%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend 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 9 May 2026.

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 9 May 2026.

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 9 May 2026. 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
Northamptonshire +2 19 £393 -14.49% 9
Nottinghamshire -9 18 £456 -8.75% 17
Lincolnshire 0 12 £475 +89.62% 7
Leicestershire -2 8 £225 - 7
Derbyshire -8 7 £488 +178.57% 12
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (18.84%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (15.94%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (82.61%) Power Platform
2 20 (28.99%) Azure
3 7 (10.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.80%) AWS
5 3 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.90%) GCP
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.45%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (82.61%) Power BI
2 9 (13.04%) Data Lake
2 9 (13.04%) Power Query
3 7 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.80%) Tableau
5 3 (4.35%) Metadata
5 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.35%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.90%) PowerPivot
6 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.45%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.45%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.45%) MySQL
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (24.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) Hudson
General
1 26 (37.68%) Finance
2 23 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 22 (31.88%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.49%) Banking
4 10 (14.49%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (13.04%) Public Sector
6 7 (10.14%) Corporate Banking
6 7 (10.14%) Marketing
6 7 (10.14%) Retail Banking
7 6 (8.70%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.80%) Electronics
8 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.45%) Local Government
10 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (33.33%) Analyst
2 11 (15.94%) Data Analyst
3 9 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 8 (11.59%) Senior
5 7 (10.14%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Lead
7 5 (7.25%) Consultant
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Architect
8 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Business Support Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.80%) Data Scientist
8 4 (5.80%) Developer
8 4 (5.80%) PMO Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Support Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Banking Project Manager
9 3 (4.35%) Business Data Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) PySpark
2 2 (2.90%) Kafka
2 2 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.90%) Web Services
2 2 (2.90%) XML
3 1 (1.45%) .NET
3 1 (1.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.45%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.45%) JSON
3 1 (1.45%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.14%) PMI
3 5 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.90%) EMV
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.13%) Analytics
2 24 (34.78%) Data Modelling
3 21 (30.43%) Agile
3 21 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (26.09%) Decision-Making
4 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (20.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (17.39%) Project Management
8 10 (14.49%) Change Management
8 10 (14.49%) Process Improvement
8 10 (14.49%) Scrum
8 10 (14.49%) Visualisation
9 9 (13.04%) Data Analysis
9 9 (13.04%) Data Engineering
9 9 (13.04%) ERP
9 9 (13.04%) Migration
9 9 (13.04%) Resource Allocation
9 9 (13.04%) Validation
10 8 (11.59%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.03%) SQL
2 13 (18.84%) Python
3 8 (11.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.35%) VBA
5 2 (2.90%) Java
5 2 (2.90%) R
6 1 (1.45%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) Degree
2 9 (13.04%) PMP
3 8 (11.59%) Master's Degree
3 8 (11.59%) PMI Certification
4 7 (10.14%) MBA
4 7 (10.14%) SAFe Agilist
4 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (1.45%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.19%) Data Quality
2 9 (13.04%) QA
3 7 (10.14%) Basel III
4 6 (8.70%) PMO
5 3 (4.35%) GDPR
6 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.90%) PSD2
7 1 (1.45%) GRC
7 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.45%) SLA
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) SAP
2 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.14%) Databricks
4 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.90%) Informatica
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) Talend
6 1 (1.45%) Ariba
6 1 (1.45%) Genesys
6 1 (1.45%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) IFS
6 1 (1.45%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.45%) OpenText
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) Sybase
6 1 (1.45%) TSYS