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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 61 25 34
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.35% 4.41% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 5.09% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 9 24
10th Percentile £154 £173 £166
25th Percentile £302 £250 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 £385 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -9.41% -
75th Percentile £446 £600 £519
90th Percentile £475 - £550
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 2
10th Percentile £16.42 - £8.68
25th Percentile £19.80 - £11.86
Median hourly rate £22.91 - £19.18
75th Percentile £25.00 - £27.22
90th Percentile £28.31 - £30.84
England median hourly rate £23.54 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -15.94% -8.20% +14.58%

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 814 491 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.70% 86.60% 81.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 299 447
10th Percentile £190 £230 £188
25th Percentile £356 £345 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £436 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -2.13% -1.11%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £550
90th Percentile £611 £604 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 20 61
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.06 £11.21
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.95 £23.34 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +33.37% +3.98%
75th Percentile £24.49 £30.44 £33.25
90th Percentile £25.56 £41.21 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -11 16 £375 -16.61% 8
Lincolnshire +1 14 £158 -37.13% 6
Derbyshire +6 12 £381 +117.86% 7
Leicestershire -5 9 £440 +25.71% 26
Nottinghamshire -11 8 £413 -31.25% 17
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 10 (16.39%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (60.66%) Power Platform
2 11 (18.03%) Azure
3 6 (9.84%) AWS
3 6 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.92%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.28%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.64%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (60.66%) Power BI
2 9 (14.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.92%) Hadoop
3 3 (4.92%) Metadata
3 3 (4.92%) Power Query
3 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.28%) Big Data
4 2 (3.28%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.28%) Tableau
5 1 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.64%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Hudson
General
1 34 (55.74%) Finance
2 20 (32.79%) Public Sector
3 19 (31.15%) Manufacturing
4 18 (29.51%) Marketing
5 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
6 15 (24.59%) Electronics
6 15 (24.59%) Telecoms
7 10 (16.39%) Banking
8 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (11.48%) Corporate Banking
9 7 (11.48%) Retail Banking
10 4 (6.56%) Aerospace
10 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.64%) Local Government
11 1 (1.64%) Publishing
11 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Project Manager
2 8 (13.11%) Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 6 (9.84%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (9.84%) Desktop Support
3 6 (9.84%) IT Support
3 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 5 (8.20%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.56%) Consultant
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
5 4 (6.56%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Administrator
6 3 (4.92%) Data Administrator
6 3 (4.92%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Migration Technician
6 3 (4.92%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Support Technician
6 3 (4.92%) Technical Support
6 3 (4.92%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) Kafka
1 2 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (3.28%) Web Services
1 2 (3.28%) XML
2 1 (1.64%) .NET
2 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.64%) ADO
2 1 (1.64%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) PMI
1 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.84%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.28%) EMV
5 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) NHS
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Android
1 6 (9.84%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Agile
2 17 (27.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (26.23%) Analytics
3 16 (26.23%) Programme Management
4 15 (24.59%) Digital Marketing
5 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (19.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (18.03%) Migration
7 10 (16.39%) Decision-Making
7 10 (16.39%) Project Management
8 9 (14.75%) Data Modelling
8 9 (14.75%) Process Improvement
8 9 (14.75%) Resource Allocation
9 8 (13.11%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (13.11%) Change Management
9 8 (13.11%) Kanban
9 8 (13.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 8 (13.11%) Scrum
10 7 (11.48%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.15%) SQL
2 10 (16.39%) Python
3 4 (6.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (6.56%) R
4 3 (4.92%) Java
5 1 (1.64%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.64%) VBA
5 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.59%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.67%) Degree
4 9 (14.75%) PMP
5 8 (13.11%) Master's Degree
5 8 (13.11%) PMI Certification
6 7 (11.48%) MBA
6 7 (11.48%) SAFe Agilist
7 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Basel III
1 7 (11.48%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
3 3 (4.92%) PMO
4 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.28%) PSD2
5 1 (1.64%) GRC
5 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) SAP
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.84%) Apple
3 6 (9.84%) Cisco
3 6 (9.84%) Databricks
3 6 (9.84%) Dell
3 6 (9.84%) HP
4 3 (4.92%) Informatica
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle
5 2 (3.28%) Sage
5 2 (3.28%) Talend
6 1 (1.64%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.64%) Genesys
6 1 (1.64%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) IFS
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) Sybase
6 1 (1.64%) Teradata
6 1 (1.64%) TSYS