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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 29 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 55 26 33
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.18% 4.37% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 5.03% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 10 22
10th Percentile £154 £173 £166
25th Percentile £300 £334 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £405 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +1.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £446 £569 £511
90th Percentile £473 £600 £547
England median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 1
10th Percentile £16.20 - -
25th Percentile £20.45 £21.25 £27.75
Median hourly rate £23.83 £22.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% -26.23% -
75th Percentile £25.00 £23.75 £33.25
90th Percentile £28.85 - -
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £33.66
% change year-on-year -20.83% -10.87% +2.00%

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 746 517 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.82% 86.89% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 322 426
10th Percentile £189 £250 £213
25th Percentile £355 £329 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £452
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% -5.84% -2.90%
75th Percentile £530 £549 £573
90th Percentile £625 £636 £680
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 46
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.00 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £61.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +22.56%

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 25 December 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 25 December 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 25 December 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
Lincolnshire - 15 £158 - 9
Northamptonshire -6 11 £402 -10.67% 15
Derbyshire +7 10 £350 +100.00% 19
Leicestershire -9 10 £440 +13.55% 18
Nottinghamshire -9 7 £400 -33.33% 27
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 5 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.82%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (56.36%) Power Platform
2 10 (18.18%) Azure
3 6 (10.91%) AWS
3 6 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (5.45%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.82%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (56.36%) Power BI
2 8 (14.55%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.91%) Hadoop
3 6 (10.91%) Tableau
4 5 (9.09%) Big Data
5 4 (7.27%) Power Query
5 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (5.45%) Data Mining
6 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.64%) Metadata
7 2 (3.64%) QlikView
7 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.82%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) JIRA
General
1 32 (58.18%) Finance
2 19 (34.55%) Manufacturing
2 19 (34.55%) Public Sector
3 17 (30.91%) Marketing
3 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
4 15 (27.27%) Electronics
4 15 (27.27%) Telecoms
5 9 (16.36%) Banking
6 5 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (9.09%) Retail Banking
7 4 (7.27%) Aerospace
7 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (5.45%) Retail
9 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.82%) Local Government
9 1 (1.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (14.55%) Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 6 (10.91%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (10.91%) Desktop Support
2 6 (10.91%) IT Support
2 6 (10.91%) Project Manager
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 5 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 5 (9.09%) Developer
4 4 (7.27%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Lead
4 4 (7.27%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 3 (5.45%) Consultant
5 3 (5.45%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Junior
5 3 (5.45%) Migration Technician
5 3 (5.45%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (5.45%) Support Technician
5 3 (5.45%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) .NET
1 2 (3.64%) Kafka
1 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.82%) ADO
2 1 (1.82%) JSON
2 1 (1.82%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.82%) Web Services
2 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.91%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.27%) PMI
4 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) NHS
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Android
1 6 (10.91%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) Programme Management
2 15 (27.27%) Digital Marketing
3 14 (25.45%) Agile
3 14 (25.45%) Analytics
4 11 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 10 (18.18%) Migration
6 9 (16.36%) Actionable Insight
6 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (16.36%) Visualisation
7 8 (14.55%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (12.73%) Data Analytics
8 7 (12.73%) Data Science
8 7 (12.73%) Process Improvement
9 6 (10.91%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (10.91%) Kanban
9 6 (10.91%) Resource Allocation
9 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) SQL
2 10 (18.18%) Python
3 6 (10.91%) R
4 4 (7.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (5.45%) Java
6 2 (3.64%) Scala
7 1 (1.82%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.82%) VBA
7 1 (1.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) Degree
4 5 (9.09%) PMP
5 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
5 4 (7.27%) MBA
5 4 (7.27%) PMI Certification
5 4 (7.27%) SAFe Agilist
6 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.82%) CISA
7 1 (1.82%) CISM
7 1 (1.82%) CISSP
7 1 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 5 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) Basel III
3 2 (3.64%) PMO
4 1 (1.82%) COBIT
4 1 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) GRC
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.82%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) SAP
2 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.91%) Apple
3 6 (10.91%) Cisco
3 6 (10.91%) Databricks
3 6 (10.91%) Dell
3 6 (10.91%) HP
4 3 (5.45%) Informatica
5 2 (3.64%) Sage
5 2 (3.64%) Talend
6 1 (1.82%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.82%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.82%) Genesys
6 1 (1.82%) Google
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.82%) Teradata