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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 38 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 36 24 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 4.22% 3.30% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 3.92% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 17
10th Percentile £154 £295 £172
25th Percentile £190 £363 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% - -
75th Percentile £442 £600 £688
90th Percentile £472 - £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £18.66 - -
25th Percentile £20.40 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile - £23.75 -
90th Percentile £33.38 - -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -26.15% +0.56% +2.60%

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 738 612 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.42% 84.18% 84.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 373 499
10th Percentile £210 £266 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +32.86%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 3 November 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 - 11 £158 - 1
Derbyshire +6 9 £413 +50.00% 11
Nottinghamshire 0 6 £413 -31.25% 28
Leicestershire -10 6 £440 +13.55% 20
Northamptonshire -11 4 £415 -7.78% 15
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 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Power Platform
2 9 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (55.56%) Power BI
2 7 (19.44%) Big Data
2 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (13.89%) Hadoop
3 5 (13.89%) Power Query
3 5 (13.89%) Tableau
4 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 3 (8.33%) Data Mining
6 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.56%) QlikView
6 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.78%) Metadata
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 22 (61.11%) Finance
2 13 (36.11%) Manufacturing
3 12 (33.33%) Marketing
3 12 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 11 (30.56%) Electronics
4 11 (30.56%) Telecoms
5 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
6 5 (13.89%) Banking
6 5 (13.89%) Retail
7 3 (8.33%) Aerospace
8 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Police
9 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.78%) Publishing
9 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 6 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 6 (16.67%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) IT Support
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Support
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Hadoop Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Junior
6 2 (5.56%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) ADO
2 1 (2.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Android
1 6 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Analytics
2 11 (30.56%) Digital Marketing
2 11 (30.56%) Programme Management
3 10 (27.78%) Data Modelling
3 10 (27.78%) Visualisation
4 7 (19.44%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (19.44%) Logistics
5 6 (16.67%) ETL
5 6 (16.67%) Migration
6 5 (13.89%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
6 5 (13.89%) Data Analytics
6 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
6 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.11%) AI
7 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 4 (11.11%) Data Management
7 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 6 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 6 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) R
4 3 (8.33%) Java
5 2 (5.56%) Scala
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) SC Cleared
1 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) CISA
3 1 (2.78%) CISM
3 1 (2.78%) CISSP
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) COBIT
2 1 (2.78%) ISO 19650
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.78%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) RSA Archer
1 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) SAP
2 6 (16.67%) Apple
2 6 (16.67%) Cisco
2 6 (16.67%) Databricks
2 6 (16.67%) Dell
2 6 (16.67%) HP
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.78%) Cognos
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.78%) Sage
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow