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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 36 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 42 27 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 4.75% 3.87% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 4.55% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 18
10th Percentile £154 £295 £160
25th Percentile £300 £363 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £438 £600 £519
90th Percentile £465 - £595
England median daily rate £496 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -0.90% -2.44% -2.38%
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 £52.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.66 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -21.13% -7.18% -2.06%

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 757 594 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.63% 85.22% 83.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 351 470
10th Percentile £189 £266 £213
25th Percentile £350 £355 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £519 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 27 52
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.06 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.00 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +7.20% +33.02%
75th Percentile £25.11 £46.13 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £52.00 £64.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 - 3
Northamptonshire -8 10 £406 -9.78% 12
Derbyshire +6 9 £350 +27.27% 8
Leicestershire -12 6 £440 +13.55% 23
Nottinghamshire 0 5 £413 -31.25% 21
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 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 24 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 10 (23.81%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) AWS
3 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.38%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (57.14%) Power BI
2 9 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (14.29%) Big Data
3 6 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 5 (11.90%) Tableau
5 4 (9.52%) Power Query
5 4 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (7.14%) Data Mining
6 3 (7.14%) Metadata
6 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.76%) QlikView
7 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.38%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 27 (64.29%) Finance
2 15 (35.71%) Manufacturing
3 14 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 12 (28.57%) Marketing
5 11 (26.19%) Electronics
5 11 (26.19%) Telecoms
6 7 (16.67%) Banking
7 4 (9.52%) Aerospace
7 4 (9.52%) Retail
8 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Analyst
2 6 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 6 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 6 (14.29%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) IT Support
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 4 (9.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
3 4 (9.52%) Power BI Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.14%) Junior
4 3 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Technical Support
4 3 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) .NET
1 2 (4.76%) Kafka
1 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.38%) ADO
2 1 (2.38%) JSON
2 1 (2.38%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.38%) Web Services
2 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 6 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Android
1 6 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Analytics
2 12 (28.57%) Programme Management
3 11 (26.19%) Agile
3 11 (26.19%) Digital Marketing
4 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 9 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 9 (21.43%) Visualisation
5 7 (16.67%) Logistics
5 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (14.29%) Data Analytics
6 6 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 6 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (14.29%) ETL
6 6 (14.29%) Migration
6 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (11.90%) AI
7 5 (11.90%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (11.90%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) SQL
2 8 (19.05%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (9.52%) R
4 3 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (4.76%) Scala
6 1 (2.38%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CISA
4 1 (2.38%) CISM
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) MBA
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.38%) PMP
4 1 (2.38%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) PMO
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Basel III
3 1 (2.38%) COBIT
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.38%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) RSA Archer
1 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) SAP
2 6 (14.29%) Apple
2 6 (14.29%) Cisco
2 6 (14.29%) Databricks
2 6 (14.29%) Dell
2 6 (14.29%) HP
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.14%) Informatica
5 2 (4.76%) Sage
5 2 (4.76%) Talend
6 1 (2.38%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.38%) Google
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle
6 1 (2.38%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) Teradata