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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 43 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 57 24 30
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.05% 3.45% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.54% 3.92% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 11 14
10th Percentile £333 £358 £186
25th Percentile £370 £380 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £413 £365
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +13.01% -14.12%
75th Percentile £538 £471 £452
90th Percentile £600 £488 £559
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £17.98 £19.40 £9.66
25th Percentile £17.99 £20.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +70.37% -33.56%
75th Percentile £22.50 £30.98 £14.25
90th Percentile £25.20 £35.77 £17.99
England median hourly rate £29.96 £30.81 £24.22
% change year-on-year -2.74% +27.21% -1.16%

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 872 612 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.30% 88.06% 78.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 410 442
10th Percentile £210 £223 £205
25th Percentile £400 £327 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £565
90th Percentile £650 £595 £623
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 61
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.23 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.99 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +11.00% -35.80%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.13 £26.15
90th Percentile £33.75 £25.15 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 30 June 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
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 30 June 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
Lincolnshire -1 15 £370 +47.70% 15
Nottinghamshire -11 15 £456 +3.99% 14
Northamptonshire +11 12 £418 +2.04% 3
Derbyshire -4 6 £488 +5.41% 11
Leicestershire -6 6 £525 - 10
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 7 (12.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (94.74%) Power Platform
2 23 (40.35%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (8.77%) AWS
6 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.75%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (94.74%) Power BI
2 10 (17.54%) Data Lake
3 8 (14.04%) Power Query
4 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
5 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.77%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.51%) PowerPivot
6 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.51%) Tableau
7 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.75%) Big Data
7 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.75%) Metadata
7 1 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.75%) MySQL
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) Hudson
General
1 26 (45.61%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
3 13 (22.81%) Finance
4 7 (12.28%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.51%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Police
6 2 (3.51%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) Analyst
2 13 (22.81%) Data Analyst
3 9 (15.79%) Data Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Architect
4 7 (12.28%) Data Architect
4 7 (12.28%) Developer
4 7 (12.28%) Senior
5 6 (10.53%) Lead
6 5 (8.77%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Administrator
7 4 (7.02%) Business Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Business Support Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Support Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Business Data Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Data Administrator
8 3 (5.26%) PMO Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) PySpark
2 1 (1.75%) .NET
2 1 (1.75%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.75%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.75%) Web Services
2 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.51%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.51%) EMV
3 2 (3.51%) PMI
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (52.63%) Data Modelling
2 26 (45.61%) Analytics
3 18 (31.58%) Decision-Making
4 16 (28.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (24.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (24.56%) Visualisation
7 12 (21.05%) DevOps
8 11 (19.30%) Agile
8 11 (19.30%) Data Visualisation
9 9 (15.79%) Data Engineering
9 9 (15.79%) ERP
9 9 (15.79%) ETL
9 9 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
9 9 (15.79%) Validation
10 8 (14.04%) Data Cleansing
10 8 (14.04%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (14.04%) Project Management
11 7 (12.28%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (47.37%) SQL
2 10 (17.54%) Python
3 9 (15.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.51%) Java
4 2 (3.51%) VBA
5 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Degree
3 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 3 (5.26%) PMP
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.51%) MBA
4 2 (3.51%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.75%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.77%) GDPR
3 4 (7.02%) PMO
3 4 (7.02%) QA
4 2 (3.51%) Basel III
4 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.51%) PSD2
5 1 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.75%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) SAP
2 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.28%) Databricks
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.75%) Ariba
5 1 (1.75%) IFS
5 1 (1.75%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.75%) OpenText
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) Sybase
5 1 (1.75%) TSYS