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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 74 19 38
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.17% 3.78% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.80% 4.38% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 6 24
10th Percentile £300 £211 £166
25th Percentile £340 £279 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £413 £413
Median % change year-on-year +0.12% +0.12% -1.79%
75th Percentile £473 £480 £519
90th Percentile £563 £494 £559
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 6
10th Percentile £16.40 - £9.66
25th Percentile £20.45 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +70.37% -33.56%
75th Percentile £25.00 - £19.86
90th Percentile £28.85 - £27.49
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £24.43
% change year-on-year -16.70% +17.07% -11.16%

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 841 434 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 81.49% 86.28% 78.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 293 407
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £363 £320 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £433 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.76% +1.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £598 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 22 63
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +25.97% +3.34%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.03 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.55 £51.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
% change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -6 20 £393 -14.43% 14
Nottinghamshire -5 17 £450 -10.00% 17
Lincolnshire -2 14 £264 +5.29% 11
Derbyshire -5 10 £444 +153.57% 7
Leicestershire 0 8 £338 - 24
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 13 (17.57%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (74.32%) Power Platform
2 21 (28.38%) Azure
3 7 (9.46%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.41%) AWS
4 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.70%) GCP
5 2 (2.70%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.35%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (74.32%) Power BI
2 10 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (12.16%) Power Query
4 7 (9.46%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.05%) Metadata
5 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.05%) Tableau
6 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.70%) PowerPivot
6 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.70%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.35%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.35%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 16 (21.62%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) Git
2 1 (1.35%) Hudson
General
1 33 (44.59%) Finance
2 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 16 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (21.62%) Public Sector
4 14 (18.92%) Marketing
5 13 (17.57%) Manufacturing
6 11 (14.86%) Banking
7 10 (13.51%) Electronics
7 10 (13.51%) Telecoms
8 7 (9.46%) Corporate Banking
8 7 (9.46%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (9.46%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.70%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Local Government
10 1 (1.35%) Publishing
10 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) Analyst
2 10 (13.51%) Data Analyst
2 10 (13.51%) Project Manager
3 9 (12.16%) Senior
4 6 (8.11%) Data Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) Lead
5 5 (6.76%) Consultant
5 5 (6.76%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (5.41%) Architect
6 4 (5.41%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.41%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.41%) Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (5.41%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 3 (4.05%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (4.05%) IT Support
7 3 (4.05%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 3 (4.05%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) PySpark
2 2 (2.70%) Kafka
2 2 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.70%) Web Services
2 2 (2.70%) XML
3 1 (1.35%) .NET
3 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.35%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.35%) JSON
3 1 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.46%) PMI
3 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.41%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.70%) EMV
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.35%) NHS
7 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Android
1 3 (4.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.14%) Analytics
2 23 (31.08%) Agile
2 23 (31.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (27.03%) Data Modelling
4 15 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (20.27%) Decision-Making
5 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (16.22%) Migration
6 12 (16.22%) Project Management
7 11 (14.86%) Programme Management
7 11 (14.86%) Scrum
8 10 (13.51%) Change Management
8 10 (13.51%) Digital Marketing
9 9 (12.16%) ERP
9 9 (12.16%) ETL
9 9 (12.16%) Process Improvement
9 9 (12.16%) Project Delivery
9 9 (12.16%) Resource Allocation
10 8 (10.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.54%) SQL
2 14 (18.92%) Python
3 8 (10.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.05%) Java
4 3 (4.05%) VBA
5 2 (2.70%) R
6 1 (1.35%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.22%) Degree
3 9 (12.16%) PMP
3 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.81%) Master's Degree
4 8 (10.81%) PMI Certification
5 7 (9.46%) MBA
5 7 (9.46%) SAFe Agilist
6 4 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.81%) QA
3 7 (9.46%) Basel III
4 5 (6.76%) PMO
5 3 (4.05%) GDPR
6 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.70%) PSD2
7 1 (1.35%) GRC
7 1 (1.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.35%) SLA
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) SAP
2 9 (12.16%) Databricks
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.05%) Apple
4 3 (4.05%) Cisco
4 3 (4.05%) Dell
4 3 (4.05%) HP
4 3 (4.05%) Informatica
4 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.70%) Sage
5 2 (2.70%) Talend
6 1 (1.35%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.35%) Google
6 1 (1.35%) IFS
6 1 (1.35%) OpenText
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.35%) Sybase
6 1 (1.35%) Teradata
6 1 (1.35%) TSYS