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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 66 22 39
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.02% 3.89% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 4.50% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 6 23
10th Percentile £340 £211 £169
25th Percentile £370 £279 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.96% +10.13% -11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £480 £478
90th Percentile £600 £494 £560
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £15.34 £19.40 £10.28
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +70.37% -33.56%
75th Percentile £24.49 £30.98 £17.99
90th Percentile £25.62 £35.77 £26.34
England median hourly rate £25.42 £28.84 £24.22
% change year-on-year -11.86% +19.08% -4.10%

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 862 489 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.58% 86.40% 78.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 326 403
10th Percentile £200 £216 £200
25th Percentile £388 £325 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £439 £410
Median % change year-on-year +3.76% +6.95% -9.89%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £561
90th Percentile £619 £600 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 34 56
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +18.79% -16.91%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.75 £38.38 £38.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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
Nottinghamshire -6 18 £456 -8.75% 12
Northamptonshire +1 15 £363 -21.02% 7
Lincolnshire -3 11 £475 +89.62% 7
Leicestershire 0 10 £525 - 4
Derbyshire -6 7 £488 +178.57% 6
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 12 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (19.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (84.85%) Power Platform
2 18 (27.27%) Azure
3 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.06%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.03%) AWS
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.52%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (84.85%) Power BI
2 9 (13.64%) Data Lake
2 9 (13.64%) Power Query
3 5 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.58%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.06%) Tableau
5 3 (4.55%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.03%) PowerPivot
6 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.52%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.52%) Metadata
7 1 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.52%) MySQL
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) Hudson
General
1 23 (34.85%) Finance
2 22 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 10 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (13.64%) Banking
6 7 (10.61%) Marketing
6 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
7 6 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
7 6 (9.09%) Retail Banking
8 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
9 4 (6.06%) Electronics
9 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
10 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.52%) Law
11 1 (1.52%) Local Government
11 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (37.88%) Analyst
2 13 (19.70%) Data Analyst
3 7 (10.61%) Data Engineer
3 7 (10.61%) Project Manager
3 7 (10.61%) Senior
4 6 (9.09%) Lead
5 5 (7.58%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.58%) Consultant
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Business Support Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Data Scientist
6 4 (6.06%) Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Support Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Administrator
7 3 (4.55%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Migration Technician
7 3 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) PySpark
2 2 (3.03%) Web Services
2 2 (3.03%) XML
3 1 (1.52%) .NET
3 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.52%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.52%) JSON
3 1 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.09%) PMI
3 5 (7.58%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.03%) EMV
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (39.39%) Data Modelling
2 25 (37.88%) Analytics
3 19 (28.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (25.76%) Agile
5 16 (24.24%) Decision-Making
5 16 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (18.18%) Project Management
9 10 (15.15%) Scrum
10 9 (13.64%) Change Management
10 9 (13.64%) Data Analysis
10 9 (13.64%) ERP
10 9 (13.64%) Migration
10 9 (13.64%) Validation
10 9 (13.64%) Visualisation
11 8 (12.12%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (12.12%) Data Cleansing
11 8 (12.12%) DevOps
11 8 (12.12%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (42.42%) SQL
2 10 (15.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 10 (15.15%) Python
3 3 (4.55%) VBA
4 2 (3.03%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) R
5 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (12.12%) PMP
3 7 (10.61%) Master's Degree
3 7 (10.61%) PMI Certification
4 6 (9.09%) MBA
4 6 (9.09%) SAFe Agilist
5 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
6 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (1.52%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.12%) QA
3 6 (9.09%) Basel III
4 4 (6.06%) PMO
5 3 (4.55%) GDPR
6 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.03%) PSD2
7 1 (1.52%) GRC
7 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.52%) SLA
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) SAP
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.61%) Databricks
4 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Ariba
6 1 (1.52%) Genesys
6 1 (1.52%) IFS
6 1 (1.52%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.52%) OpenText
6 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.52%) Sybase
6 1 (1.52%) TSYS