Business Intelligence Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

BI Analyst
UK > England

The median BI Analyst daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 448 470
Rank change year-on-year -94 +22 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 72 46 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 32 63
10th Percentile £240 £257 £306
25th Percentile £350 £294 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £418 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.78% -1.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £480 £550
90th Percentile £545 £521 £623
UK median daily rate £450 £418 £445
% change year-on-year +7.78% -6.07% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £17.13 £25.24 £10.97
25th Percentile £18.67 - £17.58
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.60 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +8.95% -66.85%
75th Percentile - £34.15 £30.00
90th Percentile - £34.34 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.60 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.38% -4.67% -62.12%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 40,580 24,049 34,742
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.16% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,840 15,686 22,733
10th Percentile £325 £291 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,926 1,128 2,569
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.00 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.00 £16.86
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -8.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.26% -29.33% -12.79%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Business Intelligence Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Business Intelligence Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in England

Business Intelligence Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in England

Business Intelligence Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in England

Business Intelligence Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in England

Business Intelligence Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
London -50 41 £463 +20.52% 10
North of England -62 20 £463 +12.80% 8
Yorkshire -47 13 £363 -18.08% 3
North West -38 7 £525 +55.56% 4
Midlands -57 7 £376 - 5
West Midlands -57 6 £390 -
South West -26 2 £348 -29.80% 2
South East -63 2 £438 +45.83% 14
East Midlands -15 1 £363 - 5
Business Intelligence Analyst
UK

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 July 2026, Business Intelligence Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 72 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (66.67%) Power BI
2 48 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 43 (59.72%) SQL
4 34 (47.22%) Data Modelling
5 25 (34.72%) Analytics
5 25 (34.72%) Visualisation
6 23 (31.94%) Dashboard Development
7 21 (29.17%) Agile
7 21 (29.17%) Decision-Making
7 21 (29.17%) ETL
8 20 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
9 19 (26.39%) Data Visualisation
10 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
11 17 (23.61%) Actionable Insight
11 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (23.61%) SC Cleared
11 17 (23.61%) Tableau
12 15 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (19.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (19.44%) Requirements Gathering
14 13 (18.06%) AWS
14 13 (18.06%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (16.67%) Data Analysis
15 12 (16.67%) Data Quality
15 12 (16.67%) PMO
16 11 (15.28%) Data Extraction
17 9 (12.50%) Databricks
17 9 (12.50%) Power Query

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.39%) Primavera
1 1 (1.39%) SAP Business One
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 13 (18.06%) AWS
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 8 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (11.11%) Serverless
3 8 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (8.33%) Azure
5 6 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.17%) SaaS
8 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.39%) GCP
9 1 (1.39%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (1.39%) Google Sheets
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (66.67%) Power BI
2 17 (23.61%) Tableau
3 13 (18.06%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (12.50%) Power Query
5 8 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (9.72%) Data Lake
7 5 (6.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.39%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (1.39%) GIS
10 1 (1.39%) Looker
10 1 (1.39%) Metadata
10 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (43.06%) Finance
2 23 (31.94%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 9 (12.50%) Manufacturing
6 6 (8.33%) Banking
6 6 (8.33%) Retail
7 5 (6.94%) Marketing
8 3 (4.17%) Law
9 2 (2.78%) Legal
9 2 (2.78%) Local Government
10 1 (1.39%) Billing
10 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.39%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (2.78%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.39%) FMCG
2 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (47.22%) Data Modelling
3 25 (34.72%) Analytics
3 25 (34.72%) Visualisation
4 23 (31.94%) Dashboard Development
5 21 (29.17%) Agile
5 21 (29.17%) Decision-Making
5 21 (29.17%) ETL
6 19 (26.39%) Data Visualisation
7 17 (23.61%) Actionable Insight
7 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (19.44%) Requirements Gathering
10 12 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (16.67%) Data Analysis
11 11 (15.28%) Data Extraction
12 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (11.11%) Cost Management
14 7 (9.72%) Data Analytics
14 7 (9.72%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 43 (59.72%) SQL
2 14 (19.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.39%) ACCA
4 1 (1.39%) CIMA
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 12 (16.67%) PMO
2 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (12.50%) Databricks
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.17%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.78%) Google
4 2 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.39%) NEC