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 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 451 475
Rank change year-on-year -94 +24 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 75 48 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 33 66
10th Percentile £240 £241 £313
25th Percentile £350 £275 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% -22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £481 £571
90th Percentile £545 £535 £644
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £27.85 £25.24 £23.00
25th Percentile - - £25.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.60 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% -4.67% -62.12%
75th Percentile - £34.15 -
90th Percentile £42.20 £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 41,413 25,002 33,620
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.90% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,306 16,263 22,078
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £425 £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 £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,966 1,234 2,327
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.26 £17.87 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.70 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.46% -30.75% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.03 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £25.31 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.82% -36.73% -5.88%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -63 42 £463 +4.52% 7
North of England -66 18 £500 +23.08% 8
Yorkshire -38 12 £425 -10.53% 2
Midlands -51 9 £376 - 6
North West -45 6 £525 +55.56% 5
West Midlands -54 6 £390 - 1
East Midlands -13 3 £363 - 5
South East -68 3 £438 +45.83% 7
South West -43 2 £348 -29.80% 3
East of England -21 1 - -
Business Intelligence Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 75 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (62.67%) Power BI
2 47 (62.67%) Power Platform
3 45 (60.00%) SQL
4 32 (42.67%) Data Modelling
5 25 (33.33%) Analytics
6 24 (32.00%) Dashboard Development
6 24 (32.00%) Visualisation
7 22 (29.33%) Agile
7 22 (29.33%) Microsoft Excel
8 21 (28.00%) ETL
9 20 (26.67%) Decision-Making
10 19 (25.33%) Security Cleared
11 18 (24.00%) SC Cleared
12 17 (22.67%) Actionable Insight
12 17 (22.67%) Data Visualisation
12 17 (22.67%) Tableau
13 15 (20.00%) Data Analysis
13 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (17.33%) AWS
15 13 (17.33%) Data Quality
15 13 (17.33%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (17.33%) PMO
16 11 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (14.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 11 (14.67%) Data Extraction
16 11 (14.67%) Requirements Gathering
17 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 8 (10.67%) Amazon EC2

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 (5.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (29.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.33%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.33%) Primavera
2 1 (1.33%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (62.67%) Power Platform
2 13 (17.33%) AWS
3 8 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (10.67%) Amazon S3
3 8 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (10.67%) Serverless
3 8 (10.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (9.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (8.00%) Azure
5 6 (8.00%) Snowflake
6 5 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.67%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.33%) Blackbaud
9 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.33%) GCP
9 1 (1.33%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (1.33%) Google Sheets
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (62.67%) Power BI
2 17 (22.67%) Tableau
3 13 (17.33%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (10.67%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (10.67%) Power Query
5 7 (9.33%) Data Lake
6 5 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.67%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.33%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (1.33%) GIS
9 1 (1.33%) Looker
9 1 (1.33%) Metadata
9 1 (1.33%) PowerPivot
9 1 (1.33%) QlikView
9 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (44.00%) Finance
2 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 23 (30.67%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (12.00%) Manufacturing
6 7 (9.33%) Marketing
7 6 (8.00%) Banking
7 6 (8.00%) Retail
8 3 (4.00%) Law
9 2 (2.67%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (2.67%) Local Government
10 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.33%) Billing
10 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Legal
10 1 (1.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (2.67%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.33%) FMCG
2 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (42.67%) Data Modelling
3 25 (33.33%) Analytics
4 24 (32.00%) Dashboard Development
4 24 (32.00%) Visualisation
5 22 (29.33%) Agile
6 21 (28.00%) ETL
7 20 (26.67%) Decision-Making
8 17 (22.67%) Actionable Insight
8 17 (22.67%) Data Visualisation
9 15 (20.00%) Data Analysis
9 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (14.67%) Data Extraction
11 11 (14.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (10.67%) Cost Management
13 8 (10.67%) Performance Analysis
14 7 (9.33%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (60.00%) SQL
2 11 (14.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (10.67%) Python
4 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) ACCA
4 1 (1.33%) CIMA
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) Data Quality
1 13 (17.33%) PMO
2 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.33%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Databricks
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.33%) SAP
3 3 (4.00%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.67%) Google
5 1 (1.33%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.33%) NEC