Business Intelligence Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

BI Analyst
UK > England

The median BI Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 435 456
Rank change year-on-year -87 +21 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 68 44 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 61
10th Percentile £228 £254 £306
25th Percentile £325 £281 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £446 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.83% -
75th Percentile £469 £486 £590
90th Percentile £519 £538 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £434 £450
% change year-on-year -2.02% -3.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £17.08 £25.24 £10.97
25th Percentile £17.13 - £17.58
Median hourly rate £27.19 £28.60 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +8.95% -66.85%
75th Percentile £35.00 £34.15 £30.00
90th Percentile - £34.34 -
UK median hourly rate £27.19 £28.60 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% -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 39,807 22,960 35,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.31% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,488 15,102 22,819
10th Percentile £325 £294 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,027 2,691
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.50 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +58.26% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.19
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £27.21 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.57% -27.44% -16.67%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 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
London -53 39 £463 +3.58% 8
North of England -60 18 £363 -18.08% 4
Yorkshire -54 13 £363 -18.08% 1
Midlands -53 7 £376 - 5
West Midlands -55 6 £390 - 1
North West -33 5 - - 3
South West -23 2 £348 -29.80% 3
South East -68 2 £438 +45.83% 15
East Midlands -18 1 £363 - 4
Business Intelligence Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 68 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (69.12%) Power BI
2 47 (69.12%) Power Platform
3 38 (55.88%) SQL
4 30 (44.12%) Data Modelling
5 24 (35.29%) Dashboard Development
5 24 (35.29%) Visualisation
6 21 (30.88%) Decision-Making
7 20 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
8 19 (27.94%) Data Visualisation
9 18 (26.47%) Agile
9 18 (26.47%) Analytics
9 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
10 17 (25.00%) ETL
10 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (25.00%) SC Cleared
10 17 (25.00%) Tableau
11 16 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
12 15 (22.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (20.59%) PMO
14 13 (19.12%) AWS
15 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (17.65%) Data Quality
15 12 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
16 11 (16.18%) Data Extraction
17 9 (13.24%) Power Query
17 9 (13.24%) Requirements Gathering
18 8 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
18 8 (11.76%) Amazon S3

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 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.47%) Primavera
1 1 (1.47%) SAP Business One
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (69.12%) Power Platform
2 13 (19.12%) AWS
3 8 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 8 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (11.76%) Azure
3 8 (11.76%) Serverless
3 8 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.41%) SaaS
7 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.47%) GCP
8 1 (1.47%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.47%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (69.12%) Power BI
2 17 (25.00%) Tableau
3 9 (13.24%) Power Query
4 8 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.47%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.47%) GIS
7 1 (1.47%) Looker
7 1 (1.47%) Metadata
7 1 (1.47%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.47%) QlikView
7 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) Git
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (35.29%) Finance
2 23 (33.82%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
4 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.35%) Marketing
6 4 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.41%) Law
8 2 (2.94%) Banking
8 2 (2.94%) Local Government
8 2 (2.94%) Retail
8 2 (2.94%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.47%) Billing
9 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Legal
9 1 (1.47%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (2.94%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.47%) FMCG
2 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (44.12%) Data Modelling
3 24 (35.29%) Dashboard Development
3 24 (35.29%) Visualisation
4 21 (30.88%) Decision-Making
5 19 (27.94%) Data Visualisation
6 18 (26.47%) Agile
6 18 (26.47%) Analytics
7 17 (25.00%) ETL
7 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (16.18%) Data Extraction
11 9 (13.24%) Requirements Gathering
12 8 (11.76%) Cost Management
12 8 (11.76%) Data Analysis
12 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (10.29%) Migration
14 6 (8.82%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.88%) SQL
2 15 (22.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) ACCA
4 1 (1.47%) CIMA
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.59%) PMO
2 12 (17.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.47%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.88%) Databricks
3 3 (4.41%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.94%) Google
4 2 (2.94%) Planview
4 2 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.47%) NEC