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 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 423 459
Rank change year-on-year -103 +36 +106
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 54 56 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.25% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 42 63
10th Percentile £315 £260 £306
25th Percentile £370 £293 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £434 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -8.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £600
90th Percentile £519 £558 £620
UK median daily rate £456 £405 £450
% change year-on-year +12.65% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile £17.02 £24.63 £9.50
25th Percentile £17.09 £26.84 £13.91
Median hourly rate £17.25 £28.60 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -39.69% +32.16% -72.67%
75th Percentile £17.92 £32.80 £22.70
90th Percentile £18.91 £34.31 £23.33
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £28.60 £22.07
% change year-on-year -39.69% +29.59% -72.13%

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 35,653 22,632 34,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.88% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,473 15,157 23,256
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,346 840 2,307
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.36%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £76.25 £71.45
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%

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 4 April 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
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 4 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
London -54 30 £463 -1.33% 16
North of England -68 16 £300 +3.09% 15
Yorkshire -53 11 £425 -10.53% 7
North West -43 5 £270 -4.59% 7
South West -24 3 £370 -27.80% 4
Midlands -71 3 £370 -17.78% 20
West Midlands -55 2 £390 -13.33% 10
East Midlands -32 1 £350 - 10
South East -56 1 £438 +18.64% 12
Business Intelligence Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 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 54 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (79.63%) Power BI
2 43 (79.63%) Power Platform
3 29 (53.70%) SQL
4 21 (38.89%) Data Modelling
4 21 (38.89%) Visualisation
5 18 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 17 (31.48%) Data Visualisation
6 17 (31.48%) Microsoft Excel
6 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
6 17 (31.48%) Security Cleared
7 16 (29.63%) Dashboard Development
8 14 (25.93%) Agile
8 14 (25.93%) ETL
8 14 (25.93%) PMO
9 13 (24.07%) Tableau
10 12 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
10 12 (22.22%) Data Quality
11 11 (20.37%) Analytics
11 11 (20.37%) AWS
11 11 (20.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (18.52%) Data Extraction
12 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (16.67%) Data Analysis
13 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (14.81%) Amazon S3
14 8 (14.81%) AWS Lambda

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:

Applications
1 17 (31.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (79.63%) Power Platform
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon S3
3 8 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (14.81%) Serverless
3 8 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (12.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (11.11%) Azure
6 3 (5.56%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) GCP
7 2 (3.70%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.85%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (79.63%) Power BI
2 13 (24.07%) Tableau
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (9.26%) Power Query
5 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.70%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.85%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.85%) Looker
7 1 (1.85%) Metadata
7 1 (1.85%) MySQL
7 1 (1.85%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 18 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (31.48%) Finance
4 10 (18.52%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.56%) Retail
6 2 (3.70%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.85%) Billing
7 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Law
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Local Government
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
1 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
1 1 (1.85%) DataPower
1 1 (1.85%) FMCG
1 1 (1.85%) Life Science
1 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
1 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (38.89%) Data Modelling
2 21 (38.89%) Visualisation
3 18 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 17 (31.48%) Data Visualisation
5 16 (29.63%) Dashboard Development
6 14 (25.93%) Agile
6 14 (25.93%) ETL
7 12 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
8 11 (20.37%) Analytics
9 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (18.52%) Data Extraction
9 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (16.67%) Data Analysis
10 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (14.81%) Cost Management
11 8 (14.81%) Migration
11 8 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
12 6 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
12 6 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) SQL
2 11 (20.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (5.56%) Python
4 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
1 17 (31.48%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.85%) ACCA
2 1 (1.85%) CIMA
2 1 (1.85%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.93%) PMO
2 12 (22.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
3 1 (1.85%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Databricks
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Google
3 3 (5.56%) SAP
4 2 (3.70%) Planview
5 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.85%) Sage