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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 471 439
Rank change year-on-year -77 -32 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 76 44 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.17% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 34 60
10th Percentile £226 £243 £313
25th Percentile £360 £281 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £363 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -23.68% -
75th Percentile £514 £475 £613
90th Percentile £600 £534 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +23.33% -21.05% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile - £23.88 £23.88
25th Percentile - £25.19 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.06 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.75% -6.48% -7.18%
75th Percentile - £31.60 -
90th Percentile £44.00 £33.31 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.06 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.75% -6.48% -7.18%

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 42,174 25,315 30,946
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.60% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,372 20,290
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,176 1,336 1,796
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -56 37 £463 +15.63% 4
North of England -55 18 £485 +7.78% 8
Yorkshire -33 12 £425 -8.11% 4
Midlands -42 9 £363 -6.45% 8
North West -39 6 £500 +48.15% 4
South West -44 6 £600 +29.03% 9
West Midlands -48 6 £370 - 3
South East -73 5 £534 +77.92% 3
East Midlands -19 3 £363 -6.45% 5
East of England -19 1 - - 1
Business Intelligence Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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 76 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (53.95%) Power BI
2 41 (53.95%) Power Platform
3 40 (52.63%) SQL
4 31 (40.79%) Analytics
5 30 (39.47%) Data Modelling
6 20 (26.32%) ETL
7 19 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
8 18 (23.68%) Agile
8 18 (23.68%) Visualisation
9 17 (22.37%) Data Analysis
9 17 (22.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
11 15 (19.74%) Decision-Making
12 14 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
13 13 (17.11%) Tableau
14 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
15 11 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (14.47%) Data Quality
16 10 (13.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (13.16%) Data Visualisation
16 10 (13.16%) Requirements Gathering
16 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 9 (11.84%) Data Analytics
17 9 (11.84%) Data Lake
17 9 (11.84%) Databricks
17 9 (11.84%) PMO

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 6 (7.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.32%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.32%) Primavera
2 1 (1.32%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 41 (53.95%) Power Platform
2 8 (10.53%) AWS
2 8 (10.53%) Snowflake
3 6 (7.89%) Azure
4 4 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.26%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.26%) Serverless
4 4 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) SaaS
6 2 (2.63%) GCP
6 2 (2.63%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.32%) Blackbaud
7 1 (1.32%) dbt
7 1 (1.32%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (1.32%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.32%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (53.95%) Power BI
2 14 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (17.11%) Tableau
4 9 (11.84%) Data Lake
5 8 (10.53%) Power Query
6 7 (9.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (7.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (6.58%) Looker
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.63%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.63%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (1.32%) GIS
11 1 (1.32%) Metadata
11 1 (1.32%) PowerPivot
11 1 (1.32%) QlikView
11 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (40.79%) Finance
2 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
3 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.47%) Manufacturing
5 10 (13.16%) Banking
6 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 8 (10.53%) Retail
7 7 (9.21%) Marketing
8 3 (3.95%) Law
9 2 (2.63%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (2.63%) Local Government
10 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Legal
10 1 (1.32%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (2.63%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.32%) FMCG
2 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (40.79%) Analytics
3 30 (39.47%) Data Modelling
4 20 (26.32%) ETL
5 19 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
6 18 (23.68%) Agile
6 18 (23.68%) Visualisation
7 17 (22.37%) Data Analysis
7 17 (22.37%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
9 15 (19.74%) Decision-Making
10 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (13.16%) Data Visualisation
12 10 (13.16%) Requirements Gathering
12 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (11.84%) Data Analytics
14 8 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
15 7 (9.21%) AI
15 7 (9.21%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 40 (52.63%) SQL
2 10 (13.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (9.21%) Python
4 1 (1.32%) LookML
4 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.84%) PMO
3 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (11.84%) Databricks
2 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.95%) Alteryx
3 3 (3.95%) Google
3 3 (3.95%) SAP
4 1 (1.32%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.32%) NEC