Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Business Intelligence (BI)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 44 58
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -26
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 27 28 21
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.59% 3.97% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 4.45% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 15
10th Percentile £300 £353 £351
25th Percentile £450 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £426 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% -5.28% -
75th Percentile £525 £460 £611
90th Percentile £575 £581 £665
Scotland median daily rate £500 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +12.36% -6.32% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.92 -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.40 £16.92 £19.50
% change year-on-year +61.94% -13.23% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Business Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 664 629 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.18% 89.09% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 409 515
10th Percentile £300 £280 £346
25th Percentile £381 £356 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 17
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.92 £11.40
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.99 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £29.34 £17.72
90th Percentile £56.41 £42.50 £36.36
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +4.00%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Glasgow

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (14.81%) Apache
1 4 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (14.81%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 25 (92.59%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (92.59%) Power BI
2 10 (37.04%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (33.33%) Tableau
4 5 (18.52%) Power Query
5 4 (14.81%) Big Data
5 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
6 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (7.41%) QlikView
8 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 1 (3.70%) Metadata
8 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 17 (62.96%) Finance
2 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 11 (40.74%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
5 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Legal
6 2 (7.41%) Retail
7 1 (3.70%) Billing
7 1 (3.70%) French Language
7 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Python Data Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) HR Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) HR Data Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Power BI Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Data Scientist
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Visualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) RESTful
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (7.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.41%) FMCG
2 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Data Analysis
2 9 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 9 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.93%) Analytics
4 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
4 7 (25.93%) ETL
5 6 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) API Integration
5 6 (22.22%) Data Integration
6 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
6 5 (18.52%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (18.52%) Migration
6 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery
6 5 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
7 4 (14.81%) Process Improvement
7 4 (14.81%) Sprint Review
7 4 (14.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.41%) R
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) GDPR
2 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Databricks
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
1 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) MobileIron