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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 57 46
Rank change year-on-year +25 -11 +18
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 72 27 22
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.50% 3.67% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.72% 4.01% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 12
10th Percentile - £265 £108
25th Percentile £320 £408 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +12.36% -1.11%
75th Percentile £509 £525 £480
90th Percentile £538 £545 £566
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.56
25th Percentile - - £18.52
Median hourly rate - - £20.59
75th Percentile - - £23.11
90th Percentile - - £24.35
Scotland median hourly rate - £21.50 £20.59
% change year-on-year - +4.43% -

All Process & 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 933 673 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.21% 91.44% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 418 441
10th Percentile £268 £300 £259
25th Percentile £363 £363 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £574 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £588 £650
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 20 12
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.01 £15.19
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.64 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year +87.79% -14.98% +51.19%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.42 £48.66
90th Percentile £77.50 £29.34 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £20.00 £18.69
% change year-on-year -13.20% +7.02% +5.46%

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 31 August 2026.

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 14 (19.44%) SharePoint
2 13 (18.06%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.78%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.39%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.39%) Navisworks
4 1 (1.39%) ProjectWise
4 1 (1.39%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.39%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.39%) Sonata
2 1 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 59 (81.94%) Power Platform
2 25 (34.72%) Snowflake
3 22 (30.56%) Azure
4 17 (23.61%) Power Automate
5 14 (19.44%) Entra ID
6 13 (18.06%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (18.06%) PowerApps
7 5 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.56%) AWS
9 3 (4.17%) GCP
9 3 (4.17%) OCI
10 2 (2.78%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.78%) Google Gemini
10 2 (2.78%) Vertex AI
11 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.39%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (1.39%) SaaS
11 1 (1.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) CTI
1 1 (1.39%) Internet
1 1 (1.39%) Intranet
1 1 (1.39%) PSTN
1 1 (1.39%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (81.94%) Power BI
2 18 (25.00%) Tableau
3 11 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (15.28%) Relational Database
4 10 (13.89%) Big Data
5 7 (9.72%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
6 6 (8.33%) Star Schema
7 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
7 5 (6.94%) Metadata
7 5 (6.94%) MySQL
7 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.39%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (1.39%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.39%) ERwin
3 1 (1.39%) PowerDesigner
General
1 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.94%) Finance
3 19 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (23.61%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (19.44%) Banking
6 9 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Retail
7 3 (4.17%) Retail Finance
8 2 (2.78%) Legal
8 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.39%) German Language
9 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.39%) Law
9 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (33.33%) Developer
2 15 (20.83%) Analyst
3 13 (18.06%) SharePoint Developer
4 11 (15.28%) Data Engineer
4 11 (15.28%) Senior
5 8 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 8 (11.11%) Site Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Data Integration Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Kafka Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Data Modeller
7 4 (5.56%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Databricks Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Power BI Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.56%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) REST
2 13 (18.06%) CSS
2 13 (18.06%) HTML
2 13 (18.06%) React
2 13 (18.06%) SPFx
3 10 (13.89%) Kafka
4 6 (8.33%) .NET
5 2 (2.78%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (1.39%) JWT
6 1 (1.39%) Middleware
6 1 (1.39%) OAuth
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.39%) PySpark
6 1 (1.39%) SAML
6 1 (1.39%) SOAP
6 1 (1.39%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.17%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.17%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) CMDB
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) IVR
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.94%) Linux
1 5 (6.94%) Unix
2 1 (1.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 24 (33.33%) AI
2 24 (33.33%) Analytics
3 21 (29.17%) Agile
3 21 (29.17%) Data Modelling
4 19 (26.39%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (20.83%) Validation
5 15 (20.83%) Visualisation
6 13 (18.06%) Data Engineering
6 13 (18.06%) Document Management
6 13 (18.06%) Use Case
7 12 (16.67%) Change Management
7 12 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (16.67%) ETL
7 12 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (15.28%) Data Integration
8 11 (15.28%) LLM
8 11 (15.28%) User Experience
9 10 (13.89%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.67%) SQL
2 28 (38.89%) Python
3 17 (23.61%) JavaScript
4 13 (18.06%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.56%) C#
6 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.17%) SnowPro
3 1 (1.39%) CCAB
3 1 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.06%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.50%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) GxP
4 1 (1.39%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.28%) Databricks
2 11 (15.28%) Oracle
3 4 (5.56%) Google
4 3 (4.17%) GoldenSource
5 2 (2.78%) Foundry
5 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.39%) Informatica
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) Sparx
6 1 (1.39%) Talend
6 1 (1.39%) Teradata