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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 44 59
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 -31
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 27 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.71% 3.09% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 3.45% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 11
10th Percentile £263 £109 £363
25th Percentile £399 £356 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £611
90th Percentile £548 £668 £650
Scotland median daily rate £500 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +12.36% -1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.59 -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.40 £20.59 -
% change year-on-year +33.09% - -

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 662 608 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.06% 89.41% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 436 501
10th Percentile £300 £273 £338
25th Percentile £370 £368 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £580
90th Percentile £613 £674 £688
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 25
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.38 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.45 £24.15 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +66.55% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.50 £47.73
90th Percentile £26.21 £58.81 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) Apache
1 4 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (14.81%) Apache Spark
2 3 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 25 (92.59%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
3 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (92.59%) Power BI
2 10 (37.04%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (29.63%) 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
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 18 (66.67%) Finance
2 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
3 11 (40.74%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 4 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
7 2 (7.41%) Retail
8 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) 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 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 Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Security Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) RESTful
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.41%) FMCG
2 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Data Analysis
2 10 (37.04%) Visualisation
3 9 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 8 (29.63%) Decision-Making
4 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.93%) Agile
6 6 (22.22%) Analytics
6 6 (22.22%) ETL
7 5 (18.52%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (18.52%) Data Integration
7 5 (18.52%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery
7 5 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
8 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
8 4 (14.81%) Dashboard Development
8 4 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (14.81%) Migration
8 4 (14.81%) Sprint Review
8 4 (14.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) 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 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) CISM
2 2 (7.41%) CISSP
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) GDPR
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 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
3 2 (7.41%) Qualys