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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 51 43
Rank change year-on-year +22 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 68 31 24
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.49% 3.98% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 4.38% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 25 17
10th Percentile - £274 £112
25th Percentile £320 £375 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% +2.27% -8.81%
75th Percentile £509 £525 £480
90th Percentile £556 £537 £553
Scotland median daily rate £420 £481 £445
% change year-on-year -12.73% +8.15% -6.32%
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 - £15.60 £20.59
% change year-on-year - -24.23% -

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 894 708 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 85.31% 90.89% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 457 432
10th Percentile £281 £300 £259
25th Percentile £351 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £453 £467 £450
% change year-on-year -3.05% +3.83% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 18 23
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.73 £15.13
25th Percentile £13.89 £16.84 £19.05
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.64 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +87.79% -54.48% +154.13%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 -
90th Percentile £77.50 £35.60 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.06 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -14.70% +2.09% +2.14%

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 12 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 17 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 15 (22.06%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.94%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.47%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.47%) Navisworks
4 1 (1.47%) ProjectWise
4 1 (1.47%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.47%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.47%) Sonata
2 1 (1.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 58 (85.29%) Power Platform
2 24 (35.29%) Snowflake
3 23 (33.82%) Azure
4 19 (27.94%) Power Automate
5 16 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (22.06%) Entra ID
6 15 (22.06%) PowerApps
7 5 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.88%) AWS
9 3 (4.41%) GCP
9 3 (4.41%) OCI
10 2 (2.94%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.94%) Google Gemini
10 2 (2.94%) Vertex AI
11 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.47%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.47%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) CTI
1 1 (1.47%) Internet
1 1 (1.47%) Intranet
1 1 (1.47%) PSTN
1 1 (1.47%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (85.29%) Power BI
2 15 (22.06%) Tableau
3 10 (14.71%) Big Data
3 10 (14.71%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (8.82%) Snowflake Schema
4 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 5 (7.35%) MySQL
5 5 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.88%) Metadata
6 4 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (4.41%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (4.41%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.47%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (1.47%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.47%) ERwin
2 1 (1.47%) PowerDesigner
General
1 24 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.94%) Documentation Skills
2 19 (27.94%) Finance
3 17 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (16.18%) Banking
5 9 (13.24%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.94%) Legal
6 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.47%) German Language
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Law
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (38.24%) Developer
2 15 (22.06%) SharePoint Developer
3 12 (17.65%) Analyst
4 10 (14.71%) Data Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Senior
5 8 (11.76%) Site Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Snowflake Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Data Integration Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Kafka Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Python Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Power BI Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.88%) UX Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.00%) REST
2 15 (22.06%) CSS
2 15 (22.06%) HTML
2 15 (22.06%) React
2 15 (22.06%) SPFx
3 10 (14.71%) Kafka
4 6 (8.82%) .NET
5 2 (2.94%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (1.47%) JWT
6 1 (1.47%) OAuth
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.47%) PySpark
6 1 (1.47%) SAML
6 1 (1.47%) SOAP
6 1 (1.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.94%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) CMDB
4 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) IVR
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
1 5 (7.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
2 23 (33.82%) AI
3 22 (32.35%) Analytics
4 20 (29.41%) Agile
5 18 (26.47%) Data Modelling
5 18 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (22.06%) Document Management
7 13 (19.12%) Use Case
7 13 (19.12%) Visualisation
8 12 (17.65%) Change Management
8 12 (17.65%) Data Engineering
8 12 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (17.65%) Validation
9 11 (16.18%) Data Integration
9 11 (16.18%) ETL
9 11 (16.18%) LLM
9 11 (16.18%) Risk Management
9 11 (16.18%) User Experience
10 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (14.71%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.29%) Python
1 24 (35.29%) SQL
2 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
3 15 (22.06%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) SnowPro
3 2 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.47%) CCAB
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) Data Quality
2 9 (13.24%) QA
3 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (14.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) Databricks
2 11 (16.18%) Oracle
3 4 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (2.94%) Foundry
4 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.47%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.47%) Informatica
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.47%) Sparx
5 1 (1.47%) Talend
5 1 (1.47%) Teradata