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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 64 37
Rank change year-on-year +35 -27 +26
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 57 18 34
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.01% 2.37% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.37% 2.54% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 15 27
10th Percentile - £235 £144
25th Percentile £320 £276 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £339 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% - -11.69%
75th Percentile £439 £475 £513
90th Percentile £504 £495 £588
Scotland median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.13
25th Percentile - - £30.32
Median hourly rate - - £38.38
75th Percentile - - £46.61
90th Percentile - - £50.89
Scotland median hourly rate - £15.60 £24.26
% change year-on-year - -35.68% -

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 681 709 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.76% 93.41% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 451 490
10th Percentile £306 £300 £275
25th Percentile £363 £383 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £573
90th Percentile £675 £600 £619
Scotland median daily rate £463 £461 £465
% change year-on-year +0.27% -0.81% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 37
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.44 £12.03
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.83 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% -37.05% +127.03%
75th Percentile £77.50 £25.15 £53.75
90th Percentile - £73.19 £67.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.97 £19.34
% change year-on-year +0.15% +3.28% +33.34%

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 30 May 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 18 (31.58%) SharePoint
2 15 (26.32%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (5.26%) Apache
3 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.51%) IntelliMatch
3 1 (1.75%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 51 (89.47%) Power Platform
2 25 (43.86%) Snowflake
3 17 (29.82%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (29.82%) PowerApps
4 16 (28.07%) Azure
4 16 (28.07%) Power Automate
5 15 (26.32%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.51%) OCI
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.75%) AWS
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) CTI
1 1 (1.75%) Internet
1 1 (1.75%) Intranet
1 1 (1.75%) PSTN
1 1 (1.75%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (89.47%) Power BI
2 13 (22.81%) Tableau
3 12 (21.05%) Big Data
4 9 (15.79%) Relational Database
5 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
6 5 (8.77%) MySQL
6 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (8.77%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.75%) Power Query
9 1 (1.75%) QlikView
9 1 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) Git
General
1 21 (36.84%) Documentation Skills
2 18 (31.58%) Finance
2 18 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.05%) Banking
4 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (15.79%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) German Language
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Developer
2 15 (26.32%) SharePoint Developer
3 12 (21.05%) Analyst
3 12 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Site Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Snowflake Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Data Integration Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Integration Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Kafka Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Python Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Business Analyst
6 6 (10.53%) Senior
7 4 (7.02%) Data Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Power BI Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) UX Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Business Data Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Cloud Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.58%) REST
2 15 (26.32%) CSS
2 15 (26.32%) HTML
2 15 (26.32%) React
2 15 (26.32%) SPFx
3 10 (17.54%) Kafka
4 1 (1.75%) JWT
4 1 (1.75%) OAuth
4 1 (1.75%) SAML
4 1 (1.75%) SOAP
4 1 (1.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.75%) CMDB
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) IVR
3 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 21 (36.84%) AI
3 18 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (29.82%) Agile
5 16 (28.07%) Visualisation
6 15 (26.32%) Analytics
6 15 (26.32%) Document Management
7 13 (22.81%) ETL
8 12 (21.05%) Data Integration
9 11 (19.30%) Data Engineering
9 11 (19.30%) Data Modelling
9 11 (19.30%) Risk Management
9 11 (19.30%) Use Case
10 10 (17.54%) User Experience
11 9 (15.79%) LLM
11 9 (15.79%) Observability
11 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (14.04%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.86%) Python
2 20 (35.09%) SQL
3 15 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 15 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) SnowPro
4 2 (3.51%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.75%) CCAB
5 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.51%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.51%) ISO 8583
2 2 (3.51%) SLA
2 2 (3.51%) WCAG
3 1 (1.75%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Databricks
2 11 (19.30%) Oracle
3 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.51%) Alteryx
5 2 (3.51%) FIS
5 2 (3.51%) Fiserv
5 2 (3.51%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.75%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) Teradata