Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Business Intelligence (BI)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 6 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 4.62% 6.03% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 7.37% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 - £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £425 £170
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +150.00% -70.43%
75th Percentile £460 - £229
90th Percentile - - £317
East Midlands median daily rate £416 £370 £438
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.43% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £28.98 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +114.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 95 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 75.38% 81.90% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 68 109
10th Percentile £132 £185 £130
25th Percentile £250 £297 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% - +1.49%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £550
90th Percentile £536 £625 £653
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £19.03 £21.03 £12.60
25th Percentile £19.81 £21.44 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.90 £22.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +8.33% +13.51%
75th Percentile £22.60 £23.94 £22.63
90th Percentile £24.94 £24.28 £40.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
% change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in Leicestershire

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester -1 3 - - 16
Business Intelligence
East Midlands

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (50.00%) Tableau
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (33.33%) Power Query
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
5 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) R
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft