Business Intelligence Contracts in Manchester

Business Intelligence (BI)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 36 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 46 57 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.58% 4.70% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 5.39% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 50
10th Percentile £313 £350 £298
25th Percentile £359 £401 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £545 £504 £530
90th Percentile £637 £563 £606
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.50 -
North West median hourly rate £25.00 £66.50 £27.20
% change year-on-year -62.41% +144.49% +61.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 884 1,058 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.05% 87.15% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 684 1,189
10th Percentile £308 £327 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £464 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.25% - +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 60
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.94 £14.59
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.10 £16.22
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +77.22% +9.72%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.30 £66.40
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -14.15% -4.41% +49.45%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in Manchester

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in Manchester

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Manchester

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in Manchester

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Stockport -1 4 £400 +14.29% 3
Salford -1 2 £400 -15.79% 2
Bolton -11 2 - - 2
Oldham - 2 - -
Bury - 1 - - 1
Business Intelligence
North West

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (17.39%) IBM Domino
2 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.35%) NetSuite
2 2 (4.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) Power Platform
2 6 (13.04%) Azure
3 4 (8.70%) PowerApps
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.17%) AWS
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (58.70%) Power BI
2 13 (28.26%) Tableau
3 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (21.74%) Relational Database
4 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.52%) Metadata
5 3 (6.52%) WebFOCUS
6 2 (4.35%) Power Query
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.17%) Big Data
7 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.17%) SAP BW
7 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Gradle
1 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
1 10 (21.74%) JUnit
1 10 (21.74%) Liquibase
1 10 (21.74%) Mockito
2 5 (10.87%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Hudson
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (36.96%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 13 (28.26%) Public Sector
4 11 (23.91%) Manufacturing
4 11 (23.91%) Marketing
5 10 (21.74%) Electronics
5 10 (21.74%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Billing
6 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Analyst
2 11 (23.91%) Developer
3 8 (17.39%) Data Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Java Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) React Developer
4 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) SQL Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) Kafka
1 10 (21.74%) OpenAPI
1 10 (21.74%) React
1 10 (21.74%) Spring
1 10 (21.74%) Spring Boot
1 10 (21.74%) Swagger
2 1 (2.17%) Matplotlib
2 1 (2.17%) Pandas
2 1 (2.17%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.17%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Analytics
1 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.26%) Agile
2 13 (28.26%) Migration
3 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 10 (21.74%) Containerisation
3 10 (21.74%) DevOps
3 10 (21.74%) Digital Marketing
3 10 (21.74%) Microservices
3 10 (21.74%) Programme Management
3 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
3 10 (21.74%) TDD
4 9 (19.57%) E-Commerce
5 8 (17.39%) A/B Testing
5 8 (17.39%) Customer Engagement
6 5 (10.87%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (10.87%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
6 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven
6 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) Java
2 10 (21.74%) TypeScript
3 4 (8.70%) Python
4 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.17%) R
6 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) ACCA
3 2 (4.35%) CIMA
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Docker
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) SAP
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) Veeam
3 2 (4.35%) VMware
4 1 (2.17%) Ariba
4 1 (2.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow