Business Intelligence Contracts in the Midlands

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 100 133 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.15% 4.89% 5.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.87% 5.96% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 101 131
10th Percentile £305 £275 £263
25th Percentile £388 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £575
90th Percentile £638 £688 £656
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £16.25 £10.28 £20.05
25th Percentile £17.70 £12.75 £21.53
Median hourly rate £18.87 £13.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.78% -43.75% -46.67%
75th Percentile £20.38 £17.99 £24.94
90th Percentile £21.95 £26.34 £25.50
England median hourly rate £28.60 £24.22 £25.13
% change year-on-year +18.11% -3.62% -16.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,705 2,231 2,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.84% 82.02% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 1,490 2,073
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% +3.16%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £687
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 171 113
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £11.84
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.71 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £54.75
England median hourly rate £29.02 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -20.49% -2.14% +52.24%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the Midlands

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the Midlands

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the Midlands

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in the Midlands

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
West Midlands +2 78 £485 +7.78% 160
East Midlands -9 21 £413 +10.13% 73
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 4 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 23 (23.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.00%) InfoPath
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.00%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.00%) Oracle HRMS
3 3 (3.00%) SAP PM
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (78.00%) Power Platform
2 27 (27.00%) Azure
3 16 (16.00%) PowerApps
4 15 (15.00%) Power Automate
5 12 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (9.00%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (9.00%) Serverless
7 8 (8.00%) AWS
8 7 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (5.00%) Azure Functions
10 5 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (4.00%) GitHub
11 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (78.00%) Power BI
2 15 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.00%) Tableau
5 6 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.00%) Oracle Database
5 6 (6.00%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.00%) Power Query
6 5 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.00%) GIS
9 2 (2.00%) Big Data
9 2 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (2.00%) Metadata
9 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
1 3 (3.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) Selenium
3 1 (1.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
General
1 50 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.00%) Finance
4 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.00%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Local Government
6 6 (6.00%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.00%) Law
8 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Electronics
9 2 (2.00%) Marketing
9 2 (2.00%) Retail
9 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.00%) Games
10 1 (1.00%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (19.00%) Analyst
2 15 (15.00%) Developer
3 13 (13.00%) Architect
3 13 (13.00%) Lead
4 10 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (9.00%) Data Analyst
6 8 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (8.00%) Senior
7 7 (7.00%) Data Architect
7 7 (7.00%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Project Manager
9 5 (5.00%) Consultant
10 4 (4.00%) Automation Architect
10 4 (4.00%) Oracle Specialist
11 3 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (3.00%) Excel Analyst
11 3 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.00%) .NET
2 6 (6.00%) Kafka
3 5 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 5 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 5 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (5.00%) CSS
3 5 (5.00%) Entity Framework
3 5 (5.00%) HTML
3 5 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 4 (4.00%) LDAP
5 2 (2.00%) React
5 2 (2.00%) XML
6 1 (1.00%) ADO
6 1 (1.00%) JSON
6 1 (1.00%) Middleware
6 1 (1.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.00%) IoT
4 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.00%) SCADA
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Linux
1 5 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.00%) Analytics
2 27 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 22 (22.00%) Data Analysis
5 21 (21.00%) Migration
6 19 (19.00%) Decision-Making
6 19 (19.00%) Visualisation
7 17 (17.00%) Agile
8 16 (16.00%) Data Visualisation
9 15 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (15.00%) Workflow
10 14 (14.00%) Data Governance
11 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (12.00%) Data Analytics
11 12 (12.00%) ETL
12 11 (11.00%) DevOps
12 11 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (10.00%) Data Integration
14 9 (9.00%) RBAC
14 9 (9.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (55.00%) SQL
2 16 (16.00%) Python
3 9 (9.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (7.00%) C#
5 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.00%) Bicep
7 3 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.00%) R
7 3 (3.00%) VB
8 2 (2.00%) Java
8 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.00%) Scala
8 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (8.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.00%) CITP
5 1 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.00%) GDPR
3 5 (5.00%) PMO
3 5 (5.00%) SLA
4 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (4.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.00%) Grafana
3 1 (1.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.00%) Oracle
3 11 (11.00%) SAP
4 8 (8.00%) Databricks
5 6 (6.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.00%) CyberArk
7 4 (4.00%) Informatica
8 2 (2.00%) Cognos
8 2 (2.00%) Google
8 2 (2.00%) UiPath
9 1 (1.00%) Cisco
9 1 (1.00%) Citrix
9 1 (1.00%) Dell
9 1 (1.00%) HP
9 1 (1.00%) Nexthink
9 1 (1.00%) QAD
9 1 (1.00%) Remedy
9 1 (1.00%) Splunk