Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 49 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 277 174 182
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.65% 4.44% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.99% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 120 115
10th Percentile £325 £293 £315
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £544 £528 £538
90th Percentile £600 £573 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 3
10th Percentile £19.08 - £27.25
25th Percentile £28.50 £15.50 £28.75
Median hourly rate £29.96 £16.88 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.54% -48.08% +52.15%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.44 £51.75
90th Percentile £60.30 £49.82 £62.55
England median hourly rate £29.98 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.46% +5.79% -6.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,314 3,486 3,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.11% 89.04% 83.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,710 2,251 2,009
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -0.08%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £680
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 196 179
10th Percentile £14.68 £13.51 £13.51
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.36 £16.68
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.60 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.49% -35.42% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.63 £51.89
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.08 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the North of England

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the North of England

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the North of England

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
North West -6 147 £500 +5.26% 279
Yorkshire -1 111 £439 -2.56% 180
North East -23 26 £383 -21.54% 65
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.69%) Confluence
3 6 (2.17%) Apache
4 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.08%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Mendix
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 47 (16.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.53%) AutoCAD
4 7 (2.53%) Navisworks
4 7 (2.53%) ProjectWise
4 7 (2.53%) Revit
4 7 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.44%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.53%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 6 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.44%) Primavera
4 4 (1.44%) SAP MM
5 3 (1.08%) Maximo
6 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.36%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.36%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.36%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (80.87%) Power Platform
2 99 (35.74%) Azure
3 34 (12.27%) AWS
4 25 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (8.30%) Power Automate
6 21 (7.58%) PowerApps
7 19 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (5.42%) Serverless
10 11 (3.97%) Snowflake
11 10 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (3.61%) GCP
11 10 (3.61%) SaaS
12 8 (2.89%) Copilot Studio
12 8 (2.89%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.89%) Google Analytics
12 8 (2.89%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (2.53%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (80.87%) Power BI
2 50 (18.05%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (13.00%) SQL Server
4 33 (11.91%) Tableau
5 22 (7.94%) Data Lake
6 20 (7.22%) Power Query
7 19 (6.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (4.69%) Looker
8 13 (4.69%) MySQL
9 12 (4.33%) Star Schema
10 10 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (3.61%) Semantic Layer
11 9 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (2.89%) Metadata
13 7 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (2.53%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.81%) Big Data
15 5 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.58%) JIRA
2 12 (4.33%) Git
3 6 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.44%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Hudson
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.36%) Toad
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 85 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.30%) Finance
3 58 (20.94%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 28 (10.11%) Manufacturing
6 18 (6.50%) Banking
7 11 (3.97%) Retail
8 8 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.53%) Law
9 7 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.17%) Marketing
11 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Local Government
11 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Aviation
12 2 (0.72%) Billing
12 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 63 (22.74%) Analyst
2 47 (16.97%) Developer
3 31 (11.19%) Data Engineer
4 28 (10.11%) Data Analyst
5 25 (9.03%) Senior
6 24 (8.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 24 (8.66%) Power BI Developer
7 20 (7.22%) Lead
8 15 (5.42%) Architect
8 15 (5.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 14 (5.05%) Administrator
10 13 (4.69%) Performance Analyst
11 11 (3.97%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.97%) DBA
11 11 (3.97%) SQL DBA
12 10 (3.61%) SQL Developer
13 8 (2.89%) Consultant
14 7 (2.53%) Financial Analyst
14 7 (2.53%) Security Engineer
14 7 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.42%) PySpark
2 13 (4.69%) REST
3 10 (3.61%) Terraform
4 5 (1.81%) Langfuse
5 4 (1.44%) JSON
5 4 (1.44%) SOAP
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.08%) React
7 2 (0.72%) .NET
7 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.72%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.72%) Kafka
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.72%) SPFx
8 1 (0.36%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.36%) EDI
8 1 (0.36%) OAuth
8 1 (0.36%) RESTful
8 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.94%) Data Structures
2 18 (6.50%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.61%) Clustering
3 10 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.61%) Replication
4 9 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.89%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.89%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.89%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.89%) NHS
6 7 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.17%) CMDB
8 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.08%) Blog
8 3 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.08%) FMCG
9 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.72%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.14%) Windows
2 10 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.81%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.81%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.08%) Linux
5 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (48.01%) Analytics
2 84 (30.32%) Data Modelling
3 61 (22.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 60 (21.66%) Visualisation
5 59 (21.30%) ETL
6 52 (18.77%) Agile
6 52 (18.77%) Migration
7 49 (17.69%) Decision-Making
8 47 (16.97%) Data Pipeline
9 45 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (14.80%) AI
11 39 (14.08%) CI/CD
12 38 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (13.72%) DevOps
13 37 (13.36%) Actionable Insight
13 37 (13.36%) Data Analysis
13 37 (13.36%) Validation
14 36 (13.00%) Data Visualisation
15 33 (11.91%) Data Engineering
15 33 (11.91%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 133 (48.01%) SQL
2 58 (20.94%) Python
3 27 (9.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (6.86%) PowerShell
4 19 (6.86%) T-SQL
5 8 (2.89%) R
6 7 (2.53%) C#
7 6 (2.17%) Java
8 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.72%) VBA
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
10 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.39%) Degree
2 26 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.81%) CISSP
8 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.72%) PMP
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.36%) CAPM
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.36%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (28.52%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.33%) PMO
3 10 (3.61%) GRC
4 8 (2.89%) QA
5 7 (2.53%) ISO 19650
6 6 (2.17%) GDPR
7 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (3.97%) SCOM
2 2 (0.72%) Apache Ranger
2 2 (0.72%) Control-M
2 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.36%) Ansible
3 1 (0.36%) Grafana
3 1 (0.36%) Kibana
3 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 96 (34.66%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.08%) Databricks
3 29 (10.47%) ServiceNow
4 28 (10.11%) SAP
5 15 (5.42%) Splunk
6 11 (3.97%) Google
7 10 (3.61%) Alteryx
8 7 (2.53%) Autodesk
8 7 (2.53%) BeyondTrust
8 7 (2.53%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.53%) Oracle
9 6 (2.17%) Remedy
9 6 (2.17%) UiPath
10 5 (1.81%) Adobe
10 5 (1.81%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.44%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.72%) BMC
12 2 (0.72%) Informatica
12 2 (0.72%) Teradata