Business Intelligence Contracts in the North West

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 38 28
Rank change year-on-year -24 -10 +19
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 64 116 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.26% 4.37% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 5.09% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 82 126
10th Percentile £343 £350 £308
25th Percentile £413 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £451 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.80% +0.28% -2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £650 £623 £681
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile £22.59 £17.75 -
25th Percentile £22.72 £31.75 £27.10
Median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% +56.25% +87.59%
75th Percentile £28.75 £43.75 £27.30
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
England median hourly rate £28.84 £24.22 £24.00
% change year-on-year +19.08% +0.90% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,766 2,277 2,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.06% 85.86% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,451 1,960
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £390 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 253 138
10th Percentile £15.34 £10.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £13.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £31.76 £24.19 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year +31.29% -30.92% +51.88%
75th Percentile £63.00 £46.18 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.06 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the North West

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the North West

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the North West over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the North West

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in the North West

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Manchester 0 37 £515 +14.13% 161
Cheshire -21 13 £573 +20.53% 52
Cumbria +7 5 - -
Lancashire -3 4 £475 +11.76% 64
Merseyside -3 2 £500 +33.33% 40
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.56%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (6.25%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (64.06%) Power Platform
2 21 (32.81%) Azure
3 11 (17.19%) PowerApps
4 7 (10.94%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (9.38%) Power Automate
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.13%) AWS
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.56%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.56%) Serverless
10 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (64.06%) Power BI
2 15 (23.44%) Tableau
3 11 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (17.19%) Relational Database
4 9 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (9.38%) Metadata
6 4 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.69%) MySQL
8 2 (3.13%) Big Data
8 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.56%) HBase
9 1 (1.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 12 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 11 (17.19%) Liquibase
3 10 (15.63%) Gradle
3 10 (15.63%) JUnit
3 10 (15.63%) Mockito
4 7 (10.94%) GitLab
5 3 (4.69%) JIRA
5 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.13%) Hudson
7 1 (1.56%) ERwin
7 1 (1.56%) Flyway
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.69%) Public Sector
3 16 (25.00%) Finance
4 13 (20.31%) Manufacturing
4 13 (20.31%) Marketing
5 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (15.63%) Electronics
5 10 (15.63%) Telecoms
6 5 (7.81%) Retail
7 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.56%) Automotive
8 1 (1.56%) Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Developer
2 10 (15.63%) Analyst
3 9 (14.06%) Data Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Java Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Power BI Developer
5 5 (7.81%) React Developer
5 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Administrator
8 2 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) Kafka
1 10 (15.63%) OpenAPI
1 10 (15.63%) React
1 10 (15.63%) Spring
1 10 (15.63%) Spring Boot
1 10 (15.63%) Swagger
2 1 (1.56%) ADO
2 1 (1.56%) Matplotlib
2 1 (1.56%) Pandas
2 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.56%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.56%) Shiny
2 1 (1.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.81%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (31.25%) Agile
3 17 (26.56%) DevOps
3 17 (26.56%) Migration
3 17 (26.56%) Visualisation
4 14 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 13 (20.31%) Data Modelling
6 12 (18.75%) Analytics
6 12 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 11 (17.19%) ETL
7 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
8 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
8 10 (15.63%) Data Management
8 10 (15.63%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (15.63%) Microservices
8 10 (15.63%) Programme Management
8 10 (15.63%) TDD
9 9 (14.06%) Data Governance
9 9 (14.06%) Data Science
9 9 (14.06%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) SQL
2 10 (15.63%) Java
2 10 (15.63%) TypeScript
3 7 (10.94%) Python
4 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.13%) Bash
5 2 (3.13%) R
6 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (3.13%) CCNA
3 2 (3.13%) CCNP
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.56%) RIBA
4 1 (1.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) PMO
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Ansible
2 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.31%) SAP
3 4 (6.25%) Databricks
4 3 (4.69%) Fortinet
4 3 (4.69%) Infoblox
4 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.13%) Sage
5 2 (3.13%) Veeam
5 2 (3.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.56%) Brio
6 1 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) Informatica
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) Ping Identity