Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the South West

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 133 146 175
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 6.49% 5.99% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.24% 7.09% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 94 142
10th Percentile £261 £354 £401
25th Percentile £403 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -7.69% +7.82%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £638
90th Percentile £676 £775 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 9
10th Percentile - £22.54 £14.36
25th Percentile £23.50 £25.26 £15.59
Median hourly rate £24.00 £28.56 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +31.99% -
75th Percentile £28.55 £30.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £58.35 - £60.50
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £29.91
% change year-on-year -26.15% +8.66% +10.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,836 2,059 2,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.65% 84.52% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 1,217 1,887
10th Percentile £223 £313 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 166 285
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.62 £19.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.27 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the South West

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South West over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the South West

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South West over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the South West

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Wiltshire +25 52 £625 - 8
Bristol -2 47 £488 -7.14% 49
Somerset -12 11 £388 -32.61% 26
Devon -2 7 £400 -6.43% 8
Gloucestershire +3 6 £350 -28.21% 24
Dorset - 5 £450 - 6
Cornwall - 1 £158 - 2
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (9.02%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.26%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
Applications
1 23 (17.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.75%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.38%) Power Platform
2 21 (15.79%) Azure
3 16 (12.03%) AWS
4 10 (7.52%) Snowflake
5 8 (6.02%) GCP
6 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.76%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.76%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.26%) SaaS
9 3 (2.26%) ShareGate
10 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) LAN
2 3 (2.26%) DNS
2 3 (2.26%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.26%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.50%) VoIP
3 2 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.75%) DHCP
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) VLAN
4 1 (0.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (50.38%) Power BI
2 13 (9.77%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.26%) Big Data
4 7 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
4 7 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (5.26%) Star Schema
5 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.51%) Tableau
6 5 (3.76%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.01%) Metadata
8 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.50%) Looker
9 2 (1.50%) Power Query
9 2 (1.50%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.50%) SAP HANA
9 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.26%) DBeaver
2 3 (2.26%) JIRA
3 2 (1.50%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.75%) Git
4 1 (0.75%) GoCD
4 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) Maven
4 1 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.75%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 71 (53.38%) Finance
2 58 (43.61%) Public Sector
3 56 (42.11%) Manufacturing
4 55 (41.35%) Marketing
5 53 (39.85%) Electronics
5 53 (39.85%) Telecoms
6 43 (32.33%) Social Skills
7 23 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (9.02%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (7.52%) Banking
10 5 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.26%) Local Government
11 3 (2.26%) Polish Language
11 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.50%) Legal
12 2 (1.50%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.75%) Law
13 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Analyst
2 16 (12.03%) Data Analyst
2 16 (12.03%) Developer
3 12 (9.02%) Consultant
3 12 (9.02%) Data Engineer
4 11 (8.27%) Architect
5 10 (7.52%) Lead
5 10 (7.52%) Security Consultant
6 9 (6.77%) Senior
7 8 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.02%) IT Support
8 7 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.26%) IT Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) ITIL Manager
9 6 (4.51%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 5 (3.76%) .NET
3 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.26%) LDAP
3 3 (2.26%) OAuth
3 3 (2.26%) OpenID
3 3 (2.26%) SAML
4 2 (1.50%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.50%) REST
4 2 (1.50%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.75%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.75%) CSS3
5 1 (0.75%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.75%) JAX-RS
5 1 (0.75%) Kafka
5 1 (0.75%) LESS
5 1 (0.75%) Pandas
5 1 (0.75%) React
5 1 (0.75%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.26%) Replication
2 5 (3.76%) CMDB
3 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.50%) NHS
5 2 (1.50%) SCADA
6 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.75%) DataPower
6 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.75%) IoT
6 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.75%) Smart Home
6 1 (0.75%) STB
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Windows
2 3 (2.26%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.50%) Android
3 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.35%) Programme Management
2 53 (39.85%) Digital Marketing
3 25 (18.80%) Analytics
3 25 (18.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 20 (15.04%) Decision-Making
4 20 (15.04%) Migration
5 18 (13.53%) Agile
6 16 (12.03%) Data Analysis
6 16 (12.03%) Risk Management
7 15 (11.28%) ETL
8 14 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
9 13 (9.77%) AI
9 13 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (9.02%) ITIL
10 12 (9.02%) Service Management
10 12 (9.02%) Visualisation
11 11 (8.27%) Change Management
11 11 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (7.52%) CI/CD
12 10 (7.52%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.07%) SQL
2 24 (18.05%) Python
3 6 (4.51%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.76%) C#
5 4 (3.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.01%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.26%) Java
7 2 (1.50%) ABAP
7 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.75%) Bash
8 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.75%) SAPscript
8 1 (0.75%) Tcl
8 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (43.61%) Security Cleared
2 46 (34.59%) SC Cleared
3 22 (16.54%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.77%) CESG Certified Professional
4 9 (6.77%) CISSP
5 5 (3.76%) CISM
5 5 (3.76%) Degree
5 5 (3.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 4 (3.01%) CLAS
7 2 (1.50%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.03%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (6.77%) RMADS
4 8 (6.02%) NCSC
5 7 (5.26%) GDPR
5 7 (5.26%) JSP 440
5 7 (5.26%) PMO
6 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
6 4 (3.01%) NIST
7 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.75%) DICOM
8 1 (0.75%) HL7
8 1 (0.75%) SLA
8 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.50%) Docker
3 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) Terraform
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.26%) SCCM
3 2 (1.50%) Ansible
3 2 (1.50%) Kibana
3 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.75%) FreeIPA
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) logstash
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) SCOM
4 1 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (43.61%) SAP
2 32 (24.06%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.02%) Oracle
4 5 (3.76%) Google
4 5 (3.76%) Remedy
5 2 (1.50%) Cisco
5 2 (1.50%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.50%) Micro Focus
5 2 (1.50%) MobileIron
5 2 (1.50%) NetIQ
5 2 (1.50%) Okta
5 2 (1.50%) VMware
6 1 (0.75%) Citrix
6 1 (0.75%) Cognos
6 1 (0.75%) IBM
6 1 (0.75%) Salesforce