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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 21 35
Rank change year-on-year -28 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 126 117 139
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.47% 6.16% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 6.87% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 85 115
10th Percentile £360 £288 £363
25th Percentile £418 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile - £22.93 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.45 £26.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £27.98 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% -6.75% -45.45%
75th Percentile £23.50 £40.79 -
90th Percentile £41.80 £62.82 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -0.79%

All Process & 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 2,881 1,704 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.26% 89.73% 83.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,620 992 1,498
10th Percentile £325 £220 £263
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £634
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 215 276
10th Percentile £14.93 £14.90 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.83 £18.51 £43.75
Median hourly rate £58.92 £25.15 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +134.25% -61.60% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 £63.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 15 August 2026.

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 15 August 2026.

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 15 August 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
Bristol -14 46 £470 +10.59% 57
Wiltshire -21 30 £450 -28.00% 6
Gloucestershire -9 12 £500 +11.11% 19
Somerset -26 12 £425 +150.00% 17
Dorset -4 9 £800 +82.86% 6
Devon -13 9 £370 +23.33% 4
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 6 (4.76%) Apache Superset
2 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.38%) Apache
3 3 (2.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) iTrent
2 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.59%) Primavera
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.79%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 75 (59.52%) Power Platform
2 29 (23.02%) AWS
3 26 (20.63%) Azure
4 11 (8.73%) OCI
4 11 (8.73%) Power Automate
5 10 (7.94%) Amazon S3
5 10 (7.94%) PowerApps
5 10 (7.94%) Serverless
6 7 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.56%) GCP
7 6 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.97%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.97%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.97%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.59%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.59%) 4G
1 2 (1.59%) 5G
1 2 (1.59%) 5G NR
1 2 (1.59%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.59%) LTE
1 2 (1.59%) Microwave Backhaul
1 2 (1.59%) MPLS
1 2 (1.59%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (1.59%) VoLTE
1 2 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (59.52%) Power BI
2 20 (15.87%) Tableau
3 12 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.94%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (6.35%) Looker
6 6 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (3.97%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.97%) Metadata
7 5 (3.97%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (3.17%) Data Mart
8 4 (3.17%) GIS
8 4 (3.17%) Power Query
9 3 (2.38%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.38%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.59%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.59%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (4.76%) JIRA
2 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (17.46%) Finance
3 16 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.97%) Banking
4 5 (3.97%) General Ledger
5 4 (3.17%) Local Government
5 4 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Marketing
6 2 (1.59%) Military
6 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.79%) Billing
7 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Law
7 1 (0.79%) Legal
7 1 (0.79%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (19.05%) Developer
2 20 (15.87%) Analyst
2 20 (15.87%) Data Engineer
3 11 (8.73%) Consultant
3 11 (8.73%) Data Analyst
4 10 (7.94%) Oracle Developer
4 10 (7.94%) Software Developer
5 8 (6.35%) Lead
5 8 (6.35%) Senior
6 7 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (5.56%) Data Consultant
7 6 (4.76%) Architect
7 6 (4.76%) Business Developer
7 6 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (3.97%) Performance Engineer
9 4 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.17%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.17%) Data Modeller
10 3 (2.38%) Governance Analyst
10 3 (2.38%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.17%) HTML
2 4 (3.17%) React
3 3 (2.38%) .NET
3 3 (2.38%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (2.38%) Blazor
3 3 (2.38%) jQuery
3 3 (2.38%) JSON
3 3 (2.38%) REST
4 2 (1.59%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.59%) Middleware
5 1 (0.79%) ADO
5 1 (0.79%) EDI
5 1 (0.79%) LangChain
5 1 (0.79%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.79%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.79%) PySpark
5 1 (0.79%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.35%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.97%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.17%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Windows
1 3 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (50.79%) Analytics
2 29 (23.02%) Data Engineering
3 26 (20.63%) Data Governance
3 26 (20.63%) Data Modelling
3 26 (20.63%) Decision-Making
4 25 (19.84%) AI
5 23 (18.25%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (18.25%) Visualisation
6 20 (15.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (15.08%) Agile
8 18 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.70%) CI/CD
9 16 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (11.90%) DevOps
11 14 (11.11%) Data Science
11 14 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
12 13 (10.32%) Data Analytics
12 13 (10.32%) ETL
13 11 (8.73%) Machine Learning
13 11 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (45.24%) SQL
2 31 (24.60%) Python
3 14 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 8 (6.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.97%) R
7 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.38%) C#
8 3 (2.38%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.59%) C
10 1 (0.79%) LookML
Qualifications
1 30 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.52%) Degree
4 5 (3.97%) ACCA
4 5 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.97%) CIMA
5 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.76%) PMO
3 5 (3.97%) GDPR
4 4 (3.17%) QA
5 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.49%) Oracle
3 5 (3.97%) Databricks
3 5 (3.97%) SAP
4 3 (2.38%) VMware
5 2 (1.59%) Google
5 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.79%) Foundry
6 1 (0.79%) Okta
6 1 (0.79%) Palantir
6 1 (0.79%) Sage
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.79%) Workday