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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 116 124 182
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 4.51% 6.60% 5.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.53% 7.47% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 154
10th Percentile £315 £335 £373
25th Percentile £438 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +7.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £732 £734
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 7
10th Percentile £22.90 £19.18 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.42 £14.36
Median hourly rate £24.00 £26.50 £15.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +69.98% -43.31%
75th Percentile £24.50 £28.99 £18.77
90th Percentile £30.98 - £21.64
England median hourly rate £23.66 £27.75 £30.50
% change year-on-year -14.73% -9.02% +11.93%

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 2,099 1,661 2,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.55% 88.45% 83.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 1,009 1,691
10th Percentile £274 £230 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% +1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £706 £725
England median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 101 309
10th Percentile £15.79 £18.51 £15.17
25th Percentile £22.69 £46.25 £33.00
Median hourly rate £51.21 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.22% +18.18% -10.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £69.62
90th Percentile - £70.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -21 39 £525 - 18
Wiltshire +2 37 £550 -12.00% 13
Devon +5 11 £325 - 9
Somerset -15 10 £538 -10.42% 15
Cornwall 0 6 £158 -55.00%
Dorset +5 4 £400 -17.95% 17
Gloucestershire -17 2 £475 +16.14% 9
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 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.31%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.86%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 60 (51.72%) Power Platform
2 21 (18.10%) Azure
3 10 (8.62%) AWS
3 10 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (8.62%) Power Automate
4 8 (6.90%) GCP
5 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (6.03%) PowerApps
6 6 (5.17%) Snowflake
7 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.45%) SaaS
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.59%) ShareGate
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.72%) GitHub
11 1 (0.86%) Collibra
11 1 (0.86%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.59%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.59%) LAN
3 2 (1.72%) DHCP
3 2 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (0.86%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.86%) VLAN
4 1 (0.86%) VoIP
4 1 (0.86%) VPN
4 1 (0.86%) WAN
4 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (50.86%) Power BI
2 11 (9.48%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.03%) Metadata
4 6 (5.17%) Big Data
4 6 (5.17%) BigQuery
4 6 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.17%) Tableau
5 5 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.31%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (4.31%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (4.31%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.59%) Looker
6 3 (2.59%) Power Query
6 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.86%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (4.31%) DBeaver
2 2 (1.72%) GitLab
2 2 (1.72%) JIRA
3 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.86%) Git
3 1 (0.86%) GoCD
3 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.86%) Maven
3 1 (0.86%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (54.31%) Finance
2 53 (45.69%) Public Sector
3 46 (39.66%) Manufacturing
4 44 (37.93%) Electronics
4 44 (37.93%) Marketing
4 44 (37.93%) Telecoms
5 29 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 16 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (6.90%) Banking
9 4 (3.45%) General Ledger
9 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.59%) Legal
11 2 (1.72%) Back Office
11 2 (1.72%) Military
11 2 (1.72%) Police
12 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.86%) Law
12 1 (0.86%) Publishing
12 1 (0.86%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (22.41%) Analyst
2 14 (12.07%) Data Engineer
3 11 (9.48%) Business Analyst
3 11 (9.48%) Data Analyst
3 11 (9.48%) Developer
4 9 (7.76%) IT Engineer
4 9 (7.76%) Migration Engineer
5 7 (6.03%) IT Support
5 7 (6.03%) Senior
6 6 (5.17%) Architect
6 6 (5.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 6 (5.17%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (5.17%) ITIL Manager
6 6 (5.17%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 5 (4.31%) Incident Manager
7 5 (4.31%) ITIL Incident Manager
7 5 (4.31%) Lead
7 5 (4.31%) Quality Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.17%) HTML
2 5 (4.31%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 4 (3.45%) CSS
4 3 (2.59%) HTML5
4 3 (2.59%) LDAP
4 3 (2.59%) OAuth
4 3 (2.59%) OpenID
4 3 (2.59%) PySpark
4 3 (2.59%) SAML
5 2 (1.72%) .NET
5 2 (1.72%) Pandas
5 2 (1.72%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.72%) SVG
6 1 (0.86%) CSS3
6 1 (0.86%) NumPy
6 1 (0.86%) ODBC
6 1 (0.86%) REST
6 1 (0.86%) Web Services
6 1 (0.86%) XML
6 1 (0.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.31%) CMDB
1 5 (4.31%) Low-Code
1 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
1 5 (4.31%) Replication
2 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.72%) FMCG
3 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.72%) NHS
4 1 (0.86%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.86%) DataPower
4 1 (0.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.86%) SCADA
4 1 (0.86%) Smart Home
4 1 (0.86%) STB
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.17%) Windows
2 3 (2.59%) Linux
2 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.72%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.86%) Android
4 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (39.66%) Programme Management
2 44 (37.93%) Digital Marketing
3 31 (26.72%) Analytics
4 22 (18.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 21 (18.10%) Migration
6 18 (15.52%) ETL
7 17 (14.66%) Data Modelling
8 14 (12.07%) Actionable Insight
8 14 (12.07%) Agile
8 14 (12.07%) ITIL
9 13 (11.21%) Decision-Making
9 13 (11.21%) Workflow
10 12 (10.34%) Service Management
10 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (9.48%) Data Analysis
12 10 (8.62%) AI
12 10 (8.62%) Change Management
12 10 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.62%) Visualisation
12 10 (8.62%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.31%) SQL
2 21 (18.10%) Python
3 8 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.59%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.59%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.72%) C#
6 2 (1.72%) Java
7 1 (0.86%) ABAP
7 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.86%) SAPscript
7 1 (0.86%) Tcl
7 1 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (47.41%) Security Cleared
2 47 (40.52%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.07%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.48%) Degree
5 4 (3.45%) ACCA
5 4 (3.45%) CIMA
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.72%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.72%) CISSP
6 2 (1.72%) CLAS
6 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.03%) GDPR
3 6 (5.17%) JSP 440
4 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.31%) RMADS
5 4 (3.45%) NCSC
6 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.59%) PMO
7 2 (1.72%) NIST
8 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.86%) DICOM
8 1 (0.86%) HL7
8 1 (0.86%) PERC
8 1 (0.86%) QA
8 1 (0.86%) SLA
8 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.72%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.86%) Docker
3 1 (0.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.45%) SCCM
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.86%) Ansible
3 1 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.86%) FreeIPA
3 1 (0.86%) Kibana
3 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.86%) SCOM
3 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (43.10%) SAP
2 30 (25.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.03%) Google
4 5 (4.31%) Blue Prism
4 5 (4.31%) Databricks
4 5 (4.31%) Oracle
4 5 (4.31%) Remedy
5 3 (2.59%) Cisco
5 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.72%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (1.72%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.72%) Intel
6 2 (1.72%) Micro Focus
6 2 (1.72%) NetIQ
6 2 (1.72%) Okta
6 2 (1.72%) UiPath
6 2 (1.72%) VMware
7 1 (0.86%) Citrix
7 1 (0.86%) Facebook
7 1 (0.86%) Informatica