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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 32 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 127 100 177
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.58% 5.69% 5.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 6.24% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 72 146
10th Percentile £362 £301 £363
25th Percentile £418 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £444 £529
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -16.04% +0.67%
75th Percentile £547 £573 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile - £20.03 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.13 £17.10
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.42% +8.16% -55.45%
75th Percentile £20.69 £28.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £22.38 £48.13 -
England median hourly rate £31.13 £30.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year +3.75% +22.80% +7.38%

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 2,825 1,602 2,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.58% 91.07% 82.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,517 980 1,697
10th Percentile £325 £215 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 170 372
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £13.71
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.51 £29.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.63 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.09% -46.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%

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 19 June 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
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 19 June 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 -23 41 £475 +8.57% 14
Wiltshire +1 35 £450 -28.00% 10
Somerset -6 16 £425 +150.00% 5
Gloucestershire -4 9 £495 +21.03% 14
Dorset -4 8 £800 +88.24% 8
Devon -13 7 £450 +28.57% 7
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 8 (6.30%) Apache Superset
2 4 (3.15%) Apache
3 3 (2.36%) IIS
4 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) iTrent
2 2 (1.57%) Primavera
3 1 (0.79%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 78 (61.42%) Power Platform
2 33 (25.98%) Azure
3 29 (22.83%) AWS
4 10 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (7.09%) Amazon S3
5 9 (7.09%) Serverless
6 8 (6.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (5.51%) GCP
8 6 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.72%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.72%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.94%) Amazon Bedrock
9 5 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.15%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.36%) GitHub
12 2 (1.57%) Matillion
13 1 (0.79%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (0.79%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.57%) 4G
1 2 (1.57%) 5G
1 2 (1.57%) 5G NR
1 2 (1.57%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.57%) LTE
1 2 (1.57%) Microwave Backhaul
1 2 (1.57%) MPLS
1 2 (1.57%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (1.57%) VoLTE
1 2 (1.57%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.79%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (61.42%) Power BI
2 18 (14.17%) Tableau
3 14 (11.02%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.09%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.72%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (4.72%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.94%) Power Query
6 5 (3.94%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (3.15%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.15%) Data Mart
8 3 (2.36%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.36%) Looker
8 3 (2.36%) Metadata
8 3 (2.36%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.57%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.15%) JIRA
2 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 29 (22.83%) Finance
2 22 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.45%) General Ledger
6 6 (4.72%) Marketing
6 6 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.94%) Banking
7 5 (3.94%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.15%) Electronics
9 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Back Office
10 2 (1.57%) Billing
10 2 (1.57%) Legal
10 2 (1.57%) Police
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Law
11 1 (0.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (21.26%) Data Engineer
2 14 (11.02%) Analyst
3 10 (7.87%) Consultant
4 8 (6.30%) Data Analyst
4 8 (6.30%) Lead
5 7 (5.51%) Data Consultant
5 7 (5.51%) Developer
5 7 (5.51%) Performance Engineer
6 5 (3.94%) Architect
6 5 (3.94%) Data Modeller
7 4 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.15%) Azure Data Engineer
7 4 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 4 (3.15%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (3.15%) Data Architect
7 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (3.15%) Platform Specialist
7 4 (3.15%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.36%) PySpark
1 3 (2.36%) React
2 2 (1.57%) .NET
2 2 (1.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.57%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (1.57%) Blazor
2 2 (1.57%) HTML
2 2 (1.57%) HTML5
2 2 (1.57%) jQuery
2 2 (1.57%) JSON
2 2 (1.57%) Middleware
2 2 (1.57%) REST
2 2 (1.57%) SVG
3 1 (0.79%) ADO
3 1 (0.79%) EDI
3 1 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.79%) JDO
3 1 (0.79%) Pandas
3 1 (0.79%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.02%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.09%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.30%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.51%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Windows
1 5 (3.94%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (59.06%) Analytics
2 35 (27.56%) Data Modelling
3 30 (23.62%) Data Engineering
4 27 (21.26%) Decision-Making
5 26 (20.47%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (18.90%) Data Governance
7 23 (18.11%) Visualisation
8 18 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (14.17%) ETL
9 17 (13.39%) Data Science
9 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.60%) AI
10 16 (12.60%) CI/CD
11 15 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (11.02%) Agile
13 13 (10.24%) Budgeting
13 13 (10.24%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 12 (9.45%) Data Visualisation
14 12 (9.45%) Financial Modelling
14 12 (9.45%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 48 (37.80%) SQL
2 34 (26.77%) Python
3 8 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.72%) R
5 5 (3.94%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.94%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.57%) C
6 2 (1.57%) C#
6 2 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.79%) Scala
7 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.45%) ACCA
3 12 (9.45%) CIMA
4 9 (7.09%) Degree
5 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (17.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.72%) PMO
3 3 (2.36%) JSP 440
3 3 (2.36%) NCSC
3 3 (2.36%) RMADS
4 2 (1.57%) QA
5 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (4.72%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.94%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.30%) Databricks
2 8 (6.30%) SAP
3 4 (3.15%) Oracle
4 3 (2.36%) VMware
5 2 (1.57%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (1.57%) Blue Prism
5 2 (1.57%) Intel
5 2 (1.57%) UiPath
6 1 (0.79%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.79%) Braze
6 1 (0.79%) Google
6 1 (0.79%) NetApp
6 1 (0.79%) Okta
6 1 (0.79%) Sage
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.79%) Workday