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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 27 32
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 123 147 174
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 5.36% 6.64% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.34% 7.69% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 96 146
10th Percentile £265 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £566
Median % change year-on-year - -7.28% +5.35%
75th Percentile £588 £642 £636
90th Percentile £675 £781 £688
England median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 7
10th Percentile £22.90 £23.09 -
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.26 £14.36
Median hourly rate £24.00 £27.13 £15.59
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +73.99% -43.31%
75th Percentile £24.50 £30.00 £21.64
90th Percentile £55.28 - £45.98
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -20.83% -1.64% -7.58%

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 1,941 1,912 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.65% 86.36% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,168 1,799
10th Percentile £261 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £422 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 133 272
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.46 £20.61
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 11 December 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 11 December 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 11 December 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 +5 47 £575 -4.17% 9
Bristol -9 39 £488 -7.14% 25
Devon -1 9 £250 -41.18% 5
Somerset -17 8 £425 -26.09% 9
Dorset +10 5 £450 -7.69% 11
Cornwall 0 5 £158 -55.00% 2
Gloucestershire -12 5 £350 -28.21% 8
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 16 (13.01%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.69%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.63%) Apache
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
Applications
1 20 (16.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.81%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 65 (52.85%) Power Platform
2 20 (16.26%) Azure
3 16 (13.01%) AWS
4 10 (8.13%) Power Automate
5 9 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.50%) GCP
6 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (6.50%) PowerApps
7 7 (5.69%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.25%) SaaS
10 3 (2.44%) ShareGate
11 2 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.81%) Collibra
12 1 (0.81%) GitHub
12 1 (0.81%) Google Analytics
12 1 (0.81%) Google Tag Manager
12 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) LAN
1 4 (3.25%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.44%) DNS
2 3 (2.44%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.63%) VoIP
3 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.81%) DHCP
4 1 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) VLAN
4 1 (0.81%) VPN
4 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (52.85%) Power BI
2 10 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.69%) Big Data
3 7 (5.69%) Metadata
3 7 (5.69%) Oracle ODI
3 7 (5.69%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (5.69%) Star Schema
4 6 (4.88%) BigQuery
4 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.88%) Tableau
5 3 (2.44%) Looker
6 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.63%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.63%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (5.69%) DBeaver
2 3 (2.44%) JIRA
3 2 (1.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.81%) Git
4 1 (0.81%) GoCD
4 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.81%) Maven
4 1 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.81%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (52.03%) Finance
2 56 (45.53%) Public Sector
3 50 (40.65%) Manufacturing
4 47 (38.21%) Electronics
4 47 (38.21%) Marketing
4 47 (38.21%) Telecoms
5 41 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 23 (18.70%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (8.94%) Banking
9 4 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.44%) Legal
10 3 (2.44%) Local Government
11 2 (1.63%) Military
11 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.81%) Law
12 1 (0.81%) Publishing
12 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 28 (22.76%) Analyst
2 15 (12.20%) Developer
3 13 (10.57%) Data Analyst
4 11 (8.94%) Architect
4 11 (8.94%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.13%) Consultant
6 9 (7.32%) IT Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Migration Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.50%) Security Consultant
8 7 (5.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (5.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.69%) IT Support
8 7 (5.69%) Quality Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Senior
9 6 (4.88%) Enterprise Architect
9 6 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) ITIL Manager
9 6 (4.88%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (3.25%) CSS
2 4 (3.25%) HTML
3 3 (2.44%) LDAP
3 3 (2.44%) OAuth
3 3 (2.44%) OpenID
3 3 (2.44%) SAML
4 2 (1.63%) .NET
4 2 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.63%) REST
4 2 (1.63%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.81%) CSS3
5 1 (0.81%) FHIR
5 1 (0.81%) HTML5
5 1 (0.81%) Kafka
5 1 (0.81%) NLTK
5 1 (0.81%) NumPy
5 1 (0.81%) PySpark
5 1 (0.81%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.69%) Replication
2 6 (4.88%) Low-Code
3 5 (4.07%) CMDB
4 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.63%) FMCG
6 2 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) NHS
6 2 (1.63%) SCADA
7 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.81%) DataPower
7 1 (0.81%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.81%) IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) STB
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.69%) Windows
2 3 (2.44%) Linux
2 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.63%) Android
3 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.63%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (39.84%) Programme Management
2 47 (38.21%) Digital Marketing
3 27 (21.95%) Analytics
4 25 (20.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 20 (16.26%) Agile
5 20 (16.26%) Migration
6 18 (14.63%) Decision-Making
7 17 (13.82%) Data Analysis
8 15 (12.20%) Risk Management
9 14 (11.38%) Actionable Insight
10 13 (10.57%) ETL
10 13 (10.57%) ITIL
10 13 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (10.57%) Visualisation
11 12 (9.76%) Service Management
11 12 (9.76%) Workflow
12 11 (8.94%) AI
12 11 (8.94%) Change Management
13 10 (8.13%) CI/CD
13 10 (8.13%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.83%) SQL
2 22 (17.89%) Python
3 8 (6.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.44%) Java
4 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.44%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.63%) ABAP
5 2 (1.63%) C#
5 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.81%) Bash
6 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.81%) SAPscript
6 1 (0.81%) Tcl
6 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (44.72%) Security Cleared
2 43 (34.96%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.45%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.69%) CESG Certified Professional
4 7 (5.69%) CISSP
4 7 (5.69%) Degree
5 5 (4.07%) CISM
5 5 (4.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.63%) CLAS
6 2 (1.63%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 13 (10.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (7.32%) GDPR
4 8 (6.50%) NCSC
5 7 (5.69%) RMADS
6 6 (4.88%) PMO
7 5 (4.07%) JSP 440
8 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
9 3 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.63%) NIST
11 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.81%) DICOM
11 1 (0.81%) HL7
11 1 (0.81%) PERC
11 1 (0.81%) QA
11 1 (0.81%) SLA
11 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.63%) Docker
3 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.44%) SCCM
2 2 (1.63%) Ansible
2 2 (1.63%) Kibana
2 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.81%) FreeIPA
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) logstash
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.81%) SCOM
3 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.81%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) vRealize
Vendors
1 54 (43.90%) SAP
2 35 (28.46%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.50%) Oracle
4 6 (4.88%) Google
5 5 (4.07%) Remedy
6 3 (2.44%) Blue Prism
6 3 (2.44%) Cisco
6 3 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.63%) Databricks
7 2 (1.63%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.63%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.63%) NetIQ
7 2 (1.63%) Okta
7 2 (1.63%) VMware
8 1 (0.81%) Citrix
8 1 (0.81%) Cognos
8 1 (0.81%) Facebook
8 1 (0.81%) IBM
8 1 (0.81%) Informatica