Business Intelligence Contracts in the South West

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 26 30
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 85 178 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.07% 5.56% 6.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.61% 6.70% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 154 204
10th Percentile £325 £333 £316
25th Percentile £364 £425 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £638
90th Percentile £659 £775 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £20.24 £14.67 -
25th Percentile £23.30 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £25.75 £15.89 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.05% -42.22% -
75th Percentile £27.69 £18.20 £28.75
90th Percentile £28.47 £19.58 -
England median hourly rate £28.60 £24.00 £26.13
% change year-on-year +19.17% -8.13% -12.92%

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 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the South West

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the South West

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the South West

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the South West.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Bristol -1 38 £450 -10.00% 74
Wiltshire -6 16 £575 -14.81% 40
Gloucestershire +16 12 £409 -12.51% 79
Dorset - 6 £475 - 35
Devon +13 2 £313 -51.92% 60
Somerset -4 1 £370 -35.65% 44
Cornwall - 1 £350 - 1
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (15.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.53%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.18%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.18%) Misys Midas
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.71%) Power Platform
2 26 (30.59%) Azure
3 17 (20.00%) AWS
4 9 (10.59%) GCP
5 7 (8.24%) Power Automate
5 7 (8.24%) PowerApps
6 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.88%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.35%) dbt
9 2 (2.35%) SaaS
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.18%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.18%) GitHub
10 1 (1.18%) Matillion
10 1 (1.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) Firewall
2 2 (2.35%) Network Security
2 2 (2.35%) VPN
3 1 (1.18%) DNS
3 1 (1.18%) LAN
3 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.18%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.18%) WAN
3 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (44.71%) Power BI
2 10 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.53%) Metadata
6 3 (3.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.53%) Tableau
7 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.35%) Power Query
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.18%) Looker
8 1 (1.18%) MySQL
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.35%) Git
2 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.35%) NUnit
2 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.18%) GitLab
3 1 (1.18%) Postman
3 1 (1.18%) Selenium
3 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (56.47%) Finance
2 38 (44.71%) Public Sector
3 37 (43.53%) Social Skills
4 36 (42.35%) Marketing
5 35 (41.18%) Electronics
5 35 (41.18%) Manufacturing
5 35 (41.18%) Telecoms
6 17 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (9.41%) Local Government
8 4 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.18%) Italian Language
10 1 (1.18%) Law
10 1 (1.18%) Legal
10 1 (1.18%) Military
10 1 (1.18%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (23.53%) Analyst
2 19 (22.35%) Developer
3 12 (14.12%) Data Analyst
4 10 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Support Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Applications Support
6 7 (8.24%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Azure Developer
6 7 (8.24%) C# Developer
6 7 (8.24%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Lead
6 7 (8.24%) Senior
7 6 (7.06%) Applications Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (7.06%) C# Application Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Power BI Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Architect
8 5 (5.88%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.94%) .NET
2 7 (8.24%) CSS
2 7 (8.24%) HTML
3 3 (3.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.35%) Playwright
4 2 (2.35%) REST
5 1 (1.18%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.18%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.18%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.18%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.18%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.18%) SOAP
5 1 (1.18%) Swagger
5 1 (1.18%) Web Services
5 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.18%) NHS
4 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.18%) PKI
4 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.35%) Programme Management
2 35 (41.18%) Digital Marketing
3 20 (23.53%) Agile
4 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.29%) CI/CD
6 12 (14.12%) Data Analysis
6 12 (14.12%) Service Management
7 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (12.94%) Software Delivery
7 11 (12.94%) Test Automation
8 10 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (11.76%) Data Integration
8 10 (11.76%) Data Modelling
8 10 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 10 (11.76%) TDD
8 10 (11.76%) Visualisation
9 9 (10.59%) Data Management
9 9 (10.59%) Data Visualisation
9 9 (10.59%) ETL
9 9 (10.59%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.41%) SQL
2 10 (11.76%) C#
3 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.35%) Bash
7 2 (2.35%) Python
7 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.12%) Degree
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Certification
4 9 (10.59%) DV Cleared
5 8 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.35%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (2.35%) CISSP
6 2 (2.35%) CLAS
7 1 (1.18%) ACCA
7 1 (1.18%) CIMA
7 1 (1.18%) Dell Certification
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.35%) GDPR
2 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.35%) JSP 440
2 2 (2.35%) NIST
2 2 (2.35%) RMADS
3 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Terraform
2 2 (2.35%) Ansible
2 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.35%) Puppet
3 1 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (50.59%) SAP
2 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) Ariba
3 7 (8.24%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) Oracle
5 3 (3.53%) Databricks
6 1 (1.18%) Apple
6 1 (1.18%) Citrix
6 1 (1.18%) Dell
6 1 (1.18%) Foundry
6 1 (1.18%) HP
6 1 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.18%) Palantir
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) Splunk
6 1 (1.18%) VMware
6 1 (1.18%) Workday