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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 125 112 147
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.50% 5.90% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 6.58% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 79 122
10th Percentile £369 £281 £363
25th Percentile £418 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -13.49% -
75th Percentile £559 £613 £638
90th Percentile £665 £688 £775
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% -7.92%

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 2,863 1,703 2,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.20% 89.77% 83.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,590 1,000 1,531
10th Percentile £325 £220 £263
25th Percentile £419 £363 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £630
90th Percentile £705 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 201 306
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.51 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.85 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -15 45 £450 +5.88% 39
Wiltshire -17 32 £450 -28.00% 8
Somerset -25 13 £425 +150.00% 12
Gloucestershire -12 11 £513 +35.05% 18
Dorset -5 8 £800 +82.86% 7
Devon -15 7 £370 +5.71% 2
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 (6.40%) Apache Superset
2 4 (3.20%) Apache
3 3 (2.40%) IIS
4 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.80%) Confluence
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.40%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) iTrent
2 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Primavera
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.80%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 73 (58.40%) Power Platform
2 30 (24.00%) AWS
3 29 (23.20%) Azure
4 10 (8.00%) OCI
5 9 (7.20%) Amazon S3
5 9 (7.20%) Serverless
6 8 (6.40%) GCP
6 8 (6.40%) Power Automate
6 8 (6.40%) Snowflake
7 7 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (5.60%) PowerApps
8 6 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.60%) GitHub
11 2 (1.60%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.60%) 4G
1 2 (1.60%) 5G
1 2 (1.60%) 5G NR
1 2 (1.60%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.60%) LTE
1 2 (1.60%) Microwave Backhaul
1 2 (1.60%) MPLS
1 2 (1.60%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (1.60%) VoLTE
1 2 (1.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (58.40%) Power BI
2 22 (17.60%) Tableau
3 14 (11.20%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.20%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.80%) Looker
6 6 (4.80%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.20%) Data Mart
8 4 (3.20%) Metadata
8 4 (3.20%) Power Query
9 3 (2.40%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.40%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.60%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) JIRA
2 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (17.60%) Finance
1 22 (17.60%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.60%) General Ledger
5 5 (4.00%) Banking
6 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Local Government
7 2 (1.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.60%) Military
7 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.80%) Billing
8 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Law
8 1 (0.80%) Legal
8 1 (0.80%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (17.60%) Data Engineer
2 21 (16.80%) Developer
3 14 (11.20%) Analyst
4 11 (8.80%) Consultant
5 9 (7.20%) Oracle Developer
5 9 (7.20%) Software Developer
6 8 (6.40%) Data Analyst
6 8 (6.40%) Lead
7 7 (5.60%) Data Consultant
7 7 (5.60%) Senior
8 6 (4.80%) Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Performance Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (4.00%) Data Modeller
10 4 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Data Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Business Developer
10 4 (3.20%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.20%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.20%) React
3 3 (2.40%) .NET
3 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (2.40%) Blazor
3 3 (2.40%) jQuery
3 3 (2.40%) JSON
3 3 (2.40%) REST
4 2 (1.60%) HTML
4 2 (1.60%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.60%) Middleware
5 1 (0.80%) ADO
5 1 (0.80%) EDI
5 1 (0.80%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.80%) PySpark
5 1 (0.80%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.20%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.80%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.40%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Windows
1 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (55.20%) Analytics
2 32 (25.60%) Data Engineering
3 30 (24.00%) Data Modelling
4 25 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 23 (18.40%) Data Governance
6 22 (17.60%) Visualisation
7 21 (16.80%) AI
8 18 (14.40%) Agile
8 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (13.60%) Data Science
9 17 (13.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (12.00%) CI/CD
11 15 (12.00%) DevOps
12 14 (11.20%) ETL
13 13 (10.40%) Data Analytics
14 11 (8.80%) Data Visualisation
15 10 (8.00%) Machine Learning
15 10 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (46.40%) SQL
2 32 (25.60%) Python
3 12 (9.60%) PL/SQL
4 6 (4.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.80%) R
5 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.20%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.40%) C#
8 2 (1.60%) C
Qualifications
1 29 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.60%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) Degree
4 7 (5.60%) ACCA
4 7 (5.60%) CIMA
5 5 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (17.60%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) PMO
3 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.60%) GDPR
3 2 (1.60%) QA
4 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.00%) Oracle
3 5 (4.00%) Databricks
3 5 (4.00%) SAP
4 3 (2.40%) VMware
5 2 (1.60%) Google
5 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.80%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.80%) Braze
6 1 (0.80%) Foundry
6 1 (0.80%) Okta
6 1 (0.80%) Palantir
6 1 (0.80%) Sage
6 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.80%) Workday