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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 23 34
Rank change year-on-year -26 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 125 121 142
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.41% 6.26% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 6.97% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 89 118
10th Percentile £358 £291 £363
25th Percentile £418 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -11.17% -0.51%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £626
90th Percentile £668 £688 £738
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 £29.96 £32.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.67% -7.18%

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 2,894 1,736 2,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.92% 89.81% 83.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,630 1,013 1,470
10th Percentile £325 £213 £263
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.51%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £630
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 220 251
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.98 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.51 £39.57
Median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +4.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £64.06 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -10 49 £485 +12.79% 36
Wiltshire -23 28 £450 -28.00% 8
Gloucestershire -7 12 £500 +11.11% 15
Somerset -25 11 £425 +150.00% 17
Devon -13 10 £370 +18.40% 5
Dorset -4 8 £800 +82.86% 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 5 (4.00%) Apache Superset
2 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.40%) Apache
3 3 (2.40%) IIS
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.60%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) iTrent
1 4 (3.20%) Oracle Payroll
2 3 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.60%) Primavera
4 1 (0.80%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 71 (56.80%) Power Platform
2 29 (23.20%) AWS
3 25 (20.00%) Azure
4 13 (10.40%) OCI
5 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 10 (8.00%) Power Automate
5 10 (8.00%) Serverless
6 9 (7.20%) PowerApps
7 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.80%) GCP
9 5 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
9 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.60%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
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 71 (56.80%) Power BI
2 20 (16.00%) Tableau
3 11 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.00%) Looker
6 5 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
6 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (3.20%) Data Mart
7 4 (3.20%) GIS
7 4 (3.20%) Metadata
8 3 (2.40%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (2.40%) Power Query
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.60%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.60%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (4.80%) JIRA
2 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 25 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.40%) Finance
3 22 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (15.20%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.80%) Banking
6 4 (3.20%) General Ledger
6 4 (3.20%) Local Government
7 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Billing
8 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Marketing
8 2 (1.60%) Military
9 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (22.40%) Developer
2 20 (16.00%) Analyst
2 20 (16.00%) Data Engineer
3 13 (10.40%) Oracle Developer
4 12 (9.60%) Software Developer
5 11 (8.80%) Data Analyst
6 10 (8.00%) Consultant
7 8 (6.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (6.40%) Senior
8 7 (5.60%) Architect
8 7 (5.60%) Business Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Data Consultant
9 5 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (4.00%) Lead
10 4 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.20%) Data Modeller
10 4 (3.20%) Performance Engineer
11 3 (2.40%) Configuration Engineer
11 3 (2.40%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.60%) Terraform
3 4 (3.20%) HTML
3 4 (3.20%) React
4 3 (2.40%) .NET
4 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (2.40%) Blazor
4 3 (2.40%) jQuery
4 3 (2.40%) JSON
4 3 (2.40%) REST
5 2 (1.60%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.60%) Middleware
6 1 (0.80%) ADO
6 1 (0.80%) EDI
6 1 (0.80%) LangChain
6 1 (0.80%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.80%) PySpark
6 1 (0.80%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.40%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.80%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.40%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.40%) Windows
1 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (48.00%) Analytics
2 26 (20.80%) Data Engineering
3 25 (20.00%) AI
3 25 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 25 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 24 (19.20%) Data Governance
5 21 (16.80%) Visualisation
6 20 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (12.80%) Agile
9 15 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (11.20%) CI/CD
10 14 (11.20%) DevOps
11 13 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (10.40%) Data Science
12 12 (9.60%) Data Analytics
12 12 (9.60%) ETL
12 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (8.80%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.20%) SQL
2 31 (24.80%) Python
3 17 (13.60%) PL/SQL
4 7 (5.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.60%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.00%) R
6 3 (2.40%) C#
6 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.60%) C
8 1 (0.80%) LookML
Qualifications
1 29 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.40%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.20%) ACCA
5 4 (3.20%) CIMA
5 4 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.20%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.00%) GDPR
2 5 (4.00%) PMO
3 3 (2.40%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 26 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.00%) Oracle
3 5 (4.00%) Databricks
4 4 (3.20%) SAP
5 3 (2.40%) VMware
6 2 (1.60%) Google
6 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.80%) Foundry
7 1 (0.80%) Okta
7 1 (0.80%) Palantir
7 1 (0.80%) Sage
7 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.80%) Workday