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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 37 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 120 93 164
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.52% 5.38% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 5.91% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 68 140
10th Percentile £368 £321 £361
25th Percentile £418 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £444 £532
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -16.63% +1.38%
75th Percentile £555 £573 £638
90th Percentile £675 £655 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile - £19.73 £16.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.19 £16.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £17.45
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% +47.61% -68.28%
75th Percentile £23.50 £27.78 £19.35
90th Percentile £24.09 £28.25 £20.04
England median hourly rate £28.78 £29.07 £25.34
% change year-on-year -1.01% +14.74% +1.34%

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 2,705 1,574 2,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.37% 90.98% 82.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 954 1,690
10th Percentile £325 £218 £225
25th Percentile £413 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 167 361
10th Percentile £16.44 £18.13 £13.86
25th Percentile £28.50 £18.87 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £33.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.24% -40.00% -8.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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 5 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 5 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 -18 42 £473 +8.00% 22
Wiltshire +2 28 £450 -28.00% 12
Somerset -5 16 £450 +66.67% 9
Dorset -1 9 £800 +88.24% 13
Gloucestershire -10 8 £495 +21.03% 16
Devon -17 5 £450 +28.57% 4
Cornwall -4 1 - - 1
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 (6.67%) Apache Superset
2 4 (3.33%) Apache
3 3 (2.50%) IIS
4 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) iTrent
2 2 (1.67%) Primavera
3 1 (0.83%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 74 (61.67%) Power Platform
2 31 (25.83%) Azure
3 19 (15.83%) AWS
4 11 (9.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (5.83%) GCP
7 6 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.33%) GitHub
9 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.50%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.50%) Serverless
11 2 (1.67%) Matillion
12 1 (0.83%) Intacct
12 1 (0.83%) SaaS
12 1 (0.83%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.67%) 4G
1 2 (1.67%) 5G
1 2 (1.67%) 5G NR
1 2 (1.67%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.67%) LTE
1 2 (1.67%) Microwave Backhaul
1 2 (1.67%) MPLS
1 2 (1.67%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (1.67%) VoLTE
1 2 (1.67%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.83%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (60.83%) Power BI
2 18 (15.00%) Tableau
3 13 (10.83%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.17%) Power Query
5 5 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (3.33%) Data Mart
6 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.50%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.50%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.50%) Looker
7 3 (2.50%) Metadata
7 3 (2.50%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.67%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 30 (25.00%) Finance
2 19 (15.83%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.00%) General Ledger
4 11 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.67%) Marketing
6 8 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.00%) Electronics
7 6 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.17%) Banking
9 4 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Back Office
10 2 (1.67%) Billing
10 2 (1.67%) Legal
10 2 (1.67%) Police
11 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (17.50%) Data Engineer
2 13 (10.83%) Analyst
3 11 (9.17%) Consultant
4 10 (8.33%) Lead
5 7 (5.83%) Architect
5 7 (5.83%) Data Analyst
5 7 (5.83%) Data Consultant
5 7 (5.83%) Performance Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.17%) Data Modeller
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 4 (3.33%) Data Analytics Specialist
8 4 (3.33%) Developer
8 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Platform Specialist
8 4 (3.33%) Power BI Engineer
9 3 (2.50%) Power BI Specialist
9 3 (2.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.50%) PySpark
2 2 (1.67%) HTML
2 2 (1.67%) HTML5
2 2 (1.67%) REST
2 2 (1.67%) SVG
3 1 (0.83%) ADO
3 1 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.83%) JDO
3 1 (0.83%) JSON
3 1 (0.83%) Middleware
3 1 (0.83%) Pandas
3 1 (0.83%) React
3 1 (0.83%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.67%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.83%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.67%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Windows
1 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (59.17%) Analytics
2 35 (29.17%) Data Modelling
3 26 (21.67%) Decision-Making
4 25 (20.83%) Data Engineering
5 23 (19.17%) Data Governance
5 23 (19.17%) Visualisation
6 19 (15.83%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (14.17%) ETL
8 13 (10.83%) Budgeting
8 13 (10.83%) Data Science
8 13 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 12 (10.00%) Data Transformation
9 12 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
9 12 (10.00%) Financial Modelling
9 12 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
10 11 (9.17%) Agile
10 11 (9.17%) Data Analytics
10 11 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 41 (34.17%) SQL
2 29 (24.17%) Python
3 8 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.00%) R
5 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.67%) C
8 1 (0.83%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.00%) ACCA
3 12 (10.00%) CIMA
4 9 (7.50%) Degree
5 7 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.83%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.83%) CISSP
9 1 (0.83%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.00%) PMO
3 4 (3.33%) JSP 440
3 4 (3.33%) RMADS
4 3 (2.50%) NCSC
5 2 (1.67%) GDPR
5 2 (1.67%) QA
6 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (0.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.33%) SAP
3 9 (7.50%) Databricks
4 4 (3.33%) Oracle
5 3 (2.50%) VMware
6 2 (1.67%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (1.67%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.67%) Intel
6 2 (1.67%) UiPath
7 1 (0.83%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.83%) Braze
7 1 (0.83%) Google
7 1 (0.83%) NetApp
7 1 (0.83%) Okta
7 1 (0.83%) Sage
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Workday