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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 37 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 116 86 177
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.54% 5.11% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 5.65% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 67 152
10th Percentile £359 £325 £333
25th Percentile £418 £366 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £638
90th Percentile £675 £657 £775
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.24 £14.67
25th Percentile £20.13 £23.30 £15.13
Median hourly rate £23.66 £25.75 £15.89
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +62.05% -42.22%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.69 £18.20
90th Percentile - £28.47 £19.58
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% +19.17% -8.13%

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 2,574 1,521 2,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.45% 90.37% 82.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,403 972 1,685
10th Percentile £313 £240 £220
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.37%
75th Percentile £611 £623 £625
90th Percentile £714 £688 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 452 144 327
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.29 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.88 £27.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +32.29% -21.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 £470 +4.44% 11
Wiltshire -9 29 £450 -21.74% 4
Somerset -4 15 £475 +28.38% 12
Gloucestershire -8 6 £500 +22.25% 10
Devon -12 5 £450 +44.00% 7
Cornwall -3 4 - - 1
Dorset -9 3 £400 -15.79% 6
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 (6.90%) Apache Superset
2 4 (3.45%) Apache
3 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) iTrent
2 2 (1.72%) Primavera
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (56.90%) Power Platform
2 30 (25.86%) Azure
3 17 (14.66%) AWS
4 10 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (6.90%) GCP
6 7 (6.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (5.17%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.31%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.45%) GitHub
9 4 (3.45%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.59%) Serverless
11 2 (1.72%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.72%) Matillion
11 2 (1.72%) SaaS
12 1 (0.86%) Collibra
12 1 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.86%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.72%) 4G
1 2 (1.72%) 5G
1 2 (1.72%) 5G NR
1 2 (1.72%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.72%) LTE
1 2 (1.72%) Microwave Backhaul
1 2 (1.72%) MPLS
1 2 (1.72%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (1.72%) VoLTE
1 2 (1.72%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.86%) DHCP
2 1 (0.86%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.86%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (56.03%) Power BI
2 19 (16.38%) Tableau
3 13 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.17%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.31%) Metadata
5 5 (4.31%) Power Query
5 5 (4.31%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (3.45%) Data Mart
6 4 (3.45%) Looker
6 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.59%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.59%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.72%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.72%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 36 (31.03%) Finance
2 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
2 15 (12.93%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.21%) Telecoms
4 12 (10.34%) General Ledger
4 12 (10.34%) Marketing
5 11 (9.48%) Electronics
5 11 (9.48%) Manufacturing
6 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Banking
9 3 (2.59%) Legal
10 2 (1.72%) Back Office
10 2 (1.72%) Police
11 1 (0.86%) Billing
11 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Law
11 1 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (17.24%) Data Engineer
2 12 (10.34%) Analyst
2 12 (10.34%) Consultant
3 10 (8.62%) Lead
4 7 (6.03%) Data Consultant
4 7 (6.03%) Performance Engineer
5 6 (5.17%) Data Analyst
6 5 (4.31%) Architect
6 5 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (4.31%) Data Architect
6 5 (4.31%) Data Modeller
7 4 (3.45%) Azure Data Engineer
7 4 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 4 (3.45%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (3.45%) Platform Specialist
7 4 (3.45%) Power BI Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Power BI Specialist
8 3 (2.59%) Security Assurance Coordinator
8 3 (2.59%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.59%) PySpark
2 2 (1.72%) HTML
2 2 (1.72%) HTML5
2 2 (1.72%) SVG
3 1 (0.86%) ADO
3 1 (0.86%) JDO
3 1 (0.86%) Pandas
3 1 (0.86%) React
3 1 (0.86%) REST
3 1 (0.86%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.07%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.76%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.72%) FMCG
5 2 (1.72%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.45%) Windows
1 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (59.48%) Analytics
2 31 (26.72%) Data Modelling
3 24 (20.69%) Data Engineering
3 24 (20.69%) Decision-Making
4 21 (18.10%) Data Governance
4 21 (18.10%) Visualisation
5 18 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (15.52%) ETL
6 15 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (11.21%) Budgeting
7 13 (11.21%) Data Science
8 12 (10.34%) Agile
8 12 (10.34%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 12 (10.34%) Data Transformation
8 12 (10.34%) Financial Modelling
8 12 (10.34%) Performance Analysis
8 12 (10.34%) Programme Management
8 12 (10.34%) Workflow
9 11 (9.48%) Data Analytics
9 11 (9.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.34%) SQL
2 28 (24.14%) Python
3 8 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.17%) R
5 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.59%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.72%) C
8 1 (0.86%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.86%) Scala
8 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (28.45%) Security Cleared
2 26 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.34%) ACCA
3 12 (10.34%) CIMA
4 9 (7.76%) Degree
5 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.72%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.72%) CISSP
8 2 (1.72%) CLAS
8 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.66%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.17%) PMO
3 5 (4.31%) JSP 440
3 5 (4.31%) RMADS
4 4 (3.45%) GDPR
5 3 (2.59%) NCSC
5 3 (2.59%) QA
6 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.72%) NIST
7 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.86%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.86%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (0.86%) SCCM
1 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.66%) SAP
3 11 (9.48%) Databricks
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle
5 2 (1.72%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (1.72%) Blue Prism
5 2 (1.72%) Google
5 2 (1.72%) Intel
5 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.72%) UiPath
5 2 (1.72%) VMware
6 1 (0.86%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.86%) Braze
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco
6 1 (0.86%) Facebook
6 1 (0.86%) Informatica
6 1 (0.86%) NetApp
6 1 (0.86%) Okta
6 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.86%) Workday