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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 22 31
Rank change year-on-year -33 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 113 133 154
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.03% 6.74% 6.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 7.45% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 91 103
10th Percentile £350 £263 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £610 £675 £767
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 7
10th Percentile £19.25 £23.28 £18.90
25th Percentile £20.95 £23.50 £22.54
Median hourly rate £52.67 £25.70 £27.13
Median % change year-on-year +104.92% -5.25% -50.68%
75th Percentile £54.70 £32.45 £30.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.80 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.98 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.24% -13.92% +0.56%

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 2,903 1,786 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 77.83% 90.48% 83.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,613 1,012 1,236
10th Percentile £336 £213 £300
25th Percentile £450 £367 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -3.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £735 £724 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 271 206
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £46.69
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +12.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 51 £500 +5.26% 59
Wiltshire -34 23 £450 -21.74% 35
Gloucestershire +3 11 £490 +18.79% 48
Somerset -28 10 £425 +52.47% 41
Dorset -9 8 £800 +88.24% 28
Devon -12 8 £450 +12.50% 19
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 2 (1.77%) IIS
1 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (12.39%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Oracle Payroll
2 3 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.88%) iTrent
3 1 (0.88%) Primavera
3 1 (0.88%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 66 (58.41%) Power Platform
2 21 (18.58%) Azure
3 20 (17.70%) AWS
4 14 (12.39%) OCI
5 10 (8.85%) Amazon S3
5 10 (8.85%) Power Automate
6 9 (7.96%) Serverless
7 8 (7.08%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.31%) GCP
10 5 (4.42%) Amazon Bedrock
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.54%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (3.54%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (3.54%) Cloud Run
11 4 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.54%) Vertex AI
12 3 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (58.41%) Power BI
2 15 (13.27%) Tableau
3 12 (10.62%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.96%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (7.08%) Looker
6 7 (6.19%) Power Query
7 6 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.42%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (3.54%) GIS
10 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.65%) Metadata
11 2 (1.77%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.77%) Spatial Data
12 1 (0.88%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.88%) DataStage
12 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.31%) JIRA
2 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.88%) RStudio
General
1 26 (23.01%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (21.24%) Public Sector
3 23 (20.35%) Social Skills
4 16 (14.16%) Finance
5 4 (3.54%) Banking
5 4 (3.54%) Billing
5 4 (3.54%) Local Government
6 3 (2.65%) Military
7 2 (1.77%) Marketing
7 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (30.97%) Developer
2 25 (22.12%) Analyst
3 16 (14.16%) Data Engineer
3 16 (14.16%) Oracle Developer
4 15 (13.27%) Software Developer
5 12 (10.62%) Data Analyst
6 11 (9.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (8.85%) Architect
8 9 (7.96%) Senior
9 7 (6.19%) Business Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) Consultant
11 4 (3.54%) Analytics Developer
11 4 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) BigQuery Architect
11 4 (3.54%) Data Architect
11 4 (3.54%) GCP Architect
11 4 (3.54%) PMO Analyst
11 4 (3.54%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (8.85%) Terraform
3 4 (3.54%) HTML
3 4 (3.54%) JSON
4 3 (2.65%) .NET
4 3 (2.65%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.65%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (2.65%) Blazor
4 3 (2.65%) jQuery
4 3 (2.65%) React
5 2 (1.77%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.77%) Middleware
5 2 (1.77%) REST
6 1 (0.88%) EDI
6 1 (0.88%) Faiss
6 1 (0.88%) LangChain
6 1 (0.88%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (0.88%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.88%) PySpark
6 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.54%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.65%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.77%) Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.77%) Windows
1 2 (1.77%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.48%) Analytics
2 30 (26.55%) Data Modelling
3 26 (23.01%) AI
4 23 (20.35%) Visualisation
5 22 (19.47%) Decision-Making
6 20 (17.70%) Data Engineering
6 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (16.81%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (16.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (15.93%) Data Visualisation
8 18 (15.93%) DevOps
8 18 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (14.16%) Agile
10 16 (14.16%) CI/CD
10 16 (14.16%) Data Governance
11 13 (11.50%) ETL
11 13 (11.50%) Software Engineering
12 12 (10.62%) Translating Business Requirements
13 11 (9.73%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.98%) SQL
2 23 (20.35%) Python
3 20 (17.70%) PL/SQL
4 10 (8.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (6.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.65%) C#
6 3 (2.65%) R
6 3 (2.65%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.77%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.88%) JCL
8 1 (0.88%) LookML
Qualifications
1 33 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.85%) Degree
4 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.47%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.31%) PMO
3 5 (4.42%) GDPR
4 3 (2.65%) QA
5 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 24 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.47%) Oracle
3 5 (4.42%) Google
4 3 (2.65%) Databricks
4 3 (2.65%) SAP
5 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.77%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) Foundry
6 1 (0.88%) IBM
6 1 (0.88%) Palantir
6 1 (0.88%) Planon
6 1 (0.88%) Sage
6 1 (0.88%) Teradata
6 1 (0.88%) Workday