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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 125 88 185
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 4.30% 5.31% 5.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.37% 5.89% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 65 149
10th Percentile £344 £335 £333
25th Percentile £418 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £581 £613 £638
90th Percentile £675 £715 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 7
10th Percentile £22.76 £21.60 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.06 £14.36
Median hourly rate £24.00 £26.81 £15.59
Median % change year-on-year -10.49% +71.99% -43.31%
75th Percentile £24.50 £28.99 £18.77
90th Percentile - - £21.64
England median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £24.22
% change year-on-year -13.36% +13.57% -6.63%

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 2,327 1,494 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.97% 90.22% 83.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 989 1,752
10th Percentile £305 £238 £263
25th Percentile £410 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 106 340
10th Percentile £16.62 £19.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.50 £53.13 £27.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £67.53
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -7 52 £475 -9.52% 13
Wiltshire +2 34 £625 +8.70% 11
Somerset -6 10 £550 -12.00% 11
Devon -1 7 £310 -20.00% 9
Cornwall -4 5 - - 1
Gloucestershire -15 4 £500 +22.25% 12
Dorset +2 3 £400 -15.79% 11
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 7 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.00%) Apache Superset
3 3 (2.40%) Apache
3 3 (2.40%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.80%) IIS
5 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.60%) Primavera
2 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (53.60%) Power Platform
2 29 (23.20%) Azure
3 14 (11.20%) AWS
4 13 (10.40%) GCP
5 10 (8.00%) Power Automate
6 9 (7.20%) Snowflake
7 8 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (6.40%) PowerApps
8 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.40%) GitHub
12 3 (2.40%) SaaS
13 2 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.60%) Matillion
14 1 (0.80%) Collibra
14 1 (0.80%) Google Tag Manager
14 1 (0.80%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.60%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.60%) 4G
2 2 (1.60%) 5G
2 2 (1.60%) 5G NR
2 2 (1.60%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.60%) LTE
2 2 (1.60%) Microwave Backhaul
2 2 (1.60%) MPLS
2 2 (1.60%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.60%) VoLTE
2 2 (1.60%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.80%) DHCP
3 1 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.80%) LAN
3 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (52.80%) Power BI
2 14 (11.20%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (9.60%) Tableau
4 7 (5.60%) Metadata
5 6 (4.80%) Big Data
5 6 (4.80%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.80%) Looker
6 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.00%) Power Query
6 5 (4.00%) Star Schema
7 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.40%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.60%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) DBeaver
2 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.80%) Git
2 1 (0.80%) GitLab
2 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.80%) Maven
2 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (44.00%) Finance
2 33 (26.40%) Public Sector
3 27 (21.60%) Manufacturing
3 27 (21.60%) Telecoms
4 25 (20.00%) Electronics
4 25 (20.00%) Marketing
5 16 (12.80%) Social Skills
6 12 (9.60%) General Ledger
7 11 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (8.00%) Banking
9 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.40%) Legal
11 2 (1.60%) Back Office
11 2 (1.60%) Law
11 2 (1.60%) Military
11 2 (1.60%) Police
12 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Publishing
12 1 (0.80%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 19 (15.20%) Analyst
1 19 (15.20%) Data Engineer
2 9 (7.20%) Data Analyst
2 9 (7.20%) Migration Engineer
2 9 (7.20%) Senior
3 8 (6.40%) IT Engineer
4 7 (5.60%) Consultant
4 7 (5.60%) Developer
4 7 (5.60%) Performance Engineer
5 6 (4.80%) Architect
5 6 (4.80%) Business Analyst
5 6 (4.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 6 (4.80%) IT Support
5 6 (4.80%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (4.80%) Lead
5 6 (4.80%) Support Engineer
6 5 (4.00%) Analytics Manager
6 5 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 5 (4.00%) Data Architect
6 5 (4.00%) Senior Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.80%) HTML
2 4 (3.20%) CSS
3 3 (2.40%) HTML5
3 3 (2.40%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (2.40%) PySpark
3 3 (2.40%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.60%) Pandas
4 2 (1.60%) REST
4 2 (1.60%) SVG
5 1 (0.80%) CSS3
5 1 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.80%) JAX-RS
5 1 (0.80%) JDO
5 1 (0.80%) LDAP
5 1 (0.80%) LESS
5 1 (0.80%) NumPy
5 1 (0.80%) OpenID
5 1 (0.80%) SAML
5 1 (0.80%) Sass
5 1 (0.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.80%) Low-Code
3 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.40%) Replication
6 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.60%) FMCG
6 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.80%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.80%) DataPower
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.80%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.80%) IoT
7 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.80%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.40%) Windows
1 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.60%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.60%) Analytics
2 25 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 25 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 24 (19.20%) Data Modelling
4 19 (15.20%) Decision-Making
4 19 (15.20%) ETL
4 19 (15.20%) Migration
4 19 (15.20%) Visualisation
5 17 (13.60%) Agile
6 15 (12.00%) Data Engineering
6 15 (12.00%) Data Governance
7 14 (11.20%) Actionable Insight
7 14 (11.20%) Data Science
7 14 (11.20%) Workflow
8 13 (10.40%) AI
8 13 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (9.60%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 12 (9.60%) Financial Modelling
9 12 (9.60%) Performance Analysis
9 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.40%) SQL
2 31 (24.80%) Python
3 9 (7.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.60%) C
7 2 (1.60%) R
7 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.60%) VBA
8 1 (0.80%) C#
8 1 (0.80%) Java
8 1 (0.80%) SAPscript
8 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (29.60%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.60%) ACCA
3 12 (9.60%) CIMA
3 12 (9.60%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.80%) Degree
5 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.60%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.60%) CISSP
6 2 (1.60%) CLAS
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) GDPR
3 5 (4.00%) JSP 440
3 5 (4.00%) RMADS
4 4 (3.20%) PMO
5 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.40%) NCSC
6 2 (1.60%) NIST
6 2 (1.60%) QA
7 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.80%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.80%) PERC
7 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.60%) SCCM
2 1 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.80%) Kibana
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (23.20%) SAP
2 28 (22.40%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.20%) Databricks
4 7 (5.60%) Google
5 5 (4.00%) Blue Prism
6 4 (3.20%) Oracle
7 3 (2.40%) Cisco
7 3 (2.40%) Okta
8 2 (1.60%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (1.60%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.60%) Intel
8 2 (1.60%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.60%) NetIQ
8 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.60%) UiPath
9 1 (0.80%) Cognos
9 1 (0.80%) Facebook
9 1 (0.80%) Informatica
9 1 (0.80%) NetApp
9 1 (0.80%) VMware