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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 26 32
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 125 111 169
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.51% 5.93% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 6.62% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 79 142
10th Percentile £360 £281 £363
25th Percentile £416 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £544
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -19.54% +3.57%
75th Percentile £535 £589 £666
90th Percentile £648 £678 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile - £22.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.00 £23.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £27.40 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.83% -8.67% -45.45%
75th Percentile £20.69 £28.55 -
90th Percentile £22.38 £57.92 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £30.81 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.61% +2.68% +8.38%

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 2,865 1,678 2,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.50% 89.64% 83.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,566 995 1,644
10th Percentile £325 £220 £263
25th Percentile £418 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 198 356
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.47
25th Percentile £32.50 £18.51 £34.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.63% -58.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -23 46 £450 +4.65% 29
Wiltshire -11 32 £450 -28.00% 5
Somerset -21 14 £425 +150.00% 12
Gloucestershire -16 10 £500 +31.75% 10
Dorset -6 8 £800 +82.86% 4
Devon -11 6 £370 +5.71% 3
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 (6.40%) Apache Superset
2 4 (3.20%) Apache
3 3 (2.40%) IIS
4 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.80%) Confluence
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.40%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) iTrent
2 2 (1.60%) Primavera
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.80%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 72 (57.60%) Power Platform
2 29 (23.20%) AWS
2 29 (23.20%) Azure
3 10 (8.00%) OCI
4 9 (7.20%) Amazon S3
4 9 (7.20%) Serverless
5 8 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (5.60%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (4.80%) GCP
8 5 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (3.20%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.20%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.40%) GitHub
10 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.60%) Matillion
12 1 (0.80%) Smartsheet
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 72 (57.60%) Power BI
2 19 (15.20%) Tableau
3 14 (11.20%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.20%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.80%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.20%) Data Mart
9 3 (2.40%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.40%) Looker
9 3 (2.40%) Metadata
9 3 (2.40%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (2.40%) Power Query
9 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.60%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) JIRA
2 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 21 (16.80%) Finance
1 21 (16.80%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.20%) General Ledger
5 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Billing
7 2 (1.60%) Legal
7 2 (1.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Law
8 1 (0.80%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.80%) Local Government
8 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.80%) Military
8 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 19 (15.20%) Developer
3 14 (11.20%) Analyst
4 11 (8.80%) Consultant
5 9 (7.20%) Data Analyst
5 9 (7.20%) Oracle Developer
5 9 (7.20%) Software Developer
6 8 (6.40%) Lead
7 7 (5.60%) Data Consultant
7 7 (5.60%) Performance Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Data Modeller
9 4 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.20%) Data Analytics Specialist
9 4 (3.20%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.20%) Platform Specialist
9 4 (3.20%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.20%) React
3 3 (2.40%) .NET
3 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (2.40%) Blazor
3 3 (2.40%) jQuery
4 2 (1.60%) JSON
4 2 (1.60%) Middleware
4 2 (1.60%) REST
5 1 (0.80%) ADO
5 1 (0.80%) EDI
5 1 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.80%) JDO
5 1 (0.80%) Pandas
5 1 (0.80%) PySpark
5 1 (0.80%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.20%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.60%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Windows
1 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.00%) Analytics
2 33 (26.40%) Data Modelling
3 31 (24.80%) Data Engineering
4 26 (20.80%) Decision-Making
5 24 (19.20%) Data Governance
5 24 (19.20%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (16.80%) Visualisation
7 19 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (13.60%) Data Science
8 17 (13.60%) ETL
9 16 (12.80%) AI
9 16 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (12.00%) Agile
10 15 (12.00%) CI/CD
10 15 (12.00%) DevOps
10 15 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (9.60%) Data Analytics
11 12 (9.60%) Data Visualisation
12 10 (8.00%) Business Analytics
12 10 (8.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.00%) SQL
2 33 (26.40%) Python
3 12 (9.60%) PL/SQL
4 6 (4.80%) R
5 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.20%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.40%) C#
7 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.60%) C
9 1 (0.80%) Scala
9 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.20%) ACCA
3 9 (7.20%) CIMA
3 9 (7.20%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.40%) 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 21 (16.80%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) PMO
3 2 (1.60%) QA
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.00%) Oracle
3 6 (4.80%) Databricks
4 4 (3.20%) SAP
5 3 (2.40%) VMware
6 1 (0.80%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.80%) Braze
6 1 (0.80%) Okta
6 1 (0.80%) Sage
6 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.80%) Workday