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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -31 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 115 127 164
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.06% 6.43% 6.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 7.10% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 93 117
10th Percentile £348 £267 £358
25th Percentile £413 £381 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £611 £675 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £19.25 £23.49 £18.67
25th Percentile £20.88 £26.85 £21.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.55 £28.56
Median % change year-on-year +75.13% -0.04% -48.07%
75th Percentile £54.70 £33.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -10.87%

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 2,932 1,788 2,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.02% 90.58% 83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 1,037 1,324
10th Percentile £325 £220 £281
25th Percentile £438 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £725 £706 £705
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 244 214
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.08 £18.20
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.51 £48.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +4.53%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £77.80 £68.53 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -12 48 £500 +14.29% 51
Wiltshire -26 24 £450 -21.74% 25
Gloucestershire -2 11 £490 +8.89% 21
Somerset -25 11 £425 +52.47% 24
Devon -15 10 £370 -7.50% 12
Dorset -11 8 £800 +88.24% 14
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 4 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.61%) Apache
2 3 (2.61%) Apache Superset
3 2 (1.74%) IIS
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.87%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (12.17%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Oracle Payroll
2 4 (3.48%) iTrent
3 3 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.87%) Primavera
4 1 (0.87%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 68 (59.13%) Power Platform
2 25 (21.74%) AWS
3 21 (18.26%) Azure
4 14 (12.17%) OCI
5 11 (9.57%) Amazon S3
6 10 (8.70%) Power Automate
6 10 (8.70%) Serverless
7 8 (6.96%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.22%) GCP
10 5 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
10 5 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.61%) Cloud Composer
12 3 (2.61%) Cloud Run
12 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.61%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.61%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (59.13%) Power BI
2 19 (16.52%) Tableau
3 12 (10.43%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (6.09%) Looker
6 6 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.48%) Data Mart
8 4 (3.48%) GIS
8 4 (3.48%) Power Query
9 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.61%) Metadata
10 2 (1.74%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.74%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.22%) JIRA
2 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.87%) RStudio
General
1 26 (22.61%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (20.87%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 17 (14.78%) Finance
5 4 (3.48%) Banking
5 4 (3.48%) Billing
5 4 (3.48%) Local Government
5 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Military
7 2 (1.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (26.96%) Developer
2 22 (19.13%) Analyst
3 16 (13.91%) Data Engineer
4 15 (13.04%) Oracle Developer
5 14 (12.17%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.57%) Data Analyst
7 9 (7.83%) Architect
7 9 (7.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (7.83%) Senior
8 8 (6.96%) Consultant
9 7 (6.09%) Business Developer
10 6 (5.22%) Data Consultant
11 5 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 4 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Data Architect
12 4 (3.48%) Lead
13 3 (2.61%) AWS Data Engineer
13 3 (2.61%) BigQuery Architect
13 3 (2.61%) GCP Architect
13 3 (2.61%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (7.83%) Terraform
3 4 (3.48%) HTML
3 4 (3.48%) JSON
4 3 (2.61%) .NET
4 3 (2.61%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.61%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (2.61%) Blazor
4 3 (2.61%) jQuery
4 3 (2.61%) React
5 2 (1.74%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.74%) Middleware
5 2 (1.74%) REST
6 1 (0.87%) EDI
6 1 (0.87%) Faiss
6 1 (0.87%) LangChain
6 1 (0.87%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (0.87%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.87%) PySpark
6 1 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.61%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.87%) Clustering
5 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.87%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Windows
1 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (43.48%) Analytics
2 27 (23.48%) Data Modelling
3 25 (21.74%) AI
4 23 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 22 (19.13%) Visualisation
6 21 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (17.39%) Decision-Making
8 18 (15.65%) Data Governance
9 17 (14.78%) Agile
9 17 (14.78%) DevOps
9 17 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (13.91%) Data Visualisation
11 15 (13.04%) CI/CD
11 15 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (11.30%) ETL
13 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
14 11 (9.57%) Information Security
14 11 (9.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.04%) SQL
2 26 (22.61%) Python
3 19 (16.52%) PL/SQL
4 7 (6.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.35%) R
6 3 (2.61%) C#
6 3 (2.61%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.87%) JCL
8 1 (0.87%) LookML
Qualifications
1 33 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.57%) Degree
4 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.13%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.22%) PMO
3 5 (4.35%) GDPR
4 3 (2.61%) QA
5 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.26%) Oracle
3 5 (4.35%) SAP
4 4 (3.48%) Databricks
4 4 (3.48%) Google
5 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.74%) VMware
6 1 (0.87%) Foundry
6 1 (0.87%) IBM
6 1 (0.87%) Palantir
6 1 (0.87%) Sage
6 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.87%) Teradata
6 1 (0.87%) Workday