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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 121 130 157
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 5.01% 6.42% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.07% 7.32% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 82 133
10th Percentile £275 £316 £339
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +3.97%
75th Percentile £590 £652 £638
90th Percentile £675 £788 £688
England median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 7
10th Percentile £22.90 £19.02 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £21.19 £14.36
Median hourly rate £24.00 £27.13 £15.59
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +73.99% -43.31%
75th Percentile £24.50 £28.99 £21.64
90th Percentile £30.98 £29.50 £45.98
England median hourly rate £23.75 £29.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -18.10% -10.27% +17.53%

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 1,995 1,777 2,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.68% 87.71% 85.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 1,088 1,643
10th Percentile £263 £266 £289
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £720
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 112 268
10th Percentile £15.60 £18.51 £20.18
25th Percentile £20.36 £44.69 £45.75
Median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.40 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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
Wiltshire +2 41 £563 -6.25% 5
Bristol -15 38 £513 -2.38% 23
Devon +7 10 £288 -11.54% 10
Somerset -16 9 £525 -12.50% 11
Cornwall +1 6 £158 -55.00%
Gloucestershire -6 5 £350 -28.21% 12
Dorset +6 4 £400 -17.95% 10
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 15 (12.40%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.13%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (1.65%) Apache
3 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (15.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 64 (52.89%) Power Platform
2 22 (18.18%) Azure
3 13 (10.74%) AWS
4 11 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 10 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (7.44%) GCP
7 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (5.79%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.96%) Snowflake
10 5 (4.13%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.31%) SaaS
12 3 (2.48%) ShareGate
13 2 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.65%) GitHub
14 1 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 1 (0.83%) Collibra
14 1 (0.83%) Google Analytics
14 1 (0.83%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) LAN
1 4 (3.31%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.48%) DNS
2 3 (2.48%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.65%) DHCP
3 2 (1.65%) VoIP
3 2 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.83%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) VLAN
4 1 (0.83%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (52.07%) Power BI
2 11 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.79%) Big Data
3 7 (5.79%) Metadata
3 7 (5.79%) Tableau
4 6 (4.96%) BigQuery
4 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.13%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (4.13%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (4.13%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.48%) Looker
6 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.65%) Power Query
7 2 (1.65%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.65%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.83%) Impala
Development Applications
1 5 (4.13%) DBeaver
2 3 (2.48%) JIRA
3 2 (1.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.83%) Git
4 1 (0.83%) GoCD
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Maven
4 1 (0.83%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (52.07%) Finance
2 55 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 49 (40.50%) Manufacturing
4 47 (38.84%) Electronics
4 47 (38.84%) Marketing
4 47 (38.84%) Telecoms
5 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
6 18 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (9.92%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (6.61%) Banking
9 4 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.48%) Legal
11 2 (1.65%) Back Office
11 2 (1.65%) Military
11 2 (1.65%) Police
12 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.83%) Law
12 1 (0.83%) Publishing
12 1 (0.83%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 31 (25.62%) Analyst
2 13 (10.74%) Data Analyst
3 12 (9.92%) Developer
4 11 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 11 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 9 (7.44%) IT Engineer
5 9 (7.44%) Migration Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Architect
6 8 (6.61%) Consultant
7 7 (5.79%) IT Support
7 7 (5.79%) Senior
8 6 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 6 (4.96%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) ITIL Manager
8 6 (4.96%) Lead
8 6 (4.96%) Security Consultant
8 6 (4.96%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Incident Manager
9 5 (4.13%) Quality Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.13%) HTML
1 5 (4.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (3.31%) CSS
3 3 (2.48%) LDAP
3 3 (2.48%) OAuth
3 3 (2.48%) OpenID
3 3 (2.48%) SAML
4 2 (1.65%) .NET
4 2 (1.65%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.65%) HTML5
4 2 (1.65%) PySpark
4 2 (1.65%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.83%) CSS3
5 1 (0.83%) FHIR
5 1 (0.83%) Kafka
5 1 (0.83%) NLTK
5 1 (0.83%) NumPy
5 1 (0.83%) REST
5 1 (0.83%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.96%) Low-Code
2 5 (4.13%) CMDB
2 5 (4.13%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.13%) Replication
3 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.65%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.65%) FMCG
4 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.65%) NHS
4 2 (1.65%) SCADA
5 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.83%) DataPower
5 1 (0.83%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (0.83%) IoT
5 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.83%) STB
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.79%) Windows
2 3 (2.48%) Linux
2 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.65%) Android
3 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.50%) Programme Management
2 47 (38.84%) Digital Marketing
3 28 (23.14%) Analytics
4 24 (19.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 21 (17.36%) Migration
6 17 (14.05%) Agile
6 17 (14.05%) Decision-Making
7 15 (12.40%) Data Analysis
8 14 (11.57%) Actionable Insight
8 14 (11.57%) ETL
8 14 (11.57%) ITIL
8 14 (11.57%) Risk Management
9 13 (10.74%) Workflow
10 12 (9.92%) Service Management
10 12 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (9.09%) AI
11 11 (9.09%) Data Modelling
11 11 (9.09%) Visualisation
12 10 (8.26%) Change Management
12 10 (8.26%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (28.10%) SQL
2 22 (18.18%) Python
3 8 (6.61%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.65%) ABAP
6 2 (1.65%) C#
6 2 (1.65%) Java
6 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.83%) Bash
7 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.83%) SAPscript
7 1 (0.83%) Tcl
7 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 44 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.88%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.09%) Degree
5 5 (4.13%) CESG Certified Professional
5 5 (4.13%) CISSP
6 3 (2.48%) CISM
6 3 (2.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.65%) CLAS
7 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.65%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.83%) ACCA
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CIMA
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.74%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.26%) GDPR
4 7 (5.79%) NCSC
5 6 (4.96%) JSP 440
5 6 (4.96%) PMO
5 6 (4.96%) RMADS
6 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.65%) NIST
9 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.83%) DICOM
9 1 (0.83%) HL7
9 1 (0.83%) PERC
9 1 (0.83%) QA
9 1 (0.83%) SLA
9 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.31%) SCCM
2 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.65%) Ansible
3 2 (1.65%) Kibana
3 2 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.83%) FreeIPA
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) logstash
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) SCOM
4 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.83%) Terraform
4 1 (0.83%) vRealize
Vendors
1 54 (44.63%) SAP
2 35 (28.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.79%) Google
4 5 (4.13%) Blue Prism
4 5 (4.13%) Oracle
4 5 (4.13%) Remedy
5 4 (3.31%) Databricks
6 3 (2.48%) Cisco
6 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.65%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.65%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.65%) Intel
7 2 (1.65%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.65%) NetIQ
7 2 (1.65%) Okta
7 2 (1.65%) UiPath
7 2 (1.65%) VMware
8 1 (0.83%) Citrix
8 1 (0.83%) Facebook
8 1 (0.83%) Informatica