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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 35 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 125 96 167
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.59% 5.42% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 5.96% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 69 140
10th Percentile £367 £297 £361
25th Percentile £418 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £535
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -18.22% +1.90%
75th Percentile £547 £573 £638
90th Percentile £675 £640 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile - £20.03 £16.21
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.13 £16.70
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.42% +39.47% -65.45%
75th Percentile £23.50 £28.25 £25.25
90th Percentile £24.09 £48.13 £28.10
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year +5.00% +22.80% +4.51%

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 2,758 1,611 2,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.23% 90.97% 81.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 986 1,681
10th Percentile £325 £216 £238
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 167 370
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £13.83
25th Percentile £28.19 £18.69 £28.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% -40.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.60 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -21 42 £473 +8.00% 17
Wiltshire +6 32 £450 -28.00% 11
Somerset -10 16 £450 +164.71% 6
Dorset 0 9 £800 +88.24% 11
Gloucestershire -7 8 £495 +21.03% 16
Devon -15 6 £450 +28.57% 5
Cornwall - 1 - - 1
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%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) iTrent
2 2 (1.60%) Primavera
3 1 (0.80%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 75 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 32 (25.60%) Azure
3 25 (20.00%) AWS
4 11 (8.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (6.40%) Amazon S3
5 8 (6.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (6.40%) Serverless
6 7 (5.60%) GCP
7 6 (4.80%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.80%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.20%) GitHub
9 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.60%) Matillion
12 1 (0.80%) Intacct
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
2 1 (0.80%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (59.20%) Power BI
2 18 (14.40%) Tableau
3 16 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.40%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (4.80%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.00%) Power Query
6 5 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
6 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.20%) Data Mart
8 3 (2.40%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.40%) Looker
8 3 (2.40%) Metadata
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) JIRA
2 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 29 (23.20%) Finance
2 22 (17.60%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.60%) General Ledger
6 7 (5.60%) Marketing
6 7 (5.60%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.00%) Banking
7 5 (4.00%) Electronics
7 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Back Office
9 2 (1.60%) Billing
9 2 (1.60%) Legal
9 2 (1.60%) Police
10 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 13 (10.40%) Analyst
3 10 (8.00%) Consultant
4 9 (7.20%) Lead
5 7 (5.60%) Data Analyst
5 7 (5.60%) Data Consultant
5 7 (5.60%) Performance Engineer
6 6 (4.80%) Architect
6 6 (4.80%) Developer
7 5 (4.00%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.00%) Data Modeller
8 4 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (3.20%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 4 (3.20%) Data Analytics Specialist
8 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Platform Specialist
8 4 (3.20%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.40%) PySpark
2 2 (1.60%) HTML
2 2 (1.60%) HTML5
2 2 (1.60%) React
2 2 (1.60%) REST
2 2 (1.60%) SVG
3 1 (0.80%) .NET
3 1 (0.80%) ADO
3 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (0.80%) Blazor
3 1 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.80%) JDO
3 1 (0.80%) jQuery
3 1 (0.80%) JSON
3 1 (0.80%) Middleware
3 1 (0.80%) Pandas
3 1 (0.80%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.20%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.40%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.60%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.00%) Windows
1 5 (4.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (60.80%) Analytics
2 36 (28.80%) Data Modelling
3 30 (24.00%) Data Engineering
4 26 (20.80%) Decision-Making
5 24 (19.20%) Data Governance
5 24 (19.20%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (18.40%) Visualisation
7 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (14.40%) ETL
8 17 (13.60%) Data Science
9 16 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (11.20%) CI/CD
12 13 (10.40%) Budgeting
13 12 (9.60%) AI
13 12 (9.60%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 12 (9.60%) Data Transformation
13 12 (9.60%) Data Visualisation
13 12 (9.60%) Financial Modelling
13 12 (9.60%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.60%) SQL
2 34 (27.20%) Python
3 8 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.80%) R
5 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.20%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.60%) C
8 1 (0.80%) C#
8 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.80%) Scala
8 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.60%) ACCA
3 12 (9.60%) CIMA
4 9 (7.20%) Degree
5 6 (4.80%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.80%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) PMO
3 3 (2.40%) JSP 440
3 3 (2.40%) NCSC
3 3 (2.40%) RMADS
4 2 (1.60%) GDPR
4 2 (1.60%) QA
5 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.80%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (4.00%) Terraform
2 1 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.20%) Databricks
2 9 (7.20%) SAP
3 4 (3.20%) Oracle
4 3 (2.40%) VMware
5 2 (1.60%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (1.60%) Blue Prism
5 2 (1.60%) Intel
5 2 (1.60%) UiPath
6 1 (0.80%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.80%) Braze
6 1 (0.80%) Google
6 1 (0.80%) NetApp
6 1 (0.80%) Okta
6 1 (0.80%) Sage
6 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.80%) Workday