Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Business Intelligence (BI)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 10 2 16
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 5.71% 3.51% 12.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 4.55% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £412 - £319
25th Percentile £420 £863 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £875 £425
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% +105.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £456 £888 £438
90th Percentile £468 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £451 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -9.90% +11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.04
25th Percentile - - £34.20
Median hourly rate - - £34.47
75th Percentile - - £34.73
90th Percentile - - £34.89
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.30 - £34.47
% change year-on-year - - +39.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 160 44 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 91.43% 77.19% 76.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 19 49
10th Percentile £178 £139 £129
25th Percentile £240 £145 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £374
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -6.42% -25.20%
75th Percentile £595 £494 £475
90th Percentile £850 £618 £594
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £13.10 £24.43 £15.13
25th Percentile £17.74 £29.00 £19.83
Median hourly rate £19.41 £30.00 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -35.30% -11.58% +23.38%
75th Percentile £21.08 £31.00 £34.73
90th Percentile £21.36 £34.68 £41.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +21.61% +8.18% -18.18%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Uttoxeter - 3 £450 -
Stoke-on-Trent -6 1 £450 -48.57% 2
Stafford -7 1 - - 1
Business Intelligence
West Midlands

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (30.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Tableau
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (40.00%) Power Query
2 4 (40.00%) Spark SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (30.00%) Power BI
4 2 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Legal
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (40.00%) PySpark
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) SOAP
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (40.00%) Reference Data
2 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (20.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (10.00%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytics
1 4 (40.00%) Change Data Capture
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
1 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Mapping
1 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (40.00%) Defect Management
1 4 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 4 (40.00%) ETL
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Cutover Planning
2 3 (30.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) QA
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Databricks
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle