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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 10 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 11.76% 1.59% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.71% 1.79% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile £361 - £308
25th Percentile £400 - £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £481 - £550
90th Percentile £575 - £575
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% -8.86%

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 68 56 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 80.00% 88.89% 81.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 61
10th Percentile £179 £140 £263
25th Percentile £293 £150 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £427 £494 £488
90th Percentile £575 £550 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 8
10th Percentile - £12.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £13.10 £15.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £18.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -55.00% +78.49%
75th Percentile £68.00 £20.24 £51.25
90th Percentile - £24.22 £56.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Staffordshire

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 20 April 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
Burton-upon-Trent - 4 £475 - 4
Uttoxeter - 3 £450 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £272 - 5
Lichfield - 1 - - 2
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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Power BI
2 4 (40.00%) Spark SQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (40.00%) Tableau
3 3 (30.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
4 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration Lead
4 2 (20.00%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (50.00%) Analytics
2 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (40.00%) Change Data Capture
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Data Security
3 4 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
4 3 (30.00%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Runbook
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Mapping
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Ariba
3 1 (10.00%) SAP