Business Intelligence Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

BI Developer
England > West Midlands

The median BI Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £360, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 108 119
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 6 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.40% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £341 £313 £413
25th Percentile £348 £331 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% -13.89% +4.35%
75th Percentile £449 £428 £613
90th Percentile £502 £444 £670
England median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +2.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,482 1,772 2,108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 91.48% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 936 1,223 1,466
10th Percentile £223 £250 £257
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £706
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 91 56
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.59 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.95 £14.48 £15.44
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £34.81 £38.13 £28.19
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £26.39 £43.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -38.64% -2.39% +71.55%

Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence Developer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 July 2025. 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
Birmingham +7 3 £525 +31.25% 2
Wolverhampton - 2 £348 - 1
Staffordshire +4 1 - - 2
Business Intelligence Developer
England

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 25 July 2025, Business Intelligence Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (33.33%) R
5 2 (33.33%) Tableau
5 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (33.33%) SAP
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (16.67%) MySQL
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle
6 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
6 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Agile
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (16.67%) Visualisation

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (33.33%) Tableau
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle