Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 36 32
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 191 64 94
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.36% 4.74% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 5.36% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 40 76
10th Percentile £345 £362 £306
25th Percentile £413 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +5.41% -5.13%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £586
90th Percentile £608 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £15.63 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £16.15 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £17.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +198.51% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £18.45 -
90th Percentile - £18.62 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% +19.17% -12.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,521 1,195 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.98% 88.45% 83.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 804 1,064
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +1.01% -1.98%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £601
90th Percentile £650 £688 £718
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 55 117
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.40 £11.10
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.60 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.72% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £26.20 £40.00
90th Percentile £71.17 £34.50 £57.25
England median hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.00% -1.71% -11.83%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 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
Shropshire -2 75 £525 +10.29% 9
Birmingham -2 42 £450 -5.26% 41
Warwickshire -2 33 £485 -15.65% 7
Coventry -19 10 £500 +14.29% 6
Staffordshire +6 8 £413 - 13
Wolverhampton -2 3 - - 2
Solihull -10 2 £580 +0.87% 4
Worcestershire -10 1 - - 4
Herefordshire -15 1 £400 - 1
Dudley - 1 £400 - 1
Brierley Hill - 1 £390 -
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 46 (24.08%) SAS
2 11 (5.76%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.14%) Confluence
3 6 (3.14%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 6 (3.14%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.05%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.52%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.52%) Revit
4 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 96 (50.26%) Power Platform
2 40 (20.94%) Azure
3 18 (9.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (7.33%) Power Automate
5 13 (6.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (5.76%) AWS
7 10 (5.24%) PowerApps
8 9 (4.71%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (3.14%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (1.57%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (1.57%) dbt
13 3 (1.57%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) SMTP
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (50.26%) Power BI
2 40 (20.94%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (17.28%) Pentaho
4 16 (8.38%) Metadata
5 14 (7.33%) Tableau
6 11 (5.76%) Oracle Database
7 9 (4.71%) Metadata Repository
7 9 (4.71%) Power Query
8 8 (4.19%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.66%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (3.14%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (3.14%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.62%) MySQL
11 5 (2.62%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (21.99%) Git
2 37 (19.37%) Jenkins
3 33 (17.28%) JIRA
4 4 (2.09%) GitLab
4 4 (2.09%) MLflow
5 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) JUnit
6 1 (0.52%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 52 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.52%) Finance
4 16 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.09%) Retail
6 3 (1.57%) Banking
6 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.57%) Legal
6 3 (1.57%) Marketing
6 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Local Government
8 1 (0.52%) Billing
8 1 (0.52%) Law
8 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (29.32%) Data Engineer
2 28 (14.66%) Analyst
3 27 (14.14%) Architect
4 23 (12.04%) Data Architect
4 23 (12.04%) Developer
5 18 (9.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 18 (9.42%) Senior
6 16 (8.38%) Lead
7 14 (7.33%) Data Analyst
8 9 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.71%) SAS Engineer
9 8 (4.19%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (3.14%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.14%) Business Developer
10 6 (3.14%) Oracle Specialist
10 6 (3.14%) Support Specialist
11 5 (2.62%) Denodo Engineer
11 5 (2.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
12 4 (2.09%) Power BI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.09%) Kafka
1 4 (2.09%) PySpark
1 4 (2.09%) REST
2 3 (1.57%) EJB
3 2 (1.05%) Pandas
4 1 (0.52%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.52%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.52%) Middleware
4 1 (0.52%) NumPy
4 1 (0.52%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.52%) pytest
4 1 (0.52%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.52%) Swagger
4 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.66%) Data Structures
2 5 (2.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.09%) e-Learning
3 4 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.09%) SCADA
4 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.57%) FMCG
4 3 (1.57%) IoT
4 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.05%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.05%) NHS
5 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.52%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.52%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.71%) Unix
2 2 (1.05%) Linux
2 2 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (49.74%) Data Modelling
2 90 (47.12%) Analytics
3 74 (38.74%) ETL
4 56 (29.32%) Agile
4 56 (29.32%) Data Pipeline
4 56 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (28.27%) CI/CD
6 49 (25.65%) Scrum
7 47 (24.61%) Data Integration
8 45 (23.56%) DevOps
9 44 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (20.42%) Decision-Making
11 35 (18.32%) Data Governance
11 35 (18.32%) Data Virtualisation
12 33 (17.28%) Business Analytics
12 33 (17.28%) Data Analytics
12 33 (17.28%) Test Automation
13 32 (16.75%) Deployment Automation
14 29 (15.18%) AI
15 25 (13.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 98 (51.31%) SQL
2 24 (12.57%) Python
3 10 (5.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.19%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.62%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.62%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.09%) Bicep
6 4 (2.09%) Java
6 4 (2.09%) R
7 3 (1.57%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.52%) Scala
8 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (35.60%) Security Cleared
2 60 (31.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.85%) Degree
4 4 (2.09%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.09%) PhD
5 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.52%) ACCA
6 1 (0.52%) CIMA
6 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (32.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.71%) GDPR
3 5 (2.62%) PMO
4 3 (1.57%) GRC
4 3 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.05%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.52%) QA
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (19.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (19.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.62%) Terraform
3 3 (1.57%) Ansible
3 3 (1.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (22.51%) Microsoft
2 39 (20.42%) Oracle
3 33 (17.28%) Talend
4 32 (16.75%) Denodo
5 17 (8.90%) Databricks
6 12 (6.28%) SAP
7 11 (5.76%) Informatica
8 9 (4.71%) Dynatrace
8 9 (4.71%) Splunk
9 6 (3.14%) Remedy
10 5 (2.62%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.62%) Cisco
10 5 (2.62%) ServiceNow
11 4 (2.09%) Cognos
12 3 (1.57%) TikTok
13 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 2 (1.05%) Autodesk
14 1 (0.52%) Ariba
14 1 (0.52%) Epicor
14 1 (0.52%) Zscaler