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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 28 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 145 116 107
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.74% 6.39% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.62% 7.59% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 67 75
10th Percentile £386 £317 £328
25th Percentile £450 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -5.39%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £622 £688
England median daily rate £491 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.80% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.50 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -51.43% - -
75th Percentile £17.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.66 £30.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year -21.13% -4.49% +3.83%

All Process and 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 1,904 1,528 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.48% 84.14% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 947 1,099
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 51 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.88 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -10.57% +38.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 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
Shropshire -4 58 £532 +10.03% 9
Birmingham -10 38 £500 - 51
Warwickshire -4 23 £425 -15.00% 15
Coventry -11 8 £500 +11.11% 5
Solihull +3 4 £563 +25.84% 3
Staffordshire -9 2 £875 +122.22% 12
Herefordshire -13 2 £400 -34.64% 4
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 7
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 33 (22.76%) SAS
2 14 (9.66%) Apache
2 14 (9.66%) WebLogic
3 9 (6.21%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (2.07%) Confluence
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.69%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.76%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.76%) Photoshop
4 3 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.38%) Oracle HRMS
1 2 (1.38%) Primavera
2 1 (0.69%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.69%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.69%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.69%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.69%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 63 (43.45%) Power Platform
2 41 (28.28%) Azure
3 20 (13.79%) AWS
4 14 (9.66%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (9.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (9.66%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (8.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (6.90%) Power Automate
7 9 (6.21%) PowerApps
8 7 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.14%) SaaS
10 4 (2.76%) Lucidchart
11 2 (1.38%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.38%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.38%) GCP
11 2 (1.38%) iPaaS
11 2 (1.38%) Matillion
11 2 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Firewall
1 1 (0.69%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (42.76%) Power BI
2 30 (20.69%) Pentaho
3 25 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (7.59%) Oracle Database
5 8 (5.52%) Metadata
5 8 (5.52%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 8 (5.52%) Tableau
6 7 (4.83%) Data Mining
7 6 (4.14%) Metadata Repository
8 4 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.07%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (2.07%) Power Query
10 2 (1.38%) BusinessObjects XI
10 2 (1.38%) EDMS
10 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.38%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.38%) QlikView
10 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 43 (29.66%) JIRA
2 32 (22.07%) Git
3 29 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.07%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.69%) MLflow
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
General
1 54 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.48%) Public Sector
3 20 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.41%) Finance
5 12 (8.28%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.14%) Marketing
6 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.45%) Electronics
7 5 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Legal
9 3 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Billing
11 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (12.41%) Architect
2 16 (11.03%) Analyst
2 16 (11.03%) Data Engineer
3 13 (8.97%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (8.28%) Data Architect
5 11 (7.59%) Developer
5 11 (7.59%) Monitoring Engineer
6 8 (5.52%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (4.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (4.83%) Lead
8 6 (4.14%) Azure Architect
8 6 (4.14%) Consultant
8 6 (4.14%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 6 (4.14%) SAS Engineer
9 5 (3.45%) Administrator
9 5 (3.45%) Business Architect
9 5 (3.45%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.45%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.45%) TOGAF Architect
9 5 (3.45%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.83%) REST
2 4 (2.76%) Middleware
3 2 (1.38%) PySpark
3 2 (1.38%) SOAP
3 2 (1.38%) Web Services
4 1 (0.69%) .NET
4 1 (0.69%) NumPy
4 1 (0.69%) ODBC
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.45%) e-Learning
2 4 (2.76%) Graphic Design
2 4 (2.76%) SCADA
3 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.69%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) IoT
5 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.69%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.69%) Social Media
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.03%) Linux
1 16 (11.03%) Unix
2 14 (9.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (52.41%) Analytics
2 59 (40.69%) Data Modelling
3 50 (34.48%) Agile
3 50 (34.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (26.90%) DevOps
6 36 (24.83%) ETL
7 35 (24.14%) CI/CD
7 35 (24.14%) Scrum
8 34 (23.45%) Data Pipeline
8 34 (23.45%) Visualisation
9 32 (22.07%) Data Integration
10 31 (21.38%) Test Automation
11 29 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
12 28 (19.31%) Data Virtualisation
13 27 (18.62%) Business Analytics
13 27 (18.62%) Data Analytics
14 21 (14.48%) Service Management
15 20 (13.79%) Enterprise Architecture
16 19 (13.10%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 74 (51.03%) SQL
2 13 (8.97%) Python
3 8 (5.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.45%) R
5 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.07%) Scala
6 2 (1.38%) Java
6 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.69%) C#
7 1 (0.69%) C++
7 1 (0.69%) VB
7 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 56 (38.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.14%) Degree
4 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.38%) OCP
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.69%) IIBA
5 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.76%) PMO
3 3 (2.07%) GDPR
4 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.69%) GRC
5 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 30 (20.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.38%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (37.24%) Oracle
2 32 (22.07%) Microsoft
3 30 (20.69%) Talend
4 29 (20.00%) Denodo
5 23 (15.86%) Splunk
6 22 (15.17%) Dynatrace
7 18 (12.41%) AppDynamics
8 17 (11.72%) Cisco
9 12 (8.28%) SAP
10 8 (5.52%) Databricks
11 4 (2.76%) Remedy
12 3 (2.07%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.69%) Ab Initio
13 1 (0.69%) Adobe
13 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
13 1 (0.69%) Informatica
13 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft