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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 25 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 146 108 109
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.40% 6.83% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 7.87% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 62 76
10th Percentile £399 £322 £350
25th Percentile £456 £394 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £477 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -9.14% +2.44%
75th Percentile £552 £567 £650
90th Percentile £626 £638 £688
England median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -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 £23.75 £28.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -15.18% -13.37% +18.61%

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 1,956 1,372 1,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.71% 86.78% 85.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 850 1,001
10th Percentile £263 £225 £275
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 47 60
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.51 £17.74
Median hourly rate £20.50 £21.59 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -23.58% +63.13%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.38 £52.19
90th Percentile £35.68 £52.50 £68.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £43.84
% change year-on-year -27.63% -20.73% +25.25%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -1 64 £525 +10.06% 6
Birmingham -18 35 £500 - 38
Warwickshire -8 18 £450 -14.29% 9
Coventry -11 8 £500 +11.11% 3
Staffordshire 0 6 £550 +51.72% 4
Solihull - 2 £536 - 4
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 10
Herefordshire -20 1 £400 -34.64% 4
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 35 (23.97%) SAS
2 14 (9.59%) Apache
2 14 (9.59%) WebLogic
3 9 (6.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.05%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.11%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.42%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (3.42%) Photoshop
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.37%) Primavera
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.68%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.68%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 67 (45.89%) Power Platform
2 45 (30.82%) Azure
3 20 (13.70%) AWS
4 17 (11.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (10.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (9.59%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (9.59%) Power Automate
7 13 (8.90%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (7.53%) PowerApps
9 7 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.11%) SaaS
11 5 (3.42%) Lucidchart
12 3 (2.05%) Copilot Studio
13 2 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (1.37%) iPaaS
13 2 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (0.68%) Azure Stack
14 1 (0.68%) Figma
14 1 (0.68%) GCP
14 1 (0.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Firewall
1 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (45.21%) Power BI
2 31 (21.23%) Pentaho
3 26 (17.81%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.85%) Oracle Database
5 9 (6.16%) Metadata
5 9 (6.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 9 (6.16%) Tableau
6 8 (5.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (4.79%) Data Mining
8 6 (4.11%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.74%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (2.74%) Power Query
11 3 (2.05%) BusinessObjects XI
12 2 (1.37%) EDMS
12 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.68%) GIS
13 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (30.14%) JIRA
2 35 (23.97%) Git
3 30 (20.55%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.74%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.68%) MLflow
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
General
1 55 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.96%) Finance
3 16 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.85%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.74%) Legal
5 4 (2.74%) Marketing
6 3 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.05%) Retail
7 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.68%) Automotive
8 1 (0.68%) Billing
8 1 (0.68%) Electronics
8 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (12.33%) Architect
2 17 (11.64%) Data Engineer
3 16 (10.96%) Analyst
4 15 (10.27%) Developer
5 13 (8.90%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Data Architect
7 11 (7.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 11 (7.53%) Monitoring Engineer
8 10 (6.85%) Lead
9 8 (5.48%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (4.79%) Business Developer
10 7 (4.79%) SAS Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Senior
11 6 (4.11%) Azure Architect
11 6 (4.11%) Consultant
11 6 (4.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 5 (3.42%) Business Architect
12 5 (3.42%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.42%) Data Scientist
12 5 (3.42%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.79%) REST
2 4 (2.74%) Middleware
3 2 (1.37%) EJB
3 2 (1.37%) PySpark
3 2 (1.37%) SOAP
3 2 (1.37%) Web Services
4 1 (0.68%) .NET
4 1 (0.68%) NumPy
4 1 (0.68%) ODBC
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.11%) e-Learning
3 5 (3.42%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.42%) Graphic Design
3 5 (3.42%) SCADA
4 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.37%) FMCG
5 2 (1.37%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) IoT
6 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.68%) NHS
6 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.59%) Linux
1 14 (9.59%) Unix
1 14 (9.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (53.42%) Analytics
2 66 (45.21%) Data Modelling
3 55 (37.67%) Agile
4 51 (34.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (30.14%) ETL
6 41 (28.08%) DevOps
7 40 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (26.03%) CI/CD
9 37 (25.34%) Scrum
10 36 (24.66%) Data Integration
10 36 (24.66%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (23.29%) Visualisation
12 30 (20.55%) Deployment Automation
12 30 (20.55%) Test Automation
13 29 (19.86%) Data Virtualisation
14 28 (19.18%) Business Analytics
14 28 (19.18%) Data Analytics
15 22 (15.07%) Decision-Making
16 21 (14.38%) Data Governance
17 20 (13.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (47.26%) SQL
2 14 (9.59%) Python
3 7 (4.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.11%) R
5 3 (2.05%) Scala
6 2 (1.37%) Java
6 2 (1.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) C++
7 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.68%) VB
7 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (40.41%) Security Cleared
2 55 (37.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.48%) Degree
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.68%) IIBA
5 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.66%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.74%) PMO
3 3 (2.05%) GDPR
4 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) GRC
5 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 31 (21.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (21.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (34.25%) Oracle
2 34 (23.29%) Microsoft
3 31 (21.23%) Talend
4 30 (20.55%) Denodo
5 23 (15.75%) Splunk
6 22 (15.07%) Dynatrace
7 18 (12.33%) AppDynamics
8 17 (11.64%) Cisco
9 12 (8.22%) Databricks
10 7 (4.79%) SAP
11 4 (2.74%) Remedy
12 2 (1.37%) Informatica
12 2 (1.37%) TikTok
13 1 (0.68%) Ab Initio
13 1 (0.68%) Adobe
13 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.68%) Autodesk
13 1 (0.68%) Epicor
13 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft