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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 182 131 135
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 5.14% 7.15% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 8.06% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 91 83
10th Percentile £335 £350 £255
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £550
90th Percentile £661 £625 £623
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.04
25th Percentile £21.25 - £34.20
Median hourly rate £27.30 - £34.47
75th Percentile £53.75 - £34.73
90th Percentile - - £34.89
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -10.87%

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 3,007 1,625 1,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.92% 88.70% 81.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,839 1,039 1,005
10th Percentile £313 £249 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £672 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 106 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.17 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -6.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £68.49 £50.00 £55.65
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the West Midlands

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 19 September 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 -22 54 £488 -7.14% 6
Warwickshire -4 44 £600 +41.18% 27
Birmingham -8 33 £400 -23.81% 123
Coventry -20 15 £450 -6.25% 11
Staffordshire -3 10 £450 -48.57% 17
Solihull -18 5 £533 +9.57% 19
Worcestershire - 5 £425 - 10
Wolverhampton - 4 £275 - 4
Dudley - 3 £400 - 2
Herefordshire 0 2 £500 +25.00% 2
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 23 (12.64%) SAS
2 16 (8.79%) SharePoint
3 14 (7.69%) Confluence
4 4 (2.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 4 (2.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (13.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.75%) Navisworks
3 5 (2.75%) Revit
4 3 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.55%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 7 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.20%) Oracle HRMS
2 4 (2.20%) ResourceLink
3 3 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.65%) Primavera
4 2 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.55%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.55%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.55%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 119 (65.38%) Power Platform
2 49 (26.92%) Azure
3 19 (10.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (8.79%) AWS
5 14 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.59%) Power Automate
7 10 (5.49%) Snowflake
8 8 (4.40%) PowerApps
9 7 (3.85%) GCP
9 7 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.75%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.75%) Google Analytics
11 5 (2.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (65.38%) Power BI
2 31 (17.03%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (14.84%) Data Lake
4 23 (12.64%) Metadata
5 22 (12.09%) Pentaho
6 17 (9.34%) Tableau
7 13 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (6.59%) NoSQL
9 10 (5.49%) Power Query
10 8 (4.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (3.30%) Looker
12 5 (2.75%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (2.75%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.75%) DynamoDB
12 5 (2.75%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.75%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 29 (15.93%) JIRA
2 13 (7.14%) Git
3 10 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.20%) GitLab
5 2 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 55 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.63%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (18.68%) Finance
4 28 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.85%) Banking
6 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.75%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.75%) Legal
8 5 (2.75%) Retail
9 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Marketing
11 2 (1.10%) Billing
11 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.10%) Law
12 1 (0.55%) Automotive
12 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (28.02%) Data Engineer
2 40 (21.98%) Analyst
3 25 (13.74%) Architect
4 21 (11.54%) Data Architect
4 21 (11.54%) Senior
5 15 (8.24%) Developer
6 12 (6.59%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (6.04%) Data Analyst
8 10 (5.49%) Lead
9 8 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (4.40%) Consultant
10 6 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.30%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.30%) Junior
10 6 (3.30%) Performance Analyst
11 5 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 5 (2.75%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (2.75%) Power BI Analyst
12 4 (2.20%) AWS Data Engineer
12 4 (2.20%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.59%) REST
2 9 (4.95%) Terraform
3 8 (4.40%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (4.40%) PySpark
3 8 (4.40%) SOAP
4 1 (0.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.04%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.40%) Autonomous Agent
4 6 (3.30%) Data Fabric
5 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.75%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.65%) Blog
7 3 (1.65%) CMDB
7 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.10%) BYOD
8 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.55%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.55%) Life Science
9 1 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.30%) Windows
2 3 (1.65%) Unix
3 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (53.85%) Analytics
2 63 (34.62%) Data Modelling
3 60 (32.97%) ETL
4 50 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (25.82%) Decision-Making
6 45 (24.73%) AI
6 45 (24.73%) Data Pipeline
7 44 (24.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (23.63%) Agile
8 43 (23.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (21.43%) CI/CD
9 39 (21.43%) DevOps
10 30 (16.48%) Data Engineering
11 28 (15.38%) Validation
12 27 (14.84%) Data Integration
13 26 (14.29%) Migration
14 24 (13.19%) Data Virtualisation
15 23 (12.64%) Generative AI
16 22 (12.09%) Data Analysis
16 22 (12.09%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 80 (43.96%) SQL
2 28 (15.38%) Python
3 12 (6.59%) Java
4 9 (4.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.20%) C#
6 4 (2.20%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.65%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.65%) R
7 3 (1.65%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.10%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 50 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.04%) Degree
4 6 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.10%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) ACCA
8 1 (0.55%) CIMA
8 1 (0.55%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (28.02%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.30%) ISO 19650
4 5 (2.75%) PMO
5 3 (1.65%) GRC
5 3 (1.65%) QA
6 2 (1.10%) GDPR
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (6.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.09%) Denodo
2 22 (12.09%) Oracle
3 20 (10.99%) Databricks
4 15 (8.24%) SAP
5 13 (7.14%) Talend
6 10 (5.49%) Informatica
7 8 (4.40%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.30%) Autodesk
8 6 (3.30%) Google
9 4 (2.20%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.20%) Splunk
10 2 (1.10%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.10%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.10%) Remedy
10 2 (1.10%) Snow
10 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds