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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 179 120 121
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 5.20% 6.79% 6.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 7.71% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 80 78
10th Percentile £350 £319 £254
25th Percentile £400 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £444
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +12.74% -9.03%
75th Percentile £554 £540 £525
90th Percentile £662 £638 £630
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 £29.48 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -8.02% +6.83% -7.18%

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 2,923 1,556 1,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.85% 88.06% 81.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,794 990 1,003
10th Percentile £313 £250 £251
25th Percentile £413 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £653 £725
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 103 43
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £12.83
25th Percentile £17.64 £15.56 £15.07
Median hourly rate £30.22 £24.34 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +24.16% +12.74% -21.49%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.30 £36.25
90th Percentile £70.07 £50.00 £54.50
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -26 47 £478 -8.90% 11
Warwickshire -5 43 £600 +41.18% 24
Birmingham 0 36 £440 -16.19% 91
Coventry -17 20 £450 -2.70% 10
Staffordshire -3 7 £450 -48.57% 18
Worcestershire - 5 £425 - 3
Solihull -19 4 £600 +14.29% 10
Wolverhampton - 4 £275 - 3
Dudley - 3 £400 - 2
Herefordshire -2 2 £500 +25.00% 1
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 21 (11.73%) SAS
2 17 (9.50%) SharePoint
3 12 (6.70%) Confluence
4 6 (3.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (3.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 22 (12.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.79%) Navisworks
3 5 (2.79%) Revit
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.56%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Oracle HRMS
2 4 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.68%) Primavera
4 2 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.56%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.56%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.56%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 119 (66.48%) Power Platform
2 55 (30.73%) Azure
3 22 (12.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (10.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (8.94%) AWS
6 15 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (6.15%) Power Automate
8 11 (6.15%) Snowflake
9 9 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (4.47%) PowerApps
10 8 (4.47%) Serverless
11 6 (3.35%) GCP
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.79%) Firewall
2 2 (1.12%) SMTP
3 1 (0.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (66.48%) Power BI
2 30 (16.76%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (13.97%) Data Lake
4 21 (11.73%) Metadata
5 20 (11.17%) Pentaho
6 17 (9.50%) Tableau
7 13 (7.26%) NoSQL
7 13 (7.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (4.47%) Delta Lake
8 8 (4.47%) Power Query
9 6 (3.35%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.79%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (2.79%) Looker
10 5 (2.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (2.79%) Spark SQL
10 5 (2.79%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.23%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (13.41%) JIRA
2 13 (7.26%) Git
3 10 (5.59%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.23%) GitLab
4 4 (2.23%) MLflow
General
1 54 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (16.76%) Finance
4 26 (14.53%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.91%) Banking
5 7 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (3.91%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.79%) Retail
8 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.68%) Marketing
10 2 (1.12%) Billing
10 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.12%) Law
10 2 (1.12%) Local Government
10 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 52 (29.05%) Data Engineer
2 38 (21.23%) Analyst
3 26 (14.53%) Architect
4 23 (12.85%) Senior
5 22 (12.29%) Data Architect
6 14 (7.82%) Data Analyst
6 14 (7.82%) Developer
7 12 (6.70%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Lead
9 8 (4.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (4.47%) Consultant
10 7 (3.91%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Junior
11 6 (3.35%) Oracle Specialist
11 6 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.35%) Support Specialist
12 5 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 5 (2.79%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.70%) Terraform
2 9 (5.03%) REST
3 8 (4.47%) PySpark
4 5 (2.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.79%) SOAP
5 4 (2.23%) Kafka
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.03%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.35%) Autonomous Agent
3 6 (3.35%) Data Fabric
4 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.23%) IoT
5 4 (2.23%) SCADA
6 3 (1.68%) Blog
6 3 (1.68%) CMDB
7 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.12%) BYOD
7 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.56%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.23%) Windows
2 3 (1.68%) Unix
3 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (54.19%) Analytics
2 63 (35.20%) Data Modelling
3 58 (32.40%) ETL
4 49 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (25.70%) AI
5 46 (25.70%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (24.58%) Agile
7 42 (23.46%) CI/CD
7 42 (23.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (22.35%) Decision-Making
8 40 (22.35%) DevOps
9 38 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (17.32%) Data Engineering
11 28 (15.64%) Data Integration
12 25 (13.97%) Data Governance
13 24 (13.41%) Validation
14 22 (12.29%) Data Virtualisation
15 21 (11.73%) Generative AI
16 20 (11.17%) Data Analytics
16 20 (11.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 82 (45.81%) SQL
2 30 (16.76%) Python
3 10 (5.59%) Java
4 9 (5.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (2.79%) Bicep
5 5 (2.79%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.23%) C#
6 4 (2.23%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.23%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.68%) R
7 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.56%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 47 (26.26%) Security Cleared
2 37 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.26%) Degree
4 6 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.68%) PhD
8 2 (1.12%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) ACCA
9 1 (0.56%) CIMA
9 1 (0.56%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (26.26%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.79%) GDPR
3 5 (2.79%) ISO 19650
3 5 (2.79%) PMO
4 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.56%) QA
6 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (7.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.97%) Databricks
3 24 (13.41%) Oracle
4 20 (11.17%) Denodo
5 15 (8.38%) SAP
6 13 (7.26%) Informatica
6 13 (7.26%) Talend
7 8 (4.47%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.79%) Autodesk
9 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.23%) Google
10 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.12%) Remedy
10 2 (1.12%) Snow
10 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.12%) Splunk