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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 212 95 90
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.30% 6.32% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 7.12% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 60 73
10th Percentile £329 £300 £303
25th Percentile £402 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -2.86% -10.26%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £550
90th Percentile £634 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £25.33 £15.63 -
25th Percentile £27.30 £16.15 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £17.59 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +198.51% -48.17% +37.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £18.45 -
90th Percentile - £18.62 -
England median hourly rate £29.98 £30.81 £24.00
% change year-on-year -2.68% +28.35% -4.00%

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 2,880 1,334 1,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.61% 88.76% 81.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,890 844 1,112
10th Percentile £313 £203 £263
25th Percentile £405 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £674 £731
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 87 114
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.15
25th Percentile £20.31 £14.14 £14.16
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £21.23
Median % change year-on-year +39.65% +14.68% -15.10%
75th Percentile £59.63 £34.43 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 0 67 £469 +55.04% 15
Warwickshire -4 51 £500 +17.65% 11
Birmingham -16 37 £450 -14.29% 34
Coventry -10 20 £495 +16.47% 6
Staffordshire +4 7 £431 - 7
Worcestershire - 6 £425 - 2
Solihull -14 5 £600 +14.29% 3
Dudley - 4 £400 - 2
Wolverhampton -2 3 - - 1
Herefordshire -6 2 £500 +25.00% 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 34 (16.04%) SAS
2 19 (8.96%) SharePoint
3 16 (7.55%) Confluence
4 6 (2.83%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (2.83%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (13.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.89%) Navisworks
3 4 (1.89%) Revit
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Oracle HRMS
1 6 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.47%) Primavera
4 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.47%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 134 (63.21%) Power Platform
2 57 (26.89%) Azure
3 22 (10.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 20 (9.43%) AWS
5 17 (8.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (7.08%) Snowflake
7 10 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (4.72%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (3.77%) Serverless
10 7 (3.30%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.83%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (2.83%) Matillion
12 5 (2.36%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (2.36%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.94%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (63.21%) Power BI
2 34 (16.04%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (11.32%) Pentaho
4 21 (9.91%) Tableau
5 20 (9.43%) Data Lake
6 19 (8.96%) Metadata
7 10 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (4.25%) Power Query
8 9 (4.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (3.77%) Delta Lake
9 8 (3.77%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.30%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (3.30%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.36%) Looker
12 5 (2.36%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (2.36%) Spark SQL
13 4 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (14.62%) JIRA
2 26 (12.26%) Git
3 24 (11.32%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.77%) GitLab
5 5 (2.36%) MLflow
6 3 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 51 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.98%) Finance
3 35 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.77%) Banking
6 6 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.83%) Retail
7 5 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.36%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.36%) Marketing
8 4 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Billing
9 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.94%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Law
10 2 (0.94%) Local Government
10 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (32.08%) Data Engineer
2 43 (20.28%) Analyst
3 31 (14.62%) Architect
4 26 (12.26%) Senior
5 25 (11.79%) Data Architect
6 20 (9.43%) Data Analyst
7 19 (8.96%) Developer
8 15 (7.08%) Lead
9 13 (6.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 13 (6.13%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.30%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 6 (2.83%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 6 (2.83%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (2.83%) Oracle Specialist
11 6 (2.83%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.83%) Support Specialist
12 5 (2.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.25%) PySpark
2 5 (2.36%) Kafka
3 4 (1.89%) REST
4 2 (0.94%) EJB
4 2 (0.94%) Pandas
5 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.47%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.47%) NumPy
5 1 (0.47%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.47%) pytest
5 1 (0.47%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.47%) Swagger
5 1 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.89%) Data Fabric
3 4 (1.89%) IoT
3 4 (1.89%) SCADA
4 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.42%) Blog
4 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (0.94%) BYOD
5 2 (0.94%) CMDB
5 2 (0.94%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.94%) FMCG
5 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.47%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.77%) Unix
2 3 (1.42%) Windows
3 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.94%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (53.77%) Analytics
2 84 (39.62%) Data Modelling
3 71 (33.49%) ETL
4 58 (27.36%) Data Pipeline
5 57 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (23.11%) CI/CD
7 47 (22.17%) Agile
7 47 (22.17%) AI
8 45 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (21.23%) Decision-Making
9 41 (19.34%) DevOps
10 40 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (17.45%) Scrum
12 36 (16.98%) Data Engineering
12 36 (16.98%) Data Integration
13 35 (16.51%) Data Analytics
14 30 (14.15%) Data Governance
14 30 (14.15%) Validation
15 29 (13.68%) Data Virtualisation
16 27 (12.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (50.00%) SQL
2 38 (17.92%) Python
3 12 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (4.25%) Java
5 8 (3.77%) PL/SQL
5 8 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.83%) Bicep
7 5 (2.36%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.42%) C#
8 3 (1.42%) HiveQL
9 2 (0.94%) R
10 1 (0.47%) ABAP
10 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 51 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.49%) Degree
4 5 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.89%) PhD
5 4 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.94%) CISSP
8 1 (0.47%) ACCA
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CIMA
8 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (32.08%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.19%) GDPR
3 7 (3.30%) PMO
4 4 (1.89%) ISO 19650
4 4 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.94%) GRC
6 2 (0.94%) SLA
7 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 24 (11.32%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) HDFS
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.13%) Terraform
3 7 (3.30%) Grafana
4 3 (1.42%) Ansible
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.74%) Oracle
3 26 (12.26%) Databricks
4 24 (11.32%) Denodo
5 22 (10.38%) Talend
6 20 (9.43%) SAP
7 18 (8.49%) Informatica
8 10 (4.72%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.36%) Remedy
10 4 (1.89%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.89%) Cognos
10 4 (1.89%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.94%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.94%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.94%) Google
11 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.94%) Snow
11 2 (0.94%) TikTok