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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 28 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 215 99 98
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.23% 6.11% 5.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 6.94% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 63 77
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £374 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £447
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -4.92% -8.31%
75th Percentile £561 £538 £558
90th Percentile £661 £623 £631
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £21.25 £15.63 -
25th Percentile £25.02 £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 £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -7.92%

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 2,965 1,426 1,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.92% 87.97% 81.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,922 895 1,074
10th Percentile £313 £211 £275
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £673 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 102 77
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.41
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.71 £14.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.42 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year +45.13% +23.46% -24.87%
75th Percentile £58.06 £34.71 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -5 66 £464 +53.39% 9
Warwickshire -5 50 £500 +17.65% 8
Birmingham -7 41 £450 -12.20% 40
Coventry -13 20 £473 +11.18% 4
Staffordshire 0 7 £431 -50.71% 11
Worcestershire - 6 £425 - 1
Solihull -17 4 £625 +47.93% 3
Dudley - 4 £400 -
Wolverhampton -1 3 - - 3
Herefordshire -5 2 £500 +25.00% 4
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 (15.81%) SAS
2 19 (8.84%) SharePoint
3 16 (7.44%) Confluence
4 6 (2.79%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (2.79%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (13.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.33%) Navisworks
3 5 (2.33%) Revit
4 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.47%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.79%) Oracle HRMS
2 5 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.40%) Primavera
4 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.47%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.47%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.47%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 138 (64.19%) Power Platform
2 60 (27.91%) Azure
3 24 (11.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 21 (9.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (9.30%) AWS
6 14 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.51%) Snowflake
7 13 (6.05%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.65%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.72%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (3.72%) Serverless
10 7 (3.26%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.79%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (2.79%) GCP
11 6 (2.79%) Matillion
12 5 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.33%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (64.19%) Power BI
2 38 (17.67%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (10.70%) Data Lake
3 23 (10.70%) Pentaho
4 22 (10.23%) Metadata
5 21 (9.77%) Tableau
6 13 (6.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (5.12%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (3.72%) Delta Lake
9 8 (3.72%) Power Query
10 7 (3.26%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (3.26%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.79%) Looker
12 5 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.33%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.33%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.33%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (14.42%) JIRA
2 23 (10.70%) Git
3 21 (9.77%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.72%) GitLab
5 5 (2.33%) MLflow
6 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 55 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (16.74%) Finance
4 24 (11.16%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.72%) Banking
6 7 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.33%) Retail
9 4 (1.86%) Marketing
9 4 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Local Government
11 2 (0.93%) Billing
11 2 (0.93%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.93%) Law
11 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (31.63%) Data Engineer
2 44 (20.47%) Analyst
3 33 (15.35%) Architect
4 28 (13.02%) Data Architect
5 27 (12.56%) Senior
6 19 (8.84%) Data Analyst
6 19 (8.84%) Developer
7 15 (6.98%) Lead
8 14 (6.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (6.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.26%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.79%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 6 (2.79%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (2.79%) Oracle Specialist
11 6 (2.79%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.79%) Support Specialist
12 5 (2.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (2.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.19%) PySpark
2 5 (2.33%) Kafka
2 5 (2.33%) REST
3 2 (0.93%) Pandas
4 1 (0.47%) EJB
4 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.47%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.47%) NumPy
4 1 (0.47%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.47%) pytest
4 1 (0.47%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.47%) Swagger
4 1 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.72%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.86%) Autonomous Agent
3 4 (1.86%) Data Fabric
3 4 (1.86%) IoT
3 4 (1.86%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.86%) SCADA
4 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.40%) Blog
4 3 (1.40%) CMDB
4 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.93%) BYOD
5 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.72%) Unix
2 3 (1.40%) Windows
3 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (52.56%) Analytics
2 83 (38.60%) Data Modelling
3 73 (33.95%) ETL
4 57 (26.51%) Data Pipeline
5 56 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (23.72%) CI/CD
7 49 (22.79%) Agile
7 49 (22.79%) AI
8 46 (21.40%) DevOps
9 44 (20.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (20.00%) Decision-Making
11 40 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (16.74%) Data Engineering
13 35 (16.28%) Scrum
14 34 (15.81%) Data Integration
15 32 (14.88%) Data Analytics
16 31 (14.42%) Data Governance
17 29 (13.49%) Data Virtualisation
17 29 (13.49%) Validation
18 27 (12.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (48.37%) SQL
2 37 (17.21%) Python
3 12 (5.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (5.58%) Java
4 8 (3.72%) PL/SQL
5 7 (3.26%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.79%) Bicep
7 5 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.86%) C#
8 4 (1.86%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.40%) HiveQL
9 3 (1.40%) R
10 1 (0.47%) ABAP
10 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 60 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 50 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.91%) Degree
4 6 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.86%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.86%) PhD
5 4 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.93%) CISSP
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (29.77%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.12%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.12%) GDPR
3 7 (3.26%) PMO
4 5 (2.33%) ISO 19650
5 4 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.40%) GRC
7 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.93%) SLA
8 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 21 (9.77%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) HDFS
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.05%) Terraform
3 7 (3.26%) Grafana
4 3 (1.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 46 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.09%) Databricks
2 26 (12.09%) Oracle
3 23 (10.70%) Denodo
4 19 (8.84%) Talend
5 18 (8.37%) Informatica
5 18 (8.37%) SAP
6 11 (5.12%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.33%) Autodesk
7 5 (2.33%) Remedy
8 4 (1.86%) Cognos
8 4 (1.86%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.40%) Google
10 2 (0.93%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.93%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.93%) Snow
10 2 (0.93%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.93%) Splunk