Business Intelligence Contracts in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 95 93 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.14% 4.51% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 5.56% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 76 85
10th Percentile £300 £306 £300
25th Percentile £388 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £434 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -11.03% -7.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £654
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £15.63 - £24.06
25th Percentile £16.15 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £17.59 £33.93 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -48.17% +37.79% -
75th Percentile £18.45 - £25.41
90th Percentile £18.62 - £25.69
England median hourly rate £30.81 £24.43 £25.25
% change year-on-year +26.09% -3.25% +12.22%

All Process and 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 1,372 1,672 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.01% 87.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,116 1,371
10th Percentile £206 £273 £263
25th Percentile £363 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.20%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £608
90th Percentile £673 £725 £713
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 111 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.06 £15.38
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.95 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -20.20% +47.06%
75th Percentile £33.88 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.92
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.50% +55.43%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the West Midlands

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 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 7 July 2025. 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
Warwickshire +6 35 £425 - 30
Birmingham +6 27 £525 +19.66% 66
Coventry +4 10 £425 -29.17% 14
Solihull +7 6 £525 +17.45% 6
Shropshire +2 4 £303 -40.69% 5
Herefordshire - 3 £400 - 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £348 - 2
Staffordshire -9 1 - - 37
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.53%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 10 (10.53%) Oracle Workflow
1 10 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 23 (24.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.05%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (3.16%) SAP PM
3 2 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.05%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.05%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 66 (69.47%) Power Platform
2 20 (21.05%) Azure
3 9 (9.47%) PowerApps
4 7 (7.37%) AWS
4 7 (7.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (7.37%) Power Automate
5 6 (6.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (6.32%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.26%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (4.21%) GitHub
7 4 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.16%) Collibra
8 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.16%) SaaS
8 3 (3.16%) Serverless
9 2 (2.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (69.47%) Power BI
2 19 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (7.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.37%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.32%) Oracle Database
4 6 (6.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (6.32%) Tableau
5 4 (4.21%) Delta Lake
5 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.16%) GIS
6 3 (3.16%) Metadata
6 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.11%) Big Data
7 2 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.11%) DB2
7 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.11%) QlikView
7 2 (2.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (46.32%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.47%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.95%) Finance
4 13 (13.68%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.21%) Electronics
6 4 (4.21%) Law
6 4 (4.21%) Marketing
6 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.16%) Local Government
7 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Games
9 1 (1.05%) Legal
9 1 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (17.89%) Analyst
2 12 (12.63%) Developer
2 12 (12.63%) Lead
3 10 (10.53%) Architect
3 10 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 9 (9.47%) Data Architect
4 9 (9.47%) Oracle Specialist
5 8 (8.42%) Project Manager
6 7 (7.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (7.37%) Power BI Developer
6 7 (7.37%) Senior
7 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Administrator
9 4 (4.21%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 4 (4.21%) Consultant
9 4 (4.21%) Lead Data Analyst
9 4 (4.21%) Report Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 3 (3.16%) Customer Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.26%) Kafka
2 2 (2.11%) .NET
2 2 (2.11%) LDAP
2 2 (2.11%) React
3 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.05%) ADO
3 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.05%) CSS
3 1 (1.05%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.05%) HTML
3 1 (1.05%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.05%) REST
3 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.32%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.26%) IoT
2 5 (5.26%) SCADA
3 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.11%) Pricing Data
5 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.26%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Windows
3 2 (2.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (23.16%) Data Modelling
3 21 (22.11%) Analytics
4 18 (18.95%) Migration
5 17 (17.89%) Workflow
6 15 (15.79%) Agile
6 15 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 15 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (14.74%) Data Analysis
8 12 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (12.63%) Visualisation
9 11 (11.58%) Data Governance
9 11 (11.58%) ITIL
10 10 (10.53%) Data Management
11 9 (9.47%) DevOps
11 9 (9.47%) ETL
12 8 (8.42%) Data Architecture
13 7 (7.37%) Data Integration
13 7 (7.37%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (7.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (50.53%) SQL
2 13 (13.68%) Python
3 6 (6.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.21%) Bicep
4 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.16%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (3.16%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.16%) R
6 2 (2.11%) C#
6 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.05%) VB
7 1 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) OCP
6 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.05%) CITP
6 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.63%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.37%) GDPR
2 7 (7.37%) SLA
3 5 (5.26%) PMO
4 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.05%) P3O
5 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (4.21%) Terraform
2 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.11%) Data Guard
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (22.11%) Microsoft
1 21 (22.11%) Oracle
2 12 (12.63%) SAP
3 8 (8.42%) Databricks
4 4 (4.21%) Cognos
4 4 (4.21%) Informatica
5 3 (3.16%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.11%) IBM
6 2 (2.11%) OpenText
6 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.05%) Google
7 1 (1.05%) QAD
7 1 (1.05%) Remedy
7 1 (1.05%) Splunk