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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +15
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 188 126 131
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 5.35% 6.91% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% 7.82% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 87 81
10th Percentile £325 £338 £255
25th Percentile £400 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £571 £540 £550
90th Percentile £656 £630 £626
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 £29.96 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.52% +5.79% -6.27%

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 2,987 1,611 1,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.00% 88.32% 81.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,836 1,039 1,011
10th Percentile £313 £235 £250
25th Percentile £413 £396 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
75th Percentile £577 £588 £625
90th Percentile £674 £663 £725
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 103 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.14
25th Percentile £17.64 £16.07 £15.13
Median hourly rate £29.91 £24.34 £22.05
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% +10.41% -19.84%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.30 £35.63
90th Percentile £68.92 £50.00 £55.03
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -24 53 £478 -8.90% 9
Warwickshire -5 45 £600 +41.18% 23
Birmingham 0 36 £400 -23.81% 86
Coventry -16 17 £450 -6.25% 8
Staffordshire -4 10 £450 -48.57% 14
Solihull -19 5 £533 +1.43% 10
Worcestershire - 5 £425 - 3
Wolverhampton - 4 £275 - 3
Dudley - 3 £400 - 2
Herefordshire -1 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 22 (11.70%) SAS
2 17 (9.04%) SharePoint
3 14 (7.45%) Confluence
4 6 (3.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (3.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 27 (14.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.66%) Navisworks
3 5 (2.66%) Revit
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.53%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.53%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 7 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.19%) Oracle HRMS
3 4 (2.13%) ResourceLink
4 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.60%) Primavera
5 2 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.53%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.53%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.53%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 122 (64.89%) Power Platform
2 52 (27.66%) Azure
3 20 (10.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (8.51%) AWS
4 16 (8.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.38%) Power Automate
7 11 (5.85%) Snowflake
8 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (4.26%) GCP
9 8 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.26%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.19%) Serverless
11 5 (2.66%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.66%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.66%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.66%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (64.89%) Power BI
2 31 (16.49%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (13.83%) Data Lake
4 22 (11.70%) Metadata
5 21 (11.17%) Pentaho
6 17 (9.04%) Tableau
7 13 (6.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (6.38%) NoSQL
9 11 (5.85%) Power Query
10 8 (4.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (3.19%) Delta Lake
11 6 (3.19%) Looker
12 5 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.66%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (2.66%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (15.43%) JIRA
2 13 (6.91%) Git
3 10 (5.32%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.13%) GitLab
5 3 (1.60%) MLflow
General
1 57 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (18.09%) Finance
4 28 (14.89%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.72%) Banking
6 7 (3.72%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.66%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.66%) Retail
9 4 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.13%) Legal
9 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Marketing
11 2 (1.06%) Billing
11 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.06%) Law
11 2 (1.06%) Local Government
12 1 (0.53%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 52 (27.66%) Data Engineer
2 43 (22.87%) Analyst
3 25 (13.30%) Architect
4 22 (11.70%) Senior
5 21 (11.17%) Data Architect
6 15 (7.98%) Developer
7 13 (6.91%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.38%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) Lead
10 8 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (4.26%) Consultant
11 7 (3.72%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Junior
12 6 (3.19%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (3.19%) Performance Analyst
12 6 (3.19%) Support Specialist
13 5 (2.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 5 (2.66%) Power BI Analyst
13 5 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.38%) REST
2 10 (5.32%) Terraform
3 8 (4.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (4.26%) PySpark
3 8 (4.26%) SOAP
4 2 (1.06%) Kafka
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.85%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.72%) Autonomous Agent
4 6 (3.19%) Data Fabric
5 5 (2.66%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.66%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.60%) Blog
7 3 (1.60%) CMDB
7 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.06%) BYOD
8 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.06%) IoT
8 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.06%) SCADA
8 2 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.19%) Windows
2 3 (1.60%) Unix
3 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (52.13%) Analytics
2 63 (33.51%) Data Modelling
3 60 (31.91%) ETL
4 53 (28.19%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 46 (24.47%) AI
7 45 (23.94%) Data Pipeline
8 44 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (22.87%) Agile
9 43 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (21.28%) CI/CD
11 39 (20.74%) DevOps
12 30 (15.96%) Data Engineering
13 28 (14.89%) Validation
14 27 (14.36%) Data Integration
15 25 (13.30%) Migration
16 24 (12.77%) Data Governance
17 23 (12.23%) Data Virtualisation
17 23 (12.23%) Generative AI
18 22 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 84 (44.68%) SQL
2 30 (15.96%) Python
3 11 (5.85%) Java
4 9 (4.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (3.72%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.13%) C#
6 4 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.13%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.60%) Bicep
7 3 (1.60%) R
7 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.53%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 50 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 41 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.38%) Degree
4 6 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.06%) CISSP
7 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.06%) PhD
8 1 (0.53%) ACCA
8 1 (0.53%) CIMA
8 1 (0.53%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (27.13%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.19%) ISO 19650
4 5 (2.66%) PMO
5 3 (1.60%) GDPR
5 3 (1.60%) GRC
5 3 (1.60%) QA
6 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.13%) Grafana
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.30%) Oracle
3 22 (11.70%) Databricks
4 21 (11.17%) Denodo
5 16 (8.51%) SAP
6 13 (6.91%) Talend
7 11 (5.85%) Informatica
8 8 (4.26%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.19%) Autodesk
9 6 (3.19%) Google
10 4 (2.13%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.13%) Splunk
11 2 (1.06%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.06%) Remedy
11 2 (1.06%) Snow
11 2 (1.06%) SolarWinds