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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 137 101 110
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 5.47% 6.72% 5.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 7.57% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 58 77
10th Percentile £363 £318 £358
25th Percentile £450 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £476 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -9.33% -
75th Percentile £559 £567 £663
90th Percentile £600 £638 £699
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.40% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.50 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -51.43% - -
75th Percentile £17.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.50 £28.00 £28.37
% change year-on-year -16.07% -1.30% +9.92%

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 2,130 1,334 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.10% 88.81% 83.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,383 831 1,052
10th Percentile £277 £210 £263
25th Percentile £402 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 49 108
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.66 £12.70
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.22 £17.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £21.59 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -9.29% +34.46%
75th Percentile £26.91 £33.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 7 February 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
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 February 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 55 £533 +11.64% 5
Birmingham -23 35 £500 - 52
Warwickshire -16 16 £488 -15.22% 17
Coventry -10 9 £513 +13.89% 3
Staffordshire -1 6 £400 +10.34% 9
Solihull 0 3 £510 -11.30%
Wolverhampton +1 2 - - 2
Herefordshire - 1 £400 - 3
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 32 (23.36%) SAS
2 5 (3.65%) Apache
2 5 (3.65%) WebLogic
3 4 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.73%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.46%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.46%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.46%) Primavera
1 2 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.73%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.73%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.73%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 66 (48.18%) Power Platform
2 36 (26.28%) Azure
3 15 (10.95%) AWS
3 15 (10.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (10.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (10.22%) Power Automate
5 12 (8.76%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (8.03%) PowerApps
7 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (3.65%) SaaS
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.19%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (2.19%) dbt
10 2 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.46%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.46%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.46%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.73%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.73%) Firewall
1 1 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (47.45%) Power BI
2 32 (23.36%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (17.52%) Pentaho
4 14 (10.22%) Metadata
5 11 (8.03%) Oracle Database
6 10 (7.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 9 (6.57%) Metadata Repository
8 7 (5.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (5.11%) Tableau
9 6 (4.38%) Data Mining
10 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.92%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (2.92%) Power Query
11 4 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.19%) BusinessObjects XI
13 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.46%) EDMS
13 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (20.44%) Git
2 27 (19.71%) JIRA
3 23 (16.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.92%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.73%) MLflow
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
General
1 47 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.14%) Finance
4 14 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.11%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.65%) Marketing
7 3 (2.19%) Retail
8 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Legal
8 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.73%) Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Billing
9 1 (0.73%) Electronics
9 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (16.06%) Architect
2 19 (13.87%) Analyst
3 18 (13.14%) Data Engineer
4 16 (11.68%) Data Architect
4 16 (11.68%) Developer
5 11 (8.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 11 (8.03%) Lead
6 9 (6.57%) Senior
7 8 (5.84%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.84%) Monitoring Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) SAS Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Business Developer
8 7 (5.11%) Enterprise Architect
9 6 (4.38%) Consultant
10 5 (3.65%) Azure Architect
10 5 (3.65%) Data Scientist
10 5 (3.65%) Denodo Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 5 (3.65%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.38%) REST
2 4 (2.92%) Middleware
3 3 (2.19%) EJB
4 2 (1.46%) PySpark
4 2 (1.46%) SOAP
4 2 (1.46%) Web Services
5 1 (0.73%) .NET
5 1 (0.73%) ODBC
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.38%) Data Structures
1 6 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.65%) SCADA
3 4 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.19%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.19%) FMCG
4 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.46%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.46%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.46%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.73%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) IoT
6 1 (0.73%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.73%) Social Media
6 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.65%) Linux
1 5 (3.65%) Unix
1 5 (3.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (49.64%) Data Modelling
2 65 (47.45%) Analytics
3 42 (30.66%) Agile
4 41 (29.93%) ETL
5 38 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (27.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (24.09%) Scrum
8 31 (22.63%) CI/CD
8 31 (22.63%) DevOps
9 30 (21.90%) Data Integration
9 30 (21.90%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (21.17%) Decision-Making
11 26 (18.98%) Data Governance
12 24 (17.52%) Visualisation
13 23 (16.79%) Deployment Automation
13 23 (16.79%) Test Automation
14 22 (16.06%) Business Analytics
14 22 (16.06%) Data Virtualisation
15 19 (13.87%) Data Analytics
16 18 (13.14%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.34%) SQL
2 13 (9.49%) Python
3 7 (5.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.65%) R
5 3 (2.19%) Scala
6 2 (1.46%) Java
6 2 (1.46%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.73%) C#
7 1 (0.73%) C++
7 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (34.31%) Security Cleared
2 45 (32.85%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.03%) Degree
4 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.73%) ACCA
5 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.73%) CIMA
5 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (25.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.92%) PMO
3 3 (2.19%) GDPR
4 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.73%) GRC
4 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.73%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.73%) QA
4 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (17.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (17.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (24.09%) Oracle
2 31 (22.63%) Microsoft
3 24 (17.52%) Talend
4 23 (16.79%) Denodo
5 14 (10.22%) Splunk
6 13 (9.49%) Dynatrace
7 11 (8.03%) Databricks
8 9 (6.57%) AppDynamics
8 9 (6.57%) SAP
9 8 (5.84%) Cisco
10 6 (4.38%) Remedy
11 3 (2.19%) Cognos
11 3 (2.19%) TikTok
12 2 (1.46%) Informatica
13 1 (0.73%) Ab Initio
13 1 (0.73%) Ariba
13 1 (0.73%) Autodesk
13 1 (0.73%) Epicor
13 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft