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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 214 99 94
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.29% 6.15% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 6.93% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 62 73
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £371 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% -10.26%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £550
90th Percentile £635 £624 £626
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 £30.81 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.61% +2.68% +6.53%

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 2,924 1,428 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.97% 88.70% 80.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,901 902 1,081
10th Percentile £313 £209 £270
25th Percentile £406 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £671 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 99 96
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% +16.05% -24.00%
75th Percentile £59.50 £32.82 £37.81
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -2 63 £459 +51.74% 4
Warwickshire -5 51 £500 +17.65% 7
Birmingham -12 40 £450 -14.29% 42
Coventry -15 21 £495 +16.47% 2
Staffordshire +3 7 £431 -50.71% 8
Worcestershire - 6 £425 - 2
Solihull -20 5 £600 +14.29% 3
Dudley - 4 £400 -
Wolverhampton -1 3 - - 1
Herefordshire -5 2 £500 +25.00% 2
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 31 (14.49%) SAS
2 19 (8.88%) SharePoint
3 16 (7.48%) Confluence
4 6 (2.80%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (2.80%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (13.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.34%) Navisworks
3 5 (2.34%) Revit
4 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.47%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Oracle HRMS
1 6 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.47%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.47%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.47%) Primavera
4 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.47%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 137 (64.02%) Power Platform
2 60 (28.04%) Azure
3 25 (11.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 21 (9.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (8.88%) AWS
6 15 (7.01%) Snowflake
7 13 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.07%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (4.67%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (3.74%) Serverless
11 7 (3.27%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.80%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (2.80%) Matillion
13 5 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (2.34%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.34%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (64.02%) Power BI
2 38 (17.76%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (9.81%) Pentaho
3 21 (9.81%) Tableau
4 20 (9.35%) Data Lake
5 19 (8.88%) Metadata
6 13 (6.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (4.21%) Power Query
9 8 (3.74%) Delta Lake
9 8 (3.74%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.27%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (3.27%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.80%) Looker
12 5 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.34%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (2.34%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (14.49%) JIRA
2 23 (10.75%) Git
3 21 (9.81%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.74%) GitLab
5 5 (2.34%) MLflow
6 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 53 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.36%) Finance
3 34 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.74%) Banking
6 6 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.34%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.34%) Retail
8 4 (1.87%) Marketing
8 4 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Billing
9 3 (1.40%) Local Government
10 2 (0.93%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Law
10 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 69 (32.24%) Data Engineer
2 44 (20.56%) Analyst
3 31 (14.49%) Architect
4 26 (12.15%) Senior
5 25 (11.68%) Data Architect
6 20 (9.35%) Data Analyst
7 19 (8.88%) Developer
8 15 (7.01%) Lead
9 14 (6.54%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.27%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 6 (2.80%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 6 (2.80%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (2.80%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (2.80%) Power BI Developer
12 6 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.80%) Support Specialist
13 5 (2.34%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.21%) PySpark
2 5 (2.34%) Kafka
3 4 (1.87%) REST
4 2 (0.93%) Pandas
5 1 (0.47%) EJB
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 (7.01%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.87%) Data Fabric
3 4 (1.87%) IoT
3 4 (1.87%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.87%) SCADA
4 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.40%) Blog
4 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.93%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (0.93%) BYOD
5 2 (0.93%) CMDB
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%) Life Science
6 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.74%) 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
1 112 (52.34%) Analytics
2 84 (39.25%) Data Modelling
3 72 (33.64%) ETL
4 55 (25.70%) Data Pipeline
4 55 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (21.96%) CI/CD
6 46 (21.50%) Agile
6 46 (21.50%) AI
7 43 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (20.09%) Decision-Making
8 42 (19.63%) DevOps
9 41 (19.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (17.29%) Data Engineering
11 35 (16.36%) Scrum
12 33 (15.42%) Data Integration
13 32 (14.95%) Data Analytics
14 31 (14.49%) Validation
15 30 (14.02%) Data Governance
16 26 (12.15%) Data Virtualisation
17 25 (11.68%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 107 (50.00%) SQL
2 37 (17.29%) Python
3 12 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (4.21%) Java
5 8 (3.74%) PL/SQL
5 8 (3.74%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.80%) Bicep
7 5 (2.34%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.87%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.40%) C#
9 3 (1.40%) HiveQL
10 2 (0.93%) R
11 1 (0.47%) ABAP
11 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 58 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.48%) Degree
4 6 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.87%) PhD
6 4 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.93%) CISSP
9 1 (0.47%) ACCA
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.47%) CIMA
9 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (29.91%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.14%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.14%) GDPR
3 7 (3.27%) PMO
4 5 (2.34%) ISO 19650
5 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.93%) GRC
7 2 (0.93%) SLA
8 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 21 (9.81%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) HDFS
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.07%) Terraform
3 7 (3.27%) Grafana
4 3 (1.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (21.96%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.62%) Oracle
3 26 (12.15%) Databricks
4 21 (9.81%) Denodo
5 20 (9.35%) SAP
6 19 (8.88%) Talend
7 18 (8.41%) Informatica
8 10 (4.67%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.34%) Autodesk
9 5 (2.34%) Remedy
10 4 (1.87%) Cognos
10 4 (1.87%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.40%) Google
12 2 (0.93%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.93%) Snow
12 2 (0.93%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.93%) Splunk