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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 196 88 92
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.12% 6.21% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.27% 7.00% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 53 75
10th Percentile £339 £315 £285
25th Percentile £414 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -12.82%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £569
90th Percentile £636 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £26.46 £15.63 -
25th Percentile £45.26 £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 £28.78 £29.07 £25.34
% change year-on-year -1.01% +14.74% +1.34%

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 2,696 1,257 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.20% 88.77% 82.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 808 1,067
10th Percentile £313 £200 £263
25th Percentile £404 £375 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -3.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £625
90th Percentile £675 £664 £743
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 64 116
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.49 £14.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% +3.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £31.19 £40.81
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -4 63 £492 +40.57% 4
Warwickshire -4 48 £500 - 16
Birmingham -16 34 £450 -14.29% 38
Coventry -10 15 £500 +25.00% 9
Staffordshire +4 9 £431 - 10
Worcestershire - 6 £425 - 5
Solihull -14 4 £580 +81.25%
Dudley - 4 £400 - 2
Wolverhampton -2 3 - - 2
Herefordshire -7 2 £500 +25.00% 2
Brierley Hill - 1 £390 - 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 36 (18.37%) SAS
2 19 (9.69%) SharePoint
3 15 (7.65%) Confluence
4 6 (3.06%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (3.06%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 24 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.04%) Navisworks
3 4 (2.04%) Revit
4 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.51%) Primavera
4 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 123 (62.76%) Power Platform
2 44 (22.45%) Azure
3 18 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 16 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (7.65%) Snowflake
6 14 (7.14%) AWS
7 8 (4.08%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.06%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (3.06%) Matillion
9 6 (3.06%) Serverless
10 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.55%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.02%) SMTP
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (62.76%) Power BI
2 34 (17.35%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (12.76%) Pentaho
4 21 (10.71%) Data Lake
5 19 (9.69%) Tableau
6 15 (7.65%) Metadata
7 10 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (4.59%) Power Query
9 8 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (3.57%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.57%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.06%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.55%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.55%) Spark SQL
13 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.04%) MySQL
13 4 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (15.82%) JIRA
2 27 (13.78%) Git
3 25 (12.76%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.08%) GitLab
5 4 (2.04%) MLflow
6 3 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.51%) JUnit
7 1 (0.51%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 47 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.33%) Finance
4 15 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.06%) Banking
5 6 (3.06%) Marketing
6 5 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.55%) Retail
7 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.53%) Billing
8 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Law
9 2 (1.02%) Local Government
9 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (34.18%) Data Engineer
2 41 (20.92%) Analyst
3 31 (15.82%) Architect
4 27 (13.78%) Senior
5 25 (12.76%) Data Architect
6 21 (10.71%) Data Analyst
7 16 (8.16%) Developer
8 13 (6.63%) Lead
9 12 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (5.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (4.08%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 6 (3.06%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (3.06%) Support Specialist
13 5 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (2.55%) Integration Architect
13 5 (2.55%) Power BI Developer
13 5 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.06%) PySpark
2 4 (2.04%) Kafka
3 3 (1.53%) EJB
3 3 (1.53%) REST
4 2 (1.02%) Pandas
5 1 (0.51%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.51%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.51%) NumPy
5 1 (0.51%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.51%) pytest
5 1 (0.51%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.51%) Swagger
5 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.04%) SCADA
4 3 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.53%) FMCG
4 3 (1.53%) IoT
4 3 (1.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.02%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.02%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.51%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.08%) Unix
2 3 (1.53%) Windows
3 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (50.51%) Analytics
2 81 (41.33%) Data Modelling
3 70 (35.71%) ETL
4 59 (30.10%) Data Pipeline
5 53 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (23.98%) CI/CD
7 43 (21.94%) Agile
8 42 (21.43%) AI
9 41 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (20.41%) DevOps
11 37 (18.88%) Data Integration
11 37 (18.88%) Scrum
12 36 (18.37%) Decision-Making
13 34 (17.35%) Data Analytics
14 33 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (15.31%) Data Engineering
15 30 (15.31%) Data Virtualisation
16 27 (13.78%) Test Automation
17 26 (13.27%) Business Analytics
18 25 (12.76%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 96 (48.98%) SQL
2 29 (14.80%) Python
3 10 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.08%) PL/SQL
5 7 (3.57%) Java
5 7 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.04%) Bicep
8 3 (1.53%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.51%) C#
9 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (31.12%) Security Cleared
2 54 (27.55%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.18%) Degree
4 5 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.04%) PhD
5 4 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (0.51%) ACCA
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) CIMA
7 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (32.14%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.10%) Accessibility
2 10 (5.10%) GDPR
3 6 (3.06%) PMO
4 5 (2.55%) ISO 19650
5 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.02%) GRC
6 2 (1.02%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 25 (12.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.61%) Terraform
3 7 (3.57%) Grafana
4 3 (1.53%) Ansible
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.29%) Oracle
3 25 (12.76%) Denodo
4 23 (11.73%) Databricks
4 23 (11.73%) Talend
5 17 (8.67%) Informatica
6 16 (8.16%) SAP
7 8 (4.08%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.55%) Autodesk
8 5 (2.55%) Remedy
9 4 (2.04%) Cognos
9 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.53%) TikTok
11 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.02%) Google
11 2 (1.02%) Splunk
12 1 (0.51%) Ariba
12 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds