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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 29 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 209 90 88
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.27% 6.13% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 6.89% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 55 71
10th Percentile £326 £304 £300
25th Percentile £400 £394 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £431 £440
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -2.05% -9.74%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £566
90th Percentile £636 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £25.33 £15.63 -
25th Percentile £27.30 £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 £30.00 £24.22
% change year-on-year - +23.89% -1.16%

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 2,837 1,307 1,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.12% 89.03% 81.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,860 826 1,102
10th Percentile £313 £202 £263
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -5.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £737
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 84 116
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.21
25th Percentile £21.97 £14.32 £14.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60.37 £34.16 £40.13
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 66 £471 +55.54% 11
Warwickshire -3 52 £500 +11.11% 11
Birmingham -16 37 £450 -14.29% 22
Coventry -12 17 £500 +17.65% 5
Staffordshire +6 9 £431 - 6
Worcestershire - 6 £425 - 4
Solihull -17 4 £580 +10.48% 2
Dudley - 4 £400 - 2
Wolverhampton -1 3 - - 2
Herefordshire -6 2 £500 +25.00%
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 35 (16.75%) SAS
2 19 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 16 (7.66%) Confluence
4 6 (2.87%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (2.87%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (12.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.91%) Navisworks
3 4 (1.91%) Revit
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Oracle HRMS
1 6 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.48%) Primavera
4 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.48%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 131 (62.68%) Power Platform
2 54 (25.84%) Azure
3 19 (9.09%) AWS
3 19 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 16 (7.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (7.18%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.31%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.35%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.87%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (2.87%) Matillion
8 6 (2.87%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.87%) Serverless
9 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.91%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.91%) Firewall
2 2 (0.96%) SMTP
3 1 (0.48%) DNS
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (62.68%) Power BI
2 34 (16.27%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (11.96%) Pentaho
4 20 (9.57%) Data Lake
4 20 (9.57%) Tableau
5 18 (8.61%) Metadata
6 10 (4.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.31%) Power Query
7 9 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.35%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (3.35%) NoSQL
8 7 (3.35%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.87%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.39%) Looker
10 5 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (2.39%) Spark SQL
11 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.91%) MySQL
11 4 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (15.31%) JIRA
2 27 (12.92%) Git
3 25 (11.96%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.83%) GitLab
5 4 (1.91%) MLflow
6 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 52 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.75%) Finance
3 34 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.83%) Banking
6 6 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.39%) Marketing
7 5 (2.39%) Retail
8 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Billing
9 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.96%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Law
10 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (32.06%) Data Engineer
2 43 (20.57%) Analyst
3 30 (14.35%) Architect
4 25 (11.96%) Senior
5 24 (11.48%) Data Architect
6 21 (10.05%) Data Analyst
7 19 (9.09%) Developer
8 14 (6.70%) Lead
9 13 (6.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 12 (5.74%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (3.83%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 6 (2.87%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 6 (2.87%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (2.87%) Power BI Developer
12 6 (2.87%) Support Specialist
13 5 (2.39%) Consultant
13 5 (2.39%) SAS Engineer
13 5 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.35%) PySpark
2 5 (2.39%) REST
3 4 (1.91%) Kafka
4 2 (0.96%) EJB
4 2 (0.96%) Pandas
5 1 (0.48%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.48%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.48%) NumPy
5 1 (0.48%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.48%) pytest
5 1 (0.48%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.48%) Swagger
5 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.35%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.91%) Data Fabric
3 4 (1.91%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.44%) Blog
4 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.44%) IoT
4 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.44%) SCADA
5 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.96%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (0.96%) CMDB
5 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.96%) FMCG
5 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.48%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.83%) Unix
2 3 (1.44%) Windows
3 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (52.15%) Analytics
2 84 (40.19%) Data Modelling
3 71 (33.97%) ETL
4 58 (27.75%) Data Pipeline
5 57 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (22.97%) CI/CD
7 46 (22.01%) AI
8 45 (21.53%) Agile
9 44 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (20.10%) Decision-Making
11 41 (19.62%) DevOps
12 40 (19.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (18.18%) Scrum
14 36 (17.22%) Data Integration
15 35 (16.75%) Data Analytics
16 34 (16.27%) Data Engineering
17 30 (14.35%) Data Virtualisation
18 28 (13.40%) Data Governance
19 27 (12.92%) Test Automation
19 27 (12.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 102 (48.80%) SQL
2 35 (16.75%) Python
3 11 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (4.31%) Java
5 8 (3.83%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.39%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.91%) Bicep
9 3 (1.44%) C#
9 3 (1.44%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.48%) ABAP
10 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.88%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.13%) Degree
4 5 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.91%) PhD
5 4 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.48%) ACCA
7 1 (0.48%) CIMA
7 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (30.62%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.78%) GDPR
4 7 (3.35%) PMO
5 5 (2.39%) ISO 19650
6 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.96%) GRC
7 2 (0.96%) SLA
8 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 25 (11.96%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.26%) Terraform
3 7 (3.35%) Grafana
4 3 (1.44%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.92%) Oracle
3 25 (11.96%) Databricks
3 25 (11.96%) Denodo
4 23 (11.00%) Talend
5 19 (9.09%) SAP
6 17 (8.13%) Informatica
7 9 (4.31%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.39%) Autodesk
8 5 (2.39%) Remedy
9 4 (1.91%) Cognos
9 4 (1.91%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.96%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.96%) Google
10 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.96%) Snow
10 2 (0.96%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.96%) TikTok