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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 23 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 201 124 103
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 5.82% 7.17% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.86% 8.12% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 84 71
10th Percentile £350 £313 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +13.64% -8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £550
90th Percentile £665 £639 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile £21.25 £15.63 £34.04
25th Percentile £23.69 £16.15 £34.20
Median hourly rate £39.90 £17.59 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +126.87% -48.97% +39.96%
75th Percentile £53.75 £18.45 £34.73
90th Percentile - £18.62 £34.89
England median hourly rate £29.96 £32.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.67% -7.18%

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 2,932 1,528 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.84% 88.37% 81.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,822 973 1,040
10th Percentile £313 £235 £263
25th Percentile £406 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £625
90th Percentile £670 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 103 57
10th Percentile £13.44 £12.62 £13.11
25th Percentile £17.74 £14.91 £14.70
Median hourly rate £30.50 £24.34 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% +15.90% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.29 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.26 £50.00 £53.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -23 54 £459 -12.57% 7
Warwickshire -7 49 £500 +17.65% 15
Birmingham -7 39 £445 -11.00% 71
Coventry -10 21 £473 +11.18% 11
Staffordshire -3 7 £450 -48.57% 10
Worcestershire - 6 £425 - 4
Wolverhampton - 4 £200 - 4
Dudley - 4 £400 - 3
Solihull -16 3 £600 +14.29% 6
Herefordshire -4 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 28 (13.93%) SAS
2 19 (9.45%) SharePoint
3 16 (7.96%) Confluence
4 6 (2.99%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (2.99%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 22 (10.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.49%) Navisworks
3 5 (2.49%) Revit
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.50%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Oracle HRMS
2 4 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.49%) Primavera
4 2 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.50%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.50%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.50%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 134 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 62 (30.85%) Azure
3 24 (11.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (11.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (9.45%) AWS
6 15 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.46%) Snowflake
7 13 (6.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (4.98%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (3.98%) Serverless
11 7 (3.48%) GCP
11 7 (3.48%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.99%) Matillion
13 5 (2.49%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (2.49%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.49%) Firewall
2 2 (1.00%) SMTP
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (66.67%) Power BI
2 38 (18.91%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (13.43%) Data Lake
4 26 (12.94%) Pentaho
5 22 (10.95%) Metadata
6 19 (9.45%) Tableau
7 15 (7.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (6.47%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.98%) BusinessObjects
9 8 (3.98%) Delta Lake
9 8 (3.98%) Power Query
10 7 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.99%) Oracle Database
11 6 (2.99%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.49%) Looker
12 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.49%) Spark SQL
13 4 (1.99%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 28 (13.93%) JIRA
2 18 (8.96%) Git
3 17 (8.46%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.48%) GitLab
5 5 (2.49%) MLflow
6 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 56 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (15.92%) Finance
4 26 (12.94%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.48%) Banking
5 7 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (3.48%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.49%) Retail
7 4 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Billing
9 2 (1.00%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Law
9 2 (1.00%) Local Government
9 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 65 (32.34%) Data Engineer
2 37 (18.41%) Analyst
3 29 (14.43%) Architect
4 27 (13.43%) Senior
5 24 (11.94%) Data Architect
6 16 (7.96%) Developer
7 14 (6.97%) Lead
7 14 (6.97%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (4.48%) Consultant
11 7 (3.48%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.48%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.99%) Junior
12 6 (2.99%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.99%) Support Specialist
13 5 (2.49%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.97%) Terraform
2 9 (4.48%) PySpark
3 8 (3.98%) REST
4 4 (1.99%) Kafka
4 4 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.99%) SOAP
5 2 (1.00%) Pandas
6 1 (0.50%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.50%) NumPy
6 1 (0.50%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.98%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.99%) Autonomous Agent
3 6 (2.99%) Data Fabric
4 5 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.99%) IoT
5 4 (1.99%) SCADA
6 3 (1.49%) Blog
6 3 (1.49%) CMDB
6 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.00%) BYOD
7 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.50%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.50%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.99%) Unix
2 3 (1.49%) Windows
3 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (56.22%) Analytics
2 75 (37.31%) Data Modelling
3 70 (34.83%) ETL
4 54 (26.87%) Data Pipeline
5 52 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (25.37%) Agile
7 50 (24.88%) AI
7 50 (24.88%) CI/CD
8 47 (23.38%) DevOps
9 45 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (19.90%) Decision-Making
11 39 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (17.41%) Data Engineering
13 32 (15.92%) Data Integration
14 29 (14.43%) Data Virtualisation
15 27 (13.43%) Data Analytics
15 27 (13.43%) Data Governance
16 25 (12.44%) Scrum
16 25 (12.44%) Validation
17 24 (11.94%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 95 (47.26%) SQL
2 38 (18.91%) Python
3 14 (6.97%) Java
4 11 (5.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (2.99%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.49%) Bicep
6 5 (2.49%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.49%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.99%) C#
8 3 (1.49%) HiveQL
8 3 (1.49%) R
8 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.50%) ABAP
9 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 56 (27.86%) Security Cleared
2 44 (21.89%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.46%) Degree
4 7 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.99%) PhD
6 4 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.00%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (26.87%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.48%) PMO
4 6 (2.99%) GDPR
5 5 (2.49%) ISO 19650
6 4 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.49%) GRC
8 2 (1.00%) SLA
9 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 18 (8.96%) Docker
2 3 (1.49%) HDFS
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.48%) Grafana
3 3 (1.49%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.43%) Oracle
3 26 (12.94%) Denodo
4 25 (12.44%) Databricks
5 19 (9.45%) Talend
6 18 (8.96%) Informatica
7 17 (8.46%) SAP
8 10 (4.98%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.49%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.99%) Google
11 2 (1.00%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.00%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.00%) Remedy
11 2 (1.00%) Snow
11 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.00%) Splunk