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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 26 31
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 211 108 96
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.10% 6.55% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.10% 7.41% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 70 76
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £391 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £448
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -1.67% -8.10%
75th Percentile £537 £539 £575
90th Percentile £665 £615 £644
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £21.25 £15.63 -
25th Percentile £23.69 £16.15 -
Median hourly rate £39.90 £17.59 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +126.87% -48.17% +37.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £18.45 -
90th Percentile - £18.62 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -7.92%

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 2,970 1,458 1,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.84% 88.36% 81.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,911 918 1,048
10th Percentile £313 £218 £296
25th Percentile £406 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £663 £738
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 104 68
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £12.35
25th Percentile £20.31 £13.76 £14.09
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.28 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.59% +20.41% -32.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.16 £37.81
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -13 61 £459 -13.31% 14
Warwickshire -9 49 £500 +17.65% 12
Birmingham -9 40 £450 -12.20% 36
Coventry -11 21 £473 +11.18% 3
Staffordshire 0 7 £431 -50.71% 11
Worcestershire - 6 £425 - 3
Solihull -17 4 £625 +47.93% 4
Wolverhampton - 4 £200 - 3
Dudley - 4 £400 -
Herefordshire -4 2 £500 +25.00% 3
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 32 (15.17%) SAS
2 19 (9.00%) SharePoint
3 16 (7.58%) Confluence
4 6 (2.84%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (2.84%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (12.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.37%) Navisworks
3 5 (2.37%) Revit
4 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.47%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.84%) Oracle HRMS
2 5 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.42%) Primavera
4 2 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.47%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.47%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.47%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 137 (64.93%) Power Platform
2 61 (28.91%) Azure
3 25 (11.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 22 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (8.06%) AWS
6 15 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.64%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (6.64%) Snowflake
8 10 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.74%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (3.79%) Serverless
10 7 (3.32%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.84%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (2.84%) GCP
11 6 (2.84%) Matillion
12 5 (2.37%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (2.37%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) Firewall
2 2 (0.95%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (64.93%) Power BI
2 35 (16.59%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (12.32%) Pentaho
4 23 (10.90%) Data Lake
5 19 (9.00%) Tableau
6 17 (8.06%) Metadata
7 14 (6.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (5.69%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.79%) Delta Lake
9 8 (3.79%) Power Query
10 7 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.32%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (3.32%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.84%) Looker
12 5 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.37%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.37%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.90%) Data Vault
13 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (14.69%) JIRA
2 25 (11.85%) Git
3 23 (10.90%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.79%) GitLab
5 5 (2.37%) MLflow
6 3 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 53 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (15.64%) Finance
3 27 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.32%) Banking
4 7 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.37%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.90%) Retail
8 3 (1.42%) Local Government
8 3 (1.42%) Marketing
9 2 (0.95%) Billing
9 2 (0.95%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.95%) Law
9 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 72 (34.12%) Data Engineer
2 40 (18.96%) Analyst
3 29 (13.74%) Architect
4 26 (12.32%) Senior
5 24 (11.37%) Data Architect
6 18 (8.53%) Developer
7 15 (7.11%) Data Analyst
7 15 (7.11%) Lead
8 14 (6.64%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (6.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (3.79%) Consultant
11 7 (3.32%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 6 (2.84%) Junior
12 6 (2.84%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (2.84%) Power BI Developer
12 6 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.84%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.27%) PySpark
2 8 (3.79%) REST
3 5 (2.37%) Kafka
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.42%) SOAP
5 2 (0.95%) Pandas
6 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.47%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.47%) NumPy
6 1 (0.47%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.47%) pytest
6 1 (0.47%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.47%) Swagger
6 1 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.90%) Autonomous Agent
3 4 (1.90%) Data Fabric
3 4 (1.90%) IoT
3 4 (1.90%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.90%) SCADA
4 3 (1.42%) Blog
4 3 (1.42%) CMDB
4 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.95%) BYOD
5 2 (0.95%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.47%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.79%) Unix
2 3 (1.42%) Windows
3 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (54.98%) Analytics
2 81 (38.39%) Data Modelling
3 74 (35.07%) ETL
4 60 (28.44%) Data Pipeline
5 54 (25.59%) CI/CD
5 54 (25.59%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (24.64%) Agile
7 50 (23.70%) DevOps
8 49 (23.22%) AI
9 46 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (19.91%) Decision-Making
11 40 (18.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (17.06%) Data Engineering
12 36 (17.06%) Data Integration
13 33 (15.64%) Data Analytics
13 33 (15.64%) Scrum
14 32 (15.17%) Data Virtualisation
15 29 (13.74%) Test Automation
16 28 (13.27%) Data Governance
17 26 (12.32%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 102 (48.34%) SQL
2 37 (17.54%) Python
3 12 (5.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (5.69%) Java
4 8 (3.79%) PL/SQL
5 7 (3.32%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.84%) Bicep
7 5 (2.37%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.37%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.90%) C#
9 3 (1.42%) HiveQL
9 3 (1.42%) R
10 1 (0.47%) ABAP
10 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 59 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 49 (23.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.58%) Degree
4 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.90%) PhD
6 4 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.95%) CISSP
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (29.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.21%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.21%) GDPR
3 7 (3.32%) PMO
4 5 (2.37%) ISO 19650
5 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.42%) GRC
7 2 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.95%) SLA
8 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 23 (10.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) HDFS
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (11.37%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.16%) Terraform
3 7 (3.32%) Grafana
4 3 (1.42%) Ansible
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.27%) Oracle
3 26 (12.32%) Databricks
3 26 (12.32%) Denodo
4 21 (9.95%) Talend
5 18 (8.53%) Informatica
5 18 (8.53%) SAP
6 11 (5.21%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.37%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.42%) Google
9 3 (1.42%) Remedy
10 2 (0.95%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.95%) Snow
10 2 (0.95%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.95%) Splunk