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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 174 134 128
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.90% 7.11% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.79% 7.91% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 97 76
10th Percentile £348 £368 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +14.44% -7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £552 £525
90th Percentile £657 £638 £619
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £21.05 - £34.04
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.50 £34.20
Median hourly rate £25.27 £17.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +48.65% -50.67% -
75th Percentile £47.14 £17.50 £34.73
90th Percentile £53.75 - £34.89
England median hourly rate £29.96 £25.00 £30.59
% change year-on-year +19.84% -18.27% +2.27%

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 3,007 1,695 1,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.73% 89.92% 83.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,847 1,077 996
10th Percentile £316 £257 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.29% +3.40%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £683 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 115 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £15.44
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.05 £23.89
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -3.52% -13.13%
75th Percentile £43.96 £32.44 £35.00
90th Percentile £60.87 £50.00 £52.78
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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
Warwickshire -8 48 £500 +17.65% 29
Shropshire -34 46 £488 -8.71% 6
Birmingham -8 27 £400 -27.27% 107
Coventry -13 19 £445 -7.29% 21
Staffordshire -6 8 £450 -48.57% 13
Solihull -17 5 £533 +9.57% 11
Worcestershire - 5 £425 - 15
Wolverhampton - 4 £275 - 8
Dudley - 3 £400 - 5
Herefordshire +4 2 £500 +25.00% 4
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 20 (11.49%) SAS
2 17 (9.77%) SharePoint
3 12 (6.90%) Confluence
4 3 (1.72%) Apache
4 3 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 24 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.30%) Navisworks
3 4 (2.30%) Revit
4 3 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.57%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 7 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.30%) ResourceLink
4 3 (1.72%) Primavera
5 2 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.57%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.57%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.57%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 125 (71.84%) Power Platform
2 53 (30.46%) Azure
3 21 (12.07%) AWS
3 21 (12.07%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (6.32%) Power Automate
6 11 (6.32%) Snowflake
7 9 (5.17%) GCP
8 8 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.45%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.87%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.87%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.87%) Google Analytics
11 5 (2.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (71.84%) Power BI
2 29 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (14.94%) Data Lake
4 25 (14.37%) Metadata
5 22 (12.64%) Pentaho
6 13 (7.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (7.47%) Tableau
7 12 (6.90%) NoSQL
8 10 (5.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 9 (5.17%) Power Query
10 8 (4.60%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (3.45%) Looker
12 5 (2.87%) Data Vault
12 5 (2.87%) DynamoDB
12 5 (2.87%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (2.30%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (14.94%) JIRA
2 9 (5.17%) Git
3 7 (4.02%) GitLab
3 7 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.15%) MLflow
General
1 54 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (17.24%) Finance
4 29 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.02%) Legal
6 7 (4.02%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.87%) Banking
8 5 (2.87%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.87%) Retail
9 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.72%) Marketing
11 2 (1.15%) Billing
11 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.15%) Local Government
12 1 (0.57%) Advertising
12 1 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 41 (23.56%) Data Engineer
2 40 (22.99%) Analyst
3 22 (12.64%) Architect
4 20 (11.49%) Senior
5 19 (10.92%) Data Architect
6 15 (8.62%) Developer
7 12 (6.90%) Lead
7 12 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (6.32%) Data Analyst
9 9 (5.17%) Consultant
10 8 (4.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.02%) Junior
12 6 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.45%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.45%) Performance Analyst
13 5 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 5 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
13 5 (2.87%) Junior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.87%) Oracle Consultant
13 5 (2.87%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.47%) REST
2 9 (5.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (4.60%) SOAP
3 8 (4.60%) Terraform
4 5 (2.87%) PySpark
5 3 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.15%) JSON
7 1 (0.57%) ADO
7 1 (0.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.47%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.60%) Autonomous Agent
4 6 (3.45%) Data Fabric
5 5 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.87%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.30%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.72%) Blog
7 3 (1.72%) CMDB
7 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.15%) BYOD
8 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.57%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.57%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.57%) IoT
9 1 (0.57%) Life Science
9 1 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Windows
2 2 (1.15%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (51.15%) Analytics
2 60 (34.48%) Data Modelling
3 56 (32.18%) ETL
4 50 (28.74%) Decision-Making
5 48 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 45 (25.86%) Agile
6 45 (25.86%) AI
6 45 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (25.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (24.71%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (24.14%) DevOps
10 35 (20.11%) CI/CD
10 35 (20.11%) Data Engineering
11 28 (16.09%) Validation
12 27 (15.52%) Migration
13 26 (14.94%) Data Integration
14 25 (14.37%) Visualisation
15 24 (13.79%) Generative AI
16 22 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (12.07%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 71 (40.80%) SQL
2 29 (16.67%) Python
3 15 (8.62%) Java
4 7 (4.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (2.87%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.30%) C#
6 4 (2.30%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.72%) R
8 2 (1.15%) Bicep
9 1 (0.57%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 42 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 35 (20.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.75%) Degree
4 6 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.30%) CISSP
7 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.15%) CISA
8 2 (1.15%) CISM
8 2 (1.15%) CRISC
8 2 (1.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (1.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.57%) ACCA
9 1 (0.57%) CIMA
9 1 (0.57%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.02%) ISO 19650
3 7 (4.02%) PMO
4 5 (2.87%) QA
5 3 (1.72%) GRC
5 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.15%) COBIT
6 2 (1.15%) GDPR
6 2 (1.15%) NIST
7 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.02%) Grafana
3 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.49%) Oracle
3 19 (10.92%) Databricks
3 19 (10.92%) Denodo
4 18 (10.34%) SAP
5 10 (5.75%) Informatica
5 10 (5.75%) Talend
6 7 (4.02%) Autodesk
7 6 (3.45%) Google
7 6 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.30%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.30%) Splunk
9 3 (1.72%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.15%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.15%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.15%) Remedy
10 2 (1.15%) Snow
10 2 (1.15%) SolarWinds