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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 30 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 202 88 91
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.14% 5.90% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 6.63% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 54 73
10th Percentile £345 £318 £303
25th Percentile £410 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £468 £447
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +4.59% -9.47%
75th Percentile £545 £594 £575
90th Percentile £638 £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 £31.13 £30.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year +3.75% +22.80% +7.38%

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 2,785 1,328 1,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.68% 89.01% 81.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,834 840 1,100
10th Percentile £313 £203 £275
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -3.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £738
England median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 78 121
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.55 £14.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £61.00 £31.57 £40.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -3 63 £492 +62.64% 12
Warwickshire -4 51 £500 +5.26% 20
Birmingham -12 37 £450 -14.29% 29
Coventry -11 15 £500 +17.65% 7
Staffordshire +5 9 £431 - 11
Worcestershire - 6 £425 - 4
Solihull -17 4 £580 +10.48% 2
Dudley - 4 £400 - 2
Wolverhampton -1 3 - - 2
Herefordshire -5 2 £500 +25.00%
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 35 (17.33%) SAS
2 18 (8.91%) SharePoint
3 15 (7.43%) Confluence
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 26 (12.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.98%) Navisworks
3 4 (1.98%) Revit
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.50%) Primavera
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (63.37%) Power Platform
2 52 (25.74%) Azure
3 19 (9.41%) AWS
4 17 (8.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (7.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (7.43%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.96%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.47%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.97%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (2.97%) Matillion
9 6 (2.97%) Serverless
10 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.48%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) Firewall
2 2 (0.99%) SMTP
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (63.37%) Power BI
2 32 (15.84%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (12.38%) Pentaho
4 20 (9.90%) Data Lake
4 20 (9.90%) Tableau
5 17 (8.42%) Metadata
6 10 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.46%) Power Query
8 8 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (3.47%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (3.47%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.47%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.97%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.48%) Looker
11 5 (2.48%) Spark SQL
12 4 (1.98%) MySQL
12 4 (1.98%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (14.85%) JIRA
2 26 (12.87%) Git
3 25 (12.38%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.96%) GitLab
5 4 (1.98%) MLflow
6 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) JUnit
7 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 50 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (16.34%) Finance
3 15 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.96%) Banking
5 6 (2.97%) Marketing
6 5 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.48%) Retail
7 4 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Billing
8 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.99%) Law
9 2 (0.99%) Local Government
9 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (32.67%) Data Engineer
2 40 (19.80%) Analyst
3 30 (14.85%) Architect
4 26 (12.87%) Senior
5 24 (11.88%) Data Architect
6 21 (10.40%) Data Analyst
7 18 (8.91%) Developer
8 13 (6.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 12 (5.94%) Lead
9 12 (5.94%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (3.96%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 6 (2.97%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 6 (2.97%) Oracle Specialist
11 6 (2.97%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (2.97%) Support Specialist
12 5 (2.48%) Integration Architect
12 5 (2.48%) SAS Engineer
12 5 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.97%) PySpark
2 5 (2.48%) REST
3 4 (1.98%) Kafka
4 3 (1.49%) EJB
5 2 (0.99%) Pandas
6 1 (0.50%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.50%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.50%) NumPy
6 1 (0.50%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.50%) pytest
6 1 (0.50%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.50%) Swagger
6 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.47%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.98%) Data Fabric
3 4 (1.98%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.49%) Blog
4 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.49%) FMCG
4 3 (1.49%) IoT
4 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.49%) SCADA
5 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (0.99%) CMDB
5 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.96%) Unix
2 3 (1.49%) Windows
3 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (52.97%) Analytics
2 82 (40.59%) Data Modelling
3 70 (34.65%) ETL
4 58 (28.71%) Data Pipeline
5 56 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (23.76%) CI/CD
7 46 (22.77%) AI
8 44 (21.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (21.29%) Agile
10 41 (20.30%) DevOps
11 38 (18.81%) Decision-Making
11 38 (18.81%) Scrum
11 38 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (17.82%) Data Integration
13 34 (16.83%) Data Analytics
14 32 (15.84%) Data Engineering
15 30 (14.85%) Data Virtualisation
16 28 (13.86%) Data Governance
17 27 (13.37%) Test Automation
18 26 (12.87%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 99 (49.01%) SQL
2 33 (16.34%) Python
3 10 (4.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (4.46%) Java
5 8 (3.96%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.47%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.48%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.98%) Bicep
9 3 (1.49%) C#
9 3 (1.49%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (29.70%) Security Cleared
2 52 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.91%) Degree
4 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.98%) PhD
5 4 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) CISSP
7 1 (0.50%) ACCA
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) CIMA
7 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (30.69%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.95%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.95%) GDPR
3 6 (2.97%) PMO
4 5 (2.48%) ISO 19650
5 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.99%) GRC
6 2 (0.99%) SLA
7 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 25 (12.38%) Docker
2 3 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.45%) Terraform
3 7 (3.47%) Grafana
4 3 (1.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.37%) Oracle
3 25 (12.38%) Denodo
4 23 (11.39%) Databricks
4 23 (11.39%) Talend
5 17 (8.42%) Informatica
6 16 (7.92%) SAP
7 9 (4.46%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.48%) Autodesk
8 5 (2.48%) Remedy
9 4 (1.98%) Cognos
9 4 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.49%) TikTok
11 2 (0.99%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.99%) Google
11 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.99%) Snow
11 2 (0.99%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.99%) Splunk