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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 29 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 203 83 104
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.40% 6.07% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% 6.83% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 54 86
10th Percentile £325 £340 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £493 £431
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +14.20% -12.66%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £575
90th Percentile £628 £638 £675
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £41.67 £15.63 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £16.15 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £17.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +198.51% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £18.45 -
90th Percentile - £18.62 -
England median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £24.22
% change year-on-year -7.12% +20.05% +0.90%

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 2,641 1,216 1,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.29% 88.95% 83.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 797 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £195 £275
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.73% -4.10%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £671 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 53 114
10th Percentile £14.82 - £11.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.62 £14.03
Median hourly rate £34.38 £18.74 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.43% -16.71% +7.30%
75th Percentile £67.84 £26.51 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.00
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 0 65 £482 +26.43% 4
Warwickshire -2 45 £500 - 9
Birmingham -20 39 £450 -14.29% 36
Coventry -11 15 £500 +33.33% 6
Staffordshire +8 11 £431 - 6
Worcestershire +1 5 £425 - 6
Solihull -12 4 £580 +81.25%
Dudley - 3 £400 - 4
Wolverhampton -3 2 - - 3
Herefordshire -7 2 £450 +12.50%
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 36 (17.73%) SAS
2 19 (9.36%) SharePoint
3 15 (7.39%) Confluence
4 6 (2.96%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (2.96%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 23 (11.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.97%) Navisworks
3 4 (1.97%) Revit
4 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.49%) Primavera
4 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 126 (62.07%) Power Platform
2 48 (23.65%) Azure
3 18 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
3 18 (8.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 16 (7.88%) AWS
5 14 (6.90%) Power Automate
5 14 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 11 (5.42%) PowerApps
7 7 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.96%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (2.96%) Serverless
9 5 (2.46%) Matillion
10 4 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.97%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.97%) Firewall
2 2 (0.99%) SMTP
3 1 (0.49%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (62.07%) Power BI
2 38 (18.72%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (12.32%) Pentaho
4 20 (9.85%) Data Lake
5 19 (9.36%) Tableau
6 15 (7.39%) Metadata
7 12 (5.91%) Power Query
8 10 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (4.93%) BusinessObjects
9 9 (4.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (3.45%) Delta Lake
10 7 (3.45%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.96%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.96%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.46%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.46%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.97%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (14.78%) Git
2 29 (14.29%) JIRA
3 25 (12.32%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.94%) GitLab
5 4 (1.97%) MLflow
6 3 (1.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.49%) JUnit
7 1 (0.49%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 54 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.29%) Finance
4 15 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.96%) Marketing
6 5 (2.46%) Banking
6 5 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.97%) Retail
8 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.99%) Billing
9 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.99%) Law
9 2 (0.99%) Legal
9 2 (0.99%) Local Government
9 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (32.51%) Data Engineer
2 39 (19.21%) Analyst
3 31 (15.27%) Architect
4 26 (12.81%) Senior
5 25 (12.32%) Data Architect
6 23 (11.33%) Developer
7 20 (9.85%) Data Analyst
8 16 (7.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 15 (7.39%) Lead
10 11 (5.42%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.45%) Business Developer
11 7 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
12 6 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.96%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 6 (2.96%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (2.96%) Support Specialist
13 5 (2.46%) SAS Engineer
13 5 (2.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 5 (2.46%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.96%) PySpark
2 4 (1.97%) Kafka
3 3 (1.48%) EJB
3 3 (1.48%) REST
4 2 (0.99%) Pandas
5 1 (0.49%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.49%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.49%) NumPy
5 1 (0.49%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.49%) pytest
5 1 (0.49%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.49%) Swagger
5 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.94%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.97%) SCADA
5 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.48%) FMCG
5 3 (1.48%) IoT
5 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.99%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.99%) NHS
6 2 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.49%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.94%) Unix
2 3 (1.48%) Windows
3 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (49.26%) Analytics
2 89 (43.84%) Data Modelling
3 75 (36.95%) ETL
4 58 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 54 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (24.63%) CI/CD
7 47 (23.15%) Agile
8 45 (22.17%) Decision-Making
9 41 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (19.21%) AI
10 39 (19.21%) Data Integration
10 39 (19.21%) DevOps
11 37 (18.23%) Scrum
12 35 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (16.26%) Data Analytics
14 32 (15.76%) Data Governance
15 30 (14.78%) Data Virtualisation
16 27 (13.30%) Business Analytics
16 27 (13.30%) Data Engineering
16 27 (13.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (48.28%) SQL
2 31 (15.27%) Python
3 13 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (3.94%) PL/SQL
5 7 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.96%) Java
7 5 (2.46%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.97%) Bicep
8 4 (1.97%) R
9 3 (1.48%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
10 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.09%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.87%) Degree
4 5 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.97%) PhD
5 4 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.99%) CISSP
6 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.49%) ACCA
7 1 (0.49%) CIMA
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (31.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.93%) GDPR
3 9 (4.43%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.96%) PMO
5 5 (2.46%) ISO 19650
6 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.99%) GRC
7 2 (0.99%) SLA
8 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 25 (12.32%) Docker
2 3 (1.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (12.81%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.42%) Terraform
3 7 (3.45%) Grafana
4 3 (1.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (22.17%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.79%) Oracle
3 26 (12.81%) Databricks
4 25 (12.32%) Denodo
5 23 (11.33%) Talend
6 18 (8.87%) Informatica
7 17 (8.37%) SAP
8 7 (3.45%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.46%) Autodesk
9 5 (2.46%) Remedy
10 4 (1.97%) Cognos
10 4 (1.97%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.48%) TikTok
12 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.99%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.99%) Google
12 2 (0.99%) Splunk
13 1 (0.49%) Epicor
13 1 (0.49%) Zscaler