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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 31 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 200 75 93
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.35% 5.59% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.62% 6.31% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 47 76
10th Percentile £335 £362 £306
25th Percentile £413 £396 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +11.11% -8.86%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.59% - -
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 £24.41 £28.60 £24.00
% change year-on-year -14.64% +19.17% -4.00%

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 2,624 1,189 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.25% 88.60% 84.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,711 779 1,065
10th Percentile £306 £195 £275
25th Percentile £402 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.68%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £750
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 56 115
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £21.49 £13.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.83% -20.00% +21.62%
75th Percentile £67.84 £22.49 £40.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £39.61 £57.75
England median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +1 71 £500 +21.21% 3
Warwickshire -5 43 £500 -4.76% 8
Birmingham -14 37 £450 -10.00% 33
Coventry -14 13 £500 +33.33% 6
Staffordshire +9 11 £431 - 10
Worcestershire -6 4 £425 - 7
Wolverhampton -2 3 - - 2
Solihull -12 3 £580 +0.87% 7
Herefordshire -6 1 £400 - 3
Dudley - 1 £400 - 2
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 40 (20.00%) SAS
2 17 (8.50%) SharePoint
3 14 (7.00%) Confluence
4 6 (3.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 6 (3.00%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.00%) Navisworks
3 4 (2.00%) Revit
4 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 115 (57.50%) Power Platform
2 47 (23.50%) Azure
3 18 (9.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (8.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (7.50%) AWS
6 13 (6.50%) Power Automate
6 13 (6.50%) Snowflake
7 11 (5.50%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.50%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (3.00%) Serverless
10 5 (2.50%) Matillion
11 4 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) Firewall
2 2 (1.00%) SMTP
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (57.50%) Power BI
2 40 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (14.50%) Pentaho
4 19 (9.50%) Data Lake
5 18 (9.00%) Tableau
6 15 (7.50%) Metadata
7 10 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
8 9 (4.50%) Power Query
8 9 (4.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (3.50%) Delta Lake
9 7 (3.50%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.50%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.50%) MySQL
11 5 (2.50%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.50%) Spark SQL
12 4 (2.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (17.00%) Git
2 31 (15.50%) JIRA
3 29 (14.50%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.00%) GitLab
5 4 (2.00%) MLflow
6 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) JUnit
7 1 (0.50%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 52 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.00%) Finance
4 15 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (2.50%) Marketing
6 4 (2.00%) Banking
6 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.00%) Retail
7 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.50%) Legal
7 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.00%) Law
8 2 (1.00%) Local Government
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Billing
9 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (34.00%) Data Engineer
2 30 (15.00%) Analyst
3 29 (14.50%) Architect
4 25 (12.50%) Developer
5 24 (12.00%) Senior
6 23 (11.50%) Data Architect
7 18 (9.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 17 (8.50%) Data Analyst
9 15 (7.50%) Lead
10 10 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Business Developer
11 7 (3.50%) Power BI Developer
11 7 (3.50%) SAS Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Support Specialist
13 5 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.50%) Business Analyst
13 5 (2.50%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.00%) PySpark
2 4 (2.00%) Kafka
2 4 (2.00%) REST
3 3 (1.50%) EJB
4 2 (1.00%) Pandas
5 1 (0.50%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.50%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.50%) NumPy
5 1 (0.50%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.50%) pytest
5 1 (0.50%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.50%) Swagger
5 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.50%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.50%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.00%) SCADA
4 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.50%) FMCG
4 3 (1.50%) IoT
5 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.00%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.00%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.00%) NHS
5 2 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.00%) Unix
2 2 (1.00%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (50.00%) Analytics
2 91 (45.50%) Data Modelling
3 76 (38.00%) ETL
4 60 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 56 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (26.50%) CI/CD
7 51 (25.50%) Agile
8 44 (22.00%) Decision-Making
9 43 (21.50%) DevOps
10 42 (21.00%) Data Integration
11 41 (20.50%) Scrum
12 39 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (19.00%) AI
14 33 (16.50%) Data Analytics
14 33 (16.50%) Data Governance
14 33 (16.50%) Data Virtualisation
15 30 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (14.50%) Business Analytics
16 29 (14.50%) Test Automation
17 25 (12.50%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (50.50%) SQL
2 31 (15.50%) Python
3 11 (5.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.00%) PL/SQL
5 6 (3.00%) Java
5 6 (3.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.00%) Bicep
7 4 (2.00%) R
8 3 (1.50%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.50%) Scala
9 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 61 (30.50%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.50%) Degree
4 5 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.00%) PhD
5 4 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.50%) ACCA
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) CIMA
7 1 (0.50%) CISSP
7 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (33.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.00%) GDPR
3 8 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.50%) ISO 19650
5 4 (2.00%) PMO
6 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.00%) GRC
7 2 (1.00%) SLA
8 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 29 (14.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.50%) Terraform
3 7 (3.50%) Grafana
4 3 (1.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.00%) Oracle
3 29 (14.50%) Denodo
4 26 (13.00%) Talend
5 24 (12.00%) Databricks
6 17 (8.50%) Informatica
7 16 (8.00%) SAP
8 8 (4.00%) Dynatrace
9 6 (3.00%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.50%) Autodesk
10 5 (2.50%) Splunk
11 4 (2.00%) Cognos
11 4 (2.00%) Remedy
12 3 (1.50%) TikTok
13 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.50%) Ariba
14 1 (0.50%) Cisco
14 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
14 1 (0.50%) Epicor
14 1 (0.50%) Google