Business Intelligence Contracts in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 34 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 88 94 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.13% 4.76% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 5.74% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 75 87
10th Percentile £318 £285 £307
25th Percentile £391 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -10.26% -5.11%
75th Percentile £569 £569 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £680
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £15.63 - £24.06
25th Percentile £16.15 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £17.59 £33.93 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -48.17% +37.79% -
75th Percentile £18.45 - £25.41
90th Percentile £18.62 - £25.69
England median hourly rate £29.07 £24.22 £24.50
% change year-on-year +20.05% -1.16% -18.33%

All Process and 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 1,273 1,638 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.71% 82.89% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,086 1,328
10th Percentile £200 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £585 £625 £620
90th Percentile £663 £734 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 117 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.10 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.73% +27.59%
75th Percentile £32.29 £40.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.13
England median hourly rate £28.46 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.12% +4.17% +44.00%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in the West Midlands

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 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 7 June 2025. 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 -1 32 £500 +14.29% 17
Birmingham +1 24 £525 +21.74% 63
Coventry +12 11 £400 -33.33% 8
Solihull +12 5 £423 -7.85% 8
Shropshire - 5 £350 - 16
Wolverhampton - 2 £348 - 1
Herefordshire - 2 £400 - 1
Staffordshire -6 1 - - 21
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (10.23%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.82%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 6 (6.82%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (28.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.14%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (3.41%) SAP PM
3 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 69 (78.41%) Power Platform
2 21 (23.86%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) PowerApps
4 8 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 7 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.82%) AWS
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.68%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (4.55%) GitHub
8 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.41%) Collibra
9 3 (3.41%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (3.41%) SaaS
9 3 (3.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (78.41%) Power BI
2 17 (19.32%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.95%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.82%) Oracle Database
5 5 (5.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (5.68%) Tableau
6 4 (4.55%) Delta Lake
6 4 (4.55%) Metadata
6 4 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.41%) GIS
7 3 (3.41%) Power Query
7 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.27%) Big Data
8 2 (2.27%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.27%) DB2
8 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) JIRA
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (48.86%) Social Skills
2 28 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (18.18%) Finance
4 9 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.55%) Law
8 3 (3.41%) Local Government
8 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.14%) Games
10 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Legal
10 1 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (19.32%) Analyst
2 14 (15.91%) Lead
3 13 (14.77%) Developer
4 10 (11.36%) Data Analyst
5 9 (10.23%) Architect
6 8 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Data Architect
6 8 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
7 7 (7.95%) Project Manager
7 7 (7.95%) Senior
8 6 (6.82%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Oracle Specialist
9 5 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 4 (4.55%) Consultant
11 3 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
11 3 (3.41%) Customer Support Manager
11 3 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Report Analyst
11 3 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) Kafka
2 4 (4.55%) LDAP
3 2 (2.27%) .NET
3 2 (2.27%) React
4 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.14%) ADO
4 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.14%) CSS
4 1 (1.14%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.14%) HTML
4 1 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.14%) PySpark
4 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Data Centre
1 6 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.68%) IoT
2 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.68%) SCADA
3 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.27%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Linux
1 5 (5.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (28.41%) Data Modelling
3 21 (23.86%) Analytics
4 20 (22.73%) Migration
5 18 (20.45%) Data Analysis
5 18 (20.45%) Decision-Making
6 16 (18.18%) Agile
6 16 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (18.18%) Visualisation
7 13 (14.77%) Workflow
8 12 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 11 (12.50%) Data Management
10 10 (11.36%) ETL
11 9 (10.23%) Data Visualisation
11 9 (10.23%) DevOps
11 9 (10.23%) ITIL
11 9 (10.23%) RBAC
12 8 (9.09%) Data Integration
12 8 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (52.27%) SQL
2 14 (15.91%) Python
3 8 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.55%) Bicep
4 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (3.41%) R
6 2 (2.27%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.14%) VB
7 1 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.68%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.14%) CITP
3 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.14%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.95%) GDPR
3 5 (5.68%) PMO
3 5 (5.68%) SLA
4 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.14%) P3O
5 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (1.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.32%) Oracle
3 9 (10.23%) Databricks
3 9 (10.23%) SAP
4 5 (5.68%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.55%) Cognos
5 4 (4.55%) Informatica
5 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.27%) IBM
6 2 (2.27%) OpenText
7 1 (1.14%) Google
7 1 (1.14%) QAD
7 1 (1.14%) Remedy
7 1 (1.14%) Splunk