Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 39 53
Rank change year-on-year -29 +14 -23
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 73 42 56
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.48% 4.75% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 5.30% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 43
10th Percentile £352 £222 £300
25th Percentile £421 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £418 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.77% -7.22% -22.08%
75th Percentile £572 £511 £519
90th Percentile £631 £567 £600
England median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £16.97 £27.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.29% +150.00% -
England median hourly rate £23.79 £28.05 £25.81
% change year-on-year -15.20% +8.68% -4.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,873 792 1,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.19% 89.59% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 483 988
10th Percentile £305 £230 £263
25th Percentile £403 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £556 £567 £583
90th Percentile £675 £638 £668
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 23 47
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.43 £11.07
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.66 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.54 £22.14 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +47.60% +41.11%
75th Percentile £53.69 £36.45 £23.75
90th Percentile £65.53 £85.61 £53.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Yorkshire

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 February 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
West Yorkshire -17 39 £500 +21.95% 28
South Yorkshire -35 29 £438 -8.99% 17
North Yorkshire -4 4 £300 -25.00% 8
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 9 (12.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.85%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.74%) Confluence
4 1 (1.37%) Apache
Applications
1 23 (31.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.11%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.11%) Cloudability
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 46 (63.01%) Power Platform
2 18 (24.66%) Azure
3 10 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (12.33%) AWS
5 7 (9.59%) Power Automate
5 7 (9.59%) PowerApps
6 5 (6.85%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (6.85%) GCP
6 5 (6.85%) OCI
7 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.11%) Collibra
8 3 (4.11%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.74%) GitHub
9 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.74%) Serverless
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) VPN
1 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (63.01%) Power BI
2 11 (15.07%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (12.33%) Power Query
4 8 (10.96%) PowerPivot
5 5 (6.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (5.48%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.48%) Metadata
6 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.74%) DataStage
7 2 (2.74%) DB2
7 2 (2.74%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.74%) GIS
7 2 (2.74%) MS Access
7 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.74%) Tableau
8 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.74%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) JIRA
3 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) Postman
3 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 26 (35.62%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (35.62%) Finance
3 19 (26.03%) Public Sector
4 18 (24.66%) Banking
5 7 (9.59%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (8.22%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.48%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.74%) Legal
8 2 (2.74%) Military
9 1 (1.37%) Billing
9 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Law
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (41.10%) Analyst
2 12 (16.44%) Consultant
3 10 (13.70%) Data Analyst
4 9 (12.33%) Business Analyst
5 8 (10.96%) Developer
5 8 (10.96%) Lead
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle Consultant
5 8 (10.96%) Senior
5 8 (10.96%) Strategy Analyst
6 7 (9.59%) Data Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) PMO Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Payroll Consultant
9 3 (4.11%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Report Analyst
10 2 (2.74%) Architect
10 2 (2.74%) Hadoop Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (10.96%) REST
3 2 (2.74%) PySpark
4 1 (1.37%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.37%) Middleware
4 1 (1.37%) OAuth
4 1 (1.37%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.37%) Pandas
4 1 (1.37%) PyArrow
4 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.85%) SCORM
3 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.11%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.37%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Windows
1 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.99%) Analytics
1 27 (36.99%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (30.14%) Agile
3 20 (27.40%) Data Governance
3 20 (27.40%) Migration
4 18 (24.66%) Data Analysis
4 18 (24.66%) Decision-Making
5 16 (21.92%) Data Modelling
6 15 (20.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (20.55%) Visualisation
7 11 (15.07%) SDLC
7 11 (15.07%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (13.70%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (13.70%) ETL
8 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (13.70%) Workshop Facilitation
9 9 (12.33%) Business Analysis
9 9 (12.33%) CI/CD
9 9 (12.33%) Data Visualisation
9 9 (12.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.10%) SQL
2 17 (23.29%) Python
3 8 (10.96%) VBA
4 4 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.74%) C#
5 2 (2.74%) Groovy
5 2 (2.74%) Java
5 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Degree
2 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.22%) GDPR
3 5 (6.85%) PMO
4 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.37%) QA
7 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Terraform
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (24.66%) Oracle
2 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.85%) Databricks
4 4 (5.48%) Splunk
5 2 (2.74%) Brio
5 2 (2.74%) Informatica
5 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.37%) Palantir
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow