Business Intelligence Analyst Contracts

BI Analyst
UK

The median BI Analyst daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 607 674
Rank change year-on-year +106 +67 -166
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 93 109 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 82 137
10th Percentile £303 £313 £314
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £586 £517 £550
90th Percentile £600 £600 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £438 £410
% change year-on-year -5.71% +6.71% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £9.50 - -
25th Percentile £13.91 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £79.19 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.59% +277.10% +4.35%
75th Percentile £29.63 - £22.00
90th Percentile £33.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.85 £79.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year -90.09% +277.10% +1.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
England +98 80 £450 - 25
UK excluding London +49 48 £413 -5.71% 17
Work from Home +143 47 £450 +5.88% 6
London +103 36 £561 +24.72% 7
Midlands +34 14 £363 -23.68% 2
North of England +30 14 £450 +20.00% 4
West Midlands +32 7 £375 -21.05% 1
Yorkshire +26 7 £400 -11.11% 1
East Midlands +25 7 £363 - 1
North West +19 7 £450 +20.00% 3
South East +16 7 £365 -27.00% 5
Scotland +36 6 £475 +11.76%
East of England -2 3 - -
Northern Ireland +8 2 £338 -22.86%
South West +6 2 £550 +22.22% 6

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Business Intelligence Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 93 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (74.19%) Power Platform
3 66 (70.97%) Power BI
4 59 (63.44%) SQL
5 32 (34.41%) Visualisation
5 32 (34.41%) Data Modelling
6 26 (27.96%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (27.96%) Finance
6 26 (27.96%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (24.73%) Analytics
8 20 (21.51%) Data Analysis
8 20 (21.51%) Data Visualisation
9 18 (19.35%) Tableau
9 18 (19.35%) Social Skills
9 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
10 16 (17.20%) Agile
11 15 (16.13%) ETL
12 14 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.98%) Python
14 12 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
14 12 (12.90%) Data Quality
15 11 (11.83%) Data Analytics
15 11 (11.83%) Data Transformation
15 11 (11.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (11.83%) Actionable Insight
16 10 (10.75%) Public Sector
16 10 (10.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (10.75%) JSON
16 10 (10.75%) SQL Server

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (4.30%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.15%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.08%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 69 (74.19%) Power Platform
2 8 (8.60%) Azure
3 6 (6.45%) AWS
3 6 (6.45%) OCI
4 4 (4.30%) GCP
5 3 (3.23%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.23%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.15%) Matillion
6 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.08%) dbt
7 1 (1.08%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (70.97%) Power BI
2 26 (27.96%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (19.35%) Tableau
4 12 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (10.75%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (6.45%) Power Query
6 6 (6.45%) Qlik Sense
6 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (5.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
9 3 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.23%) Metadata
9 3 (3.23%) QlikView
10 2 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.15%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.15%) DataStage
10 2 (2.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (2.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) JIRA
2 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.08%) Git
General
1 26 (27.96%) Analytical Skills
1 26 (27.96%) Finance
2 18 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.38%) Retail
6 3 (3.23%) Banking
6 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Billing
7 2 (2.15%) Legal
7 2 (2.15%) Local Government
8 1 (1.08%) Advertising
8 1 (1.08%) Electronics
8 1 (1.08%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (1.08%) Marketing
8 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.08%) Police
8 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.75%) JSON
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.08%) .NET
3 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.08%) Node.js
3 1 (1.08%) Pandas
3 1 (1.08%) React
3 1 (1.08%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.15%) NHS
2 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.08%) FMCG
3 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (34.41%) Data Modelling
2 32 (34.41%) Visualisation
3 23 (24.73%) Analytics
4 20 (21.51%) Data Analysis
4 20 (21.51%) Data Visualisation
5 16 (17.20%) Agile
6 15 (16.13%) ETL
7 14 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (11.83%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (11.83%) Data Analytics
9 11 (11.83%) Data Transformation
10 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (8.60%) Decision-Making
11 8 (8.60%) ERP
12 6 (6.45%) Computer Science
12 6 (6.45%) Dashboard Development
12 6 (6.45%) Migration
13 5 (5.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (63.44%) SQL
2 13 (13.98%) Python
3 10 (10.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (6.45%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.15%) Java
5 2 (2.15%) R
5 2 (2.15%) VBA
6 1 (1.08%) C#
6 1 (1.08%) C++
6 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.60%) Degree
2 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.15%) PMO
3 2 (2.15%) QA
4 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.08%) SLA
Vendors
1 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.53%) Oracle
3 5 (5.38%) SAP
4 3 (3.23%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.15%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.15%) Google
5 2 (2.15%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (1.08%) Ariba
6 1 (1.08%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.08%) Intel
6 1 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) Workday