Business Intelligence Consultant Contracts

BI Consultant
UK

The median BI Consultant daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 667 786
Rank change year-on-year +97 +119 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Consultant 30 49 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.083% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.088% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 41 60
10th Percentile £369 £388 £392
25th Percentile £425 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +0.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £665 £588 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Business Intelligence Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Business Intelligence Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Business Intelligence Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Consultant over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Business Intelligence Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Business Intelligence Consultant
Top 12 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 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +103 26 £525 +5.00% 6
London +114 14 £550 +37.50% 2
UK excluding London +45 14 £500 - 4
Work from Home +113 12 £470 -6.00% 4
South West +11 5 £550 +10.00%
North of England +28 3 £388 -18.42%
Scotland - 3 £525 -
North West +25 2 £388 -17.33%
South East - 2 £438 - 2
Midlands +27 1 £550 +4.76%
West Midlands +21 1 £550 +4.76%
Yorkshire +18 1 £475 -5.00%

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Business Intelligence Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (96.67%) Power BI
2 29 (96.67%) Power Platform
3 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 8 (26.67%) SQL
5 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
5 7 (23.33%) Dashboard Development
5 7 (23.33%) Analytics
5 7 (23.33%) Visualisation
6 6 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (20.00%) Finance
6 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
7 4 (13.33%) Migration
7 4 (13.33%) Banking
8 3 (10.00%) Azure
8 3 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (10.00%) Tableau
8 3 (10.00%) Product Management
8 3 (10.00%) Alteryx
8 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis
8 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
8 3 (10.00%) ETL
8 3 (10.00%) Oracle

Business Intelligence Consultant 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (96.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.33%) OCI
4 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (96.67%) Power BI
2 3 (10.00%) PostHog
2 3 (10.00%) Power Query
2 3 (10.00%) Tableau
3 2 (6.67%) Big Data
3 2 (6.67%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.33%) Sisense
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) BYOD
1 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
3 7 (23.33%) Analytics
3 7 (23.33%) Dashboard Development
3 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
3 7 (23.33%) Visualisation
4 6 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
6 3 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (10.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (10.00%) ETL
6 3 (10.00%) Product Analysis
6 3 (10.00%) Product Management
7 2 (6.67%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Alteryx
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Ariba