Business Intelligence Developer Contracts

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 472 426
Rank change year-on-year +62 -46 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 180 260 515
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.42% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.45% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 191 402
10th Percentile £350 £338 £338
25th Percentile £400 £403 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £568 £550
90th Percentile £620 £625 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile £80.00 - £38.94
Median hourly rate £84.45 £35.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +141.29% -19.80% +61.64%
75th Percentile - - £45.42
90th Percentile - - £46.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £84.45 £35.00 £43.34
% change year-on-year +141.29% -19.23% +41.90%

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 40,676 58,105 85,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.57% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,585 40,497 60,269
10th Percentile £275 £308 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,604 1,648 2,131
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.37
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.33 £75.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +117.26% +2.63%

Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +67 154 £453 -4.74% 55
UK excluding London +62 95 £425 -5.56% 29
Work from Home +77 76 £450 - 32
London +65 73 £525 +5.00% 26
North of England +43 30 £431 -6.76% 9
South East +35 20 £450 +23.29% 2
North West +35 17 £413 -2.94% 5
Yorkshire +27 12 £450 -20.35% 3
South West +24 11 £500 +17.65% 3
Midlands +24 10 £363 -17.14% 10
Scotland +35 9 £438 -7.89%
West Midlands +22 9 £375 -16.67% 6
East of England +12 8 £300 -55.56% 5
Wales - 8 £550 -
North East +19 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Business Intelligence Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 180 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 143 (79.44%) Power BI
2 143 (79.44%) Power Platform
3 101 (56.11%) SQL
4 50 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 50 (27.78%) Azure
5 45 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 45 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 43 (23.89%) Data Modelling
6 43 (23.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 42 (23.33%) ETL
8 38 (21.11%) Analytics
9 37 (20.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 36 (20.00%) Finance
11 34 (18.89%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
11 34 (18.89%) Social Skills
12 33 (18.33%) SQL Server
13 28 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
15 22 (12.22%) Databricks
16 21 (11.67%) T-SQL
16 21 (11.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 20 (11.11%) Power Automate
18 19 (10.56%) Data Analysis
18 19 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
19 18 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
20 17 (9.44%) SC Cleared
20 17 (9.44%) Security Cleared
20 17 (9.44%) Agile

Business Intelligence Developer 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 9 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Maximo
1 2 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 143 (79.44%) Power Platform
2 50 (27.78%) Azure
3 20 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 18 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.00%) AWS
6 9 (5.00%) PowerApps
7 6 (3.33%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.78%) GitHub
9 4 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.67%) GCP
10 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.67%) Serverless
11 2 (1.11%) Apigee
11 2 (1.11%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.11%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.11%) OCI
11 2 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (79.44%) Power BI
2 45 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 37 (20.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 34 (18.89%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (18.33%) SQL Server
6 21 (11.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 16 (8.89%) Power Query
8 15 (8.33%) Tableau
9 10 (5.56%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 10 (5.56%) Data Lake
10 9 (5.00%) Lumira
10 9 (5.00%) SAP BW
11 8 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (3.89%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (3.89%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
13 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
14 5 (2.78%) OLAP
14 5 (2.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (6.11%) JIRA
2 6 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (2.78%) Git
4 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (20.00%) Finance
2 34 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (18.89%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.11%) Banking
4 10 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.33%) Retail
6 5 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.22%) Local Government
7 4 (2.22%) Marketing
8 3 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Billing
9 2 (1.11%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.67%) .NET
1 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
1 3 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.11%) HTML
3 1 (0.56%) LDAP
3 1 (0.56%) MDX
3 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
1 3 (1.67%) Tandem
2 2 (1.11%) CMDB
2 2 (1.11%) NHS
3 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.56%) FMCG
3 1 (0.56%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
1 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 43 (23.89%) Data Modelling
4 42 (23.33%) ETL
5 38 (21.11%) Analytics
6 28 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
8 19 (10.56%) Data Analysis
9 17 (9.44%) Agile
10 15 (8.33%) DevOps
11 14 (7.78%) Dashboard Development
12 12 (6.67%) Data Integration
13 11 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (5.56%) Decision-Making
15 8 (4.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 8 (4.44%) Predictive Analytics
16 7 (3.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 7 (3.89%) Migration
16 7 (3.89%) Unit Testing
16 7 (3.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 101 (56.11%) SQL
2 43 (23.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 21 (11.67%) T-SQL
4 13 (7.22%) Python
5 3 (1.67%) C#
5 3 (1.67%) MATLAB
5 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.11%) ABAP
6 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.11%) R
7 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.56%) Scala
7 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (9.44%) SC Cleared
1 17 (9.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.67%) Degree
3 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.11%) GDPR
2 2 (1.11%) IFRS
2 2 (1.11%) PMO
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 50 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.22%) Databricks
3 13 (7.22%) SAP
4 6 (3.33%) Oracle
5 3 (1.67%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Civica
7 1 (0.56%) Facebook
7 1 (0.56%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.56%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.56%) QAD
7 1 (0.56%) Twitter
61 Business Intelligence Developer jobs Nationwide