SQL BI Developer Contracts

SQL Business Intelligence Developer
UK

The median SQL Business Intelligence Developer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 674 755
Rank change year-on-year +110 +81 -132
Contract jobs requiring a SQL BI Developer 15 26 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.043% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.046% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 93
10th Percentile £275 £281 £359
25th Percentile £381 £366 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £463 £563 £550
90th Percentile £545 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £448
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.61% +11.88%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £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 £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

SQL BI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL BI Developer in the UK

SQL BI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL BI Developer.

Daily rate trend for SQL BI Developer in the UK

SQL BI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL BI Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL BI Developer in the UK

SQL BI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL BI Developer.

Hourly rate trend for SQL BI Developer in the UK

SQL BI Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL BI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +110 15 £450 +5.88% 5
Work from Home +118 11 £450 +12.50% 3
UK excluding London +66 10 £450 +12.50% 3
North of England +32 6 £450 +16.13%
Yorkshire - 6 £450 -
London +110 5 £450 -25.00% 2
East of England +15 3 £300 - 1
South East +24 1 £500 +63.93% 1

SQL BI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, SQL BI 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 SQL BI Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (93.33%) SQL
3 9 (60.00%) Power BI
3 9 (60.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (53.33%) Azure
4 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
5 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (40.00%) DevOps
6 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
7 5 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
7 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
7 5 (33.33%) Git
7 5 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (33.33%) JIRA
8 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
9 3 (20.00%) ETL
9 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
10 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
11 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
11 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (6.67%) Clean Code

SQL BI 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (6.67%) IaaS
6 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Power BI
2 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.67%) Data Mart
6 1 (6.67%) Looker
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
1 5 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Finance
1 1 (6.67%) Local Government
1 1 (6.67%) Marketing
1 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 5 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
6 1 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (6.67%) Case Management
6 1 (6.67%) Clean Code
6 1 (6.67%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (6.67%) Kanban
6 1 (6.67%) Kimball Methodology
6 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.67%) Scrum
6 1 (6.67%) SDLC
6 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
6 1 (6.67%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) IFRS
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks