Business Intelligence Developer Contracts in England

BI Developer
UK > England

The median BI Developer daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 391 457
Rank change year-on-year -30 +66 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 64 151 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.44% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 126 157
10th Percentile £324 £350 £325
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -2.16% +2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £444 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -1.39% -2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Median hourly rate £25.00 £84.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.40% +141.29% -19.23%
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £84.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.00% +141.29% -19.80%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Developer in England

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in England

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in England

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in England

Business Intelligence Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London -5 32 £490 -10.91% 18
Midlands +20 9 £398 +6.13% 10
West Midlands +12 8 £398 +6.13% 9
North of England -4 8 £400 -3.03% 11
South East +35 7 £350 -22.22% 14
South West +41 6 £406 -18.75% 3
North West +5 5 £425 +6.25% 6
Yorkshire -3 2 £394 -10.00% 5
North East 0 1 £375 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Business Intelligence Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 54 (84.38%) Power BI
2 54 (84.38%) Power Platform
3 39 (60.94%) SQL
4 30 (46.88%) Data Modelling
5 24 (37.50%) Visualisation
6 21 (32.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (26.56%) Azure
8 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 14 (21.88%) Power Query
9 14 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
10 12 (18.75%) ETL
10 12 (18.75%) Decision-Making
11 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (17.19%) SQL Server
11 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
11 11 (17.19%) Analytics
12 10 (15.63%) Tableau
13 9 (14.06%) Finance
13 9 (14.06%) Data Analysis
13 9 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (12.50%) Agile
14 8 (12.50%) AWS
14 8 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
16 6 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
16 6 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (9.38%) Python
17 5 (7.81%) Snowflake Schema
17 5 (7.81%) SAP

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (84.38%) Power Platform
2 17 (26.56%) Azure
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
4 5 (7.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 4 (6.25%) PowerApps
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.13%) dbt
7 2 (3.13%) GCP
7 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.56%) OCI
8 1 (1.56%) SaaS
8 1 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (84.38%) Power BI
2 14 (21.88%) Power Query
3 11 (17.19%) SQL Server
4 10 (15.63%) Tableau
5 9 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
8 5 (7.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (4.69%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (4.69%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (4.69%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 3 (4.69%) Tableau Server
10 2 (3.13%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.13%) Looker
10 2 (3.13%) Metabase
10 2 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Git
1 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Finance
3 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Back Office
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Automotive
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Local Government
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) .NET
2 1 (1.56%) CSS
2 1 (1.56%) HTML
2 1 (1.56%) jQuery
2 1 (1.56%) MDX
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.56%) PySpark
2 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
1 2 (3.13%) Educational Technology
1 2 (3.13%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.56%) FMCG
2 1 (1.56%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.56%) NHS
2 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (46.88%) Data Modelling
3 24 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 14 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
5 12 (18.75%) Decision-Making
5 12 (18.75%) ETL
6 11 (17.19%) Analytics
6 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.06%) Data Analysis
8 8 (12.50%) Agile
9 6 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (7.81%) Data Transformation
10 5 (7.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 5 (7.81%) Migration
10 5 (7.81%) Requirements Gathering
11 4 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
11 4 (6.25%) Data Governance
11 4 (6.25%) Data Integration
11 4 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.94%) SQL
2 21 (32.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (9.38%) Python
4 4 (6.25%) R
5 3 (4.69%) C#
6 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.56%) Formula Language
7 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.56%) VBA
7 1 (1.56%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) Databricks
2 5 (7.81%) SAP
3 3 (4.69%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) Google
4 2 (3.13%) Sage
5 1 (1.56%) Cognos
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce