Business Intelligence Developer Contracts in England

BI Developer
UK > England

The median BI Developer daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 376 457
Rank change year-on-year -38 +81 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 59 165 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.45% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.48% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 133 154
10th Percentile £336 £350 £325
25th Percentile £363 £388 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -2.96%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £568
90th Percentile £638 £624 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 £84.45 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.40% - -
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £84.45 -
% change year-on-year -54.00% - -

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 22,096 34,040 45,024
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.74% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,636 22,553 32,010
10th Percentile £294 £285 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 914 2,522 1,314
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £65.01
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%

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 29 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 29 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 +4 25 £480 -10.70% 30
South East +33 9 £385 -12.00% 60
Midlands +11 9 £413 +10.00% 58
South West +34 7 £438 -12.50% 21
West Midlands +13 7 £443 +18.00% 34
North of England -22 7 £400 -5.88% 61
North West -12 4 £413 - 31
Yorkshire -5 2 £394 -12.50% 22
East Midlands - 2 £413 - 21
North East - 1 £375 - 8
Business Intelligence Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 59 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (88.14%) Power BI
2 52 (88.14%) Power Platform
3 40 (67.80%) SQL
4 30 (50.85%) Data Modelling
5 23 (38.98%) Visualisation
6 22 (37.29%) Azure
6 22 (37.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (27.12%) Power Query
8 15 (25.42%) ETL
9 14 (23.73%) Analytics
9 14 (23.73%) Data Visualisation
9 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
10 13 (22.03%) Decision-Making
10 13 (22.03%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
12 10 (16.95%) SQL Server
12 10 (16.95%) Data Analysis
12 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
14 8 (13.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (13.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (13.56%) Finance
14 8 (13.56%) Python
14 8 (13.56%) Tableau
14 8 (13.56%) Data Transformation
15 7 (11.86%) Agile
15 7 (11.86%) Actionable Insight
15 7 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
16 6 (10.17%) Databricks

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 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 52 (88.14%) Power Platform
2 22 (37.29%) Azure
3 8 (13.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (8.47%) AWS
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.08%) dbt
5 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.08%) GCP
5 3 (5.08%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.08%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.39%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.69%) OCI
7 1 (1.69%) Prefect
7 1 (1.69%) SaaS
7 1 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (88.14%) Power BI
2 16 (27.12%) Power Query
3 13 (22.03%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (16.95%) SQL Server
5 8 (13.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (13.56%) Tableau
6 6 (10.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
8 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
8 4 (6.78%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (5.08%) Looker
10 2 (3.39%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.39%) Metabase
10 2 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.39%) Tableau Server
11 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.69%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (1.69%) MySQL
11 1 (1.69%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Finance
4 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.39%) Marketing
4 2 (3.39%) Retail
5 1 (1.69%) Automotive
5 1 (1.69%) Back Office
5 1 (1.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Local Government
5 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) MDX
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.69%) PySpark
2 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.39%) Educational Technology
2 2 (3.39%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.39%) NHS
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) FMCG
3 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.69%) Housing Association
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.69%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (50.85%) Data Modelling
3 23 (38.98%) Visualisation
4 15 (25.42%) ETL
5 14 (23.73%) Analytics
5 14 (23.73%) Data Visualisation
6 13 (22.03%) Decision-Making
7 10 (16.95%) Data Analysis
7 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.56%) Data Transformation
9 7 (11.86%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (11.86%) Agile
9 7 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (10.17%) Dashboard Development
11 5 (8.47%) Data Governance
11 5 (8.47%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 4 (6.78%) Data Integration
12 4 (6.78%) Data Science
12 4 (6.78%) Migration
12 4 (6.78%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 40 (67.80%) SQL
2 22 (37.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (13.56%) Python
4 4 (6.78%) R
5 2 (3.39%) C#
5 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.69%) LookML
6 1 (1.69%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) Degree
1 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Databricks
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
3 3 (5.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.39%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) Cognos
5 1 (1.69%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) Veeam
5 1 (1.69%) VMware