Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

BI Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median BI Developer daily rate in Leeds is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 62 67
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.42% 0.46% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.50% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £388 £333 £324
25th Percentile £406 £337 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £361 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -19.72% -22.41%
75th Percentile £469 £385 £500
90th Percentile £488 £388 £523
West Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £361 £450
% change year-on-year +21.11% -19.72% -22.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 691 603 897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.84% 93.34% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 371 607
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 31 6
10th Percentile - £17.08 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.50 £18.74
Median hourly rate £20.18 £24.18 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -16.54% +15.10% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.75 £38.75 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.40 £56.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £24.18 £19.85
% change year-on-year +7.53% +21.80% -7.66%

Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Business Intelligence Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Business Intelligence Developer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Developer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Developer job vacancies in Leeds

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in Leeds

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Business Intelligence Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Power Query
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Star Schema

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) Power Query
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) Star Schema
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft