Microsoft BI Developer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Business Intelligence Developer
England > North West

The median Microsoft Business Intelligence Developer daily rate in the North West is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft BI Developer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.046% - 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% - 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £469 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £463 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -7.50% +17.65% -10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,006 2,247 2,635
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 93.66% 92.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 1,207 1,811
10th Percentile £264 £263 £270
25th Percentile £368 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £685 £659 £674
England median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 162 166
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.49 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% +4.35% +43.39%
75th Percentile £47.12 £55.25 £46.70
90th Percentile £69.71 £74.37 £68.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £45.94
% change year-on-year -42.71% -4.44% +74.23%

Microsoft BI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Microsoft BI Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Microsoft BI Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

Microsoft BI Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft BI Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft BI Developer job vacancies in the North West

Microsoft BI Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft BI Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Manchester - 1 £463 -
Microsoft BI Developer
England

Microsoft BI Developer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 3 October 2025, Microsoft BI 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 North West region featuring Microsoft BI Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline

Microsoft BI Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft