Business Intelligence Developer Contracts in the South West

BI Developer
England > South West

The median BI Developer daily rate in the South West is £406, 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 105 146 153
Rank change year-on-year +41 +7 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 6 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.37% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile £328 £396 £305
25th Percentile £350 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +25.00% -4.19%
75th Percentile £456 £525 £465
90th Percentile - £675 £485
England median daily rate £450 £453 £463
% change year-on-year -0.55% -2.16% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £84.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -70.40% +141.29% -19.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the South West

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the South West

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the South West

Business Intelligence Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +16 4 £438 -12.50% 3
Dorset - 1 - -
Business Intelligence Developer
England

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Power BI
1 6 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Power Query
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Tableau
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Looker
5 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Power Query
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Looker
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft