Business Intelligence Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

BI Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median BI Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 350 374
Rank change year-on-year +27 +24 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 16 44 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.23% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 47
10th Percentile £300 £275 £320
25th Percentile £355 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £513
90th Percentile £488 £523 £575
UK median daily rate £434 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -6.22% +2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £24.69 - £42.73
25th Percentile £27.24 £6.57 £66.17
Median hourly rate £32.81 £7.85 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +317.96% -90.09% +295.06%
75th Percentile £34.31 £9.14 -
90th Percentile £34.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £22.50 £79.19
% change year-on-year +27.11% -71.59% +295.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,872 18,741 21,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.48% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,548 11,455 15,203
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,269 1,109
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.29 £15.75 £18.03
Median hourly rate £26.31 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.23% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.38% -18.89% +88.21%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Intelligence Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England +17 8 £410 -8.89% 8
Yorkshire +14 7 £443 +10.63% 1
South East +39 3 £425 +8.97% 24
Midlands +5 3 £450 +24.14% 10
East Midlands +6 2 - - 5
South West +37 1 £525 -4.55% 4
North West +5 1 £275 -45.00% 5
West Midlands +4 1 £450 +20.00% 5
Wales - 1 £400 -
Business Intelligence Analyst
UK

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Business Intelligence Analyst 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 UK excluding London region featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (93.75%) Power BI
2 15 (93.75%) Power Platform
3 12 (75.00%) SQL
4 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (37.50%) Data Analysis
6 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
6 5 (31.25%) Data Collection
6 5 (31.25%) ETL
6 5 (31.25%) Tableau
7 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
7 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
8 3 (18.75%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
8 3 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
8 3 (18.75%) QlikView
8 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
9 2 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
9 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 2 (12.50%) Retail
9 2 (12.50%) Marketing
9 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Contentsquare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (93.75%) Power BI
2 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (31.25%) Tableau
4 3 (18.75%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (18.75%) QlikView
5 2 (12.50%) Star Schema
6 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) Retail
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 5 (31.25%) Data Collection
3 5 (31.25%) ETL
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 2 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Information Governance
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe