Business Intelligence Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

BI Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median BI Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 351 420
Rank change year-on-year -4 +69 +82
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Consultant 8 20 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.11% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.12% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 13
10th Percentile £456 £404 £455
25th Percentile £463 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £534 £538
90th Percentile £503 £585 -
UK median daily rate £475 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% -

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 13,732 16,995 21,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 92.01% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,406 10,368 14,278
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £684 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 1,772 1,162
10th Percentile £13.36 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

Business Intelligence Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Business Intelligence Consultant
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 Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 -8 6 £475 - 4
North West -1 3 £475 +1.33%
Yorkshire -4 3 £475 - 4
East of England - 2 £450 -
Business Intelligence Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, Business Intelligence Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (50.00%) Power BI
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analytics

Business Intelligence Consultant 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) FMCG
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
2 1 (12.50%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Data Reconciliation
5 1 (12.50%) Data Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Value Proposition
5 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) SAP