Business Intelligence Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

BI Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 281 355
Rank change year-on-year -29 +74 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 43 111 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.52% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.56% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 86 68
10th Percentile £338 £313 £289
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -
75th Percentile £456 £497 £488
90th Percentile £515 £563 £575
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -68.75% - -
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -51.44% - -

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 12,358 19,738 21,522
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.36% 92.42% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,721 11,728 14,888
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -1.45% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 2,554 1,115
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.63 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.97 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%
75th Percentile £58.58 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -14.77% +76.00%

Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

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

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

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

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

Business Intelligence Developer
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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
South East +35 10 £388 -10.14% 32
Midlands +8 10 £413 +10.00% 14
South West +34 9 £438 +2.94% 4
West Midlands +10 7 £443 +18.00% 13
North of England -18 7 £400 -8.57% 17
Scotland +2 5 £425 -4.23% 11
North West -12 5 £400 -3.03% 6
East Midlands - 3 £413 - 1
East of England +17 2 £400 +33.33% 2
Yorkshire -17 1 £425 -5.56% 8
North East - 1 £375 - 3
Business Intelligence Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (95.35%) Power BI
2 41 (95.35%) Power Platform
3 25 (58.14%) SQL
4 21 (48.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (37.21%) Data Modelling
6 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
6 15 (34.88%) Visualisation
6 15 (34.88%) Azure
7 13 (30.23%) Data Visualisation
7 13 (30.23%) Power Query
7 13 (30.23%) ETL
8 10 (23.26%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (23.26%) Analytics
9 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
9 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
9 8 (18.60%) Finance
10 6 (13.95%) Data Integration
10 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
11 5 (11.63%) R
11 5 (11.63%) User Experience
11 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (11.63%) Agile
11 5 (11.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (9.30%) Python
12 4 (9.30%) AWS
12 4 (9.30%) Tableau
12 4 (9.30%) Data Governance
12 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (9.30%) Dashboard Development

Business Intelligence Developer 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 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 41 (95.35%) Power Platform
2 15 (34.88%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) AWS
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.98%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (95.35%) Power BI
2 13 (30.23%) Power Query
3 10 (23.26%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
5 5 (11.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
6 4 (9.30%) Tableau
7 3 (6.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.65%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (4.65%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
8 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.33%) Big Data
9 1 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.33%) Looker
9 1 (2.33%) MySQL
9 1 (2.33%) OLAP
9 1 (2.33%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (18.60%) Finance
1 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.98%) Retail
4 2 (4.65%) Local Government
5 1 (2.33%) Automotive
5 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) .NET
1 1 (2.33%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.33%) FMCG
2 1 (2.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (37.21%) Data Modelling
3 15 (34.88%) Visualisation
4 13 (30.23%) Data Visualisation
4 13 (30.23%) ETL
5 10 (23.26%) Analytics
6 6 (13.95%) Data Integration
6 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
7 5 (11.63%) Agile
7 5 (11.63%) User Experience
8 4 (9.30%) Dashboard Development
8 4 (9.30%) Data Governance
8 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.98%) Actionable Insight
9 3 (6.98%) Data Transformation
9 3 (6.98%) Logistics
9 3 (6.98%) UX Design
10 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis
10 2 (4.65%) ERP
10 2 (4.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) SQL
2 21 (48.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (11.63%) R
4 4 (9.30%) Python
5 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Databricks
3 2 (4.65%) Cognos
3 2 (4.65%) Google
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) Anaplan
4 1 (2.33%) Veeam
4 1 (2.33%) VMware