Business Intelligence Architect Contracts

BI Architect
UK

The median BI Architect daily rate in the UK is £650, 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 512 568 708
Rank change year-on-year +56 +140 +113
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Architect 8 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.032% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.035% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 9
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile - £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -7.41% -16.92%
75th Percentile - £684 £588
90th Percentile - £719 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate - £675 £525
% change year-on-year - +28.57% -17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Business Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Architect in the UK

Business Intelligence Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Architect.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Architect in the UK

Business Intelligence Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Architect in the UK

Business Intelligence Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Architect within the UK 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
England +56 6 £650 -3.70% 3
UK excluding London +62 3 - - 1
London +38 3 £650 -35.00% 2
North of England +19 2 - -
Yorkshire +9 2 - -
Work from Home +40 1 - - 2
Midlands +21 1 - - 1
East Midlands +9 1 - - 1

Business Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Business Intelligence Architect 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 featuring Business Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) Power BI
2 7 (87.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) NHS
4 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) Power Query
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (12.50%) Databricks
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Predictive Analytics

Business Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Power Query
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) Data Security
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) IBM
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle