Business Intelligence Consultant Contracts

BI Consultant
UK

The median BI Consultant daily rate in the UK 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 542 540 660
Rank change year-on-year -2 +120 +157
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Consultant 11 30 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.077% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.082% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 19
10th Percentile £433 £413 £456
25th Percentile £456 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £575 £544
90th Percentile £500 £639 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%

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 30,107 36,433 50,404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.93% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,087 23,537 34,777
10th Percentile £282 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,495 2,061 1,513
10th Percentile £13.62 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.05 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
% change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%

Business Intelligence Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Business Intelligence Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Business Intelligence Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Business Intelligence Consultant
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 Consultant within the UK 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
England -4 11 £475 -7.77% 16
UK excluding London -4 8 £475 - 12
North of England -8 6 £475 - 4
Work from Home +23 3 £450 -12.62% 11
North West -1 3 £475 +1.33%
Yorkshire -4 3 £475 - 4
London -6 3 £413 -25.00% 6
East of England - 2 £450 -

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

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 featuring Business Intelligence Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (63.64%) Analytics
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
3 5 (45.45%) Power BI
4 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (36.36%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
6 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
6 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) JIRA
6 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
6 2 (18.18%) ETL

Business Intelligence Consultant 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (9.09%) Power Query
4 1 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) FMCG
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (63.64%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (9.09%) Data Design
6 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Data Reconciliation
6 1 (9.09%) Data Science
6 1 (9.09%) Data Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
2 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) SAP