Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 434 425
Rank change year-on-year -71 -9 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 120 85 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.29% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.32% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 62 135
10th Percentile £348 £331 £350
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £563
90th Percentile £600 £638 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £398 £425
% change year-on-year +3.64% -6.35% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £25.10 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £25.25 £80.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £27.35 £84.45
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -67.61% +141.29%
75th Percentile £27.50 £41.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £26.50 £84.45
% change year-on-year +1.89% -68.62% +141.29%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 41,143 26,962 41,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 92.84% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,657 17,725 26,925
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.54%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,568 945 2,533
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.03 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.74 £20.94 £16.25
Median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.81 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £32.90
% change year-on-year +25.94% -3.45% -21.68%

Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Business Intelligence Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Business Intelligence Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Developer job vacancies in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Developer job vacancies in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. 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 -68 109 £425 -10.53% 71
London -51 57 £513 -2.38% 15
UK excluding London -75 53 £413 +3.64% 66
Work from Home -25 33 £425 -5.56% 31
Midlands -59 19 £414 +9.17% 17
West Midlands -47 18 £425 +12.14% 8
South East -50 10 £425 +21.43% 20
East of England - 9 £375 - 7
North of England -68 8 £438 +16.67% 19
North West -38 7 £438 - 14
Wales -8 3 £400 +53.85%
Scotland +3 2 £538 +26.47% 2
South West -28 2 £570 +26.67% 1
Yorkshire -55 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 9

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, Business Intelligence Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 120 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 99 (82.50%) Power BI
2 99 (82.50%) Power Platform
3 82 (68.33%) SQL
4 75 (62.50%) Data Modelling
5 55 (45.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 52 (43.33%) Analytics
7 47 (39.17%) ETL
8 45 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (36.67%) Visualisation
10 41 (34.17%) Microsoft
11 36 (30.00%) Azure
12 34 (28.33%) Decision-Making
13 32 (26.67%) Power Query
14 23 (19.17%) Data Visualisation
15 20 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
15 20 (16.67%) Data Governance
15 20 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (14.17%) Data Quality
16 17 (14.17%) Data Transformation
17 16 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
17 16 (13.33%) Power Automate
18 15 (12.50%) Agile
18 15 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
18 15 (12.50%) Databricks
18 15 (12.50%) Python
18 15 (12.50%) SQL Server
19 14 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 13 (10.83%) Migration
20 13 (10.83%) SQL Server Integration Services

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.67%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 99 (82.50%) Power Platform
2 36 (30.00%) Azure
3 16 (13.33%) Power Automate
4 10 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 10 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 8 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
6 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.50%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.67%) AWS
8 2 (1.67%) GCP
8 2 (1.67%) GitHub
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.83%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (82.50%) Power BI
2 45 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (26.67%) Power Query
4 15 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 13 (10.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (9.17%) Data Lake
6 11 (9.17%) Star Schema
7 9 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (7.50%) Tableau
8 8 (6.67%) Oracle BI EE
9 7 (5.83%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.00%) ZAP BI
11 5 (4.17%) Looker
11 5 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (3.33%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.50%) QlikView
14 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (1.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Git
2 4 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) ERwin
3 1 (0.83%) Hudson
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (38.33%) Finance
2 43 (35.83%) Social Skills
3 23 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (15.83%) Banking
5 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.50%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.83%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.33%) Back Office
8 4 (3.33%) Front Office
9 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Publishing
10 2 (1.67%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.83%) Legal
11 1 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.50%) PySpark
2 1 (0.83%) HTML
2 1 (0.83%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.83%) MDX
2 1 (0.83%) Middleware
2 1 (0.83%) NumPy
2 1 (0.83%) Pandas
2 1 (0.83%) Seaborn
2 1 (0.83%) Shiny
2 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.33%) FMCG
4 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.67%) Derivative
5 2 (1.67%) Equities
5 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.67%) SCADA
6 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.83%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Unix
1 1 (0.83%) Windows
1 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 75 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 52 (43.33%) Analytics
4 47 (39.17%) ETL
5 44 (36.67%) Visualisation
6 34 (28.33%) Decision-Making
7 23 (19.17%) Data Visualisation
8 20 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
8 20 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 20 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (14.17%) Data Transformation
10 16 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
11 15 (12.50%) Agile
11 15 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (10.83%) Migration
14 12 (10.00%) CI/CD
14 12 (10.00%) Data Extraction
15 11 (9.17%) Data Engineering
15 11 (9.17%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 82 (68.33%) SQL
2 55 (45.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 15 (12.50%) Python
4 8 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 6 (5.00%) R
5 6 (5.00%) VBA
6 4 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) Bicep
8 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (6.67%) Degree
2 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.17%) GRC
3 3 (2.50%) QA
4 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) PMO
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 41 (34.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.50%) Databricks
3 9 (7.50%) Sage
4 5 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.50%) Oracle
6 3 (2.50%) SAP
7 2 (1.67%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.67%) Cognos
8 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.83%) Remedy
76 Business Intelligence Developer jobs Nationwide