Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 411 419
Rank change year-on-year -76 +8 +92
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 95 133 192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.40% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 101 137
10th Percentile £348 £350 £321
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £775 £638 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £28.68 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £28.68 -

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 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

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 13 December 2025.

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 13 December 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 -74 81 £450 -10.00% 37
London -19 45 £525 -0.94% 9
UK excluding London -65 41 £425 -5.56% 39
Work from Home -5 36 £450 -12.20% 17
Midlands -28 14 £425 -5.56% 10
North of England -50 12 £438 +6.71% 6
West Midlands -24 11 £425 -5.56% 2
South West -19 7 £450 -
North West -24 7 £438 +3.55% 6
Yorkshire -41 5 £445 +20.68%
Wales -1 4 £400 -11.11% 6
East Midlands -15 3 £413 +10.00% 8
Scotland +4 2 £500 - 2
East of England -13 1 £400 - 3
South East -24 1 £525 +20.00% 13

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 95 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 88 (92.63%) Power BI
2 88 (92.63%) Power Platform
3 67 (70.53%) SQL
4 53 (55.79%) Data Modelling
5 45 (47.37%) Visualisation
6 42 (44.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (37.89%) Analytics
8 34 (35.79%) Power Query
9 30 (31.58%) Decision-Making
10 29 (30.53%) Data Warehouse
11 28 (29.47%) Azure
12 27 (28.42%) Microsoft
13 26 (27.37%) Data Visualisation
14 24 (25.26%) ETL
15 22 (23.16%) Python
16 17 (17.89%) Microsoft Excel
16 17 (17.89%) SQL Server
17 15 (15.79%) Data Governance
18 14 (14.74%) Dashboard Development
19 13 (13.68%) Power Automate
19 13 (13.68%) PowerApps
20 12 (12.63%) Agile
20 12 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
20 12 (12.63%) Performance Tuning
20 12 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
21 11 (11.58%) Actionable Insight
21 11 (11.58%) Data Transformation
21 11 (11.58%) Databricks
21 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving

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 10 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (17.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.05%) iTrent
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 88 (92.63%) Power Platform
2 28 (29.47%) Azure
3 13 (13.68%) Power Automate
3 13 (13.68%) PowerApps
4 9 (9.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (6.32%) AWS
6 5 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.21%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.16%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.11%) GCP
9 2 (2.11%) GitHub
9 2 (2.11%) SaaS
9 2 (2.11%) Serverless
10 1 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (92.63%) Power BI
2 34 (35.79%) Power Query
3 29 (30.53%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (17.89%) SQL Server
5 11 (11.58%) Relational Database
5 11 (11.58%) Tableau
6 10 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (8.42%) Star Schema
8 7 (7.37%) Data Lake
9 4 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (3.16%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (3.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.16%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (3.16%) QlikView
10 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (2.11%) BigQuery
11 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (2.11%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Git
2 1 (1.05%) Selenium
2 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.21%) Finance
3 15 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.37%) Banking
4 7 (7.37%) Investment Banking
4 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.21%) Front Office
5 4 (4.21%) Local Government
6 3 (3.16%) Legal
6 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.11%) Law
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Back Office
8 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.11%) .NET
1 2 (2.11%) AWS CDK
1 2 (2.11%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (2.11%) PySpark
2 1 (1.05%) Playwright
2 1 (1.05%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.32%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.16%) Derivative
4 3 (3.16%) Equities
4 3 (3.16%) FMCG
4 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.11%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.11%) SCADA
6 1 (1.05%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
1 3 (3.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (55.79%) Data Modelling
3 45 (47.37%) Visualisation
4 36 (37.89%) Analytics
5 30 (31.58%) Decision-Making
6 26 (27.37%) Data Visualisation
7 24 (25.26%) ETL
8 15 (15.79%) Data Governance
9 14 (14.74%) Dashboard Development
10 12 (12.63%) Agile
10 12 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (12.63%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (11.58%) Actionable Insight
11 11 (11.58%) Data Transformation
11 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (10.53%) Data Extraction
12 10 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 7 (7.37%) Migration
13 7 (7.37%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (70.53%) SQL
2 42 (44.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 22 (23.16%) Python
4 6 (6.32%) R
5 4 (4.21%) C#
5 4 (4.21%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.16%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.11%) ABAP
7 2 (2.11%) Java
8 1 (1.05%) Bicep
8 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
1 11 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.26%) Degree
3 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.16%) QA
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.58%) Databricks
3 5 (5.26%) SAP
4 4 (4.21%) Oracle
5 2 (2.11%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.11%) Capita
5 2 (2.11%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.11%) Reuters
5 2 (2.11%) Sage
6 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.05%) Denodo
6 1 (1.05%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
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