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 October 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 388 427
Rank change year-on-year -83 +39 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 89 162 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.43% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.46% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 120 155
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £394 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £451 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £570 £575
90th Percentile £780 £626 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £444
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.41% -1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.69 - -
Median hourly rate £38.85 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.48% - -
75th Percentile £41.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £30.00 -

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 29,904 34,864 44,908
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 92.98% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,888 21,031 30,699
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,645 1,438 1,521
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.00 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.15 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.18% -4.49% +97.78%

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 October 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 October 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 -47 80 £448 -0.56% 41
London -6 42 £600 +14.29% 11
UK excluding London -71 39 £425 -2.86% 42
Work from Home -5 33 £450 -10.00% 18
North of England -42 14 £431 +2.07% 6
South West +6 9 £438 - 9
North West -21 8 £424 -0.29% 4
Midlands -16 7 £421 -6.39% 9
Yorkshire -29 6 £435 +16.00% 2
South East +2 4 £400 -7.25% 12
East Midlands -1 4 £413 +10.00% 3
West Midlands -24 3 £494 +9.72% 6
Scotland -7 2 £500 +14.29%
East of England -12 2 £400 +33.33% 3
Wales 0 1 £308 -35.26% 3

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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 89 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 83 (93.26%) Power BI
2 83 (93.26%) Power Platform
3 60 (67.42%) SQL
4 44 (49.44%) Data Modelling
5 36 (40.45%) Visualisation
5 36 (40.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 31 (34.83%) Analytics
7 30 (33.71%) Power Query
8 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
8 27 (30.34%) Azure
9 25 (28.09%) ETL
10 23 (25.84%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (23.60%) Python
11 21 (23.60%) Finance
11 21 (23.60%) Data Visualisation
12 20 (22.47%) Decision-Making
13 17 (19.10%) Microsoft
14 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Excel
15 14 (15.73%) Tableau
15 14 (15.73%) Data Pipeline
15 14 (15.73%) Dashboard Development
16 11 (12.36%) Actionable Insight
16 11 (12.36%) Databricks
16 11 (12.36%) Data Governance
16 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
16 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
16 11 (12.36%) SQL Server
17 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
18 9 (10.11%) Relational Database

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 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.12%) iTrent
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 83 (93.26%) Power Platform
2 27 (30.34%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (7.87%) AWS
5 5 (5.62%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.49%) GCP
6 4 (4.49%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.37%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.37%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.25%) SaaS
8 2 (2.25%) Serverless
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.12%) GitHub
9 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (93.26%) Power BI
2 30 (33.71%) Power Query
3 23 (25.84%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (15.73%) Tableau
5 11 (12.36%) SQL Server
6 9 (10.11%) Relational Database
6 9 (10.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (8.99%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.37%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (3.37%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (3.37%) QlikView
9 3 (3.37%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.25%) Looker
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.25%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Git
2 1 (1.12%) Selenium
General
1 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.60%) Finance
3 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.87%) Banking
4 7 (7.87%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.62%) Retail
6 4 (4.49%) Front Office
6 4 (4.49%) Local Government
7 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.12%) Back Office
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.12%) Marketing
9 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) .NET
1 2 (2.25%) AWS CDK
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.12%) ODBC
2 1 (1.12%) Playwright
2 1 (1.12%) Puppeteer
2 1 (1.12%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Reference Data
2 5 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.37%) Derivative
3 3 (3.37%) Equities
3 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.25%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.25%) FMCG
4 2 (2.25%) NHS
4 2 (2.25%) SCADA
5 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.37%) Linux
1 3 (3.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (49.44%) Data Modelling
3 36 (40.45%) Visualisation
4 31 (34.83%) Analytics
5 25 (28.09%) ETL
6 21 (23.60%) Data Visualisation
7 20 (22.47%) Decision-Making
8 14 (15.73%) Dashboard Development
8 14 (15.73%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (12.36%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (12.36%) Data Governance
10 8 (8.99%) Agile
10 8 (8.99%) Data Analysis
10 8 (8.99%) Data Transformation
10 8 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (7.87%) Data Engineering
11 7 (7.87%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (7.87%) Software Engineering
12 6 (6.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (6.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (67.42%) SQL
2 36 (40.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 21 (23.60%) Python
4 4 (4.49%) C#
5 3 (3.37%) R
6 2 (2.25%) ABAP
6 2 (2.25%) Java
6 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.12%) LookML
7 1 (1.12%) Scala
7 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.74%) Degree
3 5 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.12%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.36%) Databricks
3 5 (5.62%) Oracle
4 4 (4.49%) SAP
5 3 (3.37%) Dataiku
6 2 (2.25%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.25%) Capita
6 2 (2.25%) Reuters
7 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.12%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.12%) Cognos
7 1 (1.12%) Denodo
7 1 (1.12%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Veeam
7 1 (1.12%) Vertica
7 1 (1.12%) VMware
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