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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 475 382
Rank change year-on-year -44 -93 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 149 85 185
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.26% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.28% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 63 142
10th Percentile £325 £350 £351
25th Percentile £371 £391 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £451
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -3.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £584
90th Percentile £588 £760 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £425 £431
% change year-on-year +2.35% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.69 -
Median hourly rate £17.97 £38.85 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.74% +29.48% -
75th Percentile £20.35 £41.00 -
90th Percentile £24.64 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.97 - £30.00

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 49,223 30,273 36,284
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 91.43% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,638 19,224 23,532
10th Percentile £331 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,407 1,497 2,061
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.63 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.95 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +76.94% -42.71% +11.00%

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 3 August 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 16 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 3 August 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 -50 139 £450 +1.98% 32
UK excluding London -60 76 £435 +2.35% 20
London -32 65 £480 -12.73% 14
Work from Home -29 47 £440 +5.07% 15
North of England -55 23 £440 +3.53% 4
Midlands -34 20 £400 -3.03% 7
North West -37 20 £440 +10.00% 4
West Midlands -50 13 £400 -23.81% 2
South East -65 13 £438 +11.24% 4
East of England -8 9 £375 -6.25%
East Midlands -12 7 £350 -15.15% 5
Scotland -5 5 £430 +1.18%
South West -43 5 £470 +7.43% 5
Yorkshire -46 2 £519 +19.25%
Wales - 1 £325 -
North East - 1 £350 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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.

1 149 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (86.58%) Power BI
2 129 (86.58%) Power Platform
3 96 (64.43%) Data Modelling
4 81 (54.36%) SQL
5 80 (53.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 61 (40.94%) Analytics
7 56 (37.58%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (37.58%) Microsoft
8 52 (34.90%) Power Query
9 51 (34.23%) Azure
10 50 (33.56%) ETL
11 39 (26.17%) Visualisation
12 36 (24.16%) Decision-Making
13 27 (18.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (17.45%) Data Visualisation
15 25 (16.78%) Agile
16 24 (16.11%) Actionable Insight
17 23 (15.44%) Star Schema
18 22 (14.77%) Data Quality
18 22 (14.77%) Data Transformation
19 20 (13.42%) Dimensional Modelling
19 20 (13.42%) Security Cleared
20 19 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
21 18 (12.08%) Dashboard Development
21 18 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
21 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
21 18 (12.08%) Python
21 18 (12.08%) SQL Server
22 17 (11.41%) Azure Data Factory

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 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 16 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.01%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.67%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 129 (86.58%) Power Platform
2 51 (34.23%) Azure
3 17 (11.41%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (8.05%) Power Automate
4 12 (8.05%) Snowflake
5 11 (7.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (5.37%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.70%) dbt
8 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.68%) GCP
10 3 (2.01%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.01%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 2 (1.34%) AWS
11 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.67%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (86.58%) Power BI
2 56 (37.58%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (34.90%) Power Query
4 23 (15.44%) Star Schema
5 18 (12.08%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (6.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (4.03%) Data Lake
8 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.03%) ZAP BI
9 5 (3.36%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (3.36%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.68%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.68%) Tableau
11 3 (2.01%) SAP Data Services
11 3 (2.01%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (3.36%) JIRA
2 1 (0.67%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) Hudson
2 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (30.20%) Finance
2 33 (22.15%) Social Skills
3 31 (20.81%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.41%) Banking
5 11 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.04%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.36%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.36%) Retail
8 4 (2.68%) Front Office
9 3 (2.01%) Police
9 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Publishing
10 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) Back Office
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.01%) HTML
1 3 (2.01%) REST
2 2 (1.34%) .NET
2 2 (1.34%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.34%) HTML5
3 1 (0.67%) ADO
3 1 (0.67%) CSS
3 1 (0.67%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.67%) MDX
3 1 (0.67%) NumPy
3 1 (0.67%) Pandas
3 1 (0.67%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.04%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.01%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.34%) FMCG
4 2 (1.34%) NHS
4 2 (1.34%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.34%) SCADA
5 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.67%) Derivative
5 1 (0.67%) Equities
5 1 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.67%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 96 (64.43%) Data Modelling
3 61 (40.94%) Analytics
4 50 (33.56%) ETL
5 39 (26.17%) Visualisation
6 36 (24.16%) Decision-Making
7 27 (18.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (17.45%) Data Visualisation
9 25 (16.78%) Agile
10 24 (16.11%) Actionable Insight
11 22 (14.77%) Data Transformation
12 20 (13.42%) Dimensional Modelling
13 19 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (12.08%) Dashboard Development
14 18 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (11.41%) Translating Business Requirements
15 17 (11.41%) User Experience
16 16 (10.74%) Data Governance
17 15 (10.07%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (54.36%) SQL
2 80 (53.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 18 (12.08%) Python
4 7 (4.70%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.03%) VBA
6 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.01%) C#
7 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.67%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 20 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.72%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) Degree
4 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.34%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.36%) GRC
3 4 (2.68%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.34%) PMO
4 2 (1.34%) QA
5 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (2.01%) Control-M
Vendors
1 56 (37.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.05%) Databricks
3 11 (7.38%) Oracle
3 11 (7.38%) SAP
4 7 (4.70%) Sage
5 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.36%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.34%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.67%) Remedy