Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
31 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 444 432
Rank change year-on-year -35 -12 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 112 96 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.33% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 73 129
10th Percentile £363 £326 £312
25th Percentile £400 £375 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £563
90th Percentile £630 £638 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £435 £425
% change year-on-year -2.30% +2.35% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £25.05 -
25th Percentile - £25.13 £80.00
Median hourly rate - £26.50 £84.45
Median % change year-on-year - -68.62% +141.29%
75th Percentile - £28.07 -
90th Percentile - £28.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.50 £84.45
% change year-on-year - -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 35,445 29,208 41,662
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 92.89% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,347 17,858 27,594
10th Percentile £300 £296 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £495
% change year-on-year -0.84% -3.23% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,112 858 2,186
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -10.96% +4.29%
75th Percentile £61.18 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.52 £38.00
% change year-on-year -12.75% -17.05% +26.67%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -47 96 £438 -2.78% 41
London -19 56 £525 - 8
UK excluding London -65 45 £425 -2.30% 41
Work from Home +14 42 £450 -12.20% 22
Midlands -42 13 £425 -5.56% 17
North of England -54 12 £438 +16.67% 4
West Midlands -43 11 £425 -5.56% 10
South East -27 9 £425 +9.68% 15
North West -30 8 £438 +9.38% 3
Wales -2 4 £400 -11.11% 1
South West -22 4 £450 -
Yorkshire -46 4 £438 +20.69%
Scotland +4 2 £488 +8.33%
East Midlands - 2 £390 - 7
East of England - 1 £211 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 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.

1 112 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 93 (83.04%) Power BI
2 93 (83.04%) Power Platform
3 74 (66.07%) SQL
4 61 (54.46%) Data Modelling
5 46 (41.07%) Visualisation
6 42 (37.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (32.14%) Analytics
8 35 (31.25%) ETL
9 34 (30.36%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (28.57%) Azure
11 31 (27.68%) Decision-Making
11 31 (27.68%) Microsoft
12 29 (25.89%) Power Query
13 26 (23.21%) Data Visualisation
14 18 (16.07%) Data Governance
14 18 (16.07%) SQL Server
15 17 (15.18%) Dashboard Development
16 15 (13.39%) Actionable Insight
16 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
17 14 (12.50%) Tableau
18 13 (11.61%) Agile
18 13 (11.61%) Data Transformation
18 13 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
18 13 (11.61%) Performance Tuning
18 13 (11.61%) Python
19 12 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
19 12 (10.71%) Databricks
19 12 (10.71%) Power Automate
19 12 (10.71%) SC Cleared

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 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.89%) iTrent
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.89%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 93 (83.04%) Power Platform
2 32 (28.57%) Azure
3 12 (10.71%) Power Automate
4 11 (9.82%) PowerApps
5 8 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (6.25%) AWS
7 6 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.57%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.68%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (2.68%) GCP
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.79%) GitHub
10 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.79%) SaaS
10 2 (1.79%) Serverless
11 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (83.04%) Power BI
2 34 (30.36%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (25.89%) Power Query
4 18 (16.07%) SQL Server
5 14 (12.50%) Tableau
6 12 (10.71%) Star Schema
7 11 (9.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (8.93%) Oracle BI EE
8 10 (8.93%) Relational Database
9 8 (7.14%) Data Lake
9 8 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.57%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.57%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.68%) Looker
11 3 (2.68%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (2.68%) QlikView
12 2 (1.79%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (1.79%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Git
2 1 (0.89%) ERwin
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.89%) Selenium
2 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 33 (29.46%) Finance
3 17 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.71%) Banking
6 8 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.57%) Back Office
7 4 (3.57%) Front Office
8 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.68%) Legal
8 3 (2.68%) Local Government
8 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Law
9 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Publishing
9 2 (1.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.68%) PySpark
2 2 (1.79%) .NET
2 2 (1.79%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.89%) HTML
3 1 (0.89%) Middleware
3 1 (0.89%) Playwright
3 1 (0.89%) Puppeteer
3 1 (0.89%) Shiny
3 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.68%) FMCG
3 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.79%) Derivative
4 2 (1.79%) Equities
4 2 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.89%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.89%) SCADA
5 1 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.79%) Unix
2 1 (0.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Windows
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (54.46%) Data Modelling
3 46 (41.07%) Visualisation
4 36 (32.14%) Analytics
5 35 (31.25%) ETL
6 31 (27.68%) Decision-Making
7 26 (23.21%) Data Visualisation
8 18 (16.07%) Data Governance
9 17 (15.18%) Dashboard Development
10 15 (13.39%) Actionable Insight
10 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (11.61%) Agile
11 13 (11.61%) Data Transformation
11 13 (11.61%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
13 11 (9.82%) Data Extraction
13 11 (9.82%) Migration
14 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (8.04%) Data Integration
15 9 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 74 (66.07%) SQL
2 42 (37.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 13 (11.61%) Python
4 7 (6.25%) R
5 6 (5.36%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.46%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.68%) C#
8 2 (1.79%) Scala
9 1 (0.89%) ABAP
9 1 (0.89%) Bicep
9 1 (0.89%) Java
9 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.57%) Degree
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.68%) QA
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) GRC
4 1 (0.89%) PMO
4 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (27.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.71%) Databricks
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle
4 4 (3.57%) SAP
5 2 (1.79%) Capita
5 2 (1.79%) Cognos
5 2 (1.79%) Sage
6 1 (0.89%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.89%) Denodo
6 1 (0.89%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
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