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 11 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
11 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 440 438
Rank change year-on-year -59 -2 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 120 86 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.31% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 67 122
10th Percentile £363 £325 £313
25th Percentile £373 £366 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £544
90th Percentile £615 £638 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £403 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.29% - -7.61%
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 39,127 27,402 41,559
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 92.96% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,467 17,684 27,246
10th Percentile £312 £293 £270
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 859 2,507
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.40 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% +2.17% -22.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.16 £76.44 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.95 £32.50 £32.70
% change year-on-year +7.52% -0.60% -18.26%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -57 107 £425 -10.53% 47
London -19 62 £513 -0.49% 15
UK excluding London -77 46 £403 -5.29% 42
Work from Home -4 39 £430 -14.00% 18
Midlands -57 17 £396 -6.54% 14
West Midlands -49 16 £403 -5.07% 10
South East -41 9 £425 +21.43% 12
East of England - 8 £375 - 1
North of England -70 6 £438 +18.64% 12
North West -37 5 £438 +9.38% 4
Wales -5 3 £400 -20.00% 1
South West -20 2 £570 +26.67%
Scotland +10 1 £475 +11.76% 2
Yorkshire -68 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 11 March 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
2 100 (83.33%) Power BI
2 100 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 78 (65.00%) SQL
4 72 (60.00%) Data Modelling
5 51 (42.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 47 (39.17%) Analytics
6 47 (39.17%) Visualisation
7 44 (36.67%) ETL
8 41 (34.17%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (34.17%) Microsoft
9 37 (30.83%) Azure
10 32 (26.67%) Decision-Making
11 31 (25.83%) Power Query
12 26 (21.67%) Data Visualisation
13 19 (15.83%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (15.83%) Data Governance
14 18 (15.00%) Agile
14 18 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
14 18 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (14.17%) Data Quality
16 16 (13.33%) SQL Server
16 16 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 15 (12.50%) Data Transformation
17 15 (12.50%) Databricks
17 15 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
17 15 (12.50%) Python
18 14 (11.67%) Power Automate
19 13 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
19 13 (10.83%) Performance Tuning

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 7 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.83%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 100 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 37 (30.83%) Azure
3 14 (11.67%) Power Automate
4 11 (9.17%) PowerApps
5 10 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.33%) AWS
8 3 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.67%) GCP
9 2 (1.67%) GitHub
9 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.67%) SaaS
9 2 (1.67%) Serverless
9 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (83.33%) Power BI
2 41 (34.17%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (25.83%) Power Query
4 16 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 13 (10.83%) Tableau
6 12 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (9.17%) Data Lake
7 11 (9.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (9.17%) Star Schema
8 10 (8.33%) Relational Database
9 8 (6.67%) Oracle BI EE
10 6 (5.00%) ZAP BI
11 5 (4.17%) Looker
12 4 (3.33%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
14 2 (1.67%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (0.83%) ERwin
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.83%) Selenium
2 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 43 (35.83%) Finance
3 19 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.50%) Banking
5 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.50%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.33%) Back Office
8 4 (3.33%) Front Office
9 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Law
10 2 (1.67%) Legal
10 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Publishing
10 2 (1.67%) Retail
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 2 (1.67%) .NET
2 2 (1.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.83%) HTML
3 1 (0.83%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.83%) Middleware
3 1 (0.83%) NumPy
3 1 (0.83%) Pandas
3 1 (0.83%) Playwright
3 1 (0.83%) Puppeteer
3 1 (0.83%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.83%) Shiny
3 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.50%) 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%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.67%) SCADA
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 72 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 47 (39.17%) Analytics
3 47 (39.17%) Visualisation
4 44 (36.67%) ETL
5 32 (26.67%) Decision-Making
6 26 (21.67%) Data Visualisation
7 19 (15.83%) Actionable Insight
7 19 (15.83%) Data Governance
8 18 (15.00%) Agile
8 18 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
8 18 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (12.50%) Data Transformation
11 13 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (10.83%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (10.00%) Migration
12 12 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (9.17%) Data Extraction
13 11 (9.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 78 (65.00%) SQL
2 51 (42.50%) 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%) C#
7 2 (1.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) Bicep
8 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.67%) Degree
3 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.67%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.50%) QA
4 2 (1.67%) PMO
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) GRC
5 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (34.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.50%) Databricks
3 9 (7.50%) Sage
4 3 (2.50%) Oracle
5 2 (1.67%) Cognos
5 2 (1.67%) SAP
6 1 (0.83%) Remedy
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
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