Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £440, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 444 403
Rank change year-on-year -57 -41 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 124 72 182
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.25% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.27% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 48 147
10th Percentile £352 £346 £350
25th Percentile £370 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% -4.17% -1.10%
75th Percentile £538 £482 £569
90th Percentile £600 £594 £622
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £29.68 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £36.69 £80.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £38.85 £84.45
Median % change year-on-year -30.49% -54.00% +141.29%
75th Percentile £27.50 £41.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £84.45
% change year-on-year +8.00% -70.40% +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 43,905 26,796 39,671
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.46% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,903 17,460 25,789
10th Percentile £320 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,866 1,033 2,665
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.43 £28.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.13% -24.85% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.24 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.21% -31.91% -4.94%

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 14 May 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 13 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 14 May 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 -42 117 £440 +0.57% 29
London -23 61 £485 +1.04% 8
UK excluding London -84 53 £425 - 22
Work from Home -11 38 £425 - 10
Midlands -50 17 £425 -3.95% 6
West Midlands -46 16 £425 -3.95% 3
South East -50 14 £425 +21.43% 5
North West -31 10 £440 +10.00% 6
North of England -64 10 £440 +13.55% 8
East of England - 9 £375 - 2
Scotland +3 2 £538 +26.47%
East Midlands -30 1 £475 - 3
South West -38 1 £470 +7.43% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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.

1 124 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 102 (82.26%) Power BI
2 102 (82.26%) Power Platform
3 84 (67.74%) Data Modelling
4 78 (62.90%) SQL
5 65 (52.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 57 (45.97%) Analytics
7 48 (38.71%) ETL
8 46 (37.10%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (37.10%) Microsoft
9 41 (33.06%) Azure
10 39 (31.45%) Power Query
11 36 (29.03%) Decision-Making
11 36 (29.03%) Visualisation
12 24 (19.35%) Data Quality
13 23 (18.55%) Agile
14 22 (17.74%) Actionable Insight
15 21 (16.94%) Data Visualisation
16 18 (14.52%) Data Governance
16 18 (14.52%) Data Transformation
16 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (13.71%) Data Pipeline
17 17 (13.71%) Python
18 15 (12.10%) Databricks
18 15 (12.10%) Power Automate
18 15 (12.10%) SQL Server
18 15 (12.10%) Star Schema
19 14 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
19 14 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 13 (10.48%) Data Engineering

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 4 (3.23%) Confluence
1 4 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.42%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.61%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.81%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 102 (82.26%) Power Platform
2 41 (33.06%) Azure
3 15 (12.10%) Power Automate
4 10 (8.06%) PowerApps
5 9 (7.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.03%) Copilot Studio
7 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (3.23%) GCP
8 4 (3.23%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.61%) AWS
10 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.81%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (82.26%) Power BI
2 46 (37.10%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (31.45%) Power Query
4 15 (12.10%) SQL Server
4 15 (12.10%) Star Schema
5 12 (9.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (8.06%) Relational Database
7 9 (7.26%) Data Lake
7 9 (7.26%) Tableau
8 8 (6.45%) Oracle BI EE
9 7 (5.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (4.84%) ZAP BI
11 5 (4.03%) Looker
11 5 (4.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (3.23%) Oracle ODI
13 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (1.61%) Big Data
14 2 (1.61%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Git
2 4 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (0.81%) ERwin
3 1 (0.81%) Hudson
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (38.71%) Finance
2 40 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.55%) Banking
4 22 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.45%) Financial Institution
6 8 (6.45%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.23%) Back Office
7 4 (3.23%) Front Office
7 4 (3.23%) Publishing
8 3 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Legal
10 1 (0.81%) Local Government
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.42%) HTML
2 2 (1.61%) HTML5
2 2 (1.61%) REST
3 1 (0.81%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.81%) MDX
3 1 (0.81%) Middleware
3 1 (0.81%) NumPy
3 1 (0.81%) Pandas
3 1 (0.81%) PySpark
3 1 (0.81%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.81%) Shiny
3 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.61%) Derivative
5 2 (1.61%) Equities
5 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.61%) SCADA
6 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.81%) FMCG
6 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.81%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.81%) NHS
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Unix
1 1 (0.81%) Windows
1 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (67.74%) Data Modelling
3 57 (45.97%) Analytics
4 48 (38.71%) ETL
5 36 (29.03%) Decision-Making
5 36 (29.03%) Visualisation
6 23 (18.55%) Agile
7 22 (17.74%) Actionable Insight
8 21 (16.94%) Data Visualisation
9 18 (14.52%) Data Governance
9 18 (14.52%) Data Transformation
9 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (13.71%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (10.48%) Data Engineering
12 13 (10.48%) Validation
13 12 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (9.68%) Translating Business Requirements
13 12 (9.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 78 (62.90%) SQL
2 65 (52.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 17 (13.71%) Python
4 8 (6.45%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.84%) R
5 6 (4.84%) VBA
6 4 (3.23%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.61%) C#
7 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.61%) Scala
8 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.65%) Degree
2 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.61%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.03%) GRC
3 4 (3.23%) QA
4 3 (2.42%) GDPR
5 2 (1.61%) PMO
6 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 46 (37.10%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.10%) Databricks
3 8 (6.45%) Sage
4 7 (5.65%) Oracle
5 6 (4.84%) SAP
6 5 (4.03%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.23%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.61%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.61%) Cognos
9 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.81%) Remedy