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 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 445 424
Rank change year-on-year -42 -21 +86
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 97 109 166
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.35% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 86 118
10th Percentile £363 £328 £314
25th Percentile £394 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £538 £560 £575
90th Percentile £749 £650 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £25.46 £80.45
25th Percentile - £25.79 £81.11
Median hourly rate - £27.35 £82.23
Median % change year-on-year - -66.74% +134.93%
75th Percentile - £29.19 £83.34
90th Percentile - £29.68 £84.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.35 £82.23
% change year-on-year - -66.74% +134.93%

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 33,882 31,304 40,866
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 92.76% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,416 19,227 27,402
10th Percentile £294 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,989 974 1,553
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.12
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -26.67% +46.39%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.75 £76.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

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 26 December 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 14 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 26 December 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 -64 83 £450 -3.23% 39
London -4 48 £525 - 7
UK excluding London -67 39 £425 -5.56% 41
Work from Home +12 38 £450 -12.20% 22
Midlands -43 14 £425 -5.56% 20
West Midlands -31 11 £425 -5.56% 11
North of England -62 11 £438 +12.90% 3
North West -32 7 £438 +4.17% 2
South West -9 5 £450 -
Wales -2 4 £400 -11.11% 5
Yorkshire -38 4 £438 +20.69%
East Midlands -17 3 £413 +10.00% 9
South East -20 3 £425 -2.86% 11
Scotland +3 2 £500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 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 97 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (87.63%) Power BI
2 85 (87.63%) Power Platform
3 66 (68.04%) SQL
4 53 (54.64%) Data Modelling
5 42 (43.30%) Visualisation
6 38 (39.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (35.05%) Analytics
8 33 (34.02%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (30.93%) Decision-Making
9 30 (30.93%) ETL
10 28 (28.87%) Power Query
11 26 (26.80%) Azure
12 25 (25.77%) Microsoft
13 23 (23.71%) Data Visualisation
14 17 (17.53%) Data Governance
14 17 (17.53%) Python
15 16 (16.49%) Dashboard Development
15 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (15.46%) Microsoft Excel
16 15 (15.46%) SQL Server
17 13 (13.40%) Actionable Insight
17 13 (13.40%) Data Transformation
17 13 (13.40%) Power Automate
18 12 (12.37%) Agile
18 12 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
18 12 (12.37%) Performance Tuning
18 12 (12.37%) PowerApps
19 11 (11.34%) Databricks
19 11 (11.34%) 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 (10.31%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (15.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.03%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.03%) iTrent
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 85 (87.63%) Power Platform
2 26 (26.80%) Azure
3 13 (13.40%) Power Automate
4 12 (12.37%) PowerApps
5 7 (7.22%) AWS
5 7 (7.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.12%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.09%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (3.09%) GCP
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.06%) GitHub
9 2 (2.06%) SaaS
9 2 (2.06%) Serverless
10 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (87.63%) Power BI
2 33 (34.02%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (28.87%) Power Query
4 15 (15.46%) SQL Server
5 11 (11.34%) Tableau
6 9 (9.28%) Relational Database
6 9 (9.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (8.25%) Oracle BI EE
7 8 (8.25%) Star Schema
8 7 (7.22%) Data Lake
9 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database
9 4 (4.12%) Oracle ODI
9 4 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (3.09%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (3.09%) QlikView
11 2 (2.06%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.06%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.03%) Selenium
2 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.96%) Finance
3 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.34%) Banking
5 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.19%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.19%) Front Office
7 5 (5.15%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.12%) Back Office
9 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.09%) Legal
9 3 (3.09%) Local Government
9 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.06%) Law
10 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Retail
11 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.03%) Publishing
11 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) PySpark
2 2 (2.06%) .NET
2 2 (2.06%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.03%) Middleware
3 1 (1.03%) Playwright
3 1 (1.03%) Puppeteer
3 1 (1.03%) Shiny
3 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.09%) Derivative
3 3 (3.09%) Equities
3 3 (3.09%) FMCG
3 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.09%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.06%) SCADA
5 1 (1.03%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.03%) NHS
5 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Unix
2 2 (2.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (54.64%) Data Modelling
3 42 (43.30%) Visualisation
4 34 (35.05%) Analytics
5 30 (30.93%) Decision-Making
5 30 (30.93%) ETL
6 23 (23.71%) Data Visualisation
7 17 (17.53%) Data Governance
8 16 (16.49%) Dashboard Development
8 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.40%) Actionable Insight
9 13 (13.40%) Data Transformation
10 12 (12.37%) Agile
10 12 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (12.37%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (10.31%) Data Extraction
11 10 (10.31%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (9.28%) Migration
13 8 (8.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 66 (68.04%) SQL
2 38 (39.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 17 (17.53%) Python
4 7 (7.22%) R
5 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
5 4 (4.12%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.09%) C#
7 2 (2.06%) ABAP
7 2 (2.06%) Scala
8 1 (1.03%) Bicep
8 1 (1.03%) Java
8 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (11.34%) SC Cleared
1 11 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.15%) Degree
3 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) PMO
4 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.34%) Databricks
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle
4 5 (5.15%) SAP
5 2 (2.06%) Capita
5 2 (2.06%) Sage
6 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.03%) Denodo
6 1 (1.03%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.03%) Reuters
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow