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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 436 410
Rank change year-on-year -60 -26 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 119 82 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.30% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 57 141
10th Percentile £328 £344 £350
25th Percentile £363 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £563
90th Percentile £600 £638 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -1.47% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £25.15 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £25.79 £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 £26.50 £84.45
% change year-on-year +1.89% -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 42,695 27,272 40,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.61% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 17,879 26,298
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,730 998 2,613
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £19.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.00 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -13.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.60 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.33 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £29.80 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.34% -18.36% -15.12%

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 21 April 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 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 21 April 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 -62 109 £425 -5.56% 39
London -41 55 £513 -2.38% 7
UK excluding London -83 54 £419 -1.47% 35
Work from Home -16 30 £425 -5.56% 13
Midlands -55 20 £425 +6.78% 15
West Midlands -51 18 £425 +6.78% 9
South East -50 12 £425 +21.43% 7
East of England - 9 £375 - 2
North West -45 7 £438 +2.94% 7
North of England -62 7 £438 +16.67% 11
Scotland -4 2 £538 +26.47%
Wales -7 2 £400 +53.85%
South West -32 2 £470 +7.43%
East Midlands -33 2 £413 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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.

1 119 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 96 (80.67%) Power BI
2 96 (80.67%) Power Platform
3 78 (65.55%) Data Modelling
3 78 (65.55%) SQL
4 57 (47.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 54 (45.38%) Analytics
6 47 (39.50%) ETL
7 46 (38.66%) Data Warehouse
8 40 (33.61%) Microsoft
8 40 (33.61%) Visualisation
9 36 (30.25%) Azure
9 36 (30.25%) Decision-Making
10 32 (26.89%) Power Query
11 21 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
12 19 (15.97%) Actionable Insight
12 19 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (15.13%) Data Governance
13 18 (15.13%) Data Quality
14 17 (14.29%) Agile
14 17 (14.29%) Power Automate
15 16 (13.45%) Data Transformation
15 16 (13.45%) Python
16 15 (12.61%) Data Pipeline
16 15 (12.61%) SQL Server
17 14 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
17 14 (11.76%) Databricks
17 14 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
18 13 (10.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 12 (10.08%) CI/CD

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 5 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.36%) Confluence
3 3 (2.52%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.04%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.68%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.84%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 96 (80.67%) Power Platform
2 36 (30.25%) Azure
3 17 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 11 (9.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (9.24%) PowerApps
5 9 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.20%) Copilot Studio
6 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.52%) GCP
8 3 (2.52%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.68%) AWS
9 2 (1.68%) GitHub
9 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.84%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (80.67%) Power BI
2 46 (38.66%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (26.89%) Power Query
4 15 (12.61%) SQL Server
5 13 (10.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (10.08%) Star Schema
7 11 (9.24%) Data Lake
8 8 (6.72%) Oracle BI EE
8 8 (6.72%) Relational Database
8 8 (6.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (6.72%) Tableau
9 6 (5.04%) ZAP BI
10 5 (4.20%) Looker
10 5 (4.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (3.36%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (2.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (2.52%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Git
2 4 (3.36%) JIRA
3 1 (0.84%) ERwin
3 1 (0.84%) Hudson
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (38.66%) Finance
2 41 (34.45%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (15.97%) Banking
5 10 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.56%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.88%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.36%) Back Office
8 4 (3.36%) Front Office
9 3 (2.52%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.68%) Publishing
11 1 (0.84%) Law
11 1 (0.84%) Legal
11 1 (0.84%) Local Government
11 1 (0.84%) Retail
11 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.52%) PySpark
2 1 (0.84%) HTML
2 1 (0.84%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.84%) MDX
2 1 (0.84%) Middleware
2 1 (0.84%) NumPy
2 1 (0.84%) Pandas
2 1 (0.84%) Seaborn
2 1 (0.84%) Shiny
2 1 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.52%) FMCG
4 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.68%) Derivative
5 2 (1.68%) Equities
5 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.68%) SCADA
6 1 (0.84%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.84%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.84%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.84%) Unix
1 1 (0.84%) Windows
1 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 78 (65.55%) Data Modelling
3 54 (45.38%) Analytics
4 47 (39.50%) ETL
5 40 (33.61%) Visualisation
6 36 (30.25%) Decision-Making
7 21 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
8 19 (15.97%) Actionable Insight
8 19 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.13%) Data Governance
10 17 (14.29%) Agile
11 16 (13.45%) Data Transformation
12 15 (12.61%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
13 14 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (10.08%) CI/CD
14 12 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (10.08%) Translating Business Requirements
15 11 (9.24%) Data Extraction
15 11 (9.24%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 78 (65.55%) SQL
2 57 (47.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 16 (13.45%) Python
4 8 (6.72%) T-SQL
5 6 (5.04%) R
5 6 (5.04%) VBA
6 4 (3.36%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.68%) Scala
8 1 (0.84%) Bicep
8 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (6.72%) Degree
2 4 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (3.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.68%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.13%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.20%) GRC
3 4 (3.36%) QA
4 2 (1.68%) PMO
5 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 40 (33.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.76%) Databricks
3 9 (7.56%) Sage
4 5 (4.20%) Oracle
4 5 (4.20%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.36%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.52%) SAP
7 2 (1.68%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.68%) Cognos
8 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.84%) Remedy