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 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 442 390
Rank change year-on-year -61 -52 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 130 79 192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.27% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.30% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 51 151
10th Percentile £361 £348 £338
25th Percentile £374 £366 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £550 £480 £563
90th Percentile £600 £575 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% -
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% -
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% -

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 45,089 26,570 40,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.35% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,438 17,201 25,885
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,017 1,072 2,851
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.85 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £59.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.39% -36.94% -5.88%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -62 123 £450 +5.88% 21
London -42 67 £500 +4.17% 3
UK excluding London -89 53 £425 +3.03% 21
Work from Home -26 39 £425 +3.03% 9
South East -58 14 £425 +9.68% 4
North West -27 13 £440 +10.00% 5
North of England -70 13 £440 +10.00% 11
Midlands -55 11 £450 +9.09% 3
East of England -21 10 £375 -
West Midlands -55 10 £450 +1.69% 1
South West -31 3 £470 +7.43% 1
Scotland -4 2 £538 +26.47% 2
East Midlands -29 1 £475 +15.15% 2

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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.

1 130 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 106 (81.54%) Power BI
2 106 (81.54%) Power Platform
3 79 (60.77%) Data Modelling
4 77 (59.23%) SQL
5 61 (46.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 52 (40.00%) Analytics
7 50 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (38.46%) ETL
8 40 (30.77%) Microsoft
9 39 (30.00%) Azure
10 36 (27.69%) Power Query
11 33 (25.38%) Visualisation
12 27 (20.77%) Decision-Making
13 23 (17.69%) Agile
13 23 (17.69%) Data Quality
14 21 (16.15%) Actionable Insight
15 20 (15.38%) Data Transformation
15 20 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
16 19 (14.62%) Data Pipeline
17 16 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 15 (11.54%) Dashboard Development
18 15 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (11.54%) Python
19 14 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
19 14 (10.77%) Star Schema
20 13 (10.00%) Data Analysis
20 13 (10.00%) Data Engineering
20 13 (10.00%) Databricks
20 13 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements

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 (3.08%) Confluence
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.54%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.77%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 106 (81.54%) Power Platform
2 39 (30.00%) Azure
3 7 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (5.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 7 (5.38%) Power Automate
3 7 (5.38%) Snowflake
4 5 (3.85%) GCP
5 4 (3.08%) dbt
5 4 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (2.31%) AWS
7 2 (1.54%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.54%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.77%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (81.54%) Power BI
2 50 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (27.69%) Power Query
4 14 (10.77%) Star Schema
5 12 (9.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 9 (6.92%) Tableau
8 8 (6.15%) Data Lake
8 8 (6.15%) Relational Database
9 7 (5.38%) Oracle BI EE
10 6 (4.62%) ZAP BI
11 5 (3.85%) Looker
11 5 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (2.31%) Oracle ODI
13 3 (2.31%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.54%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) JIRA
2 1 (0.77%) ERwin
2 1 (0.77%) Hudson
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
General
1 54 (41.54%) Finance
2 33 (25.38%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.23%) Banking
4 19 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.23%) Financial Institution
6 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.38%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.85%) Front Office
9 4 (3.08%) Back Office
9 4 (3.08%) Publishing
10 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Advertising
12 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.77%) Legal
12 1 (0.77%) Local Government
12 1 (0.77%) Retail
12 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.31%) HTML
2 2 (1.54%) HTML5
2 2 (1.54%) REST
3 1 (0.77%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.77%) MDX
3 1 (0.77%) Middleware
3 1 (0.77%) NumPy
3 1 (0.77%) Pandas
3 1 (0.77%) PySpark
3 1 (0.77%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.77%) Shiny
3 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.15%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.54%) Derivative
4 2 (1.54%) Equities
4 2 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.54%) SCADA
5 1 (0.77%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.77%) FMCG
5 1 (0.77%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.77%) NHS
5 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.77%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.77%) Unix
1 1 (0.77%) Windows
1 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 79 (60.77%) Data Modelling
3 52 (40.00%) Analytics
4 50 (38.46%) ETL
5 33 (25.38%) Visualisation
6 27 (20.77%) Decision-Making
7 23 (17.69%) Agile
8 21 (16.15%) Actionable Insight
9 20 (15.38%) Data Transformation
9 20 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
10 19 (14.62%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (11.54%) Dashboard Development
12 15 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (10.00%) Data Analysis
14 13 (10.00%) Data Engineering
14 13 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
14 13 (10.00%) User Experience
14 13 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 77 (59.23%) SQL
2 61 (46.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 15 (11.54%) Python
4 6 (4.62%) T-SQL
4 6 (4.62%) VBA
5 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.54%) C#
6 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.54%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.54%) Scala
7 1 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (6.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.38%) Degree
2 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.54%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.77%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.85%) GRC
3 2 (1.54%) GDPR
3 2 (1.54%) PMO
3 2 (1.54%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.77%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (1.54%) Control-M
Vendors
1 40 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.00%) Databricks
3 7 (5.38%) Sage
4 6 (4.62%) Oracle
5 5 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.08%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.08%) SAP
7 2 (1.54%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.54%) Cognos
8 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.77%) Remedy