Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 463 401
Rank change year-on-year -66 -62 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 151 96 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.29% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.32% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 71 127
10th Percentile £342 £348 £350
25th Percentile £425 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £588
90th Percentile £600 £775 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £419 £431
% change year-on-year +4.60% -2.90% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £17.29 - -
25th Percentile £17.73 £36.69 -
Median hourly rate £17.97 £38.85 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.74% +29.48% -
75th Percentile £18.23 £41.00 -
90th Percentile £18.69 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.97 - £30.00

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 50,643 30,010 35,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.03% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,934 18,949 21,605
10th Percentile £325 £277 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,909 1,607 1,616
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.70 £51.57 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.08 £43.90
% change year-on-year +69.49% -42.88% +0.83%

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 24 September 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 16 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 24 September 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 -68 139 £475 +8.57% 103
UK excluding London -70 72 £438 +4.60% 76
London -53 71 £500 -23.08% 39
Work from Home -49 49 £450 - 43
North of England -55 24 £440 +3.53% 15
North West -40 20 £440 +7.32% 9
Midlands -40 15 £400 -5.04% 20
South East -54 13 £444 +11.00% 24
South West -40 9 £470 +7.43% 3
West Midlands -40 8 £425 -13.92% 9
East Midlands -16 7 £350 -15.15% 11
Scotland -21 5 £430 -14.00% 4
East of England -27 5 £338 -15.63% 7
Yorkshire -36 3 £475 +9.20% 6
Wales -11 1 £325 +5.69% 1
North East - 1 £350 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 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.

1 151 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 131 (86.75%) Power BI
2 131 (86.75%) Power Platform
3 84 (55.63%) Data Modelling
4 82 (54.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 82 (54.30%) SQL
5 56 (37.09%) Microsoft
6 53 (35.10%) Power Query
7 51 (33.77%) Azure
8 48 (31.79%) Analytics
9 47 (31.13%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (26.49%) ETL
11 38 (25.17%) Visualisation
12 31 (20.53%) Decision-Making
12 31 (20.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (18.54%) Star Schema
14 27 (17.88%) Data Visualisation
15 24 (15.89%) CI/CD
16 22 (14.57%) Agile
16 22 (14.57%) Security Cleared
17 21 (13.91%) DevOps
17 21 (13.91%) Dimensional Modelling
17 21 (13.91%) Python
18 20 (13.25%) Data Transformation
19 19 (12.58%) Actionable Insight
19 19 (12.58%) Translating Business Requirements
20 17 (11.26%) Azure Data Factory
20 17 (11.26%) Dashboard Development
20 17 (11.26%) Data Engineering
20 17 (11.26%) Data Quality

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 6 (3.97%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.31%) Confluence
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 10 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 131 (86.75%) Power Platform
2 51 (33.77%) Azure
3 17 (11.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (9.27%) Power Automate
5 13 (8.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (8.61%) PowerApps
6 11 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (7.28%) Snowflake
7 8 (5.30%) dbt
8 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.65%) AWS
9 4 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.99%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.99%) GCP
10 3 (1.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.32%) Azure Databricks
12 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.66%) SaaS
12 1 (0.66%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (86.75%) Power BI
2 53 (35.10%) Power Query
3 47 (31.13%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (18.54%) Star Schema
5 17 (11.26%) SQL Server
6 11 (7.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.97%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (3.97%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.97%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.65%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.99%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.32%) QlikView
11 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.31%) JIRA
2 3 (1.99%) Git
3 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (30.46%) Finance
2 32 (21.19%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (18.54%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.95%) Banking
6 6 (3.97%) Retail
7 5 (3.31%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.65%) Front Office
8 4 (2.65%) Police
9 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.99%) Publishing
10 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Law
11 1 (0.66%) Local Government
11 1 (0.66%) Military
11 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.64%) REST
2 3 (1.99%) HTML
3 2 (1.32%) .NET
3 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.32%) HTML5
3 2 (1.32%) PySpark
4 1 (0.66%) ADO
4 1 (0.66%) CSS
4 1 (0.66%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.66%) Web Services
4 1 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.62%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.99%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.99%) NHS
4 2 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.66%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.66%) FMCG
5 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.66%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) Linux
1 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (55.63%) Data Modelling
3 48 (31.79%) Analytics
4 40 (26.49%) ETL
5 38 (25.17%) Visualisation
6 31 (20.53%) Decision-Making
6 31 (20.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (17.88%) Data Visualisation
8 24 (15.89%) CI/CD
9 22 (14.57%) Agile
10 21 (13.91%) DevOps
10 21 (13.91%) Dimensional Modelling
11 20 (13.25%) Data Transformation
12 19 (12.58%) Actionable Insight
12 19 (12.58%) Translating Business Requirements
13 17 (11.26%) Dashboard Development
13 17 (11.26%) Data Engineering
13 17 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (10.60%) Data Governance
15 15 (9.93%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 82 (54.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 82 (54.30%) SQL
2 21 (13.91%) Python
3 7 (4.64%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.97%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.65%) C#
5 4 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.66%) Java
6 1 (0.66%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 22 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.27%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.31%) Degree
4 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.26%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.31%) GRC
3 4 (2.65%) GDPR
4 3 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.99%) QA
5 1 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (1.99%) Control-M
Vendors
1 56 (37.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.61%) Oracle
3 12 (7.95%) Databricks
4 10 (6.62%) SAP
5 5 (3.31%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.66%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce