Business Intelligence Developer Contracts

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 388 440
Rank change year-on-year -54 +52 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 88 201 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.50% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 155 192
10th Percentile £348 £350 £339
25th Percentile £368 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £531 £572 £575
90th Percentile £695 £613 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £29.68 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £36.69 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £38.85 £82.23 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.76% - -
75th Percentile £41.00 £84.45 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £82.23 -
% change year-on-year -69.60% - -

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 28,543 40,362 52,705
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.00% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,235 25,935 36,627
10th Percentile £288 £285 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,277 2,865 1,533
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.58 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +95.12%

Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Top 15 Contract 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 2 July 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 -47 73 £438 -2.78% 139
UK excluding London -20 44 £413 -2.94% 75
London -12 32 £525 -4.55% 73
Work from Home -14 25 £413 -8.33% 78
South East +42 10 £388 -10.14% 33
Midlands +7 10 £413 +10.00% 13
South West +27 9 £438 +2.94% 3
North of England -25 8 £413 -5.71% 19
West Midlands +9 7 £443 +18.00% 11
Scotland +4 5 £425 -2.86% 3
North West -7 5 £400 -4.48% 6
East Midlands - 3 £413 - 2
East of England +15 2 £400 +33.33% 4
Yorkshire -20 2 £435 -3.33% 10
North East - 1 £375 - 3

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Business Intelligence Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (92.05%) Power BI
2 81 (92.05%) Power Platform
3 56 (63.64%) SQL
4 41 (46.59%) Data Modelling
5 36 (40.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 34 (38.64%) Visualisation
7 29 (32.95%) Azure
8 24 (27.27%) ETL
8 24 (27.27%) Power Query
9 23 (26.14%) Data Visualisation
10 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
11 21 (23.86%) Analytics
12 20 (22.73%) Decision-Making
12 20 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
13 15 (17.05%) Python
14 14 (15.91%) Finance
14 14 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (14.77%) SQL Server
15 13 (14.77%) Tableau
16 11 (12.50%) Agile
16 11 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (12.50%) Databricks
16 11 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
17 10 (11.36%) Dashboard Development
17 10 (11.36%) Data Transformation
17 10 (11.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (11.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 9 (10.23%) Data Analysis

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 81 (92.05%) Power Platform
2 29 (32.95%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.55%) AWS
6 4 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.41%) dbt
7 3 (3.41%) GCP
7 3 (3.41%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.14%) GitHub
9 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.14%) Prefect
9 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (92.05%) Power BI
2 24 (27.27%) Power Query
3 20 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (14.77%) SQL Server
4 13 (14.77%) Tableau
5 11 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (11.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (9.09%) Relational Database
8 7 (7.95%) Data Lake
9 4 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.27%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (2.27%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.27%) Looker
10 2 (2.27%) Metabase
10 2 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.27%) Tableau Server
11 1 (1.14%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.91%) Finance
3 11 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.41%) Banking
4 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.41%) Retail
5 2 (2.27%) Local Government
5 2 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (1.14%) Automotive
6 1 (1.14%) Back Office
6 1 (1.14%) Front Office
6 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) .NET
1 2 (2.27%) PySpark
2 1 (1.14%) MDX
2 1 (1.14%) ODBC
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
1 3 (3.41%) Reference Data
2 2 (2.27%) Educational Technology
2 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.27%) Hedge funds
2 2 (2.27%) NHS
3 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.14%) Derivative
3 1 (1.14%) Equities
3 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.14%) FMCG
3 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.14%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Linux
1 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (46.59%) Data Modelling
3 34 (38.64%) Visualisation
4 24 (27.27%) ETL
5 23 (26.14%) Data Visualisation
6 21 (23.86%) Analytics
7 20 (22.73%) Decision-Making
8 14 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (12.50%) Agile
10 10 (11.36%) Dashboard Development
10 10 (11.36%) Data Transformation
11 9 (10.23%) Data Analysis
11 9 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (7.95%) Data Integration
13 6 (6.82%) Actionable Insight
13 6 (6.82%) Data Governance
13 6 (6.82%) User Experience
14 5 (5.68%) Translating Business Requirements
14 5 (5.68%) Use Case
15 4 (4.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 56 (63.64%) SQL
2 36 (40.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 15 (17.05%) Python
4 5 (5.68%) R
5 3 (3.41%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.14%) Java
7 1 (1.14%) LookML
7 1 (1.14%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.50%) Databricks
3 4 (4.55%) Vertica
4 3 (3.41%) Dataiku
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle
4 3 (3.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.27%) Cognos
5 2 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (1.14%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.14%) Reuters
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.14%) Veeam
6 1 (1.14%) VMware