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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 446 399
Rank change year-on-year -67 -47 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 135 78 189
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.27% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.29% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 51 149
10th Percentile £337 £348 £348
25th Percentile £370 £363 £388
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 45,367 26,659 39,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.33% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,689 17,296 25,850
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
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 3,009 1,048 2,796
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.87 £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 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £25.31 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.28% -36.73% -6.98%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -64 126 £445 +4.71% 18
London -26 66 £500 +4.17% 2
UK excluding London -78 57 £425 +3.03% 18
Work from Home -41 42 £425 +3.03% 7
Midlands -55 16 £414 +0.30% 2
West Midlands -61 15 £403 -9.04% 1
South East -60 14 £425 +8.28% 5
North West -38 13 £440 +10.00% 5
North of England -72 13 £440 +13.55% 8
East of England - 10 £375 -
Scotland -5 2 £538 +26.47%
South West -40 2 £470 +7.43% 3
East Midlands -25 1 £475 +15.15% 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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.

1 135 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 112 (82.96%) Power BI
2 112 (82.96%) Power Platform
3 85 (62.96%) Data Modelling
4 80 (59.26%) SQL
5 66 (48.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 56 (41.48%) Analytics
7 51 (37.78%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (37.78%) ETL
8 47 (34.81%) Microsoft
9 42 (31.11%) Azure
10 40 (29.63%) Power Query
11 37 (27.41%) Visualisation
12 35 (25.93%) Decision-Making
13 25 (18.52%) Agile
14 24 (17.78%) Data Visualisation
15 23 (17.04%) Data Quality
16 21 (15.56%) Actionable Insight
16 21 (15.56%) Data Transformation
17 18 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (13.33%) Python
18 17 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
19 16 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 15 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
20 15 (11.11%) Data Governance
21 14 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
21 14 (10.37%) Databricks
21 14 (10.37%) Power Automate
22 13 (9.63%) Data Analysis
22 13 (9.63%) Data Engineering

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 (2.96%) Confluence
2 3 (2.22%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.48%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.74%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 112 (82.96%) Power Platform
2 42 (31.11%) Azure
3 14 (10.37%) Power Automate
4 9 (6.67%) PowerApps
5 7 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (5.19%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.70%) GCP
6 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.96%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.22%) AWS
9 2 (1.48%) dbt
9 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.74%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (82.96%) Power BI
2 51 (37.78%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (29.63%) Power Query
4 13 (9.63%) SQL Server
4 13 (9.63%) Star Schema
5 12 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (6.67%) Tableau
7 8 (5.93%) Data Lake
7 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
8 7 (5.19%) Oracle BI EE
8 7 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (4.44%) ZAP BI
10 5 (3.70%) Looker
10 5 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.22%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.48%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Git
1 4 (2.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.74%) ERwin
2 1 (0.74%) Hudson
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
General
1 52 (38.52%) Finance
2 37 (27.41%) Social Skills
3 25 (18.52%) Banking
4 22 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.41%) Financial Institution
5 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.19%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.70%) Front Office
8 4 (2.96%) Back Office
8 4 (2.96%) Publishing
9 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.74%) Retail
11 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.22%) HTML
2 2 (1.48%) HTML5
2 2 (1.48%) REST
3 1 (0.74%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.74%) MDX
3 1 (0.74%) Middleware
3 1 (0.74%) NumPy
3 1 (0.74%) Pandas
3 1 (0.74%) PySpark
3 1 (0.74%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.74%) Shiny
3 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.48%) Derivative
4 2 (1.48%) Equities
4 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.48%) SCADA
5 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.74%) FMCG
5 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.74%) NHS
5 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Unix
1 1 (0.74%) Windows
1 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (62.96%) Data Modelling
3 56 (41.48%) Analytics
4 51 (37.78%) ETL
5 37 (27.41%) Visualisation
6 35 (25.93%) Decision-Making
7 25 (18.52%) Agile
8 24 (17.78%) Data Visualisation
9 21 (15.56%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (15.56%) Data Transformation
10 18 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
13 15 (11.11%) Data Governance
14 14 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (9.63%) Data Analysis
15 13 (9.63%) Data Engineering
15 13 (9.63%) User Experience
15 13 (9.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (59.26%) SQL
2 66 (48.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 18 (13.33%) Python
4 6 (4.44%) T-SQL
4 6 (4.44%) VBA
5 5 (3.70%) R
6 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.48%) C#
7 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.48%) Scala
8 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (5.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.19%) Degree
2 7 (5.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.48%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.04%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.70%) GRC
3 2 (1.48%) GDPR
3 2 (1.48%) PMO
3 2 (1.48%) QA
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) WCAG
Vendors
1 47 (34.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.37%) Databricks
3 7 (5.19%) Sage
4 6 (4.44%) Oracle
5 5 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.96%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.96%) SAP
7 2 (1.48%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.48%) Cognos
8 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.74%) Remedy