Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £434, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 427 442
Rank change year-on-year -59 +15 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 105 100 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.35% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 77 123
10th Percentile £363 £328 £307
25th Percentile £392 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £506 £560 £563
90th Percentile £600 £643 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £420 £425
% change year-on-year +1.19% -1.18% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £25.05 -
25th Percentile - £25.13 £80.00
Median hourly rate - £26.50 £84.45
Median % change year-on-year - -68.62% +141.29%
75th Percentile - £28.07 -
90th Percentile - £28.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.50 £84.45
% change year-on-year - -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 35,711 28,902 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 92.95% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,518 17,719 27,795
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £405 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £490
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.86% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,166 840 2,312
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.89 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.57 £21.25 £16.67
Median hourly rate £29.82 £33.77 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -3.51% -
75th Percentile £61.25 £63.38 £61.51
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £32.13 £35.95
% change year-on-year -12.85% -10.63% +8.94%

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 7 February 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 15 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 7 February 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 -67 91 £430 -10.42% 39
London -15 54 £503 -4.29% 7
UK excluding London -82 41 £425 +1.19% 39
Work from Home +6 38 £450 -12.41% 15
Midlands -47 13 £425 -5.56% 19
West Midlands -43 11 £425 -5.56% 9
North of England -64 10 £438 +18.24% 2
South East -27 9 £425 +9.68% 12
North West -32 6 £438 +14.38% 2
Wales 0 4 £400 -11.11%
Yorkshire -52 4 £438 +20.69%
South West -20 3 £410 -8.89%
East Midlands - 2 £390 - 10
Scotland +5 1 £475 +5.56%
East of England - 1 £211 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 7 February 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.

1 105 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (80.00%) Power BI
2 84 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 68 (64.76%) SQL
4 59 (56.19%) Data Modelling
5 45 (42.86%) Visualisation
6 40 (38.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 35 (33.33%) Analytics
7 35 (33.33%) ETL
8 33 (31.43%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (29.52%) Azure
9 31 (29.52%) Decision-Making
10 30 (28.57%) Microsoft
11 27 (25.71%) Power Query
12 26 (24.76%) Data Visualisation
13 18 (17.14%) Data Governance
14 16 (15.24%) Actionable Insight
14 16 (15.24%) Dashboard Development
14 16 (15.24%) SQL Server
15 15 (14.29%) Agile
16 14 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (12.38%) Data Transformation
17 13 (12.38%) Tableau
18 12 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
18 12 (11.43%) Power Automate
19 11 (10.48%) Data Extraction
19 11 (10.48%) Databricks
19 11 (10.48%) PowerApps
19 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
19 11 (10.48%) Security Cleared

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 8 (7.62%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.95%) iTrent
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.95%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 84 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 31 (29.52%) Azure
3 12 (11.43%) Power Automate
4 11 (10.48%) PowerApps
5 8 (7.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.76%) AWS
8 3 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.86%) GCP
8 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.90%) GitHub
9 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.90%) SaaS
9 2 (1.90%) Serverless
10 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (80.00%) Power BI
2 33 (31.43%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (25.71%) Power Query
4 16 (15.24%) SQL Server
5 13 (12.38%) Tableau
6 11 (10.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (9.52%) Oracle BI EE
7 10 (9.52%) Relational Database
7 10 (9.52%) Star Schema
8 8 (7.62%) Data Lake
8 8 (7.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (3.81%) Looker
9 4 (3.81%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.81%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.86%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.90%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (1.90%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (0.95%) ERwin
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.95%) Selenium
2 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (30.48%) Finance
3 16 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 13 (12.38%) Banking
6 8 (7.62%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.81%) Back Office
7 4 (3.81%) Front Office
8 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.86%) Legal
8 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.90%) Law
9 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Publishing
9 2 (1.90%) Retail
10 1 (0.95%) Local Government
10 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.86%) PySpark
2 2 (1.90%) .NET
2 2 (1.90%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.95%) HTML
3 1 (0.95%) Middleware
3 1 (0.95%) Playwright
3 1 (0.95%) Puppeteer
3 1 (0.95%) Shiny
3 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.86%) FMCG
3 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.90%) Derivative
4 2 (1.90%) Equities
4 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.90%) NHS
5 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.95%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.95%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Unix
1 1 (0.95%) Windows
1 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (56.19%) Data Modelling
3 45 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 35 (33.33%) Analytics
4 35 (33.33%) ETL
5 31 (29.52%) Decision-Making
6 26 (24.76%) Data Visualisation
7 18 (17.14%) Data Governance
8 16 (15.24%) Actionable Insight
8 16 (15.24%) Dashboard Development
9 15 (14.29%) Agile
10 14 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (12.38%) Data Transformation
12 12 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (10.48%) Data Extraction
14 10 (9.52%) Migration
15 9 (8.57%) Data Integration
15 9 (8.57%) Performance Optimisation
15 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (64.76%) SQL
2 40 (38.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 10 (9.52%) Python
4 7 (6.67%) R
4 7 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 6 (5.71%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.90%) C#
6 2 (1.90%) Scala
7 1 (0.95%) Bicep
7 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
1 11 (10.48%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.90%) Degree
4 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.86%) QA
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) GRC
4 1 (0.95%) PMO
4 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.48%) Databricks
3 6 (5.71%) Oracle
4 3 (2.86%) SAP
5 2 (1.90%) Cognos
5 2 (1.90%) Sage
6 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.95%) Denodo
6 1 (0.95%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow