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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 461 407
Rank change year-on-year -62 -54 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 144 93 178
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.28% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.31% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 66 138
10th Percentile £326 £346 £356
25th Percentile £413 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £453
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -3.31% -4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £588
90th Percentile £616 £788 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £413 £438
% change year-on-year +6.18% -5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.69 -
Median hourly rate £17.97 £38.85 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.74% +29.48% -
75th Percentile £20.35 £41.00 -
90th Percentile £24.64 - -
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 49,606 29,880 35,937
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.25% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,580 18,873 22,662
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,581 1,559 1,838
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.04 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.33 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.95
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.78% +11.13%

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 1 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 1 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 -65 134 £475 +8.57% 44
UK excluding London -68 72 £438 +6.18% 34
London -48 66 £500 -23.08% 20
Work from Home -33 47 £440 +0.57% 17
North of England -56 24 £440 +7.32% 10
North West -43 20 £440 +8.64% 8
Midlands -48 16 £400 -5.04% 3
South East -53 13 £438 +9.50% 6
South West -40 9 £470 +7.43% 5
West Midlands -45 9 £425 -13.92% 2
East Midlands -12 7 £350 -15.15% 1
Scotland -18 5 £430 -14.00% 1
East of England -20 4 £275 -31.25% 6
Yorkshire -37 3 £475 +11.76% 2
Wales -14 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 1 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.

1 144 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 123 (85.42%) Power BI
2 123 (85.42%) Power Platform
3 85 (59.03%) Data Modelling
4 80 (55.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 78 (54.17%) SQL
6 52 (36.11%) Microsoft
7 51 (35.42%) Analytics
8 48 (33.33%) Azure
9 47 (32.64%) Power Query
10 46 (31.94%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (28.47%) ETL
12 33 (22.92%) Visualisation
13 32 (22.22%) Decision-Making
14 28 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (17.36%) Star Schema
16 24 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
17 23 (15.97%) Agile
18 21 (14.58%) CI/CD
18 21 (14.58%) Dimensional Modelling
18 21 (14.58%) Python
18 21 (14.58%) Security Cleared
19 20 (13.89%) Data Transformation
20 19 (13.19%) Actionable Insight
21 18 (12.50%) DevOps
22 17 (11.81%) Azure Data Factory
22 17 (11.81%) SQL Server
22 17 (11.81%) Translating Business Requirements
23 16 (11.11%) Data Engineering
23 16 (11.11%) Problem-Solving

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 5 (3.47%) Confluence
1 5 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.39%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.69%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 123 (85.42%) Power Platform
2 48 (33.33%) Azure
3 17 (11.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 12 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 10 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (6.94%) PowerApps
6 9 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.56%) dbt
8 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.08%) Azure Databricks
9 3 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.08%) GCP
9 3 (2.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.39%) AWS
11 1 (0.69%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (85.42%) Power BI
2 47 (32.64%) Power Query
3 46 (31.94%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (17.36%) Star Schema
5 17 (11.81%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.47%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.08%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.08%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.39%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (3.47%) JIRA
2 3 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) Hudson
3 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (28.47%) Finance
2 30 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (15.28%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.72%) Banking
5 11 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.47%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.47%) Retail
7 4 (2.78%) Front Office
8 3 (2.08%) Police
8 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.08%) Publishing
9 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.86%) REST
2 3 (2.08%) HTML
3 2 (1.39%) .NET
3 2 (1.39%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.39%) HTML5
3 2 (1.39%) PySpark
4 1 (0.69%) ADO
4 1 (0.69%) CSS
4 1 (0.69%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.69%) MDX
4 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.08%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.08%) NHS
4 2 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.39%) FMCG
4 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.39%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) Linux
1 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (59.03%) Data Modelling
3 51 (35.42%) Analytics
4 41 (28.47%) ETL
5 33 (22.92%) Visualisation
6 32 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 28 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
9 23 (15.97%) Agile
10 21 (14.58%) CI/CD
10 21 (14.58%) Dimensional Modelling
11 20 (13.89%) Data Transformation
12 19 (13.19%) Actionable Insight
13 18 (12.50%) DevOps
14 17 (11.81%) Translating Business Requirements
15 16 (11.11%) Data Engineering
15 16 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (10.42%) Dashboard Development
17 14 (9.72%) Lakehouse
18 13 (9.03%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 80 (55.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 78 (54.17%) SQL
3 21 (14.58%) Python
4 7 (4.86%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.17%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.78%) C#
6 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.69%) Java
7 1 (0.69%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 21 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) Degree
4 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.47%) GRC
3 4 (2.78%) GDPR
4 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.39%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (2.08%) Control-M
Vendors
1 52 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.64%) Oracle
2 11 (7.64%) SAP
3 10 (6.94%) Databricks
4 5 (3.47%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.39%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft