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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 448 392
Rank change year-on-year -86 -56 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 148 92 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.28% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.31% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 67 130
10th Percentile £341 £346 £350
25th Percentile £425 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £588
90th Percentile £600 £785 £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 £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 50,343 29,565 35,332
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.03% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,778 18,648 21,690
10th Percentile £325 £278 £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 3,866 1,577 1,631
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.80 £51.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.11 £43.90
% change year-on-year +69.26% -42.80% +0.34%

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 22 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 22 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 -82 136 £475 +8.57% 86
UK excluding London -72 72 £438 +6.18% 63
London -47 68 £500 -28.57% 40
Work from Home -37 49 £450 - 33
North of England -58 24 £440 +5.39% 9
North West -39 20 £440 +8.64% 5
Midlands -44 15 £400 -5.04% 15
South East -54 13 £444 +11.00% 22
South West -39 9 £470 +7.43% 5
West Midlands -44 8 £425 -13.92% 7
East Midlands -12 7 £350 -15.15% 8
Scotland -21 5 £430 -14.00% 5
East of England -29 5 £338 -15.63% 5
Yorkshire -46 3 £475 +9.20% 4
Wales -9 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 22 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.

1 148 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (87.16%) Power BI
2 129 (87.16%) Power Platform
3 83 (56.08%) Data Modelling
4 80 (54.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 79 (53.38%) SQL
6 56 (37.84%) Microsoft
7 53 (35.81%) Power Query
8 50 (33.78%) Azure
9 47 (31.76%) Analytics
10 46 (31.08%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (26.35%) ETL
12 36 (24.32%) Visualisation
13 30 (20.27%) Decision-Making
13 30 (20.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (18.92%) Star Schema
15 26 (17.57%) Data Visualisation
16 24 (16.22%) CI/CD
17 22 (14.86%) Agile
17 22 (14.86%) Security Cleared
18 21 (14.19%) DevOps
18 21 (14.19%) Dimensional Modelling
19 20 (13.51%) Python
20 19 (12.84%) Data Transformation
20 19 (12.84%) Translating Business Requirements
21 18 (12.16%) Actionable Insight
22 17 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
22 17 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
22 17 (11.49%) SQL Server
23 16 (10.81%) Dashboard Development

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 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 129 (87.16%) Power Platform
2 50 (33.78%) Azure
3 17 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (9.46%) Power Automate
5 13 (8.78%) PowerApps
6 12 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.43%) Snowflake
8 8 (5.41%) dbt
9 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.03%) AWS
11 3 (2.03%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (2.03%) GCP
11 3 (2.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 2 (1.35%) Azure Databricks
13 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.68%) SaaS
13 1 (0.68%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (87.16%) Power BI
2 53 (35.81%) Power Query
3 46 (31.08%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (18.92%) Star Schema
5 17 (11.49%) SQL Server
6 11 (7.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (4.05%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (3.38%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (3.38%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.70%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.03%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.35%) QlikView
11 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.38%) JIRA
2 3 (2.03%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (31.08%) Finance
2 32 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (17.57%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.11%) Banking
6 6 (4.05%) Retail
7 5 (3.38%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.70%) Front Office
8 4 (2.70%) Police
9 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.03%) Publishing
10 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.35%) Legal
10 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Military
11 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.73%) REST
2 3 (2.03%) HTML
3 2 (1.35%) .NET
3 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.35%) HTML5
3 2 (1.35%) PySpark
4 1 (0.68%) ADO
4 1 (0.68%) CSS
4 1 (0.68%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.68%) Web Services
4 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.76%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.03%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.03%) NHS
4 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.68%) FMCG
5 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Linux
1 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 83 (56.08%) Data Modelling
3 47 (31.76%) Analytics
4 39 (26.35%) ETL
5 36 (24.32%) Visualisation
6 30 (20.27%) Decision-Making
6 30 (20.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (17.57%) Data Visualisation
8 24 (16.22%) CI/CD
9 22 (14.86%) Agile
10 21 (14.19%) DevOps
10 21 (14.19%) Dimensional Modelling
11 19 (12.84%) Data Transformation
11 19 (12.84%) Translating Business Requirements
12 18 (12.16%) Actionable Insight
13 17 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (10.81%) Dashboard Development
15 15 (10.14%) Data Engineering
15 15 (10.14%) Data Governance
15 15 (10.14%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 80 (54.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 79 (53.38%) SQL
3 20 (13.51%) Python
4 7 (4.73%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.05%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.70%) C#
6 4 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.68%) Java
7 1 (0.68%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 22 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.38%) Degree
4 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.38%) GRC
3 4 (2.70%) GDPR
4 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.03%) QA
5 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (2.03%) Control-M
Vendors
1 56 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.78%) Oracle
3 12 (8.11%) Databricks
4 10 (6.76%) SAP
5 5 (3.38%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.68%) Salesforce