Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

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 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 432 443
Rank change year-on-year -43 +11 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 108 94 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.32% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 72 121
10th Percentile £363 £325 £313
25th Percentile £397 £380 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £575
90th Percentile £640 £638 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £25.08 -
25th Percentile - £25.19 £80.00
Median hourly rate - £26.93 £84.45
Median % change year-on-year - -68.12% +141.29%
75th Percentile - £28.79 -
90th Percentile - £29.51 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.93 £84.45
% change year-on-year - -68.12% +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 34,444 29,232 40,404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.85% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,829 17,869 26,812
10th Percentile £300 £290 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,030 877 1,934
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -18.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £74.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +36.13%

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 21 January 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 14 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 21 January 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 -53 93 £434 -3.61% 37
London -11 55 £465 -11.43% 9
UK excluding London -72 43 £425 -5.56% 38
Work from Home +3 41 £450 -12.62% 19
Midlands -43 13 £425 -5.56% 15
West Midlands -37 11 £425 -5.56% 11
North of England -52 11 £438 +16.67% 5
South East -25 9 £425 +9.68% 13
North West -35 7 £438 +9.38% 3
Wales -1 4 £400 -11.11% 1
South West -17 4 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -50 4 £438 +20.69%
Scotland +8 2 £500 -
East Midlands - 2 £390 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 21 January 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.

1 108 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 90 (83.33%) Power BI
2 90 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 71 (65.74%) SQL
4 57 (52.78%) Data Modelling
5 46 (42.59%) Visualisation
6 39 (36.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 37 (34.26%) Analytics
8 34 (31.48%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (31.48%) ETL
9 31 (28.70%) Decision-Making
10 30 (27.78%) Azure
11 28 (25.93%) Microsoft
12 27 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
13 26 (24.07%) Power Query
14 17 (15.74%) Dashboard Development
14 17 (15.74%) Data Governance
15 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (14.81%) SQL Server
16 15 (13.89%) Tableau
17 14 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
17 14 (12.96%) Python
18 13 (12.04%) Actionable Insight
18 13 (12.04%) Agile
18 13 (12.04%) Performance Tuning
18 13 (12.04%) Power Automate
19 12 (11.11%) Data Transformation
19 12 (11.11%) Databricks
19 12 (11.11%) PowerApps
19 12 (11.11%) SC 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 10 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.93%) iTrent
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 30 (27.78%) Azure
3 13 (12.04%) Power Automate
4 12 (11.11%) PowerApps
5 7 (6.48%) AWS
5 7 (6.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.78%) GCP
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.85%) GitHub
9 2 (1.85%) SaaS
9 2 (1.85%) Serverless
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (83.33%) Power BI
2 34 (31.48%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (24.07%) Power Query
4 16 (14.81%) SQL Server
5 15 (13.89%) Tableau
6 10 (9.26%) Oracle BI EE
6 10 (9.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (9.26%) Star Schema
7 9 (8.33%) Relational Database
8 7 (6.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (6.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.70%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.70%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.78%) Looker
10 3 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (2.78%) QlikView
11 2 (1.85%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (1.85%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) ERwin
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.93%) Selenium
2 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 33 (30.56%) Finance
3 17 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.11%) Banking
5 11 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.41%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.70%) Back Office
7 4 (3.70%) Front Office
8 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.78%) Legal
8 3 (2.78%) Local Government
8 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Law
9 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) PySpark
2 2 (1.85%) .NET
2 2 (1.85%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.93%) HTML
3 1 (0.93%) Middleware
3 1 (0.93%) Playwright
3 1 (0.93%) Puppeteer
3 1 (0.93%) Shiny
3 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.78%) FMCG
4 2 (1.85%) Derivative
4 2 (1.85%) Equities
4 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.93%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.93%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.93%) NHS
5 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.93%) SCADA
5 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (52.78%) Data Modelling
3 46 (42.59%) Visualisation
4 37 (34.26%) Analytics
5 34 (31.48%) ETL
6 31 (28.70%) Decision-Making
7 27 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
8 17 (15.74%) Dashboard Development
8 17 (15.74%) Data Governance
9 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (12.04%) Actionable Insight
10 13 (12.04%) Agile
10 13 (12.04%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (11.11%) Data Transformation
12 11 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (9.26%) Data Extraction
13 10 (9.26%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 10 (9.26%) Migration
14 9 (8.33%) Data Integration
14 9 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (65.74%) SQL
2 39 (36.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 14 (12.96%) Python
4 7 (6.48%) R
5 5 (4.63%) PL/SQL
5 5 (4.63%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.78%) C#
7 2 (1.85%) Scala
8 1 (0.93%) ABAP
8 1 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.93%) Java
8 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 12 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.63%) Degree
3 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.78%) QA
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) GRC
4 1 (0.93%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.11%) Databricks
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle
4 4 (3.70%) SAP
5 2 (1.85%) Capita
5 2 (1.85%) Cognos
5 2 (1.85%) Sage
6 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.93%) Denodo
6 1 (0.93%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow