Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 3 months leading up to 28 January 2026.

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

3 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 310 333
Rank change year-on-year -54 +23 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 64 32 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.26% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 21 61
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £400 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £534 £638 £575
90th Percentile £600 - £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £398 £420
% change year-on-year +6.78% -5.24% -6.67%
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 19,438 12,353 20,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 93.15% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,211 8,249 12,964
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £403 £409 £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 £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £488
% change year-on-year -1.76% -0.82% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,234 436 1,281
10th Percentile £14.97 £16.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.91 £21.49 £15.71
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.92
90th Percentile £74.68 £75.88 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -20.00%

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 3 months to 28 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 12 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 3 months to 28 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -62 56 £425 -5.56% 44
London -34 32 £525 -2.78% 12
UK excluding London -66 25 £425 +6.78% 44
Work from Home 0 23 £425 -17.48% 24
Midlands -32 11 £414 -14.95% 16
West Midlands -25 10 £425 -12.64% 10
South East -31 8 £425 +36.00% 17
North West -24 3 £431 -4.17% 4
North of England -45 3 £431 +15.00% 5
Wales - 2 £400 - 1
South West -22 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 110 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 92 (83.64%) Power BI
2 92 (83.64%) Power Platform
3 72 (65.45%) SQL
4 61 (55.45%) Data Modelling
5 46 (41.82%) Visualisation
6 41 (37.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (32.73%) Analytics
8 34 (30.91%) ETL
9 33 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (29.09%) Azure
11 30 (27.27%) Decision-Making
12 29 (26.36%) Microsoft
13 28 (25.45%) Power Query
14 26 (23.64%) Data Visualisation
15 18 (16.36%) Data Governance
16 17 (15.45%) Dashboard Development
17 16 (14.55%) SQL Server
18 15 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
18 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
19 14 (12.73%) Tableau
20 13 (11.82%) Agile
20 13 (11.82%) Microsoft Excel
20 13 (11.82%) Performance Tuning
20 13 (11.82%) Python
21 12 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
21 12 (10.91%) Data Transformation
21 12 (10.91%) Databricks
21 12 (10.91%) Power Automate
21 12 (10.91%) 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (11.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.91%) iTrent
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (83.64%) Power Platform
2 32 (29.09%) Azure
3 12 (10.91%) Power Automate
4 11 (10.00%) PowerApps
5 8 (7.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (6.36%) AWS
7 6 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.64%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.73%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (2.73%) GCP
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.82%) GitHub
10 2 (1.82%) SaaS
10 2 (1.82%) Serverless
11 1 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (83.64%) Power BI
2 33 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (25.45%) Power Query
4 16 (14.55%) SQL Server
5 14 (12.73%) Tableau
6 12 (10.91%) Star Schema
7 10 (9.09%) Oracle BI EE
7 10 (9.09%) Relational Database
7 10 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (7.27%) Data Lake
9 7 (6.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.64%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.64%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.73%) Looker
11 3 (2.73%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (1.82%) Metadata
12 2 (1.82%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (1.82%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (0.91%) ERwin
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.91%) Selenium
2 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 33 (30.00%) Finance
3 17 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.82%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.91%) Banking
6 8 (7.27%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.64%) Back Office
7 4 (3.64%) Front Office
8 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.73%) Legal
8 3 (2.73%) Local Government
8 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Law
9 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Publishing
10 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) PySpark
2 2 (1.82%) .NET
2 2 (1.82%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.91%) HTML
3 1 (0.91%) Middleware
3 1 (0.91%) Playwright
3 1 (0.91%) Puppeteer
3 1 (0.91%) Shiny
3 1 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.73%) FMCG
4 2 (1.82%) Derivative
4 2 (1.82%) Equities
4 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.91%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.91%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.91%) NHS
5 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.91%) SCADA
5 1 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.82%) Unix
2 1 (0.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (55.45%) Data Modelling
3 46 (41.82%) Visualisation
4 36 (32.73%) Analytics
5 34 (30.91%) ETL
6 30 (27.27%) Decision-Making
7 26 (23.64%) Data Visualisation
8 18 (16.36%) Data Governance
9 17 (15.45%) Dashboard Development
10 15 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
10 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (11.82%) Agile
11 13 (11.82%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (10.91%) Data Transformation
13 11 (10.00%) Data Extraction
14 10 (9.09%) Migration
14 10 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (8.18%) Data Integration
15 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 72 (65.45%) SQL
2 41 (37.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 13 (11.82%) Python
4 7 (6.36%) R
5 5 (4.55%) PL/SQL
5 5 (4.55%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.73%) C#
7 2 (1.82%) Scala
8 1 (0.91%) ABAP
8 1 (0.91%) Bicep
8 1 (0.91%) Java
8 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.64%) Degree
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.73%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) GRC
4 1 (0.91%) PMO
4 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.91%) Databricks
3 6 (5.45%) Oracle
4 4 (3.64%) SAP
5 2 (1.82%) Capita
5 2 (1.82%) Cognos
5 2 (1.82%) Sage
6 1 (0.91%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.91%) Denodo
6 1 (0.91%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow