Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
29 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 419 432
Rank change year-on-year -71 +13 +75
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 94 142 193
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.42% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 107 138
10th Percentile £356 £342 £314
25th Percentile £398 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £575
90th Percentile £775 £638 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £444 £450
% change year-on-year -4.23% -1.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £28.68 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £28.68 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 32,783 33,839 42,964
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.83% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,795 20,464 29,004
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £649
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,905 1,235 1,530
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.63 £19.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -25.84% +78.00%

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 6 months to 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -66 82 £450 -10.00% 35
London +1 45 £525 -1.87% 11
UK excluding London -60 42 £425 -4.23% 33
Work from Home -2 35 £463 -9.76% 14
North of England -52 13 £438 +4.17% 3
Midlands -31 11 £425 -5.56% 6
North West -33 8 £438 +3.55% 3
South West +1 7 £450 - 2
West Midlands -26 7 £444 -1.39% 4
Yorkshire -30 5 £445 +18.67%
Wales -2 4 £400 -11.11% 3
East Midlands -9 4 £413 +10.00% 2
South East -8 3 £400 -8.57% 15
Scotland +2 2 £500 - 1
East of England -16 2 £400 +77.78% 4

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, 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 94 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 87 (92.55%) Power BI
2 87 (92.55%) Power Platform
3 66 (70.21%) SQL
4 48 (51.06%) Data Modelling
5 42 (44.68%) Visualisation
6 41 (43.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (35.11%) Power Query
8 32 (34.04%) Analytics
9 28 (29.79%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (26.60%) Azure
11 24 (25.53%) Data Visualisation
11 24 (25.53%) ETL
12 22 (23.40%) Decision-Making
12 22 (23.40%) Microsoft
13 18 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
13 18 (19.15%) Python
14 15 (15.96%) Dashboard Development
15 14 (14.89%) SQL Server
16 12 (12.77%) Actionable Insight
16 12 (12.77%) Data Governance
16 12 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
16 12 (12.77%) Tableau
17 11 (11.70%) Relational Database
17 11 (11.70%) SC Cleared
17 11 (11.70%) Security Cleared
18 10 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
18 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
19 9 (9.57%) Data Transformation
19 9 (9.57%) Databricks

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 (8.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.06%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.06%) iTrent
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 87 (92.55%) Power Platform
2 25 (26.60%) Azure
3 8 (8.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (6.38%) AWS
4 6 (6.38%) Power Automate
4 6 (6.38%) PowerApps
5 4 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.13%) GCP
7 2 (2.13%) GitHub
7 2 (2.13%) SaaS
7 2 (2.13%) Serverless
8 1 (1.06%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (92.55%) Power BI
2 33 (35.11%) Power Query
3 28 (29.79%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (14.89%) SQL Server
5 12 (12.77%) Tableau
6 11 (11.70%) Relational Database
7 8 (8.51%) Data Lake
7 8 (8.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (7.45%) Star Schema
9 4 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (3.19%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (3.19%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.19%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (3.19%) QlikView
11 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.13%) SAP BW
11 2 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) Selenium
2 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.60%) Finance
3 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Banking
4 7 (7.45%) Investment Banking
4 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.26%) Front Office
5 4 (4.26%) Local Government
6 3 (3.19%) Legal
6 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.19%) Retail
7 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Back Office
8 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.13%) .NET
1 2 (2.13%) AWS CDK
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (2.13%) PySpark
2 1 (1.06%) ODBC
2 1 (1.06%) Playwright
2 1 (1.06%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.38%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.19%) Derivative
4 3 (3.19%) Equities
4 3 (3.19%) FMCG
5 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.13%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.13%) SCADA
6 1 (1.06%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.06%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Linux
1 3 (3.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (51.06%) Data Modelling
3 42 (44.68%) Visualisation
4 32 (34.04%) Analytics
5 24 (25.53%) Data Visualisation
5 24 (25.53%) ETL
6 22 (23.40%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.96%) Dashboard Development
8 12 (12.77%) Actionable Insight
8 12 (12.77%) Data Governance
8 12 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.57%) Data Transformation
10 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (8.51%) Agile
11 8 (8.51%) Migration
12 7 (7.45%) Data Extraction
12 7 (7.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 7 (7.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (70.21%) SQL
2 41 (43.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 18 (19.15%) Python
4 4 (4.26%) C#
4 4 (4.26%) R
4 4 (4.26%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.19%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.13%) ABAP
6 2 (2.13%) Java
7 1 (1.06%) Bicep
7 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (11.70%) SC Cleared
1 11 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.38%) Degree
3 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.19%) QA
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.57%) Databricks
3 6 (6.38%) SAP
4 4 (4.26%) Oracle
5 2 (2.13%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.13%) Capita
5 2 (2.13%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.13%) Reuters
5 2 (2.13%) Sage
6 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.06%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.06%) Cognos
6 1 (1.06%) Denodo
6 1 (1.06%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
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