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 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 430 424
Rank change year-on-year -51 -6 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 101 99 166
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.33% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 77 117
10th Percentile £363 £325 £313
25th Percentile £383 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £665 £643 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £431
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.45% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £25.46 £80.89
25th Percentile - £25.79 £82.23
Median hourly rate - £27.35 £84.45
Median % change year-on-year - -67.61% +141.29%
75th Percentile - £29.19 -
90th Percentile - £29.68 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.35 £84.45
% change year-on-year - -67.61% +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 33,792 29,885 39,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 92.67% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,415 18,301 26,575
10th Percentile £300 £293 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,959 924 1,607
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.56 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.78 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -26.97% +36.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -20.16% -31.34% +69.89%

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 7 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 7 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 -47 87 £438 -2.78% 38
London -19 48 £525 - 10
UK excluding London -64 43 £425 -2.86% 37
Work from Home +8 39 £450 -12.41% 20
Midlands -36 14 £425 -5.56% 18
West Midlands -34 11 £425 -5.56% 10
North of England -52 11 £438 +16.67% 6
South East -23 7 £425 - 11
North West -29 7 £438 +6.71% 3
South West -4 5 £450 -
Wales -2 4 £400 -5.88% 2
Yorkshire -48 4 £438 +20.69%
East Midlands -23 3 £413 +10.00% 8
Scotland 0 2 £500 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 101 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 87 (86.14%) Power BI
2 87 (86.14%) Power Platform
3 67 (66.34%) SQL
4 53 (52.48%) Data Modelling
5 43 (42.57%) Visualisation
6 37 (36.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 35 (34.65%) Analytics
8 34 (33.66%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (30.69%) ETL
10 30 (29.70%) Decision-Making
11 28 (27.72%) Azure
12 27 (26.73%) Power Query
13 25 (24.75%) Microsoft
14 24 (23.76%) Data Visualisation
15 17 (16.83%) Data Governance
16 16 (15.84%) Dashboard Development
16 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (15.84%) Python
17 15 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
17 15 (14.85%) SQL Server
18 13 (12.87%) Actionable Insight
18 13 (12.87%) Data Transformation
18 13 (12.87%) Power Automate
19 12 (11.88%) Agile
19 12 (11.88%) Performance Tuning
19 12 (11.88%) PowerApps
19 12 (11.88%) Tableau
20 11 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
20 11 (10.89%) 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 (9.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.99%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.99%) iTrent
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 87 (86.14%) Power Platform
2 28 (27.72%) Azure
3 13 (12.87%) Power Automate
4 12 (11.88%) PowerApps
5 7 (6.93%) AWS
5 7 (6.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.96%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.97%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.97%) GCP
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.98%) GitHub
9 2 (1.98%) SaaS
9 2 (1.98%) Serverless
10 1 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (86.14%) Power BI
2 34 (33.66%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (26.73%) Power Query
4 15 (14.85%) SQL Server
5 12 (11.88%) Tableau
6 9 (8.91%) Oracle BI EE
6 9 (8.91%) Relational Database
6 9 (8.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (7.92%) Star Schema
8 7 (6.93%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.96%) Oracle ODI
9 4 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (2.97%) QlikView
11 2 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.98%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Git
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.99%) Selenium
2 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 32 (31.68%) Finance
3 16 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.89%) Banking
5 10 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.93%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.95%) Front Office
8 4 (3.96%) Back Office
8 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.97%) Legal
9 3 (2.97%) Local Government
9 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.98%) Law
10 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.98%) Retail
11 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.99%) Publishing
11 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.97%) PySpark
2 2 (1.98%) .NET
2 2 (1.98%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.99%) HTML
3 1 (0.99%) Middleware
3 1 (0.99%) Playwright
3 1 (0.99%) Puppeteer
3 1 (0.99%) Shiny
3 1 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.92%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.97%) Derivative
3 3 (2.97%) Equities
3 3 (2.97%) FMCG
3 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.98%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.98%) SCADA
5 1 (0.99%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.99%) NHS
5 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Unix
2 1 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (52.48%) Data Modelling
3 43 (42.57%) Visualisation
4 35 (34.65%) Analytics
5 31 (30.69%) ETL
6 30 (29.70%) Decision-Making
7 24 (23.76%) Data Visualisation
8 17 (16.83%) Data Governance
9 16 (15.84%) Dashboard Development
9 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (12.87%) Actionable Insight
10 13 (12.87%) Data Transformation
11 12 (11.88%) Agile
11 12 (11.88%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (9.90%) Data Extraction
13 10 (9.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 10 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (8.91%) Migration
15 8 (7.92%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 67 (66.34%) SQL
2 37 (36.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 16 (15.84%) Python
4 7 (6.93%) R
5 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.96%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.97%) C#
7 2 (1.98%) ABAP
7 2 (1.98%) Scala
8 1 (0.99%) Bicep
8 1 (0.99%) Java
8 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (10.89%) SC Cleared
1 11 (10.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.95%) Degree
3 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.99%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.97%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) PMO
4 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.90%) Databricks
3 6 (5.94%) Oracle
4 5 (4.95%) SAP
5 2 (1.98%) Capita
5 2 (1.98%) Sage
6 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.99%) Denodo
6 1 (0.99%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.99%) Reuters
6 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow