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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 445 400
Rank change year-on-year -63 -45 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 142 80 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.27% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.29% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 54 152
10th Percentile £363 £348 £339
25th Percentile £389 £368 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £550 £486 £564
90th Percentile £600 £619 £611
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £29.68 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £36.69 £80.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £38.85 £84.45
Median % change year-on-year -30.49% -54.00% -
75th Percentile £27.50 £41.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £84.45
% change year-on-year +8.00% -70.40% -

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 46,156 27,173 40,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.32% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,087 17,480 26,089
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,077 1,137 2,938
10th Percentile £15.19 £13.94 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.64 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.57% -26.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.71
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -4.76%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -48 135 £450 +2.86% 18
London -26 68 £500 +4.17% 4
UK excluding London -65 65 £425 +3.03% 17
Work from Home -33 43 £435 +3.88% 11
North of England -57 21 £440 +10.00% 8
North West -16 20 £440 +10.00% 7
South East -67 15 £425 +9.68% 3
Midlands -62 12 £450 +9.09% 3
West Midlands -55 11 £425 -3.95% 3
East of England -13 10 £375 -
South West -26 4 £470 +7.43% 2
Scotland -10 3 £538 +26.47%
East Midlands -24 1 £475 +15.15%
Yorkshire -52 1 £563 +32.35% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 142 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 116 (81.69%) Power BI
2 116 (81.69%) Power Platform
3 84 (59.15%) Data Modelling
4 81 (57.04%) SQL
5 69 (48.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 56 (39.44%) Analytics
7 53 (37.32%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (37.32%) ETL
8 46 (32.39%) Microsoft
9 43 (30.28%) Power Query
10 41 (28.87%) Azure
11 38 (26.76%) Visualisation
12 27 (19.01%) Decision-Making
13 26 (18.31%) Data Visualisation
14 23 (16.20%) Agile
14 23 (16.20%) Data Transformation
15 22 (15.49%) Data Quality
16 21 (14.79%) Actionable Insight
17 19 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
18 17 (11.97%) Dashboard Development
18 17 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 15 (10.56%) Star Schema
19 15 (10.56%) User Experience
20 14 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
20 14 (9.86%) Data Governance
20 14 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
20 14 (9.86%) Python
21 13 (9.15%) Data Engineering
21 13 (9.15%) SQL Server Integration Services

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 5 (3.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.41%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (81.69%) Power Platform
2 41 (28.87%) Azure
3 9 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (4.93%) Power Automate
4 7 (4.93%) Snowflake
5 5 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.82%) dbt
6 4 (2.82%) GCP
7 3 (2.11%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (2.11%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.41%) AWS
8 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.70%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (81.69%) Power BI
2 53 (37.32%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (30.28%) Power Query
4 15 (10.56%) Star Schema
5 13 (9.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (7.75%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.63%) Data Lake
7 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
7 8 (5.63%) Tableau
8 6 (4.23%) ZAP BI
9 5 (3.52%) Looker
9 5 (3.52%) Oracle BI EE
9 5 (3.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (3.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.11%) Big Data
11 3 (2.11%) QlikView
11 3 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (3.52%) JIRA
2 1 (0.70%) ERwin
2 1 (0.70%) Git
2 1 (0.70%) Hudson
2 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (36.62%) Finance
2 36 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.90%) Banking
4 19 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.04%) Financial Institution
5 10 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.63%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.82%) Front Office
7 4 (2.82%) Publishing
8 3 (2.11%) Back Office
8 3 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.41%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Advertising
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.11%) HTML
2 2 (1.41%) HTML5
2 2 (1.41%) REST
3 1 (0.70%) .NET
3 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.70%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.70%) MDX
3 1 (0.70%) Middleware
3 1 (0.70%) NumPy
3 1 (0.70%) Pandas
3 1 (0.70%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.70%) Web Services
3 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.34%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.41%) NHS
4 2 (1.41%) SCADA
5 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.70%) Derivative
5 1 (0.70%) Equities
5 1 (0.70%) FMCG
5 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.70%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.70%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Unix
1 1 (0.70%) Windows
1 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (59.15%) Data Modelling
3 56 (39.44%) Analytics
4 53 (37.32%) ETL
5 38 (26.76%) Visualisation
6 27 (19.01%) Decision-Making
7 26 (18.31%) Data Visualisation
8 23 (16.20%) Agile
8 23 (16.20%) Data Transformation
9 21 (14.79%) Actionable Insight
10 19 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (11.97%) Dashboard Development
11 17 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (10.56%) User Experience
13 14 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (9.86%) Data Governance
13 14 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (9.15%) Data Engineering
14 13 (9.15%) Translating Business Requirements
14 13 (9.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 81 (57.04%) SQL
2 69 (48.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 14 (9.86%) Python
4 7 (4.93%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.23%) VBA
6 3 (2.11%) C#
6 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (6.34%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.63%) Degree
2 8 (5.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.49%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.23%) GRC
3 3 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (1.41%) PMO
4 2 (1.41%) QA
5 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (1.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 46 (32.39%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.45%) Databricks
3 7 (4.93%) Sage
4 6 (4.23%) SAP
4 6 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.52%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.52%) Oracle
6 2 (1.41%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.41%) Cognos
7 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.70%) Remedy