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 13 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 395 426
Rank change year-on-year -72 +31 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 91 179 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.50% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 138 173
10th Percentile £346 £354 £365
25th Percentile £375 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £575
90th Percentile £788 £650 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £438 £444
% change year-on-year -5.71% -1.41% +4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.69 - -
Median hourly rate £38.85 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.48% - -
75th Percentile £41.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £30.00 -

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 29,973 35,853 47,592
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 93.02% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,919 22,254 32,672
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,564 1,726 1,497
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -0.76% +66.65%
75th Percentile £51.93 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -44.11% +10.86% +84.50%

Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Developer 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -65 80 £438 -2.78% 47
UK excluding London -66 43 £413 -5.71% 47
London +2 37 £650 +18.18% 12
Work from Home -6 28 £450 - 25
North of England -47 13 £418 -4.57% 13
South West +10 11 £438 +2.94% 7
Midlands -10 9 £421 +8.71% 11
North West -26 8 £405 -6.09% 11
South East +8 5 £400 -8.57% 11
East Midlands 0 5 £413 +10.00% 6
Yorkshire -27 5 £435 -3.33% 2
West Midlands -18 4 £494 +16.18% 4
East of England +5 2 £400 +33.33% 1
Scotland -2 2 £500 +14.29% 2
Wales +1 1 £308 -27.65% 4

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, Business Intelligence Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 91 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 86 (94.51%) Power BI
2 86 (94.51%) Power Platform
3 66 (72.53%) SQL
4 42 (46.15%) Data Modelling
5 37 (40.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 34 (37.36%) Visualisation
7 33 (36.26%) Azure
8 32 (35.16%) Social Skills
9 29 (31.87%) Power Query
9 29 (31.87%) Analytics
9 29 (31.87%) ETL
10 28 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (28.57%) Decision-Making
12 23 (25.27%) Python
12 23 (25.27%) Finance
13 22 (24.18%) Data Visualisation
14 16 (17.58%) Data Pipeline
15 15 (16.48%) Tableau
15 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
16 13 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
16 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
17 12 (13.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (13.19%) Data Transformation
17 12 (13.19%) Dashboard Development
17 12 (13.19%) Databricks
18 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
18 11 (12.09%) Data Analysis
19 10 (10.99%) Actionable Insight
20 9 (9.89%) Data Governance

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.10%) iTrent
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 86 (94.51%) Power Platform
2 33 (36.26%) Azure
3 12 (13.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (7.69%) AWS
4 7 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.49%) GCP
6 4 (4.40%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.40%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.30%) dbt
7 3 (3.30%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.10%) GitHub
9 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.10%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (94.51%) Power BI
2 29 (31.87%) Power Query
3 28 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (16.48%) Tableau
5 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.79%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.79%) Relational Database
6 8 (8.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (6.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (4.40%) Star Schema
9 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.30%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (3.30%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (2.20%) Looker
10 2 (2.20%) Metabase
10 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Git
General
1 32 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.27%) Finance
3 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.69%) Banking
4 7 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.40%) Front Office
5 4 (4.40%) Local Government
5 4 (4.40%) Retail
6 2 (2.20%) Back Office
6 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.20%) Marketing
6 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.10%) Automotive
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (2.20%) PySpark
2 1 (1.10%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Reference Data
2 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.30%) Derivative
3 3 (3.30%) Equities
3 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.30%) NHS
4 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.20%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.20%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) SCADA
5 1 (1.10%) FMCG
5 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Linux
1 3 (3.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 34 (37.36%) Visualisation
4 29 (31.87%) Analytics
4 29 (31.87%) ETL
5 26 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 22 (24.18%) Data Visualisation
7 16 (17.58%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (13.19%) Dashboard Development
9 12 (13.19%) Data Transformation
10 11 (12.09%) Data Analysis
11 10 (10.99%) Actionable Insight
12 9 (9.89%) Data Governance
13 8 (8.79%) Agile
13 8 (8.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 7 (7.69%) Data Engineering
15 6 (6.59%) Data Integration
15 6 (6.59%) Translating Business Requirements
15 6 (6.59%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 66 (72.53%) SQL
2 37 (40.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 23 (25.27%) Python
4 4 (4.40%) R
5 2 (2.20%) ABAP
5 2 (2.20%) C#
5 2 (2.20%) Java
5 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.10%) LookML
6 1 (1.10%) Scala
6 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) Degree
2 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.10%) PMO
Vendors
1 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) Databricks
3 5 (5.49%) Oracle
4 4 (4.40%) SAP
4 4 (4.40%) Vertica
5 3 (3.30%) Dataiku
6 2 (2.20%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.20%) Capita
6 2 (2.20%) Reuters
7 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.10%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.10%) Cognos
7 1 (1.10%) Denodo
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Veeam
7 1 (1.10%) VMware
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