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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 456 392
Rank change year-on-year -61 -64 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 145 88 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.27% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.29% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 65 141
10th Percentile £325 £349 £350
25th Percentile £370 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £588 £745 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +5.45% -2.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.69 -
Median hourly rate £17.97 £38.85 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.74% +29.48% -
75th Percentile £20.35 £41.00 -
90th Percentile £24.64 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.97 - £30.00

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 48,690 30,025 37,043
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 91.50% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,369 19,114 23,981
10th Percentile £331 £282 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,338 1,460 2,193
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.69 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £19.09
Median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.38% -40.82% -1.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +7.50%

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 July 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 16 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 July 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 -52 135 £450 +2.86% 19
UK excluding London -68 74 £435 +5.45% 16
London -33 63 £493 -10.45% 4
Work from Home -44 44 £440 +6.67% 8
North of England -57 23 £440 +3.53% 3
North West -34 20 £440 +10.00% 2
Midlands -49 20 £400 -3.03% 5
West Midlands -52 13 £400 +11.11% 1
South East -62 12 £444 +12.76% 3
East of England -11 9 £375 -6.25% 1
East Midlands -9 7 £350 -15.15% 4
Scotland -17 5 £430 +1.18%
South West -43 4 £470 +7.43% 4
Yorkshire -44 2 £519 +19.25% 1
North East - 1 £350 -
Wales - 1 £325 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 145 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 125 (86.21%) Power BI
2 125 (86.21%) Power Platform
3 94 (64.83%) Data Modelling
4 78 (53.79%) SQL
5 77 (53.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 61 (42.07%) Analytics
7 54 (37.24%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (35.86%) Microsoft
9 50 (34.48%) Power Query
10 47 (32.41%) Azure
10 47 (32.41%) ETL
11 40 (27.59%) Visualisation
12 35 (24.14%) Decision-Making
13 27 (18.62%) Data Visualisation
14 26 (17.93%) Agile
15 25 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
15 25 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 22 (15.17%) Data Quality
16 22 (15.17%) Data Transformation
17 21 (14.48%) Star Schema
18 20 (13.79%) Security Cleared
19 19 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
19 19 (13.10%) Dashboard Development
20 18 (12.41%) Data Pipeline
20 18 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
21 17 (11.72%) Dimensional Modelling
21 17 (11.72%) Python
21 17 (11.72%) User Experience
22 16 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel

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 (3.45%) Confluence
2 4 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 16 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.07%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.69%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 125 (86.21%) Power Platform
2 47 (32.41%) Azure
3 15 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (7.59%) Snowflake
5 10 (6.90%) Power Automate
6 9 (6.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.14%) dbt
8 6 (4.14%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.76%) GCP
11 3 (2.07%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.07%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 2 (1.38%) AWS
12 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.69%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (86.21%) Power BI
2 54 (37.24%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (34.48%) Power Query
4 21 (14.48%) Star Schema
5 16 (11.03%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (4.14%) Data Lake
8 6 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.14%) ZAP BI
9 5 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.76%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.76%) Tableau
11 3 (2.07%) Big Data
11 3 (2.07%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Git
2 1 (0.69%) Hudson
2 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (29.66%) Finance
2 30 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.72%) Banking
4 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.21%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.76%) Front Office
8 3 (2.07%) Police
8 3 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Publishing
8 3 (2.07%) Retail
9 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.38%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.07%) HTML
2 2 (1.38%) .NET
2 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.38%) HTML5
2 2 (1.38%) REST
3 1 (0.69%) ADO
3 1 (0.69%) CSS
3 1 (0.69%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.69%) MDX
3 1 (0.69%) NumPy
3 1 (0.69%) Pandas
3 1 (0.69%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.21%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.07%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.38%) FMCG
4 2 (1.38%) NHS
4 2 (1.38%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.38%) SCADA
5 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.69%) Derivative
5 1 (0.69%) Equities
5 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 94 (64.83%) Data Modelling
3 61 (42.07%) Analytics
4 47 (32.41%) ETL
5 40 (27.59%) Visualisation
6 35 (24.14%) Decision-Making
7 27 (18.62%) Data Visualisation
8 26 (17.93%) Agile
9 25 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
9 25 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (15.17%) Data Transformation
11 19 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (13.10%) Dashboard Development
12 18 (12.41%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (11.72%) Dimensional Modelling
13 17 (11.72%) User Experience
14 15 (10.34%) Data Engineering
14 15 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
14 15 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 78 (53.79%) SQL
2 77 (53.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 17 (11.72%) Python
4 6 (4.14%) VBA
5 5 (3.45%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.07%) C#
8 2 (1.38%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.97%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.28%) Degree
4 5 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.38%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.45%) GRC
3 4 (2.76%) GDPR
4 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.38%) PMO
4 2 (1.38%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (1.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 52 (35.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.59%) Oracle
2 11 (7.59%) SAP
3 10 (6.90%) Databricks
4 7 (4.83%) Sage
5 6 (4.14%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.45%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.38%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.69%) Remedy