Business Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £452, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 462 407
Rank change year-on-year -62 -55 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 156 89 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.27% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.30% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 69 123
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -0.55% -4.74%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £596 £780 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +1.76% - -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £17.49 - -
25th Percentile £17.97 £36.69 -
Median hourly rate £17.99 £38.85 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.70% +29.48% -
75th Percentile £21.47 £41.00 -
90th Percentile £22.29 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.99 - £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 50,251 30,087 35,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.83% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,471 18,979 21,309
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.75% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,065 1,640 1,482
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -40.16% -5.55%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £68.00 £74.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.00 £42.91
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.74% -3.03%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -58 145 £453 +1.80% 92
London -50 76 £475 -26.92% 39
UK excluding London -55 72 £433 +1.76% 58
Work from Home -47 49 £440 -2.22% 45
North of England -65 23 £438 +1.57% 12
North West -40 18 £439 +3.60% 7
Midlands -32 17 £400 -5.04% 13
South East -60 12 £438 +9.50% 15
South West -27 10 - - 3
East Midlands -8 9 £350 -15.15% 6
West Midlands -40 8 £400 -18.99% 7
East of England -31 5 £338 -15.63% 5
Scotland -17 4 £425 -15.00% 7
Yorkshire -31 4 £438 +0.57% 5
Wales -11 1 £325 +5.69%
North East - 1 £350 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 156 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 136 (87.18%) Power BI
2 136 (87.18%) Power Platform
3 86 (55.13%) Data Modelling
4 83 (53.21%) SQL
5 80 (51.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 57 (36.54%) Microsoft
7 54 (34.62%) Power Query
8 51 (32.69%) Azure
9 49 (31.41%) Analytics
10 43 (27.56%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (26.28%) Visualisation
12 35 (22.44%) ETL
13 34 (21.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (20.51%) Decision-Making
15 31 (19.87%) Data Visualisation
16 30 (19.23%) Star Schema
17 22 (14.10%) Security Cleared
18 21 (13.46%) CI/CD
18 21 (13.46%) DevOps
19 20 (12.82%) Actionable Insight
19 20 (12.82%) Agile
19 20 (12.82%) Dashboard Development
19 20 (12.82%) Data Quality
19 20 (12.82%) Dimensional Modelling
19 20 (12.82%) Python
20 18 (11.54%) Data Transformation
20 18 (11.54%) SQL Server
20 18 (11.54%) Translating Business Requirements
21 17 (10.90%) Data Engineering

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 6 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.64%) CMS
2 1 (0.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.28%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 136 (87.18%) Power Platform
2 51 (32.69%) Azure
3 16 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 11 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (7.05%) Power Automate
6 10 (6.41%) Snowflake
7 8 (5.13%) dbt
8 6 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.56%) AWS
10 3 (1.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 2 (1.28%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.28%) Azure Databricks
11 2 (1.28%) GCP
12 1 (0.64%) Copilot Studio
12 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.64%) SaaS
12 1 (0.64%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (87.18%) Power BI
2 54 (34.62%) Power Query
3 43 (27.56%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (19.23%) Star Schema
5 18 (11.54%) SQL Server
6 11 (7.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (4.49%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (3.85%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.56%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
11 3 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.28%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
12 2 (1.28%) QlikView
12 2 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (0.64%) JIRA
2 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (29.49%) Finance
2 28 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 17 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.05%) Banking
6 6 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.85%) Retail
7 4 (2.56%) Front Office
7 4 (2.56%) Police
7 4 (2.56%) Publishing
8 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.28%) Legal
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Local Government
10 1 (0.64%) Military
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.49%) REST
2 4 (2.56%) HTML
3 3 (1.92%) HTML5
4 2 (1.28%) .NET
4 2 (1.28%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.28%) PySpark
5 1 (0.64%) ADO
5 1 (0.64%) CSS
5 1 (0.64%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.64%) Web Services
5 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.77%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.85%) NHS
3 4 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.92%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.64%) FMCG
6 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.64%) Linux
1 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 86 (55.13%) Data Modelling
3 49 (31.41%) Analytics
4 41 (26.28%) Visualisation
5 35 (22.44%) ETL
6 34 (21.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (20.51%) Decision-Making
8 31 (19.87%) Data Visualisation
9 21 (13.46%) CI/CD
9 21 (13.46%) DevOps
10 20 (12.82%) Actionable Insight
10 20 (12.82%) Agile
10 20 (12.82%) Dashboard Development
10 20 (12.82%) Dimensional Modelling
11 18 (11.54%) Data Transformation
11 18 (11.54%) Translating Business Requirements
12 17 (10.90%) Data Engineering
12 17 (10.90%) Requirements Gathering
13 16 (10.26%) Data Governance
13 16 (10.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 83 (53.21%) SQL
2 80 (51.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 20 (12.82%) Python
4 7 (4.49%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.49%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.21%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (0.64%) Java
7 1 (0.64%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 22 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.21%) Degree
4 3 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.56%) GDPR
3 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.92%) QA
4 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.64%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (1.92%) Control-M
Vendors
1 57 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.33%) Databricks
3 12 (7.69%) Oracle
4 11 (7.05%) SAP
5 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.64%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow