Business Intelligence Developer Contracts

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 8 May 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 411 465
Rank change year-on-year -42 +54 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 76 178 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.41% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.44% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 145 176
10th Percentile £349 £350 £325
25th Percentile £363 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £486 £563 £568
90th Percentile £638 £623 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £420 £425
% change year-on-year +1.19% -1.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £25.15 - -
25th Percentile £25.79 £80.00 -
Median hourly rate £38.85 £84.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +141.29% -19.80%
75th Percentile £41.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £84.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -68.62% +141.29% -19.23%

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 26,930 40,005 55,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 92.75% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,553 26,036 38,744
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,045 2,664 1,555
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -18.89% +90.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.26
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.35% +116.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Top 14 Contract 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 8 May 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 -23 59 £438 -3.05% 89
UK excluding London -1 38 £425 +1.19% 74
London +1 26 £480 -12.73% 24
Work from Home -17 14 £425 -5.56% 50
North of England -3 9 £400 -4.48% 25
Midlands +16 8 £443 +18.00% 19
South West +33 7 £438 -12.50% 2
South East +31 7 £350 -22.22% 19
Scotland +16 7 £425 -1.45% 3
West Midlands +10 7 £443 +18.00% 11
North West +1 6 £413 +1.54% 15
Yorkshire -6 2 £394 -10.00% 6
North East -3 1 £375 - 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 76 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 67 (88.16%) Power BI
2 67 (88.16%) Power Platform
3 47 (61.84%) SQL
4 32 (42.11%) Data Modelling
5 28 (36.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (34.21%) Visualisation
7 23 (30.26%) Azure
8 20 (26.32%) Social Skills
9 19 (25.00%) Decision-Making
10 18 (23.68%) Data Visualisation
10 18 (23.68%) ETL
11 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
11 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (19.74%) Power Query
13 14 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (17.11%) SQL Server
14 13 (17.11%) Analytics
15 12 (15.79%) Tableau
16 11 (14.47%) Agile
17 10 (13.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 9 (11.84%) Data Analysis
18 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
19 8 (10.53%) Databricks
19 8 (10.53%) Finance
19 8 (10.53%) Python
19 8 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 8 (10.53%) Data Transformation
20 7 (9.21%) AWS
20 7 (9.21%) Dashboard Development

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 3 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 67 (88.16%) Power Platform
2 23 (30.26%) Azure
3 7 (9.21%) AWS
4 6 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.95%) dbt
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.95%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.95%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.63%) GCP
6 2 (2.63%) SaaS
6 2 (2.63%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.32%) GitHub
7 1 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.32%) OCI
7 1 (1.32%) Prefect
7 1 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (88.16%) Power BI
2 15 (19.74%) Power Query
3 14 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (17.11%) SQL Server
5 12 (15.79%) Tableau
6 10 (13.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 4 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.95%) OLAP
9 3 (3.95%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.63%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.63%) Looker
10 2 (2.63%) Metabase
10 2 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.63%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Git
1 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 20 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Finance
4 3 (3.95%) Banking
4 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.63%) Back Office
5 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Automotive
6 1 (1.32%) Local Government
6 1 (1.32%) Marketing
6 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) .NET
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.63%) PySpark
2 2 (2.63%) XML
3 1 (1.32%) MDX
3 1 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
1 2 (2.63%) Educational Technology
1 2 (2.63%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.32%) FMCG
2 1 (1.32%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.32%) NHS
2 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (42.11%) Data Modelling
3 26 (34.21%) Visualisation
4 19 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 18 (23.68%) Data Visualisation
5 18 (23.68%) ETL
6 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (17.11%) Analytics
8 11 (14.47%) Agile
9 9 (11.84%) Data Analysis
10 8 (10.53%) Data Transformation
11 7 (9.21%) Dashboard Development
11 7 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (7.89%) User Experience
13 5 (6.58%) Actionable Insight
13 5 (6.58%) Data Governance
13 5 (6.58%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 5 (6.58%) Migration
13 5 (6.58%) Translating Business Requirements
13 5 (6.58%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 47 (61.84%) SQL
2 28 (36.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (10.53%) Python
4 4 (5.26%) R
5 3 (3.95%) C#
5 3 (3.95%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.32%) VBA
7 1 (1.32%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Degree
2 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
Vendors
1 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.53%) Databricks
3 4 (5.26%) Vertica
4 3 (3.95%) Oracle
4 3 (3.95%) SAP
5 2 (2.63%) Google
5 2 (2.63%) Sage
6 1 (1.32%) Cognos
6 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.32%) Veeam
6 1 (1.32%) VMware