Business Intelligence Manager Contract Job Trends

BI Manager
UK

The median BI Manager daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 528 578
Rank change year-on-year -47 +50 +161
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Manager 13 14 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.042% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.046% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 15
10th Percentile £400 £470 £425
25th Percentile £497 £538 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £551
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.07% +15.89%
75th Percentile £544 - £650
90th Percentile £688 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

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 33,835 30,753 40,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.71% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,431 18,857 26,859
10th Percentile £300 £298 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,964 949 1,554
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.52 £46.18
% change year-on-year -20.21% -31.75% +80.14%

Business Intelligence Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Business Intelligence Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Business Intelligence Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Intelligence Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Manager job vacancies in the UK

Business Intelligence Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Manager over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Manager in the UK

Business Intelligence Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Manager job vacancies in the UK

Business Intelligence Manager
Top 6 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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 -42 12 £525 -4.55% 5
London -15 6 £550 - 4
UK excluding London -50 6 £525 - 3
South West -8 5 £525 -
Work from Home -6 3 £581 -10.58% 1
South East - 1 £488 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Business Intelligence Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Analytics
1 13 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (84.62%) Power BI
2 11 (84.62%) Power Platform
3 8 (61.54%) SQL
4 7 (53.85%) GCP
4 7 (53.85%) Google
4 7 (53.85%) Python
5 6 (46.15%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (46.15%) AI
5 6 (46.15%) Change Management
5 6 (46.15%) Data Science
6 5 (38.46%) Big Data
6 5 (38.46%) BigQuery
6 5 (38.46%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
6 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (38.46%) Predictive Modelling
6 5 (38.46%) Storytelling
7 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 3 (23.08%) Tableau
7 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
8 2 (15.38%) Adobe
8 2 (15.38%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (15.38%) Agile
8 2 (15.38%) ATL
8 2 (15.38%) CRM
8 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling

Business Intelligence Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Power Platform
2 7 (53.85%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (15.38%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) Power BI
2 5 (38.46%) Big Data
2 5 (38.46%) BigQuery
3 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (23.08%) Tableau
4 1 (7.69%) Looker
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.69%) Star Schema
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Derivative
1 1 (7.69%) Equities
1 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Analytics
1 13 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (46.15%) AI
2 6 (46.15%) Change Management
2 6 (46.15%) Data Science
3 5 (38.46%) Matrix Organization
3 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
3 5 (38.46%) Predictive Modelling
3 5 (38.46%) Storytelling
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) CRM
5 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Marketing Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Marketing Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) MiFID
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks