Business Intelligence Developer Contracts

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 486 424
Rank change year-on-year +75 -62 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 177 243 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.40% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.43% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 183 391
10th Percentile £350 £328 £350
25th Percentile £398 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £550
90th Percentile £624 £638 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile £80.00 - £38.94
Median hourly rate £84.45 £35.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +141.29% -19.80% +61.64%
75th Percentile - - £45.42
90th Percentile - - £46.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £84.45 £35.00 £43.34
% change year-on-year +141.29% -19.23% +41.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

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 25 April 2024.

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 15 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 25 April 2024. 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 +74 151 £451 -2.43% 75
UK excluding London +78 92 £425 -5.56% 46
Work from Home +87 79 £450 - 26
London +65 74 £544 +8.75% 32
North of England +41 31 £413 -8.33% 11
South East +23 19 £450 +23.29% 9
North West +19 17 £400 -5.88% 4
Yorkshire +32 13 £438 -22.22% 5
South West +19 11 £500 +25.00% 3
Midlands +14 11 £375 -11.76% 17
West Midlands +20 10 £375 -16.67% 10
Scotland +22 9 £438 -9.09%
Wales - 8 £550 -
East of England +10 4 £300 -55.56% 6
North East +18 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 177 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 145 (81.92%) Power BI
2 145 (81.92%) Power Platform
3 103 (58.19%) SQL
4 49 (27.68%) Azure
5 48 (27.12%) Visualisation
6 46 (25.99%) ETL
7 45 (25.42%) Data Modelling
8 44 (24.86%) Microsoft
8 44 (24.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 43 (24.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 40 (22.60%) Finance
11 37 (20.90%) Social Skills
12 34 (19.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 33 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (18.64%) SQL Server
14 32 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
15 31 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (17.51%) Analytics
16 30 (16.95%) Data Visualisation
17 21 (11.86%) Databricks
17 21 (11.86%) T-SQL
17 21 (11.86%) Power Automate
18 19 (10.73%) Power Query
18 19 (10.73%) Agile
19 18 (10.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 17 (9.60%) SC Cleared
20 17 (9.60%) Data Analysis
20 17 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
20 17 (9.60%) Tableau

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 10 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Maximo
1 2 (1.13%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 145 (81.92%) Power Platform
2 49 (27.68%) Azure
3 21 (11.86%) Power Automate
4 17 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.65%) PowerApps
7 8 (4.52%) AWS
8 7 (3.95%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.82%) GitHub
10 4 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.69%) GCP
11 3 (1.69%) Serverless
12 2 (1.13%) Apigee
12 2 (1.13%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.13%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.13%) OCI
12 2 (1.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (81.92%) Power BI
2 43 (24.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 34 (19.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 33 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (18.64%) SQL Server
5 19 (10.73%) Power Query
6 18 (10.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 17 (9.60%) Tableau
8 7 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.95%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.95%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.39%) Metadata
10 5 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.82%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 4 (2.26%) Lumira
11 4 (2.26%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (2.26%) SAP BW
12 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (1.13%) Data Mart
13 2 (1.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (6.21%) JIRA
2 6 (3.39%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (2.82%) Git
4 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (22.60%) Finance
2 37 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.21%) Banking
5 10 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.39%) Retail
7 5 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.26%) Local Government
9 3 (1.69%) Marketing
9 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Billing
10 2 (1.13%) Law
10 2 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.69%) .NET
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
1 3 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.13%) HTML
3 1 (0.56%) MDX
3 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
1 3 (1.69%) Tandem
2 2 (1.13%) CMDB
2 2 (1.13%) NHS
3 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.56%) FMCG
3 1 (0.56%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
1 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (27.12%) Visualisation
3 46 (25.99%) ETL
4 45 (25.42%) Data Modelling
5 31 (17.51%) Analytics
5 31 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (16.95%) Data Visualisation
7 19 (10.73%) Agile
8 17 (9.60%) Data Analysis
9 14 (7.91%) Dashboard Development
9 14 (7.91%) DevOps
10 12 (6.78%) Data Integration
11 11 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (5.65%) Decision-Making
13 8 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (4.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 8 (4.52%) Migration
14 7 (3.95%) Translating Business Requirements
14 7 (3.95%) Unit Testing
14 7 (3.95%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (58.19%) SQL
2 44 (24.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 21 (11.86%) T-SQL
4 13 (7.34%) Python
5 4 (2.26%) MATLAB
6 3 (1.69%) C#
6 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.13%) ABAP
7 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.13%) R
8 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (9.60%) SC Cleared
1 17 (9.60%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.69%) Degree
3 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.13%) GDPR
2 2 (1.13%) PMO
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) IFRS
3 1 (0.56%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 44 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.86%) Databricks
3 8 (4.52%) SAP
4 6 (3.39%) Oracle
5 3 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Civica
7 1 (0.56%) Facebook
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.56%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.56%) QAD
7 1 (0.56%) Twitter