Senior Business Intelligence Consultant Contract Job Trends

Senior BI Consultant
UK

The median Senior BI Consultant daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 551 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Business Intelligence Consultant 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.009% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -
75th Percentile £638 £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 33,882 31,304 40,866
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 92.76% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,416 19,227 27,402
10th Percentile £294 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,989 974 1,553
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.12
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -26.67% +46.39%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.75 £76.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Business Intelligence Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 26 December 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 -51 2 £625 +38.89%
London -1 1 £625 +38.89%
North West - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, Senior Business Intelligence Consultant 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 Senior Business Intelligence Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Reconciliation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant 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 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Reconciliation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle