Senior Business Intelligence Developer Contracts

Senior BI Developer
UK

The median Senior BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £553, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 574 708
Rank change year-on-year +60 +134 +135
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Business Intelligence Developer 6 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.018% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.020% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £356 - £350
25th Percentile £392 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% +17.65% -8.11%
75th Percentile £638 £544 £451
90th Percentile - £608 £529
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -27.50% +17.65% -4.23%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Business Intelligence Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Business Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Top 6 Contract 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +56 6 £553 +10.50% 9
London +39 4 £625 +19.05% 2
UK excluding London +61 2 £363 -27.50% 11
North of England - 1 £375 - 4
North East - 1 £375 -
South East - 1 £350 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Power Query
4 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (16.67%) Tableau Server
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) R
4 1 (16.67%) Tableau
4 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Power Query
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Content Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) R
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) XMLA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft