Senior Business Intelligence Developer Contracts

Senior BI Developer
UK

The median Senior BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 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
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 584 672
Rank change year-on-year +67 +88 +162
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Business Intelligence Developer 7 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.014% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.015% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 11
10th Percentile £356 £479 £350
25th Percentile £392 £484 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +13.89% -2.70%
75th Percentile £669 £575 £520
90th Percentile £700 £598 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -27.50% +17.65% -

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 27,162 40,531 52,517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.88% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,463 26,076 36,648
10th Percentile £288 £280 £313
25th Percentile £402 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.64% +2.71%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,133 2,932 1,488
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.30 £19.39
Median hourly rate £27.64 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.29% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%

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 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Top 7 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 11 June 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 7 £515 +0.49% 28
London +56 5 £625 +19.05% 14
UK excluding London +53 2 £363 -27.50% 22
Work from Home +32 1 £550 +10.00% 9
North of England - 1 £375 - 2
North East - 1 £375 - 1
South East - 1 £350 - 10

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (85.71%) Power Platform
2 6 (85.71%) Power BI
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 5 (71.43%) Visualisation
4 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Analytics
4 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
5 3 (42.86%) Python
5 3 (42.86%) Databricks
5 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
5 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
5 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
6 2 (28.57%) Power Query
6 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (28.57%) Dataiku
6 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
6 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
6 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (28.57%) Data Lineage
6 2 (28.57%) ETL
6 2 (28.57%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (14.29%) Marketing Analytics

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 6 (85.71%) Power Platform
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Power BI
2 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 2 (28.57%) Power Query
4 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) Looker
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Visualisation
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (28.57%) Data Lineage
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (14.29%) Content Management
6 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (14.29%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) LookML
4 1 (14.29%) R
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) XMLA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Dataiku
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft