Senior Business Intelligence Specialist Contract Job Trends

Senior BI Specialist
UK

The median Senior BI Specialist daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 519 -
Rank change year-on-year -95 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Business Intelligence Specialist 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.003% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £331 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £338 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% - -
75th Percentile £538 £344 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 39,980 27,191 41,155
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 92.93% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,004 17,726 26,995
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £410 £406 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.46% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,473 892 2,490
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% - -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.99
90th Percentile £76.25 £77.10 £71.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -1.54% -19.92%

Senior Business Intelligence Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Business Intelligence Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Business Intelligence Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Business Intelligence Specialist
Top 2 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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 20 March 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
London -50 1 £525 +55.56%
England -93 1 £525 +55.56%

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 2026, Senior Business Intelligence Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Measurement
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Scorecard
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Senior Business Intelligence Specialist 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 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau Desktop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Scorecard
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google