SQL BI Developer Contracts

SQL Business Intelligence Developer
UK

The median SQL Business Intelligence Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, 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 513 567 693
Rank change year-on-year +54 +126 +61
Contract jobs requiring a SQL BI Developer 7 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.034% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.037% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 18
10th Percentile £445 £275 £281
25th Percentile £475 £381 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £463 £594
90th Percentile £655 £545 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.69 - -
Median hourly rate £38.85 - -
75th Percentile £41.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly 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 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%

SQL BI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SQL BI Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL BI Developer in the UK

SQL BI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL BI Developer.

Daily rate trend for SQL BI Developer in the UK

SQL BI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL BI Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL BI Developer in the UK

SQL BI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL BI Developer.

Hourly rate trend for SQL BI Developer in the UK

SQL BI Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL BI 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 +44 2 £650 +44.44% 9
London +35 2 £650 +44.44% 1
UK excluding London +54 1 £450 - 7
Work from Home +31 1 - - 4
Scotland - 1 £450 -

SQL BI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SQL BI 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 SQL BI Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (71.43%) Power BI
2 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
2 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 4 (57.14%) Tableau
3 4 (57.14%) Vertica
3 4 (57.14%) Master Data Management
3 4 (57.14%) Use Case
3 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) Back Office
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation

SQL BI 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 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Power BI
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Tableau
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 4 (57.14%) Master Data Management
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Use Case
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Vertica
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft