Business Intelligence Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

BI Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median BI Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £438, 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 288 269 361
Rank change year-on-year -19 +92 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 16 76 117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 64 91
10th Percentile £363 £350 £306
25th Percentile £396 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -
75th Percentile £468 £566 £525
90th Percentile £536 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £444 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -1.39% -2.70% +2.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Business Intelligence Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Business Intelligence Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Business Intelligence Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Intelligence Developer.

Business Intelligence Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Business Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Business Intelligence Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Intelligence Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Intelligence Developer.

Business Intelligence Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (87.50%) Power BI
2 14 (87.50%) Power Platform
3 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
4 8 (50.00%) SQL
5 6 (37.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (31.25%) Azure
6 5 (31.25%) Tableau
7 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 4 (25.00%) User Experience
7 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
8 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (18.75%) Data Transformation
8 3 (18.75%) ETL
8 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 3 (18.75%) UX Design
8 3 (18.75%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (12.50%) Python
9 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
9 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (12.50%) AWS
9 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (12.50%) Degree
9 2 (12.50%) Agile
9 2 (12.50%) Data Integration

Business Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Power Platform
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) dbt
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Power BI
2 5 (31.25%) Tableau
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (12.50%) Metabase
4 2 (12.50%) Power Query
4 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data
5 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (6.25%) MySQL
5 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
5 1 (6.25%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Housing Association
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (25.00%) User Experience
3 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (18.75%) Data Transformation
4 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) UX Design
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (12.50%) User Stories
5 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) R
4 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) SAP