Business Intelligence Analyst Contracts

BI Analyst
UK

The median BI Analyst daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 572 660
Rank change year-on-year +81 +88 -120
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 88 112 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.21% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 84 137
10th Percentile £306 £298 £272
25th Percentile £330 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £556 £528 £538
90th Percentile £600 £600 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £410
% change year-on-year -5.56% +9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £9.50 £42.73 -
25th Percentile £13.91 £66.17 £18.36
Median hourly rate £22.50 £79.19 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -71.59% +314.82% -8.00%
75th Percentile £29.63 - £19.83
90th Percentile £33.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.85 £79.19 £19.09
% change year-on-year -90.09% +314.82% -8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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 +73 76 £450 - 36
UK excluding London +26 44 £425 -5.56% 21
Work from Home +119 40 £438 +2.94% 12
London +100 38 £500 +11.11% 16
Midlands +31 14 £363 -18.08% 1
North of England +23 12 £450 +20.00% 4
Yorkshire +24 7 £400 -7.25% 1
West Midlands +16 7 £375 -21.05%
East Midlands +15 7 £363 +18.85% 1
Scotland +43 6 £475 +11.76%
South East +1 6 £390 -29.09% 4
North West +7 5 £500 +33.33% 3
South West +3 2 £550 +22.22% 10
Northern Ireland +3 2 £338 -22.86%
East of England -2 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Business Intelligence Analyst 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 Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 66 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 63 (71.59%) Power BI
4 54 (61.36%) SQL
5 34 (38.64%) Visualisation
6 28 (31.82%) Data Modelling
6 28 (31.82%) Finance
7 26 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (28.41%) Analytics
9 22 (25.00%) Data Analysis
10 21 (23.86%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (23.86%) Tableau
11 20 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
11 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
12 19 (21.59%) Agile
13 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
14 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (17.05%) ETL
15 13 (14.77%) Python
16 12 (13.64%) Data Quality
17 11 (12.50%) Data Analytics
17 11 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
17 11 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
17 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 11 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
18 10 (11.36%) Degree
18 10 (11.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 10 (11.36%) Public Sector
18 10 (11.36%) Azure
19 8 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions

Business Intelligence Analyst 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.27%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 66 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (11.36%) Azure
3 6 (6.82%) AWS
3 6 (6.82%) OCI
4 4 (4.55%) GCP
4 4 (4.55%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.41%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.41%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.27%) Matillion
7 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.14%) GitHub
7 1 (1.14%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.14%) SaaS
7 1 (1.14%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (71.59%) Power BI
2 21 (23.86%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (23.86%) Tableau
3 10 (11.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.95%) Qlik Sense
6 6 (6.82%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (6.82%) Power Query
6 6 (6.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.41%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.41%) Metadata
8 3 (3.41%) QlikView
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.27%) DataStage
9 2 (2.27%) MS Access
9 2 (2.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Git
2 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (31.82%) Finance
2 26 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.55%) Banking
6 4 (4.55%) Retail
7 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Billing
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 2 (2.27%) Local Government
8 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Advertising
9 1 (1.14%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.14%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) JSON
2 2 (2.27%) .NET
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.14%) ADO
3 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.14%) HTML
3 1 (1.14%) HTML5
3 1 (1.14%) Node.js
3 1 (1.14%) Pandas
3 1 (1.14%) React
3 1 (1.14%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.27%) NHS
3 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.14%) FMCG
4 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (38.64%) Visualisation
3 28 (31.82%) Data Modelling
4 25 (28.41%) Analytics
5 22 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 20 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
7 19 (21.59%) Agile
8 15 (17.05%) ETL
8 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (12.50%) Data Analytics
9 11 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.09%) Decision-Making
10 8 (9.09%) ERP
11 7 (7.95%) Computer Science
11 7 (7.95%) Data Transformation
12 5 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (5.68%) Dashboard Development
12 5 (5.68%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 54 (61.36%) SQL
2 13 (14.77%) Python
3 8 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (6.82%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.41%) R
5 3 (3.41%) VBA
6 2 (2.27%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) Java
6 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.14%) C++
7 1 (1.14%) Scala
7 1 (1.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) Degree
2 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.14%) CISA
5 1 (1.14%) CRISC
5 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.27%) PMO
4 1 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.95%) Oracle
3 5 (5.68%) Alteryx
3 5 (5.68%) SAP
4 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.27%) Google
5 2 (2.27%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (1.14%) Ariba
6 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.14%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.14%) Intel
6 1 (1.14%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.14%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.14%) Workday
38 Business Intelligence Analyst jobs Nationwide