Business Intelligence Developer Contracts

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 458 461
Rank change year-on-year +70 +3 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 192 233 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.42% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.44% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 181 354
10th Percentile £338 £325 £338
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% +12.12%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £550
90th Percentile £620 £625 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile - - £30.40
25th Percentile £80.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.45 - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £43.95
90th Percentile - - £45.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £84.45 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - +79.49%

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +62 167 £450 - 58
UK excluding London +58 105 £425 - 32
Work from Home +72 80 £450 - 18
London +60 77 £525 +5.00% 24
North of England +37 40 £425 - 9
North West +23 21 £413 -2.94% 6
South East +22 20 £425 +16.44% 8
Yorkshire +32 19 £450 -5.26% 3
South West +6 15 £463 +15.63% 4
Midlands +11 9 £375 -11.76% 7
West Midlands +8 8 £375 -16.67% 5
Wales - 8 £550 -
Scotland +31 7 £438 -9.09%
East of England +9 6 £300 -33.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 Business Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 192 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 154 (80.21%) Power BI
2 154 (80.21%) Power Platform
3 111 (57.81%) SQL
4 63 (32.81%) Visualisation
5 51 (26.56%) Azure
5 51 (26.56%) Finance
6 49 (25.52%) ETL
6 49 (25.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 45 (23.44%) Data Modelling
7 45 (23.44%) SQL Server
8 44 (22.92%) Microsoft
8 44 (22.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 42 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
10 39 (20.31%) Social Skills
11 35 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (18.23%) Data Warehouse
12 34 (17.71%) Analytics
13 33 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
13 33 (17.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 26 (13.54%) T-SQL
15 23 (11.98%) Power Query
16 22 (11.46%) Data Analysis
17 21 (10.94%) Databricks
18 20 (10.42%) Power Automate
19 19 (9.90%) Agile
20 18 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
21 17 (8.85%) SC Cleared
21 17 (8.85%) Security Cleared
21 17 (8.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services

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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Maximo
1 2 (1.04%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 154 (80.21%) Power Platform
2 51 (26.56%) Azure
3 20 (10.42%) Power Automate
4 18 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (6.77%) PowerApps
6 11 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.17%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (3.13%) AWS
9 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (2.60%) GitHub
11 4 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.56%) IaaS
12 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.56%) PaaS
13 2 (1.04%) OCI
13 2 (1.04%) SaaS
14 1 (0.52%) Azure Storage
14 1 (0.52%) Fivetran
14 1 (0.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (80.21%) Power BI
2 45 (23.44%) SQL Server
3 44 (22.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 35 (18.23%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (17.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (11.98%) Power Query
7 17 (8.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 16 (8.33%) Tableau
9 12 (6.25%) Data Lake
10 10 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (5.21%) Metadata
11 8 (4.17%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 4 (2.08%) Big Data
14 4 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (2.08%) Lumira
14 4 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (2.08%) SAP BW
15 3 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 11 (5.73%) JIRA
2 6 (3.13%) Git
2 6 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (26.56%) Finance
2 39 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.29%) Banking
5 7 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.60%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.60%) Retail
7 4 (2.08%) Local Government
8 3 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Marketing
8 3 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Automotive
9 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.56%) .NET
1 3 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.04%) HTML
3 1 (0.52%) MDX
3 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
1 3 (1.56%) Tandem
2 2 (1.04%) CMDB
2 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
2 2 (1.04%) NHS
3 1 (0.52%) FMCG
3 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
1 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 63 (32.81%) Visualisation
3 49 (25.52%) ETL
4 45 (23.44%) Data Modelling
5 42 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
6 35 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (17.71%) Analytics
8 22 (11.46%) Data Analysis
9 19 (9.90%) Agile
10 16 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (7.81%) Dashboard Development
12 14 (7.29%) Data Integration
12 14 (7.29%) DevOps
13 13 (6.77%) Decision-Making
14 10 (5.21%) Actionable Insight
14 10 (5.21%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 10 (5.21%) Migration
15 9 (4.69%) Unit Testing
16 8 (4.17%) Change Management
16 8 (4.17%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 111 (57.81%) SQL
2 49 (25.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 26 (13.54%) T-SQL
4 14 (7.29%) Python
5 6 (3.13%) MATLAB
6 3 (1.56%) C#
7 2 (1.04%) ABAP
7 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.04%) R
7 2 (1.04%) VBA
8 1 (0.52%) LookML
8 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (8.85%) SC Cleared
1 17 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.08%) Degree
3 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.56%) QA
3 2 (1.04%) GDPR
3 2 (1.04%) PMO
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
Vendors
1 44 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.94%) Databricks
3 10 (5.21%) SAP
4 9 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.65%) Oracle
6 3 (1.56%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.52%) Civica
8 1 (0.52%) Facebook
8 1 (0.52%) Informatica
8 1 (0.52%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.52%) Twitter
61 Business Intelligence Developer jobs Nationwide