Business Intelligence Specialist Contracts

BI Specialist
UK

The median BI Specialist daily rate in the UK is £388 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 669 836
Rank change year-on-year +114 +167 -139
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Specialist 12 25 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.045% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.047% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 8
10th Percentile £247 £338 £383
25th Percentile £308 £377 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £463 £465
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% -0.54% -15.45%
75th Percentile £397 £510 £625
90th Percentile £485 £550 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £315 £425 £480
% change year-on-year -25.88% -11.46% +14.63%

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 39,897 53,039 83,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,852 37,038 58,857
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,465 1,978
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

Business Intelligence Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Business Intelligence Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Business Intelligence Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Specialist over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Business Intelligence Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Business Intelligence Specialist
Top 8 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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +84 12 £388 -16.22% 6
UK excluding London +36 5 £315 -25.88% 4
London +83 4 £400 -10.86% 1
North of England +28 3 - - 2
Work from Home +105 2 £388 -16.22% 1
South West - 2 £315 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West +19 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Business Intelligence Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Power BI
1 12 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) WhatsApp
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (8.33%) Revenue Management
5 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Local Government
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Intelligence Specialist 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) WhatsApp
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (8.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau Server
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) ERP
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
4 1 (8.33%) Change Management
4 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
4 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Statistics
4 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Cadence
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) SAP