SQL BI Developer Contracts

SQL Business Intelligence Developer
UK

The median SQL Business Intelligence Developer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 662 748
Rank change year-on-year +100 +86 -117
Contract jobs requiring a SQL BI Developer 14 22 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.039% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.041% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 89
10th Percentile £275 £281 £362
25th Percentile £372 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £625 £550
90th Percentile £493 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £394 £450
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +12.50%

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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 16 May 2024.

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 8 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 16 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 +114 14 £450 +12.50% 7
Work from Home +121 12 £425 +9.68% 6
UK excluding London +56 10 £450 +14.29% 7
North of England +31 6 £450 +16.13%
Yorkshire - 6 £450 -
London +102 4 £425 -29.17%
East of England +12 3 £300 -
South East +12 1 £500 +63.93% 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 14 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (92.86%) SQL
3 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
4 8 (57.14%) Azure
4 8 (57.14%) Power BI
4 8 (57.14%) Power Platform
5 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
6 6 (42.86%) DevOps
6 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
7 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
7 5 (35.71%) Git
7 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (35.71%) JIRA
7 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
8 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
8 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (14.29%) IaaS
9 2 (14.29%) PaaS
9 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
9 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 2 (14.29%) ETL
9 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (7.14%) Local Government
10 1 (7.14%) Marketing

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 8 (57.14%) Azure
1 8 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (57.14%) Power BI
3 7 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
1 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
1 1 (7.14%) Local Government
1 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
3 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (7.14%) Case Management
5 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.14%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (7.14%) Inmon Methodology
5 1 (7.14%) Kanban
5 1 (7.14%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) SDLC
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks