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 20 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
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 468 457
Rank change year-on-year +73 -11 -78
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 187 229 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.40% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.42% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 172 377
10th Percentile £349 £325 £338
25th Percentile £378 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year - -1.10% +8.01%
75th Percentile £563 £564 £550
90th Percentile £621 £625 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile - - £34.63
25th Percentile £80.00 - £36.31
Median hourly rate £84.45 - £43.64
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - £46.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £84.45 - £43.34
% change year-on-year - - +104.46%

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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
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% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 May 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 20 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 +90 162 £450 - 106
UK excluding London +69 100 £425 - 76
Work from Home +75 78 £450 - 26
London +71 76 £550 +7.32% 37
North of England +43 37 £425 -5.56% 10
North West +20 21 £413 -2.94% 7
South East +31 19 £438 +19.86% 24
Yorkshire +30 16 £450 -5.26% 3
South West +8 14 £500 +25.00% 5
Midlands +9 11 £375 -9.09% 30
West Midlands +18 10 £375 -16.67% 22
Wales - 8 £550 -
Scotland +36 7 £438 -9.09%
East of England +12 4 £300 -33.33% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 187 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 153 (81.82%) Power BI
2 153 (81.82%) Power Platform
3 112 (59.89%) SQL
4 58 (31.02%) Visualisation
5 52 (27.81%) Azure
6 49 (26.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 49 (26.20%) Finance
7 46 (24.60%) ETL
8 44 (23.53%) Data Modelling
8 44 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 43 (22.99%) Microsoft
10 42 (22.46%) SQL Server
11 39 (20.86%) Data Visualisation
12 37 (19.79%) Social Skills
13 34 (18.18%) Analytics
13 34 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
14 33 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 32 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
16 24 (12.83%) T-SQL
17 22 (11.76%) Power Automate
18 21 (11.23%) Power Query
18 21 (11.23%) Data Analysis
18 21 (11.23%) Databricks
19 20 (10.70%) Azure Data Factory
20 18 (9.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
21 17 (9.09%) SC Cleared
21 17 (9.09%) Agile
21 17 (9.09%) Security Cleared

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 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.07%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Maximo
1 2 (1.07%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 153 (81.82%) Power Platform
2 52 (27.81%) Azure
3 22 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 20 (10.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (6.95%) PowerApps
6 11 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (4.28%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.74%) AWS
9 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (2.67%) GitHub
11 4 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.60%) GCP
12 3 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.60%) Serverless
13 2 (1.07%) Apigee
13 2 (1.07%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.07%) IaaS
13 2 (1.07%) PaaS
13 2 (1.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (81.82%) Power BI
2 44 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 42 (22.46%) SQL Server
4 33 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (11.23%) Power Query
6 18 (9.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 15 (8.02%) Tableau
8 11 (5.88%) Data Lake
9 10 (5.35%) Metadata
10 9 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (4.28%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.67%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 4 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (2.14%) Big Data
13 4 (2.14%) Lumira
13 4 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (2.14%) SAP BW
14 2 (1.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (5.88%) JIRA
2 6 (3.21%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (2.67%) Git
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (26.20%) Finance
2 37 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.42%) Banking
5 8 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.67%) Retail
7 4 (2.14%) Local Government
8 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.60%) Marketing
9 2 (1.07%) Automotive
9 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Billing
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.60%) .NET
1 3 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.07%) HTML
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.53%) MDX
3 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
1 3 (1.60%) Tandem
2 2 (1.07%) CMDB
2 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
2 2 (1.07%) NHS
3 1 (0.53%) FMCG
3 1 (0.53%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Unix
1 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 58 (31.02%) Visualisation
3 46 (24.60%) ETL
4 44 (23.53%) Data Modelling
5 39 (20.86%) Data Visualisation
6 34 (18.18%) Analytics
6 34 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (11.23%) Data Analysis
8 17 (9.09%) Agile
9 15 (8.02%) Dashboard Development
10 14 (7.49%) Data Integration
10 14 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (6.95%) Decision-Making
11 13 (6.95%) DevOps
12 10 (5.35%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 8 (4.28%) Actionable Insight
13 8 (4.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (4.28%) Data Transformation
13 8 (4.28%) Migration
13 8 (4.28%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 112 (59.89%) SQL
2 49 (26.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 24 (12.83%) T-SQL
4 13 (6.95%) Python
5 6 (3.21%) MATLAB
6 3 (1.60%) C#
7 2 (1.07%) ABAP
7 2 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.07%) R
7 2 (1.07%) VBA
8 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 17 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (1.60%) Degree
3 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.60%) QA
3 2 (1.07%) GDPR
3 2 (1.07%) PMO
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) SLA
Vendors
1 43 (22.99%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.23%) Databricks
3 8 (4.28%) SAP
4 7 (3.74%) Oracle
5 6 (3.21%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.60%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.53%) Civica
8 1 (0.53%) Facebook
8 1 (0.53%) Informatica
8 1 (0.53%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.53%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.53%) QAD
8 1 (0.53%) Twitter
110 Business Intelligence Developer jobs Nationwide