Business Intelligence Analyst Contracts

BI Analyst
UK

The median BI Analyst daily rate in the UK is £418, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 484 598
Rank change year-on-year -9 +114 +86
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 50 98 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.24% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 68 81
10th Percentile £252 £306 £295
25th Percentile £281 £334 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% - -4.26%
75th Percentile £481 £579 £538
90th Percentile £534 £616 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +4.38% -5.88% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £25.24 £12.44 £42.73
25th Percentile - £21.25 £66.17
Median hourly rate £28.60 £30.00 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -62.12% +314.82%
75th Percentile £34.15 - -
90th Percentile £34.34 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.81 £30.00 £79.19
% change year-on-year +9.37% -62.12% +314.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,642 40,746 52,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.92% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,729 26,106 36,473
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,199 2,996 1,499
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.39 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%

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 22 June 2025.

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
Top 14 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 22 June 2025. 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 +26 44 £434 -3.02% 234
London +26 23 £384 -23.25% 107
UK excluding London +20 23 £418 +4.38% 149
Work from Home +18 19 £350 -17.65% 78
North of England +8 10 £443 -0.45% 27
Yorkshire +7 8 £443 +47.28% 3
South East +49 5 £300 -23.08% 58
Midlands +3 3 - - 29
South West +40 2 £495 -10.00% 15
North West +5 2 £388 -13.89% 15
East Midlands +2 2 - - 6
Scotland 0 2 - - 12
West Midlands +6 1 - - 22
Wales - 1 £400 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, 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 50 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (90.00%) Power BI
2 45 (90.00%) Power Platform
3 38 (76.00%) SQL
4 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
5 20 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 20 (40.00%) Analytics
6 18 (36.00%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (36.00%) Decision-Making
7 17 (34.00%) Data Modelling
8 15 (30.00%) Finance
8 15 (30.00%) Data Analysis
9 14 (28.00%) Microsoft Excel
9 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (24.00%) Actionable Insight
12 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
12 11 (22.00%) Data Visualisation
12 11 (22.00%) Tableau
13 10 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (20.00%) ETL
13 10 (20.00%) Python
13 10 (20.00%) Power Query
14 7 (14.00%) Agile
14 7 (14.00%) Data Collection
14 7 (14.00%) Dashboard Development
15 6 (12.00%) Performance Metrics
15 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
15 6 (12.00%) Data Analytics
15 6 (12.00%) Data Quality

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 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.00%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 45 (90.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (12.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.00%) dbt
5 2 (4.00%) Google Analytics
5 2 (4.00%) Google Data Studio
5 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.00%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Contentsquare
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Google Ads
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (90.00%) Power BI
2 18 (36.00%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (22.00%) Tableau
4 10 (20.00%) Power Query
5 5 (10.00%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (8.00%) QlikView
6 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.00%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.00%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
9 1 (2.00%) MySQL
9 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.00%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Finance
3 13 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.00%) Retail
6 4 (8.00%) Local Government
6 4 (8.00%) Marketing
7 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Advertising
8 1 (2.00%) Back Office
8 1 (2.00%) Electronics
8 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.00%) IoT
1 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.00%) NHS
1 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (2.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (40.00%) Analytics
2 20 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 18 (36.00%) Decision-Making
4 17 (34.00%) Data Modelling
5 15 (30.00%) Data Analysis
6 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (24.00%) Actionable Insight
8 11 (22.00%) Data Visualisation
9 10 (20.00%) ETL
10 7 (14.00%) Agile
10 7 (14.00%) Dashboard Development
10 7 (14.00%) Data Collection
11 6 (12.00%) Data Analytics
11 6 (12.00%) Performance Metrics
12 5 (10.00%) Migration
12 5 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
12 5 (10.00%) Service Delivery
12 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (76.00%) SQL
2 10 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 10 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (8.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.00%) GDPR
3 3 (6.00%) QA
4 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.00%) P3O
4 1 (2.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) Foundry
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
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