BI Developer: market
A BI Developer builds reporting and dashboards for the business: BI data models, marts, metric logic and visualization in Power BI, Tableau or Looker. We currently track 461 open positions for this role, 400 of them fresh. The core is advanced SQL, one BI tool in depth (DAX for Power BI), data modeling, ETL and business-metric understanding. By co-occurrence in requirements, SQL, Azure, Python and Power bi appear most often. 44% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the BI Developer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The BI Developer market currently has 461 open roles, 400 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,778/mo.
44% of BI Developer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 40 of 461 jobs; remote share from 398 with a stated format; 400 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many BI Developer postings appeared each week since May 18, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 126
New sources connected: May 25 +3 · Jun 1 +3 · Jun 8 +4 · Jun 15 +2 · Jun 22 +11 · Jun 29 +5 · Jul 6 +17 · Jul 13 +9 · Jul 20 +13 · Jul 27 +3 · Aug 3 +2 · Aug 10 +5 · Aug 17 +4 · Aug 24 +2 · Aug 31 +2 · Sep 7 +4 · Sep 14 +1 · Sep 21 +6 · Sep 28 +8 · Oct 5 +2 · Oct 12 +4 · Oct 19 +7 · Oct 26 +3
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median BI Developer salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of BI Developer postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of BI Developer postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on Aug 10: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of BI Developer postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: BI Developer
| Open demand | 461 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: BI Developer
One in ten earns under $2,907, one in ten over $13,333. Half the market falls between $4,625 and $8,931. Sample: 40.
The range histogram for BI Developer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: BI Developer
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 115 |
| US | 82 |
| IN | 43 |
| GB | 23 |
| RO | 14 |
| DE | 11 |
| CA | 9 |
| MX | 9 |
| ES | 8 |
| BR | 7 |
The top country for BI Developer demand is Poland (115 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In BI Developer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are SQL, Azure, Python and Power bi.
Demand by grade: BI Developer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 145 |
| middle | 39 |
| lead | 17 |
| junior | 10 |
| principal | 6 |
Senior-and-above is about 77% of 217 BI Developer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: BI Developer
Demand is spread across 277 employers. The largest accounts for 5.8%, the top ten for 20.1%; the remaining 79.9% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 5.8% |
| top-3 | 11.2% |
| top-10 | 20.1% |
| long tail | 79.9% |
BI Developer openings come from 277 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 5.8% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 48 sources; the largest accounts for 18.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
BI Developer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: BI Developer
- Power BI Developer -Fabric / D365 F&O - 6 month Contract Outside IR35 - £500.00 pd- London Hybrid · GB · $13,933
- Associate Specialist, Data Analytics | Advanced Microsoft Excel (incl. VBA), Microsoft Access and SQL skills, Power BI, Power Apps / Power Automate · IN
- Data & BI Analyst (Databricks & Power BI) · PL
- Specialist, BI Developer · CA
- Power BI & Python Web Developer · ES
- Senior Power BI Developer · US
- Power BI Developer · PL · $4,088
- Power BI Developer / BI Engineer · IN
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-11-02
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the BI Developer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a BI Developer do?
A BI Developer builds reporting and dashboards for the business: BI data models, marts, metric logic and visualization in Power BI, Tableau or Looker.
Which skills do BI Developer postings require?
The core is advanced SQL, one BI tool in depth (DAX for Power BI), data modeling, ETL and business-metric understanding. In the current slice, SQL, Azure, Python and Power bi appear in requirements most often.
How does a BI Developer differ from a Data Analyst?
An analyst answers business questions; a BI developer builds the reporting infrastructure — models, marts and dashboards many people use.
How remote-friendly are BI Developer jobs?
44% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 461 open positions.
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