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Hire a Business Intelligence Developer.

Power BI and Looker dashboards, built and kept fresh.

Also called: Power BI Developer, Tableau Developer, Dashboard Developer

From £5.50 an hour£5.50-25/hr

  • Financial services
  • SaaS & tech
  • Manufacturing & wholesale
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your BI Developer gets doneSample day
  • Designs star schemas with correct grainData modelling
  • Connects to databases and warehouses and APIsData connection and refresh
  • Builds management dashboards to an agreed wireframeDashboard build
  • Implements and tests row-level and object-level securityGovernance and securityDoing
In your tools
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Power BI Report Builder
  • Looker and LookML
  • Looker Studio
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Snowflake

Pick the level. See the price.

£9.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate BI Developer£9.50/hr
At least 40% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Takes a dashboard from raw data to published.

  • Complete departmental dashboard
  • Published semantic model with scheduled refresh
  • RLS configuration with test evidence

2-4 years building dashboards end to end.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your BI Developer

Tasks

  • Data modelling

    • Designs star schemas with correct grain
    • Builds reusable semantic models, LookML views and explores
    • Writes DAX measures, calculation groups, Tableau LOD expressions

  • Data connection and refresh

    • Connects to databases and warehouses and APIs
    • Transforms data with Power Query or SQL views ahead of the model
    • Configures gateways, scheduled refresh and incremental refresh

  • Dashboard build

    • Builds management dashboards to an agreed wireframe
    • Builds near-real-time operational dashboards
    • Builds paginated reports for print or PDF distribution

  • Governance and security

    • Implements and tests row-level and object-level security
    • Manages workspaces, deployment pipelines and source control
    • Documents models, measure definitions and data lineage

  • Performance and support

    • Diagnoses and fixes slow reports using Performance Analyzer, DAX Studio
    • Triages user requests and bugs from the BI backlog
    • Trains business users to self-serve on certified datasets

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written communication testAll levels30 min
  2. DAX / calculation skills testAll levels60 min
  3. Data modelling exerciseIntermediate and up45 min
  4. Dashboard build take-homeIntermediate and up4 hrs
  5. Live performance debuggingExpert and Specialist45 min
  6. BI governance scenarioExpert and Specialist45 min

One score on every profileSample shown

86%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern BI Developer is £5.50 an hour, Intermediate £9.50, Expert £14.50 and Specialist £25, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Data modelling, data connection and refresh, dashboard build and governance and security, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written communication test, DAX / calculation skills test and data modelling exercise. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your BI Developer works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your BI Developer works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate BI Developer takes a dashboard from raw data to published. An Expert BI Developer owns shared and certified models, performance tuning, incremental refresh, near-real-time dashboards. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every BI Developer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Microsoft Fabric and DAX Studio, before you meet them.

In week one: git repository access for BI projects with branching and release rules explained; handover of existing reports and datasets; and finance-agreed metric definitions. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Power BI Developer, Tableau Developer and Dashboard Developer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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