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Shakers for companies
Work with a contract BI Developer
A certified BI Developer who turns your company data into decisions: defines what gets measured, prepares the data with lightweight ETL and builds the dashboards every team actually opens, in Power BI or Tableau.
Access senior tech talent for your business intelligence project, up and running in days, on the stack you already have.
- Certified talent in AI and agent skills
- Meet up to 3 AI Builders in 72 h
- Flexible collaboration models
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The talent mix your company needs
At Shakers you will find AI Engineers, BI Developer and specialists across Tech, Product and Data
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BI Developer: what this role brings to your project
A BI Developer turns a company’s data into information you can decide with: designs the semantic model, prepares the data with lightweight ETL and builds the dashboards that answer business questions.
Queries in SQL, models in Power BI or Tableau on top of a data warehouse they consume, and sets each team’s KPIs. The boundary with the data analyst: the analyst interprets what is already measured; the BI Developer decides how it gets measured.
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One provider. One contract. Full traceability
How Shakers works for your company
Post your project
Tell us about the project, its scope, the expertise you need and when you want to get to work.
You get three options
We match your brief against certified talent and introduce the three AI Builders who fit best.
The last word is yours
Meet the three specialists and choose who you collaborate with; we handle the rest.
Why work with Shakers
The advantages of adding this profile with Shakers
Reporting stops being a black box
Every KPI on the dashboard has a documented origin: the SQL query, the ETL feeding it and its refresh time.
Semantic model on your data warehouse
Connect Power BI or Tableau to your warehouse and unify the metrics that today live in spreadsheets, one per team.
Dashboards people actually open
Power BI or Tableau dashboards built for their users, sales or operations, with DAX measures where data demands it.
BI without a standing data team
Business intelligence by project, no headcount added: SQL and Power BI on your current systems, no hiring process.
Light ETL, architecture untouched
Prepare reporting data with ETL that never touches source systems: from ERP or CRM to the model behind the dashboard.
One truth for every team
The semantic model unifies criteria: the same KPI definition in finance and operations, the same source in SQL.
Frequently asked questions
Any other questions? Our team will answer them.
Tell us your data projectWhat is the difference between a BI Developer and a data engineer?
The data engineer builds the pipelines and the warehouse; the BI Developer consumes them to build the semantic model and the dashboards. On small projects, one expert covers both ends.
How much does a BI Developer engagement cost?
It depends on scope and seniority: number of sources, model complexity and the dashboards to maintain. At Shakers the budget closes on scope before the project starts, with no hourly surprises.
Which Business Intelligence tools are most used?
Power BI dominates UK estates, with Tableau and Looker in mixed environments, all on SQL. The choice follows your company’s ecosystem, not the tool of the month.
Contract BI Developer or in-house team?
A contractor fits when reporting is urgent or the project is well-scoped; an in-house team fits a continuous data flow. Many start with a contractor and decide later.
How long until the first dashboard is ready?
With read access to your data sources, first visualisations with real KPIs are ready in days. The full semantic model, across all teams, consolidates in phases.
What does a BI Developer need to start the project?
Read access to the sources, database, ERP or CRM, and one session to set the business KPIs. With that, the semantic model and the first dashboard start without technical blockers.
What gets delivered in the first weeks
The initial semantic model with the agreed metrics, and the first dashboard with live KPIs on your sources. Every figure is traceable: query, transformation and refresh.
Power BI, Tableau or both
Power BI appears in 972 live UK tech vacancies and Tableau in 595, according to Shakers market analysis (n=39.811, September 2026). Microsoft estates default to Power BI; mixed environments run Tableau and Looker in parallel.
Where the BI Developer ends
They consume the data warehouse; they do not build it. If the project needs heavy pipelines, the right role is data engineer: better to settle that before buying dashboards.
BI, without ambiguity
BI is business intelligence, not business development. UK employers name the job three ways, BI analyst, BI consultant and BI developer, and the same profile answers to all three.
Connect with AI specialists to build your next project
Find specialists in Tech, Product, Data to complement your team
Data Engineer
Builds the pipelines and warehouse your BI model consumes: if the data doesn't arrive clean, the dashboard lies.
Data Analyst
Consumes the semantic model you build and turns it into decisions: every KPI it presents comes from your definitions.
Backend Developer
Their APIs and databases are the source your reporting drinks from: when clean data must come from development, they solve it.
Data Scientist
Where your reporting ends explaining what happened, theirs starts predicting what comes next on the same data.
The AI talent you need Certified by Shakers
We introduce you to three ready_to_build AI Builders in 72 hours.
