Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Central London

Business Intelligence (BI)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 42 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 129 102 123
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.48% 4.21% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.05% 4.60% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 63 89
10th Percentile £313 £413 £363
25th Percentile £383 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -4.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £688
90th Percentile £738 £704 £745
London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £22.23 - -
25th Percentile £25.89 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £38.00
75th Percentile £35.75 - -
90th Percentile £35.90 - -
London median hourly rate £31.65 £52.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -39.71% +38.16% +0.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Business Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,829 2,219 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.82% 91.66% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,275 1,396 1,775
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £778 £825
London median daily rate £526 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 £48.13 £51.31
90th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.63
% change year-on-year -20.81% +4.55% -9.80%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Central London

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Central London over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Central London

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
City of London +16 118 £500 -13.04% 47
Camden - 2 £400 - 1
West End of London +8 1 £400 -20.79% 2
Business Intelligence
London

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (13.18%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.10%) Apache
3 4 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.10%) Confluence
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.78%) Luigi
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 30 (23.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.88%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (2.33%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (80.62%) Power Platform
2 49 (37.98%) Azure
3 24 (18.60%) Power Automate
4 21 (16.28%) PowerApps
5 14 (10.85%) AWS
6 13 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (8.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (8.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (7.75%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (7.75%) Entra ID
10 9 (6.98%) GCP
11 6 (4.65%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.88%) dbt
12 5 (3.88%) PaaS
13 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.10%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (3.10%) Serverless
13 4 (3.10%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) HTTP
1 1 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (79.84%) Power BI
2 27 (20.93%) Tableau
3 17 (13.18%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (10.85%) Data Lake
5 8 (6.20%) Power Query
5 8 (6.20%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.43%) Metadata
7 5 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.10%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.10%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.33%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.33%) Looker
9 3 (2.33%) MySQL
9 3 (2.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.55%) OLAP
10 2 (1.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (6.20%) JIRA
2 6 (4.65%) Git
3 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 59 (45.74%) Finance
2 39 (30.23%) Social Skills
3 37 (28.68%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.63%) Banking
5 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.20%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.65%) Front Office
7 6 (4.65%) Marketing
8 5 (3.88%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Back Office
9 3 (2.33%) Legal
9 3 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.55%) Electronics
10 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.55%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (20.93%) Analyst
2 18 (13.95%) Developer
3 16 (12.40%) Architect
3 16 (12.40%) Lead
4 15 (11.63%) Senior
5 11 (8.53%) Data Analyst
5 11 (8.53%) Data Engineer
6 10 (7.75%) Consultant
7 8 (6.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Data Scientist
8 7 (5.43%) Business Analyst
9 6 (4.65%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.10%) Power BI Developer
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Architect
12 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Consultant
12 3 (2.33%) PMO Analyst
12 3 (2.33%) Senior Data Scientist
12 3 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.20%) .NET
2 7 (5.43%) scikit-learn
3 6 (4.65%) PySpark
4 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (3.88%) NumPy
4 5 (3.88%) Pandas
5 3 (2.33%) JSON
5 3 (2.33%) Kafka
5 3 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (2.33%) Matplotlib
5 3 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.33%) RESTful
5 3 (2.33%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.33%) Web Services
5 3 (2.33%) XML
6 2 (1.55%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.55%) REST
6 2 (1.55%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.78%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.88%) Algorithms
1 5 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.10%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.10%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.33%) Derivative
3 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.55%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.55%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.78%) Clustering
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.78%) Equities
5 1 (0.78%) IoT
5 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.78%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (44.19%) Analytics
2 43 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 41 (31.78%) Visualisation
4 31 (24.03%) Agile
5 29 (22.48%) Data Governance
6 26 (20.16%) ETL
7 24 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (17.83%) Data Visualisation
9 22 (17.05%) Actionable Insight
10 19 (14.73%) Data Analysis
10 19 (14.73%) Decision-Making
10 19 (14.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (13.95%) AI
11 18 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (13.18%) Data Engineering
12 17 (13.18%) DevOps
12 17 (13.18%) Migration
12 17 (13.18%) Roadmaps
13 14 (10.85%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.51%) SQL
2 36 (27.91%) Python
3 12 (9.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.43%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.65%) Scala
6 5 (3.88%) PL/SQL
6 5 (3.88%) R
7 3 (2.33%) Java
7 3 (2.33%) Korn
7 3 (2.33%) VBA
8 2 (1.55%) C#
8 2 (1.55%) IronPython
8 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.78%) C++
9 1 (0.78%) Groovy
9 1 (0.78%) LookML
Qualifications
1 17 (13.18%) Degree
2 12 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.55%) CFA
6 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.55%) PMP
7 1 (0.78%) ACCA
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) IIBA
7 1 (0.78%) MBA
7 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.83%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.53%) GDPR
3 8 (6.20%) PMO
4 5 (3.88%) QA
5 3 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.33%) COBIT
6 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.78%) Basel II
7 1 (0.78%) GRC
7 1 (0.78%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.55%) Terraform
2 1 (0.78%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (37.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.73%) Databricks
3 10 (7.75%) Oracle
4 8 (6.20%) Salesforce
4 8 (6.20%) SAP
5 7 (5.43%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.88%) Google
7 3 (2.33%) Planview
7 3 (2.33%) Workday
8 2 (1.55%) Adobe
8 2 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.55%) Cognos
8 2 (1.55%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.55%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.55%) IBM
8 2 (1.55%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.55%) Sage
9 1 (0.78%) Ariba
9 1 (0.78%) Informatica
9 1 (0.78%) Progress