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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 34 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +29
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 146 107 129
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.65% 5.62% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.54% 6.01% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 70 87
10th Percentile £380 £406 £354
25th Percentile £463 £480 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +6.51% +2.38%
75th Percentile £623 £698 £650
90th Percentile £749 £838 £738
London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £19.01 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.79 £146.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% -80.29% +180.95%
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.87 £148.75
90th Percentile - £33.55 -
London median hourly rate £28.55 £31.40 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.08% -42.90% +144.61%

All Process & 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 2,234 1,781 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.39% 93.49% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 1,153 1,541
10th Percentile £356 £351 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £678 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £792
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 25 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.36 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £28.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +2.48% -20.54%
75th Percentile £55.56 £44.61 £31.19
90th Percentile £64.38 £58.55 £41.47
London median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
% change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%

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 12 June 2026.

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 12 June 2026. 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 +7 134 £550 -0.45% 87
City of Westminster -1 7 £500 - 3
West End of London - 5 £475 - 5
Southwark - 2 £613 - 1
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 13 (8.90%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.16%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.05%) Apache
5 2 (1.37%) Confluence
5 2 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.68%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (12.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.05%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.42%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.68%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.68%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 113 (77.40%) Power Platform
2 57 (39.04%) Azure
3 24 (16.44%) Snowflake
4 20 (13.70%) AWS
5 16 (10.96%) GCP
6 13 (8.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (8.90%) Power Automate
7 11 (7.53%) dbt
8 9 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (5.48%) PowerApps
10 7 (4.79%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.79%) GitHub
10 7 (4.79%) Prefect
10 7 (4.79%) Serverless
11 6 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.42%) Dagster
13 4 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DNS
1 2 (1.37%) Firewall
1 2 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (76.71%) Power BI
2 32 (21.92%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (20.55%) Tableau
4 12 (8.22%) BigQuery
5 11 (7.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.85%) Looker
6 10 (6.85%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.48%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (4.79%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.79%) Metadata
9 5 (3.42%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.74%) Mixpanel
10 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.05%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.37%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Git
2 5 (3.42%) JIRA
3 2 (1.37%) GitLab
3 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.68%) ERwin
4 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (42.47%) Finance
2 27 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.96%) Banking
5 7 (4.79%) Retail
6 6 (4.11%) Back Office
6 6 (4.11%) Front Office
6 6 (4.11%) Legal
7 4 (2.74%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.74%) Marketing
7 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.37%) Automotive
9 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (23.97%) Analyst
2 25 (17.12%) Data Engineer
3 24 (16.44%) Architect
4 21 (14.38%) Developer
5 13 (8.90%) Data Analyst
5 13 (8.90%) Data Architect
6 10 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 10 (6.85%) Senior
7 8 (5.48%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.48%) Lead
8 7 (4.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 7 (4.79%) Snowflake Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.11%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Consultant
10 5 (3.42%) Report Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) Data Scientist
11 4 (2.74%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (2.74%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.22%) PySpark
2 10 (6.85%) Kafka
3 8 (5.48%) Middleware
4 5 (3.42%) REST
5 4 (2.74%) .NET
5 4 (2.74%) JSON
6 3 (2.05%) RESTful
7 2 (1.37%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.37%) CSS
7 2 (1.37%) HTML
7 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.37%) React
7 2 (1.37%) Redux
7 2 (1.37%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.37%) XML
8 1 (0.68%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.68%) Seaborn
8 1 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.42%) Clustering
5 4 (2.74%) CMDB
5 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.05%) Derivative
6 3 (2.05%) Equities
6 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.37%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.37%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.37%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Windows
1 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (50.00%) Analytics
2 52 (35.62%) Data Modelling
3 43 (29.45%) Data Engineering
4 33 (22.60%) AI
5 30 (20.55%) ETL
6 29 (19.86%) Data Pipeline
7 27 (18.49%) Visualisation
8 26 (17.81%) Data Governance
9 24 (16.44%) CI/CD
9 24 (16.44%) DevOps
9 24 (16.44%) Migration
10 22 (15.07%) Agile
11 19 (13.01%) Decision-Making
11 19 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (12.33%) Roadmaps
12 18 (12.33%) Use Case
12 18 (12.33%) Validation
13 17 (11.64%) Data Architecture
14 16 (10.96%) Data Analysis
14 16 (10.96%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 59 (40.41%) SQL
2 44 (30.14%) Python
3 13 (8.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.42%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.74%) R
7 3 (2.05%) C#
7 3 (2.05%) Scala
8 2 (1.37%) Java
8 2 (1.37%) Korn
8 2 (1.37%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (10.27%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.90%) DBS Check
3 11 (7.53%) Degree
3 11 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.05%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.37%) PMP
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) CFA
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) RIBA
6 1 (0.68%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (26.03%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.27%) GDPR
3 6 (4.11%) QA
4 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.05%) PMO
5 3 (2.05%) SLA
6 2 (1.37%) Basel III
6 2 (1.37%) GAAP
6 2 (1.37%) IFRS
6 2 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.68%) COBIT
7 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.68%) P3O
7 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.74%) Terraform
2 3 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.37%) Grafana
3 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.37%) SCCM
4 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (30.14%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.23%) Databricks
3 9 (6.16%) Workday
4 8 (5.48%) Oracle
5 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.11%) SAP
7 5 (3.42%) Google
7 5 (3.42%) Informatica
8 4 (2.74%) Amplitude
9 3 (2.05%) Qualtrics
10 2 (1.37%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.37%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.37%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.37%) Foundry
10 2 (1.37%) Nexthink
10 2 (1.37%) Palantir
10 2 (1.37%) Splunk
11 1 (0.68%) Planview
11 1 (0.68%) Yardi