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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -3
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 148 126 95
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.96% 6.46% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.70% 6.89% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 80 64
10th Percentile £365 £360 £358
25th Percentile £450 £423 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +3.45% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £655
90th Percentile £770 £838 £738
London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £17.81 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £19.79 £146.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% -76.95% +288.16%
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.50 £148.75
90th Percentile - £35.80 -
London median hourly rate £28.40 £34.65 £53.75
% change year-on-year -18.05% -35.53% +25.73%

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 2,210 1,830 2,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.97% 93.85% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,219 1,388
10th Percentile £363 £315 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 22
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £56.50
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £133.00
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -7 136 £550 -0.90% 114
West End of London - 4 £475 - 11
City of Westminster -5 3 £500 - 16
Southwark - 3 £575 -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £375 -
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 (11.49%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (5.41%) Apache
4 6 (4.05%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.03%) Confluence
6 1 (0.68%) CMS
6 1 (0.68%) IIS
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (16.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) BambooHR
1 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.35%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.68%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 111 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 73 (49.32%) Azure
3 26 (17.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (16.89%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (14.19%) Snowflake
6 19 (12.84%) AWS
7 18 (12.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (10.81%) Power Automate
9 15 (10.14%) PowerApps
10 9 (6.08%) dbt
10 9 (6.08%) GCP
10 9 (6.08%) GitHub
10 9 (6.08%) Serverless
11 7 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (4.05%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.05%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) DNS
1 3 (2.03%) Firewall
1 3 (2.03%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (74.32%) Power BI
2 38 (25.68%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (12.16%) Tableau
4 17 (11.49%) Data Lake
5 16 (10.81%) SQL Server
6 14 (9.46%) Metadata
7 13 (8.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (8.11%) Star Schema
9 10 (6.76%) Power Query
10 8 (5.41%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (4.73%) BigQuery
11 7 (4.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (3.38%) Looker
13 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
13 5 (3.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (2.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 3 (2.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.73%) JIRA
2 4 (2.70%) Git
3 2 (1.35%) GitLab
3 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.68%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.68%) MLflow
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.68%) rollup.js
4 1 (0.68%) Storybook
4 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 60 (40.54%) Finance
2 41 (27.70%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.51%) Banking
5 16 (10.81%) Retail
6 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.73%) Marketing
8 6 (4.05%) Legal
9 5 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.03%) Back Office
11 3 (2.03%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.03%) Law
12 2 (1.35%) Front Office
12 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.35%) Military
12 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (25.00%) Analyst
2 24 (16.22%) Architect
3 23 (15.54%) Developer
4 19 (12.84%) Data Analyst
5 17 (11.49%) Data Architect
5 17 (11.49%) Data Engineer
6 15 (10.14%) Senior
7 12 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (6.76%) Business Analyst
9 9 (6.08%) Consultant
10 7 (4.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (4.73%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Power Platform Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Snowflake Engineer
12 4 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.70%) Lead
12 4 (2.70%) Report Analyst
12 4 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.03%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.84%) PySpark
2 9 (6.08%) Kafka
3 6 (4.05%) Terraform
4 4 (2.70%) .NET
4 4 (2.70%) REST
4 4 (2.70%) RESTful
5 3 (2.03%) React
5 3 (2.03%) Redux
6 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.35%) CSS
6 2 (1.35%) HTML
6 2 (1.35%) JSON
6 2 (1.35%) OAuth
7 1 (0.68%) HTML5
7 1 (0.68%) Jest
7 1 (0.68%) Next.js
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.68%) SAML
7 1 (0.68%) SOAP
7 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.43%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.38%) Clustering
4 5 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.70%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.03%) CMDB
6 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.03%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.35%) Derivative
7 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.35%) FMCG
7 2 (1.35%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.35%) Replication
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.35%) Unix
2 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (50.00%) Analytics
2 63 (42.57%) Data Modelling
3 44 (29.73%) Data Governance
4 39 (26.35%) DevOps
5 38 (25.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 35 (23.65%) AI
7 35 (23.65%) Data Engineering
8 32 (21.62%) ETL
9 31 (20.95%) CI/CD
10 30 (20.27%) Agile
11 26 (17.57%) Migration
12 24 (16.22%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (16.22%) Decision-Making
13 23 (15.54%) Data Architecture
14 18 (12.16%) Dimensional Modelling
15 17 (11.49%) Visualisation
16 16 (10.81%) Dashboard Development
17 15 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (10.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 73 (49.32%) SQL
2 38 (25.68%) Python
3 25 (16.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.41%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.05%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.70%) C#
6 4 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.03%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.35%) Java
8 2 (1.35%) LookML
8 2 (1.35%) R
8 2 (1.35%) VBA
8 2 (1.35%) XMLA
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.68%) Korn
9 1 (0.68%) Perl
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Scala
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.46%) DBS Check
4 11 (7.43%) Degree
5 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.03%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) IIBA
7 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.03%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.43%) QA
3 8 (5.41%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.70%) GDPR
5 3 (2.03%) PMO
6 2 (1.35%) P3O
7 1 (0.68%) COBIT
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.03%) Grafana
1 3 (2.03%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.03%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.35%) SCCM
2 2 (1.35%) SCOM
2 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 51 (34.46%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.92%) Databricks
3 7 (4.73%) Oracle
3 7 (4.73%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.05%) Informatica
5 5 (3.38%) SAP
6 3 (2.03%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.03%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.03%) Splunk
6 3 (2.03%) VMware
6 3 (2.03%) Workday
7 2 (1.35%) BMC
7 2 (1.35%) Commvault
7 2 (1.35%) Google
7 2 (1.35%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.35%) Remedy
8 1 (0.68%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.68%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.68%) Foundry