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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 35 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +22
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 152 117 119
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.83% 5.70% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.66% 6.08% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 73 78
10th Percentile £373 £401 £361
25th Percentile £463 £463 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year - +3.04% -1.16%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £650
90th Percentile £751 £838 £711
London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £20.27 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.93 £146.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.16% -78.62% +180.95%
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.01 £148.75
90th Percentile - £35.60 -
London median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -38.18% +15.79%

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 2,281 1,925 2,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.46% 93.77% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,544 1,251 1,468
10th Percentile £363 £331 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 21
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 0 141 £550 - 35
City of Westminster -7 4 £519 - 9
Southwark - 4 £588 -
West End of London - 2 £549 - 6
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 £375 - 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 14 (9.21%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.24%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.26%) Apache
4 6 (3.95%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.97%) Confluence
6 2 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.66%) CMS
7 1 (0.66%) IIS
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (11.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.32%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.66%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.66%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.66%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 110 (72.37%) Power Platform
2 67 (44.08%) Azure
3 27 (17.76%) Snowflake
4 22 (14.47%) AWS
5 18 (11.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (10.53%) GCP
6 16 (10.53%) Power Automate
7 15 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (7.89%) dbt
8 12 (7.89%) PowerApps
9 11 (7.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (5.26%) GitHub
11 8 (5.26%) Serverless
12 7 (4.61%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.61%) Prefect
13 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.29%) Dagster
14 5 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) DNS
1 3 (1.97%) Firewall
1 3 (1.97%) VPN
2 1 (0.66%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (71.05%) Power BI
2 34 (22.37%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (16.45%) Tableau
4 14 (9.21%) Data Lake
5 13 (8.55%) BigQuery
6 11 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (7.24%) SQL Server
7 10 (6.58%) Metadata
8 9 (5.92%) Looker
9 8 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (4.61%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (3.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (3.29%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.63%) Mixpanel
13 4 (2.63%) Power Query
13 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Git
1 6 (3.95%) JIRA
2 2 (1.32%) GitLab
2 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.66%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.66%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 64 (42.11%) Finance
2 35 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 31 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.50%) Banking
5 9 (5.92%) Retail
6 7 (4.61%) Legal
6 7 (4.61%) Marketing
7 6 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.63%) Back Office
8 4 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Front Office
9 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Law
10 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (24.34%) Analyst
2 29 (19.08%) Architect
3 22 (14.47%) Data Engineer
4 21 (13.82%) Data Analyst
4 21 (13.82%) Developer
5 17 (11.18%) Data Architect
6 12 (7.89%) Senior
7 11 (7.24%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.61%) Lead
9 7 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.95%) Consultant
10 6 (3.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Snowflake Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 5 (3.29%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.63%) Power Platform Developer
12 4 (2.63%) Report Analyst
12 4 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.53%) PySpark
2 10 (6.58%) Kafka
3 8 (5.26%) Middleware
4 5 (3.29%) .NET
4 5 (3.29%) REST
5 4 (2.63%) JSON
5 4 (2.63%) RESTful
6 3 (1.97%) XML
7 2 (1.32%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.32%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.32%) OAuth
7 2 (1.32%) React
7 2 (1.32%) Redux
8 1 (0.66%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.66%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.21%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.92%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.29%) Clustering
4 5 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.63%) CMDB
5 4 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.63%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.32%) Derivative
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Equities
7 2 (1.32%) FMCG
7 2 (1.32%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
2 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (50.00%) Analytics
2 63 (41.45%) Data Modelling
3 41 (26.97%) Data Engineering
4 35 (23.03%) Data Governance
5 34 (22.37%) ETL
6 33 (21.71%) AI
7 29 (19.08%) DevOps
8 28 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 27 (17.76%) Agile
9 27 (17.76%) Data Pipeline
10 26 (17.11%) CI/CD
11 25 (16.45%) Decision-Making
11 25 (16.45%) Migration
11 25 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (15.13%) Visualisation
13 22 (14.47%) Data Architecture
13 22 (14.47%) Validation
14 18 (11.84%) Data Analysis
14 18 (11.84%) Roadmaps
15 17 (11.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 68 (44.74%) SQL
2 45 (29.61%) Python
3 16 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.95%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.95%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.29%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.63%) C#
6 4 (2.63%) R
7 3 (1.97%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.32%) Java
8 2 (1.32%) Korn
8 2 (1.32%) Scala
8 2 (1.32%) VBA
9 1 (0.66%) Bicep
9 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.55%) DBS Check
3 13 (8.55%) Degree
4 3 (1.97%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.66%) IIBA
6 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.66%) RIBA
6 1 (0.66%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.55%) GDPR
3 10 (6.58%) QA
4 5 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.63%) PMO
6 2 (1.32%) P3O
7 1 (0.66%) COBIT
7 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.66%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.29%) Terraform
2 3 (1.97%) Grafana
2 3 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.97%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.32%) SCCM
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.66%) SCOM
4 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (32.24%) Microsoft
2 32 (21.05%) Databricks
3 6 (3.95%) Informatica
3 6 (3.95%) Oracle
3 6 (3.95%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.95%) SAP
3 6 (3.95%) Workday
4 4 (2.63%) Amplitude
4 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.97%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.97%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.97%) Google
5 3 (1.97%) Splunk
6 2 (1.32%) Foundry
6 2 (1.32%) Nexthink
6 2 (1.32%) Palantir
6 2 (1.32%) VMware
7 1 (0.66%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.66%) Qualtrics