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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 31 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 +5
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 150 123 101
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.83% 5.98% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.62% 6.37% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 77 69
10th Percentile £375 £374 £361
25th Percentile £453 £441 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -2.30%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £644
90th Percentile £775 £838 £690
London median daily rate £500 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.74% -2.67%
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% +288.16%
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.01 £148.75
90th Percentile - £35.60 -
London median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -25.00% -36.74% +41.45%

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 2,267 1,930 2,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.14% 93.78% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,553 1,278 1,446
10th Percentile £363 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £469
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 £773 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%
75th Percentile £47.75 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.50 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
% change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%

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 August 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 August 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 -2 139 £550 - 58
Southwark - 4 £588 -
City of Westminster -7 3 £500 - 12
West End of London - 3 £475 - 4
Kensington and Chelsea -3 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 15 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (6.00%) Apache
4 6 (4.00%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.67%) Confluence
6 2 (1.33%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.67%) CMS
7 1 (0.67%) IIS
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (14.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.33%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.33%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.67%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.67%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 113 (75.33%) Power Platform
2 70 (46.67%) Azure
3 24 (16.00%) Snowflake
4 23 (15.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (14.67%) AWS
6 20 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (12.00%) Power Automate
8 16 (10.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (10.67%) PowerApps
9 13 (8.67%) dbt
9 13 (8.67%) GCP
10 10 (6.67%) GitHub
10 10 (6.67%) Serverless
11 8 (5.33%) Amazon S3
11 8 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (4.67%) Prefect
13 6 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.33%) Dagster
14 5 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) DNS
1 3 (2.00%) Firewall
1 3 (2.00%) VPN
2 1 (0.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (74.00%) Power BI
2 38 (25.33%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (15.33%) Tableau
4 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.33%) Data Lake
6 12 (8.00%) BigQuery
7 11 (7.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (7.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (7.33%) Metadata
8 10 (6.67%) Star Schema
9 9 (6.00%) Power Query
10 8 (5.33%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (4.67%) Looker
11 7 (4.67%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.67%) JIRA
2 5 (3.33%) Git
3 2 (1.33%) GitLab
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.67%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.67%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 62 (41.33%) Finance
2 40 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.33%) Banking
5 13 (8.67%) Retail
6 8 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.67%) Legal
7 7 (4.67%) Marketing
8 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.00%) Back Office
9 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.33%) Front Office
10 2 (1.33%) Law
10 2 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 36 (24.00%) Analyst
2 27 (18.00%) Architect
3 25 (16.67%) Developer
4 19 (12.67%) Data Engineer
5 17 (11.33%) Data Analyst
5 17 (11.33%) Data Architect
6 13 (8.67%) Senior
7 12 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (6.67%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (4.67%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (4.00%) Power Platform Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Consultant
11 5 (3.33%) Lead
11 5 (3.33%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.67%) Report Analyst
12 4 (2.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.67%) PySpark
2 11 (7.33%) Kafka
3 5 (3.33%) .NET
3 5 (3.33%) Middleware
3 5 (3.33%) REST
4 4 (2.67%) RESTful
5 3 (2.00%) JSON
6 2 (1.33%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.33%) OAuth
6 2 (1.33%) React
6 2 (1.33%) Redux
6 2 (1.33%) XML
7 1 (0.67%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.67%) CSS
7 1 (0.67%) HTML
7 1 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.00%) Data Structures
2 9 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.00%) Clustering
4 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.67%) CMDB
5 4 (2.67%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.33%) FMCG
7 2 (1.33%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.33%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.67%) Derivative
8 1 (0.67%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Windows
2 2 (1.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (50.67%) Analytics
2 61 (40.67%) Data Modelling
3 38 (25.33%) Data Governance
4 36 (24.00%) DevOps
5 35 (23.33%) Data Engineering
5 35 (23.33%) ETL
6 34 (22.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (21.33%) AI
8 31 (20.67%) CI/CD
9 30 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (18.67%) Agile
11 27 (18.00%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (18.00%) Decision-Making
12 26 (17.33%) Migration
13 22 (14.67%) Data Architecture
14 20 (13.33%) Dimensional Modelling
15 17 (11.33%) Visualisation
16 16 (10.67%) Dashboard Development
16 16 (10.67%) Use Case
16 16 (10.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 72 (48.00%) SQL
2 41 (27.33%) Python
3 22 (14.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.67%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.67%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.67%) C#
5 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.33%) Java
7 2 (1.33%) R
7 2 (1.33%) VBA
7 2 (1.33%) XMLA
8 1 (0.67%) Bicep
8 1 (0.67%) Korn
8 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.67%) DBS Check
4 10 (6.67%) Degree
5 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.00%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) IIBA
7 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.67%) RIBA
7 1 (0.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (25.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.33%) QA
3 10 (6.67%) GDPR
4 7 (4.67%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.67%) PMO
6 2 (1.33%) P3O
7 1 (0.67%) COBIT
7 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.67%) Docker
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (4.00%) Terraform
2 3 (2.00%) Grafana
2 3 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (1.33%) SCCM
3 2 (1.33%) SCOM
4 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (35.33%) Microsoft
2 32 (21.33%) Databricks
3 6 (4.00%) Informatica
3 6 (4.00%) Oracle
3 6 (4.00%) SAP
3 6 (4.00%) Workday
4 5 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.00%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.00%) Google
6 3 (2.00%) Splunk
6 3 (2.00%) VMware
7 2 (1.33%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.33%) BMC
7 2 (1.33%) Commvault
7 2 (1.33%) Foundry
7 2 (1.33%) Palantir
7 2 (1.33%) Remedy