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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 37 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 150 116 124
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.66% 5.66% 5.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 6.04% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 74 84
10th Percentile £365 £401 £364
25th Percentile £450 £466 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year - +1.15% +0.69%
75th Percentile £623 £698 £650
90th Percentile £754 £838 £738
London median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
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 £32.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.31% -41.82% +48.65%

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 2,300 1,920 2,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.86% 93.61% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 1,248 1,524
10th Percentile £356 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £437 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £560
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -1.61% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 32 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.72% +20.37% -22.86%
75th Percentile £54.00 £50.75 £36.50
90th Percentile £64.13 £63.75 £48.57
London median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%

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 9 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 9 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 +2 139 £550 - 74
City of Westminster -3 4 £519 - 2
Southwark - 4 £588 - 1
West End of London - 2 £549 - 4
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 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.67%) Apache
4 3 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.33%) Confluence
5 2 (1.33%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.67%) CMS
6 1 (0.67%) IIS
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.33%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 111 (74.00%) Power Platform
2 65 (43.33%) Azure
3 26 (17.33%) Snowflake
4 23 (15.33%) AWS
5 18 (12.00%) GCP
6 17 (11.33%) Power Automate
7 16 (10.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (8.00%) dbt
8 12 (8.00%) PowerApps
9 11 (7.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (5.33%) GitHub
11 8 (5.33%) Serverless
12 7 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.67%) Prefect
13 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (3.33%) 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
1 109 (72.67%) Power BI
2 33 (22.00%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (18.67%) Tableau
4 13 (8.67%) BigQuery
5 12 (8.00%) Data Lake
6 11 (7.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (7.33%) SQL Server
7 10 (6.67%) Looker
8 9 (6.00%) Metadata
9 8 (5.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (4.67%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (3.33%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.67%) Mixpanel
13 4 (2.67%) Power Query
13 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
14 3 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Git
2 5 (3.33%) JIRA
3 2 (1.33%) GitLab
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.67%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.67%) ERwin
4 1 (0.67%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 63 (42.00%) Finance
2 31 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.00%) Banking
5 8 (5.33%) Retail
6 7 (4.67%) Legal
7 6 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.33%) Marketing
9 4 (2.67%) Back Office
9 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.00%) Front Office
10 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.33%) Law
12 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Local Government
12 1 (0.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (21.33%) Analyst
2 27 (18.00%) Architect
3 24 (16.00%) Data Engineer
4 22 (14.67%) Developer
5 16 (10.67%) Data Analyst
6 15 (10.00%) Data Architect
7 13 (8.67%) Senior
8 10 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (5.33%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.67%) Consultant
10 7 (4.67%) Lead
10 7 (4.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Snowflake Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.00%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 5 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (2.67%) Data Scientist
13 4 (2.67%) Power BI Developer
13 4 (2.67%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.67%) PySpark
2 10 (6.67%) Kafka
3 8 (5.33%) Middleware
4 5 (3.33%) .NET
4 5 (3.33%) REST
5 4 (2.67%) JSON
5 4 (2.67%) RESTful
6 3 (2.00%) XML
7 2 (1.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.33%) OAuth
7 2 (1.33%) React
7 2 (1.33%) Redux
7 2 (1.33%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.67%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.67%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.67%) Pandas
8 1 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.33%) Clustering
3 5 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.67%) CMDB
5 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.33%) Derivative
6 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Equities
6 2 (1.33%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.33%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.67%) Unix
1 1 (0.67%) Windows
1 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (50.67%) Analytics
2 59 (39.33%) Data Modelling
3 44 (29.33%) Data Engineering
4 37 (24.67%) AI
5 31 (20.67%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (20.67%) ETL
6 30 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 27 (18.00%) CI/CD
7 27 (18.00%) DevOps
7 27 (18.00%) Visualisation
8 25 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 25 (16.67%) Migration
9 22 (14.67%) Agile
9 22 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (13.33%) Data Architecture
10 20 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (13.33%) Validation
11 19 (12.67%) Roadmaps
11 19 (12.67%) Use Case
12 18 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (42.00%) SQL
2 46 (30.67%) Python
3 17 (11.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.00%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.67%) C#
6 4 (2.67%) R
7 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.33%) Java
8 2 (1.33%) Korn
8 2 (1.33%) Scala
8 2 (1.33%) VBA
9 1 (0.67%) Bicep
9 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.67%) DBS Check
3 13 (8.67%) Degree
4 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.00%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.67%) IIBA
6 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.67%) RIBA
6 1 (0.67%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (24.67%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.67%) GDPR
3 9 (6.00%) QA
4 5 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.00%) PMO
6 1 (0.67%) COBIT
6 1 (0.67%) P3O
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.33%) Terraform
2 3 (2.00%) Grafana
2 3 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.33%) SCCM
4 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (20.00%) Databricks
3 7 (4.67%) Oracle
4 6 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.00%) Workday
5 5 (3.33%) Google
5 5 (3.33%) SAP
6 4 (2.67%) Amplitude
6 4 (2.67%) Informatica
6 4 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.00%) Splunk
8 2 (1.33%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.33%) Foundry
8 2 (1.33%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.33%) Palantir
9 1 (0.67%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.67%) Qualtrics