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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 46 35
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +32
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 142 90 134
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.17% 4.57% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.00% 4.95% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 57 95
10th Percentile £350 £409 £368
25th Percentile £456 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.14% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £748 £695 £765
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £34.58 £29.07 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.94% -35.40% +100.13%

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 2,029 1,818 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.14% 92.28% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 1,192 1,626
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.66 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £35.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.40 £46.27 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +17 125 £525 - 81
City of Westminster +4 6 £488 +2.63% 1
West End of London +9 5 £475 -5.94% 2
Camden - 1 £400 - 2
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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 11 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.52%) Apache
4 4 (2.82%) Confluence
5 1 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 22 (15.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.70%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.70%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (81.69%) Power Platform
2 46 (32.39%) Azure
3 22 (15.49%) AWS
4 21 (14.79%) Snowflake
5 20 (14.08%) GCP
6 14 (9.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (9.86%) Power Automate
7 11 (7.75%) dbt
8 10 (7.04%) PowerApps
9 9 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (4.93%) Prefect
12 6 (4.23%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.52%) Dagster
13 5 (3.52%) Serverless
14 4 (2.82%) GitHub
15 3 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
15 3 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (80.28%) Power BI
2 42 (29.58%) Tableau
3 30 (21.13%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.04%) BigQuery
4 10 (7.04%) Metadata
4 10 (7.04%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (6.34%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.34%) Looker
6 7 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.52%) MySQL
8 5 (3.52%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.82%) OLAP
9 4 (2.82%) Power Query
10 3 (2.11%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.11%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Git
2 7 (4.93%) JIRA
3 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.70%) ERwin
4 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 64 (45.07%) Finance
2 39 (27.46%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (21.83%) Social Skills
4 20 (14.08%) Banking
5 9 (6.34%) Front Office
6 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.23%) Back Office
7 6 (4.23%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.52%) Retail
9 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.82%) Legal
10 3 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.41%) Automotive
11 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.41%) Marketing
12 1 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (25.35%) Analyst
2 22 (15.49%) Developer
3 21 (14.79%) Data Engineer
4 18 (12.68%) Architect
5 15 (10.56%) Senior
6 14 (9.86%) Data Analyst
7 11 (7.75%) Data Scientist
8 10 (7.04%) Consultant
8 10 (7.04%) Lead
9 9 (6.34%) Business Analyst
9 9 (6.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (6.34%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) Snowflake Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.52%) Power BI Developer
12 4 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.82%) Senior Data Scientist
12 4 (2.82%) Service Analyst
12 4 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.34%) scikit-learn
2 8 (5.63%) Middleware
2 8 (5.63%) PySpark
3 7 (4.93%) Kafka
4 6 (4.23%) NumPy
4 6 (4.23%) Pandas
5 4 (2.82%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.82%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.11%) JSON
6 3 (2.11%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.11%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.11%) XML
7 2 (1.41%) .NET
7 2 (1.41%) CSS
7 2 (1.41%) HTML
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.41%) YAML
8 1 (0.70%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.52%) Clustering
5 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.82%) Derivative
5 4 (2.82%) Equities
5 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.41%) CMDB
7 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.41%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.41%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.70%) DataPower
8 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.70%) FMCG
8 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (52.11%) Analytics
2 51 (35.92%) Data Modelling
3 44 (30.99%) Visualisation
4 40 (28.17%) Data Engineering
5 34 (23.94%) ETL
6 30 (21.13%) AI
6 30 (21.13%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (19.72%) Data Governance
7 28 (19.72%) Data Visualisation
8 24 (16.90%) Data Science
9 23 (16.20%) Agile
10 21 (14.79%) Data Analysis
10 21 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (14.08%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (14.08%) Decision-Making
11 20 (14.08%) Machine Learning
11 20 (14.08%) Migration
12 19 (13.38%) Validation
13 17 (11.97%) DevOps
13 17 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 70 (49.30%) SQL
2 47 (33.10%) Python
3 10 (7.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.63%) Scala
5 6 (4.23%) R
6 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.11%) C#
8 2 (1.41%) IronPython
8 2 (1.41%) Korn
8 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.41%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.70%) Bicep
9 1 (0.70%) C++
9 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (10.56%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.86%) Degree
3 8 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.82%) PMP
6 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.41%) CFA
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.41%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.70%) IIBA
8 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.70%) MBA
8 1 (0.70%) RIBA
8 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (27.46%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.15%) GDPR
3 9 (6.34%) QA
4 4 (2.82%) PMO
5 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.11%) SLA
6 2 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.41%) Basel III
6 2 (1.41%) GAAP
6 2 (1.41%) IFRS
7 1 (0.70%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.11%) Terraform
2 1 (0.70%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 38 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.42%) Databricks
3 9 (6.34%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.63%) Google
4 8 (5.63%) SAP
5 7 (4.93%) Workday
6 6 (4.23%) Oracle
6 6 (4.23%) Salesforce
7 5 (3.52%) Informatica
8 3 (2.11%) Amplitude
8 3 (2.11%) Cognos
8 3 (2.11%) IBM
8 3 (2.11%) Planview
8 3 (2.11%) Qualtrics
8 3 (2.11%) Sage
9 2 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.41%) Murex
10 1 (0.70%) Foundry
10 1 (0.70%) OpenText
10 1 (0.70%) Yardi