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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 42 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +34
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 138 91 134
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.13% 4.54% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 4.93% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 57 95
10th Percentile £325 £413 £379
25th Percentile £436 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £695 £750
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £31.65 £29.07 £45.00
% change year-on-year +8.88% -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 1,993 1,846 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.50% 92.07% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,201 1,647
10th Percentile £359 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £683
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 31 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.92 £74.05 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -16.44%

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 20 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 20 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 +10 123 £525 -2.33% 90
West End of London +10 5 £475 -5.94% 1
City of Westminster +3 4 £475 - 2
Southwark - 1 £650 -
Camden - 1 £400 -
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 (7.97%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.80%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.62%) Apache
4 4 (2.90%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (14.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.72%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (84.06%) Power Platform
2 44 (31.88%) Azure
3 23 (16.67%) AWS
4 18 (13.04%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.32%) GCP
6 15 (10.87%) Power Automate
7 13 (9.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (7.97%) dbt
8 11 (7.97%) PowerApps
9 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (5.07%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (5.07%) Prefect
11 6 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (4.35%) Serverless
12 5 (3.62%) Dagster
13 4 (2.90%) GitHub
14 3 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (82.61%) Power BI
2 43 (31.16%) Tableau
3 29 (21.01%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.25%) Metadata
5 9 (6.52%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.52%) Looker
5 9 (6.52%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (5.07%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.62%) MySQL
7 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.90%) OLAP
8 4 (2.90%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.17%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.17%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.17%) Mixpanel
9 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.17%) Power Query
9 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Git
2 7 (5.07%) JIRA
3 3 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.72%) ERwin
4 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 63 (45.65%) Finance
2 39 (28.26%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 19 (13.77%) Banking
5 9 (6.52%) Front Office
6 7 (5.07%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.35%) Back Office
7 6 (4.35%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.90%) Legal
9 3 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.17%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.45%) Automotive
10 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.45%) Marketing
10 2 (1.45%) Retail
11 1 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (25.36%) Analyst
2 23 (16.67%) Developer
3 21 (15.22%) Data Engineer
4 15 (10.87%) Architect
4 15 (10.87%) Senior
5 14 (10.14%) Data Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) Data Scientist
7 10 (7.25%) Consultant
7 10 (7.25%) Lead
8 9 (6.52%) Business Analyst
8 9 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (4.35%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Snowflake Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.62%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Senior Data Scientist
11 4 (2.90%) Service Analyst
11 4 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.52%) scikit-learn
2 8 (5.80%) Middleware
2 8 (5.80%) PySpark
3 7 (5.07%) Kafka
4 6 (4.35%) NumPy
4 6 (4.35%) Pandas
5 4 (2.90%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.90%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.17%) .NET
6 3 (2.17%) JSON
6 3 (2.17%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.17%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.17%) XML
7 2 (1.45%) CSS
7 2 (1.45%) HTML
7 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.45%) YAML
8 1 (0.72%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (5.07%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.62%) Clustering
5 4 (2.90%) Derivative
5 4 (2.90%) Equities
5 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.45%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.45%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.72%) CMDB
8 1 (0.72%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.72%) DataPower
8 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.72%) FMCG
8 1 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (49.28%) Analytics
2 52 (37.68%) Data Modelling
3 44 (31.88%) Visualisation
4 36 (26.09%) Data Engineering
5 33 (23.91%) ETL
6 30 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (21.01%) Data Visualisation
8 27 (19.57%) Data Governance
9 26 (18.84%) AI
10 24 (17.39%) Agile
10 24 (17.39%) Data Science
11 22 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (14.49%) Data Analysis
13 19 (13.77%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (13.77%) Decision-Making
14 18 (13.04%) Validation
15 17 (12.32%) Machine Learning
15 17 (12.32%) Migration
16 16 (11.59%) DevOps
16 16 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 69 (50.00%) SQL
2 48 (34.78%) Python
3 8 (5.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (5.80%) Scala
4 6 (4.35%) R
5 5 (3.62%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.17%) C#
7 2 (1.45%) IronPython
7 2 (1.45%) Korn
7 2 (1.45%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.72%) Bicep
8 1 (0.72%) C++
8 1 (0.72%) Java
8 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (9.42%) Degree
1 13 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.80%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.90%) PMP
4 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.45%) CFA
5 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.45%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.45%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.72%) IIBA
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.72%) MBA
6 1 (0.72%) RIBA
6 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (26.81%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.42%) GDPR
3 8 (5.80%) QA
4 4 (2.90%) PMO
5 3 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.17%) SLA
6 2 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.45%) Basel III
6 2 (1.45%) GAAP
6 2 (1.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.72%) GRC
7 1 (0.72%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.17%) Terraform
2 1 (0.72%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 39 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.84%) Databricks
3 8 (5.80%) Google
3 8 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.07%) Workday
5 6 (4.35%) Oracle
5 6 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.35%) SAP
6 4 (2.90%) Informatica
7 3 (2.17%) Amplitude
7 3 (2.17%) Cognos
7 3 (2.17%) IBM
7 3 (2.17%) Planview
7 3 (2.17%) Sage
8 2 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.45%) Murex
8 2 (1.45%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.72%) Foundry
9 1 (0.72%) OpenText
9 1 (0.72%) Yardi