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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 44 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 127 91 124
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.42% 4.20% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.16% 4.54% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 56 92
10th Percentile £313 £416 £357
25th Percentile £381 £462 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £555 £556
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% -0.22% +3.73%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £688
90th Percentile £748 £715 £750
London median daily rate £488 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -5.02% -6.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £21.06 - -
25th Percentile £22.96 - -
Median hourly rate £27.10 - £38.00
75th Percentile £31.77 - -
90th Percentile £34.01 - -
London median hourly rate £31.65 £52.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -39.71% +26.51% +84.57%

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 1,773 2,003 2,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.59% 92.35% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,255 1,689
10th Percentile £350 £363 £352
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £676 £688
90th Percentile £750 £778 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 19
10th Percentile £19.82 £19.36 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 £25.40 £20.72
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.19 £43.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £66.75
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +18 113 £510 -11.30% 53
West End of London +11 4 £475 -5.94%
City of Westminster +4 3 £475 -
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 (8.66%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.51%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.94%) Confluence
4 4 (3.15%) Apache
5 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 29 (22.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (85.04%) Power Platform
2 41 (32.28%) Azure
3 20 (15.75%) Power Automate
4 17 (13.39%) PowerApps
5 13 (10.24%) AWS
6 12 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (6.30%) GCP
10 6 (4.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.94%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.94%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.15%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (3.15%) dbt
12 4 (3.15%) Serverless
13 3 (2.36%) GitHub
13 3 (2.36%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) HTTP
1 1 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (84.25%) Power BI
2 31 (24.41%) Tableau
3 20 (15.75%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.87%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.15%) Looker
6 4 (3.15%) Metadata
6 4 (3.15%) MySQL
6 4 (3.15%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.15%) Power Query
6 4 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.36%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.57%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 9 (7.09%) JIRA
2 6 (4.72%) Git
3 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.57%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.79%) Selenium
General
1 54 (42.52%) Finance
2 35 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (25.98%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.81%) Banking
5 11 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.87%) Front Office
7 6 (4.72%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.94%) Back Office
8 5 (3.94%) Marketing
9 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.36%) Legal
10 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.57%) Automotive
11 2 (1.57%) Electronics
11 2 (1.57%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (25.20%) Analyst
2 22 (17.32%) Developer
3 15 (11.81%) Lead
4 13 (10.24%) Senior
5 12 (9.45%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) Architect
6 11 (8.66%) Data Analyst
7 10 (7.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 9 (7.09%) Consultant
9 8 (6.30%) Data Scientist
10 7 (5.51%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.94%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.94%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (3.15%) Banking Analyst
12 4 (3.15%) Service Analyst
13 3 (2.36%) Financial Analyst
13 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Consultant
13 3 (2.36%) Oracle Developer
13 3 (2.36%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.72%) PySpark
3 5 (3.94%) .NET
3 5 (3.94%) NumPy
3 5 (3.94%) Pandas
4 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (3.15%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.36%) Kafka
5 3 (2.36%) Matplotlib
5 3 (2.36%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.57%) CSS
6 2 (1.57%) HTML
6 2 (1.57%) JSON
6 2 (1.57%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.57%) REST
6 2 (1.57%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.57%) XML
7 1 (0.79%) Altair
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.94%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.94%) Derivative
2 5 (3.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.15%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.36%) Equities
4 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.57%) Swaptions
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.73%) Analytics
2 38 (29.92%) Visualisation
3 37 (29.13%) Data Modelling
4 26 (20.47%) Agile
5 25 (19.69%) Data Governance
5 25 (19.69%) Data Visualisation
5 25 (19.69%) ETL
6 24 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (17.32%) Actionable Insight
8 20 (15.75%) Data Engineering
9 18 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (13.39%) Data Analysis
10 17 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (12.60%) AI
11 16 (12.60%) Decision-Making
11 16 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (11.81%) DevOps
12 15 (11.81%) Migration
13 14 (11.02%) Data Science
14 13 (10.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 59 (46.46%) SQL
2 32 (25.20%) Python
3 8 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.51%) Scala
5 6 (4.72%) PL/SQL
5 6 (4.72%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.15%) R
7 3 (2.36%) Korn
8 2 (1.57%) C#
8 2 (1.57%) IronPython
8 2 (1.57%) Java
8 2 (1.57%) VBA
9 1 (0.79%) C++
9 1 (0.79%) Groovy
9 1 (0.79%) LookML
9 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.45%) Degree
1 12 (9.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.15%) PMP
4 3 (2.36%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.57%) CFA
5 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) IIBA
6 1 (0.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.51%) GDPR
2 7 (5.51%) PMO
3 6 (4.72%) QA
4 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.36%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.36%) SLA
5 2 (1.57%) Basel III
5 2 (1.57%) GAAP
5 2 (1.57%) IFRS
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 38 (29.92%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.81%) Databricks
3 12 (9.45%) Oracle
4 9 (7.09%) SAP
5 7 (5.51%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.94%) Google
6 5 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.15%) Workday
8 3 (2.36%) Planview
9 2 (1.57%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.57%) Cognos
9 2 (1.57%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.57%) IBM
9 2 (1.57%) Informatica
9 2 (1.57%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.57%) Murex
9 2 (1.57%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.57%) Sage
10 1 (0.79%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.79%) OpenAI