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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 148 123 103
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.21% 6.45% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 6.86% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 85 67
10th Percentile £338 £329 £343
25th Percentile £425 £406 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £638
90th Percentile £775 £838 £702
London median daily rate £500 £510 £523
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.39% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £17.49 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.96 £146.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £27.10 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% -81.63% +288.16%
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.63 £148.75
90th Percentile - £35.85 -
London median hourly rate £28.40 £34.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -16.49% -35.24% +47.35%

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 2,170 1,793 2,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.99% 93.97% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,221 1,380
10th Percentile £358 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 29
10th Percentile £15.92 £17.79 £18.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.00 £25.40
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.15 £60.95 £117.10
London median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%

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 October 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 October 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 -6 137 £525 -4.55% 164
West End of London - 4 £475 - 7
Southwark - 3 £575 - 1
City of Westminster - 1 £538 - 32
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £375 -
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 16 (10.81%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.41%) Apache
3 7 (4.73%) Confluence
4 6 (4.05%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.68%) CMS
6 1 (0.68%) IIS
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (16.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.35%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.68%) OneSumX
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.68%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 114 (77.03%) Power Platform
2 72 (48.65%) Azure
3 28 (18.92%) Azure Data Factory
3 28 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (12.16%) AWS
6 17 (11.49%) Power Automate
7 14 (9.46%) PowerApps
7 14 (9.46%) Snowflake
8 9 (6.08%) GitHub
8 9 (6.08%) Serverless
9 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (4.05%) Azure Databricks
10 6 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (3.38%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.38%) SaaS
12 4 (2.70%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) DNS
1 3 (2.03%) Firewall
1 3 (2.03%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (76.35%) Power BI
2 37 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (12.16%) Data Lake
4 17 (11.49%) SQL Server
5 15 (10.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (10.14%) Metadata
6 13 (8.78%) Star Schema
7 12 (8.11%) Tableau
8 10 (6.76%) Power Query
9 9 (6.08%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (4.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.70%) Data Hub
12 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (2.03%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.03%) Looker
13 3 (2.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (2.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.78%) JIRA
2 5 (3.38%) Git
3 2 (1.35%) GitLab
3 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.68%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.68%) MLflow
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.68%) rollup.js
4 1 (0.68%) Storybook
4 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 56 (37.84%) Finance
2 41 (27.70%) Social Skills
3 34 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.51%) Banking
5 15 (10.14%) Retail
6 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.41%) Marketing
8 7 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.70%) Legal
10 3 (2.03%) Law
10 3 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.35%) Back Office
11 2 (1.35%) Front Office
11 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.35%) Military
11 2 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (26.35%) Analyst
2 27 (18.24%) Developer
3 23 (15.54%) Architect
4 18 (12.16%) Data Analyst
5 16 (10.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 15 (10.14%) Data Architect
7 14 (9.46%) Senior
8 13 (8.78%) Data Engineer
9 12 (8.11%) Business Analyst
10 10 (6.76%) Consultant
10 10 (6.76%) Power BI Developer
11 8 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 5 (3.38%) Data Business Analyst
12 5 (3.38%) Power Platform Developer
12 5 (3.38%) Senior Developer
13 4 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Architect
13 4 (2.70%) Lead
13 4 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
14 3 (2.03%) Data Modeller
14 3 (2.03%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.51%) PySpark
2 7 (4.73%) Terraform
3 6 (4.05%) Kafka
4 5 (3.38%) REST
5 4 (2.70%) .NET
5 4 (2.70%) RESTful
6 3 (2.03%) JSON
6 3 (2.03%) OAuth
6 3 (2.03%) React
6 3 (2.03%) Redux
6 3 (2.03%) SOAP
7 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.35%) CSS
7 2 (1.35%) HTML
7 2 (1.35%) Web Services
8 1 (0.68%) HTML5
8 1 (0.68%) Jest
8 1 (0.68%) SAML
8 1 (0.68%) XML
8 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.78%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.43%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.70%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.03%) Clustering
6 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.03%) NHS
6 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.03%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.35%) CMDB
7 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.35%) FMCG
7 2 (1.35%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.35%) Replication
8 1 (0.68%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.35%) Unix
2 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (50.68%) Analytics
2 65 (43.92%) Data Modelling
3 45 (30.41%) Data Governance
3 45 (30.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (27.70%) DevOps
5 40 (27.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 34 (22.97%) Agile
7 32 (21.62%) AI
7 32 (21.62%) CI/CD
8 28 (18.92%) Decision-Making
9 27 (18.24%) ETL
10 26 (17.57%) Data Engineering
11 23 (15.54%) Migration
12 20 (13.51%) Data Architecture
12 20 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (12.84%) Dashboard Development
14 18 (12.16%) Dimensional Modelling
14 18 (12.16%) Requirements Gathering
15 17 (11.49%) Visualisation
16 16 (10.81%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 75 (50.68%) SQL
2 37 (25.00%) Python
3 27 (18.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.41%) T-SQL
5 7 (4.73%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.70%) C#
6 4 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.03%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.35%) Bicep
8 2 (1.35%) Java
8 2 (1.35%) LookML
8 2 (1.35%) R
8 2 (1.35%) XMLA
9 1 (0.68%) Korn
9 1 (0.68%) Perl
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.16%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.46%) DBS Check
3 14 (9.46%) Degree
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.03%) PMP
5 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.68%) IIBA
6 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (26.35%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.11%) QA
3 8 (5.41%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.03%) GDPR
5 2 (1.35%) P3O
5 2 (1.35%) PMO
6 1 (0.68%) COBIT
6 1 (0.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.03%) Grafana
1 3 (2.03%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.03%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.35%) SCCM
2 2 (1.35%) SCOM
2 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 53 (35.81%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.24%) Databricks
3 7 (4.73%) Oracle
4 6 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.70%) Informatica
6 3 (2.03%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.03%) SAP
6 3 (2.03%) Splunk
6 3 (2.03%) VMware
7 2 (1.35%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.35%) BMC
7 2 (1.35%) Commvault
7 2 (1.35%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.35%) Planview
7 2 (1.35%) Remedy
7 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.35%) UiPath
8 1 (0.68%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.68%) Braze