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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 30 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 144 126 98
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.79% 6.40% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.51% 6.81% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 80 66
10th Percentile £383 £360 £359
25th Percentile £450 £423 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £534
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +3.51% -0.70%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £650
90th Percentile £775 £838 £738
London median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £17.81 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £19.79 £146.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% -76.95% +288.16%
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.50 £148.75
90th Percentile - £35.80 -
London median hourly rate £28.40 £34.65 £53.75
% change year-on-year -18.05% -35.53% +25.73%

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 2,212 1,850 2,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.91% 93.91% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,524 1,234 1,407
10th Percentile £363 £315 £375
25th Percentile £456 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 33 22
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -1.82%
75th Percentile £43.00 £50.75 £56.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £133.00
London median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -8 133 £550 - 102
Southwark - 4 £588 - 1
City of Westminster -6 3 £500 - 16
West End of London - 3 £475 - 11
Kensington and Chelsea - 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 15 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (5.56%) Apache
4 6 (4.17%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.78%) Confluence
6 1 (0.69%) CMS
6 1 (0.69%) IIS
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 23 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.39%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.69%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.69%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.69%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 108 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 70 (48.61%) Azure
3 25 (17.36%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (15.28%) Snowflake
5 19 (13.19%) AWS
6 17 (11.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (11.11%) Power Automate
8 15 (10.42%) PowerApps
9 10 (6.94%) dbt
10 9 (6.25%) GCP
10 9 (6.25%) GitHub
10 9 (6.25%) Serverless
11 7 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (4.17%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.17%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.08%) DNS
1 3 (2.08%) Firewall
1 3 (2.08%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (74.31%) Power BI
2 35 (24.31%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (13.89%) Tableau
4 15 (10.42%) Data Lake
4 15 (10.42%) SQL Server
5 12 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (8.33%) Metadata
6 11 (7.64%) Star Schema
7 9 (6.25%) Power Query
8 8 (5.56%) BigQuery
8 8 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (4.17%) Looker
10 6 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (2.08%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 8 (5.56%) JIRA
2 3 (2.08%) Git
3 2 (1.39%) GitLab
3 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.69%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.69%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.69%) MLflow
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.69%) rollup.js
4 1 (0.69%) Storybook
4 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 58 (40.28%) Finance
2 39 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 28 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.19%) Banking
5 15 (10.42%) Retail
6 9 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.86%) Legal
7 7 (4.86%) Marketing
8 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Back Office
9 3 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.39%) Front Office
10 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Law
10 2 (1.39%) Military
10 2 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (26.39%) Analyst
2 24 (16.67%) Architect
3 22 (15.28%) Developer
4 19 (13.19%) Data Analyst
5 17 (11.81%) Data Architect
6 16 (11.11%) Data Engineer
7 15 (10.42%) Senior
8 11 (7.64%) Business Analyst
8 11 (7.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Consultant
10 7 (4.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 6 (4.17%) Power BI Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Power Platform Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Snowflake Engineer
13 4 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
13 4 (2.78%) Lead
13 4 (2.78%) Report Analyst
13 4 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
14 3 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.19%) PySpark
2 9 (6.25%) Kafka
3 6 (4.17%) Terraform
4 4 (2.78%) .NET
4 4 (2.78%) REST
4 4 (2.78%) RESTful
5 3 (2.08%) React
5 3 (2.08%) Redux
6 2 (1.39%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.39%) CSS
6 2 (1.39%) HTML
6 2 (1.39%) JSON
7 1 (0.69%) CSS3
7 1 (0.69%) HTML5
7 1 (0.69%) Jest
7 1 (0.69%) Middleware
7 1 (0.69%) Next.js
7 1 (0.69%) OAuth
7 1 (0.69%) SOAP
7 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.47%) Clustering
4 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.78%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.08%) CMDB
6 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.08%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.39%) Derivative
7 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.39%) FMCG
7 2 (1.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.08%) Windows
2 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (50.69%) Analytics
2 61 (42.36%) Data Modelling
3 42 (29.17%) Data Governance
4 39 (27.08%) DevOps
5 37 (25.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 35 (24.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (23.61%) AI
7 34 (23.61%) Data Engineering
8 31 (21.53%) ETL
9 30 (20.83%) Agile
9 30 (20.83%) CI/CD
10 25 (17.36%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (16.67%) Decision-Making
12 23 (15.97%) Migration
13 22 (15.28%) Data Architecture
14 17 (11.81%) Dimensional Modelling
15 16 (11.11%) Visualisation
16 15 (10.42%) Dashboard Development
16 15 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (10.42%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 70 (48.61%) SQL
2 38 (26.39%) Python
3 24 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.86%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.78%) C#
6 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.08%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.39%) Java
8 2 (1.39%) LookML
8 2 (1.39%) R
8 2 (1.39%) VBA
8 2 (1.39%) XMLA
9 1 (0.69%) Bicep
9 1 (0.69%) Korn
9 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.69%) Scala
9 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.72%) DBS Check
4 10 (6.94%) Degree
5 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.08%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) IIBA
7 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (26.39%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.64%) QA
3 8 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.17%) GDPR
5 3 (2.08%) PMO
6 2 (1.39%) P3O
7 1 (0.69%) COBIT
7 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.08%) Grafana
1 3 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.08%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.39%) SCCM
2 2 (1.39%) SCOM
3 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (34.72%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.14%) Databricks
3 7 (4.86%) Oracle
4 6 (4.17%) Informatica
5 5 (3.47%) SAP
5 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.78%) Workday
7 3 (2.08%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.08%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.08%) Splunk
7 3 (2.08%) VMware
8 2 (1.39%) BMC
8 2 (1.39%) Commvault
8 2 (1.39%) Google
8 2 (1.39%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.39%) Remedy
8 2 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.69%) Adobe
9 1 (0.69%) Cognizant