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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 44 47
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 127 100 121
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.56% 4.29% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.05% 4.68% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 66 87
10th Percentile £317 £393 £363
25th Percentile £387 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £533 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -5.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £686
90th Percentile £738 £721 £744
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £17.49 - -
25th Percentile £18.96 £146.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.10 £147.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -81.63% +288.16% -
75th Percentile £35.63 £148.75 -
90th Percentile £35.85 - -
London median hourly rate £34.00 £52.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -35.24% +38.16% +8.57%

All Process and 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 1,802 2,139 2,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.08% 91.80% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,339 1,856
10th Percentile £334 £374 £363
25th Percentile £423 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £681 £689
90th Percentile £750 £775 £823
London median daily rate £538 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £19.30 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £31.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%
75th Percentile £35.88 £78.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £127.30 £69.75
London median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -22.67% +3.21% -3.11%

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 18 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in Central London over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Central London

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 18 November 2025. 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 +16 118 £513 -10.87% 327
Camden - 2 £400 - 1
West End of London +5 1 £400 -20.79% 5
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 (12.60%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.72%) Confluence
3 4 (3.15%) Apache
3 4 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.79%) Luigi
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 29 (22.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (2.36%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.57%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.79%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.79%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (79.53%) Power Platform
2 47 (37.01%) Azure
3 22 (17.32%) Power Automate
4 19 (14.96%) PowerApps
5 14 (11.02%) AWS
6 12 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (7.87%) Entra ID
8 9 (7.09%) GCP
9 7 (5.51%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.72%) PaaS
11 5 (3.94%) dbt
12 4 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.15%) GitHub
12 4 (3.15%) Serverless
12 4 (3.15%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) HTTP
1 1 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (78.74%) Power BI
2 26 (20.47%) Tableau
3 16 (12.60%) Data Lake
3 16 (12.60%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.09%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.30%) Power Query
6 6 (4.72%) Metadata
7 5 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.15%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.15%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.36%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.36%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.36%) Looker
9 3 (2.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.87%) JIRA
2 4 (3.15%) Git
3 2 (1.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.79%) Postman
4 1 (0.79%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (45.67%) Finance
2 41 (32.28%) Social Skills
3 37 (29.13%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.81%) Banking
5 8 (6.30%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.72%) Front Office
7 6 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.72%) Marketing
8 5 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Back Office
9 3 (2.36%) Legal
9 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Electronics
10 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.57%) Retail
10 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (20.47%) Analyst
2 19 (14.96%) Developer
3 18 (14.17%) Lead
4 17 (13.39%) Architect
5 16 (12.60%) Senior
6 11 (8.66%) Data Analyst
6 11 (8.66%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Consultant
8 9 (7.09%) Business Analyst
9 8 (6.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (5.51%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.72%) Data Scientist
12 5 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.15%) Senior Consultant
13 4 (3.15%) Senior Developer
14 3 (2.36%) Banking Analyst
14 3 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
14 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Architect
14 3 (2.36%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.09%) .NET
2 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (3.94%) scikit-learn
3 4 (3.15%) PySpark
4 3 (2.36%) JSON
4 3 (2.36%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.36%) NumPy
4 3 (2.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.36%) Pandas
4 3 (2.36%) RESTful
4 3 (2.36%) Web Services
4 3 (2.36%) XML
5 2 (1.57%) ADO
5 2 (1.57%) Kafka
5 2 (1.57%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.57%) Middleware
5 2 (1.57%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.57%) REST
5 2 (1.57%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.15%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.36%) Derivative
3 3 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.57%) FMCG
4 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.57%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.57%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) IoT
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (42.52%) Analytics
2 39 (30.71%) Data Modelling
3 37 (29.13%) Visualisation
4 32 (25.20%) Agile
5 26 (20.47%) Data Governance
5 26 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (19.69%) ETL
7 21 (16.54%) Data Visualisation
8 20 (15.75%) Actionable Insight
8 20 (15.75%) Data Analysis
8 20 (15.75%) Decision-Making
9 18 (14.17%) Migration
10 17 (13.39%) Roadmaps
11 16 (12.60%) AI
11 16 (12.60%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (12.60%) DevOps
11 16 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (11.81%) CRM
12 15 (11.81%) Data Engineering
13 14 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.82%) SQL
2 35 (27.56%) Python
3 10 (7.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.30%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.94%) Java
5 5 (3.94%) PL/SQL
5 5 (3.94%) Scala
6 4 (3.15%) R
7 3 (2.36%) C#
7 3 (2.36%) Korn
7 3 (2.36%) VBA
8 2 (1.57%) Groovy
8 2 (1.57%) IronPython
8 2 (1.57%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.79%) Bash
9 1 (0.79%) Bicep
9 1 (0.79%) C++
9 1 (0.79%) LookML
9 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Degree
2 10 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.57%) ACCA
7 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.57%) CFA
8 1 (0.79%) CIMA
8 1 (0.79%) IIBA
8 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.54%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.87%) GDPR
3 6 (4.72%) PMO
4 5 (3.94%) QA
5 3 (2.36%) COBIT
6 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.57%) Basel II
7 1 (0.79%) GRC
7 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Terraform
2 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.79%) Grafana
3 1 (0.79%) Istio
3 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.79%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 47 (37.01%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.39%) Databricks
3 9 (7.09%) Oracle
3 9 (7.09%) SAP
4 8 (6.30%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.15%) Google
7 3 (2.36%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.36%) Workday
8 2 (1.57%) Adobe
8 2 (1.57%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.57%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.57%) Informatica
8 2 (1.57%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.57%) Planview
9 1 (0.79%) Ariba
9 1 (0.79%) IBM
9 1 (0.79%) Progress
9 1 (0.79%) Remedy
9 1 (0.79%) Sage