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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 31 47
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 150 127 96
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.01% 6.40% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 6.82% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 81 65
10th Percentile £363 £363 £359
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £838 £738
London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
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% +47.26%

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 2,225 1,863 2,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.18% 93.85% 92.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 1,238 1,392
10th Percentile £363 £319 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.77%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £787
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 25
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% -11.91% +20.00%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £42.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £119.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%

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 10 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 10 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 -3 137 £550 - 109
West End of London - 4 £475 - 9
City of Westminster -6 3 £500 - 13
Southwark - 3 £575 -
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 17 (11.33%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (5.33%) Apache
4 6 (4.00%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.00%) Confluence
6 1 (0.67%) CMS
6 1 (0.67%) IIS
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 26 (17.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) BambooHR
1 2 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.33%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.67%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.67%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 113 (75.33%) Power Platform
2 74 (49.33%) Azure
3 27 (18.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (14.00%) Snowflake
6 19 (12.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (12.00%) AWS
8 16 (10.67%) Power Automate
9 15 (10.00%) PowerApps
10 9 (6.00%) dbt
10 9 (6.00%) GitHub
10 9 (6.00%) Serverless
11 8 (5.33%) GCP
12 7 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (4.00%) Amazon S3
13 6 (4.00%) Azure Databricks
14 5 (3.33%) Azure Stack
14 5 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) DNS
1 3 (2.00%) Firewall
1 3 (2.00%) VPN
2 1 (0.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (74.67%) Power BI
2 39 (26.00%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (12.00%) Data Lake
4 17 (11.33%) Tableau
5 16 (10.67%) SQL Server
6 15 (10.00%) Metadata
7 14 (9.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (8.67%) Star Schema
9 10 (6.67%) Power Query
10 9 (6.00%) Semantic Layer
11 8 (5.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (4.67%) BigQuery
13 6 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (3.33%) Looker
14 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
14 5 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (2.67%) Data Hub
16 3 (2.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (4.67%) JIRA
2 4 (2.67%) Git
3 2 (1.33%) GitLab
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.67%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.67%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.67%) MLflow
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.67%) rollup.js
4 1 (0.67%) Storybook
4 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 59 (39.33%) Finance
2 41 (27.33%) Social Skills
3 31 (20.67%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.67%) Banking
5 16 (10.67%) Retail
6 10 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.67%) Marketing
8 6 (4.00%) Legal
9 5 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.00%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.00%) Law
12 2 (1.33%) Back Office
12 2 (1.33%) Military
12 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (24.67%) Analyst
2 25 (16.67%) Architect
3 23 (15.33%) Developer
4 18 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 18 (12.00%) Data Architect
5 17 (11.33%) Data Engineer
6 15 (10.00%) Senior
7 12 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (6.67%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.67%) Consultant
9 7 (4.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (4.67%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.33%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (3.33%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Architect
11 4 (2.67%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (2.67%) Lead
11 4 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (2.00%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.33%) PySpark
2 9 (6.00%) Kafka
3 6 (4.00%) Terraform
4 4 (2.67%) .NET
4 4 (2.67%) REST
4 4 (2.67%) RESTful
5 3 (2.00%) React
5 3 (2.00%) Redux
6 2 (1.33%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.33%) CSS
6 2 (1.33%) HTML
6 2 (1.33%) JSON
6 2 (1.33%) OAuth
7 1 (0.67%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.67%) CSS3
7 1 (0.67%) HTML5
7 1 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.67%) SAML
7 1 (0.67%) SOAP
7 1 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.33%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.33%) Clustering
4 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.67%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.00%) CMDB
6 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.00%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.33%) FMCG
7 2 (1.33%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.33%) Replication
8 1 (0.67%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Windows
2 2 (1.33%) Unix
2 2 (1.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.67%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (50.67%) Analytics
2 64 (42.67%) Data Modelling
3 46 (30.67%) Data Governance
4 40 (26.67%) DevOps
4 40 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (24.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (24.00%) AI
7 35 (23.33%) Data Engineering
8 32 (21.33%) CI/CD
8 32 (21.33%) ETL
9 30 (20.00%) Agile
10 26 (17.33%) Decision-Making
10 26 (17.33%) Migration
11 25 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (15.33%) Data Architecture
13 19 (12.67%) Dimensional Modelling
14 17 (11.33%) Dashboard Development
14 17 (11.33%) Visualisation
15 15 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.67%) SQL
2 38 (25.33%) Python
3 26 (17.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.33%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.67%) C#
6 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.33%) Java
8 2 (1.33%) LookML
8 2 (1.33%) R
8 2 (1.33%) VBA
8 2 (1.33%) XMLA
9 1 (0.67%) Bicep
9 1 (0.67%) Korn
9 1 (0.67%) Perl
9 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.33%) DBS Check
4 11 (7.33%) Degree
5 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.00%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) IIBA
7 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.33%) QA
3 8 (5.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.67%) GDPR
5 3 (2.00%) PMO
6 2 (1.33%) P3O
7 1 (0.67%) COBIT
7 1 (0.67%) GRC
7 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.00%) Grafana
1 3 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.33%) SCCM
2 2 (1.33%) SCOM
2 2 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 53 (35.33%) Microsoft
2 29 (19.33%) Databricks
3 7 (4.67%) Oracle
3 7 (4.67%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.00%) Informatica
5 5 (3.33%) SAP
6 3 (2.00%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.00%) Splunk
6 3 (2.00%) VMware
6 3 (2.00%) Workday
7 2 (1.33%) BMC
7 2 (1.33%) Commvault
7 2 (1.33%) Google
7 2 (1.33%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.33%) Remedy
8 1 (0.67%) Adobe
8 1 (0.67%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.67%) Salesforce