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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 42 33
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 +38
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 141 94 138
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.35% 4.50% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 4.88% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 60 97
10th Percentile £322 £413 £363
25th Percentile £409 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £744 £691 £747
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.07 -
London median hourly rate £31.65 £29.07 £45.00
% change year-on-year +8.88% -35.40% +100.13%

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 1,976 1,925 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.93% 92.11% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,351 1,230 1,659
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £445 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.93 £17.77
25th Percentile £21.37 £27.97 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £40.63 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £55.08 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.08%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +14 125 £525 - 100
West End of London +11 5 £475 -5.94%
City of Westminster +4 4 £475 - 2
Camden - 1 £400 -
Southwark - 1 £650 - 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 9 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (5.67%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.55%) Apache
4 4 (2.84%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (14.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.71%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 114 (80.85%) Power Platform
2 42 (29.79%) Azure
3 20 (14.18%) AWS
4 16 (11.35%) Power Automate
4 16 (11.35%) Snowflake
5 14 (9.93%) GCP
6 13 (9.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (8.51%) PowerApps
8 9 (6.38%) dbt
9 8 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.67%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.26%) Serverless
11 5 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.55%) Dagster
11 5 (3.55%) Prefect
12 4 (2.84%) GitHub
13 3 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) HTTP
1 1 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (79.43%) Power BI
2 39 (27.66%) Tableau
3 29 (20.57%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.38%) Data Lake
4 9 (6.38%) Looker
4 9 (6.38%) Metadata
5 7 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (4.96%) BigQuery
5 7 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (4.26%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.55%) MySQL
8 4 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.84%) OLAP
9 3 (2.13%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.13%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.13%) Mixpanel
9 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.13%) Power Query
9 3 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Git
2 7 (4.96%) JIRA
3 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.71%) ERwin
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 64 (45.39%) Finance
2 39 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (23.40%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.77%) Banking
5 8 (5.67%) Front Office
5 8 (5.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.55%) Back Office
6 5 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.55%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.84%) Legal
7 4 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.13%) Marketing
8 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Automotive
9 2 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.42%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (23.40%) Analyst
2 25 (17.73%) Developer
3 19 (13.48%) Data Engineer
4 16 (11.35%) Architect
5 15 (10.64%) Senior
6 13 (9.22%) Data Analyst
7 11 (7.80%) Consultant
7 11 (7.80%) Lead
8 10 (7.09%) Data Scientist
9 9 (6.38%) Business Analyst
9 9 (6.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (4.96%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.26%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.55%) Power BI Developer
12 5 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (2.84%) Data Modeller
13 4 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (2.84%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (2.84%) Senior Data Scientist
13 4 (2.84%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.38%) Middleware
1 9 (6.38%) scikit-learn
2 8 (5.67%) PySpark
3 6 (4.26%) NumPy
3 6 (4.26%) Pandas
4 5 (3.55%) Kafka
5 4 (2.84%) JSON
5 4 (2.84%) Matplotlib
5 4 (2.84%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.13%) .NET
6 3 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.13%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.13%) REST
6 3 (2.13%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.13%) XML
7 2 (1.42%) CSS
7 2 (1.42%) HTML
7 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.42%) YAML
8 1 (0.71%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.96%) Algorithms
1 7 (4.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.84%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.13%) Clustering
4 3 (2.13%) Derivative
4 3 (2.13%) Equities
5 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.42%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.71%) DataPower
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.71%) FMCG
6 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (47.52%) Analytics
2 50 (35.46%) Data Modelling
3 45 (31.91%) Visualisation
4 34 (24.11%) Data Engineering
5 32 (22.70%) ETL
6 30 (21.28%) Data Visualisation
7 28 (19.86%) Data Pipeline
8 24 (17.02%) Agile
8 24 (17.02%) AI
8 24 (17.02%) Data Governance
9 23 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (15.60%) Data Science
11 19 (13.48%) Actionable Insight
11 19 (13.48%) Decision-Making
12 18 (12.77%) Data Analysis
13 17 (12.06%) Machine Learning
13 17 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (11.35%) Migration
14 16 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (11.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 67 (47.52%) SQL
2 45 (31.91%) Python
3 8 (5.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.96%) Scala
5 6 (4.26%) R
6 5 (3.55%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.13%) C#
7 3 (2.13%) Korn
7 3 (2.13%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.42%) IronPython
8 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.71%) Bicep
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) Groovy
9 1 (0.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (9.93%) Degree
2 13 (9.22%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.84%) PMP
5 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.42%) CFA
6 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) IIBA
7 1 (0.71%) MBA
7 1 (0.71%) RIBA
7 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.22%) GDPR
3 8 (5.67%) QA
4 4 (2.84%) PMO
5 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.13%) SLA
6 2 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.42%) Basel III
6 2 (1.42%) GAAP
6 2 (1.42%) IFRS
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.71%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.13%) Terraform
2 1 (0.71%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 42 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.44%) Databricks
3 8 (5.67%) Oracle
3 8 (5.67%) SAP
3 8 (5.67%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.96%) Workday
5 6 (4.26%) Google
5 6 (4.26%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.13%) Amplitude
6 3 (2.13%) Cognos
6 3 (2.13%) IBM
6 3 (2.13%) Planview
6 3 (2.13%) Sage
7 2 (1.42%) Informatica
7 2 (1.42%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.42%) Murex
7 2 (1.42%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.71%) Ariba
8 1 (0.71%) Foundry
8 1 (0.71%) Yardi