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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 45 34
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 +25
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 125 92 133
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.11% 4.34% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.86% 4.70% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 58 97
10th Percentile £313 £418 £363
25th Percentile £384 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -3.95% +6.29%
75th Percentile £628 £683 £688
90th Percentile £738 £710 £760
London median daily rate £493 £514 £540
% change year-on-year -4.18% -4.81% -1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £21.06 - -
25th Percentile £22.96 - -
Median hourly rate £27.10 - £38.00
75th Percentile £31.77 - -
90th Percentile £34.01 - -
London median hourly rate £31.65 £29.60 £42.50
% change year-on-year +6.94% -30.36% +89.01%

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 1,823 1,956 2,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.06% 92.31% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 1,225 1,696
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £432 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.77% -3.62%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 26
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.10 £17.97
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £39.50
90th Percentile £46.53 £43.75 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +18 111 £500 -13.04% 56
West End of London +10 4 £475 -5.94%
City of Westminster +4 3 £475 -
Camden - 1 £400 -
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 11 (8.80%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.60%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.00%) Confluence
4 4 (3.20%) Apache
4 4 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (21.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.80%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 107 (85.60%) Power Platform
2 41 (32.80%) Azure
3 18 (14.40%) Power Automate
4 15 (12.00%) AWS
5 14 (11.20%) PowerApps
6 11 (8.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (8.00%) GCP
8 9 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.80%) Snowflake
10 5 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.00%) dbt
11 4 (3.20%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.20%) Serverless
12 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.40%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) HTTP
1 1 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (84.80%) Power BI
2 34 (27.20%) Tableau
3 19 (15.20%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.40%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.80%) Metadata
6 5 (4.00%) Looker
6 5 (4.00%) MySQL
6 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.20%) Power Query
8 3 (2.40%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.40%) OLAP
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.60%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.60%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 9 (7.20%) JIRA
2 6 (4.80%) Git
3 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.60%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.80%) ERwin
5 1 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 53 (42.40%) Finance
2 34 (27.20%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (26.40%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Banking
5 10 (8.00%) Front Office
5 10 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.00%) Back Office
7 5 (4.00%) Marketing
8 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Automotive
10 2 (1.60%) Electronics
10 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Legal
10 2 (1.60%) Retail
10 2 (1.60%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (24.00%) Analyst
2 20 (16.00%) Developer
3 14 (11.20%) Lead
3 14 (11.20%) Senior
4 13 (10.40%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.00%) Architect
5 10 (8.00%) Consultant
5 10 (8.00%) Data Analyst
5 10 (8.00%) Data Scientist
6 9 (7.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (4.80%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Banking Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) Service Analyst
10 3 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 3 (2.40%) Financial Analyst
10 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Consultant
10 3 (2.40%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.80%) NumPy
2 6 (4.80%) Pandas
2 6 (4.80%) PySpark
3 5 (4.00%) .NET
4 4 (3.20%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (3.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.20%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.40%) Kafka
5 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.40%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.60%) CSS
6 2 (1.60%) HTML
6 2 (1.60%) JSON
6 2 (1.60%) REST
7 1 (0.80%) ADO
7 1 (0.80%) Middleware
7 1 (0.80%) SOAP
7 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.60%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.00%) Derivative
3 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.40%) Equities
6 2 (1.60%) Clustering
6 2 (1.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.60%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.80%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.40%) Analytics
2 41 (32.80%) Visualisation
3 39 (31.20%) Data Modelling
4 28 (22.40%) Agile
5 27 (21.60%) Data Visualisation
6 25 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 24 (19.20%) ETL
8 23 (18.40%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (18.40%) Data Engineering
8 23 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (16.80%) Data Pipeline
10 20 (16.00%) AI
11 18 (14.40%) Data Analysis
12 17 (13.60%) Data Science
13 16 (12.80%) Decision-Making
14 15 (12.00%) DevOps
14 15 (12.00%) Machine Learning
14 15 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (11.20%) Data Transformation
15 14 (11.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (45.60%) SQL
2 33 (26.40%) Python
3 8 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.60%) Scala
5 5 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.40%) R
8 2 (1.60%) C#
8 2 (1.60%) IronPython
8 2 (1.60%) Korn
8 2 (1.60%) VBA
9 1 (0.80%) C++
9 1 (0.80%) Groovy
9 1 (0.80%) Java
9 1 (0.80%) LookML
9 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.40%) Degree
2 12 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.60%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) PMP
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.60%) CFA
7 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.60%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.80%) IIBA
8 1 (0.80%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.80%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.60%) PMO
3 6 (4.80%) GDPR
3 6 (4.80%) QA
4 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.40%) SLA
5 2 (1.60%) Basel III
5 2 (1.60%) GAAP
5 2 (1.60%) IFRS
6 1 (0.80%) GRC
6 1 (0.80%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.60%) Terraform
3 1 (0.80%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 37 (29.60%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.80%) Databricks
3 12 (9.60%) Oracle
4 10 (8.00%) SAP
5 7 (5.60%) Google
5 7 (5.60%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.20%) Workday
8 3 (2.40%) Cognos
8 3 (2.40%) IBM
8 3 (2.40%) Planview
8 3 (2.40%) Sage
9 2 (1.60%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.60%) Informatica
9 2 (1.60%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.60%) Murex
9 2 (1.60%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.80%) Marketo
10 1 (0.80%) UiPath