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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 42 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 +39
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 133 92 138
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.17% 4.43% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 4.82% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 58 98
10th Percentile £321 £421 £363
25th Percentile £400 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -5.65% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £675
90th Percentile £747 £703 £758
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
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 1,923 1,910 2,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.15% 91.96% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,207 1,652
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £767 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 26
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.97
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.07 £20.79
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £40.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.08 £48.75 £57.63
London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +13 117 £525 -4.11% 53
West End of London +10 5 £475 -5.94%
City of Westminster +4 4 £475 - 1
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 9 (6.77%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.76%) Apache
3 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 22 (16.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.75%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (81.95%) Power Platform
2 42 (31.58%) Azure
3 19 (14.29%) AWS
4 16 (12.03%) Power Automate
5 13 (9.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (9.77%) GCP
6 11 (8.27%) PowerApps
6 11 (8.27%) Snowflake
7 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.76%) dbt
9 5 (3.76%) Serverless
10 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.01%) GitHub
11 3 (2.26%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.26%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.26%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) HTTP
1 1 (0.75%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (80.45%) Power BI
2 32 (24.06%) Tableau
3 25 (18.80%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.77%) Data Lake
5 8 (6.02%) Metadata
6 6 (4.51%) Looker
6 6 (4.51%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.76%) MySQL
8 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.01%) OLAP
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.26%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.26%) Mixpanel
9 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.26%) Power Query
9 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.50%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Git
2 7 (5.26%) JIRA
3 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.75%) ERwin
4 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 60 (45.11%) Finance
2 38 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (24.06%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.03%) Banking
5 8 (6.02%) Front Office
5 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.76%) Back Office
7 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.01%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.26%) Marketing
8 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Automotive
9 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Billing
10 1 (0.75%) Electronics
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (23.31%) Analyst
2 23 (17.29%) Developer
3 17 (12.78%) Data Engineer
4 15 (11.28%) Senior
5 14 (10.53%) Architect
6 13 (9.77%) Data Analyst
7 12 (9.02%) Consultant
8 11 (8.27%) Lead
9 10 (7.52%) Data Scientist
10 9 (6.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (5.26%) Business Analyst
11 7 (5.26%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.76%) Power BI Developer
13 4 (3.01%) Data Modeller
13 4 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (3.01%) Senior Data Scientist
13 4 (3.01%) Service Analyst
13 4 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.01%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.77%) scikit-learn
2 7 (5.26%) Middleware
2 7 (5.26%) PySpark
3 6 (4.51%) NumPy
3 6 (4.51%) Pandas
4 4 (3.01%) JSON
4 4 (3.01%) Kafka
4 4 (3.01%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.01%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.26%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.26%) REST
5 3 (2.26%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.26%) XML
6 2 (1.50%) .NET
6 2 (1.50%) CSS
6 2 (1.50%) HTML
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.50%) YAML
7 1 (0.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.26%) Algorithms
1 7 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.26%) Clustering
4 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.26%) Derivative
4 3 (2.26%) Equities
5 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) CMDB
6 1 (0.75%) DataPower
6 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.75%) FMCG
6 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (47.37%) Analytics
2 48 (36.09%) Data Modelling
3 45 (33.83%) Visualisation
4 30 (22.56%) Data Visualisation
5 29 (21.80%) Data Engineering
6 28 (21.05%) ETL
7 24 (18.05%) Agile
7 24 (18.05%) AI
7 24 (18.05%) Data Governance
7 24 (18.05%) Data Pipeline
8 23 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (16.54%) Data Science
10 19 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
11 17 (12.78%) Data Analysis
11 17 (12.78%) Machine Learning
11 17 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (12.03%) Decision-Making
12 16 (12.03%) Validation
13 15 (11.28%) Dashboard Development
14 14 (10.53%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 62 (46.62%) SQL
2 41 (30.83%) Python
3 8 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.26%) Scala
5 6 (4.51%) R
6 5 (3.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.26%) C#
7 3 (2.26%) Korn
7 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.50%) IronPython
8 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Groovy
9 1 (0.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (10.53%) Degree
2 13 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.01%) PMP
5 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.50%) CFA
6 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.75%) IIBA
7 1 (0.75%) MBA
7 1 (0.75%) RIBA
7 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.81%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.77%) GDPR
3 7 (5.26%) QA
4 6 (4.51%) PMO
5 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.26%) SLA
6 2 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.50%) Basel III
6 2 (1.50%) GAAP
6 2 (1.50%) IFRS
7 1 (0.75%) GRC
7 1 (0.75%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.26%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.26%) Terraform
2 1 (0.75%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 40 (30.08%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.54%) Databricks
3 9 (6.77%) Oracle
4 8 (6.02%) SAP
4 8 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.51%) Google
5 6 (4.51%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.01%) Planview
6 4 (3.01%) Workday
7 3 (2.26%) Amplitude
7 3 (2.26%) Cognos
7 3 (2.26%) IBM
7 3 (2.26%) Sage
8 2 (1.50%) Informatica
8 2 (1.50%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.50%) Murex
8 2 (1.50%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.75%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.75%) Palantir