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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 45 45
Rank change year-on-year +14 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 129 97 117
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.42% 4.15% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.08% 4.51% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 59 84
10th Percentile £314 £419 £363
25th Percentile £381 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £730 £745
London median daily rate £492 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -4.47% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £22.23 - -
25th Percentile £25.89 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £38.00
75th Percentile £35.75 - -
90th Percentile £35.90 - -
London median hourly rate £32.83 £52.50 £36.82
% change year-on-year -37.48% +42.60% +17.81%

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 1,821 2,153 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.69% 92.09% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,350 1,738
10th Percentile £343 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.54 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £35.88 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £50.63 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%

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 20 December 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
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 20 December 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 +13 118 £500 -16.67% 35
West End of London +7 1 £400 -20.79% 2
Camden - 1 £400 - 2
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 13 (10.08%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.43%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.88%) Confluence
4 4 (3.10%) Apache
5 3 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (20.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 109 (84.50%) Power Platform
2 46 (35.66%) Azure
3 24 (18.60%) Power Automate
4 21 (16.28%) PowerApps
5 14 (10.85%) AWS
6 13 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (7.75%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (6.98%) GCP
11 8 (6.20%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.65%) Snowflake
13 5 (3.88%) dbt
14 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
14 4 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (3.10%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (3.10%) Serverless
14 4 (3.10%) ShareGate
15 3 (2.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) HTTP
1 1 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (83.72%) Power BI
2 30 (23.26%) Tableau
3 20 (15.50%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.30%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.43%) Power Query
6 6 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.65%) Metadata
7 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.10%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.10%) Looker
8 4 (3.10%) MySQL
8 4 (3.10%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.33%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.98%) JIRA
2 7 (5.43%) Git
3 3 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.78%) Postman
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 58 (44.96%) Finance
2 37 (28.68%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (28.68%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.63%) Banking
4 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.75%) Front Office
6 6 (4.65%) Back Office
6 6 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.65%) Marketing
7 5 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.33%) Legal
8 3 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.55%) Electronics
9 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.55%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (22.48%) Analyst
2 19 (14.73%) Developer
3 15 (11.63%) Lead
4 14 (10.85%) Architect
5 13 (10.08%) Data Engineer
5 13 (10.08%) Senior
6 10 (7.75%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (6.98%) Consultant
8 8 (6.20%) Business Analyst
8 8 (6.20%) Data Scientist
9 6 (4.65%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.10%) Banking Analyst
11 4 (3.10%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 4 (3.10%) Power BI Developer
12 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Architect
12 3 (2.33%) Oracle Developer
12 3 (2.33%) PMO Analyst
12 3 (2.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) PySpark
1 7 (5.43%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.65%) .NET
3 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (3.88%) NumPy
3 5 (3.88%) Pandas
4 3 (2.33%) JSON
4 3 (2.33%) Kafka
4 3 (2.33%) Matplotlib
4 3 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.33%) Seaborn
4 3 (2.33%) XML
5 2 (1.55%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.55%) REST
5 2 (1.55%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.78%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) Node.js
6 1 (0.78%) Playwright
6 1 (0.78%) RESTful
6 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.88%) Algorithms
1 5 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.10%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.10%) Derivative
2 4 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.33%) Equities
3 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.55%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.55%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.55%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.78%) Clustering
5 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.78%) NHS
5 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (41.86%) Analytics
2 41 (31.78%) Data Modelling
3 40 (31.01%) Visualisation
4 29 (22.48%) Data Governance
5 28 (21.71%) Agile
6 26 (20.16%) ETL
7 24 (18.60%) Data Visualisation
8 23 (17.83%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (16.28%) Data Engineering
11 19 (14.73%) Data Analysis
11 19 (14.73%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (14.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (13.95%) DevOps
12 18 (13.95%) Migration
12 18 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (13.18%) AI
13 17 (13.18%) Decision-Making
14 14 (10.85%) Data Science
14 14 (10.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 61 (47.29%) SQL
2 35 (27.13%) Python
3 10 (7.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.43%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.43%) Scala
5 5 (3.88%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.10%) R
7 3 (2.33%) Korn
7 3 (2.33%) VBA
8 2 (1.55%) C#
8 2 (1.55%) IronPython
8 2 (1.55%) Java
8 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.78%) C++
9 1 (0.78%) Groovy
9 1 (0.78%) LookML
Qualifications
1 13 (10.08%) Degree
1 13 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (6.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.33%) CFA
4 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.33%) PMP
5 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.78%) ACCA
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) IIBA
6 1 (0.78%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.83%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.20%) GDPR
2 8 (6.20%) PMO
3 7 (5.43%) QA
4 3 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) Basel III
5 1 (0.78%) COBIT
5 1 (0.78%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.55%) Terraform
3 1 (0.78%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 45 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.40%) Databricks
3 10 (7.75%) Oracle
4 8 (6.20%) SAP
5 6 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.88%) Google
6 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.33%) Planview
8 2 (1.55%) Adobe
8 2 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.55%) Cognos
8 2 (1.55%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.55%) IBM
8 2 (1.55%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.55%) Sage
9 1 (0.78%) Ariba
9 1 (0.78%) Informatica
9 1 (0.78%) Murex
9 1 (0.78%) Progress
9 1 (0.78%) Remedy