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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 46 41
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 125 91 125
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.22% 4.28% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 4.63% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 56 91
10th Percentile £314 £435 £363
25th Percentile £381 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +4.90%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £686
90th Percentile £738 £715 £745
London median daily rate £490 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -4.39% -6.82% -
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 £29.58 £52.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -43.67% +26.51% +84.57%

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 1,797 1,964 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.36% 92.34% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 1,227 1,666
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £433 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -1.51%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £755 £787 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 21
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.41 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.85 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £38.63 £38.94 £38.00
90th Percentile £42.65 £105.18 £65.00
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £31.13
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.45% -14.98%

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 19 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 19 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 +15 111 £500 -13.04% 58
West End of London +9 4 £475 -5.94%
City of Westminster +3 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
5 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 29 (23.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.00%) 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 40 (32.00%) Azure
3 19 (15.20%) Power Automate
4 16 (12.80%) PowerApps
5 13 (10.40%) AWS
6 12 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (7.20%) GCP
9 8 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (3.20%) dbt
12 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.20%) Serverless
13 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.40%) GitHub
14 2 (1.60%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) HTTP
1 1 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (84.80%) Power BI
2 32 (25.60%) Tableau
3 20 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.20%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.00%) Metadata
5 5 (4.00%) MySQL
5 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.20%) Looker
6 4 (3.20%) Power Query
6 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.40%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.40%) OLAP
7 3 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.60%) Star Schema
8 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
2 34 (27.20%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.00%) Banking
4 10 (8.00%) Front Office
4 10 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.00%) Back Office
6 5 (4.00%) Marketing
7 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Automotive
9 2 (1.60%) Electronics
9 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Legal
9 2 (1.60%) Retail
9 2 (1.60%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (24.80%) Analyst
2 21 (16.80%) Developer
3 14 (11.20%) Lead
3 14 (11.20%) Senior
4 12 (9.60%) Data Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Data Analyst
6 10 (8.00%) Architect
6 10 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (7.20%) Consultant
7 9 (7.20%) Data Scientist
8 6 (4.80%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.00%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.20%) Banking Analyst
10 4 (3.20%) Service Analyst
11 3 (2.40%) Administrator
11 3 (2.40%) Financial Analyst
11 3 (2.40%) PMO Analyst
11 3 (2.40%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.80%) PySpark
3 5 (4.00%) .NET
3 5 (4.00%) NumPy
3 5 (4.00%) Pandas
4 4 (3.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.40%) Kafka
5 3 (2.40%) Matplotlib
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.40%) Seaborn
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%) Middleware
7 1 (0.80%) SOAP
7 1 (0.80%) XML
7 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.80%) Algorithms
1 6 (4.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (4.00%) Derivative
2 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.40%) Equities
4 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.60%) Swaptions
6 1 (0.80%) Clustering
6 1 (0.80%) DataPower
6 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.80%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.80%) FMCG
6 1 (0.80%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.80%) NHS
6 1 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.60%) Analytics
2 41 (32.80%) Visualisation
3 38 (30.40%) Data Modelling
4 27 (21.60%) Agile
5 26 (20.80%) Data Visualisation
6 25 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 25 (20.00%) ETL
7 24 (19.20%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (17.60%) Data Engineering
10 19 (15.20%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (14.40%) Data Analysis
12 17 (13.60%) AI
12 17 (13.60%) Decision-Making
13 16 (12.80%) Data Science
13 16 (12.80%) DevOps
13 16 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (11.20%) Machine Learning
15 14 (11.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (45.60%) SQL
2 34 (27.20%) Python
3 8 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.60%) Scala
5 5 (4.00%) PL/SQL
5 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.20%) R
7 3 (2.40%) Korn
8 2 (1.60%) C#
8 2 (1.60%) IronPython
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 25 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.60%) GDPR
2 7 (5.60%) PMO
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%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.80%) Google
7 5 (4.00%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.20%) Workday
9 3 (2.40%) Planview
10 2 (1.60%) Cognos
10 2 (1.60%) DocuSign
10 2 (1.60%) IBM
10 2 (1.60%) Informatica
10 2 (1.60%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (1.60%) Murex
10 2 (1.60%) Qualtrics
10 2 (1.60%) Sage
11 1 (0.80%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.80%) UiPath