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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 43 42
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 126 91 122
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.25% 4.22% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.97% 4.57% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 56 90
10th Percentile £314 £435 £356
25th Percentile £381 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +2.56%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £687
90th Percentile £747 £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 £31.65 £52.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -39.71% +38.16% +69.00%

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 1,807 1,991 2,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.63% 92.30% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,256 1,248 1,649
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £428 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £758 £782 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 19
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.41 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.85 £20.72
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £38.63 £38.94 £42.38
90th Percentile £42.65 £105.18 £66.75
London median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%

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 15 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 15 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 +11 112 £505 -12.17% 51
West End of London +11 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 (8.73%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.97%) Confluence
4 4 (3.17%) Apache
5 3 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 30 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (85.71%) Power Platform
2 39 (30.95%) Azure
3 19 (15.08%) Power Automate
4 16 (12.70%) PowerApps
5 12 (9.52%) AWS
5 12 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (7.94%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (6.35%) GCP
7 8 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.97%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (3.17%) dbt
10 4 (3.17%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.17%) Serverless
11 3 (2.38%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.38%) GitHub
12 2 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) HTTP
1 1 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (84.92%) Power BI
2 32 (25.40%) Tableau
3 19 (15.08%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.17%) Looker
6 4 (3.17%) Metadata
6 4 (3.17%) MySQL
6 4 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.17%) Power Query
6 4 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.38%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.38%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.14%) JIRA
2 6 (4.76%) Git
3 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.79%) Selenium
General
1 54 (42.86%) Finance
2 35 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (26.19%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.90%) Banking
5 10 (7.94%) Front Office
5 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.97%) Back Office
7 5 (3.97%) Marketing
8 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.38%) Legal
9 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Automotive
10 2 (1.59%) Electronics
10 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.59%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.59%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (25.40%) Analyst
2 22 (17.46%) Developer
3 14 (11.11%) Lead
3 14 (11.11%) Senior
4 12 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 11 (8.73%) Data Analyst
6 10 (7.94%) Architect
6 10 (7.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (7.14%) Consultant
7 9 (7.14%) Data Scientist
8 7 (5.56%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.97%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) Banking Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) Service Analyst
11 3 (2.38%) Financial Analyst
11 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Consultant
11 3 (2.38%) Oracle Developer
11 3 (2.38%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.35%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.76%) PySpark
3 5 (3.97%) .NET
3 5 (3.97%) NumPy
3 5 (3.97%) Pandas
4 4 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.38%) Kafka
5 3 (2.38%) Matplotlib
5 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.38%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.38%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.38%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.59%) CSS
6 2 (1.59%) HTML
6 2 (1.59%) JSON
6 2 (1.59%) REST
7 1 (0.79%) ADO
7 1 (0.79%) Middleware
7 1 (0.79%) SOAP
7 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.76%) Algorithms
1 6 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.97%) Derivative
2 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.17%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.38%) Equities
4 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.59%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.59%) Swaptions
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (42.86%) Analytics
2 40 (31.75%) Visualisation
3 37 (29.37%) Data Modelling
4 27 (21.43%) Agile
5 25 (19.84%) Data Governance
5 25 (19.84%) Data Visualisation
6 24 (19.05%) ETL
7 23 (18.25%) Actionable Insight
7 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (17.46%) Data Engineering
9 19 (15.08%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (14.29%) Data Analysis
11 17 (13.49%) AI
11 17 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (12.70%) Decision-Making
12 16 (12.70%) DevOps
12 16 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (11.90%) Data Science
14 14 (11.11%) Machine Learning
15 13 (10.32%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 58 (46.03%) SQL
2 33 (26.19%) Python
3 8 (6.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.56%) Scala
5 6 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 5 (3.97%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.17%) R
8 3 (2.38%) Korn
9 2 (1.59%) C#
9 2 (1.59%) IronPython
9 2 (1.59%) VBA
10 1 (0.79%) C++
10 1 (0.79%) Groovy
10 1 (0.79%) Java
10 1 (0.79%) LookML
10 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.52%) Degree
1 12 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.17%) PMP
5 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.59%) CFA
6 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.56%) GDPR
2 7 (5.56%) PMO
3 6 (4.76%) QA
4 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.38%) SLA
5 2 (1.59%) Basel III
5 2 (1.59%) GAAP
5 2 (1.59%) IFRS
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 36 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.70%) Databricks
3 12 (9.52%) Oracle
4 9 (7.14%) SAP
5 7 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.97%) Google
6 5 (3.97%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.17%) Workday
8 3 (2.38%) Planview
9 2 (1.59%) Cognos
9 2 (1.59%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.59%) IBM
9 2 (1.59%) Informatica
9 2 (1.59%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.59%) Murex
9 2 (1.59%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.59%) Sage
10 1 (0.79%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.79%) UiPath