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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 31 42
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 153 121 104
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.20% 6.25% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 6.66% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 81 68
10th Percentile £350 £340 £345
25th Percentile £450 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year - +4.27% -2.31%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £838 £701
London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £17.49 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.96 £146.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £27.10 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% -81.63% +288.16%
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.63 £148.75
90th Percentile - £35.85 -
London median hourly rate £28.40 £34.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -16.49% -35.24% +42.60%

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 2,220 1,816 2,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.99% 93.80% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,536 1,224 1,388
10th Percentile £361 £320 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 28 29
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.33 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £25.40
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%
75th Percentile £43.00 £50.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.15 £63.75 £117.10
London median hourly rate £33.60 £30.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +10.16% -16.44% -1.19%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -3 140 £550 - 176
West End of London - 4 £475 - 13
Southwark - 3 £575 -
City of Westminster - 1 £538 - 32
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £375 -
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 17 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.23%) Apache
3 7 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.58%) Confluence
4 6 (3.92%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.65%) CMS
5 1 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 27 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) BambooHR
1 2 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.31%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.65%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.65%) OneSumX
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.65%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 117 (76.47%) Power Platform
2 74 (48.37%) Azure
3 28 (18.30%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (11.76%) Power Automate
6 17 (11.11%) AWS
6 17 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 15 (9.80%) PowerApps
8 10 (6.54%) GitHub
9 9 (5.88%) Serverless
10 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (4.58%) dbt
11 7 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (3.92%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.27%) Azure Stack
13 5 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.27%) GCP
13 5 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) DNS
1 3 (1.96%) Firewall
1 3 (1.96%) VPN
2 1 (0.65%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (75.82%) Power BI
2 39 (25.49%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 16 (10.46%) SQL Server
5 15 (9.80%) Tableau
6 14 (9.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (9.15%) Metadata
7 12 (7.84%) Star Schema
8 10 (6.54%) Power Query
9 9 (5.88%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (4.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (3.27%) BigQuery
11 5 (3.27%) Looker
11 5 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.61%) Data Hub
12 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.96%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 13 (8.50%) JIRA
2 4 (2.61%) Git
3 2 (1.31%) GitLab
3 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.65%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.65%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.65%) MLflow
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.65%) rollup.js
4 1 (0.65%) Storybook
4 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 60 (39.22%) Finance
2 43 (28.10%) Social Skills
3 35 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.73%) Banking
5 16 (10.46%) Retail
6 10 (6.54%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.58%) Marketing
8 6 (3.92%) Legal
9 4 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.61%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.96%) Law
11 2 (1.31%) Back Office
11 2 (1.31%) Front Office
11 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.31%) Military
11 2 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (26.14%) Analyst
2 24 (15.69%) Architect
2 24 (15.69%) Developer
3 18 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 16 (10.46%) Data Architect
5 15 (9.80%) Data Engineer
5 15 (9.80%) Senior
6 13 (8.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 12 (7.84%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.54%) Consultant
9 8 (5.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (5.23%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (3.27%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Architect
11 4 (2.61%) Lead
11 4 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.96%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.96%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.07%) PySpark
2 7 (4.58%) Kafka
3 6 (3.92%) Terraform
4 5 (3.27%) REST
5 4 (2.61%) .NET
5 4 (2.61%) RESTful
6 3 (1.96%) React
6 3 (1.96%) Redux
6 3 (1.96%) SOAP
7 2 (1.31%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.31%) CSS
7 2 (1.31%) HTML
7 2 (1.31%) JSON
7 2 (1.31%) OAuth
7 2 (1.31%) Web Services
8 1 (0.65%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.65%) HTML5
8 1 (0.65%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.65%) Jest
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.84%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.61%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.96%) Clustering
5 3 (1.96%) CMDB
5 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.96%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.31%) FMCG
6 2 (1.31%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.31%) Replication
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.96%) Windows
2 2 (1.31%) Unix
2 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (50.33%) Analytics
2 65 (42.48%) Data Modelling
3 45 (29.41%) Data Governance
3 45 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (26.80%) DevOps
5 38 (24.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 35 (22.88%) Agile
7 33 (21.57%) AI
8 32 (20.92%) CI/CD
9 30 (19.61%) Data Engineering
9 30 (19.61%) ETL
10 29 (18.95%) Decision-Making
11 24 (15.69%) Migration
12 23 (15.03%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (14.38%) Data Architecture
14 18 (11.76%) Dimensional Modelling
14 18 (11.76%) Visualisation
15 17 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
15 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (10.46%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 76 (49.67%) SQL
2 39 (25.49%) Python
3 27 (17.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.23%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.61%) C#
6 4 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.96%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.31%) Java
8 2 (1.31%) LookML
8 2 (1.31%) R
8 2 (1.31%) XMLA
9 1 (0.65%) Bicep
9 1 (0.65%) Korn
9 1 (0.65%) Perl
9 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.15%) DBS Check
4 13 (8.50%) Degree
5 4 (2.61%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.96%) PMP
7 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.65%) IIBA
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.65%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.65%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (26.14%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.50%) QA
3 8 (5.23%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.27%) GDPR
5 3 (1.96%) PMO
6 2 (1.31%) P3O
7 1 (0.65%) COBIT
7 1 (0.65%) GRC
7 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.96%) Grafana
1 3 (1.96%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.96%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.31%) SCCM
2 2 (1.31%) SCOM
2 2 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 53 (34.64%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.30%) Databricks
3 7 (4.58%) Oracle
3 7 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.27%) SAP
5 3 (1.96%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.96%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.96%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.96%) Informatica
5 3 (1.96%) Splunk
5 3 (1.96%) VMware
5 3 (1.96%) Workday
6 2 (1.31%) BMC
6 2 (1.31%) Commvault
6 2 (1.31%) Nexthink
6 2 (1.31%) Planview
6 2 (1.31%) Remedy
6 2 (1.31%) UiPath
7 1 (0.65%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.65%) JDA