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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 38 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 139 103 128
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.54% 5.46% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.44% 5.84% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 68 85
10th Percentile £350 £406 £359
25th Percentile £450 £479 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £623 £686 £650
90th Percentile £749 £838 £738
London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £19.01 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.79 £146.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% -80.29% +180.95%
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.87 £148.75
90th Percentile - £33.55 -
London median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £51.25
% change year-on-year -7.32% -39.89% +127.93%

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 2,158 1,764 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.01% 93.48% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 1,141 1,537
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £799
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 22
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.04 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £23.03
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.97 £32.09
90th Percentile £60.25 £50.75 £41.65
London median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +7 128 £550 - 95
City of Westminster +2 7 £500 - 3
West End of London - 5 £475 -
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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 (9.35%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.47%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.16%) Apache
5 2 (1.44%) Confluence
6 1 (0.72%) IIS
6 1 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (12.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.72%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.72%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.72%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 111 (79.86%) Power Platform
2 54 (38.85%) Azure
3 23 (16.55%) Snowflake
4 19 (13.67%) AWS
5 17 (12.23%) GCP
6 14 (10.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (8.63%) Power Automate
8 11 (7.91%) dbt
9 9 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.04%) PowerApps
10 7 (5.04%) Prefect
11 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.32%) GitHub
11 6 (4.32%) Serverless
12 5 (3.60%) Dagster
12 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) DNS
1 1 (0.72%) Firewall
1 1 (0.72%) FTP
1 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (79.14%) Power BI
2 33 (23.74%) Tableau
3 28 (20.14%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.63%) BigQuery
5 11 (7.91%) Looker
6 10 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (7.19%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.76%) Metadata
7 8 (5.76%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.88%) Mixpanel
8 4 (2.88%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.16%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.44%) MySQL
10 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.44%) OLAP
10 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.44%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Git
2 5 (3.60%) JIRA
3 2 (1.44%) GitLab
3 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.72%) ERwin
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 62 (44.60%) Finance
2 25 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.23%) Banking
5 7 (5.04%) Back Office
5 7 (5.04%) Front Office
6 6 (4.32%) Legal
6 6 (4.32%) Retail
7 5 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.88%) Marketing
8 4 (2.88%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.44%) Automotive
10 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (25.90%) Analyst
2 25 (17.99%) Data Engineer
3 22 (15.83%) Architect
4 20 (14.39%) Developer
5 13 (9.35%) Data Analyst
6 11 (7.91%) Data Architect
7 10 (7.19%) Senior
8 9 (6.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (5.76%) Business Analyst
10 7 (5.04%) Lead
11 6 (4.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 6 (4.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Snowflake Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.32%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.60%) Consultant
12 5 (3.60%) Report Analyst
13 4 (2.88%) Data Scientist
13 4 (2.88%) Power Platform Developer
13 4 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.91%) PySpark
2 10 (7.19%) Kafka
3 8 (5.76%) Middleware
4 5 (3.60%) REST
5 4 (2.88%) .NET
5 4 (2.88%) JSON
6 3 (2.16%) RESTful
7 2 (1.44%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.44%) CSS
7 2 (1.44%) HTML
7 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.44%) React
7 2 (1.44%) Redux
7 2 (1.44%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.44%) XML
7 2 (1.44%) YAML
8 1 (0.72%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.72%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.72%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.88%) Clustering
4 4 (2.88%) CMDB
4 4 (2.88%) Derivative
4 4 (2.88%) Equities
4 4 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.16%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.16%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.44%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.44%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.72%) Windows
1 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (49.64%) Analytics
2 51 (36.69%) Data Modelling
3 42 (30.22%) Data Engineering
4 30 (21.58%) ETL
5 29 (20.86%) AI
6 28 (20.14%) Data Pipeline
7 27 (19.42%) Visualisation
8 26 (18.71%) Data Governance
9 24 (17.27%) Migration
10 23 (16.55%) DevOps
11 22 (15.83%) CI/CD
12 19 (13.67%) Agile
13 18 (12.95%) Decision-Making
13 18 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (12.95%) Validation
14 17 (12.23%) Data Analysis
14 17 (12.23%) Roadmaps
15 16 (11.51%) Data Science
15 16 (11.51%) Data Visualisation
15 16 (11.51%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 58 (41.73%) SQL
2 43 (30.94%) Python
3 11 (7.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.60%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.88%) R
6 4 (2.88%) Scala
6 4 (2.88%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.16%) C#
8 2 (1.44%) Java
8 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) Korn
9 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (10.07%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.35%) DBS Check
3 11 (7.91%) Degree
4 10 (7.19%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.44%) PMP
6 2 (1.44%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) CFA
7 1 (0.72%) RIBA
7 1 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (27.34%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.07%) GDPR
3 7 (5.04%) QA
4 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.88%) PMO
5 3 (2.16%) SLA
6 2 (1.44%) Basel III
6 2 (1.44%) GAAP
6 2 (1.44%) IFRS
7 1 (0.72%) COBIT
7 1 (0.72%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.72%) P3O
7 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.44%) Docker
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.44%) SCCM
1 2 (1.44%) Terraform
2 1 (0.72%) Grafana
2 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (30.94%) Microsoft
2 28 (20.14%) Databricks
3 9 (6.47%) Workday
4 7 (5.04%) Oracle
4 7 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.60%) Google
5 5 (3.60%) Informatica
5 5 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.60%) SAP
6 4 (2.88%) Amplitude
7 3 (2.16%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.44%) Murex
8 2 (1.44%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.72%) Cognos
9 1 (0.72%) Foundry
9 1 (0.72%) IBM
9 1 (0.72%) Palantir
9 1 (0.72%) Planview
9 1 (0.72%) Splunk
9 1 (0.72%) Yardi