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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 34 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 165 121 109
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.32% 5.88% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 6.28% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 76 72
10th Percentile £361 £383 £363
25th Percentile £462 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% -5.96%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £639
90th Percentile £749 £838 £688
London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £20.27 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.93 £146.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.16% -78.62% +180.95%
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.01 £148.75
90th Percentile - £35.60 -
London median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -38.18% +15.79%

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 2,296 1,928 2,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.94% 93.73% 91.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 1,268 1,445
10th Percentile £361 £328 £363
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £795
London median daily rate £550 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 33 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.15 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -17.62%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +3 152 £550 - 95
City of Westminster -5 4 £519 - 11
Southwark - 4 £588 -
West End of London - 4 £506 - 2
Kensington and Chelsea -2 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 16 (9.70%) SharePoint
2 14 (8.48%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (5.45%) Apache
4 7 (4.24%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.82%) Confluence
6 2 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.61%) CMS
7 1 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.03%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.21%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 121 (73.33%) Power Platform
2 75 (45.45%) Azure
3 29 (17.58%) Snowflake
4 25 (15.15%) AWS
5 23 (13.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (12.73%) Power Automate
7 20 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (11.52%) PowerApps
9 16 (9.70%) GCP
10 15 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (7.88%) dbt
12 10 (6.06%) GitHub
12 10 (6.06%) Serverless
13 9 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (4.85%) Amazon S3
15 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (4.24%) Prefect
16 6 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
17 5 (3.03%) Dagster
17 5 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) DNS
1 3 (1.82%) Firewall
1 3 (1.82%) VPN
2 1 (0.61%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (72.12%) Power BI
2 40 (24.24%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (16.36%) Tableau
4 15 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 15 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.88%) BigQuery
6 11 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (6.67%) Metadata
7 10 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (5.45%) Looker
8 9 (5.45%) Star Schema
9 8 (4.85%) Power Query
9 8 (4.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (4.24%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (2.42%) Mixpanel
13 4 (2.42%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Git
1 6 (3.64%) JIRA
2 2 (1.21%) GitLab
2 2 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.61%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.61%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 72 (43.64%) Finance
2 43 (26.06%) Social Skills
3 34 (20.61%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.33%) Banking
5 13 (7.88%) Retail
6 8 (4.85%) Marketing
6 8 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.24%) Legal
8 4 (2.42%) Back Office
8 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.82%) Front Office
9 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.21%) Law
10 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 41 (24.85%) Analyst
2 30 (18.18%) Architect
3 27 (16.36%) Developer
4 23 (13.94%) Data Engineer
5 22 (13.33%) Data Analyst
6 18 (10.91%) Data Architect
7 15 (9.09%) Senior
8 13 (7.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 11 (6.67%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (4.24%) Consultant
10 7 (4.24%) Lead
10 7 (4.24%) Power BI Developer
10 7 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.64%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Snowflake Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.03%) Data Business Analyst
12 5 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.91%) PySpark
2 11 (6.67%) Kafka
3 8 (4.85%) Middleware
4 5 (3.03%) .NET
4 5 (3.03%) REST
5 4 (2.42%) JSON
5 4 (2.42%) RESTful
6 3 (1.82%) XML
7 2 (1.21%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.21%) OAuth
7 2 (1.21%) React
7 2 (1.21%) Redux
8 1 (0.61%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.61%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.61%) HTML
8 1 (0.61%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.48%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.03%) Clustering
4 5 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.42%) CMDB
5 4 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.42%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.21%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.21%) Derivative
7 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.21%) Equities
7 2 (1.21%) FMCG
7 2 (1.21%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.21%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.21%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Unix
2 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (50.91%) Analytics
2 70 (42.42%) Data Modelling
3 41 (24.85%) Data Engineering
3 41 (24.85%) Data Governance
4 39 (23.64%) ETL
5 36 (21.82%) DevOps
5 36 (21.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 35 (21.21%) AI
7 31 (18.79%) CI/CD
7 31 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (18.18%) Agile
9 28 (16.97%) Decision-Making
10 27 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (15.15%) Migration
12 24 (14.55%) Visualisation
13 23 (13.94%) Data Architecture
14 22 (13.33%) Validation
15 21 (12.73%) Dimensional Modelling
16 18 (10.91%) Dashboard Development
16 18 (10.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 79 (47.88%) SQL
2 47 (28.48%) Python
3 20 (12.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.85%) T-SQL
5 7 (4.24%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.03%) C#
6 5 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.42%) R
8 3 (1.82%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.21%) Bicep
9 2 (1.21%) Java
9 2 (1.21%) Korn
9 2 (1.21%) Scala
9 2 (1.21%) VBA
10 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.61%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 21 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.30%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.88%) DBS Check
3 13 (7.88%) Degree
4 3 (1.82%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.61%) IIBA
6 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.61%) RIBA
6 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (26.06%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.88%) GDPR
3 10 (6.06%) QA
4 7 (4.24%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.42%) PMO
6 2 (1.21%) P3O
7 1 (0.61%) COBIT
7 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.64%) Terraform
2 3 (1.82%) Grafana
2 3 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.21%) SCCM
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.61%) SCOM
4 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (33.94%) Microsoft
2 37 (22.42%) Databricks
3 6 (3.64%) Informatica
3 6 (3.64%) Oracle
3 6 (3.64%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.64%) SAP
3 6 (3.64%) Workday
4 5 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.42%) Amplitude
6 3 (1.82%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.82%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.82%) Google
6 3 (1.82%) Splunk
7 2 (1.21%) Foundry
7 2 (1.21%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.21%) Palantir
7 2 (1.21%) VMware
8 1 (0.61%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.61%) Qualtrics