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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 31 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -1
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 149 127 93
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.86% 6.20% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 6.61% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 79 64
10th Percentile £373 £363 £358
25th Percentile £450 £438 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -2.33%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £639
90th Percentile £775 £838 £696
London median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £17.81 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £19.79 £146.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% -80.29% +288.16%
75th Percentile £19.75 £34.68 £148.75
90th Percentile - £35.47 -
London median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -25.00% -36.74% +25.73%

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 2,247 1,921 2,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.33% 93.84% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 1,268 1,433
10th Percentile £363 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £423 £470
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 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.14 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.43
Median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%
75th Percentile £45.37 £49.22 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.88 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%

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 18 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 18 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 -5 138 £550 -0.45% 88
Southwark - 4 £588 -
City of Westminster -7 3 £500 - 6
West End of London - 3 £475 - 4
Kensington and Chelsea -3 1 £375 - 1
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 (10.74%) SharePoint
2 14 (9.40%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (6.04%) Apache
4 6 (4.03%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.68%) Confluence
6 1 (0.67%) CMS
6 1 (0.67%) IIS
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.34%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.67%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.67%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 112 (75.17%) Power Platform
2 71 (47.65%) Azure
3 24 (16.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 24 (16.11%) Snowflake
4 22 (14.77%) AWS
4 22 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (12.75%) Power Automate
6 17 (11.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (11.41%) PowerApps
7 13 (8.72%) dbt
7 13 (8.72%) GCP
8 10 (6.71%) GitHub
8 10 (6.71%) Serverless
9 9 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (4.70%) Prefect
12 6 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.36%) Dagster
13 5 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) DNS
1 3 (2.01%) Firewall
1 3 (2.01%) VPN
2 1 (0.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (73.83%) Power BI
2 38 (25.50%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (14.77%) Tableau
4 15 (10.07%) Data Lake
4 15 (10.07%) SQL Server
5 12 (8.05%) BigQuery
6 11 (7.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (7.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (7.38%) Metadata
7 10 (6.71%) Star Schema
8 9 (6.04%) Power Query
9 7 (4.70%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (4.70%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (4.03%) Looker
10 6 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.70%) JIRA
2 4 (2.68%) Git
3 2 (1.34%) GitLab
3 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.67%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.67%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.67%) MLflow
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (40.94%) Finance
2 40 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.42%) Banking
5 14 (9.40%) Retail
6 8 (5.37%) Legal
6 8 (5.37%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.70%) Marketing
8 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.01%) Back Office
10 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.34%) Front Office
11 2 (1.34%) Law
11 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 36 (24.16%) Analyst
2 27 (18.12%) Architect
3 26 (17.45%) Developer
4 19 (12.75%) Data Engineer
5 17 (11.41%) Data Analyst
5 17 (11.41%) Data Architect
6 13 (8.72%) Senior
7 12 (8.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (4.70%) Power BI Developer
9 7 (4.70%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Consultant
10 5 (3.36%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) Report Analyst
11 4 (2.68%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.75%) PySpark
2 11 (7.38%) Kafka
3 5 (3.36%) .NET
3 5 (3.36%) Middleware
3 5 (3.36%) REST
4 4 (2.68%) RESTful
5 3 (2.01%) JSON
6 2 (1.34%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.34%) OAuth
6 2 (1.34%) React
6 2 (1.34%) Redux
6 2 (1.34%) XML
7 1 (0.67%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.67%) CSS
7 1 (0.67%) HTML
7 1 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.04%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.03%) Clustering
5 5 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.68%) CMDB
7 3 (2.01%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.01%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.01%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.34%) FMCG
8 2 (1.34%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.67%) Derivative
9 1 (0.67%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (49.66%) Analytics
2 61 (40.94%) Data Modelling
3 39 (26.17%) Data Governance
4 37 (24.83%) DevOps
5 35 (23.49%) Data Engineering
5 35 (23.49%) ETL
6 34 (22.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (21.48%) AI
8 31 (20.81%) CI/CD
9 29 (19.46%) Agile
9 29 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (17.45%) Decision-Making
10 26 (17.45%) Migration
11 25 (16.78%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (15.44%) Data Architecture
13 19 (12.75%) Dimensional Modelling
14 16 (10.74%) Use Case
14 16 (10.74%) Visualisation
15 15 (10.07%) Dashboard Development
15 15 (10.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 72 (48.32%) SQL
2 39 (26.17%) Python
3 22 (14.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.70%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.70%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.68%) C#
5 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.01%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.34%) Java
7 2 (1.34%) VBA
7 2 (1.34%) XMLA
8 1 (0.67%) Bicep
8 1 (0.67%) Korn
8 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.67%) R
8 1 (0.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) DBS Check
4 9 (6.04%) Degree
5 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.01%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) IIBA
7 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (25.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.38%) QA
3 10 (6.71%) GDPR
4 8 (5.37%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.01%) PMO
6 2 (1.34%) P3O
7 1 (0.67%) COBIT
7 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.03%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.67%) Docker
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (4.03%) Terraform
2 3 (2.01%) Grafana
2 3 (2.01%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (1.34%) SCCM
3 2 (1.34%) SCOM
4 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (36.24%) Microsoft
2 32 (21.48%) Databricks
3 6 (4.03%) Informatica
3 6 (4.03%) Oracle
3 6 (4.03%) SAP
3 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.03%) Workday
4 4 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.01%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.01%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.01%) Google
5 3 (2.01%) Splunk
5 3 (2.01%) VMware
6 2 (1.34%) BMC
6 2 (1.34%) Commvault
6 2 (1.34%) Nexthink
6 2 (1.34%) Remedy
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe
7 1 (0.67%) Amplitude