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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 137 102 124
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.56% 5.20% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 5.57% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 65 81
10th Percentile £350 £425 £363
25th Percentile £450 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £611 £685 £650
90th Percentile £749 £838 £750
London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £29.63 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £30.46 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.79% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £33.27 -
90th Percentile - £34.11 -
London median hourly rate £28.03 £29.07 £47.50
% change year-on-year -3.59% -38.80% +111.25%

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 2,098 1,830 2,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.15% 93.27% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 1,177 1,542
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 22
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.88 £22.75 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £28.98
90th Percentile £59.72 £50.75 £40.00
London median hourly rate £36.11 £34.00 £27.84
% change year-on-year +6.19% +22.13% -25.10%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +6 125 £538 -2.27% 80
City of Westminster +2 7 £500 - 3
West End of London - 5 £475 - 2
Southwark - 1 £650 - 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 12 (8.76%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.57%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.46%) Apache
4 2 (1.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.73%) IIS
5 1 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (15.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.73%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.73%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.73%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 111 (81.02%) Power Platform
2 53 (38.69%) Azure
3 22 (16.06%) Snowflake
4 17 (12.41%) AWS
4 17 (12.41%) GCP
5 15 (10.95%) Power Automate
6 14 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (7.30%) dbt
7 10 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (6.57%) PowerApps
9 7 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (5.11%) Prefect
10 6 (4.38%) GitHub
11 5 (3.65%) Dagster
12 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (2.19%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (2.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.73%) DNS
1 1 (0.73%) Firewall
1 1 (0.73%) FTP
1 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (80.29%) Power BI
2 35 (25.55%) Tableau
3 28 (20.44%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.76%) BigQuery
5 11 (8.03%) Looker
6 9 (6.57%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.84%) Metadata
7 8 (5.84%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.92%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.92%) Mixpanel
9 4 (2.92%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (2.19%) MySQL
10 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.19%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.46%) OLAP
11 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.46%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Git
2 4 (2.92%) JIRA
3 2 (1.46%) GitLab
3 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.73%) ERwin
4 1 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 66 (48.18%) Finance
2 27 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (19.71%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.14%) Banking
4 7 (5.11%) Back Office
5 6 (4.38%) Front Office
5 6 (4.38%) Legal
5 6 (4.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.38%) Retail
6 5 (3.65%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.19%) Marketing
8 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Automotive
9 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.73%) Military
10 1 (0.73%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (26.28%) Analyst
2 23 (16.79%) Data Engineer
3 21 (15.33%) Architect
4 18 (13.14%) Developer
5 16 (11.68%) Data Analyst
6 11 (8.03%) Data Architect
6 11 (8.03%) Senior
7 8 (5.84%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.11%) Consultant
9 6 (4.38%) Data Scientist
9 6 (4.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Snowflake Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.38%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 5 (3.65%) Lead
11 4 (2.92%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (2.92%) Report Analyst
11 4 (2.92%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.30%) Kafka
1 10 (7.30%) PySpark
2 8 (5.84%) Middleware
3 5 (3.65%) REST
4 4 (2.92%) JSON
4 4 (2.92%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.19%) .NET
5 3 (2.19%) NumPy
5 3 (2.19%) Pandas
5 3 (2.19%) RESTful
6 2 (1.46%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.46%) CSS
6 2 (1.46%) HTML
6 2 (1.46%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.46%) React
6 2 (1.46%) Redux
6 2 (1.46%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.46%) XML
6 2 (1.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (5.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.92%) Clustering
3 4 (2.92%) Derivative
3 4 (2.92%) Equities
3 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.19%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.46%) CMDB
5 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.46%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.73%) Windows
1 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (51.82%) Analytics
2 52 (37.96%) Data Modelling
3 38 (27.74%) Data Engineering
4 30 (21.90%) Visualisation
5 28 (20.44%) Data Pipeline
5 28 (20.44%) ETL
6 27 (19.71%) AI
6 27 (19.71%) Data Governance
7 24 (17.52%) Migration
8 22 (16.06%) Agile
9 20 (14.60%) Decision-Making
9 20 (14.60%) DevOps
10 19 (13.87%) Data Science
10 19 (13.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (13.87%) Validation
11 18 (13.14%) CI/CD
11 18 (13.14%) Data Analysis
12 17 (12.41%) Data Visualisation
12 17 (12.41%) Roadmaps
12 17 (12.41%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.34%) SQL
2 44 (32.12%) Python
3 12 (8.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.65%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.65%) R
5 5 (3.65%) Scala
6 4 (2.92%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.19%) C#
8 2 (1.46%) Java
8 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.73%) Bicep
9 1 (0.73%) Korn
9 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.03%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.30%) Degree
4 7 (5.11%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.19%) PMP
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.46%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.46%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.73%) CFA
7 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.73%) MBA
7 1 (0.73%) RIBA
7 1 (0.73%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (29.20%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.95%) GDPR
3 7 (5.11%) QA
4 5 (3.65%) PMO
5 4 (2.92%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.19%) SLA
7 2 (1.46%) Basel III
7 2 (1.46%) GAAP
7 2 (1.46%) IFRS
8 1 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.73%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.73%) P3O
8 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.73%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.73%) Grafana
3 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (31.39%) Microsoft
2 28 (20.44%) Databricks
3 9 (6.57%) Workday
4 8 (5.84%) Oracle
5 6 (4.38%) Google
5 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.65%) SAP
7 4 (2.92%) Amplitude
7 4 (2.92%) Informatica
8 3 (2.19%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.46%) Cognos
9 2 (1.46%) IBM
9 2 (1.46%) Murex
9 2 (1.46%) Planview
9 2 (1.46%) Sage
10 1 (0.73%) Foundry
10 1 (0.73%) Splunk
10 1 (0.73%) VMware
10 1 (0.73%) Yardi