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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 31 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 149 121 105
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.12% 6.26% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.75% 6.67% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 83 67
10th Percentile £338 £325 £360
25th Percentile £425 £406 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.80% -0.93%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £638
90th Percentile £775 £838 £702
London median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
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 £34.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -17.70% -35.81% +46.00%

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 2,206 1,815 2,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.63% 93.90% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,225 1,371
10th Percentile £359 £321 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
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 35 28 28
10th Percentile £17.14 £18.33 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.18 £22.56 £24.83
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%
75th Percentile £53.50 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £119.65
London median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 - 138
West End of London - 4 £475 - 5
Southwark - 3 £575 -
City of Westminster - 1 £538 - 24
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 (11.41%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.37%) Apache
3 7 (4.70%) Confluence
4 6 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 26 (17.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) BambooHR
1 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.34%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.67%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.67%) OneSumX
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 115 (77.18%) Power Platform
2 73 (48.99%) Azure
3 28 (18.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 28 (18.79%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (12.08%) AWS
5 18 (12.08%) Power Automate
6 16 (10.74%) Snowflake
7 15 (10.07%) PowerApps
8 10 (6.71%) GitHub
9 9 (6.04%) Serverless
10 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (4.03%) Azure Databricks
12 6 (4.03%) dbt
13 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.36%) Azure Stack
13 5 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.36%) SaaS
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
1 114 (76.51%) Power BI
2 39 (26.17%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (12.08%) Data Lake
4 17 (11.41%) SQL Server
5 15 (10.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (10.07%) Metadata
6 14 (9.40%) Tableau
7 12 (8.05%) Star Schema
8 10 (6.71%) Power Query
9 9 (6.04%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (4.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (3.36%) Looker
11 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.68%) Data Hub
12 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.01%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.01%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.72%) JIRA
2 5 (3.36%) 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%) rollup.js
4 1 (0.67%) Storybook
4 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 59 (39.60%) Finance
2 42 (28.19%) Social Skills
3 34 (22.82%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.42%) Banking
5 15 (10.07%) Retail
6 9 (6.04%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.37%) Marketing
8 7 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.03%) Legal
10 4 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.68%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.01%) Law
11 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.34%) Back Office
12 2 (1.34%) Front Office
12 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.34%) Military
12 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (26.17%) Analyst
2 24 (16.11%) Developer
3 23 (15.44%) Architect
4 18 (12.08%) Data Analyst
5 15 (10.07%) Data Architect
6 14 (9.40%) Data Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Senior
7 13 (8.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 12 (8.05%) Business Analyst
9 10 (6.71%) Consultant
10 8 (5.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (5.37%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (3.36%) Data Business Analyst
11 5 (3.36%) Power Platform Developer
11 5 (3.36%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Architect
12 4 (2.68%) Lead
12 4 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.01%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.42%) PySpark
2 7 (4.70%) Terraform
3 6 (4.03%) Kafka
3 6 (4.03%) REST
4 4 (2.68%) .NET
4 4 (2.68%) RESTful
5 3 (2.01%) JSON
5 3 (2.01%) OAuth
5 3 (2.01%) React
5 3 (2.01%) Redux
5 3 (2.01%) SOAP
6 2 (1.34%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.34%) CSS
6 2 (1.34%) HTML
6 2 (1.34%) Web Services
7 1 (0.67%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.67%) CSS3
7 1 (0.67%) HTML5
7 1 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.72%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.38%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.68%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.01%) Clustering
6 3 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.01%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.34%) CMDB
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.34%) FMCG
7 2 (1.34%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.34%) Replication
8 1 (0.67%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 2 (1.34%) Unix
2 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.67%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (49.66%) Analytics
2 64 (42.95%) Data Modelling
3 45 (30.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (29.53%) Data Governance
5 41 (27.52%) DevOps
6 37 (24.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 36 (24.16%) Agile
8 33 (22.15%) CI/CD
9 32 (21.48%) AI
10 30 (20.13%) Decision-Making
11 29 (19.46%) ETL
12 28 (18.79%) Data Engineering
13 23 (15.44%) Migration
14 22 (14.77%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (13.42%) Data Architecture
16 18 (12.08%) Dimensional Modelling
17 17 (11.41%) Visualisation
18 16 (10.74%) Dashboard Development
18 16 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
19 15 (10.07%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 74 (49.66%) SQL
2 39 (26.17%) Python
3 26 (17.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.37%) T-SQL
5 7 (4.70%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.68%) C#
6 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.01%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.34%) Bicep
8 2 (1.34%) Java
8 2 (1.34%) LookML
8 2 (1.34%) R
8 2 (1.34%) XMLA
9 1 (0.67%) Korn
9 1 (0.67%) Perl
9 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.40%) DBS Check
3 14 (9.40%) Degree
4 4 (2.68%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.01%) PMP
6 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.67%) IIBA
7 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.67%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.52%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.05%) QA
3 8 (5.37%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.36%) GDPR
5 3 (2.01%) PMO
6 2 (1.34%) P3O
7 1 (0.67%) COBIT
7 1 (0.67%) GRC
7 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.01%) Grafana
1 3 (2.01%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.34%) SCCM
2 2 (1.34%) SCOM
2 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 54 (36.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.79%) Databricks
3 7 (4.70%) Oracle
4 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.68%) Informatica
6 3 (2.01%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.01%) SAP
6 3 (2.01%) Splunk
6 3 (2.01%) VMware
6 3 (2.01%) Workday
7 2 (1.34%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.34%) BMC
7 2 (1.34%) Commvault
7 2 (1.34%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.34%) Planview
7 2 (1.34%) Remedy
7 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.34%) UiPath
8 1 (0.67%) Braze