Business Intelligence Consultant Contract Job Trends in the City of London

BI Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median BI Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £574, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 121 125
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Consultant 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.093% 0.058% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.062% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £478 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +31.14% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £681 £456 £488
90th Percentile £737 - -
Central London median daily rate £574 £438 £463
% change year-on-year +31.14% -5.41% -7.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,016 1,622 1,980
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 94.08% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,097 1,229
10th Percentile £363 £328 £363
25th Percentile £454 £425 £463
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
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 17
10th Percentile - £16.96 £17.90
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £23.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -28.57% +4.05%
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.88 £112.00
90th Percentile £61.50 £64.11 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% -2.78%

Business Intelligence Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Business Intelligence Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Business Intelligence Consultant job vacancy trend in the City of London

Business Intelligence Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Consultant job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Consultant job vacancies in the City of London

Business Intelligence Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Consultant in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Consultant in the City of London

Business Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 8 October 2026, Business Intelligence Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Business Intelligence Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management

Business Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) XMLA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft