Business Intelligence Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

BI Analyst
England > London

The median BI Analyst daily rate in London is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 344 404
Rank change year-on-year -11 +60 +111
Contract jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 20 46 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 36
10th Percentile £258 £350 £402
25th Percentile £274 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £468 £513
Median % change year-on-year -25.13% -8.78% +2.50%
75th Percentile £483 £613 £650
90th Percentile £588 £641 £655
England median daily rate £338 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -25.82% -4.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate - £28.75 £32.32
% change year-on-year - -11.05% +69.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 12,474 15,321 20,870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.00% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,348 10,224 15,217
10th Percentile £331 £341 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 179 231
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.45 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.27
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.21% +13.30%
75th Percentile £51.13 £55.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £66.54 £71.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in London

Business Intelligence Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in London

Business Intelligence Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in London

Business Intelligence Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in London

Business Intelligence Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Central London -3 1 £274 -39.11% 1
Business Intelligence Analyst
England

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Business Intelligence Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (80.00%) SQL
3 15 (75.00%) Power BI
3 15 (75.00%) Power Platform
4 12 (60.00%) Analytics
5 10 (50.00%) Finance
6 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
6 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
7 7 (35.00%) Power Query
7 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (35.00%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (35.00%) Python
7 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
7 7 (35.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (30.00%) Visualisation
8 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (25.00%) ETL
10 4 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (20.00%) Data Validation
10 4 (20.00%) Validation
10 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
11 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
11 3 (15.00%) Data Munging
11 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
11 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
11 3 (15.00%) Agile
11 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
11 3 (15.00%) Tableau
11 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) Collibra
4 1 (5.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) Power BI
2 7 (35.00%) Power Query
3 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (15.00%) Tableau
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (10.00%) Metadata
5 2 (10.00%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
6 1 (5.00%) QlikView
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Electronics
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (60.00%) Analytics
3 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 7 (35.00%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (25.00%) ETL
7 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Data Validation
7 4 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (20.00%) Validation
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
8 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
8 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
8 3 (15.00%) Data Munging
8 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (10.00%) Data Management
9 2 (10.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Alteryx
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce