Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in London

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 34 43
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 902 814 871
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.27% 5.35% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 5.94% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 547 597
10th Percentile £320 £300 £357
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £650
90th Percentile £706 £731 £738
England median daily rate £482 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -3.60% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 16
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.65 £19.88
25th Percentile £19.02 £27.67 £26.03
Median hourly rate £31.65 £52.50 £36.82
Median % change year-on-year -39.71% +42.60% +5.19%
75th Percentile £41.25 £53.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £52.40 £64.25 £52.88
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -20.83% -7.18% -4.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,166 13,695 16,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.05% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,682 8,808 12,056
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 165 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +5.80% -11.25%
75th Percentile £48.44 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in London

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in London

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Intelligence in London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Intelligence in London

Business Intelligence
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 +14 128 £500 -6.54% 62
West London -6 24 £555 +20.00% 29
East London -2 6 £495 +8.55% 16
South London -12 4 £400 -23.81% 13
North London -2 2 £500 +96.08% 7
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 71 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.32%) Confluence
3 31 (3.44%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.22%) Apache
6 17 (1.88%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.55%) Mendix
11 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.33%) IIS
12 3 (0.33%) Luigi
13 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.22%) Moodle
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.22%) SAS
13 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.11%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 144 (15.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.11%) MS Visio
5 18 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.44%) Notion
6 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.44%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 34 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (1.00%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.78%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.44%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.44%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.44%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.33%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.33%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.33%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 646 (71.62%) Power Platform
2 298 (33.04%) Azure
3 133 (14.75%) Power Automate
4 117 (12.97%) PowerApps
5 116 (12.86%) AWS
6 73 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (7.54%) Snowflake
8 67 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
9 65 (7.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 62 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
11 60 (6.65%) GCP
12 54 (5.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 42 (4.66%) Serverless
14 35 (3.88%) dbt
15 31 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (3.10%) Amazon S3
16 28 (3.10%) Azure Functions
17 27 (2.99%) GitHub
18 26 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
19 23 (2.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.78%) Network Security
1 7 (0.78%) Wireless
2 5 (0.55%) HTTP
2 5 (0.55%) VPN
2 5 (0.55%) WAN
3 4 (0.44%) LAN
3 4 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.33%) BGP
4 3 (0.33%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.33%) Firewall
4 3 (0.33%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) DNS
5 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.11%) DHCP
6 1 (0.11%) FTP
6 1 (0.11%) Internet
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 642 (71.18%) Power BI
2 147 (16.30%) Tableau
3 115 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (7.76%) Data Lake
5 59 (6.54%) SQL Server
6 48 (5.32%) Metadata
6 48 (5.32%) Power Query
7 34 (3.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 32 (3.55%) Oracle Reports
9 31 (3.44%) Relational Database
10 30 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 29 (3.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (2.99%) Oracle Database
13 25 (2.77%) Looker
14 23 (2.55%) BigQuery
15 22 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (2.22%) Star Schema
17 18 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (2.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (7.21%) JIRA
2 39 (4.32%) Git
3 11 (1.22%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.89%) GitLab
4 8 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.44%) MLflow
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.33%) Clang
8 3 (0.33%) ERwin
8 3 (0.33%) GCC
8 3 (0.33%) Selenium
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.22%) Subversion
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) PeopleTools
General
1 389 (43.13%) Finance
2 290 (32.15%) Social Skills
3 200 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (14.41%) Public Sector
5 99 (10.98%) Marketing
6 88 (9.76%) Banking
7 61 (6.76%) Manufacturing
8 59 (6.54%) Telecoms
9 54 (5.99%) Electronics
10 29 (3.22%) Retail
11 24 (2.66%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.33%) Front Office
14 20 (2.22%) Financial Institution
14 20 (2.22%) Legal
14 20 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.77%) Local Government
17 15 (1.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 208 (23.06%) Analyst
2 165 (18.29%) Developer
3 104 (11.53%) Data Engineer
4 84 (9.31%) Data Analyst
4 84 (9.31%) Senior
5 79 (8.76%) Lead
6 77 (8.54%) Business Analyst
7 67 (7.43%) Architect
8 59 (6.54%) Consultant
9 44 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (3.55%) Power BI Developer
11 30 (3.33%) Power Platform Developer
12 27 (2.99%) Project Manager
13 25 (2.77%) Data Architect
13 25 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (2.55%) Data Scientist
15 23 (2.55%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.22%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.54%) .NET
2 45 (4.99%) PySpark
3 33 (3.66%) REST
4 25 (2.77%) Kafka
5 21 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (1.88%) Pandas
7 16 (1.77%) JSON
7 16 (1.77%) SOAP
8 14 (1.55%) .NET Framework
8 14 (1.55%) scikit-learn
9 13 (1.44%) NumPy
10 12 (1.33%) HTML
10 12 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (1.33%) Web Services
11 11 (1.22%) React
12 10 (1.11%) RESTful
13 9 (1.00%) Middleware
13 9 (1.00%) SailPoint
14 8 (0.89%) Plotly
15 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 34 (3.77%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.77%) Low-Code
8 15 (1.66%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.44%) Derivative
11 12 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.33%) Reinsurance
11 12 (1.33%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.11%) Reference Data
14 9 (1.00%) PMI
15 8 (0.89%) AI Agents
16 7 (0.78%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.66%) Windows
2 11 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.11%) Linux
4 9 (1.00%) Unix
5 7 (0.78%) Android
5 7 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (35.14%) Analytics
2 257 (28.49%) Data Modelling
3 210 (23.28%) Agile
4 205 (22.73%) Visualisation
5 161 (17.85%) ETL
6 159 (17.63%) Data Governance
7 150 (16.63%) Decision-Making
7 150 (16.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 145 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
9 130 (14.41%) Data Analysis
10 127 (14.08%) DevOps
11 121 (13.41%) Data Visualisation
12 114 (12.64%) Data Engineering
13 111 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 110 (12.20%) CI/CD
15 109 (12.08%) Migration
16 102 (11.31%) Data Pipeline
17 100 (11.09%) Actionable Insight
18 92 (10.20%) Dashboard Development
19 91 (10.09%) AI
Programming Languages
1 427 (47.34%) SQL
2 227 (25.17%) Python
3 62 (6.87%) C#
4 56 (6.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 46 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 40 (4.43%) PL/SQL
7 39 (4.32%) R
8 29 (3.22%) PowerShell
9 25 (2.77%) T-SQL
10 24 (2.66%) Java
11 16 (1.77%) VBA
12 14 (1.55%) Scala
13 12 (1.33%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.00%) Formula Language
14 9 (1.00%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.67%) Bicep
15 6 (0.67%) C++
15 6 (0.67%) Groovy
16 5 (0.55%) Bash
16 5 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 135 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 122 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.09%) Degree
4 23 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 12 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (1.33%) PMP
7 10 (1.11%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.00%) ACCA
9 8 (0.89%) CFA
9 8 (0.89%) CIMA
10 7 (0.78%) CBAP
11 6 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.67%) CCNP
11 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.55%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.44%) CCIE
13 4 (0.44%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 63 (6.98%) QA
3 60 (6.65%) GDPR
4 39 (4.32%) PMO
5 27 (2.99%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.89%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.67%) GRC
9 5 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.55%) IFRS
9 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.44%) COBIT
11 3 (0.33%) MiFID
11 3 (0.33%) NIST
11 3 (0.33%) P3O
12 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.22%) PERC
12 2 (0.22%) SLA
12 2 (0.22%) WCAG
13 1 (0.11%) GxP
System Software
1 22 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.44%) Docker
3 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (3.88%) Terraform
2 17 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.67%) Ansible
4 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.33%) Puppet
5 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.33%) SCCM
6 2 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.22%) vRealize
7 1 (0.11%) Control-M
7 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 253 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 106 (11.75%) Oracle
3 103 (11.42%) Databricks
3 103 (11.42%) SAP
4 39 (4.32%) Salesforce
5 31 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 30 (3.33%) Google
7 18 (2.00%) Alteryx
8 17 (1.88%) Lotus
9 16 (1.77%) Cisco
10 13 (1.44%) Informatica
11 11 (1.22%) Adobe
12 10 (1.11%) Citrix
12 10 (1.11%) Planview
12 10 (1.11%) Workday
13 9 (1.00%) HP
14 7 (0.78%) Apple
14 7 (0.78%) Dell
14 7 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
14 7 (0.78%) Remedy