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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 38 39
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,064 742 909
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.39% 5.48% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 5.95% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 492 659
10th Percentile £363 £350 £313
25th Percentile £431 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 12
10th Percentile £16.70 £28.36 £28.88
25th Percentile £19.19 £28.84 £41.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% -41.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £30.59 £37.38 £76.88
90th Percentile £45.50 £75.25 £87.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £30.81 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.61% +2.68% +8.38%

All Process & 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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 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
Central London +4 150 £550 - 82
West London -4 28 £603 +8.56% 16
South London +2 23 £463 -2.63% 1
North London - 4 £450 - 3
East London -3 2 £350 -33.33% 15
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 69 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.76%) Confluence
3 37 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 35 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.16%) Apache
6 9 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.75%) SAS
8 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.47%) CMS
9 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.38%) HCL Notes
10 4 (0.38%) Mendix
11 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.28%) Kentico
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.094%) Appian
12 1 (0.094%) Camunda
12 1 (0.094%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 1 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 143 (13.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.07%) MS Visio
4 21 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.19%) Notion
10 1 (0.094%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 26 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.66%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.66%) Oracle FAH
6 6 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.47%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.47%) iTrent
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle iProcurement
8 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
10 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 791 (74.34%) Power Platform
2 364 (34.21%) Azure
3 162 (15.23%) AWS
4 109 (10.24%) Power Automate
5 105 (9.87%) Snowflake
6 96 (9.02%) PowerApps
7 82 (7.71%) Dynamics 365
8 81 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 75 (7.05%) GCP
11 71 (6.67%) dbt
12 66 (6.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 59 (5.55%) Microsoft Copilot
14 58 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
15 55 (5.17%) Amazon S3
16 54 (5.08%) Serverless
17 51 (4.79%) GitHub
18 37 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
19 30 (2.82%) Copilot Studio
20 28 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.03%) DNS
1 11 (1.03%) Firewall
2 10 (0.94%) VPN
3 5 (0.47%) Network Security
4 3 (0.28%) DHCP
4 3 (0.28%) FTP
4 3 (0.28%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) NAS
5 2 (0.19%) SAN
6 1 (0.094%) Broadband
6 1 (0.094%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.094%) LAN
6 1 (0.094%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.094%) SSH
6 1 (0.094%) VoIP
6 1 (0.094%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 784 (73.68%) Power BI
2 194 (18.23%) Data Warehouse
3 179 (16.82%) Tableau
4 99 (9.30%) Data Lake
5 66 (6.20%) SQL Server
6 63 (5.92%) Power Query
7 56 (5.26%) Metadata
8 52 (4.89%) BigQuery
9 46 (4.32%) Looker
10 44 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 44 (4.14%) Star Schema
11 40 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (3.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 33 (3.10%) Relational Database
14 28 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 27 (2.54%) Semantic Layer
16 26 (2.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 22 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 20 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (1.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 73 (6.86%) JIRA
2 44 (4.14%) Git
3 20 (1.88%) GitLab
4 10 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (0.85%) ERwin
6 8 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.38%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.38%) JDeveloper
9 4 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.19%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
10 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.19%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.094%) MLflow
General
1 406 (38.16%) Finance
2 329 (30.92%) Social Skills
3 220 (20.68%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.96%) Banking
5 92 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 49 (4.61%) Retail
7 45 (4.23%) Marketing
8 41 (3.85%) Law
9 27 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.26%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.60%) Legal
13 17 (1.60%) Local Government
13 17 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.50%) Front Office
15 15 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.22%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.22%) Publishing
17 12 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 260 (24.44%) Analyst
2 177 (16.64%) Developer
3 149 (14.00%) Architect
3 149 (14.00%) Data Engineer
4 131 (12.31%) Senior
5 116 (10.90%) Data Analyst
6 99 (9.30%) Lead
7 83 (7.80%) Business Analyst
8 63 (5.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 55 (5.17%) Consultant
10 49 (4.61%) Data Architect
11 44 (4.14%) Power Platform Developer
12 43 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 42 (3.95%) Power BI Developer
14 40 (3.76%) Lead Architect
15 36 (3.38%) Senior Developer
16 35 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
17 31 (2.91%) Functional Architect
17 31 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
18 23 (2.16%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.48%) PySpark
2 45 (4.23%) .NET
3 33 (3.10%) REST
4 31 (2.91%) Kafka
5 22 (2.07%) Middleware
5 22 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
6 20 (1.88%) JSON
7 16 (1.50%) React
8 14 (1.32%) XML
9 12 (1.13%) Great Expectations
10 11 (1.03%) .NET Framework
10 11 (1.03%) HTML
11 10 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (0.94%) Pandas
12 9 (0.85%) CSS
13 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.75%) RESTful
14 7 (0.66%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.66%) SOAP
14 7 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 37 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.13%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.03%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.03%) CMDB
12 10 (0.94%) FMCG
12 10 (0.94%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.94%) Reinsurance
13 9 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.85%) Life Science
13 9 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.32%) Windows
2 13 (1.22%) Linux
3 10 (0.94%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.28%) Android
4 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (41.92%) Analytics
2 349 (32.80%) Data Modelling
3 260 (24.44%) Agile
4 232 (21.80%) AI
5 197 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 197 (18.52%) ETL
6 189 (17.76%) Visualisation
7 187 (17.58%) Decision-Making
8 186 (17.48%) Migration
9 185 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 182 (17.11%) Data Engineering
11 177 (16.64%) Data Governance
12 176 (16.54%) DevOps
13 169 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
14 166 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 165 (15.51%) Data Pipeline
16 139 (13.06%) Data Analysis
17 137 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
18 132 (12.41%) Validation
19 119 (11.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 488 (45.86%) SQL
2 280 (26.32%) Python
3 111 (10.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (4.79%) C#
5 45 (4.23%) T-SQL
6 43 (4.04%) JavaScript
7 26 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 25 (2.35%) PL/SQL
8 25 (2.35%) R
9 20 (1.88%) Java
10 14 (1.32%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.22%) VBA
12 12 (1.13%) Scala
13 10 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) Bicep
14 6 (0.56%) Korn
15 5 (0.47%) LookML
16 4 (0.38%) Bash
17 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 169 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 149 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.24%) Degree
4 23 (2.16%) Azure Certification
5 18 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 16 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
13 4 (0.38%) CBAP
14 3 (0.28%) CISM
14 3 (0.28%) CISSP
14 3 (0.28%) IIBA
14 3 (0.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (23.12%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.95%) GDPR
3 57 (5.36%) QA
4 43 (4.04%) PMO
5 18 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.47%) SLA
9 4 (0.38%) NCSC
10 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.28%) P3O
11 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.19%) COBIT
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.094%) GRC
12 1 (0.094%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.22%) Docker
3 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.094%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.094%) RACF
Systems Management
1 68 (6.39%) Terraform
2 14 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.13%) Grafana
4 9 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.56%) Ansible
5 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.38%) Control-M
8 3 (0.28%) SCCM
9 1 (0.094%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.094%) Kibana
9 1 (0.094%) Nessus
9 1 (0.094%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.094%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 337 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 138 (12.97%) Databricks
3 85 (7.99%) Oracle
4 34 (3.20%) Google
4 34 (3.20%) SAP
5 28 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 20 (1.88%) Informatica
8 18 (1.69%) Alteryx
9 15 (1.41%) Workday
10 10 (0.94%) Adobe
10 10 (0.94%) Palantir
11 8 (0.75%) Citrix
11 8 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.75%) Foundry
11 8 (0.75%) Splunk
11 8 (0.75%) VMware
12 7 (0.66%) Amplitude
12 7 (0.66%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.66%) MicroStrategy