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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 36 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 951 774 851
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.61% 5.25% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.22% 5.83% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 520 584
10th Percentile £325 £300 £363
25th Percentile £407 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £517 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.79% -5.14% -0.91%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -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% +48.79%
75th Percentile £42.23 £53.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £56.20 £64.25 £52.88
England median hourly rate £23.75 £29.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -18.10% -10.27% +6.84%

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 13,174 13,286 16,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.14% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,522 11,607
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 164 241
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.15 £17.75
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.58 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.06 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +15 136 £500 -13.04% 165
West London -8 23 £600 +29.73% 21
East London -4 4 £495 +4.21% 6
South London -18 4 £400 -20.00% 7
North London -1 2 £500 +96.08%
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 (7.26%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.10%) Confluence
3 34 (3.58%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.21%) Apache
6 19 (2.00%) HCL Notes
7 11 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.74%) Mendix
10 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.32%) IIS
11 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.21%) Luigi
12 2 (0.21%) Moodle
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.21%) SAS
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.11%) Kentico
Applications
1 148 (15.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.42%) Notion
6 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.42%) 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 38 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
4 9 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.42%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.42%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.32%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.32%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 691 (72.66%) Power Platform
2 325 (34.17%) Azure
3 136 (14.30%) Power Automate
4 123 (12.93%) AWS
5 120 (12.62%) PowerApps
6 82 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (8.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 72 (7.57%) Dynamics 365
9 70 (7.36%) Snowflake
10 68 (7.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 63 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
12 59 (6.20%) GCP
13 46 (4.84%) Serverless
14 35 (3.68%) dbt
15 34 (3.58%) GitHub
16 33 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
17 31 (3.26%) Amazon S3
18 30 (3.15%) Azure Functions
19 25 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
20 22 (2.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.74%) Network Security
1 7 (0.74%) Wireless
2 5 (0.53%) HTTP
2 5 (0.53%) VPN
2 5 (0.53%) WAN
3 4 (0.42%) Firewall
3 4 (0.42%) LAN
3 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.32%) BGP
4 3 (0.32%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.32%) OSPF
5 2 (0.21%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) DHCP
6 1 (0.11%) FTP
6 1 (0.11%) Internet
6 1 (0.11%) NGN
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 686 (72.13%) Power BI
2 142 (14.93%) Tableau
3 133 (13.99%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (9.25%) Data Lake
5 75 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 49 (5.15%) Metadata
7 48 (5.05%) Power Query
8 39 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 34 (3.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 33 (3.47%) Relational Database
11 31 (3.26%) Oracle Reports
12 30 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 29 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
14 28 (2.94%) Oracle Database
15 25 (2.63%) BigQuery
16 23 (2.42%) Delta Lake
16 23 (2.42%) Looker
17 21 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (2.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (7.15%) JIRA
2 40 (4.21%) Git
3 13 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.16%) GitLab
5 10 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.42%) MLflow
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.32%) ERwin
9 3 (0.32%) Selenium
10 2 (0.21%) Clang
10 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.21%) GCC
10 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.11%) Postman
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 396 (41.64%) Finance
2 293 (30.81%) Social Skills
3 202 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (14.20%) Public Sector
5 98 (10.30%) Marketing
6 92 (9.67%) Banking
7 60 (6.31%) Manufacturing
8 58 (6.10%) Telecoms
9 53 (5.57%) Electronics
10 27 (2.84%) Retail
11 25 (2.63%) Investment Banking
12 24 (2.52%) Financial Institution
13 23 (2.42%) Front Office
14 20 (2.10%) Legal
15 19 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.79%) Local Government
17 17 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (1.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 215 (22.61%) Analyst
2 179 (18.82%) Developer
3 125 (13.14%) Data Engineer
4 94 (9.88%) Senior
5 88 (9.25%) Lead
6 84 (8.83%) Data Analyst
7 75 (7.89%) Business Analyst
8 68 (7.15%) Architect
9 64 (6.73%) Consultant
10 49 (5.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 34 (3.58%) Power BI Developer
12 32 (3.36%) Power Platform Developer
13 28 (2.94%) Data Architect
14 27 (2.84%) Project Manager
15 26 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (2.52%) Data Scientist
17 23 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
17 23 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
18 21 (2.21%) Azure Data Engineer
18 21 (2.21%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.47%) PySpark
2 48 (5.05%) .NET
3 32 (3.36%) REST
4 28 (2.94%) Kafka
5 23 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
6 20 (2.10%) Pandas
7 16 (1.68%) JSON
8 15 (1.58%) SOAP
9 14 (1.47%) HTML
9 14 (1.47%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.37%) .NET Framework
10 13 (1.37%) NumPy
10 13 (1.37%) React
11 12 (1.26%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (1.26%) Middleware
12 10 (1.05%) XML
13 9 (0.95%) SailPoint
13 9 (0.95%) Web Services
14 8 (0.84%) Plotly
14 8 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 34 (3.58%) Data Structures
1 34 (3.58%) Product Ownership
2 26 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 21 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 18 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (1.89%) Low-Code
5 18 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 14 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 14 (1.47%) Derivative
7 13 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.16%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.05%) Reference Data
11 9 (0.95%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (0.95%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.84%) Windows
2 14 (1.47%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.05%) Unix
4 9 (0.95%) Linux
5 7 (0.74%) Android
5 7 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (36.80%) Analytics
2 273 (28.71%) Data Modelling
3 222 (23.34%) Agile
4 212 (22.29%) Visualisation
5 185 (19.45%) ETL
6 160 (16.82%) Data Governance
7 159 (16.72%) Decision-Making
8 152 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 151 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
10 138 (14.51%) DevOps
11 131 (13.77%) Data Analysis
12 130 (13.67%) Data Engineering
13 124 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
14 118 (12.41%) CI/CD
15 115 (12.09%) Migration
16 110 (11.57%) Data Pipeline
16 110 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 105 (11.04%) Actionable Insight
18 104 (10.94%) AI
19 102 (10.73%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 460 (48.37%) SQL
2 233 (24.50%) Python
3 68 (7.15%) C#
4 59 (6.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 50 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 44 (4.63%) PL/SQL
7 38 (4.00%) R
8 32 (3.36%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.15%) T-SQL
10 23 (2.42%) Java
11 17 (1.79%) VBA
12 15 (1.58%) Scala
13 12 (1.26%) TypeScript
14 11 (1.16%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.16%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.95%) Bicep
16 6 (0.63%) Groovy
17 5 (0.53%) Korn
18 4 (0.42%) Bash
18 4 (0.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 151 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 137 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.73%) Degree
4 27 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 18 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.68%) PMP
9 14 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.05%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.95%) CFA
12 7 (0.74%) ACCA
12 7 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.74%) CBAP
13 6 (0.63%) CIMA
14 5 (0.53%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.42%) CCIE
15 4 (0.42%) CCNP
15 4 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.42%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (18.72%) Data Quality
2 65 (6.83%) GDPR
3 64 (6.73%) QA
4 40 (4.21%) PMO
5 29 (3.05%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.84%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.74%) IFRS
9 6 (0.63%) GRC
10 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.53%) Basel III
10 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.53%) SLA
11 4 (0.42%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.32%) GAAP
12 3 (0.32%) MiFID
12 3 (0.32%) NIST
12 3 (0.32%) P3O
13 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.58%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 41 (4.31%) Terraform
2 20 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.42%) Ansible
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.32%) Control-M
4 3 (0.32%) RSA Archer
4 3 (0.32%) SCCM
5 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.21%) vRealize
6 1 (0.11%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) SCOM
6 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 274 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 111 (11.67%) Databricks
2 111 (11.67%) Oracle
3 103 (10.83%) SAP
4 36 (3.79%) Salesforce
5 33 (3.47%) Google
5 33 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.00%) Lotus
7 18 (1.89%) Alteryx
8 17 (1.79%) Informatica
9 15 (1.58%) Cisco
10 12 (1.26%) Citrix
11 11 (1.16%) Adobe
11 11 (1.16%) Planview
11 11 (1.16%) Workday
12 9 (0.95%) HP
12 9 (0.95%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.74%) Dell
13 7 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
13 7 (0.74%) Remedy