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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 35 44
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 850 835 938
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.10% 5.31% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.60% 5.95% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 569 634
10th Percentile £325 £300 £359
25th Percentile £406 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £731 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 15
10th Percentile £18.25 £26.60 £19.75
25th Percentile £19.02 £29.82 £30.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £52.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% +38.16% +0.66%
75th Percentile £41.25 £77.19 £49.92
90th Percentile £55.85 £100.63 £52.95
England median hourly rate £24.00 £30.30 £32.32
% change year-on-year -20.78% -6.27% -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 12,878 14,024 18,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.35% 89.20% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,465 9,048 13,116
10th Percentile £333 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.06% -2.84%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 254
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.31
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +16 128 £525 -0.94% 319
West London -8 19 £500 +8.11% 37
East London -2 5 £525 +19.18% 32
South London -8 4 £400 -11.11% 11
North London -3 2 £500 +96.08% 6
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 62 (7.29%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.12%) Confluence
3 25 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.82%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.88%) Apache
6 11 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 10 (1.18%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.47%) SAS
11 3 (0.35%) CMS
11 3 (0.35%) Luigi
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.24%) Moodle
12 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 129 (15.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.47%) Trello
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
7 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.12%) Notion
8 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 32 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.82%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.47%) Eloqua
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.47%) SAP APO
9 4 (0.47%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.35%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Payroll
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 601 (70.71%) Power Platform
2 277 (32.59%) Azure
3 114 (13.41%) Power Automate
4 110 (12.94%) AWS
5 101 (11.88%) PowerApps
6 68 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
8 63 (7.41%) Snowflake
9 62 (7.29%) GCP
10 60 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 52 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 52 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
12 36 (4.24%) dbt
12 36 (4.24%) Serverless
13 29 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
14 25 (2.94%) Entra ID
14 25 (2.94%) SaaS
15 24 (2.82%) Amazon S3
15 24 (2.82%) GitHub
16 23 (2.71%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.82%) Wireless
2 4 (0.47%) Network Security
2 4 (0.47%) VPN
2 4 (0.47%) WAN
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
3 3 (0.35%) HTTP
3 3 (0.35%) LAN
3 3 (0.35%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.24%) BGP
4 2 (0.24%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.24%) DNS
4 2 (0.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.24%) OSPF
4 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.12%) NGN
5 1 (0.12%) Skype
5 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 596 (70.12%) Power BI
2 135 (15.88%) Tableau
3 108 (12.71%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (7.76%) Data Lake
5 52 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 51 (6.00%) Power Query
7 43 (5.06%) Metadata
8 34 (4.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 34 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 33 (3.88%) Oracle Reports
10 32 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (3.53%) Relational Database
12 26 (3.06%) BigQuery
13 24 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (2.82%) Looker
14 21 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (2.24%) Oracle Database
16 17 (2.00%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.76%) NoSQL
18 14 (1.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (7.53%) JIRA
2 37 (4.35%) Git
3 8 (0.94%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.82%) GitLab
4 7 (0.82%) MLflow
5 6 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.59%) ERwin
7 4 (0.47%) Clang
7 4 (0.47%) GCC
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.24%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.24%) Subversion
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.12%) tSQLt
9 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 349 (41.06%) Finance
2 279 (32.82%) Social Skills
3 189 (22.24%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (14.24%) Public Sector
5 94 (11.06%) Marketing
6 79 (9.29%) Banking
7 58 (6.82%) Manufacturing
8 57 (6.71%) Telecoms
9 49 (5.76%) Electronics
10 31 (3.65%) Investment Banking
11 27 (3.18%) Retail
12 24 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.59%) Front Office
14 19 (2.24%) Legal
14 19 (2.24%) Local Government
14 19 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.88%) Publishing
18 11 (1.29%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 193 (22.71%) Analyst
2 160 (18.82%) Developer
3 95 (11.18%) Data Engineer
4 84 (9.88%) Data Analyst
5 78 (9.18%) Senior
6 77 (9.06%) Lead
7 68 (8.00%) Architect
8 67 (7.88%) Business Analyst
9 61 (7.18%) Consultant
10 46 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (4.24%) Power BI Developer
12 27 (3.18%) Data Architect
13 25 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
14 24 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (2.71%) Power Platform Developer
16 22 (2.59%) Project Manager
17 20 (2.35%) Azure Data Engineer
17 20 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
18 19 (2.24%) Oracle Developer
18 19 (2.24%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.18%) .NET
2 42 (4.94%) PySpark
3 35 (4.12%) REST
4 23 (2.71%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (2.35%) Kafka
6 15 (1.76%) Pandas
6 15 (1.76%) SOAP
7 14 (1.65%) HTML
8 13 (1.53%) JSON
8 13 (1.53%) Web Services
9 12 (1.41%) scikit-learn
10 11 (1.29%) NumPy
11 10 (1.18%) RESTful
12 9 (1.06%) CSS
12 9 (1.06%) SailPoint
13 8 (0.94%) .NET Framework
13 8 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.94%) Middleware
14 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
14 7 (0.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 24 (2.82%) Data Structures
3 21 (2.47%) Onboarding
3 21 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.76%) Derivative
7 14 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.53%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.53%) Reinsurance
9 12 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.41%) NHS
9 12 (1.41%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 8 (0.94%) Equities
12 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.82%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.35%) Windows
2 13 (1.53%) Linux
3 10 (1.18%) Unix
4 8 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.82%) Android
5 7 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (34.24%) Analytics
2 241 (28.35%) Data Modelling
3 200 (23.53%) Agile
4 198 (23.29%) Visualisation
5 145 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (16.24%) ETL
7 137 (16.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 132 (15.53%) Data Governance
8 132 (15.53%) Decision-Making
9 123 (14.47%) Data Analysis
10 120 (14.12%) Data Visualisation
11 110 (12.94%) DevOps
12 102 (12.00%) Data Engineering
13 99 (11.65%) Migration
14 95 (11.18%) Actionable Insight
14 95 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 92 (10.82%) CI/CD
16 91 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
17 82 (9.65%) Dashboard Development
18 75 (8.82%) AI
Programming Languages
1 410 (48.24%) SQL
2 207 (24.35%) Python
3 54 (6.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 48 (5.65%) C#
5 40 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 35 (4.12%) PL/SQL
7 32 (3.76%) PowerShell
7 32 (3.76%) R
8 24 (2.82%) Java
9 23 (2.71%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.65%) VBA
11 10 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.06%) Scala
13 8 (0.94%) Bash
14 7 (0.82%) C++
14 7 (0.82%) Groovy
15 6 (0.71%) Bicep
16 5 (0.59%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.59%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.59%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 131 (15.41%) Security Cleared
2 118 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 77 (9.06%) Degree
4 20 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.65%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.06%) ACCA
10 8 (0.94%) CFA
10 8 (0.94%) CIMA
10 8 (0.94%) PMP
11 7 (0.82%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.59%) CCNP
14 3 (0.35%) CCIE
14 3 (0.35%) CCNA
14 3 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (16.47%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.12%) GDPR
3 48 (5.65%) QA
4 33 (3.88%) PMO
5 27 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.94%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.71%) GRC
8 6 (0.71%) IFRS
9 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.47%) COBIT
10 4 (0.47%) NIST
10 4 (0.47%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.35%) Basel II
11 3 (0.35%) HL7
11 3 (0.35%) MiFID
12 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.24%) P3O
13 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.94%) Docker
3 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) Xen
5 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (3.88%) Terraform
2 11 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.59%) Ansible
4 4 (0.47%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.35%) Puppet
5 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.24%) vRealize
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) SCOM
7 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 237 (27.88%) Microsoft
2 97 (11.41%) SAP
3 90 (10.59%) Oracle
4 86 (10.12%) Databricks
5 37 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.41%) Google
6 29 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.88%) Alteryx
7 16 (1.88%) Cisco
8 11 (1.29%) Adobe
9 10 (1.18%) Informatica
9 10 (1.18%) Lotus
10 9 (1.06%) Planview
10 9 (1.06%) Workday
11 8 (0.94%) HP
12 7 (0.82%) Apple
12 7 (0.82%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.82%) Dell
13 6 (0.71%) DocuSign
13 6 (0.71%) MicroStrategy