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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 35 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 921 753 849
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.56% 5.41% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 5.99% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 502 575
10th Percentile £321 £300 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £588 £634 £650
90th Percentile £689 £738 £738
England median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 16
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.65 £22.94
25th Percentile £19.02 £27.67 £32.81
Median hourly rate £31.65 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.71% +26.51% +84.57%
75th Percentile £42.23 £53.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £56.20 £64.25 £52.88
England median hourly rate £23.75 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -15.18% -8.20% +11.93%

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 12,819 12,566 16,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 8,018 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 260
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +14 126 £505 -9.01% 52
West London -9 22 £600 +29.73% 18
East London -6 4 £495 +13.14% 9
South London -18 3 £475 -5.00% 4
North London +1 2 £500 +96.08% 3
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 66 (7.17%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.13%) Confluence
3 34 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.28%) Apache
6 18 (1.95%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
8 9 (0.98%) Mendix
9 8 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.33%) IIS
11 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.22%) Luigi
12 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.22%) Moodle
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.22%) SAS
12 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.11%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 144 (15.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.33%) Notion
7 3 (0.33%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 37 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.65%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.33%) Aladdin
10 3 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.22%) FIS Private Capital Suite
11 2 (0.22%) iTrent
11 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 673 (73.07%) Power Platform
2 321 (34.85%) Azure
3 128 (13.90%) Power Automate
4 116 (12.60%) AWS
5 114 (12.38%) PowerApps
6 86 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (8.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 70 (7.60%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (7.60%) Snowflake
9 69 (7.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 57 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
11 52 (5.65%) GCP
12 49 (5.32%) Serverless
13 38 (4.13%) GitHub
14 35 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 33 (3.58%) dbt
16 32 (3.47%) Azure Functions
17 29 (3.15%) Amazon S3
18 22 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
19 20 (2.17%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.87%) Network Security
2 7 (0.76%) Wireless
3 6 (0.65%) VPN
3 6 (0.65%) WAN
4 5 (0.54%) Firewall
4 5 (0.54%) HTTP
4 5 (0.54%) LAN
4 5 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.43%) BGP
5 4 (0.43%) BIG-IP
5 4 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (0.43%) OSPF
6 1 (0.11%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) Internet
6 1 (0.11%) NGN
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) Skype
6 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 667 (72.42%) Power BI
2 137 (14.88%) Tableau
3 134 (14.55%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (10.21%) Data Lake
5 80 (8.69%) SQL Server
6 48 (5.21%) Metadata
7 44 (4.78%) Power Query
8 40 (4.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 35 (3.80%) Relational Database
10 31 (3.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 30 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (3.15%) Oracle Reports
13 28 (3.04%) Oracle Database
13 28 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 25 (2.71%) BigQuery
14 25 (2.71%) Delta Lake
15 24 (2.61%) Looker
16 21 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (2.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (7.06%) JIRA
2 40 (4.34%) Git
3 14 (1.52%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.41%) GitLab
5 10 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.43%) ERwin
7 4 (0.43%) MLflow
7 4 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.33%) Selenium
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.11%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.11%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 381 (41.37%) Finance
2 280 (30.40%) Social Skills
3 193 (20.96%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (14.22%) Public Sector
5 93 (10.10%) Marketing
6 89 (9.66%) Banking
7 57 (6.19%) Manufacturing
7 57 (6.19%) Telecoms
8 52 (5.65%) Electronics
9 29 (3.15%) Financial Institution
10 26 (2.82%) Retail
11 22 (2.39%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.06%) Front Office
13 18 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.85%) Legal
15 16 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (1.63%) Local Government
16 15 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (1.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (22.37%) Analyst
2 180 (19.54%) Developer
3 129 (14.01%) Data Engineer
4 94 (10.21%) Senior
5 84 (9.12%) Lead
6 78 (8.47%) Data Analyst
7 74 (8.03%) Business Analyst
8 66 (7.17%) Architect
9 58 (6.30%) Consultant
10 51 (5.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 33 (3.58%) Power BI Developer
12 30 (3.26%) Power Platform Developer
13 29 (3.15%) Data Architect
14 27 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
15 24 (2.61%) Senior Data Engineer
16 23 (2.50%) Project Manager
17 22 (2.39%) Data Scientist
18 21 (2.28%) Azure Data Engineer
18 21 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
18 21 (2.28%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (5.75%) PySpark
2 49 (5.32%) .NET
3 33 (3.58%) REST
4 28 (3.04%) Kafka
5 23 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 21 (2.28%) Pandas
7 15 (1.63%) HTML
7 15 (1.63%) JSON
7 15 (1.63%) React
7 15 (1.63%) SOAP
8 14 (1.52%) .NET Framework
9 13 (1.41%) scikit-learn
10 12 (1.30%) NumPy
11 11 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
11 11 (1.19%) Middleware
12 10 (1.09%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (0.98%) SailPoint
13 9 (0.98%) XML
14 8 (0.87%) Great Expectations
14 8 (0.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (3.58%) Data Structures
1 33 (3.58%) Product Ownership
2 26 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 21 (2.28%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 17 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 14 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.41%) Derivative
9 12 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.09%) Reinsurance
12 9 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (0.98%) NHS
13 8 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.87%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.61%) Windows
2 13 (1.41%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.87%) Unix
4 7 (0.76%) Android
4 7 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.65%) Linux
6 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (38.00%) Analytics
2 265 (28.77%) Data Modelling
3 210 (22.80%) Agile
4 202 (21.93%) Visualisation
5 187 (20.30%) ETL
6 157 (17.05%) Decision-Making
7 152 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 151 (16.40%) Data Governance
9 142 (15.42%) DevOps
9 142 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (14.66%) Data Engineering
11 123 (13.36%) CI/CD
12 122 (13.25%) Data Analysis
13 117 (12.70%) Data Visualisation
14 109 (11.83%) Data Pipeline
15 106 (11.51%) AI
16 104 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 102 (11.07%) Dashboard Development
18 101 (10.97%) Actionable Insight
19 100 (10.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 452 (49.08%) SQL
2 227 (24.65%) Python
3 69 (7.49%) C#
4 57 (6.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 49 (5.32%) JavaScript
6 43 (4.67%) PL/SQL
7 34 (3.69%) R
8 31 (3.37%) T-SQL
9 30 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 23 (2.50%) Java
11 16 (1.74%) VBA
12 14 (1.52%) Bicep
12 14 (1.52%) Scala
13 12 (1.30%) TypeScript
14 10 (1.09%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.09%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.65%) Groovy
16 5 (0.54%) Korn
17 4 (0.43%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 145 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 130 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 82 (8.90%) Degree
4 26 (2.82%) Azure Certification
4 26 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.06%) PMI Certification
6 18 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.63%) PMP
8 13 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.87%) CFA
11 7 (0.76%) ACCA
11 7 (0.76%) CBAP
12 6 (0.65%) CIMA
13 5 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.54%) CCIE
13 5 (0.54%) CCNP
13 5 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.43%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.43%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (18.78%) Data Quality
2 62 (6.73%) QA
3 61 (6.62%) GDPR
4 42 (4.56%) PMO
5 29 (3.15%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.76%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.76%) IFRS
8 6 (0.65%) GRC
9 5 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.54%) GAAP
9 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.54%) SLA
10 4 (0.43%) Basel III
10 4 (0.43%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.33%) NIST
11 3 (0.33%) P3O
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.22%) MiFID
12 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (5.10%) Terraform
2 23 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.54%) Ansible
4 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.33%) Control-M
5 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.22%) SCCM
6 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.22%) vRealize
7 1 (0.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.11%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 263 (28.56%) Microsoft
2 107 (11.62%) Oracle
3 105 (11.40%) Databricks
4 100 (10.86%) SAP
5 34 (3.69%) Salesforce
5 34 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 32 (3.47%) Google
7 18 (1.95%) Cisco
7 18 (1.95%) Lotus
8 17 (1.85%) Alteryx
8 17 (1.85%) Informatica
9 12 (1.30%) Citrix
9 12 (1.30%) Planview
10 10 (1.09%) Workday
11 9 (0.98%) HP
11 9 (0.98%) Kofax
12 8 (0.87%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.87%) Remedy
13 7 (0.76%) Apple
13 7 (0.76%) MicroStrategy