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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,036 703 916
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.43% 5.60% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.10% 6.07% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 468 652
10th Percentile £359 £350 £316
25th Percentile £425 £424 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £625
90th Percentile £675 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 13
10th Percentile £16.70 £28.33 £30.25
25th Percentile £18.56 £28.72 £41.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £31.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% -42.90% +144.61%
75th Percentile £33.56 £37.81 £76.25
90th Percentile £45.88 £78.00 £86.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £24.22
% change year-on-year - +23.89% +0.90%

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 16,970 11,588 15,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,314 7,764 11,086
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 214 312
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +14.34% -26.88%
75th Percentile £59.85 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +3 145 £544 -4.61% 46
West London -12 28 £603 +8.56% 13
South London +9 23 £463 -2.63%
East London -6 2 £350 -40.43% 10
North London - 2 £364 -
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 55 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 34 (3.28%) Confluence
4 32 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.93%) Apache
6 8 (0.77%) HCL Notes
6 8 (0.77%) SAS
7 7 (0.68%) Mendix
8 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.39%) CMS
11 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.29%) Kentico
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.097%) Appian
13 1 (0.097%) Camunda
13 1 (0.097%) IIS
13 1 (0.097%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 141 (13.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 18 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.19%) Notion
8 1 (0.097%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 24 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.48%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.48%) iTrent
3 5 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.29%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.19%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 774 (74.71%) Power Platform
2 365 (35.23%) Azure
3 164 (15.83%) AWS
4 100 (9.65%) Snowflake
5 91 (8.78%) Power Automate
6 87 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 85 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (7.63%) PowerApps
9 77 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 77 (7.43%) GCP
10 70 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
11 62 (5.98%) dbt
12 58 (5.60%) Serverless
13 56 (5.41%) GitHub
14 55 (5.31%) Amazon S3
15 53 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
16 42 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
17 37 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
18 32 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
19 24 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.06%) Firewall
2 10 (0.97%) DNS
2 10 (0.97%) VPN
3 5 (0.48%) Network Security
4 3 (0.29%) DHCP
4 3 (0.29%) FTP
4 3 (0.29%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) LAN
5 2 (0.19%) NAS
5 2 (0.19%) SAN
5 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.097%) BGP
6 1 (0.097%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.097%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.097%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.097%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.097%) OSPF
6 1 (0.097%) SSH
6 1 (0.097%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 766 (73.94%) Power BI
2 200 (19.31%) Data Warehouse
3 175 (16.89%) Tableau
4 111 (10.71%) Data Lake
5 90 (8.69%) SQL Server
6 61 (5.89%) Power Query
7 58 (5.60%) Metadata
8 51 (4.92%) BigQuery
9 45 (4.34%) Looker
10 41 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
11 40 (3.86%) Star Schema
12 39 (3.76%) Relational Database
13 36 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 27 (2.61%) Spark SQL
15 26 (2.51%) Delta Lake
16 25 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (2.12%) Semantic Layer
18 20 (1.93%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 59 (5.69%) JIRA
2 47 (4.54%) Git
3 24 (2.32%) GitLab
4 11 (1.06%) ERwin
5 10 (0.97%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.39%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.39%) JMeter
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.29%) Terragrunt
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%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.097%) GCC
11 1 (0.097%) MLflow
General
1 404 (39.00%) Finance
2 309 (29.83%) Social Skills
3 202 (19.50%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (9.65%) Banking
5 95 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.54%) Marketing
7 44 (4.25%) Retail
8 39 (3.76%) Law
9 29 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.93%) Financial Institution
10 20 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.83%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.64%) Legal
14 15 (1.45%) Local Government
15 14 (1.35%) Front Office
15 14 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 240 (23.17%) Analyst
2 173 (16.70%) Data Engineer
3 162 (15.64%) Developer
4 135 (13.03%) Senior
5 130 (12.55%) Architect
6 107 (10.33%) Data Analyst
7 101 (9.75%) Lead
8 70 (6.76%) Business Analyst
9 66 (6.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 60 (5.79%) Consultant
11 46 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
12 42 (4.05%) Power BI Developer
13 40 (3.86%) Lead Architect
14 39 (3.76%) Data Architect
15 38 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 33 (3.19%) Power Platform Developer
16 33 (3.19%) Senior Developer
17 31 (2.99%) Functional Architect
18 28 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
19 22 (2.12%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.05%) PySpark
2 36 (3.47%) .NET
3 33 (3.19%) Kafka
4 32 (3.09%) REST
5 24 (2.32%) Middleware
6 22 (2.12%) Oracle Fusion
7 17 (1.64%) JSON
7 17 (1.64%) React
8 14 (1.35%) .NET Framework
8 14 (1.35%) HTML
9 12 (1.16%) CSS
9 12 (1.16%) Great Expectations
10 11 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (0.97%) Pandas
12 9 (0.87%) XML
13 8 (0.77%) YAML
14 7 (0.68%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.68%) RESTful
14 7 (0.68%) SOAP
14 7 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.02%) Cloud Native
2 39 (3.76%) Data Structures
3 33 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 19 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 18 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.35%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.25%) NHS
10 12 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.06%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.06%) CMDB
11 11 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (0.97%) Reference Data
13 9 (0.87%) Clustering
13 9 (0.87%) Derivative
13 9 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.83%) Windows
2 14 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.25%) Linux
4 6 (0.58%) Unix
5 3 (0.29%) Android
5 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (44.79%) Analytics
2 338 (32.63%) Data Modelling
3 243 (23.46%) Agile
4 221 (21.33%) ETL
5 220 (21.24%) AI
6 200 (19.31%) Data Engineering
7 194 (18.73%) Visualisation
8 192 (18.53%) CI/CD
9 186 (17.95%) Decision-Making
10 176 (16.99%) Data Governance
11 175 (16.89%) Migration
12 170 (16.41%) DevOps
13 169 (16.31%) Data Pipeline
14 164 (15.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 162 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
16 140 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
17 135 (13.03%) Data Analysis
18 129 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 127 (12.26%) Validation
20 118 (11.39%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 501 (48.36%) SQL
2 288 (27.80%) Python
3 109 (10.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (4.92%) C#
5 48 (4.63%) T-SQL
6 43 (4.15%) JavaScript
7 29 (2.80%) R
8 28 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 24 (2.32%) PL/SQL
10 21 (2.03%) Java
11 14 (1.35%) Bicep
11 14 (1.35%) TypeScript
12 13 (1.25%) Scala
13 11 (1.06%) VBA
14 6 (0.58%) Korn
14 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.48%) Formula Language
15 5 (0.48%) LotusScript
16 4 (0.39%) Bash
16 4 (0.39%) LookML
Qualifications
1 166 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 145 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.53%) Degree
4 26 (2.51%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.64%) DBS Check
8 15 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.48%) PMP
14 4 (0.39%) CBAP
14 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
15 3 (0.29%) ACCA
15 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (24.52%) Data Quality
2 80 (7.72%) GDPR
3 54 (5.21%) QA
4 43 (4.15%) PMO
5 14 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.58%) GAAP
8 6 (0.58%) SLA
9 5 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.39%) IFRS
10 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.29%) Basel III
11 3 (0.29%) GRC
11 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.29%) NCSC
12 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.19%) FATCA
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 21 (2.03%) Docker
2 18 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.097%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.097%) RACF
Systems Management
1 76 (7.34%) Terraform
2 20 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.06%) Grafana
4 8 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.58%) Control-M
5 6 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.39%) Ansible
6 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.29%) SCCM
8 1 (0.097%) Kibana
8 1 (0.097%) Nessus
8 1 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.097%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 333 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 140 (13.51%) Databricks
3 84 (8.11%) Oracle
4 38 (3.67%) SAP
5 35 (3.38%) Google
6 32 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.32%) Informatica
9 20 (1.93%) Workday
10 14 (1.35%) Alteryx
11 12 (1.16%) Palantir
12 11 (1.06%) Citrix
13 10 (0.97%) Adobe
14 8 (0.77%) Foundry
14 8 (0.77%) Lotus
14 8 (0.77%) VMware
15 7 (0.68%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.68%) Kofax
15 7 (0.68%) Murex
15 7 (0.68%) Splunk