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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 37
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,027 689 878
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.10% 5.46% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 5.97% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 475 612
10th Percentile £363 £303 £363
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
75th Percentile £591 £613 £638
90th Percentile £676 £761 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 11
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.86 £25.38
25th Percentile £20.64 £28.60 £33.75
Median hourly rate £34.58 £29.07 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% -35.40% +100.13%
75th Percentile £42.19 £34.36 £50.79
90th Percentile £52.90 £54.25 £69.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% +19.17% -11.11%

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 15,087 11,541 15,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.38% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,132 7,833 11,413
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £752 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 170 337
10th Percentile £18.11 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +13 141 £525 -1.87% 84
West London -1 39 £603 +26.84% 18
South London -16 18 £463 -5.61% 1
East London -2 5 £495 +23.75% 7
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 60 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 49 (4.77%) Apache Spark
3 36 (3.51%) Confluence
4 33 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (2.82%) Apache
6 15 (1.46%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.97%) Mendix
8 4 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.19%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.097%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.097%) Camunda
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 152 (14.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.24%) MS Visio
3 21 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.29%) Notion
7 3 (0.29%) Trello
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 28 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
2 8 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 6 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.29%) iTrent
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.19%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 753 (73.32%) Power Platform
2 369 (35.93%) Azure
3 158 (15.38%) AWS
4 110 (10.71%) Power Automate
5 100 (9.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 96 (9.35%) Snowflake
7 92 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
7 92 (8.96%) PowerApps
8 88 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 84 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
10 82 (7.98%) GCP
11 64 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
12 58 (5.65%) Serverless
13 51 (4.97%) GitHub
14 49 (4.77%) dbt
15 47 (4.58%) Amazon S3
16 32 (3.12%) Microsoft Copilot
17 28 (2.73%) Azure Functions
17 28 (2.73%) Collibra
18 26 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) Network Security
2 6 (0.58%) VPN
3 5 (0.49%) Firewall
4 4 (0.39%) HTTP
4 4 (0.39%) WAN
4 4 (0.39%) Wireless
5 3 (0.29%) LAN
5 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.19%) BGP
6 2 (0.19%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.19%) DNS
6 2 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.19%) OSPF
7 1 (0.097%) FTP
7 1 (0.097%) NGN
7 1 (0.097%) SAN
7 1 (0.097%) VLAN
7 1 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 742 (72.25%) Power BI
2 181 (17.62%) Tableau
3 172 (16.75%) Data Warehouse
4 110 (10.71%) Data Lake
5 94 (9.15%) SQL Server
6 65 (6.33%) Metadata
7 52 (5.06%) BigQuery
8 46 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 43 (4.19%) Looker
10 38 (3.70%) Power Query
11 35 (3.41%) Snowflake Schema
12 33 (3.21%) Relational Database
13 32 (3.12%) Star Schema
14 31 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (2.92%) Delta Lake
15 30 (2.92%) Mixpanel
16 29 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
17 27 (2.63%) OLAP
18 25 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 24 (2.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (5.55%) JIRA
2 46 (4.48%) Git
3 17 (1.66%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.27%) GitLab
5 12 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.07%) ERwin
7 9 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.29%) Selenium
9 3 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.19%) MLflow
11 1 (0.097%) GCC
11 1 (0.097%) NUnit
11 1 (0.097%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.097%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 428 (41.67%) Finance
2 298 (29.02%) Social Skills
3 219 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (11.10%) Public Sector
5 96 (9.35%) Banking
6 72 (7.01%) Marketing
7 44 (4.28%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.80%) Law
9 37 (3.60%) Manufacturing
10 33 (3.21%) Electronics
11 31 (3.02%) Retail
12 27 (2.63%) Financial Institution
13 24 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
14 22 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.36%) Front Office
16 14 (1.36%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.36%) Legal
17 12 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (22.59%) Analyst
2 176 (17.14%) Developer
3 171 (16.65%) Data Engineer
4 130 (12.66%) Senior
5 109 (10.61%) Architect
6 108 (10.52%) Lead
7 98 (9.54%) Data Analyst
8 88 (8.57%) Business Analyst
9 62 (6.04%) Consultant
10 57 (5.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (3.41%) Lead Architect
11 35 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
12 33 (3.21%) Functional Architect
13 32 (3.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 32 (3.12%) Data Architect
13 32 (3.12%) Power Platform Developer
14 31 (3.02%) Power BI Developer
15 30 (2.92%) Senior Developer
16 24 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (2.24%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.65%) PySpark
2 42 (4.09%) Kafka
3 41 (3.99%) .NET
4 25 (2.43%) REST
5 23 (2.24%) Middleware
6 21 (2.04%) Pandas
7 20 (1.95%) Great Expectations
7 20 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
8 19 (1.85%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.85%) React
9 16 (1.56%) JSON
10 14 (1.36%) NumPy
11 13 (1.27%) HTML
11 13 (1.27%) Spark Streaming
12 12 (1.17%) HTML5 Canvas
12 12 (1.17%) scikit-learn
12 12 (1.17%) XML
13 9 (0.88%) SOAP
13 9 (0.88%) Web Services
14 8 (0.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.48%) Cloud Native
2 42 (4.09%) Data Structures
3 34 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.85%) Low-Code
8 17 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (0.97%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.78%) Clustering
12 8 (0.78%) Derivative
12 8 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.78%) PMI
13 7 (0.68%) NHS
13 7 (0.68%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.34%) Windows
2 18 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.68%) Unix
4 6 (0.58%) Linux
5 4 (0.39%) Android
5 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (43.14%) Analytics
2 336 (32.72%) Data Modelling
3 229 (22.30%) ETL
4 222 (21.62%) Visualisation
5 208 (20.25%) Agile
6 200 (19.47%) Data Engineering
7 197 (19.18%) Decision-Making
8 188 (18.31%) Data Governance
9 176 (17.14%) AI
10 164 (15.97%) Migration
11 162 (15.77%) CI/CD
12 161 (15.68%) DevOps
13 158 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
14 148 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
15 147 (14.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 143 (13.92%) Data Analysis
17 136 (13.24%) Data Visualisation
18 129 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
19 127 (12.37%) Actionable Insight
20 125 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 530 (51.61%) SQL
2 280 (27.26%) Python
3 86 (8.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 72 (7.01%) C#
5 48 (4.67%) T-SQL
6 43 (4.19%) JavaScript
7 35 (3.41%) R
8 33 (3.21%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.56%) Bicep
10 16 (1.56%) Java
10 16 (1.56%) Scala
11 14 (1.36%) VBA
12 11 (1.07%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.07%) LotusScript
13 10 (0.97%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.49%) LookML
16 2 (0.19%) IronPython
16 2 (0.19%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (14.90%) Security Cleared
2 134 (13.05%) SC Cleared
3 84 (8.18%) Degree
4 27 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 26 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.56%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.07%) PMP
9 8 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.68%) CBAP
11 5 (0.49%) ACCA
11 5 (0.49%) CFA
11 5 (0.49%) CIMA
11 5 (0.49%) IIBA
11 5 (0.49%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.29%) CCIE
12 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (23.66%) Data Quality
2 89 (8.67%) GDPR
3 74 (7.21%) QA
4 48 (4.67%) PMO
5 23 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.88%) GRC
8 6 (0.58%) GAAP
9 5 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.49%) SLA
10 4 (0.39%) Basel III
10 4 (0.39%) IFRS
10 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.19%) NIST
12 2 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 23 (2.24%) Docker
2 13 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.097%) RACF
4 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (6.43%) Terraform
2 25 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.49%) Control-M
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.29%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.19%) vRealize
6 1 (0.097%) Kibana
6 1 (0.097%) Nessus
6 1 (0.097%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.097%) SCCM
6 1 (0.097%) SCOM
6 1 (0.097%) SysTrack
6 1 (0.097%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 318 (30.96%) Microsoft
2 149 (14.51%) Databricks
3 93 (9.06%) Oracle
4 77 (7.50%) SAP
5 46 (4.48%) Google
6 39 (3.80%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.14%) Informatica
9 18 (1.75%) Workday
10 17 (1.66%) Citrix
11 15 (1.46%) Lotus
12 12 (1.17%) Cisco
13 10 (0.97%) Kofax
13 10 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
14 9 (0.88%) Murex
14 9 (0.88%) Planview
14 9 (0.88%) VMware
15 8 (0.78%) Sage
16 7 (0.68%) Amplitude