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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 35 43
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 912 795 873
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.34% 5.29% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 5.87% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 537 599
10th Percentile £325 £300 £358
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £707 £734 £738
England median daily rate £484 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -3.20% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 16
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.65 £19.88
25th Percentile £19.40 £27.67 £26.03
Median hourly rate £32.83 £52.50 £36.82
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +42.60% +17.81%
75th Percentile £41.74 £53.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £56.10 £64.25 £52.88
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -20.83% -7.18% -2.06%

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 13,143 13,541 16,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.10% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,710 12,087
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 235
10th Percentile £18.17 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +14 129 £500 -13.04% 43
West London -5 25 £565 +22.16% 25
East London -1 6 £495 +8.55% 9
South London -14 4 £400 -21.95% 9
North London -1 2 £500 +96.08% 1
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 (7.57%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.39%) Confluence
3 31 (3.40%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.30%) Apache
6 18 (1.97%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.66%) Mendix
8 6 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.33%) IIS
10 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.22%) Luigi
11 2 (0.22%) Moodle
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 144 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.44%) Notion
7 4 (0.44%) 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 35 (3.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
5 7 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.44%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.44%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.44%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.44%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.33%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.33%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.33%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 658 (72.15%) Power Platform
2 301 (33.00%) Azure
3 135 (14.80%) Power Automate
4 119 (13.05%) PowerApps
5 116 (12.72%) AWS
6 77 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (7.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 68 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
8 68 (7.46%) Snowflake
9 62 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
10 59 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 59 (6.47%) GCP
11 43 (4.71%) Serverless
12 36 (3.95%) dbt
13 32 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
14 29 (3.18%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.18%) Azure Functions
15 28 (3.07%) GitHub
16 26 (2.85%) Microsoft Copilot
17 20 (2.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.77%) Network Security
1 7 (0.77%) Wireless
2 5 (0.55%) HTTP
2 5 (0.55%) VPN
2 5 (0.55%) WAN
3 4 (0.44%) Firewall
3 4 (0.44%) LAN
3 4 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.33%) BGP
4 3 (0.33%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.33%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) Internet
6 1 (0.11%) NGN
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.11%) VLAN
6 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 654 (71.71%) Power BI
2 145 (15.90%) Tableau
3 116 (12.72%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 61 (6.69%) SQL Server
6 49 (5.37%) Power Query
7 46 (5.04%) Metadata
8 34 (3.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 32 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
10 31 (3.40%) Relational Database
10 31 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (3.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 27 (2.96%) Oracle Database
13 24 (2.63%) BigQuery
14 23 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 21 (2.30%) Delta Lake
15 21 (2.30%) Looker
16 20 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (2.19%) Star Schema
17 19 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 66 (7.24%) JIRA
2 39 (4.28%) Git
3 11 (1.21%) Visual Studio
4 9 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.88%) GitLab
6 7 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.66%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.44%) MLflow
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.33%) Clang
9 3 (0.33%) ERwin
9 3 (0.33%) GCC
9 3 (0.33%) Selenium
10 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 384 (42.11%) Finance
2 289 (31.69%) Social Skills
3 202 (22.15%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (14.14%) Public Sector
5 99 (10.86%) Marketing
6 88 (9.65%) Banking
7 61 (6.69%) Manufacturing
8 59 (6.47%) Telecoms
9 54 (5.92%) Electronics
10 28 (3.07%) Retail
11 25 (2.74%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.52%) Front Office
13 21 (2.30%) Financial Institution
14 20 (2.19%) Legal
14 20 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.75%) Local Government
17 15 (1.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 208 (22.81%) Analyst
2 168 (18.42%) Developer
3 110 (12.06%) Data Engineer
4 84 (9.21%) Lead
4 84 (9.21%) Senior
5 80 (8.77%) Data Analyst
6 77 (8.44%) Business Analyst
7 68 (7.46%) Architect
8 60 (6.58%) Consultant
9 45 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 33 (3.62%) Power BI Developer
11 31 (3.40%) Power Platform Developer
12 27 (2.96%) Data Architect
12 27 (2.96%) Project Manager
13 25 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
14 24 (2.63%) Data Scientist
15 23 (2.52%) Technical Analyst
16 21 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.19%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.26%) PySpark
2 46 (5.04%) .NET
3 33 (3.62%) REST
4 26 (2.85%) Kafka
5 21 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (2.08%) Pandas
7 16 (1.75%) JSON
7 16 (1.75%) SOAP
8 14 (1.54%) scikit-learn
9 13 (1.43%) NumPy
10 12 (1.32%) .NET Framework
10 12 (1.32%) HTML
10 12 (1.32%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (1.32%) React
11 10 (1.10%) Middleware
12 9 (0.99%) SailPoint
12 9 (0.99%) Web Services
13 8 (0.88%) Plotly
13 8 (0.88%) XML
14 7 (0.77%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 35 (3.84%) Data Structures
2 31 (3.40%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.86%) Cloud Native
7 17 (1.86%) Low-Code
8 14 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.43%) Derivative
10 12 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.32%) Reinsurance
10 12 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.10%) Reference Data
13 9 (0.99%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.99%) PMI
14 8 (0.88%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.63%) Windows
2 11 (1.21%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.10%) Unix
4 9 (0.99%) Linux
5 7 (0.77%) Android
5 7 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (34.76%) Analytics
2 259 (28.40%) Data Modelling
3 212 (23.25%) Agile
4 207 (22.70%) Visualisation
5 161 (17.65%) ETL
6 160 (17.54%) Data Governance
7 151 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 150 (16.45%) Decision-Making
9 146 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
10 131 (14.36%) DevOps
11 127 (13.93%) Data Analysis
12 120 (13.16%) Data Visualisation
13 117 (12.83%) Data Engineering
14 112 (12.28%) Migration
15 111 (12.17%) CI/CD
15 111 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 104 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
17 99 (10.86%) Actionable Insight
18 94 (10.31%) AI
19 92 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 431 (47.26%) SQL
2 226 (24.78%) Python
3 64 (7.02%) C#
4 54 (5.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 40 (4.39%) PL/SQL
7 36 (3.95%) R
8 31 (3.40%) PowerShell
9 27 (2.96%) T-SQL
10 22 (2.41%) Java
11 17 (1.86%) VBA
12 14 (1.54%) Scala
13 12 (1.32%) TypeScript
14 10 (1.10%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.10%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.77%) Bicep
16 6 (0.66%) Groovy
17 5 (0.55%) Bash
17 5 (0.55%) C++
17 5 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 140 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 127 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.55%) Degree
4 23 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 14 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.43%) PMP
9 12 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.99%) CFA
12 8 (0.88%) ACCA
13 7 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.77%) CBAP
13 7 (0.77%) CIMA
14 5 (0.55%) CCNP
14 5 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.55%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.44%) CCIE
15 4 (0.44%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (17.87%) Data Quality
2 63 (6.91%) QA
3 59 (6.47%) GDPR
4 39 (4.28%) PMO
5 27 (2.96%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.88%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.66%) GRC
9 5 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.55%) IFRS
9 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.33%) MiFID
10 3 (0.33%) NIST
10 3 (0.33%) P3O
11 2 (0.22%) Basel III
11 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.22%) PERC
11 2 (0.22%) SLA
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) GxP
System Software
1 22 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.54%) Docker
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (4.06%) Terraform
2 18 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.55%) Ansible
4 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.33%) SCCM
6 2 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.22%) Puppet
6 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.22%) vRealize
7 1 (0.11%) Control-M
7 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 258 (28.29%) Microsoft
2 107 (11.73%) Oracle
3 105 (11.51%) Databricks
4 103 (11.29%) SAP
5 36 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.51%) Google
7 28 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.97%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.97%) Lotus
9 16 (1.75%) Cisco
10 13 (1.43%) Informatica
11 11 (1.21%) Adobe
12 10 (1.10%) Citrix
12 10 (1.10%) Planview
13 9 (0.99%) HP
14 7 (0.77%) Apple
14 7 (0.77%) Dell
14 7 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
14 7 (0.77%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.77%) Remedy