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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 36 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 947 749 848
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.48% 5.36% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.11% 5.92% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 501 570
10th Percentile £325 £300 £363
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -6.82% +0.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.28% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 14
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.70 £25.64
25th Percentile £18.95 £28.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £29.58 £30.59 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -26.29% +84.57%
75th Percentile £41.74 £53.75 £48.69
90th Percentile £56.10 £59.00 £51.98
England median hourly rate £23.66 £28.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -15.49% +1.82% +0.92%

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 13,320 12,644 16,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.20% 90.45% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,835 8,066 11,489
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.90% -7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 292
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.60 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.83
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +14.29% -14.34%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.15 £73.56
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -27.10% -9.21% +8.57%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +13 126 £500 -7.41% 62
West London -7 27 £603 +33.89% 11
East London -5 5 £495 +13.14% 7
North London +2 2 £500 +96.08% 3
South London -19 2 £487 -2.55% 9
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 65 (6.86%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.01%) Confluence
3 37 (3.91%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.43%) Apache
6 17 (1.80%) HCL Notes
7 9 (0.95%) Mendix
7 9 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.32%) IIS
10 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) Luigi
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) SAS
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 147 (15.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (2.11%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.32%) Notion
7 3 (0.32%) 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 34 (3.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.63%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.32%) iTrent
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.21%) Lorenzo
11 2 (0.21%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.21%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 698 (73.71%) Power Platform
2 331 (34.95%) Azure
3 129 (13.62%) Power Automate
4 123 (12.99%) AWS
5 113 (11.93%) PowerApps
6 92 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (8.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 75 (7.92%) Snowflake
9 71 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 68 (7.18%) Dynamics 365
11 62 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
12 57 (6.02%) GCP
13 49 (5.17%) Serverless
14 41 (4.33%) GitHub
15 36 (3.80%) dbt
16 35 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
17 31 (3.27%) Azure Functions
18 30 (3.17%) Amazon S3
19 23 (2.43%) Microsoft Copilot
20 21 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.74%) Network Security
1 7 (0.74%) Wireless
2 5 (0.53%) HTTP
2 5 (0.53%) VPN
2 5 (0.53%) WAN
3 4 (0.42%) Firewall
3 4 (0.42%) LAN
3 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.32%) BGP
4 3 (0.32%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.32%) OSPF
5 1 (0.11%) FTP
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
5 1 (0.11%) NGN
5 1 (0.11%) SAN
5 1 (0.11%) Skype
5 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 691 (72.97%) Power BI
2 143 (15.10%) Tableau
3 139 (14.68%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (10.14%) Data Lake
5 86 (9.08%) SQL Server
6 55 (5.81%) Metadata
7 45 (4.75%) Power Query
8 40 (4.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (3.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 30 (3.17%) Relational Database
10 29 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 29 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 28 (2.96%) Looker
11 28 (2.96%) Oracle Database
11 28 (2.96%) Oracle Reports
12 27 (2.85%) BigQuery
13 25 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (2.64%) Delta Lake
14 23 (2.43%) Star Schema
15 20 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 66 (6.97%) JIRA
2 40 (4.22%) Git
3 16 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.37%) GitLab
5 11 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.74%) ERwin
7 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.42%) MLflow
9 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.32%) Selenium
10 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.11%) NUnit
12 1 (0.11%) PeopleTools
12 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 387 (40.87%) Finance
2 294 (31.05%) Social Skills
3 202 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (13.31%) Public Sector
5 92 (9.71%) Marketing
6 90 (9.50%) Banking
7 56 (5.91%) Manufacturing
8 54 (5.70%) Telecoms
9 51 (5.39%) Electronics
10 30 (3.17%) Retail
11 29 (3.06%) Financial Institution
12 22 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (2.11%) Investment Banking
14 19 (2.01%) Front Office
15 17 (1.80%) Legal
15 17 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (1.58%) Local Government
17 15 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (1.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 211 (22.28%) Analyst
2 187 (19.75%) Developer
3 145 (15.31%) Data Engineer
4 102 (10.77%) Senior
5 89 (9.40%) Lead
6 78 (8.24%) Business Analyst
6 78 (8.24%) Data Analyst
7 62 (6.55%) Architect
8 58 (6.12%) Consultant
9 56 (5.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 36 (3.80%) Power BI Developer
11 31 (3.27%) Power Platform Developer
12 28 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
13 27 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
13 27 (2.85%) Data Architect
14 24 (2.53%) Data Scientist
15 22 (2.32%) Power BI Analyst
15 22 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (2.22%) Project Manager
17 20 (2.11%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.91%) PySpark
2 49 (5.17%) .NET
3 33 (3.48%) REST
4 31 (3.27%) Kafka
5 23 (2.43%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (2.43%) Pandas
6 16 (1.69%) .NET Framework
7 15 (1.58%) scikit-learn
7 15 (1.58%) SOAP
8 14 (1.48%) HTML
8 14 (1.48%) JSON
8 14 (1.48%) NumPy
8 14 (1.48%) React
9 11 (1.16%) HTML5 Canvas
9 11 (1.16%) Middleware
10 10 (1.06%) Great Expectations
10 10 (1.06%) Spark Streaming
11 9 (0.95%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.84%) Web Services
12 8 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (3.38%) Data Structures
1 32 (3.38%) Product Ownership
2 24 (2.53%) Cloud Native
3 23 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.80%) Low-Code
8 14 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.27%) Derivative
11 11 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.06%) PMI
12 10 (1.06%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.95%) NHS
14 8 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.84%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.53%) Windows
2 15 (1.58%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.74%) Android
3 7 (0.74%) Mac OS
3 7 (0.74%) Unix
4 6 (0.63%) Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (38.44%) Analytics
2 278 (29.36%) Data Modelling
3 216 (22.81%) Visualisation
4 212 (22.39%) Agile
5 194 (20.49%) ETL
6 168 (17.74%) Decision-Making
7 161 (17.00%) Data Governance
8 155 (16.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 152 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
10 151 (15.95%) DevOps
11 148 (15.63%) Data Engineering
12 133 (14.04%) Data Analysis
13 132 (13.94%) CI/CD
14 125 (13.20%) Data Visualisation
15 119 (12.57%) AI
16 115 (12.14%) Data Pipeline
17 108 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
18 106 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 103 (10.88%) Dashboard Development
19 103 (10.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 466 (49.21%) SQL
2 240 (25.34%) Python
3 70 (7.39%) C#
4 63 (6.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (4.96%) JavaScript
6 44 (4.65%) PL/SQL
7 34 (3.59%) R
7 34 (3.59%) T-SQL
8 30 (3.17%) PowerShell
9 22 (2.32%) Java
10 17 (1.80%) VBA
11 16 (1.69%) Scala
12 15 (1.58%) Bicep
13 10 (1.06%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.06%) LotusScript
13 10 (1.06%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.63%) Groovy
15 5 (0.53%) Korn
16 3 (0.32%) BeanShell
16 3 (0.32%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 148 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 134 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 88 (9.29%) Degree
4 30 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.32%) PMI Certification
7 21 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.69%) PMP
9 12 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.84%) CBAP
11 8 (0.84%) CFA
12 7 (0.74%) ACCA
12 7 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.63%) CIMA
14 4 (0.42%) CCIE
14 4 (0.42%) CCNP
14 4 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.42%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.42%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (19.96%) Data Quality
2 65 (6.86%) GDPR
2 65 (6.86%) QA
3 42 (4.44%) PMO
4 30 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (0.95%) GRC
7 6 (0.63%) GAAP
7 6 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.63%) IFRS
8 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.42%) Basel III
9 4 (0.42%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.42%) SLA
10 3 (0.32%) NIST
10 3 (0.32%) P3O
11 2 (0.21%) FATCA
11 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.21%) PERC
System Software
1 21 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.01%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (5.60%) Terraform
2 25 (2.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.42%) Ansible
3 4 (0.42%) Control-M
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.32%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.21%) SCCM
5 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.21%) vRealize
6 1 (0.11%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) SCOM
6 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 268 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 115 (12.14%) Databricks
3 108 (11.40%) Oracle
4 100 (10.56%) SAP
5 36 (3.80%) Google
6 34 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.59%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.80%) Cisco
7 17 (1.80%) Informatica
7 17 (1.80%) Lotus
8 14 (1.48%) Citrix
9 13 (1.37%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.27%) Planview
11 10 (1.06%) Workday
12 9 (0.95%) HP
12 9 (0.95%) Kofax
12 9 (0.95%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
14 7 (0.74%) Apple
14 7 (0.74%) Remedy