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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 34 43
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 866 853 934
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.12% 5.39% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 6.03% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 580 633
10th Percentile £325 £300 £361
25th Percentile £406 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £641
90th Percentile £729 £731 £721
England median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 15
10th Percentile £18.25 £26.60 £19.75
25th Percentile £18.63 £29.82 £30.19
Median hourly rate £33.00 £52.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +38.16% +8.57%
75th Percentile £41.25 £77.19 £49.92
90th Percentile £56.43 £100.63 £52.95
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -20.83% -7.18% -4.94%

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 13,057 14,136 18,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 89.39% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,585 9,131 12,920
10th Percentile £334 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 170 250
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.76
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +0.89% -4.39%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £68.06 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

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 November 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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +13 131 £523 -1.83% 340
West London -6 19 £500 +8.11% 35
East London -1 5 £525 +19.18% 31
South London -5 4 £400 -20.00% 12
North London -3 2 £500 +96.08% 2
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 (7.62%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.04%) Confluence
3 26 (3.00%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.85%) Apache
6 11 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 10 (1.15%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) SAS
11 3 (0.35%) CMS
11 3 (0.35%) Luigi
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.23%) Moodle
12 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) Kentico
13 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 140 (16.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.46%) Trello
7 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.12%) Notion
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (1.04%) Oracle Financials
6 8 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.81%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
8 6 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.58%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
10 4 (0.46%) Eloqua
10 4 (0.46%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.46%) SAP APO
10 4 (0.46%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.35%) NEC Housing
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 617 (71.25%) Power Platform
2 287 (33.14%) Azure
3 118 (13.63%) Power Automate
4 112 (12.93%) AWS
5 106 (12.24%) PowerApps
6 72 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 66 (7.62%) Dynamics 365
8 63 (7.27%) Snowflake
9 62 (7.16%) GCP
10 55 (6.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 54 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
12 37 (4.27%) Serverless
13 34 (3.93%) dbt
14 28 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
15 25 (2.89%) Entra ID
15 25 (2.89%) GitHub
16 24 (2.77%) Amazon S3
16 24 (2.77%) Microsoft Copilot
16 24 (2.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.81%) Wireless
2 4 (0.46%) HTTP
2 4 (0.46%) Network Security
2 4 (0.46%) VPN
2 4 (0.46%) WAN
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
3 3 (0.35%) LAN
3 3 (0.35%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.23%) BGP
4 2 (0.23%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.23%) DNS
4 2 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.23%) OSPF
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) DHCP
5 1 (0.12%) FTP
5 1 (0.12%) Skype
5 1 (0.12%) VoIP
5 1 (0.12%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 612 (70.67%) Power BI
2 134 (15.47%) Tableau
3 110 (12.70%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (8.08%) Data Lake
5 58 (6.70%) SQL Server
6 53 (6.12%) Power Query
7 45 (5.20%) Metadata
8 33 (3.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 32 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 31 (3.58%) Oracle Reports
10 31 (3.58%) Relational Database
10 31 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 25 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (2.89%) BigQuery
12 23 (2.66%) Looker
13 21 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (2.19%) Oracle Database
15 18 (2.08%) Delta Lake
16 16 (1.85%) NoSQL
17 14 (1.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (7.27%) JIRA
2 39 (4.50%) Git
3 10 (1.15%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.81%) GitLab
4 7 (0.81%) MLflow
5 6 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.58%) ERwin
7 4 (0.46%) Clang
7 4 (0.46%) GCC
7 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.23%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.23%) Subversion
9 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 357 (41.22%) Finance
2 286 (33.03%) Social Skills
3 197 (22.75%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (14.78%) Public Sector
5 95 (10.97%) Marketing
6 82 (9.47%) Banking
7 61 (7.04%) Manufacturing
8 59 (6.81%) Telecoms
9 51 (5.89%) Electronics
10 30 (3.46%) Investment Banking
11 28 (3.23%) Retail
12 24 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.42%) Front Office
14 19 (2.19%) Legal
14 19 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (2.08%) Local Government
16 16 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.85%) Publishing
17 11 (1.27%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 201 (23.21%) Analyst
2 166 (19.17%) Developer
3 100 (11.55%) Data Engineer
4 85 (9.82%) Data Analyst
5 79 (9.12%) Senior
6 78 (9.01%) Lead
7 70 (8.08%) Architect
7 70 (8.08%) Business Analyst
8 59 (6.81%) Consultant
9 48 (5.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 38 (4.39%) Power BI Developer
11 27 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (3.12%) Data Architect
12 25 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (2.77%) Power Platform Developer
14 22 (2.54%) Azure Data Engineer
14 22 (2.54%) Project Manager
14 22 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.19%) Oracle Developer
15 19 (2.19%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.43%) .NET
2 43 (4.97%) PySpark
3 36 (4.16%) REST
4 21 (2.42%) Kafka
4 21 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 16 (1.85%) SOAP
6 15 (1.73%) HTML
6 15 (1.73%) Pandas
7 14 (1.62%) JSON
8 13 (1.50%) Web Services
9 12 (1.39%) scikit-learn
10 11 (1.27%) NumPy
11 10 (1.15%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.15%) Middleware
11 10 (1.15%) RESTful
12 9 (1.04%) CSS
12 9 (1.04%) SailPoint
13 8 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.92%) OAuth
13 8 (0.92%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 25 (2.89%) Data Structures
3 22 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.62%) Derivative
9 13 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.39%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.39%) Reinsurance
10 12 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.27%) NHS
12 9 (1.04%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.92%) Equities
14 7 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.54%) Windows
2 13 (1.50%) Linux
3 10 (1.15%) Unix
3 10 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.81%) Android
4 7 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (34.18%) Analytics
2 248 (28.64%) Data Modelling
3 204 (23.56%) Visualisation
4 201 (23.21%) Agile
5 146 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 140 (16.17%) ETL
8 138 (15.94%) Decision-Making
9 135 (15.59%) Data Governance
10 126 (14.55%) Data Analysis
11 123 (14.20%) Data Visualisation
12 114 (13.16%) DevOps
13 105 (12.12%) Data Engineering
14 102 (11.78%) Migration
15 101 (11.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 98 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
17 96 (11.09%) CI/CD
18 93 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
19 87 (10.05%) Dashboard Development
20 77 (8.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 410 (47.34%) SQL
2 210 (24.25%) Python
3 56 (6.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 52 (6.00%) C#
5 43 (4.97%) JavaScript
6 36 (4.16%) PL/SQL
7 35 (4.04%) R
8 32 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 24 (2.77%) Java
9 24 (2.77%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.73%) VBA
11 11 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.15%) Scala
13 8 (0.92%) Bash
14 7 (0.81%) C++
14 7 (0.81%) Groovy
15 6 (0.69%) Bicep
16 5 (0.58%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.58%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.58%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 139 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 126 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 79 (9.12%) Degree
4 22 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.62%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.15%) ACCA
11 9 (1.04%) CIMA
11 9 (1.04%) PMP
12 8 (0.92%) CFA
13 7 (0.81%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.58%) CCNP
16 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 3 (0.35%) CBAP
17 3 (0.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (17.09%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.12%) GDPR
3 52 (6.00%) QA
4 33 (3.81%) PMO
5 28 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.92%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.69%) GRC
9 5 (0.58%) IFRS
9 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.46%) COBIT
10 4 (0.46%) NIST
11 3 (0.35%) MiFID
11 3 (0.35%) SLA
12 2 (0.23%) Basel II
12 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.23%) HL7
12 2 (0.23%) P3O
12 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.04%) Docker
3 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) Xen
5 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (3.93%) Terraform
2 12 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.58%) Ansible
4 4 (0.46%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.35%) Puppet
5 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.23%) vRealize
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) SCOM
7 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 244 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 101 (11.66%) SAP
3 96 (11.09%) Oracle
4 91 (10.51%) Databricks
5 38 (4.39%) Salesforce
6 31 (3.58%) ServiceNow
7 28 (3.23%) Google
8 16 (1.85%) Alteryx
8 16 (1.85%) Cisco
9 11 (1.27%) Adobe
10 10 (1.15%) Informatica
10 10 (1.15%) Lotus
11 9 (1.04%) Planview
11 9 (1.04%) Workday
12 8 (0.92%) HP
13 7 (0.81%) Apple
13 7 (0.81%) Citrix
13 7 (0.81%) Dataiku
13 7 (0.81%) Dell
14 6 (0.69%) DocuSign