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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 37 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +16
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,035 689 899
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.47% 5.57% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.16% 6.04% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 462 641
10th Percentile £360 £350 £319
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £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 £27.03 £31.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% -42.90% +144.61%
75th Percentile £43.44 £37.81 £76.25
90th Percentile £54.80 £78.00 £86.75
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.00 £24.22
% change year-on-year +5.00% +23.89% +6.44%

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 16,795 11,414 15,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.28% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 7,654 11,105
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 205 313
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +5 146 £550 -3.93% 54
West London -5 30 £603 +8.56% 22
South London +3 23 £463 -2.63% 5
East London -6 2 £350 -40.43% 15
North London - 2 £364 - 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 53 (5.12%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 34 (3.29%) Confluence
4 32 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.03%) Apache
6 9 (0.87%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.77%) Mendix
7 8 (0.77%) SAS
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%) IIS
13 1 (0.097%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 139 (13.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 19 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 23 (2.22%) 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%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.39%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.39%) iTrent
5 3 (0.29%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.19%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.19%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 768 (74.20%) Power Platform
2 364 (35.17%) Azure
3 161 (15.56%) AWS
4 98 (9.47%) Snowflake
5 88 (8.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 88 (8.50%) Power Automate
6 84 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (7.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 77 (7.44%) GCP
9 76 (7.34%) PowerApps
10 67 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
11 60 (5.80%) dbt
12 55 (5.31%) GitHub
12 55 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
12 55 (5.31%) Serverless
13 54 (5.22%) Amazon S3
14 42 (4.06%) Microsoft Copilot
15 34 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (3.00%) Microsoft Purview
17 24 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.06%) Firewall
2 9 (0.87%) DNS
2 9 (0.87%) 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
1 760 (73.43%) Power BI
2 201 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
3 173 (16.71%) Tableau
4 115 (11.11%) Data Lake
5 93 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 62 (5.99%) Power Query
7 56 (5.41%) Metadata
8 54 (5.22%) BigQuery
9 44 (4.25%) Looker
10 41 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
11 40 (3.86%) Relational Database
11 40 (3.86%) Star Schema
12 38 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 37 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (3.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 29 (2.80%) Delta Lake
15 29 (2.80%) Spark SQL
16 26 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
18 22 (2.13%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 56 (5.41%) JIRA
2 46 (4.44%) Git
3 24 (2.32%) GitLab
4 11 (1.06%) ERwin
5 10 (0.97%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.77%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
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%) SonarQube
General
1 404 (39.03%) Finance
2 301 (29.08%) Social Skills
3 201 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (9.66%) Banking
5 91 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.54%) Marketing
7 39 (3.77%) Retail
8 38 (3.67%) Law
9 28 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 21 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.84%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (1.55%) Legal
16 15 (1.45%) Front Office
16 15 (1.45%) Local Government
17 13 (1.26%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 244 (23.57%) Analyst
2 176 (17.00%) Data Engineer
3 162 (15.65%) Developer
4 135 (13.04%) Senior
5 132 (12.75%) Architect
6 107 (10.34%) Data Analyst
7 104 (10.05%) Lead
8 71 (6.86%) Business Analyst
9 68 (6.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 57 (5.51%) Consultant
11 47 (4.54%) Senior Data Engineer
12 43 (4.15%) Data Architect
13 42 (4.06%) Lead Architect
13 42 (4.06%) Power BI Developer
14 41 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 36 (3.48%) Senior Developer
16 32 (3.09%) Power Platform Developer
17 31 (3.00%) Functional Architect
18 26 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
19 22 (2.13%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.67%) PySpark
2 37 (3.57%) Kafka
3 34 (3.29%) .NET
4 31 (3.00%) REST
5 25 (2.42%) Middleware
6 21 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (1.74%) React
8 15 (1.45%) JSON
9 14 (1.35%) .NET Framework
9 14 (1.35%) Great Expectations
9 14 (1.35%) HTML
10 12 (1.16%) Pandas
11 11 (1.06%) CSS
12 9 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
12 9 (0.87%) XML
13 8 (0.77%) YAML
14 7 (0.68%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.68%) Apache Avro
14 7 (0.68%) SOAP
14 7 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 53 (5.12%) Cloud Native
2 38 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 27 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.45%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.16%) NHS
10 11 (1.06%) CMDB
11 10 (0.97%) Reference Data
12 9 (0.87%) Clustering
12 9 (0.87%) Derivative
13 8 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.84%) Windows
2 14 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.26%) Linux
4 7 (0.68%) Unix
5 3 (0.29%) Android
5 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (44.25%) Analytics
2 336 (32.46%) Data Modelling
3 232 (22.42%) Agile
4 221 (21.35%) ETL
5 220 (21.26%) AI
6 199 (19.23%) Data Engineering
7 195 (18.84%) Visualisation
8 185 (17.87%) CI/CD
8 185 (17.87%) Decision-Making
9 175 (16.91%) Data Governance
10 173 (16.71%) Migration
11 168 (16.23%) DevOps
12 163 (15.75%) Data Pipeline
12 163 (15.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 162 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
14 132 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 130 (12.56%) Data Analysis
16 129 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 124 (11.98%) Validation
18 117 (11.30%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 505 (48.79%) SQL
2 283 (27.34%) Python
3 108 (10.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 52 (5.02%) C#
5 50 (4.83%) T-SQL
6 41 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 29 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 28 (2.71%) R
9 24 (2.32%) PL/SQL
10 21 (2.03%) Java
11 15 (1.45%) Scala
12 14 (1.35%) Bicep
13 12 (1.16%) TypeScript
14 11 (1.06%) VBA
15 6 (0.58%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.58%) Korn
15 6 (0.58%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.39%) Bash
16 4 (0.39%) LookML
Qualifications
1 164 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 143 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.34%) Degree
4 29 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 26 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.64%) DBS Check
9 15 (1.45%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.58%) PMP
13 6 (0.58%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
15 3 (0.29%) ACCA
15 3 (0.29%) CBAP
15 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (23.96%) Data Quality
2 80 (7.73%) GDPR
3 54 (5.22%) QA
4 43 (4.15%) PMO
5 12 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (0.77%) Solvency II
7 6 (0.58%) GAAP
7 6 (0.58%) SLA
8 5 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.39%) Basel III
9 4 (0.39%) IFRS
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.29%) GRC
10 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.29%) NCSC
11 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.19%) FATCA
11 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 22 (2.13%) Docker
2 17 (1.64%) 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 78 (7.54%) 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 (32.17%) Microsoft
2 139 (13.43%) Databricks
3 85 (8.21%) Oracle
4 39 (3.77%) SAP
5 38 (3.67%) Google
6 32 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.13%) Informatica
9 20 (1.93%) Workday
10 14 (1.35%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.06%) Citrix
12 10 (0.97%) Adobe
13 9 (0.87%) Foundry
13 9 (0.87%) Lotus
14 8 (0.77%) Kofax
14 8 (0.77%) Palantir
14 8 (0.77%) VMware
15 7 (0.68%) Amplitude
15 7 (0.68%) Murex
16 6 (0.58%) Qualtrics