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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 37 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 979 729 893
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.36% 5.45% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 6.01% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 477 610
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.87% +0.23%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £775 £744
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.68 £25.55
25th Percentile £18.72 £27.34 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.70 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% -33.99% +100.13%
75th Percentile £44.38 £55.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £56.20 £65.13 £52.15
England median hourly rate £23.66 £27.50 £28.37
% change year-on-year -13.95% -3.07% +5.07%

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 13,941 12,133 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.57% 90.64% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,301 7,761 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 151 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.88 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +12 133 £521 -4.93% 80
West London -1 34 £600 +33.33% 22
South London -15 12 £463 -5.13% 9
East London -4 5 £495 +23.75% 8
North London -2 1 £500 +96.08% 8
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 63 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 38 (3.88%) Confluence
4 26 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (2.55%) Apache
6 15 (1.53%) HCL Notes
7 9 (0.92%) Mendix
8 8 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.41%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.31%) IIS
12 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.10%) CMS
13 1 (0.10%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.10%) SAS
13 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 148 (15.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.84%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.31%) Notion
6 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.31%) Trello
7 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
5 7 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.61%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.31%) iTrent
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.20%) Lorenzo
10 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 718 (73.34%) Power Platform
2 348 (35.55%) Azure
3 143 (14.61%) AWS
4 126 (12.87%) Power Automate
5 110 (11.24%) PowerApps
6 92 (9.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 92 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (8.48%) Snowflake
8 77 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 67 (6.84%) Dynamics 365
10 63 (6.44%) GCP
10 63 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
11 54 (5.52%) Serverless
12 46 (4.70%) GitHub
13 38 (3.88%) dbt
14 37 (3.78%) Amazon S3
15 29 (2.96%) Azure Functions
16 28 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
17 24 (2.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.72%) Wireless
2 6 (0.61%) Network Security
3 5 (0.51%) HTTP
4 4 (0.41%) VPN
4 4 (0.41%) WAN
5 3 (0.31%) Firewall
5 3 (0.31%) LAN
5 3 (0.31%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.20%) BGP
6 2 (0.20%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.20%) OSPF
7 1 (0.10%) FTP
7 1 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.10%) NGN
7 1 (0.10%) SAN
7 1 (0.10%) Skype
7 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 709 (72.42%) Power BI
2 166 (16.96%) Tableau
3 148 (15.12%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (10.01%) Data Lake
5 93 (9.50%) SQL Server
6 59 (6.03%) Metadata
7 45 (4.60%) Power Query
8 41 (4.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 38 (3.88%) BigQuery
9 38 (3.88%) Looker
10 32 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (3.06%) Delta Lake
12 29 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (2.96%) Relational Database
13 25 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
14 24 (2.45%) Mixpanel
14 24 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (2.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 23 (2.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 63 (6.44%) JIRA
2 44 (4.49%) Git
3 17 (1.74%) Visual Studio
4 16 (1.63%) GitLab
5 11 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.92%) ERwin
7 8 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.41%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.31%) MLflow
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.31%) Selenium
9 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.20%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.10%) PeopleTools
11 1 (0.10%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 391 (39.94%) Finance
2 298 (30.44%) Social Skills
3 220 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 94 (9.60%) Banking
6 82 (8.38%) Marketing
7 49 (5.01%) Manufacturing
8 46 (4.70%) Telecoms
9 44 (4.49%) Electronics
10 29 (2.96%) Retail
11 25 (2.55%) Financial Institution
12 21 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (1.74%) Front Office
15 16 (1.63%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.53%) Local Government
16 15 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (1.53%) Publishing
17 14 (1.43%) Legal
17 14 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (22.17%) Analyst
2 182 (18.59%) Developer
3 160 (16.34%) Data Engineer
4 121 (12.36%) Senior
5 92 (9.40%) Data Analyst
5 92 (9.40%) Lead
6 79 (8.07%) Business Analyst
7 65 (6.64%) Architect
8 64 (6.54%) Consultant
9 51 (5.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 33 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
11 32 (3.27%) Power Platform Developer
12 31 (3.17%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 28 (2.86%) Data Architect
14 26 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (2.66%) Data Scientist
15 23 (2.35%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.03%) PySpark
2 45 (4.60%) .NET
3 33 (3.37%) Kafka
4 31 (3.17%) REST
5 24 (2.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 23 (2.35%) Pandas
7 17 (1.74%) .NET Framework
8 16 (1.63%) Middleware
8 16 (1.63%) React
9 15 (1.53%) Great Expectations
9 15 (1.53%) JSON
9 15 (1.53%) scikit-learn
9 15 (1.53%) SOAP
10 14 (1.43%) NumPy
11 11 (1.12%) HTML
11 11 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
12 10 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (1.02%) XML
13 8 (0.82%) Web Services
13 8 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.98%) Data Structures
2 34 (3.47%) Product Ownership
3 29 (2.96%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 20 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (1.94%) Low-Code
5 19 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.02%) PMI
10 10 (1.02%) Reinsurance
11 9 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.82%) NHS
12 8 (0.82%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.45%) Windows
2 16 (1.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.72%) Android
3 7 (0.72%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.41%) Unix
5 2 (0.20%) Linux
5 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (40.65%) Analytics
2 305 (31.15%) Data Modelling
3 234 (23.90%) Visualisation
4 217 (22.17%) Agile
5 206 (21.04%) ETL
6 181 (18.49%) Decision-Making
7 170 (17.36%) Data Governance
8 163 (16.65%) Data Engineering
9 158 (16.14%) DevOps
10 156 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
11 147 (15.02%) AI
12 145 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 144 (14.71%) Data Visualisation
14 141 (14.40%) CI/CD
15 138 (14.10%) Data Analysis
16 122 (12.46%) Data Pipeline
17 117 (11.95%) Actionable Insight
18 116 (11.85%) Dashboard Development
19 111 (11.34%) Migration
20 107 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 500 (51.07%) SQL
2 253 (25.84%) Python
3 72 (7.35%) C#
4 70 (7.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 45 (4.60%) T-SQL
6 44 (4.49%) JavaScript
7 39 (3.98%) PL/SQL
8 32 (3.27%) R
9 27 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.74%) Java
11 16 (1.63%) Bicep
12 14 (1.43%) Scala
12 14 (1.43%) VBA
13 11 (1.12%) TypeScript
14 10 (1.02%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.02%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.61%) Groovy
16 5 (0.51%) Korn
17 3 (0.31%) LookML
18 2 (0.20%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 150 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 136 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.50%) Degree
4 29 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.25%) PMI Certification
7 17 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.63%) PMP
9 13 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.92%) CBAP
13 7 (0.72%) CFA
14 6 (0.61%) ACCA
14 6 (0.61%) CIMA
15 4 (0.41%) IIBA
16 3 (0.31%) CCIE
16 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.31%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (22.57%) Data Quality
2 73 (7.46%) GDPR
3 71 (7.25%) QA
4 49 (5.01%) PMO
5 30 (3.06%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.92%) GRC
8 7 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.61%) GAAP
9 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.51%) IFRS
10 5 (0.51%) SLA
11 4 (0.41%) Basel III
11 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.31%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.31%) NIST
12 3 (0.31%) P3O
13 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.20%) PERC
13 2 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (2.04%) Docker
2 14 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (6.54%) Terraform
2 25 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.41%) Control-M
4 3 (0.31%) Ansible
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.31%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.20%) Grafana
5 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.20%) SCCM
5 2 (0.20%) vRealize
6 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
6 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) SCOM
6 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 273 (27.89%) Microsoft
2 125 (12.77%) Databricks
3 104 (10.62%) Oracle
4 95 (9.70%) SAP
5 37 (3.78%) Google
6 35 (3.58%) Salesforce
7 32 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.84%) Informatica
9 16 (1.63%) Cisco
10 15 (1.53%) Citrix
10 15 (1.53%) Lotus
11 12 (1.23%) Planview
11 12 (1.23%) Workday
12 10 (1.02%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.92%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.92%) HP
13 9 (0.92%) Kofax
13 9 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
14 8 (0.82%) VMware
15 7 (0.72%) Dell