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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 38 41
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,099 757 827
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.49% 5.70% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.16% 6.17% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 510 589
10th Percentile £356 £349 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 16
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.67 £26.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £30.54 £38.59
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.65 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -35.53% +25.73%
75th Percentile £30.59 £47.23 £76.88
90th Percentile £57.50 £74.75 £84.38
England median hourly rate £29.96 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.52% +5.79% -6.27%

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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -4 144 £550 -0.45% 150
West London -6 22 £480 -2.04% 38
South London -9 12 £463 +68.18% 8
North London +4 4 £450 -
East London -3 1 £350 -33.33% 18
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 91 (8.28%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.82%) Confluence
3 36 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (3.00%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.09%) Apache
6 9 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.82%) SAS
7 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.55%) Mendix
9 5 (0.45%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.45%) CMS
10 4 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
11 3 (0.27%) Kentico
12 2 (0.18%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.091%) Appian
13 1 (0.091%) IIS
13 1 (0.091%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 1 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 154 (14.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.55%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.18%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 30 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
3 9 (0.82%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
3 9 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
4 7 (0.64%) Oracle FAH
5 6 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.36%) iTrent
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle iProcurement
7 4 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 831 (75.61%) Power Platform
2 382 (34.76%) Azure
3 155 (14.10%) AWS
4 118 (10.74%) Snowflake
5 117 (10.65%) Power Automate
6 111 (10.10%) PowerApps
7 106 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (8.46%) Dynamics 365
9 86 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 82 (7.46%) dbt
11 70 (6.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 68 (6.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 68 (6.19%) Serverless
13 60 (5.46%) GCP
13 60 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
14 54 (4.91%) GitHub
15 48 (4.37%) Amazon S3
16 38 (3.46%) Microsoft Purview
17 37 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
18 31 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.00%) DNS
1 11 (1.00%) Firewall
2 9 (0.82%) VPN
3 4 (0.36%) Network Security
4 3 (0.27%) DHCP
4 3 (0.27%) FTP
5 2 (0.18%) Broadband
5 2 (0.18%) Internet
5 2 (0.18%) NAS
5 2 (0.18%) SAN
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.091%) HTTP
6 1 (0.091%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.091%) LAN
6 1 (0.091%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.091%) SSH
6 1 (0.091%) VoIP
6 1 (0.091%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 829 (75.43%) Power BI
2 206 (18.74%) Data Warehouse
3 162 (14.74%) Tableau
4 99 (9.01%) Data Lake
5 77 (7.01%) Power Query
6 68 (6.19%) SQL Server
7 57 (5.19%) Metadata
8 55 (5.00%) Star Schema
9 47 (4.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 38 (3.46%) BigQuery
10 38 (3.46%) Looker
11 36 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
12 35 (3.18%) Relational Database
13 34 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (3.09%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (3.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 25 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (2.27%) Delta Lake
15 25 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 24 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 82 (7.46%) JIRA
2 50 (4.55%) Git
3 23 (2.09%) GitLab
4 11 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (0.64%) RStudio
6 6 (0.55%) Selenium
6 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.36%) ERwin
7 4 (0.36%) JDeveloper
7 4 (0.36%) JMeter
7 4 (0.36%) MLflow
7 4 (0.36%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.27%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.18%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.18%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 402 (36.58%) Finance
2 350 (31.85%) Social Skills
3 247 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (10.01%) Banking
5 88 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.91%) Retail
7 52 (4.73%) Marketing
8 41 (3.73%) Law
9 35 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (2.27%) Local Government
13 21 (1.91%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.55%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.46%) Front Office
15 16 (1.46%) Manufacturing
16 15 (1.36%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.18%) Legal
17 13 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 276 (25.11%) Analyst
2 174 (15.83%) Developer
3 163 (14.83%) Architect
4 138 (12.56%) Data Engineer
5 129 (11.74%) Senior
6 118 (10.74%) Data Analyst
7 102 (9.28%) Lead
8 83 (7.55%) Business Analyst
9 68 (6.19%) Consultant
10 66 (6.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 60 (5.46%) Data Architect
12 50 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
13 40 (3.64%) Lead Architect
13 40 (3.64%) Power Platform Developer
14 37 (3.37%) Senior Developer
15 35 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 31 (2.82%) Functional Architect
16 31 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
17 30 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
18 28 (2.55%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (8.10%) PySpark
2 70 (6.37%) Terraform
3 58 (5.28%) .NET
4 48 (4.37%) REST
5 29 (2.64%) Kafka
6 25 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 23 (2.09%) React
8 19 (1.73%) JSON
9 15 (1.36%) XML
10 14 (1.27%) HTML
10 14 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (1.09%) CSS
11 12 (1.09%) Middleware
12 11 (1.00%) Great Expectations
13 10 (0.91%) SOAP
14 9 (0.82%) .NET Core
14 9 (0.82%) Apache Avro
14 9 (0.82%) RESTful
15 8 (0.73%) OAuth
15 8 (0.73%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.64%) Data Structures
2 47 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 39 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.46%) Low-Code
8 15 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.18%) FMCG
9 13 (1.18%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.09%) Clustering
11 11 (1.00%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.00%) NHS
12 10 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (0.91%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.91%) Windows
2 18 (1.64%) Linux
3 12 (1.09%) Unix
4 7 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.36%) Android
5 4 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (41.13%) Analytics
2 346 (31.48%) Data Modelling
3 285 (25.93%) Agile
4 251 (22.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 243 (22.11%) AI
6 227 (20.66%) CI/CD
7 222 (20.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 205 (18.65%) Migration
9 203 (18.47%) ETL
10 200 (18.20%) Data Engineering
11 194 (17.65%) DevOps
12 191 (17.38%) Decision-Making
13 189 (17.20%) Data Governance
14 178 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
15 167 (15.20%) Data Pipeline
16 166 (15.10%) Visualisation
17 148 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 142 (12.92%) Validation
19 136 (12.37%) Translating Business Requirements
20 134 (12.19%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 503 (45.77%) SQL
2 293 (26.66%) Python
3 125 (11.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 65 (5.91%) JavaScript
5 63 (5.73%) C#
6 43 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 32 (2.91%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.46%) R
9 21 (1.91%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.73%) Java
11 17 (1.55%) VBA
12 16 (1.46%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.91%) Scala
14 9 (0.82%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.64%) Bash
16 6 (0.55%) Bicep
16 6 (0.55%) LookML
17 5 (0.45%) Korn
17 5 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
18 3 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 170 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 147 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.01%) Degree
4 29 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.73%) DBS Check
7 18 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.73%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.45%) PMP
14 4 (0.36%) ACCA
14 4 (0.36%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
14 4 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.27%) CISM
15 3 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (23.11%) Data Quality
2 60 (5.46%) QA
3 51 (4.64%) GDPR
4 38 (3.46%) PMO
5 22 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.09%) SLA
7 8 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.55%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.27%) NCSC
10 3 (0.27%) P3O
11 2 (0.18%) Basel III
11 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.18%) COBIT
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (1.73%) Active Directory
1 19 (1.73%) Docker
2 9 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.18%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.091%) RACF
4 1 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.36%) Ansible
3 11 (1.00%) Grafana
3 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (0.45%) Control-M
6 5 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.27%) SCCM
8 2 (0.18%) SCOM
9 1 (0.091%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.091%) Nessus
9 1 (0.091%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.091%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 385 (35.03%) Microsoft
2 151 (13.74%) Databricks
3 93 (8.46%) Oracle
4 33 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.55%) SAP
6 24 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.09%) Google
8 21 (1.91%) Informatica
9 20 (1.82%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.09%) Workday
11 10 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
12 9 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.82%) Palantir
12 9 (0.82%) VMware
13 8 (0.73%) Adobe
13 8 (0.73%) Splunk
14 7 (0.64%) AppDynamics
15 6 (0.55%) BMC
15 6 (0.55%) Infoblox
15 6 (0.55%) Remedy