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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 988 682 870
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.49% 5.49% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 5.95% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 459 612
10th Percentile £351 £350 £339
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.32%
75th Percentile £594 £643 £638
90th Percentile £675 £788 £750
England median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £16.70 £28.21 £26.24
25th Percentile £18.56 £28.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £28.03 £29.07 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -38.80% +111.25%
75th Percentile £43.44 £44.21 £63.50
90th Percentile £54.80 £58.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £26.21 £28.60 £24.22
% change year-on-year -8.37% +18.11% +0.90%

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 15,883 11,458 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 7,744 11,113
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £809 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 179 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.11 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +22.13% -25.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +7 137 £525 -4.55% 97
West London 0 38 £603 +17.56% 16
South London -7 22 £463 -4.15% 10
East London -8 3 £495 -15.74% 14
North London - 1 £178 - 3
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 55 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 47 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 33 (3.34%) Confluence
4 28 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (2.23%) Apache
6 16 (1.62%) HCL Notes
7 12 (1.21%) Mendix
8 4 (0.40%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.30%) SAS
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.10%) Appian
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 138 (13.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.53%) MS Visio
3 19 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.51%) Notion
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.51%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.30%) iTrent
4 3 (0.30%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.20%) Lorenzo
5 2 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 720 (72.87%) Power Platform
2 341 (34.51%) Azure
3 139 (14.07%) AWS
4 98 (9.92%) Power Automate
5 91 (9.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 88 (8.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 84 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (8.50%) Snowflake
8 81 (8.20%) GCP
8 81 (8.20%) PowerApps
9 73 (7.39%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
11 54 (5.47%) GitHub
12 50 (5.06%) dbt
13 46 (4.66%) Serverless
14 44 (4.45%) Amazon S3
15 37 (3.74%) Microsoft Copilot
16 27 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
17 23 (2.33%) Collibra
18 22 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.91%) Firewall
1 9 (0.91%) VPN
2 8 (0.81%) DNS
3 6 (0.61%) Network Security
4 3 (0.30%) DHCP
4 3 (0.30%) FTP
4 3 (0.30%) LAN
4 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.30%) WAN
5 2 (0.20%) BGP
5 2 (0.20%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.20%) HTTP
5 2 (0.20%) Internet
5 2 (0.20%) OSPF
6 1 (0.10%) NAS
6 1 (0.10%) SAN
6 1 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 711 (71.96%) Power BI
2 177 (17.91%) Tableau
3 174 (17.61%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (10.22%) Data Lake
5 97 (9.82%) SQL Server
6 58 (5.87%) BigQuery
7 55 (5.57%) Metadata
8 51 (5.16%) Power Query
9 47 (4.76%) Looker
10 39 (3.95%) Star Schema
11 38 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 32 (3.24%) Relational Database
13 31 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 29 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (2.94%) Mixpanel
14 29 (2.94%) Spark SQL
15 27 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (2.63%) Delta Lake
17 24 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
18 22 (2.23%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 52 (5.26%) JIRA
2 43 (4.35%) Git
3 18 (1.82%) GitLab
4 13 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.21%) ERwin
5 12 (1.21%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.30%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.30%) JMeter
8 3 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.20%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.20%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.10%) GCC
10 1 (0.10%) SpecFlow
General
1 403 (40.79%) Finance
2 291 (29.45%) Social Skills
3 195 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (9.41%) Banking
5 83 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 58 (5.87%) Marketing
7 38 (3.85%) Law
8 30 (3.04%) Financial Institution
9 28 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.63%) Retail
11 24 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.92%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.72%) Legal
15 16 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (1.52%) Electronics
16 15 (1.52%) Local Government
17 14 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (1.32%) Front Office
19 12 (1.21%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 231 (23.38%) Analyst
2 169 (17.11%) Data Engineer
3 162 (16.40%) Developer
4 132 (13.36%) Senior
5 113 (11.44%) Architect
6 101 (10.22%) Data Analyst
7 94 (9.51%) Lead
8 77 (7.79%) Business Analyst
9 60 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 53 (5.36%) Consultant
11 42 (4.25%) Senior Data Engineer
12 37 (3.74%) Lead Architect
13 36 (3.64%) Power BI Developer
14 35 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 35 (3.54%) Data Architect
14 35 (3.54%) Senior Developer
15 34 (3.44%) Power Platform Developer
16 31 (3.14%) Functional Architect
17 24 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
18 20 (2.02%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.17%) PySpark
2 41 (4.15%) Kafka
3 40 (4.05%) .NET
4 28 (2.83%) REST
5 22 (2.23%) Middleware
6 20 (2.02%) React
7 19 (1.92%) .NET Framework
8 18 (1.82%) Great Expectations
9 16 (1.62%) JSON
10 15 (1.52%) HTML
11 13 (1.32%) Pandas
12 12 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
13 10 (1.01%) CSS
13 10 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.01%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.91%) XML
15 8 (0.81%) YAML
16 7 (0.71%) Apache Avro
16 7 (0.71%) SOAP
17 6 (0.61%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.96%) Cloud Native
2 38 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 38 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.02%) Low-Code
5 16 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.11%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.01%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.01%) Derivative
11 8 (0.81%) Clustering
11 8 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
11 8 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.81%) NHS
12 7 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.23%) Windows
2 18 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.91%) Linux
4 6 (0.61%) Unix
5 2 (0.20%) Android
5 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (42.41%) Analytics
2 326 (33.00%) Data Modelling
3 214 (21.66%) ETL
4 213 (21.56%) Agile
5 189 (19.13%) Data Engineering
6 187 (18.93%) Visualisation
7 186 (18.83%) AI
8 184 (18.62%) Decision-Making
9 180 (18.22%) Data Governance
10 170 (17.21%) CI/CD
11 165 (16.70%) DevOps
12 164 (16.60%) Migration
13 148 (14.98%) Data Pipeline
14 144 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
15 141 (14.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 134 (13.56%) Data Analysis
17 125 (12.65%) Validation
18 118 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
19 110 (11.13%) Data Visualisation
20 107 (10.83%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 495 (50.10%) SQL
2 277 (28.04%) Python
3 98 (9.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 65 (6.58%) C#
5 52 (5.26%) T-SQL
6 42 (4.25%) JavaScript
7 34 (3.44%) R
8 32 (3.24%) PL/SQL
9 25 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.43%) Java
11 20 (2.02%) Scala
12 14 (1.42%) VBA
13 13 (1.32%) Bicep
14 11 (1.11%) TypeScript
15 10 (1.01%) Formula Language
15 10 (1.01%) LotusScript
16 6 (0.61%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.51%) Korn
18 4 (0.40%) LookML
19 3 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 149 (15.08%) Security Cleared
2 126 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.69%) Degree
4 27 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 19 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.32%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.01%) PMP
10 7 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.71%) CBAP
10 7 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.61%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.51%) IIBA
12 5 (0.51%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.40%) ACCA
13 4 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.20%) RIBA
14 2 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (23.58%) Data Quality
2 80 (8.10%) GDPR
3 67 (6.78%) QA
4 43 (4.35%) PMO
5 14 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.61%) GAAP
8 6 (0.61%) SLA
9 4 (0.40%) Basel III
9 4 (0.40%) IFRS
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.40%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.30%) GRC
10 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.20%) FATCA
11 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.20%) P3O
11 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (2.53%) Docker
2 11 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 66 (6.68%) Terraform
2 25 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.01%) Grafana
4 7 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Control-M
5 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Ansible
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.10%) Kibana
8 1 (0.10%) Nessus
8 1 (0.10%) SCCM
8 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.10%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 305 (30.87%) Microsoft
2 140 (14.17%) Databricks
3 85 (8.60%) Oracle
4 51 (5.16%) SAP
5 42 (4.25%) Google
6 31 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.13%) Workday
9 18 (1.82%) Informatica
10 16 (1.62%) Citrix
10 16 (1.62%) Lotus
11 12 (1.21%) Kofax
12 10 (1.01%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.91%) Amplitude
13 9 (0.91%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.81%) Murex
14 8 (0.81%) VMware
15 7 (0.71%) Adobe
15 7 (0.71%) Foundry
15 7 (0.71%) Planview