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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 37 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 991 673 871
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.42% 5.54% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.11% 6.00% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 443 615
10th Percentile £350 £351 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £626
90th Percentile £675 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 14
10th Percentile £16.70 £28.29 £26.62
25th Percentile £17.94 £28.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -39.89% +127.93%
75th Percentile £44.38 £35.00 £74.56
90th Percentile £55.75 £80.75 £85.75
England median hourly rate £27.30 £29.07 £25.34
% change year-on-year -6.09% +14.74% +1.34%

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 16,221 11,218 15,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.28% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,826 7,519 11,090
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 192 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.92 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.63 £63.23 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%

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 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 2 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 2 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 +3 135 £544 -3.33% 97
West London -4 34 £603 +33.89% 6
South London -4 22 £463 -2.63% 2
East London -9 2 £495 -15.74% 8
North London - 1 £178 -
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 48 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 45 (4.54%) Apache Spark
3 32 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (3.03%) Confluence
5 23 (2.32%) Apache
6 12 (1.21%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.01%) Mendix
8 4 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.40%) SAS
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) Kentico
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 133 (13.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.32%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.40%) Notion
8 3 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (2.22%) 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 (0.50%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.40%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.30%) iTrent
5 3 (0.30%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.20%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 727 (73.36%) Power Platform
2 344 (34.71%) Azure
3 144 (14.53%) AWS
4 93 (9.38%) Snowflake
5 90 (9.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 85 (8.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 84 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (8.27%) Power Automate
9 80 (8.07%) GCP
10 69 (6.96%) PowerApps
11 64 (6.46%) Dynamics 365
12 56 (5.65%) dbt
12 56 (5.65%) GitHub
13 50 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (4.54%) Amazon S3
15 42 (4.24%) Serverless
16 40 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
17 28 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
18 23 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
19 21 (2.12%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.91%) Firewall
2 8 (0.81%) DNS
2 8 (0.81%) VPN
3 4 (0.40%) Network Security
4 3 (0.30%) DHCP
4 3 (0.30%) FTP
4 3 (0.30%) Internet
5 2 (0.20%) LAN
5 2 (0.20%) NAS
5 2 (0.20%) SAN
5 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.20%) WAN
6 1 (0.10%) BGP
6 1 (0.10%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.10%) OSPF
6 1 (0.10%) VoIP
6 1 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 719 (72.55%) Power BI
2 184 (18.57%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (17.26%) Tableau
4 104 (10.49%) Data Lake
5 96 (9.69%) SQL Server
6 56 (5.65%) Metadata
6 56 (5.65%) Power Query
7 55 (5.55%) BigQuery
8 48 (4.84%) Looker
9 37 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 36 (3.63%) Star Schema
11 34 (3.43%) Relational Database
12 33 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 31 (3.13%) Spark SQL
14 30 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (2.83%) Delta Lake
16 27 (2.72%) Mixpanel
17 25 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
18 21 (2.12%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 52 (5.25%) JIRA
2 41 (4.14%) Git
3 20 (2.02%) GitLab
4 12 (1.21%) ERwin
5 9 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.40%) Selenium
9 3 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.30%) JMeter
9 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.30%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.20%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.20%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.10%) GCC
11 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 399 (40.26%) Finance
2 282 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 194 (19.58%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (10.09%) Banking
5 76 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 52 (5.25%) Marketing
7 39 (3.94%) Law
8 27 (2.72%) Financial Institution
9 26 (2.62%) Retail
10 25 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.72%) Front Office
13 17 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.61%) Legal
15 14 (1.41%) Investment Banking
15 14 (1.41%) Local Government
15 14 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 237 (23.92%) Analyst
2 173 (17.46%) Data Engineer
3 158 (15.94%) Developer
4 131 (13.22%) Senior
5 115 (11.60%) Architect
6 103 (10.39%) Data Analyst
7 96 (9.69%) Lead
8 76 (7.67%) Business Analyst
9 66 (6.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 57 (5.75%) Consultant
11 45 (4.54%) Senior Data Engineer
12 38 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 38 (3.83%) Lead Architect
12 38 (3.83%) Power BI Developer
13 37 (3.73%) Data Architect
14 35 (3.53%) Senior Developer
15 31 (3.13%) Functional Architect
16 30 (3.03%) Power Platform Developer
17 24 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
18 20 (2.02%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.36%) PySpark
2 39 (3.94%) Kafka
3 35 (3.53%) .NET
4 29 (2.93%) REST
5 22 (2.22%) Middleware
6 18 (1.82%) React
7 16 (1.61%) .NET Framework
7 16 (1.61%) Great Expectations
8 15 (1.51%) JSON
9 14 (1.41%) HTML
9 14 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (1.21%) Pandas
11 11 (1.11%) CSS
12 10 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
12 10 (1.01%) XML
13 9 (0.91%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (0.91%) YAML
14 7 (0.71%) Apache Avro
14 7 (0.71%) SOAP
15 5 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (5.15%) Cloud Native
2 35 (3.53%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 22 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (1.72%) Low-Code
6 15 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (1.51%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.21%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.11%) CMDB
10 10 (1.01%) Derivative
10 10 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.01%) Reference Data
11 9 (0.91%) NHS
12 8 (0.81%) Clustering
12 8 (0.81%) Equities
12 8 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.12%) Windows
2 16 (1.61%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.21%) Linux
4 7 (0.71%) Unix
5 3 (0.30%) Android
5 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (43.59%) Analytics
2 327 (33.00%) Data Modelling
3 222 (22.40%) ETL
4 211 (21.29%) Agile
5 192 (19.37%) AI
6 191 (19.27%) Data Engineering
6 191 (19.27%) Visualisation
7 179 (18.06%) Decision-Making
8 174 (17.56%) Data Governance
9 172 (17.36%) CI/CD
10 165 (16.65%) Migration
11 163 (16.45%) DevOps
12 152 (15.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 150 (15.14%) Data Pipeline
13 150 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
14 133 (13.42%) Data Analysis
15 126 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 121 (12.21%) Validation
17 116 (11.71%) Data Visualisation
18 113 (11.40%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 502 (50.66%) SQL
2 269 (27.14%) Python
3 102 (10.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 52 (5.25%) C#
5 49 (4.94%) T-SQL
6 34 (3.43%) JavaScript
7 28 (2.83%) PL/SQL
7 28 (2.83%) R
8 26 (2.62%) PowerShell
9 23 (2.32%) Java
10 17 (1.72%) Scala
11 13 (1.31%) Bicep
12 11 (1.11%) VBA
13 9 (0.91%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.81%) Formula Language
14 8 (0.81%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.50%) Korn
17 4 (0.40%) Bash
17 4 (0.40%) LookML
Qualifications
1 147 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 126 (12.71%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.06%) Degree
4 25 (2.52%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.21%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.71%) PMP
12 6 (0.61%) CBAP
13 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.50%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.40%) IIBA
14 4 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
15 3 (0.30%) ACCA
16 2 (0.20%) CFA
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (23.51%) Data Quality
2 77 (7.77%) GDPR
3 59 (5.95%) QA
4 38 (3.83%) PMO
5 13 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.61%) GAAP
7 6 (0.61%) SLA
8 5 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.50%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.40%) Basel III
9 4 (0.40%) IFRS
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) GRC
10 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.20%) COBIT
11 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (2.32%) Docker
2 13 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 66 (6.66%) Terraform
2 21 (2.12%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.01%) Grafana
4 7 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.50%) Control-M
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Ansible
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.30%) SCCM
7 1 (0.10%) Kibana
7 1 (0.10%) Nessus
7 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.10%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 308 (31.08%) Microsoft
2 136 (13.72%) Databricks
3 84 (8.48%) Oracle
4 40 (4.04%) Google
4 40 (4.04%) SAP
5 29 (2.93%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.02%) Workday
8 18 (1.82%) Informatica
9 13 (1.31%) Citrix
10 12 (1.21%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.21%) Lotus
11 10 (1.01%) Kofax
12 9 (0.91%) Amplitude
12 9 (0.91%) VMware
13 8 (0.81%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.81%) Murex
14 7 (0.71%) Adobe
14 7 (0.71%) Foundry
15 6 (0.61%) MicroStrategy