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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 34 42
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 946 756 848
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.55% 5.39% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 5.97% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 506 571
10th Percentile £325 £300 £363
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £695 £738 £738
England median daily rate £490 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 15
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.65 £22.45
25th Percentile £18.95 £27.67 £30.62
Median hourly rate £29.58 £52.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.67% +38.16% +69.00%
75th Percentile £41.74 £53.75 £48.29
90th Percentile £56.10 £64.25 £51.80
England median hourly rate £23.58 £28.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -15.80% +1.82% +1.85%

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 13,189 12,665 16,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.34% 90.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,718 8,082 11,550
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 155 276
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.69
25th Percentile £24.69 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.45 £73.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +15 126 £500 -13.04% 55
West London -8 25 £600 +33.33% 16
East London -3 5 £495 +13.14% 9
South London -13 3 £475 -5.00% 6
North London -1 2 £500 +96.08% 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 69 (7.29%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.02%) Confluence
3 36 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (2.33%) Apache
6 20 (2.11%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.06%) Mendix
8 9 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.32%) IIS
11 3 (0.32%) SAS
11 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.21%) Luigi
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.21%) Moodle
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.11%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 146 (15.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (2.11%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.32%) Notion
6 3 (0.32%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 37 (3.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
4 9 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.63%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.32%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.32%) iTrent
9 3 (0.32%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.21%) FIS Private Capital Suite
10 2 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 696 (73.57%) Power Platform
2 329 (34.78%) Azure
3 133 (14.06%) Power Automate
4 120 (12.68%) AWS
5 116 (12.26%) PowerApps
6 91 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 71 (7.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 71 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
8 71 (7.51%) Snowflake
9 59 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
10 54 (5.71%) GCP
11 50 (5.29%) Serverless
12 41 (4.33%) GitHub
13 36 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 35 (3.70%) dbt
15 33 (3.49%) Azure Functions
16 28 (2.96%) Amazon S3
17 23 (2.43%) Microsoft Copilot
18 22 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.85%) Network Security
2 7 (0.74%) Wireless
3 6 (0.63%) VPN
3 6 (0.63%) WAN
4 5 (0.53%) Firewall
4 5 (0.53%) HTTP
4 5 (0.53%) LAN
4 5 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.42%) BGP
5 4 (0.42%) BIG-IP
5 4 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (0.42%) OSPF
6 1 (0.11%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) Internet
6 1 (0.11%) NGN
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) Skype
6 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 690 (72.94%) Power BI
2 142 (15.01%) Tableau
3 140 (14.80%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (10.04%) Data Lake
5 86 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 53 (5.60%) Metadata
7 44 (4.65%) Power Query
8 40 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 35 (3.70%) Relational Database
10 31 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (3.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 29 (3.07%) Oracle Database
12 29 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (2.85%) Looker
13 27 (2.85%) Oracle Reports
14 26 (2.75%) BigQuery
15 25 (2.64%) Delta Lake
16 23 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (2.33%) Star Schema
18 21 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 64 (6.77%) JIRA
2 41 (4.33%) Git
3 15 (1.59%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.37%) GitLab
5 11 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.63%) ERwin
6 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.42%) MLflow
8 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.32%) Selenium
9 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) PeopleTools
11 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 389 (41.12%) Finance
2 295 (31.18%) Social Skills
3 199 (21.04%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (13.53%) Public Sector
5 94 (9.94%) Marketing
6 91 (9.62%) Banking
7 56 (5.92%) Manufacturing
8 55 (5.81%) Telecoms
9 51 (5.39%) Electronics
10 29 (3.07%) Financial Institution
10 29 (3.07%) Retail
11 22 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.22%) Investment Banking
13 20 (2.11%) Front Office
14 17 (1.80%) Legal
14 17 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (1.59%) Local Government
16 15 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (1.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 210 (22.20%) Analyst
2 188 (19.87%) Developer
3 140 (14.80%) Data Engineer
4 100 (10.57%) Senior
5 85 (8.99%) Lead
6 80 (8.46%) Data Analyst
7 77 (8.14%) Business Analyst
8 63 (6.66%) Architect
9 60 (6.34%) Consultant
10 55 (5.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
12 32 (3.38%) Power Platform Developer
13 28 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
14 27 (2.85%) Data Architect
15 26 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (2.54%) Data Scientist
17 22 (2.33%) Power BI Analyst
17 22 (2.33%) Project Manager
17 22 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
18 20 (2.11%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (5.81%) PySpark
2 52 (5.50%) .NET
3 33 (3.49%) REST
4 30 (3.17%) Kafka
5 23 (2.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (2.33%) Pandas
7 16 (1.69%) JSON
7 16 (1.69%) React
8 15 (1.59%) .NET Framework
8 15 (1.59%) HTML
8 15 (1.59%) SOAP
9 14 (1.48%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.37%) NumPy
11 12 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (1.16%) Middleware
13 10 (1.06%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.95%) Great Expectations
14 9 (0.95%) SailPoint
15 8 (0.85%) Web Services
15 8 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (3.49%) Data Structures
1 33 (3.49%) Product Ownership
2 23 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (2.11%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 18 (1.90%) Low-Code
6 17 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.37%) Derivative
9 12 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.16%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.06%) Reinsurance
12 9 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (0.95%) NHS
12 9 (0.95%) PMI
13 8 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.54%) Windows
2 14 (1.48%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.74%) Android
3 7 (0.74%) Mac OS
3 7 (0.74%) Unix
4 6 (0.63%) Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (37.95%) Analytics
2 279 (29.49%) Data Modelling
3 217 (22.94%) Visualisation
4 212 (22.41%) Agile
5 193 (20.40%) ETL
6 166 (17.55%) Decision-Making
7 157 (16.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 156 (16.49%) Data Governance
9 151 (15.96%) DevOps
10 148 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
11 147 (15.54%) Data Engineering
12 131 (13.85%) CI/CD
13 130 (13.74%) Data Analysis
14 125 (13.21%) Data Visualisation
15 115 (12.16%) Data Pipeline
16 114 (12.05%) AI
17 108 (11.42%) Actionable Insight
18 107 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 104 (10.99%) Dashboard Development
20 102 (10.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 467 (49.37%) SQL
2 241 (25.48%) Python
3 72 (7.61%) C#
4 62 (6.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 51 (5.39%) JavaScript
6 44 (4.65%) PL/SQL
7 36 (3.81%) R
8 33 (3.49%) T-SQL
9 30 (3.17%) PowerShell
10 23 (2.43%) Java
11 18 (1.90%) VBA
12 15 (1.59%) Bicep
12 15 (1.59%) Scala
13 12 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 11 (1.16%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.16%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.63%) Groovy
16 5 (0.53%) Korn
17 4 (0.42%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 148 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 133 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.09%) Degree
4 29 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 15 (1.59%) PMP
8 13 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.85%) CFA
11 7 (0.74%) ACCA
11 7 (0.74%) CBAP
12 6 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.63%) CIMA
13 5 (0.53%) CCIE
13 5 (0.53%) CCNP
13 5 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.42%) CCSE
14 4 (0.42%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (19.45%) Data Quality
2 65 (6.87%) GDPR
3 62 (6.55%) QA
4 42 (4.44%) PMO
5 30 (3.17%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.95%) GRC
8 7 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.74%) IFRS
9 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.53%) GAAP
9 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.53%) SLA
10 4 (0.42%) Basel III
10 4 (0.42%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.32%) NIST
11 3 (0.32%) P3O
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.21%) PERC
12 2 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.01%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (5.50%) Terraform
2 25 (2.64%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.53%) Ansible
4 4 (0.42%) Control-M
4 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.32%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.21%) SCCM
6 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) vRealize
7 1 (0.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.11%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 270 (28.54%) Microsoft
2 112 (11.84%) Databricks
3 109 (11.52%) Oracle
4 98 (10.36%) SAP
5 35 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 34 (3.59%) Google
6 34 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.11%) Lotus
8 18 (1.90%) Cisco
9 17 (1.80%) Informatica
10 14 (1.48%) Alteryx
11 13 (1.37%) Citrix
12 12 (1.27%) Planview
13 10 (1.06%) Kofax
13 10 (1.06%) Workday
14 9 (0.95%) HP
15 8 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
15 8 (0.85%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.85%) Remedy
16 7 (0.74%) Apple