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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 36 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 978 734 875
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.21% 5.54% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 6.10% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 486 599
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
75th Percentile £590 £624 £638
90th Percentile £675 £775 £744
England median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 11
10th Percentile - £27.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £18.25 £28.60 £35.32
Median hourly rate £31.65 £29.07 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -35.40% +100.13%
75th Percentile £42.50 £53.75 £48.29
90th Percentile £55.85 £63.00 £52.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -13.36% +8.35% -5.33%

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 14,221 12,041 16,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.23% 90.87% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,548 7,833 11,601
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 158 349
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.68 £19.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.10
England median hourly rate £28.91 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -17.40% +2.31% -3.42%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +14 133 £525 -1.87% 121
West London +1 38 £600 +26.32% 40
South London -20 14 £463 -5.61% 14
East London 0 5 £495 +23.75% 19
North London -3 1 £500 +96.08% 11
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 60 (6.13%) SharePoint
2 44 (4.50%) Apache Spark
3 34 (3.48%) Confluence
4 27 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (2.66%) Apache
6 14 (1.43%) 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
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
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
1 142 (14.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.64%) MS Visio
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 32 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.61%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.31%) Eloqua
8 3 (0.31%) iTrent
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.20%) Lorenzo
9 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 713 (72.90%) Power Platform
2 357 (36.50%) Azure
3 141 (14.42%) AWS
4 122 (12.47%) Power Automate
5 104 (10.63%) PowerApps
6 96 (9.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 90 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (8.69%) Snowflake
9 82 (8.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 67 (6.85%) Dynamics 365
11 65 (6.65%) GCP
12 63 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
13 54 (5.52%) Serverless
14 47 (4.81%) GitHub
15 41 (4.19%) dbt
16 38 (3.89%) Amazon S3
17 30 (3.07%) Microsoft Copilot
18 28 (2.86%) Azure Functions
19 25 (2.56%) SaaS
20 24 (2.45%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.72%) Network Security
1 7 (0.72%) Wireless
2 5 (0.51%) HTTP
3 4 (0.41%) Firewall
3 4 (0.41%) VPN
3 4 (0.41%) WAN
4 3 (0.31%) LAN
4 3 (0.31%) SD-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%) OSPF
6 1 (0.10%) FTP
6 1 (0.10%) Internet
6 1 (0.10%) NGN
6 1 (0.10%) SAN
6 1 (0.10%) Skype
6 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 701 (71.68%) Power BI
2 158 (16.16%) Tableau
3 152 (15.54%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (10.43%) Data Lake
5 94 (9.61%) SQL Server
6 58 (5.93%) Metadata
7 46 (4.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 40 (4.09%) Power Query
9 38 (3.89%) BigQuery
10 36 (3.68%) Looker
11 32 (3.27%) Delta Lake
11 32 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 30 (3.07%) Relational Database
13 29 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
14 26 (2.66%) Mixpanel
15 25 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
16 24 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
17 23 (2.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 23 (2.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 57 (5.83%) JIRA
2 47 (4.81%) Git
3 17 (1.74%) Visual Studio
4 16 (1.64%) GitLab
5 12 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.92%) ERwin
6 9 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.31%) Selenium
7 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.20%) MLflow
8 2 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.10%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.10%) NUnit
9 1 (0.10%) PeopleTools
9 1 (0.10%) SpecFlow
General
1 386 (39.47%) Finance
2 300 (30.67%) Social Skills
3 208 (21.27%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (12.17%) Public Sector
5 88 (9.00%) Banking
6 79 (8.08%) Marketing
7 48 (4.91%) Manufacturing
8 45 (4.60%) Telecoms
9 43 (4.40%) Electronics
10 27 (2.76%) Financial Institution
10 27 (2.76%) Retail
11 20 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.43%) Front Office
13 14 (1.43%) Local Government
13 14 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.43%) Publishing
14 13 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 209 (21.37%) Analyst
2 188 (19.22%) Developer
3 160 (16.36%) Data Engineer
4 120 (12.27%) Senior
5 91 (9.30%) Lead
6 88 (9.00%) Data Analyst
7 76 (7.77%) Business Analyst
8 67 (6.85%) Architect
9 65 (6.65%) Consultant
10 58 (5.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (3.58%) Power BI Developer
12 33 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
13 32 (3.27%) Power Platform Developer
14 29 (2.97%) Data Architect
15 27 (2.76%) Project Manager
16 26 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
16 26 (2.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 25 (2.56%) Senior Developer
18 23 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
19 22 (2.25%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.93%) PySpark
2 42 (4.29%) .NET
3 35 (3.58%) Kafka
4 31 (3.17%) REST
5 24 (2.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 23 (2.35%) Pandas
7 19 (1.94%) Middleware
8 18 (1.84%) .NET Framework
9 16 (1.64%) Great Expectations
9 16 (1.64%) JSON
9 16 (1.64%) React
10 15 (1.53%) scikit-learn
11 14 (1.43%) NumPy
11 14 (1.43%) SOAP
12 12 (1.23%) Spark Streaming
13 11 (1.12%) HTML
13 11 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
13 11 (1.12%) XML
14 8 (0.82%) Web Services
14 8 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.99%) Data Structures
2 36 (3.68%) Cloud Native
2 36 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (1.74%) Low-Code
6 15 (1.53%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.23%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (0.92%) Reinsurance
11 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.82%) PMI
11 8 (0.82%) Replication
12 7 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.56%) Windows
2 17 (1.74%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.72%) Android
3 7 (0.72%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.31%) Unix
5 2 (0.20%) Linux
5 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (41.41%) Analytics
2 311 (31.80%) Data Modelling
3 224 (22.90%) Visualisation
4 215 (21.98%) Agile
5 208 (21.27%) ETL
6 182 (18.61%) Decision-Making
7 179 (18.30%) Data Governance
8 169 (17.28%) Data Engineering
9 160 (16.36%) DevOps
10 149 (15.24%) AI
10 149 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
11 148 (15.13%) CI/CD
12 136 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 135 (13.80%) Data Visualisation
14 130 (13.29%) Data Analysis
15 127 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
16 118 (12.07%) Migration
17 116 (11.86%) Actionable Insight
18 113 (11.55%) Dashboard Development
19 107 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 504 (51.53%) SQL
2 253 (25.87%) Python
3 72 (7.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (7.06%) C#
5 47 (4.81%) T-SQL
6 43 (4.40%) JavaScript
7 41 (4.19%) PL/SQL
8 33 (3.37%) R
9 27 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.64%) Bicep
10 16 (1.64%) Java
11 14 (1.43%) Scala
11 14 (1.43%) VBA
12 10 (1.02%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.02%) LotusScript
13 9 (0.92%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.61%) Groovy
15 5 (0.51%) Korn
16 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 150 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 136 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 85 (8.69%) Degree
4 28 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 17 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.64%) PMP
9 11 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.72%) CBAP
11 6 (0.61%) ACCA
11 6 (0.61%) CIMA
12 4 (0.41%) CFA
12 4 (0.41%) IIBA
13 3 (0.31%) CCIE
13 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.31%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (23.01%) Data Quality
2 75 (7.67%) GDPR
3 70 (7.16%) QA
4 49 (5.01%) PMO
5 30 (3.07%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.92%) GRC
8 7 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.61%) GAAP
9 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.61%) SLA
10 4 (0.41%) Basel III
10 4 (0.41%) IFRS
10 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.31%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.31%) NIST
11 3 (0.31%) P3O
12 2 (0.20%) FATCA
12 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (2.04%) Docker
2 13 (1.33%) 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 63 (6.44%) Terraform
2 26 (2.66%) 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%) Single Sign-On
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%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 282 (28.83%) Microsoft
2 134 (13.70%) Databricks
3 104 (10.63%) Oracle
4 90 (9.20%) SAP
5 34 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 33 (3.37%) Google
7 32 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.84%) Informatica
9 16 (1.64%) Cisco
9 16 (1.64%) Citrix
10 14 (1.43%) Lotus
11 13 (1.33%) Workday
12 12 (1.23%) Planview
13 10 (1.02%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.92%) HP
14 9 (0.92%) Kofax
14 9 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
14 9 (0.92%) VMware
15 7 (0.72%) Dell
15 7 (0.72%) Murex