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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 37 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +16
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,008 697 879
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.17% 5.37% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 5.90% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 480 611
10th Percentile £351 £306 £363
25th Percentile £415 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £591 £616 £638
90th Percentile £675 £774 £744
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 10
10th Percentile - £27.17 £26.15
25th Percentile £18.25 £28.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £31.65 £29.07 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -35.40% +100.13%
75th Percentile £42.50 £38.49 £48.69
90th Percentile £55.85 £55.25 £54.20
England median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £24.22
% change year-on-year -13.36% +13.57% -9.03%

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 14,664 11,819 16,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.79% 91.08% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,843 7,917 11,504
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 161 342
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year - +17.71% -16.22%
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.50 £69.43
England median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +18 142 £525 -1.87% 87
West London +5 38 £603 +26.84% 15
South London -16 16 £463 -5.61% 1
East London -2 5 £495 +23.75% 4
North London -2 1 £500 +85.19%
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 61 (6.05%) SharePoint
2 46 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 35 (3.47%) Confluence
4 33 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (2.88%) Apache
6 15 (1.49%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.99%) Mendix
8 4 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.099%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.099%) Camunda
11 1 (0.099%) Luigi
11 1 (0.099%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 150 (14.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.88%) MS Visio
3 18 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.30%) Notion
6 3 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 30 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.40%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.30%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.30%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.30%) iTrent
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.20%) Lorenzo
8 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 737 (73.12%) Power Platform
2 364 (36.11%) Azure
3 154 (15.28%) AWS
4 117 (11.61%) Power Automate
5 101 (10.02%) PowerApps
6 99 (9.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 90 (8.93%) Snowflake
8 89 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
9 82 (8.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 73 (7.24%) Dynamics 365
11 72 (7.14%) GCP
12 66 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
13 55 (5.46%) Serverless
14 49 (4.86%) GitHub
15 47 (4.66%) dbt
16 43 (4.27%) Amazon S3
17 34 (3.37%) Microsoft Copilot
18 27 (2.68%) Azure Functions
19 26 (2.58%) Collibra
19 26 (2.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.79%) Network Security
2 7 (0.69%) Wireless
3 6 (0.60%) VPN
4 5 (0.50%) Firewall
4 5 (0.50%) HTTP
5 4 (0.40%) WAN
6 3 (0.30%) LAN
6 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.20%) BGP
7 2 (0.20%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.20%) DNS
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.20%) Internet
7 2 (0.20%) OSPF
8 1 (0.099%) NGN
8 1 (0.099%) SAN
8 1 (0.099%) Skype
8 1 (0.099%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.099%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 725 (71.92%) Power BI
2 176 (17.46%) Tableau
3 163 (16.17%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (10.42%) Data Lake
5 95 (9.42%) SQL Server
6 62 (6.15%) Metadata
7 46 (4.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 45 (4.46%) BigQuery
9 39 (3.87%) Power Query
10 38 (3.77%) Looker
11 32 (3.17%) Delta Lake
11 32 (3.17%) Relational Database
12 30 (2.98%) Snowflake Schema
13 29 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
13 29 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (2.88%) Mixpanel
13 29 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 24 (2.38%) OLAP
14 24 (2.38%) Oracle Database
14 24 (2.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (5.36%) JIRA
2 46 (4.56%) Git
3 17 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 15 (1.49%) GitLab
5 12 (1.19%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.99%) ERwin
7 9 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.30%) Selenium
9 3 (0.30%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.20%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.20%) MLflow
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.099%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.099%) GCC
11 1 (0.099%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.099%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.099%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 409 (40.58%) Finance
2 300 (29.76%) Social Skills
3 214 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (12.30%) Public Sector
5 93 (9.23%) Banking
6 75 (7.44%) Marketing
7 46 (4.56%) Telecoms
8 45 (4.46%) Manufacturing
9 40 (3.97%) Electronics
10 27 (2.68%) Financial Institution
11 25 (2.48%) Retail
12 22 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.79%) Law
15 15 (1.49%) Legal
16 14 (1.39%) Front Office
16 14 (1.39%) Publishing
17 13 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.29%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 228 (22.62%) Analyst
2 187 (18.55%) Developer
3 160 (15.87%) Data Engineer
4 127 (12.60%) Senior
5 99 (9.82%) Lead
6 93 (9.23%) Data Analyst
7 87 (8.63%) Business Analyst
8 85 (8.43%) Architect
9 64 (6.35%) Consultant
10 63 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 39 (3.87%) Power BI Developer
12 35 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
13 34 (3.37%) Power Platform Developer
14 29 (2.88%) Data Architect
14 29 (2.88%) Senior Developer
15 28 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 24 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
18 22 (2.18%) Project Manager
19 21 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.75%) PySpark
2 42 (4.17%) .NET
3 39 (3.87%) Kafka
4 26 (2.58%) REST
5 22 (2.18%) Pandas
6 21 (2.08%) Middleware
6 21 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
7 19 (1.88%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.88%) Great Expectations
7 19 (1.88%) React
8 14 (1.39%) JSON
8 14 (1.39%) NumPy
9 13 (1.29%) scikit-learn
9 13 (1.29%) Spark Streaming
10 12 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (1.19%) XML
11 10 (0.99%) HTML
12 9 (0.89%) SOAP
12 9 (0.89%) Web Services
13 7 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.37%) Cloud Native
2 41 (4.07%) Data Structures
3 30 (2.98%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.98%) Low-Code
7 18 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.19%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.89%) Reinsurance
14 8 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.79%) PMI
14 8 (0.79%) Replication
15 7 (0.69%) Derivative
15 7 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.38%) Windows
2 18 (1.79%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.69%) Android
3 7 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.50%) Unix
5 4 (0.40%) Linux
6 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (41.37%) Analytics
2 323 (32.04%) Data Modelling
3 221 (21.92%) Visualisation
4 217 (21.53%) ETL
5 212 (21.03%) Agile
6 192 (19.05%) Decision-Making
7 183 (18.15%) Data Engineering
8 181 (17.96%) Data Governance
9 164 (16.27%) DevOps
10 161 (15.97%) AI
11 157 (15.58%) CI/CD
12 155 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
13 143 (14.19%) Data Analysis
14 140 (13.89%) Migration
15 138 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 135 (13.39%) Data Visualisation
17 130 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
18 125 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 123 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
20 110 (10.91%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 524 (51.98%) SQL
2 266 (26.39%) Python
3 82 (8.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 72 (7.14%) C#
5 46 (4.56%) T-SQL
6 42 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 35 (3.47%) PL/SQL
8 34 (3.37%) R
9 29 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.69%) Java
11 15 (1.49%) Bicep
11 15 (1.49%) Scala
12 13 (1.29%) VBA
13 11 (1.09%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.09%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.60%) Korn
15 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.20%) Go
16 2 (0.20%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 162 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 145 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.73%) Degree
4 27 (2.68%) Azure Certification
4 27 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.79%) PMI Certification
7 13 (1.29%) PMP
8 12 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.69%) CBAP
12 6 (0.60%) ACCA
12 6 (0.60%) CIMA
13 5 (0.50%) CFA
14 4 (0.40%) IIBA
15 3 (0.30%) CCIE
15 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.30%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.30%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (23.91%) Data Quality
2 86 (8.53%) GDPR
3 70 (6.94%) QA
4 47 (4.66%) PMO
5 29 (2.88%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.89%) GRC
8 8 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.60%) GAAP
9 6 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.60%) SLA
10 4 (0.40%) Basel III
10 4 (0.40%) IFRS
10 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.40%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.30%) NIST
11 3 (0.30%) P3O
11 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.20%) FATCA
System Software
1 21 (2.08%) Docker
2 13 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.099%) RACF
4 1 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (6.25%) Terraform
2 27 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.40%) Control-M
4 3 (0.30%) Ansible
4 3 (0.30%) Grafana
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.30%) RSA Archer
4 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.20%) SCCM
5 2 (0.20%) vRealize
6 1 (0.099%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.099%) Kibana
6 1 (0.099%) Nessus
6 1 (0.099%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.099%) SCOM
6 1 (0.099%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.099%) WSUS
Vendors
1 299 (29.66%) Microsoft
2 143 (14.19%) Databricks
3 97 (9.62%) Oracle
4 84 (8.33%) SAP
5 40 (3.97%) Google
6 36 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.88%) Informatica
9 18 (1.79%) Workday
10 17 (1.69%) Citrix
11 16 (1.59%) Cisco
12 15 (1.49%) Lotus
13 10 (0.99%) Kofax
13 10 (0.99%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.89%) HP
14 9 (0.89%) MicroStrategy
14 9 (0.89%) Planview
14 9 (0.89%) VMware
15 7 (0.69%) Dell
15 7 (0.69%) Murex