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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 37 38
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,052 730 912
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.38% 5.46% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 5.93% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 483 658
10th Percentile £363 £350 £313
25th Percentile £431 £423 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £624
90th Percentile £675 £788 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.70 £28.36 £30.25
25th Percentile £19.19 £28.84 £41.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% -41.82% +48.65%
75th Percentile £30.59 £37.38 £76.25
90th Percentile £45.50 £75.25 £86.75
England median hourly rate £29.96 £30.81 £24.00
% change year-on-year -2.74% +28.35% -8.48%

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 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +4 143 £550 -0.90% 85
West London -5 29 £603 +33.89% 15
South London +6 23 £463 -2.63% 6
East London -7 2 £350 -33.33% 15
North London - 2 £364 - 1
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 68 (6.46%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.80%) Confluence
3 38 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 33 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.00%) Apache
6 8 (0.76%) SAS
7 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.57%) HCL Notes
9 5 (0.48%) CMS
9 5 (0.48%) Mendix
9 5 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.29%) Kentico
11 1 (0.095%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.095%) Appian
11 1 (0.095%) Camunda
11 1 (0.095%) IIS
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 145 (13.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 24 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.19%) Notion
9 1 (0.095%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 23 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.57%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.57%) iTrent
3 5 (0.48%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.19%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 784 (74.52%) Power Platform
2 361 (34.32%) Azure
3 163 (15.49%) AWS
4 106 (10.08%) Power Automate
5 101 (9.60%) Snowflake
6 93 (8.84%) PowerApps
7 83 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
8 77 (7.32%) GCP
9 76 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 68 (6.46%) dbt
11 66 (6.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 59 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
13 57 (5.42%) Microsoft Copilot
14 56 (5.32%) Amazon S3
15 55 (5.23%) Serverless
16 51 (4.85%) GitHub
17 37 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
18 30 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
19 29 (2.76%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.14%) Firewall
2 11 (1.05%) DNS
2 11 (1.05%) VPN
3 6 (0.57%) Network Security
4 3 (0.29%) DHCP
4 3 (0.29%) FTP
4 3 (0.29%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) LAN
5 2 (0.19%) NAS
5 2 (0.19%) SAN
5 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.095%) BGP
6 1 (0.095%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.095%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.095%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.095%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.095%) OSPF
6 1 (0.095%) SSH
6 1 (0.095%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 778 (73.95%) Power BI
2 192 (18.25%) Data Warehouse
3 179 (17.02%) Tableau
4 96 (9.13%) Data Lake
5 72 (6.84%) SQL Server
6 63 (5.99%) Power Query
7 55 (5.23%) Metadata
8 53 (5.04%) BigQuery
9 46 (4.37%) Looker
10 44 (4.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 44 (4.18%) Star Schema
11 41 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (3.42%) Snowflake Schema
13 34 (3.23%) Relational Database
14 29 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 25 (2.38%) Semantic Layer
16 23 (2.19%) Delta Lake
17 22 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 20 (1.90%) Mixpanel
19 19 (1.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 69 (6.56%) JIRA
2 45 (4.28%) Git
3 20 (1.90%) GitLab
4 11 (1.05%) ERwin
5 8 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.38%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.38%) JMeter
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.19%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.19%) Selenium
9 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.19%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.095%) GCC
10 1 (0.095%) SonarQube
General
1 407 (38.69%) Finance
2 329 (31.27%) Social Skills
3 213 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (10.08%) Banking
5 90 (8.56%) Public Sector
6 48 (4.56%) Retail
7 45 (4.28%) Marketing
8 40 (3.80%) Law
9 30 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.19%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.71%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.71%) Legal
13 18 (1.71%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.52%) Front Office
14 16 (1.52%) Local Government
15 15 (1.43%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.24%) Publishing
17 12 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 252 (23.95%) Analyst
2 170 (16.16%) Developer
3 157 (14.92%) Data Engineer
4 145 (13.78%) Architect
5 128 (12.17%) Senior
6 109 (10.36%) Data Analyst
7 100 (9.51%) Lead
8 83 (7.89%) Business Analyst
9 67 (6.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 56 (5.32%) Consultant
11 45 (4.28%) Data Architect
11 45 (4.28%) Power BI Developer
12 42 (3.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 41 (3.90%) Power Platform Developer
14 40 (3.80%) Lead Architect
15 37 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
16 32 (3.04%) Senior Developer
17 31 (2.95%) Functional Architect
17 31 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
18 22 (2.09%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.56%) PySpark
2 43 (4.09%) .NET
3 32 (3.04%) REST
4 31 (2.95%) Kafka
5 22 (2.09%) Middleware
5 22 (2.09%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (1.81%) JSON
7 16 (1.52%) React
8 12 (1.14%) Great Expectations
9 11 (1.05%) .NET Framework
9 11 (1.05%) HTML
9 11 (1.05%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (0.86%) CSS
10 9 (0.86%) Pandas
11 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (0.76%) RESTful
11 8 (0.76%) YAML
12 7 (0.67%) .NET Core
12 7 (0.67%) SOAP
12 7 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 44 (4.18%) Data Structures
3 34 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.05%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.05%) CMDB
12 10 (0.95%) Reference Data
13 9 (0.86%) Clustering
13 9 (0.86%) Derivative
13 9 (0.86%) FMCG
13 9 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.33%) Windows
2 11 (1.05%) Linux
3 10 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.57%) Unix
5 3 (0.29%) Android
5 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (42.59%) Analytics
2 346 (32.89%) Data Modelling
3 255 (24.24%) Agile
4 229 (21.77%) AI
5 200 (19.01%) CI/CD
6 197 (18.73%) ETL
7 193 (18.35%) Visualisation
8 187 (17.78%) Decision-Making
9 186 (17.68%) Data Engineering
10 182 (17.30%) Migration
11 180 (17.11%) DevOps
12 178 (16.92%) Data Governance
12 178 (16.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 169 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
14 165 (15.68%) Data Pipeline
15 160 (15.21%) Stakeholder Management
16 140 (13.31%) Data Analysis
17 135 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 132 (12.55%) Validation
19 117 (11.12%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 481 (45.72%) SQL
2 282 (26.81%) Python
3 112 (10.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (4.85%) C#
5 46 (4.37%) T-SQL
6 43 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.57%) R
8 25 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.90%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.62%) Java
11 14 (1.33%) TypeScript
12 13 (1.24%) Scala
12 13 (1.24%) VBA
13 9 (0.86%) Bicep
14 6 (0.57%) Korn
14 6 (0.57%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.48%) LookML
16 4 (0.38%) Bash
17 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.29%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 166 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 146 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.32%) Degree
4 25 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.62%) DBS Check
7 16 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.57%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.48%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.38%) CBAP
12 3 (0.29%) ACCA
12 3 (0.29%) CISSP
12 3 (0.29%) IIBA
12 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (23.57%) Data Quality
2 76 (7.22%) GDPR
3 55 (5.23%) QA
4 44 (4.18%) PMO
5 15 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.76%) Solvency II
7 6 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.38%) NCSC
9 4 (0.38%) SLA
10 3 (0.29%) GRC
10 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.19%) COBIT
11 2 (0.19%) FATCA
11 2 (0.19%) GAAP
11 2 (0.19%) MiFID
11 2 (0.19%) P3O
System Software
1 18 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.52%) Docker
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.095%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.095%) RACF
Systems Management
1 73 (6.94%) Terraform
2 16 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.14%) Grafana
4 9 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.57%) Ansible
5 6 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.38%) Control-M
8 3 (0.29%) SCCM
9 1 (0.095%) Kibana
9 1 (0.095%) Nessus
9 1 (0.095%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.095%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 338 (32.13%) Microsoft
2 143 (13.59%) Databricks
3 78 (7.41%) Oracle
4 35 (3.33%) Google
5 33 (3.14%) SAP
6 28 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 27 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.81%) Informatica
9 17 (1.62%) Alteryx
10 15 (1.43%) Workday
11 10 (0.95%) Adobe
11 10 (0.95%) Palantir
12 8 (0.76%) Citrix
12 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.76%) Foundry
12 8 (0.76%) Splunk
12 8 (0.76%) VMware
13 7 (0.67%) Amplitude
13 7 (0.67%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.57%) Infoblox