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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 35 45
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 844 828 909
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.13% 5.30% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.62% 5.95% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 557 610
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £731 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 14
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.20 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.63 £34.51 £27.79
Median hourly rate £34.00 £52.50 £36.82
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% +42.60% +5.19%
75th Percentile £41.25 £78.13 £48.69
90th Percentile £56.43 £86.88 £52.50
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -26.15% +0.56% -1.31%

All Process and 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 12,740 13,914 18,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.46% 89.10% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,386 8,952 13,004
10th Percentile £331 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 165 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +0.18% +1.33%
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.90 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 +11 121 £525 -1.87% 506
West London -8 19 £500 +5.82% 36
East London -2 5 £525 +19.18% 27
South London -5 4 £400 -8.57% 19
North London -1 2 £500 +96.08% 8
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 (7.11%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.03%) Confluence
3 24 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.61%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.78%) Apache
6 11 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 10 (1.18%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.47%) SAS
11 3 (0.36%) CMS
11 3 (0.36%) Luigi
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.24%) Moodle
12 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 125 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (1.66%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.36%) Trello
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.12%) Notion
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 30 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (1.07%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.83%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.47%) Eloqua
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.47%) SAP APO
9 4 (0.47%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.36%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payroll
10 3 (0.36%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 600 (71.09%) Power Platform
2 277 (32.82%) Azure
3 117 (13.86%) AWS
4 112 (13.27%) Power Automate
5 100 (11.85%) PowerApps
6 70 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (8.06%) Snowflake
8 65 (7.70%) GCP
9 61 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
10 60 (7.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 50 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
12 49 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 40 (4.74%) dbt
14 35 (4.15%) Serverless
15 29 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 27 (3.20%) SaaS
17 26 (3.08%) GitHub
18 25 (2.96%) Entra ID
19 24 (2.84%) Amazon S3
20 22 (2.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) Wireless
2 3 (0.36%) Firewall
2 3 (0.36%) LAN
2 3 (0.36%) Network Security
2 3 (0.36%) VPN
2 3 (0.36%) WAN
3 2 (0.24%) BGP
3 2 (0.24%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (0.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (0.24%) HTTP
3 2 (0.24%) OSPF
3 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.12%) DHCP
4 1 (0.12%) DNS
4 1 (0.12%) FTP
4 1 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.12%) SAN
4 1 (0.12%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 595 (70.50%) Power BI
2 138 (16.35%) Tableau
3 114 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (7.23%) Data Lake
5 54 (6.40%) SQL Server
6 51 (6.04%) Power Query
7 40 (4.74%) Metadata
8 32 (3.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 31 (3.67%) Relational Database
10 30 (3.55%) BigQuery
10 30 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 29 (3.44%) Looker
12 28 (3.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 27 (3.20%) Oracle Reports
14 25 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (2.13%) Oracle Database
17 15 (1.78%) Data Vault
17 15 (1.78%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (7.46%) JIRA
2 38 (4.50%) Git
3 8 (0.95%) GitLab
4 7 (0.83%) MLflow
4 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.59%) ERwin
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.47%) Clang
7 4 (0.47%) GCC
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.24%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.24%) Subversion
8 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.12%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.12%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) ScriptRunner
General
1 343 (40.64%) Finance
2 276 (32.70%) Social Skills
3 194 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (14.22%) Public Sector
5 90 (10.66%) Marketing
6 74 (8.77%) Banking
7 58 (6.87%) Telecoms
8 56 (6.64%) Manufacturing
9 48 (5.69%) Electronics
10 32 (3.79%) Investment Banking
11 26 (3.08%) Front Office
11 26 (3.08%) Retail
12 25 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (2.25%) Legal
14 19 (2.25%) Local Government
14 19 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (1.90%) Publishing
16 15 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (1.18%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 195 (23.10%) Analyst
2 152 (18.01%) Developer
3 97 (11.49%) Data Engineer
4 85 (10.07%) Data Analyst
5 80 (9.48%) Lead
6 76 (9.00%) Senior
7 70 (8.29%) Business Analyst
8 68 (8.06%) Architect
9 60 (7.11%) Consultant
10 43 (5.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 33 (3.91%) Power BI Developer
12 29 (3.44%) Data Architect
13 24 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (2.84%) Power Platform Developer
14 21 (2.49%) Project Manager
14 21 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (2.37%) Azure Data Engineer
15 20 (2.37%) Technical Analyst
16 19 (2.25%) Oracle Developer
17 18 (2.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.98%) .NET
2 40 (4.74%) PySpark
3 32 (3.79%) REST
4 18 (2.13%) Kafka
5 17 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (1.66%) Pandas
7 13 (1.54%) HTML
8 12 (1.42%) SOAP
9 11 (1.30%) JSON
9 11 (1.30%) Web Services
10 10 (1.18%) RESTful
11 9 (1.07%) CSS
11 9 (1.07%) NumPy
11 9 (1.07%) scikit-learn
12 8 (0.95%) HTML5 Canvas
12 8 (0.95%) Middleware
12 8 (0.95%) SailPoint
13 6 (0.71%) .NET Framework
13 6 (0.71%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 22 (2.61%) Onboarding
3 21 (2.49%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.25%) Derivative
6 16 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 15 (1.78%) Fixed Income
7 15 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.54%) Reinsurance
10 12 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.42%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.42%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.30%) NHS
12 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.07%) Equities
13 9 (1.07%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.25%) Windows
2 13 (1.54%) Linux
3 10 (1.18%) Unix
4 7 (0.83%) Android
4 7 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (33.41%) Analytics
2 244 (28.91%) Data Modelling
3 206 (24.41%) Agile
4 194 (22.99%) Visualisation
5 149 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (16.82%) Decision-Making
7 139 (16.47%) ETL
8 136 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 127 (15.05%) Data Governance
10 124 (14.69%) Data Analysis
11 119 (14.10%) Data Visualisation
12 110 (13.03%) DevOps
13 104 (12.32%) Data Engineering
14 95 (11.26%) Actionable Insight
15 94 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 92 (10.90%) CI/CD
16 92 (10.90%) Migration
17 89 (10.55%) Data Pipeline
18 85 (10.07%) Dashboard Development
19 72 (8.53%) AI
Programming Languages
1 407 (48.22%) SQL
2 207 (24.53%) Python
3 54 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 46 (5.45%) C#
5 39 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 33 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 32 (3.79%) PL/SQL
8 30 (3.55%) R
9 24 (2.84%) Java
10 21 (2.49%) T-SQL
11 14 (1.66%) VBA
12 9 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.95%) Bash
14 7 (0.83%) Groovy
14 7 (0.83%) Scala
15 6 (0.71%) Bicep
15 6 (0.71%) C++
16 5 (0.59%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.59%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.59%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 130 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 116 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.65%) Degree
4 19 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 16 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.66%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.07%) ACCA
10 8 (0.95%) CFA
10 8 (0.95%) CIMA
10 8 (0.95%) PMP
11 7 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.83%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CCNP
14 3 (0.36%) CBAP
14 3 (0.36%) CCNA
14 3 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.81%) GDPR
3 46 (5.45%) QA
4 34 (4.03%) PMO
5 27 (3.20%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.95%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.71%) IFRS
7 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.59%) GRC
8 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.47%) Basel II
9 4 (0.47%) COBIT
9 4 (0.47%) NIST
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) HL7
10 3 (0.36%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.24%) P3O
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.83%) Docker
3 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) Xen
5 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (4.03%) Terraform
2 9 (1.07%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.59%) Ansible
4 4 (0.47%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.36%) Puppet
5 3 (0.36%) SCCM
6 2 (0.24%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.24%) vRealize
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) SCOM
7 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 231 (27.37%) Microsoft
2 96 (11.37%) SAP
3 84 (9.95%) Oracle
4 83 (9.83%) Databricks
5 33 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.79%) Google
7 29 (3.44%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.90%) Alteryx
9 15 (1.78%) Cisco
10 11 (1.30%) Adobe
11 10 (1.18%) Lotus
12 9 (1.07%) Planview
12 9 (1.07%) Workday
13 8 (0.95%) HP
13 8 (0.95%) Informatica
14 7 (0.83%) Apple
14 7 (0.83%) Dataiku
14 7 (0.83%) Dell
14 7 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
15 6 (0.71%) DocuSign