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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 37 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 986 730 888
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.35% 5.41% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.01% 5.97% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 478 606
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £414 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.98% -0.70%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £775 £744
England median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.68 £25.55
25th Percentile £18.72 £27.34 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.70 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% -33.99% +100.13%
75th Percentile £44.38 £55.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £56.20 £65.13 £52.15
England median hourly rate £23.66 £27.50 £28.37
% change year-on-year -13.95% -3.07% +5.07%

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 14,067 12,226 16,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.56% 90.66% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 7,826 11,604
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.34% -17.37%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +12 134 £521 -4.50% 78
West London -1 34 £600 +33.33% 23
South London -14 12 £463 -5.13% 7
East London -4 5 £495 +23.75% 7
North London -2 1 £500 +96.08% 7
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 63 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 39 (3.96%) Confluence
4 26 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (2.54%) Apache
6 15 (1.52%) HCL Notes
7 9 (0.91%) Mendix
8 8 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.41%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.30%) IIS
12 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.10%) CMS
13 1 (0.10%) Kentico
13 1 (0.10%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.10%) SAS
13 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 148 (15.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.30%) Notion
6 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.30%) 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 33 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
5 7 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.61%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.30%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.30%) iTrent
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
10 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 723 (73.33%) Power Platform
2 350 (35.50%) Azure
3 143 (14.50%) AWS
4 126 (12.78%) Power Automate
5 110 (11.16%) PowerApps
6 94 (9.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 92 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (8.52%) Snowflake
9 78 (7.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 67 (6.80%) Dynamics 365
11 64 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
12 63 (6.39%) GCP
13 54 (5.48%) Serverless
14 47 (4.77%) GitHub
15 38 (3.85%) dbt
16 37 (3.75%) Amazon S3
17 29 (2.94%) Azure Functions
17 29 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
18 28 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
19 25 (2.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.71%) Network Security
1 7 (0.71%) Wireless
2 5 (0.51%) HTTP
3 4 (0.41%) Firewall
3 4 (0.41%) VPN
3 4 (0.41%) WAN
4 3 (0.30%) LAN
4 3 (0.30%) 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%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.10%) NGN
6 1 (0.10%) Skype
6 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.10%) VLAN
6 1 (0.10%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 713 (72.31%) Power BI
2 167 (16.94%) Tableau
3 150 (15.21%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (10.14%) Data Lake
5 95 (9.63%) SQL Server
6 59 (5.98%) Metadata
7 45 (4.56%) Power Query
8 42 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 39 (3.96%) Looker
10 38 (3.85%) BigQuery
11 33 (3.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 30 (3.04%) Delta Lake
12 30 (3.04%) Relational Database
13 29 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
14 25 (2.54%) Mixpanel
14 25 (2.54%) Oracle Reports
15 24 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (2.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 23 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 64 (6.49%) JIRA
2 44 (4.46%) Git
3 17 (1.72%) Visual Studio
4 16 (1.62%) GitLab
5 11 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.91%) ERwin
7 8 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.41%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.30%) MLflow
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
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%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.10%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 392 (39.76%) Finance
2 300 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 222 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (12.17%) Public Sector
5 94 (9.53%) Banking
6 83 (8.42%) Marketing
7 49 (4.97%) Manufacturing
8 46 (4.67%) Telecoms
9 44 (4.46%) Electronics
10 29 (2.94%) Retail
11 25 (2.54%) Financial Institution
12 21 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (1.72%) Front Office
15 16 (1.62%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.52%) Local Government
16 15 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (1.52%) Publishing
17 14 (1.42%) Legal
17 14 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (22.21%) Analyst
2 182 (18.46%) Developer
3 162 (16.43%) Data Engineer
4 122 (12.37%) Senior
5 93 (9.43%) Lead
6 92 (9.33%) Data Analyst
7 80 (8.11%) Business Analyst
8 65 (6.59%) Architect
8 65 (6.59%) Consultant
9 51 (5.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 33 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
11 32 (3.25%) Power Platform Developer
12 31 (3.14%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 28 (2.84%) Data Architect
14 26 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (2.64%) Data Scientist
15 25 (2.54%) Project Manager
16 23 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
17 22 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.98%) PySpark
2 45 (4.56%) .NET
3 33 (3.35%) Kafka
4 31 (3.14%) REST
5 24 (2.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 23 (2.33%) Pandas
7 17 (1.72%) .NET Framework
7 17 (1.72%) Middleware
8 16 (1.62%) React
9 15 (1.52%) Great Expectations
9 15 (1.52%) JSON
9 15 (1.52%) scikit-learn
9 15 (1.52%) SOAP
10 14 (1.42%) NumPy
11 11 (1.12%) HTML
11 11 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
12 10 (1.01%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (1.01%) XML
13 8 (0.81%) Web Services
13 8 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.06%) Data Structures
2 35 (3.55%) Product Ownership
3 30 (3.04%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
4 20 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (1.93%) Low-Code
5 19 (1.93%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.62%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.22%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.01%) PMI
9 10 (1.01%) Reinsurance
10 9 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.81%) NHS
11 8 (0.81%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.43%) Windows
2 16 (1.62%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.71%) Android
3 7 (0.71%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.41%) Unix
5 2 (0.20%) Linux
5 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (40.57%) Analytics
2 307 (31.14%) Data Modelling
3 236 (23.94%) Visualisation
4 219 (22.21%) Agile
5 207 (20.99%) ETL
6 181 (18.36%) Decision-Making
7 171 (17.34%) Data Governance
8 164 (16.63%) Data Engineering
9 159 (16.13%) DevOps
10 158 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
11 149 (15.11%) AI
12 146 (14.81%) Data Visualisation
12 146 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 142 (14.40%) CI/CD
14 138 (14.00%) Data Analysis
15 125 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
16 118 (11.97%) Actionable Insight
17 117 (11.87%) Dashboard Development
18 113 (11.46%) Migration
19 108 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 503 (51.01%) SQL
2 254 (25.76%) Python
3 72 (7.30%) C#
4 71 (7.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 46 (4.67%) T-SQL
6 44 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 39 (3.96%) PL/SQL
8 33 (3.35%) R
9 27 (2.74%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.72%) Java
11 16 (1.62%) Bicep
12 14 (1.42%) Scala
12 14 (1.42%) VBA
13 11 (1.12%) TypeScript
14 10 (1.01%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.01%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.61%) Groovy
16 5 (0.51%) Korn
17 3 (0.30%) LookML
18 2 (0.20%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 150 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 136 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.43%) Degree
4 29 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.23%) PMI Certification
7 17 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.62%) PMP
9 13 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.91%) CBAP
13 7 (0.71%) CFA
14 6 (0.61%) ACCA
14 6 (0.61%) CIMA
15 4 (0.41%) IIBA
16 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.30%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.30%) MBA
16 3 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (22.41%) Data Quality
2 74 (7.51%) GDPR
3 72 (7.30%) QA
4 49 (4.97%) PMO
5 30 (3.04%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.91%) GRC
8 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.61%) GAAP
9 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.51%) IFRS
10 5 (0.51%) SLA
11 4 (0.41%) Basel III
11 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.30%) NIST
12 3 (0.30%) P3O
13 2 (0.20%) FATCA
13 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 20 (2.03%) Docker
2 14 (1.42%) 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 64 (6.49%) Terraform
2 26 (2.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.41%) Control-M
4 3 (0.30%) Ansible
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.30%) 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
1 277 (28.09%) Microsoft
2 126 (12.78%) Databricks
3 105 (10.65%) Oracle
4 95 (9.63%) SAP
5 37 (3.75%) Google
6 36 (3.65%) Salesforce
7 32 (3.25%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.83%) Informatica
9 16 (1.62%) Cisco
10 15 (1.52%) Citrix
10 15 (1.52%) Lotus
11 12 (1.22%) Planview
11 12 (1.22%) Workday
12 10 (1.01%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.91%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.91%) HP
13 9 (0.91%) Kofax
13 9 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
14 8 (0.81%) VMware
15 7 (0.71%) Dell