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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 38 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,037 678 880
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.01% 5.34% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.73% 5.84% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 461 613
10th Percentile £363 £306 £363
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £590 £619 £638
90th Percentile £675 £774 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 12
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.86 £25.47
25th Percentile £20.64 £28.60 £37.50
Median hourly rate £34.58 £29.07 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% -35.40% +100.13%
75th Percentile £42.19 £34.36 £53.13
90th Percentile £52.90 £54.25 £68.05
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.05 £24.00
% change year-on-year -15.06% +16.88% -12.73%

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 15,405 11,613 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.35% 91.51% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,348 7,877 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 170 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.96 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £23.90 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -12.00%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +16 143 £525 -1.87% 84
West London +3 40 £603 +26.84% 18
South London -16 18 £463 -5.61% 1
East London -1 5 £495 +23.75% 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 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 49 (4.73%) Apache Spark
3 38 (3.66%) Confluence
4 35 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (2.80%) Apache
6 15 (1.45%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.96%) Mendix
8 4 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.19%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.096%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.096%) Appian
11 1 (0.096%) Camunda
11 1 (0.096%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 154 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 22 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.29%) Notion
7 3 (0.29%) Trello
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 29 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
2 8 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 6 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.39%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.19%) Actimize
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.19%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.19%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 764 (73.67%) Power Platform
2 377 (36.35%) Azure
3 158 (15.24%) AWS
4 112 (10.80%) Power Automate
5 103 (9.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 97 (9.35%) Snowflake
7 93 (8.97%) Dynamics 365
8 92 (8.87%) PowerApps
9 90 (8.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 87 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
11 85 (8.20%) GCP
12 64 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
13 58 (5.59%) Serverless
14 52 (5.01%) dbt
14 52 (5.01%) GitHub
15 46 (4.44%) Amazon S3
16 34 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
17 28 (2.70%) Collibra
18 27 (2.60%) Azure Functions
19 26 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) Network Security
1 7 (0.68%) VPN
2 5 (0.48%) Firewall
3 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
4 3 (0.29%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) FTP
4 3 (0.29%) LAN
4 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.29%) Wireless
5 2 (0.19%) BGP
5 2 (0.19%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) OSPF
6 1 (0.096%) NGN
6 1 (0.096%) Skype
6 1 (0.096%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.096%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 753 (72.61%) Power BI
2 185 (17.84%) Tableau
3 179 (17.26%) Data Warehouse
4 112 (10.80%) Data Lake
5 95 (9.16%) SQL Server
6 63 (6.08%) Metadata
7 54 (5.21%) BigQuery
8 47 (4.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 44 (4.24%) Looker
10 40 (3.86%) Power Query
11 37 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
12 33 (3.18%) Star Schema
13 32 (3.09%) Relational Database
14 30 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (2.89%) Mixpanel
15 29 (2.80%) Delta Lake
16 28 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
17 26 (2.51%) OLAP
18 25 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 24 (2.31%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 59 (5.69%) JIRA
2 47 (4.53%) Git
3 17 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.25%) GitLab
5 12 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.06%) ERwin
7 9 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.29%) Selenium
8 3 (0.29%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.19%) MLflow
10 1 (0.096%) GCC
10 1 (0.096%) NUnit
10 1 (0.096%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.096%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 428 (41.27%) Finance
2 304 (29.32%) Social Skills
3 219 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 98 (9.45%) Banking
6 70 (6.75%) Marketing
7 42 (4.05%) Telecoms
8 40 (3.86%) Law
9 34 (3.28%) Manufacturing
10 32 (3.09%) Retail
11 30 (2.89%) Electronics
12 28 (2.70%) Financial Institution
13 23 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 22 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (1.74%) Legal
16 15 (1.45%) Front Office
16 15 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.45%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (22.08%) Analyst
2 176 (16.97%) Data Engineer
3 175 (16.88%) Developer
4 133 (12.83%) Senior
5 113 (10.90%) Architect
6 107 (10.32%) Lead
7 99 (9.55%) Data Analyst
8 86 (8.29%) Business Analyst
9 59 (5.69%) Consultant
10 57 (5.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 39 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
12 35 (3.38%) Lead Architect
13 33 (3.18%) Functional Architect
14 32 (3.09%) Data Architect
15 31 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 31 (2.99%) Power BI Developer
15 31 (2.99%) Power Platform Developer
16 30 (2.89%) Senior Developer
17 26 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
18 24 (2.31%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.50%) PySpark
2 43 (4.15%) Kafka
3 42 (4.05%) .NET
4 27 (2.60%) REST
5 23 (2.22%) Middleware
6 22 (2.12%) Pandas
7 20 (1.93%) Great Expectations
8 19 (1.83%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
8 19 (1.83%) React
9 16 (1.54%) JSON
10 15 (1.45%) NumPy
11 14 (1.35%) HTML
12 13 (1.25%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (1.25%) Spark Streaming
13 12 (1.16%) scikit-learn
13 12 (1.16%) XML
14 10 (0.96%) SOAP
15 9 (0.87%) CSS
16 8 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 43 (4.15%) Data Structures
3 35 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (1.83%) Low-Code
7 17 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.96%) AI Agents
12 9 (0.87%) Derivative
13 8 (0.77%) Clustering
13 8 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.68%) Equities
14 7 (0.68%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.31%) Windows
2 18 (1.74%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.68%) Unix
4 6 (0.58%) Linux
5 3 (0.29%) Android
5 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (42.62%) Analytics
2 339 (32.69%) Data Modelling
3 235 (22.66%) ETL
4 223 (21.50%) Visualisation
5 215 (20.73%) Agile
6 201 (19.38%) Data Engineering
7 197 (19.00%) Decision-Making
8 190 (18.32%) Data Governance
9 182 (17.55%) AI
10 167 (16.10%) Migration
11 166 (16.01%) CI/CD
12 164 (15.81%) DevOps
13 161 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
14 152 (14.66%) Data Pipeline
15 145 (13.98%) Data Analysis
16 141 (13.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 137 (13.21%) Data Visualisation
18 129 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
19 124 (11.96%) Actionable Insight
20 123 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 538 (51.88%) SQL
2 287 (27.68%) Python
3 89 (8.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 73 (7.04%) C#
5 50 (4.82%) T-SQL
6 45 (4.34%) JavaScript
7 34 (3.28%) R
8 32 (3.09%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.51%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.74%) Scala
11 16 (1.54%) Bicep
11 16 (1.54%) Java
11 16 (1.54%) VBA
12 11 (1.06%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.06%) LotusScript
12 11 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.48%) LookML
15 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 152 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 132 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.29%) Degree
4 28 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.06%) PMP
10 8 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.68%) CBAP
12 5 (0.48%) ACCA
12 5 (0.48%) CFA
12 5 (0.48%) IIBA
12 5 (0.48%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.39%) CIMA
13 4 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
14 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 89 (8.58%) GDPR
3 73 (7.04%) QA
4 48 (4.63%) PMO
5 22 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.77%) GRC
9 6 (0.58%) GAAP
9 6 (0.58%) SLA
10 4 (0.39%) Basel III
10 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.39%) IFRS
10 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.19%) FATCA
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 23 (2.22%) Docker
2 13 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.096%) RACF
4 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (6.36%) Terraform
2 25 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.48%) Control-M
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Grafana
5 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.29%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.19%) Ansible
6 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.19%) vRealize
7 1 (0.096%) Kibana
7 1 (0.096%) Nessus
7 1 (0.096%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.096%) SCCM
7 1 (0.096%) SCOM
7 1 (0.096%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 321 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 149 (14.37%) Databricks
3 91 (8.78%) Oracle
4 72 (6.94%) SAP
5 45 (4.34%) Google
6 40 (3.86%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.12%) Informatica
9 19 (1.83%) Workday
10 17 (1.64%) Citrix
11 15 (1.45%) Lotus
12 11 (1.06%) Cisco
13 10 (0.96%) Kofax
13 10 (0.96%) MicroStrategy
14 9 (0.87%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.87%) Murex
14 9 (0.87%) Planview
14 9 (0.87%) VMware
15 8 (0.77%) Sage
16 7 (0.68%) Amplitude