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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 39 38
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 996 653 866
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.47% 5.40% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 5.85% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 434 612
10th Percentile £351 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 11
10th Percentile £16.70 £28.25 £26.24
25th Percentile £18.56 £28.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £28.03 £29.94 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -36.97% +111.25%
75th Percentile £43.44 £39.69 £63.50
90th Percentile £54.80 £58.25 £78.75
England median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £24.22
% change year-on-year -7.12% +20.05% -1.16%

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 16,097 11,157 15,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.20% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,758 7,514 11,083
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 181 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% +10.33% -29.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.84 £63.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +8 138 £550 - 111
West London -2 38 £603 +33.89% 7
South London -9 22 £463 -2.63% 2
East London -7 3 £495 -15.74% 7
North London - 1 £178 -
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 54 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 48 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 32 (3.21%) Confluence
4 31 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.31%) Apache
6 16 (1.61%) HCL Notes
7 12 (1.20%) Mendix
8 4 (0.40%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.30%) SAS
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.10%) CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 135 (13.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.41%) MS Visio
3 16 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (0.50%) Notion
8 3 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 21 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.50%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) iTrent
4 3 (0.30%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 728 (73.09%) Power Platform
2 344 (34.54%) Azure
3 144 (14.46%) AWS
4 92 (9.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 90 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 90 (9.04%) Power Automate
5 90 (9.04%) Snowflake
6 85 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (8.13%) GCP
8 76 (7.63%) PowerApps
9 67 (6.73%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (5.72%) GitHub
11 55 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
12 52 (5.22%) dbt
13 46 (4.62%) Amazon S3
14 44 (4.42%) Serverless
15 39 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
16 28 (2.81%) Microsoft Purview
17 24 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (2.31%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.00%) Firewall
2 9 (0.90%) VPN
3 8 (0.80%) DNS
4 6 (0.60%) Network Security
5 3 (0.30%) DHCP
5 3 (0.30%) FTP
5 3 (0.30%) Internet
5 3 (0.30%) LAN
5 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.30%) WAN
6 2 (0.20%) BGP
6 2 (0.20%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.20%) NAS
6 2 (0.20%) OSPF
6 2 (0.20%) SAN
7 1 (0.10%) HTTP
7 1 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 719 (72.19%) Power BI
2 179 (17.97%) Tableau
3 175 (17.57%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (10.64%) Data Lake
5 96 (9.64%) SQL Server
6 58 (5.82%) BigQuery
7 54 (5.42%) Metadata
7 54 (5.42%) Power Query
8 48 (4.82%) Looker
9 36 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 36 (3.61%) Star Schema
10 35 (3.51%) Relational Database
11 33 (3.31%) Snowflake Schema
12 30 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
13 29 (2.91%) Mixpanel
13 29 (2.91%) Spark SQL
14 27 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 27 (2.71%) Delta Lake
15 24 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (2.21%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 54 (5.42%) JIRA
2 42 (4.22%) Git
3 19 (1.91%) GitLab
4 12 (1.20%) ERwin
5 11 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.00%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.40%) Selenium
10 3 (0.30%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.30%) JMeter
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.30%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.20%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.20%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.10%) GCC
12 1 (0.10%) PeopleTools
General
1 407 (40.86%) Finance
2 289 (29.02%) Social Skills
3 196 (19.68%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.74%) Banking
5 77 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.72%) Marketing
7 39 (3.92%) Law
8 29 (2.91%) Financial Institution
9 26 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 25 (2.51%) Retail
11 24 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.71%) Legal
13 17 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.61%) Front Office
15 15 (1.51%) Local Government
16 14 (1.41%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.31%) Electronics
18 12 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 238 (23.90%) Analyst
2 171 (17.17%) Data Engineer
3 164 (16.47%) Developer
4 133 (13.35%) Senior
5 111 (11.14%) Architect
6 107 (10.74%) Data Analyst
7 96 (9.64%) Lead
8 78 (7.83%) Business Analyst
9 62 (6.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 53 (5.32%) Consultant
11 43 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
12 37 (3.71%) Lead Architect
12 37 (3.71%) Power BI Developer
13 36 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 36 (3.61%) Data Architect
14 35 (3.51%) Senior Developer
15 34 (3.41%) Power Platform Developer
16 31 (3.11%) Functional Architect
17 23 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
18 21 (2.11%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.33%) PySpark
2 42 (4.22%) Kafka
3 40 (4.02%) .NET
4 29 (2.91%) REST
5 22 (2.21%) Middleware
6 20 (2.01%) React
7 18 (1.81%) .NET Framework
7 18 (1.81%) Great Expectations
8 16 (1.61%) JSON
9 15 (1.51%) HTML
10 13 (1.31%) Pandas
11 12 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (1.10%) CSS
13 10 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.00%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (1.00%) XML
14 9 (0.90%) YAML
15 7 (0.70%) Apache Avro
15 7 (0.70%) SOAP
16 6 (0.60%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 51 (5.12%) Cloud Native
2 39 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 23 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.01%) Low-Code
6 17 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.00%) Derivative
10 10 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (0.90%) NHS
12 8 (0.80%) Clustering
12 8 (0.80%) CMDB
12 8 (0.80%) Equities
12 8 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.21%) Windows
2 17 (1.71%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.00%) Linux
4 6 (0.60%) Unix
5 2 (0.20%) Android
5 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (43.27%) Analytics
2 324 (32.53%) Data Modelling
3 221 (22.19%) ETL
4 211 (21.18%) Agile
5 194 (19.48%) Visualisation
6 193 (19.38%) AI
7 192 (19.28%) Data Engineering
8 183 (18.37%) Data Governance
9 178 (17.87%) Decision-Making
10 172 (17.27%) CI/CD
11 166 (16.67%) DevOps
12 163 (16.37%) Migration
13 150 (15.06%) Data Pipeline
14 149 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
15 145 (14.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 140 (14.06%) Data Analysis
17 126 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
18 125 (12.55%) Validation
19 119 (11.95%) Data Visualisation
20 111 (11.14%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 509 (51.10%) SQL
2 279 (28.01%) Python
3 101 (10.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (6.12%) C#
5 49 (4.92%) T-SQL
6 39 (3.92%) JavaScript
7 31 (3.11%) R
8 29 (2.91%) PL/SQL
9 25 (2.51%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.41%) Java
11 19 (1.91%) Scala
12 13 (1.31%) Bicep
13 12 (1.20%) VBA
14 10 (1.00%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.00%) LotusScript
14 10 (1.00%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.50%) Korn
17 4 (0.40%) Bash
17 4 (0.40%) LookML
Qualifications
1 145 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 122 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.03%) Degree
4 26 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.00%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.70%) CBAP
9 7 (0.70%) PMP
10 6 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.50%) IIBA
11 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.50%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.40%) ACCA
12 4 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.20%) CCIE
13 2 (0.20%) CCNP
13 2 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 81 (8.13%) GDPR
3 64 (6.43%) QA
4 40 (4.02%) PMO
5 13 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.60%) GAAP
7 6 (0.60%) SLA
8 5 (0.50%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.40%) Basel III
9 4 (0.40%) IFRS
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) GRC
10 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.20%) COBIT
11 2 (0.20%) FATCA
11 2 (0.20%) MiFID
11 2 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 24 (2.41%) Docker
2 11 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 69 (6.93%) Terraform
2 24 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.00%) Grafana
4 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.50%) Control-M
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.40%) Ansible
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.20%) SCCM
8 1 (0.10%) Kibana
8 1 (0.10%) Nessus
8 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.10%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 309 (31.02%) Microsoft
2 140 (14.06%) Databricks
3 83 (8.33%) Oracle
4 48 (4.82%) SAP
5 44 (4.42%) Google
6 29 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.11%) Workday
9 19 (1.91%) Informatica
10 16 (1.61%) Lotus
11 15 (1.51%) Citrix
12 14 (1.41%) Alteryx
13 12 (1.20%) Kofax
14 9 (0.90%) Amplitude
14 9 (0.90%) VMware
15 8 (0.80%) Adobe
15 8 (0.80%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.80%) Murex
16 7 (0.70%) Foundry
16 7 (0.70%) MicroStrategy