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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 35 39
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,070 787 822
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.26% 5.89% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 6.36% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 534 554
10th Percentile £338 £330 £301
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £613 £626 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £731
England median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 12
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.86 £27.81
25th Percentile £23.75 £28.25 £42.34
Median hourly rate £28.40 £35.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -34.88% +46.00%
75th Percentile £37.31 £54.13 £76.88
90th Percentile £57.50 £74.75 £79.88
England median hourly rate £29.96 £32.03 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.45% +5.71% -10.00%

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 18,062 12,379 14,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.57% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,844 8,171 9,350
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 241 178
10th Percentile £16.07 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -15.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -5 149 £550 - 196
West London -19 19 £360 -28.00% 46
South London -6 7 £475 +46.15% 17
North London +2 4 £450 -10.00% 1
East London -2 2 £350 -33.33% 14
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 96 (8.97%) SharePoint
2 50 (4.67%) Confluence
3 37 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.62%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.96%) Apache
6 9 (0.84%) SAS
7 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.47%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 5 (0.47%) Mendix
9 3 (0.28%) Kentico
9 3 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.19%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.093%) Appian
11 1 (0.093%) IIS
11 1 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 152 (14.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.19%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.19%) Notion
9 2 (0.19%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 31 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.93%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.65%) Oracle FAH
6 7 (0.65%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.37%) iTrent
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle iProcurement
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.19%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 820 (76.64%) Power Platform
2 390 (36.45%) Azure
3 156 (14.58%) AWS
4 127 (11.87%) Power Automate
5 119 (11.12%) PowerApps
6 114 (10.65%) Snowflake
7 110 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 83 (7.76%) dbt
10 75 (7.01%) Microsoft Copilot
11 69 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 65 (6.07%) Dynamics 365
13 61 (5.70%) Serverless
14 60 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
15 51 (4.77%) GCP
16 50 (4.67%) Amazon S3
17 49 (4.58%) GitHub
18 42 (3.93%) Microsoft Purview
19 34 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
20 31 (2.90%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.03%) DNS
2 10 (0.93%) Firewall
3 8 (0.75%) VPN
4 4 (0.37%) Network Security
5 3 (0.28%) DHCP
5 3 (0.28%) FTP
6 2 (0.19%) Broadband
6 2 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.19%) NAS
6 2 (0.19%) SAN
6 2 (0.19%) SSL
6 2 (0.19%) VoIP
7 1 (0.093%) 4G
7 1 (0.093%) CTI
7 1 (0.093%) HTTP
7 1 (0.093%) LAN
7 1 (0.093%) PBX
7 1 (0.093%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.093%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.093%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 818 (76.45%) Power BI
2 211 (19.72%) Data Warehouse
3 161 (15.05%) Tableau
4 96 (8.97%) Data Lake
5 83 (7.76%) Power Query
6 70 (6.54%) SQL Server
7 58 (5.42%) Metadata
8 49 (4.58%) Star Schema
9 44 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 40 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
11 38 (3.55%) Looker
12 33 (3.08%) Relational Database
12 33 (3.08%) Semantic Layer
13 32 (2.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 29 (2.71%) Snowflake Schema
15 28 (2.62%) BigQuery
16 26 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (2.34%) Delta Lake
17 25 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 24 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 87 (8.13%) JIRA
2 55 (5.14%) Git
3 24 (2.24%) GitLab
4 12 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.65%) RStudio
7 6 (0.56%) Selenium
7 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.47%) Terragrunt
9 4 (0.37%) JDeveloper
9 4 (0.37%) JMeter
9 4 (0.37%) MLflow
10 3 (0.28%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.19%) ERwin
11 2 (0.19%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.19%) Postman
11 2 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.19%) rollup.js
11 2 (0.19%) Storybook
11 2 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 371 (34.67%) Finance
2 358 (33.46%) Social Skills
3 256 (23.93%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (10.37%) Banking
5 93 (8.69%) Public Sector
6 67 (6.26%) Retail
7 49 (4.58%) Marketing
8 34 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.71%) Local Government
10 26 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.15%) Legal
12 21 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.78%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.59%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.40%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.40%) Front Office
16 14 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.31%) Publishing
17 13 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 273 (25.51%) Analyst
2 177 (16.54%) Developer
3 133 (12.43%) Architect
4 127 (11.87%) Data Engineer
5 123 (11.50%) Senior
6 118 (11.03%) Data Analyst
7 80 (7.48%) Business Analyst
8 75 (7.01%) Consultant
9 70 (6.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 70 (6.54%) Lead
10 56 (5.23%) Data Architect
11 54 (5.05%) Power BI Developer
12 42 (3.93%) Power Platform Developer
13 33 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
14 32 (2.99%) Senior Developer
15 30 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 29 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
18 27 (2.52%) Report Analyst
19 24 (2.24%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.85%) PySpark
2 66 (6.17%) Terraform
3 56 (5.23%) .NET
4 49 (4.58%) REST
5 23 (2.15%) Kafka
6 22 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (2.06%) React
7 17 (1.59%) JSON
8 14 (1.31%) XML
9 13 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
9 13 (1.21%) SOAP
10 12 (1.12%) HTML
11 10 (0.93%) CSS
11 10 (0.93%) Pandas
12 9 (0.84%) .NET Core
12 9 (0.84%) Middleware
12 9 (0.84%) RESTful
12 9 (0.84%) Web Services
13 8 (0.75%) Great Expectations
13 8 (0.75%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.23%) Product Ownership
2 54 (5.05%) Data Structures
3 43 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.46%) Cloud Native
5 33 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 15 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.12%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.12%) FMCG
10 12 (1.12%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.03%) NHS
11 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.93%) Clustering
13 9 (0.84%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.96%) Windows
2 15 (1.40%) Linux
3 9 (0.84%) Unix
4 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.37%) Android
5 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (41.87%) Analytics
2 331 (30.93%) Data Modelling
3 293 (27.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 290 (27.10%) Agile
5 246 (22.99%) AI
6 219 (20.47%) CI/CD
7 207 (19.35%) Decision-Making
8 193 (18.04%) DevOps
9 189 (17.66%) Data Governance
9 189 (17.66%) ETL
10 187 (17.48%) Data Engineering
10 187 (17.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 180 (16.82%) Migration
12 176 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
13 165 (15.42%) Visualisation
14 155 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
15 148 (13.83%) Validation
16 136 (12.71%) Data Analysis
17 115 (10.75%) Actionable Insight
18 114 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 514 (48.04%) SQL
2 284 (26.54%) Python
3 121 (11.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 65 (6.07%) JavaScript
5 62 (5.79%) C#
6 40 (3.74%) PowerShell
7 34 (3.18%) T-SQL
8 28 (2.62%) R
9 21 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.68%) Java
11 17 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 14 (1.31%) VBA
13 8 (0.75%) Bash
13 8 (0.75%) Scala
14 5 (0.47%) Bicep
14 5 (0.47%) Korn
14 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.47%) LookML
14 5 (0.47%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 152 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 132 (12.34%) SC Cleared
3 67 (6.26%) Degree
4 28 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 26 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.78%) DBS Check
7 18 (1.68%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.50%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.12%) PMP
10 10 (0.93%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.47%) ACCA
13 4 (0.37%) CISM
13 4 (0.37%) CISSP
13 4 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
13 4 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.28%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (25.51%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.23%) QA
3 43 (4.02%) GDPR
4 32 (2.99%) PMO
5 20 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.12%) SLA
7 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.47%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.28%) COBIT
9 3 (0.28%) GRC
9 3 (0.28%) NCSC
9 3 (0.28%) NIST
9 3 (0.28%) P3O
9 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 18 (1.68%) Active Directory
1 18 (1.68%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.40%) Ansible
3 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.93%) Grafana
5 9 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (0.37%) Control-M
9 3 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.19%) SCOM
11 1 (0.093%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.093%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.093%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 366 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 147 (13.74%) Databricks
3 92 (8.60%) Oracle
4 31 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 26 (2.43%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.87%) Alteryx
7 19 (1.78%) SAP
8 17 (1.59%) Informatica
9 16 (1.50%) Google
10 13 (1.21%) Workday
11 12 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
12 9 (0.84%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.84%) VMware
13 8 (0.75%) Palantir
13 8 (0.75%) Splunk
14 7 (0.65%) Adobe
14 7 (0.65%) AppDynamics
14 7 (0.65%) Planview
15 6 (0.56%) BMC
15 6 (0.56%) Remedy