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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 38 42
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,087 767 834
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.39% 5.64% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 6.11% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 518 602
10th Percentile £360 £347 £306
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £614
90th Percentile £688 £788 £728
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 14
10th Percentile £16.70 £25.98 £28.43
25th Percentile £18.61 £29.07 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -36.74% +41.45%
75th Percentile £34.50 £40.98 £74.56
90th Percentile £56.38 £72.25 £85.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -7.18%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -2 150 £550 - 73
West London -3 28 £499 -10.14% 17
South London +5 23 £463 +42.31% 5
North London +1 4 £450 - 1
East London -2 1 £350 -33.33% 17
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 78 (7.18%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (3.50%) Confluence
4 34 (3.13%) Apache Spark
5 25 (2.30%) Apache
6 9 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.64%) SAS
9 5 (0.46%) CMS
9 5 (0.46%) Mendix
9 5 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.37%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.28%) HCL Notes
11 3 (0.28%) Kentico
12 1 (0.092%) Appian
12 1 (0.092%) Camunda
12 1 (0.092%) IIS
12 1 (0.092%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 1 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 150 (13.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 22 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.18%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 30 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.83%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
7 5 (0.46%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.46%) 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
8 4 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 819 (75.34%) Power Platform
2 370 (34.04%) Azure
3 156 (14.35%) AWS
4 113 (10.40%) Power Automate
5 111 (10.21%) Snowflake
6 102 (9.38%) PowerApps
7 95 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (8.37%) Dynamics 365
9 83 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 82 (7.54%) dbt
11 73 (6.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 64 (5.89%) GCP
13 60 (5.52%) Microsoft Copilot
14 57 (5.24%) Serverless
15 54 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
16 52 (4.78%) Amazon S3
16 52 (4.78%) GitHub
17 38 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
18 31 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
19 29 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.01%) DNS
1 11 (1.01%) Firewall
2 10 (0.92%) VPN
3 5 (0.46%) Network Security
4 3 (0.28%) DHCP
4 3 (0.28%) FTP
4 3 (0.28%) Internet
5 2 (0.18%) Broadband
5 2 (0.18%) NAS
5 2 (0.18%) SAN
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.092%) HTTP
6 1 (0.092%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.092%) LAN
6 1 (0.092%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.092%) SSH
6 1 (0.092%) VoIP
6 1 (0.092%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 813 (74.79%) Power BI
2 211 (19.41%) Data Warehouse
3 168 (15.46%) Tableau
4 102 (9.38%) Data Lake
5 72 (6.62%) SQL Server
6 70 (6.44%) Power Query
7 53 (4.88%) Star Schema
8 50 (4.60%) Metadata
9 46 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (3.77%) BigQuery
11 37 (3.40%) Looker
12 36 (3.31%) Semantic Layer
13 35 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
14 34 (3.13%) Relational Database
15 33 (3.04%) Snowflake Schema
15 33 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 28 (2.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 28 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
18 22 (2.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 79 (7.27%) JIRA
2 47 (4.32%) Git
3 22 (2.02%) GitLab
4 12 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.37%) ERwin
7 4 (0.37%) JDeveloper
7 4 (0.37%) JMeter
7 4 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.28%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.28%) Selenium
9 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.18%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.18%) MLflow
9 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 401 (36.89%) Finance
2 349 (32.11%) Social Skills
3 236 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (9.48%) Banking
5 94 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.24%) Retail
7 52 (4.78%) Marketing
8 42 (3.86%) Law
9 32 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.02%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.84%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.66%) Local Government
15 17 (1.56%) Front Office
16 16 (1.47%) Financial Institution
17 15 (1.38%) Legal
17 15 (1.38%) Manufacturing
18 13 (1.20%) Publishing
19 12 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 273 (25.11%) Analyst
2 175 (16.10%) Developer
3 159 (14.63%) Architect
4 139 (12.79%) Data Engineer
5 132 (12.14%) Senior
6 119 (10.95%) Data Analyst
7 102 (9.38%) Lead
8 80 (7.36%) Business Analyst
9 66 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 57 (5.24%) Consultant
11 55 (5.06%) Data Architect
12 48 (4.42%) Power BI Developer
13 43 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 43 (3.96%) Power Platform Developer
14 40 (3.68%) Lead Architect
15 38 (3.50%) Senior Developer
16 32 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
16 32 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (2.85%) Functional Architect
18 27 (2.48%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.99%) PySpark
2 54 (4.97%) .NET
3 40 (3.68%) REST
4 28 (2.58%) Kafka
5 24 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (2.02%) JSON
7 18 (1.66%) React
8 17 (1.56%) Middleware
9 15 (1.38%) XML
10 13 (1.20%) HTML
10 13 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
11 11 (1.01%) CSS
12 10 (0.92%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.83%) Great Expectations
13 9 (0.83%) Pandas
13 9 (0.83%) RESTful
13 9 (0.83%) SOAP
14 8 (0.74%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.74%) Apache Avro
14 8 (0.74%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.60%) Data Structures
2 47 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 45 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.20%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.10%) FMCG
11 11 (1.01%) Clustering
11 11 (1.01%) CMDB
11 11 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.92%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.92%) NHS
12 10 (0.92%) Reinsurance
13 9 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.93%) Windows
2 17 (1.56%) Linux
3 11 (1.01%) Unix
4 9 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.37%) Android
5 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (40.66%) Analytics
2 356 (32.75%) Data Modelling
3 285 (26.22%) Agile
4 232 (21.34%) AI
5 214 (19.69%) CI/CD
5 214 (19.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 210 (19.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 206 (18.95%) ETL
8 205 (18.86%) Migration
9 197 (18.12%) Decision-Making
10 187 (17.20%) DevOps
11 186 (17.11%) Data Engineering
12 184 (16.93%) Data Governance
13 178 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
14 173 (15.92%) Data Pipeline
14 173 (15.92%) Visualisation
15 140 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 135 (12.42%) Translating Business Requirements
16 135 (12.42%) Validation
17 133 (12.24%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 498 (45.81%) SQL
2 279 (25.67%) Python
3 122 (11.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 58 (5.34%) C#
5 56 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 39 (3.59%) PowerShell
7 37 (3.40%) T-SQL
8 23 (2.12%) PL/SQL
9 20 (1.84%) Java
10 19 (1.75%) R
11 17 (1.56%) VBA
12 15 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.92%) Scala
14 9 (0.83%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.55%) Bash
15 6 (0.55%) Bicep
15 6 (0.55%) Korn
16 4 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.37%) LookML
17 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 181 (16.65%) Security Cleared
2 157 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.53%) Degree
4 26 (2.39%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.66%) DBS Check
7 15 (1.38%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.37%) PMP
11 4 (0.37%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.28%) ACCA
12 3 (0.28%) CISM
12 3 (0.28%) CISSP
12 3 (0.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (22.17%) Data Quality
2 62 (5.70%) GDPR
2 62 (5.70%) QA
3 46 (4.23%) PMO
4 20 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (0.74%) SLA
7 7 (0.64%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.37%) NCSC
10 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.28%) P3O
11 2 (0.18%) Basel III
11 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.18%) COBIT
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.092%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.38%) Docker
3 8 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.092%) RACF
6 1 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (5.80%) Terraform
2 17 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.10%) Grafana
4 10 (0.92%) Ansible
5 9 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.37%) Control-M
10 3 (0.28%) SCCM
11 2 (0.18%) SCOM
12 1 (0.092%) Apache Ranger
12 1 (0.092%) Kibana
12 1 (0.092%) Nessus
12 1 (0.092%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.092%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 364 (33.49%) Microsoft
2 148 (13.62%) Databricks
3 86 (7.91%) Oracle
4 32 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 30 (2.76%) SAP
6 28 (2.58%) Google
7 27 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.66%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.66%) Informatica
9 14 (1.29%) Workday
10 10 (0.92%) Adobe
10 10 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
10 10 (0.92%) Palantir
11 9 (0.83%) VMware
12 8 (0.74%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.74%) Foundry
12 8 (0.74%) Splunk
13 7 (0.64%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.55%) Citrix
14 6 (0.55%) Infoblox