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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 34 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 864 831 926
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.13% 5.33% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 5.97% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 565 626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £361
25th Percentile £406 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £731 £703
England median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 15
10th Percentile £18.25 £26.60 £19.75
25th Percentile £19.02 £29.82 £30.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £52.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% +38.16% +8.57%
75th Percentile £41.25 £77.19 £49.92
90th Percentile £55.85 £100.63 £52.95
England median hourly rate £23.88 £30.30 £32.32
% change year-on-year -21.19% -6.27% -4.94%

All Process and 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 13,010 13,919 17,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.33% 89.24% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 8,971 12,826
10th Percentile £333 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 166 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.38 £18.70
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +3.21% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.56 £62.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £80.38 £76.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +28.57%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +10 128 £513 -3.76% 342
West London -7 19 £500 +8.11% 34
East London -1 5 £525 +19.18% 30
South London -7 4 £400 -20.00% 11
North London -5 2 £500 +96.08% 6
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 (7.29%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.17%) Confluence
3 25 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.85%) Apache
6 11 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 10 (1.16%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) SAS
11 3 (0.35%) CMS
11 3 (0.35%) Luigi
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.23%) Moodle
12 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 136 (15.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.46%) Trello
7 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.12%) Notion
9 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.81%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.58%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.46%) Eloqua
9 4 (0.46%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.46%) SAP APO
9 4 (0.46%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Payroll
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 612 (70.83%) Power Platform
2 282 (32.64%) Azure
3 114 (13.19%) Power Automate
4 110 (12.73%) AWS
5 102 (11.81%) PowerApps
6 69 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
8 63 (7.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 63 (7.29%) Snowflake
9 62 (7.18%) GCP
10 55 (6.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 52 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
12 36 (4.17%) dbt
12 36 (4.17%) Serverless
13 29 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
14 25 (2.89%) Entra ID
14 25 (2.89%) GitHub
15 24 (2.78%) Amazon S3
15 24 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
15 24 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.81%) Wireless
2 4 (0.46%) Network Security
2 4 (0.46%) VPN
2 4 (0.46%) WAN
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
3 3 (0.35%) HTTP
3 3 (0.35%) LAN
3 3 (0.35%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.23%) BGP
4 2 (0.23%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.23%) DNS
4 2 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.23%) OSPF
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) NGN
5 1 (0.12%) SAN
5 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 607 (70.25%) Power BI
2 135 (15.63%) Tableau
3 109 (12.62%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (8.10%) Data Lake
5 55 (6.37%) SQL Server
6 52 (6.02%) Power Query
7 44 (5.09%) Metadata
8 35 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 34 (3.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 33 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 32 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
12 31 (3.59%) Relational Database
13 26 (3.01%) BigQuery
14 24 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (2.78%) Looker
15 21 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (2.08%) Oracle Database
17 17 (1.97%) Delta Lake
18 15 (1.74%) NoSQL
19 14 (1.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (7.41%) JIRA
2 38 (4.40%) Git
3 8 (0.93%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.81%) GitLab
4 7 (0.81%) MLflow
5 6 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.58%) ERwin
7 4 (0.46%) Clang
7 4 (0.46%) GCC
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.23%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.23%) Subversion
9 1 (0.12%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.12%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 355 (41.09%) Finance
2 286 (33.10%) Social Skills
3 191 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (14.58%) Public Sector
5 95 (11.00%) Marketing
6 79 (9.14%) Banking
7 60 (6.94%) Manufacturing
8 58 (6.71%) Telecoms
9 50 (5.79%) Electronics
10 30 (3.47%) Investment Banking
11 28 (3.24%) Retail
12 24 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.55%) Front Office
14 20 (2.31%) Local Government
15 19 (2.20%) Legal
15 19 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (1.85%) Publishing
19 11 (1.27%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 200 (23.15%) Analyst
2 162 (18.75%) Developer
3 98 (11.34%) Data Engineer
4 85 (9.84%) Data Analyst
5 79 (9.14%) Senior
6 78 (9.03%) Lead
7 71 (8.22%) Business Analyst
8 69 (7.99%) Architect
9 60 (6.94%) Consultant
10 47 (5.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 37 (4.28%) Power BI Developer
12 27 (3.13%) Data Architect
13 26 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
14 25 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (2.66%) Power Platform Developer
15 23 (2.66%) Project Manager
16 21 (2.43%) Azure Data Engineer
16 21 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
17 19 (2.20%) Oracle Developer
17 19 (2.20%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.09%) .NET
2 42 (4.86%) PySpark
3 36 (4.17%) REST
4 22 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (2.31%) Kafka
6 16 (1.85%) SOAP
7 15 (1.74%) Pandas
8 14 (1.62%) HTML
9 13 (1.50%) JSON
9 13 (1.50%) Web Services
10 12 (1.39%) scikit-learn
11 11 (1.27%) NumPy
12 10 (1.16%) Middleware
12 10 (1.16%) RESTful
13 9 (1.04%) CSS
13 9 (1.04%) SailPoint
14 8 (0.93%) .NET Framework
14 8 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
15 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
15 7 (0.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 25 (2.89%) Data Structures
3 21 (2.43%) Onboarding
3 21 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.74%) Derivative
7 14 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.50%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.50%) Reinsurance
9 12 (1.39%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.39%) NHS
9 12 (1.39%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.16%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.93%) Equities
14 7 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.31%) Windows
2 13 (1.50%) Linux
3 10 (1.16%) Unix
4 8 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.81%) Android
5 7 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (34.38%) Analytics
2 242 (28.01%) Data Modelling
3 202 (23.38%) Visualisation
4 199 (23.03%) Agile
5 146 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 143 (16.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 141 (16.32%) ETL
8 134 (15.51%) Data Governance
8 134 (15.51%) Decision-Making
9 126 (14.58%) Data Analysis
10 122 (14.12%) Data Visualisation
11 112 (12.96%) DevOps
12 104 (12.04%) Data Engineering
13 103 (11.92%) Migration
14 99 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 97 (11.23%) Actionable Insight
16 94 (10.88%) CI/CD
17 91 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
18 86 (9.95%) Dashboard Development
19 77 (8.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 416 (48.15%) SQL
2 211 (24.42%) Python
3 55 (6.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 48 (5.56%) C#
5 40 (4.63%) JavaScript
6 34 (3.94%) PL/SQL
7 33 (3.82%) R
8 32 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 24 (2.78%) Java
10 23 (2.66%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.74%) VBA
12 10 (1.16%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.04%) Scala
14 8 (0.93%) Bash
15 7 (0.81%) C++
15 7 (0.81%) Groovy
16 6 (0.69%) Bicep
17 5 (0.58%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.58%) LotusScript
17 5 (0.58%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 132 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 119 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.91%) Degree
4 21 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.62%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.16%) ACCA
10 9 (1.04%) CIMA
11 8 (0.93%) CFA
11 8 (0.93%) PMP
12 7 (0.81%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.58%) CCNP
15 3 (0.35%) CCIE
15 3 (0.35%) CCNA
15 3 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (16.78%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.13%) GDPR
3 50 (5.79%) QA
4 33 (3.82%) PMO
5 27 (3.13%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.69%) GRC
8 6 (0.69%) IFRS
9 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.46%) COBIT
10 4 (0.46%) NIST
11 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.35%) HL7
11 3 (0.35%) MiFID
11 3 (0.35%) SLA
12 2 (0.23%) Basel II
12 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.23%) P3O
13 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.93%) Docker
3 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) Xen
5 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (3.94%) Terraform
2 11 (1.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.58%) Ansible
4 4 (0.46%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.35%) Puppet
5 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.23%) vRealize
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) SCOM
7 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 240 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 100 (11.57%) SAP
3 92 (10.65%) Oracle
4 88 (10.19%) Databricks
5 37 (4.28%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.36%) Google
6 29 (3.36%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.85%) Alteryx
7 16 (1.85%) Cisco
8 11 (1.27%) Adobe
8 11 (1.27%) Informatica
9 10 (1.16%) Lotus
10 9 (1.04%) Planview
10 9 (1.04%) Workday
11 8 (0.93%) HP
12 7 (0.81%) Apple
12 7 (0.81%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.81%) Dell
13 6 (0.69%) DocuSign
13 6 (0.69%) MicroStrategy