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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 39 38
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,028 677 869
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.90% 5.32% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 5.79% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 456 605
10th Percentile £359 £315 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -
75th Percentile £590 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £775 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 11
10th Percentile £18.44 £27.86 £26.24
25th Percentile £25.00 £28.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -35.40% +100.13%
75th Percentile £42.50 £34.36 £56.25
90th Percentile £53.85 £54.25 £69.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% +19.17% -11.93%

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 15,500 11,691 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 91.95% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,370 7,941 11,223
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +13 143 £525 -4.55% 84
West London 0 40 £603 +26.84% 14
South London -19 18 £463 -5.61% 5
East London -5 5 £495 -0.50% 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 61 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 49 (4.77%) Apache Spark
3 35 (3.40%) Confluence
4 34 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (2.43%) Apache
6 16 (1.56%) HCL Notes
7 11 (1.07%) Mendix
8 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.19%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.097%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.097%) Appian
11 1 (0.097%) Camunda
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 150 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.43%) MS Visio
3 18 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.29%) Notion
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 7 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.49%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.29%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.19%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.19%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.19%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 744 (72.37%) Power Platform
2 355 (34.53%) Azure
3 150 (14.59%) AWS
4 108 (10.51%) Power Automate
5 101 (9.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 96 (9.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 88 (8.56%) Dynamics 365
7 88 (8.56%) PowerApps
8 86 (8.37%) Snowflake
9 84 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
10 81 (7.88%) GCP
11 62 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
12 55 (5.35%) Serverless
13 52 (5.06%) GitHub
14 51 (4.96%) Amazon S3
15 50 (4.86%) dbt
16 40 (3.89%) Microsoft Copilot
17 26 (2.53%) Collibra
17 26 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
18 25 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) Network Security
1 7 (0.68%) VPN
2 5 (0.49%) Firewall
3 4 (0.39%) DNS
3 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 4 (0.39%) WAN
4 3 (0.29%) FTP
4 3 (0.29%) LAN
4 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.19%) BGP
5 2 (0.19%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.19%) DHCP
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 (0.097%) NGN
6 1 (0.097%) Skype
6 1 (0.097%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.097%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 734 (71.40%) Power BI
2 182 (17.70%) Tableau
3 175 (17.02%) Data Warehouse
4 112 (10.89%) Data Lake
5 97 (9.44%) SQL Server
6 61 (5.93%) Metadata
7 55 (5.35%) BigQuery
8 46 (4.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 44 (4.28%) Looker
9 44 (4.28%) Power Query
10 37 (3.60%) Star Schema
11 36 (3.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 33 (3.21%) Amazon Athena
13 29 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (2.82%) Mixpanel
14 28 (2.72%) Relational Database
15 27 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (2.63%) Delta Lake
16 26 (2.53%) OLAP
16 26 (2.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 55 (5.35%) JIRA
2 45 (4.38%) Git
3 16 (1.56%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.36%) GitLab
4 14 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.17%) ERwin
6 9 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.39%) Selenium
9 3 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.19%) MLflow
11 1 (0.097%) GCC
11 1 (0.097%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.097%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.097%) WebDriver
General
1 424 (41.25%) Finance
2 300 (29.18%) Social Skills
3 210 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 92 (8.95%) Banking
6 67 (6.52%) Marketing
7 40 (3.89%) Law
8 37 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 31 (3.02%) Manufacturing
10 28 (2.72%) Financial Institution
11 27 (2.63%) Retail
12 25 (2.43%) Electronics
12 25 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.85%) Legal
15 15 (1.46%) Front Office
15 15 (1.46%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.36%) Local Government
17 13 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (23.05%) Analyst
2 177 (17.22%) Data Engineer
3 169 (16.44%) Developer
4 131 (12.74%) Senior
5 107 (10.41%) Architect
6 99 (9.63%) Lead
7 97 (9.44%) Data Analyst
8 84 (8.17%) Business Analyst
9 59 (5.74%) Consultant
10 55 (5.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 40 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
12 37 (3.60%) Lead Architect
13 36 (3.50%) Power Platform Developer
14 35 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 32 (3.11%) Functional Architect
16 30 (2.92%) Power BI Developer
17 29 (2.82%) Data Architect
17 29 (2.82%) Senior Developer
18 25 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
19 23 (2.24%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.54%) PySpark
2 43 (4.18%) Kafka
3 41 (3.99%) .NET
4 24 (2.33%) Middleware
4 24 (2.33%) REST
5 20 (1.95%) .NET Framework
5 20 (1.95%) Great Expectations
5 20 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (1.85%) React
7 18 (1.75%) JSON
8 15 (1.46%) Pandas
9 14 (1.36%) HTML
10 13 (1.26%) Spark Streaming
11 12 (1.17%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (1.17%) XML
12 10 (0.97%) SOAP
13 9 (0.88%) CSS
13 9 (0.88%) scikit-learn
14 8 (0.78%) NumPy
14 8 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.38%) Cloud Native
2 40 (3.89%) Data Structures
3 37 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (1.85%) Low-Code
6 15 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 10 (0.97%) Derivative
10 9 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 9 (0.88%) Clustering
11 8 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.68%) Equities
12 7 (0.68%) NHS
12 7 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.43%) Windows
2 19 (1.85%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.68%) Unix
4 6 (0.58%) Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.097%) Android
6 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (42.61%) Analytics
2 336 (32.68%) Data Modelling
3 227 (22.08%) ETL
4 207 (20.14%) Agile
5 206 (20.04%) Visualisation
6 197 (19.16%) Data Engineering
7 190 (18.48%) Decision-Making
8 185 (18.00%) Data Governance
9 181 (17.61%) AI
10 171 (16.63%) Migration
11 167 (16.25%) CI/CD
12 160 (15.56%) DevOps
13 155 (15.08%) Data Pipeline
14 151 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
15 142 (13.81%) Data Analysis
16 136 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 124 (12.06%) Data Visualisation
18 121 (11.77%) Actionable Insight
18 121 (11.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 121 (11.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 539 (52.43%) SQL
2 288 (28.02%) Python
3 92 (8.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (6.81%) C#
5 52 (5.06%) T-SQL
6 42 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 36 (3.50%) PL/SQL
8 35 (3.40%) R
9 28 (2.72%) PowerShell
10 22 (2.14%) Scala
11 20 (1.95%) Java
12 17 (1.65%) VBA
13 16 (1.56%) Bicep
14 11 (1.07%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.07%) LotusScript
15 10 (0.97%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.39%) LookML
18 3 (0.29%) Korn
18 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 147 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 127 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 82 (7.98%) Degree
4 28 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 25 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.17%) PMP
9 11 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.58%) ACCA
11 6 (0.58%) CBAP
11 6 (0.58%) IIBA
12 5 (0.49%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.39%) CFA
13 4 (0.39%) CIMA
13 4 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
14 3 (0.29%) CCIE
14 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (23.15%) Data Quality
2 89 (8.66%) GDPR
3 72 (7.00%) QA
4 44 (4.28%) PMO
5 17 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.68%) GRC
9 6 (0.58%) GAAP
9 6 (0.58%) SLA
10 4 (0.39%) Basel III
10 4 (0.39%) IFRS
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
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%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (2.24%) Docker
2 13 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.097%) RACF
4 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (6.52%) Terraform
2 25 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.49%) Control-M
3 5 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Ansible
6 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.19%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.19%) SCCM
6 2 (0.19%) vRealize
7 1 (0.097%) Kibana
7 1 (0.097%) Nessus
7 1 (0.097%) SCOM
7 1 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.097%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 321 (31.23%) Microsoft
2 147 (14.30%) Databricks
3 95 (9.24%) Oracle
4 64 (6.23%) SAP
5 44 (4.28%) Google
6 37 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 31 (3.02%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.04%) Informatica
9 20 (1.95%) Workday
10 18 (1.75%) Citrix
11 16 (1.56%) Lotus
12 11 (1.07%) Kofax
13 9 (0.88%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.88%) VMware
14 8 (0.78%) Murex
14 8 (0.78%) Planview
14 8 (0.78%) Sage
15 7 (0.68%) Amplitude
15 7 (0.68%) Cisco
16 6 (0.58%) Qualtrics