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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 36 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,089 785 834
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.39% 5.84% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.07% 6.31% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 528 573
10th Percentile £350 £347 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £627 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 14
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.67 £25.40
25th Percentile £22.25 £30.54 £34.51
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.65 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -35.53% +46.00%
75th Percentile £30.59 £47.23 £78.13
90th Percentile £57.50 £74.75 £86.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.40% +5.79% -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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £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 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -2 150 £550 - 194
West London -18 19 £418 -16.50% 49
South London -6 9 £463 +42.31% 13
North London +3 4 £450 - 3
East London -4 1 £350 -33.33% 18
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 94 (8.63%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.76%) Confluence
3 35 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.75%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.93%) Apache
6 9 (0.83%) SAS
7 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.46%) CMS
8 5 (0.46%) Mendix
9 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.28%) Kentico
9 3 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.18%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.092%) Appian
11 1 (0.092%) IIS
11 1 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 151 (13.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.18%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 31 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.73%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.64%) Oracle FAH
7 6 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.46%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.37%) iTrent
9 4 (0.37%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 4 (0.37%) Oracle Internet Expenses
9 4 (0.37%) Oracle iProcurement
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.18%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 833 (76.49%) Power Platform
2 388 (35.63%) Azure
3 157 (14.42%) AWS
4 126 (11.57%) Power Automate
5 119 (10.93%) Snowflake
6 116 (10.65%) PowerApps
7 107 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (7.81%) Dynamics 365
9 83 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 78 (7.16%) dbt
11 70 (6.43%) Microsoft Copilot
12 68 (6.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 66 (6.06%) Serverless
14 63 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
15 57 (5.23%) GCP
16 53 (4.87%) GitHub
17 51 (4.68%) Amazon S3
18 42 (3.86%) Microsoft Purview
19 36 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
20 30 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.01%) DNS
2 10 (0.92%) Firewall
3 8 (0.73%) VPN
4 3 (0.28%) DHCP
4 3 (0.28%) FTP
4 3 (0.28%) Network Security
5 2 (0.18%) Broadband
5 2 (0.18%) Internet
5 2 (0.18%) NAS
5 2 (0.18%) SAN
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.092%) 4G
6 1 (0.092%) HTTP
6 1 (0.092%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.092%) LAN
6 1 (0.092%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.092%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.092%) SSH
6 1 (0.092%) VoIP
6 1 (0.092%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 831 (76.31%) Power BI
2 207 (19.01%) Data Warehouse
3 154 (14.14%) Tableau
4 98 (9.00%) Data Lake
5 82 (7.53%) Power Query
6 68 (6.24%) SQL Server
7 57 (5.23%) Metadata
8 53 (4.87%) Star Schema
9 44 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 39 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
11 38 (3.49%) Looker
12 35 (3.21%) Semantic Layer
13 33 (3.03%) Relational Database
14 32 (2.94%) BigQuery
15 31 (2.85%) Snowflake Schema
16 30 (2.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 27 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
18 25 (2.30%) Delta Lake
18 25 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 24 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 84 (7.71%) JIRA
2 57 (5.23%) Git
3 24 (2.20%) GitLab
4 12 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.64%) RStudio
7 6 (0.55%) Selenium
7 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.46%) Terragrunt
9 4 (0.37%) JDeveloper
9 4 (0.37%) JMeter
9 4 (0.37%) MLflow
10 3 (0.28%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.28%) ERwin
11 2 (0.18%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.18%) rollup.js
11 2 (0.18%) Storybook
General
1 392 (36.00%) Finance
2 353 (32.42%) Social Skills
3 254 (23.32%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (9.92%) Banking
5 88 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 67 (6.15%) Retail
7 54 (4.96%) Marketing
8 36 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.75%) Law
10 28 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
10 28 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (2.39%) Local Government
12 20 (1.84%) Investment Banking
13 19 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.74%) Legal
14 16 (1.47%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.38%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.38%) Front Office
15 15 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 268 (24.61%) Analyst
2 173 (15.89%) Developer
3 155 (14.23%) Architect
4 136 (12.49%) Data Engineer
5 121 (11.11%) Senior
6 117 (10.74%) Data Analyst
7 90 (8.26%) Lead
8 79 (7.25%) Business Analyst
9 71 (6.52%) Consultant
10 68 (6.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 61 (5.60%) Data Architect
12 53 (4.87%) Power BI Developer
13 39 (3.58%) Power Platform Developer
14 34 (3.12%) Senior Developer
15 33 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 30 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
16 30 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (2.66%) Lead Architect
18 28 (2.57%) Report Analyst
19 27 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (7.99%) PySpark
2 70 (6.43%) Terraform
3 57 (5.23%) .NET
4 48 (4.41%) REST
5 25 (2.30%) Kafka
6 22 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (2.02%) React
7 19 (1.74%) JSON
8 14 (1.29%) HTML
8 14 (1.29%) XML
9 13 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (1.10%) CSS
11 11 (1.01%) SOAP
12 10 (0.92%) Middleware
13 9 (0.83%) .NET Core
13 9 (0.83%) Apache Avro
13 9 (0.83%) RESTful
14 8 (0.73%) Great Expectations
14 8 (0.73%) OAuth
14 8 (0.73%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.87%) Data Structures
1 53 (4.87%) Product Ownership
2 40 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 37 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 31 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.38%) Low-Code
7 15 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.29%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.19%) FMCG
9 13 (1.19%) Reference Data
10 11 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.01%) NHS
10 11 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 10 (0.92%) Clustering
11 10 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.93%) Windows
2 17 (1.56%) Linux
3 11 (1.01%) Unix
4 7 (0.64%) 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
1 454 (41.69%) Analytics
2 338 (31.04%) Data Modelling
3 287 (26.35%) Agile
4 272 (24.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 246 (22.59%) AI
6 224 (20.57%) CI/CD
7 208 (19.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 197 (18.09%) Decision-Making
9 195 (17.91%) Data Engineering
10 194 (17.81%) ETL
10 194 (17.81%) Migration
11 193 (17.72%) Data Governance
12 192 (17.63%) DevOps
13 181 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
14 170 (15.61%) Visualisation
15 165 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
16 144 (13.22%) Validation
17 136 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
18 133 (12.21%) Data Analysis
19 118 (10.84%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 504 (46.28%) SQL
2 289 (26.54%) Python
3 121 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 66 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 60 (5.51%) C#
6 42 (3.86%) PowerShell
7 33 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.48%) R
9 20 (1.84%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.65%) Java
11 16 (1.47%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.47%) VBA
12 9 (0.83%) Scala
13 8 (0.73%) Bash
14 7 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.55%) Bicep
15 6 (0.55%) LookML
16 5 (0.46%) Korn
16 5 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 160 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 139 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 65 (5.97%) Degree
4 29 (2.66%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.74%) DBS Check
7 17 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 10 (0.92%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.83%) PMP
12 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.37%) ACCA
13 4 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.28%) CISM
14 3 (0.28%) CISSP
14 3 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (23.88%) Data Quality
2 59 (5.42%) QA
3 46 (4.22%) GDPR
4 36 (3.31%) PMO
5 23 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.10%) SLA
7 10 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.28%) NCSC
11 3 (0.28%) P3O
11 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (1.84%) Docker
2 19 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (1.65%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.38%) Ansible
3 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.92%) Grafana
5 9 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (0.46%) Control-M
9 3 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.18%) SCOM
11 1 (0.092%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.092%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.092%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 386 (35.45%) Microsoft
2 146 (13.41%) Databricks
3 90 (8.26%) Oracle
4 34 (3.12%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.30%) SAP
6 23 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.93%) Alteryx
8 20 (1.84%) Google
9 19 (1.74%) Informatica
10 11 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
11 10 (0.92%) Workday
12 9 (0.83%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.83%) VMware
13 8 (0.73%) Adobe
13 8 (0.73%) Palantir
13 8 (0.73%) Splunk
14 7 (0.64%) AppDynamics
15 6 (0.55%) BMC
15 6 (0.55%) Infoblox
15 6 (0.55%) Remedy