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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 37 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,017 691 883
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.10% 5.46% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 5.97% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 471 617
10th Percentile £363 £306 £363
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £599 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £750 £747
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.86 £26.15
25th Percentile £18.95 £28.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £34.58 £29.07 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% -35.40% +100.13%
75th Percentile £43.44 £34.36 £51.65
90th Percentile £55.88 £54.25 £71.43
England median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £24.43
% change year-on-year -16.70% +17.07% -5.80%

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 14,959 11,567 15,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.45% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,041 7,825 11,442
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 332
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +15.40% -22.23%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.50 £71.13
England median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +15 141 £525 -1.87% 84
West London +4 40 £603 +26.84% 18
South London -17 18 £463 -5.61% 1
East London -5 5 £495 +23.75% 7
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 60 (5.90%) SharePoint
2 48 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 36 (3.54%) Confluence
4 33 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (2.85%) Apache
6 15 (1.47%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.98%) Mendix
8 4 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.098%) Camunda
11 1 (0.098%) Kentico
11 1 (0.098%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.098%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 149 (14.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.06%) MS Visio
3 19 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.29%) Notion
7 3 (0.29%) Trello
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 28 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.29%) iTrent
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 2 (0.20%) Lorenzo
8 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 741 (72.86%) Power Platform
2 368 (36.18%) Azure
3 156 (15.34%) AWS
4 111 (10.91%) Power Automate
5 98 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 94 (9.24%) Snowflake
7 93 (9.14%) PowerApps
8 87 (8.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 85 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
9 85 (8.36%) Dynamics 365
10 82 (8.06%) GCP
11 65 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
12 58 (5.70%) Serverless
13 50 (4.92%) GitHub
14 49 (4.82%) dbt
15 47 (4.62%) Amazon S3
16 32 (3.15%) Microsoft Copilot
17 28 (2.75%) Azure Functions
17 28 (2.75%) Collibra
18 26 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.79%) Network Security
2 6 (0.59%) VPN
3 5 (0.49%) Firewall
4 4 (0.39%) HTTP
4 4 (0.39%) WAN
4 4 (0.39%) Wireless
5 3 (0.29%) LAN
5 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.20%) BGP
6 2 (0.20%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.20%) DNS
6 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.20%) Internet
6 2 (0.20%) OSPF
7 1 (0.098%) NGN
7 1 (0.098%) SAN
7 1 (0.098%) Skype
7 1 (0.098%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.098%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 730 (71.78%) Power BI
2 178 (17.50%) Tableau
3 168 (16.52%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (10.72%) Data Lake
5 93 (9.14%) SQL Server
6 65 (6.39%) Metadata
7 52 (5.11%) BigQuery
8 46 (4.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 42 (4.13%) Looker
10 38 (3.74%) Power Query
11 34 (3.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 32 (3.15%) Relational Database
13 31 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (3.05%) Delta Lake
13 31 (3.05%) Star Schema
14 30 (2.95%) Mixpanel
15 28 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (2.56%) OLAP
17 25 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 24 (2.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (5.90%) JIRA
2 44 (4.33%) Git
3 17 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.28%) GitLab
5 12 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.08%) ERwin
7 9 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.29%) Selenium
9 3 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.20%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.20%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.20%) MLflow
11 1 (0.098%) GCC
11 1 (0.098%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.098%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 425 (41.79%) Finance
2 297 (29.20%) Social Skills
3 216 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 95 (9.34%) Banking
6 74 (7.28%) Marketing
7 43 (4.23%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.83%) Manufacturing
9 34 (3.34%) Electronics
10 31 (3.05%) Law
10 31 (3.05%) Retail
11 26 (2.56%) Financial Institution
12 22 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.38%) Front Office
13 14 (1.38%) Legal
14 13 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.18%) Publishing
16 11 (1.08%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 229 (22.52%) Analyst
2 176 (17.31%) Developer
3 166 (16.32%) Data Engineer
4 127 (12.49%) Senior
5 107 (10.52%) Lead
6 101 (9.93%) Architect
7 96 (9.44%) Data Analyst
8 86 (8.46%) Business Analyst
9 62 (6.10%) Consultant
10 57 (5.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (3.44%) Senior Data Engineer
12 33 (3.24%) Data Architect
12 33 (3.24%) Power Platform Developer
13 32 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 31 (3.05%) Power BI Developer
15 29 (2.85%) Senior Developer
16 27 (2.65%) Lead Architect
17 26 (2.56%) Functional Architect
18 23 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
19 22 (2.16%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.70%) PySpark
2 41 (4.03%) Kafka
3 40 (3.93%) .NET
4 26 (2.56%) REST
5 22 (2.16%) Middleware
5 22 (2.16%) Pandas
6 21 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
7 20 (1.97%) Great Expectations
8 19 (1.87%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.87%) React
9 16 (1.57%) JSON
10 14 (1.38%) NumPy
11 13 (1.28%) scikit-learn
11 13 (1.28%) Spark Streaming
12 12 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
12 12 (1.18%) XML
13 11 (1.08%) HTML
14 9 (0.88%) SOAP
14 9 (0.88%) Web Services
15 7 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.42%) Cloud Native
2 40 (3.93%) Data Structures
3 34 (3.34%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.87%) Low-Code
8 17 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.08%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.79%) Clustering
13 8 (0.79%) Derivative
13 8 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.79%) PMI
14 7 (0.69%) NHS
14 7 (0.69%) Reinsurance
14 7 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.36%) Windows
2 18 (1.77%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.59%) Unix
4 5 (0.49%) Linux
5 4 (0.39%) Android
5 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (42.77%) Analytics
2 332 (32.65%) Data Modelling
3 225 (22.12%) ETL
4 220 (21.63%) Visualisation
5 211 (20.75%) Agile
6 198 (19.47%) Data Engineering
7 196 (19.27%) Decision-Making
8 186 (18.29%) Data Governance
9 177 (17.40%) AI
10 164 (16.13%) DevOps
11 160 (15.73%) CI/CD
12 157 (15.44%) Migration
13 154 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
14 142 (13.96%) Data Analysis
14 142 (13.96%) Data Pipeline
15 137 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 134 (13.18%) Data Visualisation
17 132 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
18 126 (12.39%) Actionable Insight
19 116 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 524 (51.52%) SQL
2 276 (27.14%) Python
3 84 (8.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 73 (7.18%) C#
5 46 (4.52%) T-SQL
6 41 (4.03%) JavaScript
7 34 (3.34%) PL/SQL
8 32 (3.15%) R
9 29 (2.85%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.67%) Java
11 16 (1.57%) Scala
12 15 (1.47%) Bicep
13 13 (1.28%) VBA
14 11 (1.08%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.08%) LotusScript
15 10 (0.98%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.59%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.49%) LookML
18 4 (0.39%) Korn
19 2 (0.20%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 155 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 136 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.55%) Degree
4 27 (2.65%) Azure Certification
4 27 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 13 (1.28%) PMP
8 11 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.69%) CBAP
11 5 (0.49%) ACCA
11 5 (0.49%) CFA
11 5 (0.49%) CIMA
11 5 (0.49%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.39%) IIBA
13 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.29%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (23.80%) Data Quality
2 90 (8.85%) GDPR
3 73 (7.18%) QA
4 49 (4.82%) PMO
5 22 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.88%) GRC
8 8 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.59%) GAAP
9 6 (0.59%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.59%) SLA
10 4 (0.39%) Basel III
10 4 (0.39%) IFRS
10 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.29%) NIST
11 3 (0.29%) P3O
11 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (2.16%) Docker
2 14 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.098%) RACF
4 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (6.29%) Terraform
2 25 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.39%) Control-M
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.29%) Ansible
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) RSA Archer
4 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.20%) SCCM
5 2 (0.20%) vRealize
6 1 (0.098%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.098%) Kibana
6 1 (0.098%) Nessus
6 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.098%) SCOM
6 1 (0.098%) SysTrack
6 1 (0.098%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.098%) WSUS
Vendors
1 311 (30.58%) Microsoft
2 149 (14.65%) Databricks
3 93 (9.14%) Oracle
4 77 (7.57%) SAP
5 46 (4.52%) Google
6 39 (3.83%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.75%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.26%) Informatica
9 19 (1.87%) Workday
10 17 (1.67%) Citrix
11 15 (1.47%) Lotus
12 12 (1.18%) Cisco
13 10 (0.98%) Kofax
13 10 (0.98%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.98%) Planview
14 9 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
14 9 (0.88%) VMware
15 8 (0.79%) Murex
15 8 (0.79%) Sage
16 7 (0.69%) Amplitude