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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 37 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 984 729 883
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.29% 5.38% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 5.93% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 480 605
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £417 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £775 £741
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 12
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.68 £25.47
25th Percentile £18.48 £27.34 £32.81
Median hourly rate £34.58 £29.70 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% -32.11% +94.57%
75th Percentile £45.31 £55.00 £47.90
90th Percentile £56.30 £65.13 £52.16
England median hourly rate £23.75 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -13.64% +6.55% -3.73%

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 14,143 12,286 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.69% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,444 7,897 11,628
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 343
10th Percentile £18.21 £20.23 £16.02
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.73 £19.53
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +9 133 £521 -4.50% 81
West London -1 35 £601 +33.61% 26
South London -15 14 £463 -5.13% 8
East London -3 5 £495 +23.75% 7
North London -2 1 £500 +96.08% 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 62 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 36 (3.66%) Confluence
4 26 (2.64%) Apache
4 26 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.42%) HCL Notes
6 9 (0.91%) Mendix
7 8 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.30%) IIS
11 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.10%) CMS
12 1 (0.10%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.10%) SAS
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 149 (15.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.30%) Notion
5 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.30%) Trello
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
5 7 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.61%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.30%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.30%) iTrent
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.20%) Lorenzo
10 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 720 (73.17%) Power Platform
2 351 (35.67%) Azure
3 144 (14.63%) AWS
4 125 (12.70%) Power Automate
5 106 (10.77%) PowerApps
6 92 (9.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 91 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (8.43%) Snowflake
9 78 (7.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 67 (6.81%) Dynamics 365
11 65 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
12 64 (6.50%) GCP
13 55 (5.59%) Serverless
14 48 (4.88%) GitHub
15 41 (4.17%) dbt
16 38 (3.86%) Amazon S3
17 30 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
18 29 (2.95%) Azure Functions
19 28 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
20 25 (2.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.71%) Network Security
1 7 (0.71%) Wireless
2 5 (0.51%) HTTP
3 4 (0.41%) Firewall
3 4 (0.41%) VPN
3 4 (0.41%) WAN
4 3 (0.30%) LAN
4 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.20%) BGP
5 2 (0.20%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.20%) OSPF
6 1 (0.10%) FTP
6 1 (0.10%) Internet
6 1 (0.10%) NGN
6 1 (0.10%) SAN
6 1 (0.10%) Skype
6 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 710 (72.15%) Power BI
2 166 (16.87%) Tableau
3 150 (15.24%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (10.16%) Data Lake
5 95 (9.65%) SQL Server
6 59 (6.00%) Metadata
7 43 (4.37%) Power Query
8 42 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 40 (4.07%) Looker
10 39 (3.96%) BigQuery
11 33 (3.35%) Delta Lake
11 33 (3.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 30 (3.05%) Relational Database
13 29 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
14 26 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
14 26 (2.64%) Mixpanel
15 24 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
16 23 (2.34%) OLAP
16 23 (2.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 23 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 60 (6.10%) JIRA
2 46 (4.67%) Git
3 17 (1.73%) Visual Studio
4 16 (1.63%) GitLab
5 11 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.91%) ERwin
6 9 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.30%) MLflow
8 3 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.30%) Selenium
8 3 (0.30%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.10%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.10%) PeopleTools
10 1 (0.10%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 389 (39.53%) Finance
2 296 (30.08%) Social Skills
3 215 (21.85%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (12.30%) Public Sector
5 91 (9.25%) Banking
6 83 (8.43%) Marketing
7 49 (4.98%) Manufacturing
8 46 (4.67%) Telecoms
9 44 (4.47%) Electronics
10 29 (2.95%) Retail
11 25 (2.54%) Financial Institution
12 23 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.52%) Local Government
14 15 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.52%) Publishing
15 14 (1.42%) Front Office
15 14 (1.42%) Investment Banking
15 14 (1.42%) Legal
15 14 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (22.15%) Analyst
2 180 (18.29%) Developer
3 163 (16.57%) Data Engineer
4 119 (12.09%) Senior
5 94 (9.55%) Lead
6 90 (9.15%) Data Analyst
7 78 (7.93%) Business Analyst
8 66 (6.71%) Architect
8 66 (6.71%) Consultant
9 49 (4.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 33 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
11 32 (3.25%) Power Platform Developer
12 29 (2.95%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (2.85%) Data Architect
14 27 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 26 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
16 25 (2.54%) Data Scientist
16 25 (2.54%) Project Manager
17 23 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
18 22 (2.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.89%) PySpark
2 44 (4.47%) .NET
3 34 (3.46%) Kafka
4 31 (3.15%) REST
5 23 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (2.34%) Pandas
6 19 (1.93%) Middleware
7 17 (1.73%) .NET Framework
8 16 (1.63%) Great Expectations
8 16 (1.63%) React
9 15 (1.52%) JSON
9 15 (1.52%) scikit-learn
9 15 (1.52%) SOAP
10 14 (1.42%) NumPy
11 11 (1.12%) HTML
11 11 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
12 10 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (1.02%) XML
13 8 (0.81%) Web Services
13 8 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.07%) Data Structures
2 35 (3.56%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
4 20 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (1.93%) Low-Code
5 19 (1.93%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.73%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.22%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.12%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.02%) PMI
11 9 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.81%) NHS
12 8 (0.81%) Replication
13 7 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.44%) Windows
2 16 (1.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.71%) Android
3 7 (0.71%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.30%) Unix
5 2 (0.20%) Linux
5 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (41.06%) Analytics
2 304 (30.89%) Data Modelling
3 232 (23.58%) Visualisation
4 217 (22.05%) Agile
5 207 (21.04%) ETL
6 180 (18.29%) Decision-Making
7 172 (17.48%) Data Governance
8 165 (16.77%) Data Engineering
9 159 (16.16%) DevOps
10 156 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
11 151 (15.35%) AI
12 145 (14.74%) CI/CD
13 143 (14.53%) Data Visualisation
14 141 (14.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 133 (13.52%) Data Analysis
16 126 (12.80%) Data Pipeline
17 117 (11.89%) Actionable Insight
17 117 (11.89%) Dashboard Development
18 111 (11.28%) Migration
19 106 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 504 (51.22%) SQL
2 256 (26.02%) Python
3 71 (7.22%) C#
3 71 (7.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 47 (4.78%) T-SQL
5 44 (4.47%) JavaScript
6 39 (3.96%) PL/SQL
7 33 (3.35%) R
8 26 (2.64%) PowerShell
9 16 (1.63%) Bicep
9 16 (1.63%) Java
10 14 (1.42%) Scala
10 14 (1.42%) VBA
11 11 (1.12%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.02%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.02%) LotusScript
13 6 (0.61%) Groovy
14 5 (0.51%) Korn
15 3 (0.30%) LookML
16 2 (0.20%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 150 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 136 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 91 (9.25%) Degree
4 28 (2.85%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.24%) PMI Certification
7 17 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.63%) PMP
9 14 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.91%) CBAP
13 6 (0.61%) ACCA
13 6 (0.61%) CIMA
14 4 (0.41%) CFA
14 4 (0.41%) IIBA
15 3 (0.30%) CCIE
15 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.30%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.30%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (22.36%) Data Quality
2 76 (7.72%) GDPR
3 68 (6.91%) QA
4 49 (4.98%) PMO
5 30 (3.05%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.91%) GRC
8 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.61%) GAAP
9 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.51%) IFRS
10 5 (0.51%) SLA
11 4 (0.41%) Basel III
11 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.30%) NIST
12 3 (0.30%) P3O
13 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.20%) PERC
13 2 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (2.03%) Docker
2 14 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (6.50%) Terraform
2 26 (2.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.41%) Control-M
4 3 (0.30%) Ansible
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.30%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.20%) Grafana
5 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.20%) SCCM
5 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.20%) vRealize
6 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
6 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) SCOM
6 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 279 (28.35%) Microsoft
2 132 (13.41%) Databricks
3 104 (10.57%) Oracle
4 94 (9.55%) SAP
5 37 (3.76%) Google
5 37 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.83%) Informatica
8 16 (1.63%) Cisco
9 15 (1.52%) Citrix
10 14 (1.42%) Lotus
11 12 (1.22%) Planview
11 12 (1.22%) Workday
12 10 (1.02%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.91%) HP
13 9 (0.91%) Kofax
13 9 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
13 9 (0.91%) VMware
14 7 (0.71%) Dell
14 7 (0.71%) Murex