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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 36 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 934 745 845
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.54% 5.37% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 5.94% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 497 564
10th Percentile £325 £300 £363
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 14
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.65 £25.64
25th Percentile £18.95 £27.67 £35.00
Median hourly rate £29.58 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.67% +26.51% +84.57%
75th Percentile £41.74 £53.75 £48.69
90th Percentile £56.10 £64.25 £51.98
England median hourly rate £23.58 £28.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year -15.80% -3.45% +7.41%

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 13,030 12,548 16,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.21% 90.40% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,606 7,991 11,538
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 154 286
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.54 £19.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.45% -14.98%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +16 125 £500 -13.04% 61
West London -6 25 £600 +33.33% 14
East London -4 5 £495 +13.14% 7
North London 0 2 £500 +96.08% 2
South London -17 2 £487 -2.55% 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 66 (7.07%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.07%) Confluence
3 36 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (2.36%) Apache
6 17 (1.82%) HCL Notes
7 9 (0.96%) Mendix
7 9 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.32%) IIS
10 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) Luigi
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.21%) Moodle
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) SAS
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 145 (15.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.32%) Notion
6 3 (0.32%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 36 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
4 9 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.64%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.32%) iTrent
9 3 (0.32%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.21%) FIS Private Capital Suite
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 686 (73.45%) Power Platform
2 324 (34.69%) Azure
3 129 (13.81%) Power Automate
4 119 (12.74%) AWS
5 113 (12.10%) PowerApps
6 91 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (8.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 70 (7.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 70 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (7.49%) Snowflake
9 59 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
10 54 (5.78%) GCP
11 48 (5.14%) Serverless
12 41 (4.39%) GitHub
13 35 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 35 (3.75%) dbt
14 31 (3.32%) Azure Functions
15 28 (3.00%) Amazon S3
16 22 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
16 22 (2.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.86%) Network Security
2 7 (0.75%) Wireless
3 6 (0.64%) VPN
3 6 (0.64%) WAN
4 5 (0.54%) Firewall
4 5 (0.54%) HTTP
4 5 (0.54%) LAN
4 5 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.43%) BGP
5 4 (0.43%) BIG-IP
5 4 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (0.43%) OSPF
6 1 (0.11%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) FTP
6 1 (0.11%) Internet
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) Skype
6 1 (0.11%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 680 (72.81%) Power BI
2 140 (14.99%) Tableau
3 137 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (10.06%) Data Lake
5 84 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 52 (5.57%) Metadata
7 44 (4.71%) Power Query
8 40 (4.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 33 (3.53%) Relational Database
10 30 (3.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 29 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (3.00%) Oracle Database
13 27 (2.89%) Looker
13 27 (2.89%) Oracle Reports
14 26 (2.78%) BigQuery
15 25 (2.68%) Delta Lake
16 23 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (2.36%) Star Schema
18 20 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 64 (6.85%) JIRA
2 41 (4.39%) Git
3 15 (1.61%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.39%) GitLab
5 11 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.64%) ERwin
6 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.43%) MLflow
8 4 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.32%) Selenium
9 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.11%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.11%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 384 (41.11%) Finance
2 285 (30.51%) Social Skills
3 199 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (13.70%) Public Sector
5 94 (10.06%) Marketing
6 87 (9.31%) Banking
7 56 (6.00%) Manufacturing
8 55 (5.89%) Telecoms
9 51 (5.46%) Electronics
10 29 (3.10%) Financial Institution
10 29 (3.10%) Retail
11 22 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.14%) Front Office
12 20 (2.14%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.82%) Legal
13 17 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.61%) Local Government
15 15 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (1.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 209 (22.38%) Analyst
2 184 (19.70%) Developer
3 139 (14.88%) Data Engineer
4 100 (10.71%) Senior
5 85 (9.10%) Lead
6 80 (8.57%) Data Analyst
7 76 (8.14%) Business Analyst
8 63 (6.75%) Architect
9 59 (6.32%) Consultant
10 55 (5.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (3.75%) Power BI Developer
12 30 (3.21%) Power Platform Developer
13 28 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
14 27 (2.89%) Data Architect
15 26 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (2.57%) Data Scientist
17 22 (2.36%) Power BI Analyst
17 22 (2.36%) Project Manager
17 22 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
18 20 (2.14%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (5.89%) PySpark
2 50 (5.35%) .NET
3 33 (3.53%) REST
4 30 (3.21%) Kafka
5 23 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (2.36%) Pandas
7 16 (1.71%) JSON
7 16 (1.71%) React
8 15 (1.61%) .NET Framework
8 15 (1.61%) HTML
8 15 (1.61%) SOAP
9 14 (1.50%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.39%) NumPy
11 11 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
11 11 (1.18%) Middleware
12 10 (1.07%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (0.96%) Great Expectations
13 9 (0.96%) SailPoint
14 8 (0.86%) Web Services
14 8 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (3.53%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.43%) Data Structures
3 23 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (2.14%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
4 20 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 17 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.71%) Low-Code
8 14 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.28%) Derivative
10 11 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.07%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (0.96%) NHS
12 9 (0.96%) PMI
13 8 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.86%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.57%) Windows
2 14 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.75%) Android
3 7 (0.75%) Mac OS
3 7 (0.75%) Unix
4 6 (0.64%) Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (38.01%) Analytics
2 275 (29.44%) Data Modelling
3 215 (23.02%) Visualisation
4 211 (22.59%) Agile
5 189 (20.24%) ETL
6 166 (17.77%) Decision-Making
7 156 (16.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 153 (16.38%) Data Governance
9 149 (15.95%) DevOps
10 147 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
11 145 (15.52%) Data Engineering
12 129 (13.81%) CI/CD
12 129 (13.81%) Data Analysis
13 124 (13.28%) Data Visualisation
14 113 (12.10%) AI
15 112 (11.99%) Data Pipeline
16 107 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
17 102 (10.92%) Dashboard Development
17 102 (10.92%) Migration
17 102 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 459 (49.14%) SQL
2 238 (25.48%) Python
3 70 (7.49%) C#
4 62 (6.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 50 (5.35%) JavaScript
6 44 (4.71%) PL/SQL
7 35 (3.75%) R
8 32 (3.43%) T-SQL
9 30 (3.21%) PowerShell
10 23 (2.46%) Java
11 18 (1.93%) VBA
12 15 (1.61%) Bicep
12 15 (1.61%) Scala
13 12 (1.28%) TypeScript
14 10 (1.07%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.07%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.64%) Groovy
16 5 (0.54%) Korn
17 3 (0.32%) BeanShell
17 3 (0.32%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 148 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 133 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.21%) Degree
4 29 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.00%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.14%) PMI Certification
7 15 (1.61%) PMP
8 13 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.86%) CFA
11 7 (0.75%) ACCA
11 7 (0.75%) CBAP
12 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.64%) CIMA
13 5 (0.54%) CCIE
13 5 (0.54%) CCNP
13 5 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.43%) CCSE
14 4 (0.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (19.59%) Data Quality
2 64 (6.85%) GDPR
3 61 (6.53%) QA
4 42 (4.50%) PMO
5 30 (3.21%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.96%) GRC
8 7 (0.75%) IFRS
9 6 (0.64%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.54%) GAAP
10 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.43%) Basel III
11 4 (0.43%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.43%) SLA
12 3 (0.32%) NIST
12 3 (0.32%) P3O
13 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.21%) PERC
13 2 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.03%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (5.57%) Terraform
2 25 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.54%) Ansible
4 4 (0.43%) Control-M
4 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.32%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.21%) SCCM
6 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) vRealize
7 1 (0.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.11%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 264 (28.27%) Microsoft
2 112 (11.99%) Databricks
3 106 (11.35%) Oracle
4 98 (10.49%) SAP
5 35 (3.75%) ServiceNow
6 34 (3.64%) Google
6 34 (3.64%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.93%) Cisco
8 17 (1.82%) Informatica
8 17 (1.82%) Lotus
9 14 (1.50%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.39%) Citrix
11 12 (1.28%) Planview
12 10 (1.07%) Workday
13 9 (0.96%) HP
13 9 (0.96%) Kofax
14 8 (0.86%) MicroStrategy
14 8 (0.86%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.86%) Remedy
15 7 (0.75%) Apple