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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 35 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 936 750 845
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.53% 5.35% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.15% 5.92% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 501 567
10th Percentile £325 £300 £363
25th Percentile £413 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
England median daily rate £495 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -1.00% -1.96% -2.86%
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 13,093 12,664 16,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.28% 90.41% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,072 11,558
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
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 219 156 277
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.69 £24.42 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.38 £73.75
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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +14 125 £500 -13.04% 59
West London -6 25 £600 +33.33% 15
East London -4 5 £495 +13.14% 9
North London 0 2 £500 +96.08% 2
South London -15 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 67 (7.16%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.06%) Confluence
3 36 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (2.35%) Apache
6 18 (1.92%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.07%) Mendix
8 9 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.32%) IIS
11 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.21%) Luigi
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.21%) Moodle
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.21%) SAS
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.11%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 145 (15.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.53%) 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 (0.53%) 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%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.21%) Lorenzo
10 2 (0.21%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.21%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 688 (73.50%) Power Platform
2 326 (34.83%) Azure
3 130 (13.89%) Power Automate
4 119 (12.71%) AWS
5 114 (12.18%) PowerApps
6 91 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 71 (7.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 70 (7.48%) Dynamics 365
9 70 (7.48%) Snowflake
10 59 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
11 54 (5.77%) GCP
12 49 (5.24%) Serverless
13 41 (4.38%) GitHub
14 36 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
15 35 (3.74%) dbt
16 32 (3.42%) Azure Functions
17 28 (2.99%) Amazon S3
18 22 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
18 22 (2.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.85%) Network Security
2 7 (0.75%) Wireless
3 6 (0.64%) VPN
3 6 (0.64%) WAN
4 5 (0.53%) Firewall
4 5 (0.53%) HTTP
4 5 (0.53%) LAN
4 5 (0.53%) 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%) Internet
6 1 (0.11%) NGN
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) Skype
6 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 682 (72.86%) Power BI
2 140 (14.96%) Tableau
3 138 (14.74%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (10.04%) Data Lake
5 85 (9.08%) SQL Server
6 52 (5.56%) Metadata
7 44 (4.70%) Power Query
8 40 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 33 (3.53%) Relational Database
10 30 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (3.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 29 (3.10%) Oracle Database
11 29 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 27 (2.88%) Looker
12 27 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
13 26 (2.78%) BigQuery
14 25 (2.67%) Delta Lake
15 23 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (2.35%) Star Schema
17 20 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 64 (6.84%) JIRA
2 41 (4.38%) Git
3 15 (1.60%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.39%) GitLab
5 11 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.64%) ERwin
6 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.53%) 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%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) PeopleTools
11 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 386 (41.24%) Finance
2 287 (30.66%) Social Skills
3 199 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (13.68%) Public Sector
5 94 (10.04%) Marketing
6 87 (9.29%) Banking
7 56 (5.98%) Manufacturing
8 55 (5.88%) Telecoms
9 51 (5.45%) Electronics
10 29 (3.10%) Financial Institution
10 29 (3.10%) Retail
11 22 (2.35%) 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 (1.60%) Local Government
15 15 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (1.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 209 (22.33%) Analyst
2 185 (19.76%) Developer
3 140 (14.96%) Data Engineer
4 100 (10.68%) Senior
5 85 (9.08%) Lead
6 80 (8.55%) Data Analyst
7 76 (8.12%) Business Analyst
8 63 (6.73%) Architect
9 59 (6.30%) Consultant
10 55 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (3.74%) Power BI Developer
12 31 (3.31%) Power Platform Developer
13 28 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
14 27 (2.88%) Data Architect
15 26 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (2.56%) Data Scientist
17 22 (2.35%) Power BI Analyst
17 22 (2.35%) Project Manager
17 22 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
18 20 (2.14%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (5.88%) PySpark
2 51 (5.45%) .NET
3 33 (3.53%) REST
4 30 (3.21%) Kafka
5 23 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (2.35%) Pandas
7 16 (1.71%) JSON
7 16 (1.71%) React
8 15 (1.60%) .NET Framework
8 15 (1.60%) HTML
8 15 (1.60%) SOAP
9 14 (1.50%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.39%) NumPy
11 12 (1.28%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (1.18%) Middleware
13 10 (1.07%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.96%) Great Expectations
14 9 (0.96%) SailPoint
15 8 (0.85%) Web Services
15 8 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (3.53%) Data Structures
1 33 (3.53%) Product Ownership
2 23 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (2.14%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (2.14%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 17 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (1.82%) Low-Code
6 14 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.28%) Derivative
8 11 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.07%) Reinsurance
10 9 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (0.96%) NHS
10 9 (0.96%) PMI
11 8 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.56%) 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
1 356 (38.03%) Analytics
2 276 (29.49%) Data Modelling
3 215 (22.97%) Visualisation
4 211 (22.54%) Agile
5 190 (20.30%) ETL
6 166 (17.74%) Decision-Making
7 156 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 154 (16.45%) Data Governance
9 150 (16.03%) DevOps
10 148 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
11 146 (15.60%) Data Engineering
12 130 (13.89%) CI/CD
13 129 (13.78%) Data Analysis
14 124 (13.25%) Data Visualisation
15 113 (12.07%) AI
15 113 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
16 107 (11.43%) Actionable Insight
17 102 (10.90%) Dashboard Development
17 102 (10.90%) Migration
17 102 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 461 (49.25%) SQL
2 239 (25.53%) Python
3 71 (7.59%) C#
4 62 (6.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 51 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 44 (4.70%) PL/SQL
7 35 (3.74%) R
8 32 (3.42%) T-SQL
9 30 (3.21%) PowerShell
10 23 (2.46%) Java
11 18 (1.92%) VBA
12 15 (1.60%) Bicep
12 15 (1.60%) Scala
13 12 (1.28%) TypeScript
14 11 (1.18%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.18%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.64%) Groovy
16 5 (0.53%) Korn
17 3 (0.32%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 148 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 133 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.19%) Degree
4 29 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.14%) PMI Certification
7 15 (1.60%) PMP
8 13 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.85%) CFA
11 7 (0.75%) ACCA
11 7 (0.75%) CBAP
12 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.64%) CIMA
13 5 (0.53%) CCIE
13 5 (0.53%) CCNP
13 5 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.43%) CCSE
14 4 (0.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (19.55%) Data Quality
2 65 (6.94%) GDPR
3 61 (6.52%) QA
4 42 (4.49%) PMO
5 30 (3.21%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.96%) GRC
8 7 (0.75%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.75%) IFRS
9 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.53%) GAAP
9 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.43%) Basel III
10 4 (0.43%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.43%) SLA
11 3 (0.32%) NIST
11 3 (0.32%) P3O
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.21%) PERC
12 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 (5.56%) Terraform
2 25 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.53%) 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
1 266 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 112 (11.97%) Databricks
3 107 (11.43%) Oracle
4 98 (10.47%) SAP
5 35 (3.74%) ServiceNow
6 34 (3.63%) Google
6 34 (3.63%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.92%) Cisco
7 18 (1.92%) Lotus
8 17 (1.82%) Informatica
9 14 (1.50%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.39%) Citrix
11 12 (1.28%) Planview
12 10 (1.07%) Kofax
12 10 (1.07%) Workday
13 9 (0.96%) HP
14 8 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
14 8 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.85%) Remedy
15 7 (0.75%) Apple