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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,065 788 845
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.19% 5.88% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 6.36% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 535 576
10th Percentile £338 £325 £300
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £521
Median % change year-on-year - -4.08% -1.18%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £616
90th Percentile £688 £775 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 10
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.25 £27.20
25th Percentile £25.25 £19.79 £34.51
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% -35.24% +47.35%
75th Percentile £57.38 £51.25 £78.13
90th Percentile £60.88 £69.00 £86.88
England median hourly rate £29.96 £24.00 £31.55
% change year-on-year +24.83% -23.92% +5.47%

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 18,249 12,388 14,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.48% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,954 8,186 9,270
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £665 £663 £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 345 242 178
10th Percentile £15.93 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 £544 -0.23% 152
West London -20 17 £360 -28.00% 23
South London -10 8 £488 +21.88% 15
North London 0 4 £450 -10.00% 3
East London +1 2 £350 -30.00% 9
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 95 (8.92%) SharePoint
2 50 (4.69%) Confluence
3 35 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.54%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.97%) Apache
6 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.85%) SAS
7 8 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.66%) CMS
9 5 (0.47%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.47%) Mendix
10 3 (0.28%) Kentico
10 3 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.19%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.094%) IIS
Applications
1 156 (14.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.28%) Productboard
9 2 (0.19%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 29 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 11 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.66%) Oracle FAH
4 7 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
4 7 (0.66%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.38%) iTrent
6 4 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (0.38%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 4 (0.38%) Oracle iProcurement
7 3 (0.28%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 819 (76.90%) Power Platform
2 389 (36.53%) Azure
3 152 (14.27%) AWS
4 126 (11.83%) Power Automate
5 123 (11.55%) PowerApps
6 115 (10.80%) Snowflake
7 110 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (7.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 78 (7.32%) dbt
9 78 (7.32%) Microsoft Copilot
10 69 (6.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 62 (5.82%) Dynamics 365
11 62 (5.82%) Serverless
12 61 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
13 50 (4.69%) Amazon S3
14 48 (4.51%) GitHub
15 45 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
16 44 (4.13%) GCP
17 35 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
18 34 (3.19%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.94%) Firewall
2 9 (0.85%) DNS
3 7 (0.66%) VPN
4 4 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.19%) Broadband
5 2 (0.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) NAS
5 2 (0.19%) SAN
5 2 (0.19%) SSL
5 2 (0.19%) VoIP
6 1 (0.094%) CTI
6 1 (0.094%) DHCP
6 1 (0.094%) FTP
6 1 (0.094%) HTTP
6 1 (0.094%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.094%) LAN
6 1 (0.094%) PBX
6 1 (0.094%) SSH
6 1 (0.094%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.094%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 817 (76.71%) Power BI
2 205 (19.25%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (14.37%) Tableau
4 95 (8.92%) Data Lake
5 85 (7.98%) Power Query
6 77 (7.23%) SQL Server
7 65 (6.10%) Metadata
8 48 (4.51%) Star Schema
9 41 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 40 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (3.38%) Relational Database
12 33 (3.10%) Looker
13 32 (3.00%) Semantic Layer
14 29 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (2.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 27 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 26 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 25 (2.35%) Delta Lake
17 25 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
18 24 (2.25%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 83 (7.79%) JIRA
2 59 (5.54%) Git
3 24 (2.25%) GitLab
4 12 (1.13%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.66%) RStudio
6 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.56%) Selenium
8 5 (0.47%) Terragrunt
9 4 (0.38%) JDeveloper
9 4 (0.38%) JMeter
10 3 (0.28%) MLflow
10 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.19%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.19%) Postman
11 2 (0.19%) rollup.js
11 2 (0.19%) Storybook
11 2 (0.19%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 364 (34.18%) Finance
2 356 (33.43%) Social Skills
3 265 (24.88%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (10.80%) Banking
5 93 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 66 (6.20%) Retail
7 49 (4.60%) Marketing
8 32 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.72%) Local Government
9 29 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.88%) Legal
13 18 (1.69%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.31%) Publishing
16 13 (1.22%) Front Office
16 13 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 269 (25.26%) Analyst
2 189 (17.75%) Developer
3 128 (12.02%) Architect
4 122 (11.46%) Senior
5 120 (11.27%) Data Engineer
6 119 (11.17%) Data Analyst
7 79 (7.42%) Business Analyst
8 78 (7.32%) Consultant
9 77 (7.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 70 (6.57%) Lead
11 59 (5.54%) Data Architect
12 58 (5.45%) Power BI Developer
13 45 (4.23%) Power Platform Developer
14 33 (3.10%) Senior Developer
15 29 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
15 29 (2.72%) Senior Data Engineer
16 28 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 26 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
18 23 (2.16%) Data Business Analyst
19 21 (1.97%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.89%) PySpark
2 70 (6.57%) Terraform
3 57 (5.35%) .NET
4 47 (4.41%) REST
5 22 (2.07%) Kafka
5 22 (2.07%) React
6 21 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 16 (1.50%) JSON
8 13 (1.22%) XML
9 12 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
10 11 (1.03%) Pandas
11 10 (0.94%) HTML
12 9 (0.85%) .NET Core
12 9 (0.85%) Middleware
12 9 (0.85%) OAuth
12 9 (0.85%) RESTful
12 9 (0.85%) SOAP
12 9 (0.85%) Web Services
13 8 (0.75%) Great Expectations
13 8 (0.75%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 59 (5.54%) Data Structures
1 59 (5.54%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 37 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.29%) Cloud Native
5 20 (1.88%) Low-Code
6 17 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.31%) Reference Data
10 13 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.22%) NHS
11 12 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.13%) FMCG
11 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.94%) Life Science
14 9 (0.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.16%) Windows
2 16 (1.50%) Linux
3 9 (0.85%) Unix
4 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.38%) Android
5 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.19%) macOS
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (41.88%) Analytics
2 340 (31.92%) Data Modelling
3 304 (28.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 284 (26.67%) Agile
5 252 (23.66%) AI
6 217 (20.38%) CI/CD
7 210 (19.72%) Decision-Making
8 198 (18.59%) Data Governance
9 191 (17.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 190 (17.84%) DevOps
11 189 (17.75%) Data Engineering
12 185 (17.37%) Migration
13 176 (16.53%) ETL
14 172 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
15 168 (15.77%) Visualisation
16 154 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
17 150 (14.08%) Validation
18 140 (13.15%) Data Analysis
19 121 (11.36%) Dashboard Development
20 116 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 506 (47.51%) SQL
2 273 (25.63%) Python
3 124 (11.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 64 (6.01%) JavaScript
5 62 (5.82%) C#
6 44 (4.13%) PowerShell
7 32 (3.00%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.54%) R
9 22 (2.07%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.60%) Java
11 16 (1.50%) TypeScript
12 13 (1.22%) VBA
13 8 (0.75%) Bash
13 8 (0.75%) Bicep
14 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.47%) LookML
16 4 (0.38%) Korn
16 4 (0.38%) Scala
17 3 (0.28%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 167 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 147 (13.80%) SC Cleared
3 69 (6.48%) Degree
4 28 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 28 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.78%) AWS Certification
6 19 (1.78%) DBS Check
7 15 (1.41%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.13%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.13%) PMP
9 11 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.56%) ACCA
12 5 (0.47%) CIMA
12 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.38%) CISM
13 4 (0.38%) CISSP
14 3 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (26.76%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.26%) QA
3 38 (3.57%) GDPR
4 29 (2.72%) PMO
5 22 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (1.03%) SLA
8 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.47%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.28%) COBIT
11 3 (0.28%) GRC
11 3 (0.28%) NCSC
11 3 (0.28%) NIST
11 3 (0.28%) P3O
11 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 18 (1.69%) Docker
2 17 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.41%) Ansible
3 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.13%) Grafana
5 9 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.38%) Control-M
9 3 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.19%) SCOM
11 1 (0.094%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.094%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.094%) Nagios
11 1 (0.094%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.094%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 381 (35.77%) Microsoft
2 147 (13.80%) Databricks
3 94 (8.83%) Oracle
4 28 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.88%) Alteryx
7 19 (1.78%) Informatica
7 19 (1.78%) SAP
8 18 (1.69%) Google
9 11 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
9 11 (1.03%) Workday
10 10 (0.94%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.85%) VMware
12 8 (0.75%) Palantir
12 8 (0.75%) Splunk
13 7 (0.66%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.56%) Adobe
14 6 (0.56%) BMC
14 6 (0.56%) Planview
14 6 (0.56%) Remedy