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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 35 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,076 780 815
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.28% 5.83% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 6.30% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 724 528 556
10th Percentile £350 £348 £304
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £626
90th Percentile £688 £788 £731
England median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 13
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.20 £25.10
25th Percentile £23.75 £29.80 £30.59
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% -34.29% +42.60%
75th Percentile £37.31 £49.24 £76.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £77.63 £79.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -10.87%

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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £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 £663 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 0 152 £550 - 222
West London -19 19 £418 -16.50% 57
South London -6 8 £469 +44.23% 22
North London +2 4 £450 -10.00% 1
East London -3 1 £350 -33.33% 10
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 (8.83%) SharePoint
2 46 (4.28%) Confluence
3 34 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.79%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.95%) Apache
6 9 (0.84%) SAS
7 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.46%) CMS
8 5 (0.46%) Mendix
9 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.28%) Kentico
9 3 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.19%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.19%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.093%) Appian
11 1 (0.093%) IIS
11 1 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 153 (14.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.19%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 31 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.65%) Oracle FAH
5 7 (0.65%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.37%) iTrent
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle iProcurement
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 824 (76.58%) Power Platform
2 390 (36.25%) Azure
3 156 (14.50%) AWS
4 123 (11.43%) Power Automate
5 118 (10.97%) Snowflake
6 116 (10.78%) PowerApps
7 109 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (7.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 77 (7.16%) dbt
10 75 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
11 72 (6.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 69 (6.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 62 (5.76%) Serverless
14 60 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
15 56 (5.20%) GCP
16 51 (4.74%) Amazon S3
17 50 (4.65%) GitHub
18 42 (3.90%) Microsoft Purview
19 35 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
20 29 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.02%) DNS
2 10 (0.93%) Firewall
3 8 (0.74%) VPN
4 3 (0.28%) DHCP
4 3 (0.28%) FTP
4 3 (0.28%) 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
6 1 (0.093%) 4G
6 1 (0.093%) 5G
6 1 (0.093%) HTTP
6 1 (0.093%) LAN
6 1 (0.093%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.093%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.093%) SSH
6 1 (0.093%) VoIP
6 1 (0.093%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 822 (76.39%) Power BI
2 207 (19.24%) Data Warehouse
3 157 (14.59%) Tableau
4 97 (9.01%) Data Lake
5 82 (7.62%) Power Query
6 67 (6.23%) SQL Server
7 58 (5.39%) Metadata
8 52 (4.83%) Star Schema
9 43 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 40 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
11 38 (3.53%) Looker
12 35 (3.25%) Semantic Layer
13 34 (3.16%) Relational Database
14 32 (2.97%) BigQuery
15 30 (2.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 29 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
17 27 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
18 25 (2.32%) Delta Lake
19 24 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 23 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 86 (7.99%) JIRA
2 55 (5.11%) Git
3 24 (2.23%) GitLab
4 12 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.65%) RStudio
7 6 (0.56%) Selenium
7 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.46%) Terragrunt
9 4 (0.37%) JDeveloper
9 4 (0.37%) JMeter
9 4 (0.37%) MLflow
10 3 (0.28%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.19%) ERwin
11 2 (0.19%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.19%) Storybook
11 2 (0.19%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 376 (34.94%) Finance
2 358 (33.27%) Social Skills
3 257 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (10.13%) Banking
5 91 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 69 (6.41%) Retail
7 55 (5.11%) Marketing
8 35 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.79%) Local Government
10 27 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.95%) Law
13 20 (1.86%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.77%) Legal
15 16 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.49%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.39%) Front Office
17 13 (1.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 272 (25.28%) Analyst
2 175 (16.26%) Developer
3 147 (13.66%) Architect
4 129 (11.99%) Data Engineer
5 123 (11.43%) Senior
6 118 (10.97%) Data Analyst
7 81 (7.53%) Business Analyst
7 81 (7.53%) Lead
8 70 (6.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 70 (6.51%) Consultant
9 60 (5.58%) Data Architect
10 54 (5.02%) Power BI Developer
11 39 (3.62%) Power Platform Developer
12 33 (3.07%) Senior Developer
13 32 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 31 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
15 29 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
15 29 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (2.60%) Report Analyst
17 24 (2.23%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (7.99%) PySpark
2 69 (6.41%) Terraform
3 57 (5.30%) .NET
4 47 (4.37%) REST
5 24 (2.23%) Kafka
6 22 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (2.04%) React
7 18 (1.67%) JSON
8 14 (1.30%) HTML
8 14 (1.30%) XML
9 13 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (1.12%) CSS
10 12 (1.12%) SOAP
11 9 (0.84%) .NET Core
11 9 (0.84%) Apache Avro
11 9 (0.84%) Middleware
11 9 (0.84%) RESTful
12 8 (0.74%) Great Expectations
12 8 (0.74%) Pandas
12 8 (0.74%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.20%) Data Structures
2 55 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 41 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.44%) Cloud Native
5 32 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.49%) Low-Code
8 15 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.30%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.21%) FMCG
11 12 (1.12%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.02%) NHS
12 11 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.93%) Clustering
13 10 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.93%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.95%) Windows
2 16 (1.49%) Linux
3 10 (0.93%) Unix
4 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.37%) Android
5 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (42.10%) Analytics
2 333 (30.95%) Data Modelling
3 288 (26.77%) Agile
4 282 (26.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 244 (22.68%) AI
6 220 (20.45%) CI/CD
7 200 (18.59%) Decision-Making
8 198 (18.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 193 (17.94%) DevOps
10 192 (17.84%) Data Governance
11 191 (17.75%) Migration
12 190 (17.66%) Data Engineering
13 189 (17.57%) ETL
14 178 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
15 171 (15.89%) Visualisation
16 158 (14.68%) Data Pipeline
17 149 (13.85%) Validation
18 139 (12.92%) Data Analysis
19 128 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
20 116 (10.78%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 510 (47.40%) SQL
2 287 (26.67%) Python
3 121 (11.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (6.23%) JavaScript
5 62 (5.76%) C#
6 40 (3.72%) PowerShell
7 34 (3.16%) T-SQL
8 28 (2.60%) R
9 21 (1.95%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.67%) Java
11 16 (1.49%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.49%) VBA
12 9 (0.84%) Scala
13 8 (0.74%) Bash
14 6 (0.56%) Bicep
14 6 (0.56%) LookML
14 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.46%) Korn
15 5 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.28%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 155 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 134 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 64 (5.95%) Degree
4 29 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.77%) DBS Check
7 17 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.21%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.93%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.93%) PMP
12 8 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.37%) ACCA
13 4 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.28%) CISM
14 3 (0.28%) CISSP
14 3 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.28%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (24.91%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.30%) QA
3 47 (4.37%) GDPR
4 34 (3.16%) PMO
5 22 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.12%) SLA
7 11 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.28%) NCSC
11 3 (0.28%) P3O
11 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.19%) COBIT
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (1.77%) Docker
2 18 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.39%) Ansible
3 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.93%) Grafana
5 9 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (0.46%) Control-M
9 3 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.19%) SCOM
11 1 (0.093%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.093%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.093%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 373 (34.67%) Microsoft
2 149 (13.85%) Databricks
3 89 (8.27%) Oracle
4 32 (2.97%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.04%) SAP
7 21 (1.95%) Alteryx
7 21 (1.95%) Google
8 17 (1.58%) Informatica
9 12 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
9 12 (1.12%) Workday
10 9 (0.84%) Adobe
10 9 (0.84%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.84%) VMware
11 8 (0.74%) Palantir
11 8 (0.74%) Splunk
12 7 (0.65%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.56%) Infoblox
13 6 (0.56%) Planview
13 6 (0.56%) Remedy