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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 36 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 942 743 904
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.40% 5.38% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 5.95% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 486 618
10th Percentile £325 £300 £363
25th Percentile £413 £410 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -5.09% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £759 £738
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.40% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 15
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.68 £25.72
25th Percentile £19.19 £27.64 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.65 £29.60 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -30.36% +89.01%
75th Percentile £42.50 £53.75 £48.29
90th Percentile £56.00 £61.63 £51.80
England median hourly rate £23.58 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -15.80% -8.20% +11.93%

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 13,393 12,486 16,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.95% 90.46% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 7,905 11,829
10th Percentile £350 £350 £342
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 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.23
25th Percentile £25.08 £25.23 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +12 123 £500 -11.11% 117
West London -7 30 £600 +33.33% 11
East London -4 5 £495 +13.14% 10
South London -17 3 £487 -2.55% 7
North London -2 1 £500 +96.08% 1
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 63 (6.69%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 37 (3.93%) Confluence
4 25 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.44%) Apache
6 16 (1.70%) HCL Notes
7 9 (0.96%) Mendix
8 8 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.32%) IIS
12 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.21%) Luigi
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.11%) CMS
13 1 (0.11%) SAS
13 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 143 (15.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.32%) Notion
7 3 (0.32%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 34 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.64%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.32%) iTrent
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
10 3 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.21%) Lorenzo
11 2 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 691 (73.35%) Power Platform
2 335 (35.56%) Azure
3 131 (13.91%) AWS
4 127 (13.48%) Power Automate
5 109 (11.57%) PowerApps
6 93 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (9.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 79 (8.39%) Snowflake
9 71 (7.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 68 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
11 64 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
12 59 (6.26%) GCP
13 48 (5.10%) Serverless
14 43 (4.56%) GitHub
15 34 (3.61%) dbt
16 31 (3.29%) Amazon S3
16 31 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
17 30 (3.18%) Azure Functions
18 24 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
19 23 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.74%) Wireless
2 6 (0.64%) Network Security
3 5 (0.53%) HTTP
4 4 (0.42%) VPN
4 4 (0.42%) WAN
5 3 (0.32%) Firewall
5 3 (0.32%) LAN
5 3 (0.32%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.21%) BGP
6 2 (0.21%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.21%) OSPF
7 1 (0.11%) FTP
7 1 (0.11%) Internet
7 1 (0.11%) NGN
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
7 1 (0.11%) Skype
7 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 684 (72.61%) Power BI
2 152 (16.14%) Tableau
3 139 (14.76%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (9.98%) Data Lake
5 86 (9.13%) SQL Server
6 57 (6.05%) Metadata
7 45 (4.78%) Power Query
8 37 (3.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (3.18%) Relational Database
10 29 (3.08%) BigQuery
10 29 (3.08%) Looker
11 27 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (2.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 27 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 26 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
12 26 (2.76%) Delta Lake
12 26 (2.76%) Oracle Database
12 26 (2.76%) Oracle Reports
13 21 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
14 20 (2.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (6.90%) JIRA
2 39 (4.14%) Git
3 17 (1.80%) Visual Studio
4 13 (1.38%) GitLab
5 11 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.85%) ERwin
7 7 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.32%) MLflow
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.32%) Selenium
9 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.21%) ER Studio
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
1 377 (40.02%) Finance
2 289 (30.68%) Social Skills
3 194 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 90 (9.55%) Marketing
6 87 (9.24%) Banking
7 56 (5.94%) Manufacturing
8 53 (5.63%) Telecoms
9 51 (5.41%) Electronics
10 27 (2.87%) Retail
11 26 (2.76%) Financial Institution
12 22 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (2.02%) Front Office
14 18 (1.91%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.59%) Legal
16 15 (1.59%) Local Government
16 15 (1.59%) Publishing
17 14 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 206 (21.87%) Analyst
2 187 (19.85%) Developer
3 145 (15.39%) Data Engineer
4 105 (11.15%) Senior
5 89 (9.45%) Lead
6 79 (8.39%) Data Analyst
7 76 (8.07%) Business Analyst
8 62 (6.58%) Consultant
9 61 (6.48%) Architect
10 56 (5.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 37 (3.93%) Power BI Developer
12 31 (3.29%) Power Platform Developer
13 29 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (2.65%) Data Architect
15 24 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
15 24 (2.55%) Data Scientist
16 21 (2.23%) Power BI Analyst
16 21 (2.23%) Project Manager
16 21 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (5.63%) PySpark
2 49 (5.20%) .NET
3 33 (3.50%) Kafka
4 31 (3.29%) REST
5 24 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (2.55%) Pandas
6 17 (1.80%) .NET Framework
7 16 (1.70%) React
8 15 (1.59%) scikit-learn
8 15 (1.59%) SOAP
9 14 (1.49%) NumPy
10 13 (1.38%) Great Expectations
11 12 (1.27%) HTML
11 12 (1.27%) JSON
12 11 (1.17%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (1.17%) Middleware
13 10 (1.06%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.96%) SailPoint
15 8 (0.85%) Web Services
15 8 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (3.61%) Data Structures
2 33 (3.50%) Product Ownership
3 27 (2.87%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.23%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.80%) Low-Code
8 16 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.38%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.17%) Derivative
12 10 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.06%) PMI
12 10 (1.06%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.96%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.96%) NHS
13 9 (0.96%) Reference Data
13 9 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.55%) Windows
2 16 (1.70%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.74%) Android
3 7 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.53%) Unix
5 4 (0.42%) Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (38.96%) Analytics
2 277 (29.41%) Data Modelling
3 217 (23.04%) Visualisation
4 206 (21.87%) Agile
5 195 (20.70%) ETL
6 167 (17.73%) Decision-Making
7 156 (16.56%) Data Governance
8 152 (16.14%) DevOps
9 149 (15.82%) Data Engineering
10 148 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 146 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
12 132 (14.01%) AI
12 132 (14.01%) CI/CD
13 131 (13.91%) Data Analysis
14 127 (13.48%) Data Visualisation
15 115 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
16 106 (11.25%) Actionable Insight
17 105 (11.15%) Dashboard Development
17 105 (11.15%) Migration
18 102 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 463 (49.15%) SQL
2 234 (24.84%) Python
3 71 (7.54%) C#
4 66 (7.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 41 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 38 (4.03%) T-SQL
8 29 (3.08%) R
9 28 (2.97%) PowerShell
10 20 (2.12%) Java
11 16 (1.70%) Scala
11 16 (1.70%) VBA
12 14 (1.49%) Bicep
13 12 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 10 (1.06%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.06%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.64%) Groovy
16 4 (0.42%) Korn
17 3 (0.32%) BeanShell
17 3 (0.32%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 146 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 131 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 88 (9.34%) Degree
4 28 (2.97%) Azure Certification
4 28 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.34%) PMI Certification
6 20 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.70%) PMP
8 12 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.17%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.85%) CBAP
11 7 (0.74%) CFA
12 6 (0.64%) ACCA
12 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.64%) CIMA
13 4 (0.42%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.42%) IIBA
14 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.32%) CISSP
14 3 (0.32%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 68 (7.22%) QA
3 66 (7.01%) GDPR
4 42 (4.46%) PMO
5 30 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.96%) GRC
8 6 (0.64%) GAAP
8 6 (0.64%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.53%) IFRS
9 5 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.42%) Basel III
10 4 (0.42%) SLA
11 3 (0.32%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.32%) NIST
11 3 (0.32%) P3O
12 2 (0.21%) FATCA
12 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.21%) PERC
System Software
1 19 (2.02%) Docker
2 18 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (6.16%) Terraform
2 25 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.42%) Control-M
4 3 (0.32%) Ansible
4 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.32%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.21%) SCCM
5 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.21%) vRealize
6 1 (0.11%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) SCOM
6 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 262 (27.81%) Microsoft
2 116 (12.31%) Databricks
3 105 (11.15%) Oracle
4 100 (10.62%) SAP
5 35 (3.72%) Google
6 34 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.02%) Informatica
8 16 (1.70%) Cisco
8 16 (1.70%) Lotus
9 15 (1.59%) Citrix
10 12 (1.27%) Planview
11 10 (1.06%) Alteryx
11 10 (1.06%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.06%) Workday
12 9 (0.96%) HP
12 9 (0.96%) Kofax
12 9 (0.96%) MicroStrategy
13 7 (0.74%) Dell
13 7 (0.74%) VMware