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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 37 38
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 1,064 747 905
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.38% 5.51% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 5.98% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 495 659
10th Percentile £363 £350 £313
25th Percentile £431 £418 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 12
10th Percentile £16.70 £28.36 £28.88
25th Percentile £19.19 £28.84 £41.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% -41.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £30.59 £37.38 £76.88
90th Percentile £45.50 £75.25 £87.75
England median hourly rate £29.98 £30.40 £30.00
% change year-on-year -1.39% +1.34% +8.38%

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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +2 151 £550 - 43
West London -2 29 £576 +3.83% 14
South London +1 23 £463 -2.63% 2
North London - 4 £450 - 3
East London -4 2 £350 -33.33% 15
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 69 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.76%) Confluence
3 37 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 35 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (2.26%) Apache
6 9 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.66%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.38%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.38%) Mendix
10 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.28%) Kentico
11 1 (0.094%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.094%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.094%) Appian
11 1 (0.094%) IIS
11 1 (0.094%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 142 (13.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (2.07%) MS Visio
4 21 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.19%) Notion
10 1 (0.094%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 26 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.66%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.66%) Oracle FAH
6 6 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.47%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.38%) iTrent
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle iProcurement
8 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.19%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 789 (74.15%) Power Platform
2 366 (34.40%) Azure
3 161 (15.13%) AWS
4 108 (10.15%) Power Automate
5 106 (9.96%) Snowflake
6 95 (8.93%) PowerApps
7 83 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
9 78 (7.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 76 (7.14%) GCP
11 71 (6.67%) dbt
12 68 (6.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 58 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
13 58 (5.45%) Microsoft Copilot
14 55 (5.17%) Amazon S3
14 55 (5.17%) Serverless
15 49 (4.61%) GitHub
16 37 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
17 30 (2.82%) Copilot Studio
18 29 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.03%) DNS
1 11 (1.03%) Firewall
2 10 (0.94%) VPN
3 5 (0.47%) Network Security
4 3 (0.28%) DHCP
4 3 (0.28%) FTP
4 3 (0.28%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) Broadband
5 2 (0.19%) NAS
5 2 (0.19%) SAN
6 1 (0.094%) HTTP
6 1 (0.094%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.094%) LAN
6 1 (0.094%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.094%) SSH
6 1 (0.094%) VoIP
6 1 (0.094%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 782 (73.50%) Power BI
2 198 (18.61%) Data Warehouse
3 179 (16.82%) Tableau
4 101 (9.49%) Data Lake
5 68 (6.39%) SQL Server
6 62 (5.83%) Power Query
7 55 (5.17%) Metadata
8 52 (4.89%) BigQuery
9 44 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 44 (4.14%) Looker
9 44 (4.14%) Star Schema
10 39 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (3.38%) Snowflake Schema
12 34 (3.20%) Relational Database
13 29 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 28 (2.63%) Semantic Layer
15 26 (2.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 23 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 20 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (1.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 73 (6.86%) JIRA
2 44 (4.14%) Git
3 20 (1.88%) GitLab
4 10 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (0.85%) ERwin
6 8 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.38%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.38%) JDeveloper
9 4 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.19%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
10 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.19%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.094%) GCC
11 1 (0.094%) MLflow
General
1 404 (37.97%) Finance
2 329 (30.92%) Social Skills
3 222 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.77%) Banking
5 92 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 48 (4.51%) Retail
7 45 (4.23%) Marketing
8 41 (3.85%) Law
9 27 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (2.07%) Investment Banking
11 22 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.60%) Legal
12 17 (1.60%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.50%) Local Government
14 15 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.41%) Front Office
15 13 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.22%) Publishing
16 12 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 259 (24.34%) Analyst
2 175 (16.45%) Developer
3 150 (14.10%) Architect
4 148 (13.91%) Data Engineer
5 130 (12.22%) Senior
6 116 (10.90%) Data Analyst
7 100 (9.40%) Lead
8 82 (7.71%) Business Analyst
9 62 (5.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 56 (5.26%) Consultant
11 49 (4.61%) Data Architect
12 44 (4.14%) Power Platform Developer
13 43 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 42 (3.95%) Power BI Developer
15 40 (3.76%) Lead Architect
16 36 (3.38%) Senior Developer
17 34 (3.20%) Senior Data Engineer
18 32 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
19 31 (2.91%) Functional Architect
20 23 (2.16%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.39%) PySpark
2 44 (4.14%) .NET
3 34 (3.20%) REST
4 32 (3.01%) Kafka
5 22 (2.07%) Middleware
5 22 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (1.79%) JSON
7 16 (1.50%) React
8 14 (1.32%) XML
9 12 (1.13%) Great Expectations
10 11 (1.03%) .NET Framework
10 11 (1.03%) HTML
11 10 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
12 9 (0.85%) CSS
12 9 (0.85%) Pandas
13 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.75%) RESTful
14 7 (0.66%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.66%) SOAP
14 7 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 49 (4.61%) Data Structures
3 38 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.03%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.03%) CMDB
10 11 (1.03%) Reference Data
11 10 (0.94%) FMCG
11 10 (0.94%) Low-Code
11 10 (0.94%) Reinsurance
12 9 (0.85%) Clustering
12 9 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.32%) Windows
2 13 (1.22%) Linux
3 10 (0.94%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.28%) Android
4 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (42.11%) Analytics
2 350 (32.89%) Data Modelling
3 262 (24.62%) Agile
4 232 (21.80%) AI
5 201 (18.89%) ETL
6 197 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 189 (17.76%) Decision-Making
8 187 (17.58%) Migration
9 186 (17.48%) Visualisation
10 184 (17.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 181 (17.01%) Data Engineering
12 178 (16.73%) Data Governance
13 177 (16.64%) DevOps
14 170 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
15 169 (15.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 166 (15.60%) Data Pipeline
17 139 (13.06%) Data Analysis
18 135 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
19 133 (12.50%) Validation
20 121 (11.37%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 489 (45.96%) SQL
2 277 (26.03%) Python
3 111 (10.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (4.79%) C#
5 45 (4.23%) T-SQL
6 43 (4.04%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.54%) PowerShell
8 25 (2.35%) PL/SQL
8 25 (2.35%) R
9 19 (1.79%) Java
10 14 (1.32%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.13%) Scala
11 12 (1.13%) VBA
12 9 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.56%) Bicep
13 6 (0.56%) Korn
14 5 (0.47%) LookML
15 4 (0.38%) Bash
16 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 170 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 149 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.24%) Degree
4 23 (2.16%) Azure Certification
5 18 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 16 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
13 4 (0.38%) CBAP
14 3 (0.28%) CISM
14 3 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.28%) IIBA
14 3 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (23.03%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.95%) GDPR
3 57 (5.36%) QA
4 43 (4.04%) PMO
5 18 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.56%) SLA
9 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.38%) NCSC
11 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.28%) P3O
12 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.19%) COBIT
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.094%) MiFID
13 1 (0.094%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.22%) Docker
3 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.094%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.094%) RACF
Systems Management
1 66 (6.20%) Terraform
2 14 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.13%) Grafana
4 9 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.56%) Ansible
5 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.28%) Control-M
7 3 (0.28%) SCCM
8 1 (0.094%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.094%) Kibana
8 1 (0.094%) Nessus
8 1 (0.094%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.094%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 338 (31.77%) Microsoft
2 140 (13.16%) Databricks
3 85 (7.99%) Oracle
4 35 (3.29%) Google
4 35 (3.29%) SAP
5 29 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 20 (1.88%) Informatica
8 18 (1.69%) Alteryx
9 15 (1.41%) Workday
10 10 (0.94%) Adobe
10 10 (0.94%) Palantir
11 8 (0.75%) Citrix
11 8 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.75%) Foundry
11 8 (0.75%) Splunk
11 8 (0.75%) VMware
12 7 (0.66%) Amplitude
12 7 (0.66%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.56%) Infoblox