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From analysts to developers, Business Intelligence (BI) roles are indispensable, and an integral part of any data-driven team. Responsible for processing and visualising raw data over a variety of software applications, BI professionals help companies process their raw data into insightful solutions to solve complex business problems.
This role, like many other data-driven roles, helps companies process historical data, get insightful reports to the people who need them, and work with business leaders to understand what data they should analyse and what it means to their bottom line.
If you’re looking for recruitment support or jobs specialising in Cognos, Tableau, Qlikview, Looker, Domo, Birst, Microsoft Stack (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), we have the team to help.
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Senior Data Consultant
London
£550 - £800
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Job Title: Senior Data Consultant
Location: London one day per week
Contract: 12 weeks
Rate: TBC
Overview:
A legal client is looking for someone to support one of their clients across data modelling, governance, and legal spend analysis, helping teams make sense of complex datasets, develop conceptual models, and provide actionable recommendations. This is a strategic role with exposure to senior stakeholders, offering the chance to influence how legal and business data is structured and used.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and validate conceptual data models and business glossaries with legal and business teams.
- Co-work with data scientists on legal spend analysis: plan experiments, explore data, and share insights with stakeholders.
- Provide floating/support data governance and architecture expertise across the group legal function.
- Recommend data tagging, classification, and governance best practices to improve data quality and usability.
- Engage with stakeholders to align data initiatives with business objectives and ensure outcomes are actionable.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience in professional services, strategy consulting, or a Big 4 environment.
- Strong business analysis and data governance skills.
- Comfortable working with legal data or within a legal context.
- Excellent communication skills – able to influence senior stakeholders without heavy technical hand-holding.
- Proactive approach to identifying opportunities and driving workstreams forward.
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Media Solutions Engineer
London
£70000 - £75000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Media Solutions Engineer
£70,000 to £75,000 plus benefits
London – 2 days in the office
A rapidly growing global marketing group are building out a Media Solutions function that sits at the intersection of data, media and engineering. This team builds proprietary tools and automation for internal delivery teams and blue chip clients across sectors including finance, ecommerce and consumer. They are looking for an experienced Media Solutions Engineer to join the team and help scale their technology offering.
This is a strategic and hands on role where you will work closely with internal leaders and client teams to design and deliver innovative solutions that drive performance and operational efficiency. You will be at the centre of new ideas and leading edge technology with full ownership across the development lifecycle.
The Role
You will:
- Build automation tools, apps and platforms that improve media and marketing delivery
- Own end to end development and execution across a broad stack
- Act as a technical partner across the business and lead projects from idea to deployment
- Identify and deliver innovation across media and digital channels
- Develop proof of concept quickly and improve existing engineering practices
- Work across cloud environments working with APIs and structured data sources
- Build and visualise insight through dashboards and applications
Skills and Experience
We are looking for:
- Strong experience working with cloud tech ideally GCP
- BigQuery and SQL experience
- Experience with Python, Typescript or Javascript
- Experience with data visualisation tools ideally Looker
- Experience working in an agency or consulting environment
- Understanding of media, performance or digital marketing environments
- Ability to work independently and lead technical delivery
The Benefits
- £70,000 to £75,000 plus bonus
- Clear progression and exposure to senior leadership
- Work with complex greenfield workstreams and strategic innovation
- Hybrid working from London
If you want to work in a team where your engineering decisions shape major solutions and new technology this is an opportunity to join a high performing and collaborative environment.
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BI Developer (Tableau)
Milton Keynes
£450 - £550
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractMilton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
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Job Title: BI Developer (SQL, Tableau, SSRS)
Location: Milton Keynes (1 day per week)
Contract Length: 6 months
IR35: Outside
Day Rate: £450-£550
Notice period – (2 weeks max)
The Role
This contract has been created to keep a high-volume reporting workstream moving while the wider team focuses on the Databricks migration. You’ll own a mix of Tableau, SQL and SSRS development work, supporting business stakeholders and maintaining existing reporting across the estate.
Day-to-day, you’ll gather requirements directly from stakeholders, build and amend dashboards, develop SQL objects, and keep key reporting processes running smoothly. You’ll also support documentation, participate in code reviews, and contribute to best practice across the BI function.
Success in this project looks like:
- Stable delivery of BAU reporting
- Smooth migration of legacy reports into Databricks
- High-quality SQL and Tableau deliverables that stakeholders can self-serve from
- Clear documentation of reporting and BI processes
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, amend and maintain Tableau dashboards
- Create, optimise and support SQL Server stored procedures, views, functions and ad hoc queries
- Maintain and develop SSRS reports
- Support the migration of existing reporting into the Databricks environment
- Contribute to documentation, testing and code reviews
- Engage directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and support self-service
- Ensure consistency with internal processes, governance and data protection standards
Tech Stack & Experience:
Must-Have:
- Tableau
- SQL
- SSRS
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience migrating reporting workloads (e.g., SQL → Databricks)
Soft Skills
- Self-starter mindset
- Able to work independently
- Confident engaging with stakeholders
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BI Manager (Power BI, DAX, SQL)
London
£80000 - £85000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Job Title: BI Manager
Location: London (Hybrid – 1 day per week in the office)
Industry: Retail
Overview
We are working with a leading retail company in London to recruit a BI Manager who will report directly to the Head of Data. This role will lead the BI function, manage a team of BI Developers, and drive high-quality reporting and analytics across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of BI Developers.
- Oversee the design and delivery of BI dashboards, reports, and data models.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective BI solutions.
- Ensure best practices in data modelling, reporting, and BI processes.
- Support the Head of Data in shaping and evolving the BI strategy.
Skills & Experience Required
- Strong experience with SQL, Power BI, and DAX.
- Proven background in managing BI Developers or similar technical teams.
- Solid understanding of data modelling, BI architecture, and reporting best practice.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to present insights effectively.
- Nice to have: experience with Databricks or Airflow.
If you are interested in this role, please apply. To follow up please email or message me on LinkedIn.
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Data Visualisation & Automation Manager
London
£75000 - £80000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Data Visualisation and Automation Manager
Retail
London – once a week
Travel outside London – 1 or 2 times a month
Salary up to £80,000
This is a great opportunity to join a high growth data function within a well known retail brand. Sitting within the Customer and Data team, you will play a key role in transforming how the business understands customer behaviour and uses data to improve decision making, performance and customer experience.
You will take ownership of self serve analytics, foundational data products and automation tools that drive strategic decision making across the organisation. This includes building and scaling dashboards and workflow automation used across retail and trade channels. You will also support data enablement and data access so that teams across the business have the right information when they need it.
There is also a leadership element where you will manage and develop a growing team and work cross functionally across the business. This role sits in a function that has strong senior backing and continued investment which creates clear opportunities to grow your career.
The Role
* Build and lead the development of self serve dashboards to support commercial and customer decision making
* Lead workflow automation and integration using Databricks, Airflow and Power Platform
* Support data enablement and data architecture across the business
* Own customer data tools that help understand customer behaviour and improve experience
* Work cross functionally with marketing, customer, product and internal data teams
* Manage and grow a high performing analytics team
* Drive the data and automation roadmap while promoting best practice across the function
Skills and Experience
* Strong stakeholder and team leadership experience
* Power BI and SQL expertise
* Databricks and Airflow experience
* Experience building data products and workflow automation
* Python would be beneficial
* Ability to influence and work across customer, commercial and data teams
Salary and Benefits
£70,000 to £80,000 plus up to 20 percent bonus
Excellent pension and private healthcare
Share save and retail discounts available
If you want to shape customer analytics, drive automation and lead a growing team within a highly invested data function this is a brilliant opportunity.
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Data Analyst (Power BI, DAX, SQL)
London
£45000 - £50000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Data Analyst
Up to £50k + bonus + benefits
Hybrid Working – London based
I’m partnering with a rapidly growing technology company in the sustainability and infrastructure space. They are expanding their data function and are looking for a Data Analyst to help deliver high-quality reporting, dashboards and insights. You’ll work closely with senior data and engineering colleagues, playing a key role in enabling data-driven decision-making across the business.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining strong technical skills with clear communication and thoughtful design to create impactful analytics in a fast-moving tech environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with senior data team members to deliver accurate, timely and business-aligned reporting and insights.
- Design and build visually engaging, intuitive Power BI dashboards.
- Write high-quality, efficient SQL for data extraction, transformation and optimisation.
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis to support operational, commercial and marketing teams.
- Present findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support data literacy by providing Power BI training and guidance.
- Plan and document work methodically to ensure clarity.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience in a Data Analyst role.
- Degree in a quantitative field (e.g., STEM, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics).
- Strong SQL skills.
- Solid Power BI experience with a focus on dashboard design and UX.
- Good DAX experience.
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
- Strong communicator able to convert complex data into clear insights.
- Curious, proactive and collaborative mindset.
The client is looking to move quickly, if you are interested in this role please apply. To follow up on your application, please email or message me on LinkedIn.
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PowerBI Analyst
London
£45000 - £50000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Data Analyst
Salary up to £50,000 + 10% Bonus
London – 3 days in the office
The Company
A rapidly scaling green technology business backed by private equity with significant investment going into data and analytics.
Data is at the core of their current growth strategy and the business is expanding the in house data function to support better decision making and commercial performance.
The Role
This position sits within a central data team during a period of transformation. The business has invested in Snowflake, AWS and Power BI and is now focused on building more effective reporting and insight capabilities.
You will own the development of reports and dashboards for BAU and KPI needs across the company. There is strong demand from stakeholders in commercial, finance and sales teams and you will be responsible for helping them understand performance, trends and opportunities. As the function matures there is also scope for the role to evolve further into more strategic insight work.
Your Skills and Experience
* Strong experience with SQL and Power BI
* Able to build dashboards and reports in a commercial environment
* Someone who has experienced smaller or scaling teams and enjoys working in a collaborative set up
* Great communication skills and the ability to partner with stakeholders
Why Apply
This is an opportunity to join a business that is investing heavily in data at an early stage of the journey. You will be influential in shaping the reporting capability and will have room to develop into more insight focused work as the team grows.
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BI Analyst
City of London
£450 - £520
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCity of London, London
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BI ANALYST
£450 – £520 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35
HYBRID OR REMOTE (LONDON)
6 MONTH CONTRACT
THE COMPANY:
Join a fast-paced software company as a BI Analyst and optimise their Looker models.
THE ROLE:
As the BI Analyst, your responsibilities will include:
- Clean up, govern, and optimise all Looker models (LookML).
- Improve dashboard performance, usability, and adoption.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Insights, Finance, and Operations to build self-service dashboards and empower teams to manage reporting independently.
- Build 1-2 new dashboards, with a strong focus on creating scalable, reusable components.
- Reduce ambiguity in reporting by establishing consistent definitions and data standards.
- Ensure best-practice, scalable LookML development across the business.
- Improve governance, consistency, and reporting standards across all analytics outputs.
- Work proactively and independently – driving alignment with stakeholders and managing your own workload.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Required:
- Strong experience with Looker and LookML.
- Solid SQL skills.
- Experience optimising and governing complex data models.
- Ability to create scalable, self-service dashboards.
- Strong stakeholder engagement across engineering, insights, finance, and operations.
- Independent, proactive working style.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Databricks
- Python exposure
HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Mojola Coker via the apply link on this page.
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BI Analyst (looker)
London
£450 - £520
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Job Title: BI Analyst
Location: Hybrid or Remote – London
Contract: 6 Months
IR35: Outside
Rate: £450-£520 per day
Start Date:
They are looking for a BI Analyst to optimise, govern, and maintain their Looker models. This role will focus on improving data quality, performance, and usability across the business.
Responsibilities
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Optimise and maintain Looker dashboards and models.
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Improve dashboard performance and drive adoption across teams.
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Partner with Insights, Ops, and Finance to identify data gaps and build self-service dashboards for stakeholders.
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Introduce scalable LookML structures and enforce reporting standards.
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Troubleshoot and resolve Looker issues as they arise.
Required Skills & Experience
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Strong experience with LookML, Looker, SQL
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Self-sufficient, proactive, and able to work independently.
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Nice to have: Python, Databricks
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Note: This is not a Looker Studio role.
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BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
From analysts to developers, Business Intelligence (BI) roles are indispensable, and an integral part of any data-driven team. Responsible for processing and visualising raw data over a variety of software applications, BI professionals help companies process their raw data into insightful solutions to solve complex business problems.
If you’re looking for recruitment support or jobs specialising in Cognos, Tableau, Qlikview, Looker, Domo, Birst, Microsoft Stack (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), we have the team to help.
DATA ENGINEERING
We source the people who enable and optimise the technologies that make data possible.
From the Data Engineers who design and build data platforms, and those that manage data quality and data governance, through to Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation professionals, our Data and Technology team recruits for roles that sit behind effective analytics.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
We source the people who enable and optimise the technologies that make data possible.
From Data Science start-ups, to global Travel and Financial corporations, we help the best Software Engineering talent find rewarding careers.
As the scale and complexity of data increases, Software Engineers have become essential players in creating information solutions. The need to build end to end systems that turn data into products has seen a sharp increase in demand for these roles.
Developers working in Python, Scala, and Java, as well as Dev Ops professionals, are now amongst some of the most sought-after talent in the industry.
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