Business Intelligence Job Trends in Central London

Business Intelligence (BI)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 34 43
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 92 150 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.22% 7.77% 5.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 8.11% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 72 122 80
10th Percentile £53,750 £39,000 £49,725
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,700 £66,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.76% -8.97% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,563 £84,625
90th Percentile £89,750 £105,375 £96,150
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Business Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,348 1,850 3,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 82.24% 95.85% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,683 1,474 1,963
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,747 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £114,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Central London

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Central London over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in Central London

Business Intelligence
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -26 80 £80,000 +21.21% 156
Lambeth - 7 £55,000 - 1
City of Westminster +8 2 £67,265 - 32
West End of London -1 2 £67,265 +110.14% 7
Business Intelligence
London

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 4 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.09%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.09%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 76 (82.61%) Power Platform
2 35 (38.04%) Azure
3 13 (14.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (11.96%) AWS
5 10 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (10.87%) Power Automate
6 8 (8.70%) PowerApps
6 8 (8.70%) Snowflake
7 6 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (6.52%) SaaS
8 5 (5.43%) dbt
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (80.43%) Power BI
2 20 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 16 (17.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (9.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (9.78%) Tableau
6 8 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.26%) Metadata
7 3 (3.26%) OLTP
7 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.26%) SSDT
8 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.09%) Looker
8 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.09%) Power Query
8 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Git
2 5 (5.43%) JIRA
2 5 (5.43%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
General
1 47 (51.09%) Finance
2 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (13.04%) Law
5 9 (9.78%) Legal
6 8 (8.70%) Front Office
7 4 (4.35%) Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.26%) Legal Technology
8 3 (3.26%) Marketing
8 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.26%) Publishing
9 2 (2.17%) Advertising
9 2 (2.17%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (28.26%) Analyst
2 17 (18.48%) Senior
3 14 (15.22%) Developer
4 13 (14.13%) Data Engineer
5 11 (11.96%) Business Analyst
6 9 (9.78%) Business Manager
6 9 (9.78%) Finance Manager
6 9 (9.78%) Finance Systems Manager
6 9 (9.78%) Systems Manager
7 8 (8.70%) Lead
8 6 (6.52%) Report Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) Data Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) Data Manager
9 5 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 3 (3.26%) Consultant
10 3 (3.26%) FMCG Manager
10 3 (3.26%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) .NET
3 4 (4.35%) PySpark
4 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.17%) XML
4 2 (2.17%) XSLT
5 1 (1.09%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.09%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.09%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.09%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.09%) jQuery
5 1 (1.09%) Kafka
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.09%) React
5 1 (1.09%) REST
5 1 (1.09%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.09%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.26%) FMCG
3 2 (2.17%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.17%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.09%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.09%) PMI
4 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.78%) Analytics
2 26 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (25.00%) AI
4 20 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 20 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (20.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (16.30%) Decision-Making
6 15 (16.30%) DevOps
7 14 (15.22%) Agile
7 14 (15.22%) Data Engineering
8 13 (14.13%) CI/CD
8 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.04%) Data Governance
10 11 (11.96%) ERP
10 11 (11.96%) Machine Learning
10 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.87%) Project Management
12 9 (9.78%) Asset Management
12 9 (9.78%) Data Analysis
12 9 (9.78%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 64 (69.57%) SQL
2 29 (31.52%) Python
3 11 (11.96%) T-SQL
4 7 (7.61%) C#
5 6 (6.52%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.17%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.17%) XPath
9 1 (1.09%) Bicep
9 1 (1.09%) Java
9 1 (1.09%) R
9 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (18.48%) Degree
2 10 (10.87%) ACCA
2 10 (10.87%) CIMA
3 6 (6.52%) CFA
3 6 (6.52%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.09%) CISM
6 1 (1.09%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) CRISC
6 1 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.26%) GDPR
2 3 (3.26%) PMO
2 3 (3.26%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.09%) EMIR
4 1 (1.09%) GRC
4 1 (1.09%) IFRS
4 1 (1.09%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.09%) MiFID
4 1 (1.09%) NIST
4 1 (1.09%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.09%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.26%) SQL Sentry
2 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.87%) SAP
3 9 (9.78%) Concur
3 9 (9.78%) Databricks
3 9 (9.78%) Yardi
4 4 (4.35%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.26%) Oracle
5 3 (3.26%) RedGate
6 2 (2.17%) Planview
7 1 (1.09%) Informatica
7 1 (1.09%) OpenAI