Business Intelligence Job Trends in the City of London

Business Intelligence (BI)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 35 35
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 103 132 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.94% 7.28% 6.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 7.62% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 65 97 117
10th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +3.13% -5.19%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £84,250
90th Percentile £94,000 £97,500 £92,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.21% +1.54% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,812 1,732 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.21% 95.58% 92.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,040 1,332 1,963
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £43,125
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% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the City of London

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the City of London

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (8.74%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.97%) Apache
4 1 (0.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.97%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (68.93%) Power Platform
2 43 (41.75%) Azure
3 18 (17.48%) Snowflake
4 17 (16.50%) AWS
5 14 (13.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (11.65%) dbt
7 11 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (9.71%) GCP
8 10 (9.71%) Power Automate
9 9 (8.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (4.85%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.91%) SaaS
13 2 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (1.94%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (1.94%) Collibra
13 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (68.93%) Power BI
2 21 (20.39%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (14.56%) Data Lake
4 14 (13.59%) SQL Server
5 12 (11.65%) Tableau
6 8 (7.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (6.80%) Looker
7 7 (6.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.83%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (5.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.91%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.91%) Metabase
9 3 (2.91%) Metadata
9 3 (2.91%) Power Query
10 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (5.83%) MLflow
2 4 (3.88%) Git
2 4 (3.88%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.94%) JIRA
4 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
General
1 49 (47.57%) Finance
2 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 21 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.77%) Front Office
6 6 (5.83%) Law
6 6 (5.83%) Legal
7 5 (4.85%) Banking
8 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.91%) Marketing
10 2 (1.94%) Advertising
10 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.97%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.97%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (29.13%) Analyst
2 19 (18.45%) Senior
3 14 (13.59%) Data Engineer
4 11 (10.68%) Business Analyst
5 9 (8.74%) Finance Manager
5 9 (8.74%) Finance Systems Manager
5 9 (8.74%) Systems Manager
6 8 (7.77%) Business Manager
6 8 (7.77%) Report Analyst
7 7 (6.80%) Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.83%) Data Management Specialist
8 6 (5.83%) Product Specialist
8 6 (5.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 5 (4.85%) Lead
9 5 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.77%) Kafka
1 8 (7.77%) Terraform
2 7 (6.80%) LangChain
2 7 (6.80%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (6.80%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.80%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.80%) TensorFlow
3 6 (5.83%) pgvector
4 5 (4.85%) PySpark
5 4 (3.88%) .NET
6 2 (1.94%) REST
7 1 (0.97%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.97%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.97%) jQuery
7 1 (0.97%) JSON
7 1 (0.97%) Pandas
7 1 (0.97%) React
7 1 (0.97%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.77%) Cloud Native
1 8 (7.77%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.83%) Clustering
2 6 (5.83%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.91%) FMCG
3 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.91%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.94%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.94%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.97%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.97%) Life Science
5 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.72%) Analytics
2 33 (32.04%) AI
3 28 (27.18%) Data Engineering
4 25 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (23.30%) Data Modelling
5 24 (23.30%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (20.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (18.45%) Data Management
7 19 (18.45%) Decision-Making
8 16 (15.53%) Machine Learning
9 15 (14.56%) Data Governance
9 15 (14.56%) Data Science
9 15 (14.56%) ERP
10 14 (13.59%) DevOps
10 14 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (12.62%) Agile
11 13 (12.62%) CI/CD
11 13 (12.62%) Data Analysis
11 13 (12.62%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (12.62%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 66 (64.08%) SQL
2 33 (32.04%) Python
3 6 (5.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.85%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.91%) C#
6 3 (2.91%) Scala
7 2 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.94%) R
8 1 (0.97%) Bicep
8 1 (0.97%) Java
8 1 (0.97%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.97%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (17.48%) Degree
2 10 (9.71%) ACCA
2 10 (9.71%) CIMA
3 5 (4.85%) CFA
4 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.97%) CISM
6 1 (0.97%) CISSP
6 1 (0.97%) CRISC
6 1 (0.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.45%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.74%) GDPR
3 6 (5.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.91%) QA
5 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.94%) EMIR
5 2 (1.94%) IFRS
5 2 (1.94%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.94%) MiFID
5 2 (1.94%) PMO
5 2 (1.94%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.97%) GRC
6 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.97%) NIST
6 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 20 (19.42%) Databricks
3 12 (11.65%) Dell
4 11 (10.68%) SAP
5 9 (8.74%) Concur
5 9 (8.74%) Yardi
6 8 (7.77%) Informatica
7 6 (5.83%) Cloudera
7 6 (5.83%) Denodo
7 6 (5.83%) Teradata
8 4 (3.88%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.97%) Oracle
9 1 (0.97%) Planview