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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 144 126 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.42% 6.04% 6.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 6.29% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 88 78 168
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,775 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,750 £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £103,250 £102,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.08% +13.46% -7.14%

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 2,739 2,002 2,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.02% 96.02% 92.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,924 1,499 2,485
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,850
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 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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 26 March 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 12 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.08%) Apache
3 3 (2.08%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Appian
Applications
1 27 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.39%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.39%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.69%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (79.86%) Power Platform
2 69 (47.92%) Azure
3 25 (17.36%) dbt
4 23 (15.97%) Snowflake
5 22 (15.28%) Power Automate
6 18 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (11.81%) AWS
7 17 (11.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (11.11%) GCP
9 11 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (4.86%) PowerApps
13 5 (3.47%) GitHub
14 4 (2.78%) Google Analytics
14 4 (2.78%) SaaS
15 3 (2.08%) Azure Storage
15 3 (2.08%) Fivetran
15 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Broadband
1 1 (0.69%) DHCP
1 1 (0.69%) DNS
1 1 (0.69%) Firewall
1 1 (0.69%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.69%) Softphone
1 1 (0.69%) VLAN
1 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (78.47%) Power BI
2 50 (34.72%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (19.44%) SQL Server
4 22 (15.28%) Data Lake
4 22 (15.28%) Tableau
5 15 (10.42%) Metabase
6 11 (7.64%) BigQuery
7 9 (6.25%) Looker
8 8 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.86%) Metadata
9 7 (4.86%) Power Query
9 7 (4.86%) Star Schema
10 6 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.08%) Big Data
12 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (1.39%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 15 (10.42%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.17%) MLflow
3 2 (1.39%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.39%) ERwin
3 2 (1.39%) Git
3 2 (1.39%) JIRA
3 2 (1.39%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 65 (45.14%) Finance
2 47 (32.64%) Social Skills
3 41 (28.47%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.03%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (9.03%) Law
5 10 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.94%) Marketing
6 9 (6.25%) Legal
7 8 (5.56%) Banking
8 7 (4.86%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.47%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.08%) Front Office
11 3 (2.08%) Retail
12 2 (1.39%) Advertising
12 2 (1.39%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.39%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.69%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 47 (32.64%) Analyst
2 28 (19.44%) Senior
3 18 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 17 (11.81%) Financial Analyst
4 17 (11.81%) IT Analyst
5 16 (11.11%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 16 (11.11%) IT Support
5 16 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
5 16 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
6 15 (10.42%) Data Analyst
6 15 (10.42%) Data Engineer
6 15 (10.42%) Systems Support
6 15 (10.42%) Systems Support Analyst
7 12 (8.33%) Architect
7 12 (8.33%) Developer
8 11 (7.64%) Lead
9 9 (6.25%) Data Architect
10 8 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Data Management Specialist
11 6 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.86%) Kafka
2 6 (4.17%) LangChain
2 6 (4.17%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (4.17%) pgvector
2 6 (4.17%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.17%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.17%) TensorFlow
3 5 (3.47%) PySpark
4 4 (2.78%) HTML5 Canvas
4 4 (2.78%) REST
5 3 (2.08%) .NET
6 1 (0.69%) CSS
6 1 (0.69%) HTML
6 1 (0.69%) JSON
6 1 (0.69%) MDX
6 1 (0.69%) Middleware
6 1 (0.69%) Node.js
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.69%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.17%) Clustering
3 6 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.47%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.08%) Derivative
5 3 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.39%) ASIC
6 2 (1.39%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.39%) OTC Derivatives
7 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.69%) Android
2 1 (0.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (50.69%) Analytics
2 54 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 48 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 45 (31.25%) AI
5 43 (29.86%) Data Management
5 43 (29.86%) Data Pipeline
6 39 (27.08%) Data Governance
6 39 (27.08%) ETL
7 38 (26.39%) Data Engineering
8 35 (24.31%) Data Analysis
9 32 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (20.83%) Visualisation
12 28 (19.44%) Data Science
13 21 (14.58%) Agile
13 21 (14.58%) Use Case
14 20 (13.89%) Machine Learning
15 19 (13.19%) Actionable Insight
15 19 (13.19%) Data Analytics
16 18 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 84 (58.33%) SQL
2 44 (30.56%) Python
3 16 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.86%) C#
4 7 (4.86%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.78%) R
6 3 (2.08%) VBA
7 2 (1.39%) Java
7 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.39%) Scala
8 1 (0.69%) Bicep
8 1 (0.69%) Ruby
8 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.97%) Degree
2 9 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.86%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.08%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.39%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.39%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.69%) ACCA
8 1 (0.69%) CBAP
8 1 (0.69%) CFA
8 1 (0.69%) CIMA
8 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.92%) Data Quality
2 16 (11.11%) GDPR
3 8 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.08%) EMIR
4 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.08%) MiFID
4 3 (2.08%) PMO
5 2 (1.39%) QA
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.69%) GRC
6 1 (0.69%) IFRS
6 1 (0.69%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.69%) SLA
6 1 (0.69%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
1 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (4.86%) Terraform
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.69%) Argo
3 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.53%) Databricks
3 12 (8.33%) Dell
3 12 (8.33%) Informatica
4 9 (6.25%) Google
5 8 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.17%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.17%) Denodo
6 6 (4.17%) Teradata
7 4 (2.78%) Oracle
8 3 (2.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (2.08%) SAP
9 2 (1.39%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.39%) IBM
9 2 (1.39%) Workday
10 1 (0.69%) Bomgar
10 1 (0.69%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.69%) Intapp
10 1 (0.69%) Pega
10 1 (0.69%) Red Hat