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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 42 32
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 +6
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 141 116 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.01% 5.54% 6.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 5.77% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 86 77 175
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,200 £41,650
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £103,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -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 2,909 2,009 2,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 82.81% 95.89% 91.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,050 1,511 2,489
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
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 £97,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%

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 9 April 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 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.80%) SharePoint
3 10 (7.09%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.84%) Confluence
5 3 (2.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.71%) Appian
Applications
1 25 (17.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.42%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.42%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.71%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.71%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 108 (76.60%) Power Platform
2 65 (46.10%) Azure
3 24 (17.02%) dbt
4 20 (14.18%) Power Automate
4 20 (14.18%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.06%) AWS
6 16 (11.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (11.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (11.35%) GCP
7 10 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.55%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.84%) Google Analytics
11 4 (2.84%) SaaS
12 3 (2.13%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.13%) Fivetran
12 3 (2.13%) GitHub
12 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Broadband
1 1 (0.71%) DHCP
1 1 (0.71%) DNS
1 1 (0.71%) Firewall
1 1 (0.71%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.71%) Softphone
1 1 (0.71%) VLAN
1 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (75.18%) Power BI
2 47 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (18.44%) SQL Server
4 20 (14.18%) Data Lake
4 20 (14.18%) Tableau
5 15 (10.64%) Metabase
6 9 (6.38%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.38%) Looker
7 8 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.96%) Star Schema
9 6 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.26%) Power Query
9 6 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.55%) Metadata
10 5 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.13%) Big Data
11 3 (2.13%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.42%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (10.64%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.26%) MLflow
3 3 (2.13%) JIRA
4 2 (1.42%) Git
5 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 62 (43.97%) Finance
2 46 (32.62%) Social Skills
3 41 (29.08%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.22%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (8.51%) Law
6 10 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (6.38%) Legal
7 9 (6.38%) Marketing
8 6 (4.26%) Banking
8 6 (4.26%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.55%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.84%) Front Office
10 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.42%) Advertising
12 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.71%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (32.62%) Analyst
2 28 (19.86%) Senior
3 18 (12.77%) Support Analyst
4 17 (12.06%) IT Analyst
5 16 (11.35%) Financial Analyst
5 16 (11.35%) IT Support
5 16 (11.35%) IT Support Analyst
6 15 (10.64%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 15 (10.64%) Systems Analyst
6 15 (10.64%) Systems Support
6 15 (10.64%) Systems Support Analyst
7 14 (9.93%) Data Engineer
8 13 (9.22%) Data Analyst
9 12 (8.51%) Lead
10 10 (7.09%) Architect
10 10 (7.09%) Developer
11 8 (5.67%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) Data Architect
12 7 (4.96%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.96%) Kafka
2 6 (4.26%) LangChain
2 6 (4.26%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (4.26%) pgvector
2 6 (4.26%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.26%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.26%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.84%) PySpark
3 4 (2.84%) REST
4 3 (2.13%) .NET
4 3 (2.13%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.71%) CSS
5 1 (0.71%) JSON
5 1 (0.71%) MDX
5 1 (0.71%) Middleware
5 1 (0.71%) Node.js
5 1 (0.71%) Pandas
5 1 (0.71%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.26%) Clustering
3 6 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.13%) Derivative
6 3 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.42%) ASIC
7 2 (1.42%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (1.42%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.71%) DTCC
8 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.71%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.42%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.71%) Android
2 1 (0.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (49.65%) Analytics
2 49 (34.75%) Data Modelling
3 45 (31.91%) Decision-Making
4 42 (29.79%) AI
5 40 (28.37%) Data Engineering
5 40 (28.37%) Data Pipeline
6 39 (27.66%) Data Management
7 36 (25.53%) Data Governance
8 35 (24.82%) ETL
9 34 (24.11%) Data Analysis
10 31 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (20.57%) Visualisation
12 26 (18.44%) Data Science
13 23 (16.31%) Agile
14 21 (14.89%) Use Case
15 20 (14.18%) Actionable Insight
15 20 (14.18%) Machine Learning
16 18 (12.77%) ERP
17 17 (12.06%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 83 (58.87%) SQL
2 42 (29.79%) Python
3 15 (10.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.26%) C#
4 6 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.84%) R
6 2 (1.42%) Java
6 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.42%) Scala
6 2 (1.42%) VBA
7 1 (0.71%) Bicep
7 1 (0.71%) Ruby
7 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (14.18%) Degree
2 6 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.13%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.42%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (0.71%) ACCA
6 1 (0.71%) CFA
6 1 (0.71%) CIMA
6 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (22.70%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.64%) GDPR
3 8 (5.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.84%) EMIR
4 4 (2.84%) MiFID
5 3 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.13%) PMO
6 2 (1.42%) QA
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) IFRS
7 1 (0.71%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.71%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.71%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.71%) Docker
1 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (3.55%) Terraform
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.71%) Argo
3 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (37.59%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.57%) Databricks
3 12 (8.51%) Dell
4 10 (7.09%) Informatica
5 8 (5.67%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.96%) Google
7 6 (4.26%) Cloudera
7 6 (4.26%) Denodo
7 6 (4.26%) Teradata
8 4 (2.84%) SAP
9 3 (2.13%) Oracle
9 3 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.42%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.42%) Workday
11 1 (0.71%) Concur
11 1 (0.71%) eFront
11 1 (0.71%) iManage
11 1 (0.71%) Intapp
11 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.71%) Red Hat