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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 29 40
Rank change year-on-year -25 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 83 130 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.89% 7.76% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 8.08% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 64 104 80
10th Percentile £54,463 £41,250 £49,725
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.14% -4.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,063 £84,625
90th Percentile - £103,625 £91,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -8.97% +3.57%

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 2,317 1,609 2,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.70% 96.06% 93.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,698 1,277 1,774
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,900 £44,598
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% -

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 29 September 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 3 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (78.31%) Power Platform
2 36 (43.37%) Azure
3 13 (15.66%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (14.46%) AWS
5 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (12.05%) Power Automate
6 8 (9.64%) PowerApps
7 7 (8.43%) Snowflake
8 6 (7.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.82%) dbt
9 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (4.82%) SaaS
10 3 (3.61%) GCP
10 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.41%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (1.20%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (75.90%) Power BI
2 17 (20.48%) SQL Server
3 11 (13.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (10.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.23%) Tableau
7 5 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.61%) Metadata
8 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.41%) OLTP
9 2 (2.41%) SSDT
10 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.20%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.20%) Looker
10 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.20%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Git
2 4 (4.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (53.01%) Finance
2 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.64%) Front Office
5 8 (9.64%) Law
6 7 (8.43%) Legal
7 4 (4.82%) Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.41%) Advertising
9 2 (2.41%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.20%) Legal Technology
10 1 (1.20%) Marketing
10 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) Analyst
2 14 (16.87%) Senior
3 13 (15.66%) Data Engineer
3 13 (15.66%) Developer
4 11 (13.25%) Business Analyst
5 9 (10.84%) Business Manager
5 9 (10.84%) Finance Manager
5 9 (10.84%) Finance Systems Manager
5 9 (10.84%) Systems Manager
6 7 (8.43%) Report Analyst
7 6 (7.23%) Lead
8 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) Terraform
2 6 (7.23%) .NET
3 4 (4.82%) PySpark
4 2 (2.41%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.41%) XML
4 2 (2.41%) XSLT
5 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.20%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.20%) jQuery
5 1 (1.20%) Kafka
5 1 (1.20%) LangChain
5 1 (1.20%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (1.20%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.20%) React
5 1 (1.20%) REST
5 1 (1.20%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.20%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.61%) FMCG
2 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.41%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.41%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.20%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.94%) Analytics
2 22 (26.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (22.89%) AI
3 19 (22.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 16 (19.28%) Data Engineering
4 16 (19.28%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (18.07%) Data Modelling
6 14 (16.87%) Agile
6 14 (16.87%) DevOps
7 13 (15.66%) CI/CD
8 11 (13.25%) Decision-Making
9 10 (12.05%) ERP
9 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (10.84%) Asset Management
10 9 (10.84%) Business Analysis
10 9 (10.84%) Data Analysis
11 8 (9.64%) Data Governance
11 8 (9.64%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (9.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (69.88%) SQL
2 26 (31.33%) Python
3 10 (12.05%) T-SQL
4 6 (7.23%) C#
4 6 (7.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.41%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.41%) XPath
7 1 (1.20%) Bicep
7 1 (1.20%) Java
7 1 (1.20%) R
7 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Degree
2 10 (12.05%) ACCA
2 10 (12.05%) CIMA
3 6 (7.23%) CFA
4 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.41%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.20%) CISM
6 1 (1.20%) CISSP
6 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) CRISC
6 1 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) GDPR
2 3 (3.61%) QA
3 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.20%) EMIR
4 1 (1.20%) GRC
4 1 (1.20%) IFRS
4 1 (1.20%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) MiFID
4 1 (1.20%) NIST
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) SQL Sentry
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.05%) SAP
3 9 (10.84%) Concur
3 9 (10.84%) Yardi
4 7 (8.43%) Databricks
5 4 (4.82%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.41%) RedGate
7 1 (1.20%) Informatica
7 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle
7 1 (1.20%) Planview