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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 137 148 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.87% 5.97% 5.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.70% 6.22% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 99 77 157
10th Percentile £42,250 £46,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,500 £102,500 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -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 2,402 2,379 2,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 85.33% 96.04% 93.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,723 1,551 2,570
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £108,750 £117,750 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% -2.67%

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 22 February 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 15 (10.95%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.19%) Confluence
4 2 (1.46%) Apache
4 2 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.73%) Appian
5 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (18.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.19%) Elite 3E
2 3 (2.19%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.46%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.73%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.73%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.73%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 117 (85.40%) Power Platform
2 66 (48.18%) Azure
3 24 (17.52%) Power Automate
4 19 (13.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (11.68%) dbt
6 14 (10.22%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (10.22%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (9.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (8.76%) PowerApps
8 12 (8.76%) Snowflake
9 10 (7.30%) AWS
9 10 (7.30%) GCP
10 8 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.92%) GitHub
11 4 (2.92%) Google Analytics
12 3 (2.19%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.19%) Fivetran
12 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.19%) SaaS
12 3 (2.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.73%) Broadband
1 1 (0.73%) DHCP
1 1 (0.73%) DNS
1 1 (0.73%) Firewall
1 1 (0.73%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.73%) Softphone
1 1 (0.73%) VLAN
1 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (83.94%) Power BI
2 41 (29.93%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (18.98%) SQL Server
4 17 (12.41%) Tableau
5 12 (8.76%) Metabase
6 11 (8.03%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.11%) Power Query
7 7 (5.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (4.38%) Metadata
8 6 (4.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (4.38%) Star Schema
9 5 (3.65%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.19%) Big Data
10 3 (2.19%) Data Mining
10 3 (2.19%) Looker
10 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.46%) QlikView
11 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.76%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.46%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.46%) ERwin
2 2 (1.46%) Git
2 2 (1.46%) JIRA
2 2 (1.46%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 64 (46.72%) Finance
2 45 (32.85%) Social Skills
3 33 (24.09%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.60%) Law
5 15 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (8.76%) Public Sector
7 10 (7.30%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (7.30%) Legal
8 9 (6.57%) Banking
8 9 (6.57%) Marketing
9 6 (4.38%) Financial Institution
10 5 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.65%) Retail
11 3 (2.19%) General Ledger
11 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.46%) Advertising
12 2 (1.46%) Front Office
12 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.46%) International Banking
12 2 (1.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (32.85%) Analyst
2 23 (16.79%) Senior
3 19 (13.87%) Developer
4 16 (11.68%) Data Analyst
4 16 (11.68%) Support Analyst
5 15 (10.95%) Financial Analyst
6 14 (10.22%) Architect
6 14 (10.22%) Data Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 14 (10.22%) IT Analyst
6 14 (10.22%) Systems Analyst
7 13 (9.49%) IT Support
7 13 (9.49%) IT Support Analyst
8 12 (8.76%) Systems Support
8 12 (8.76%) Systems Support Analyst
9 11 (8.03%) Lead
10 9 (6.57%) Data Architect
10 9 (6.57%) Power Platform Developer
11 8 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (5.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.84%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (2.92%) PySpark
3 3 (2.19%) .NET
3 3 (2.19%) REST
4 2 (1.46%) Hugging Face
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.73%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.73%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.73%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.73%) CSS
5 1 (0.73%) HTML
5 1 (0.73%) MDX
5 1 (0.73%) Middleware
5 1 (0.73%) Node.js
5 1 (0.73%) Playwright
5 1 (0.73%) React
5 1 (0.73%) SOAP
5 1 (0.73%) Vue
5 1 (0.73%) Web Services
5 1 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.38%) Reinsurance
4 5 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.65%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.19%) Derivative
5 3 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.46%) ASIC
6 2 (1.46%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.46%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.46%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.46%) OTC Derivatives
7 1 (0.73%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.73%) DTCC
7 1 (0.73%) iPhone
7 1 (0.73%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.73%) Android
2 1 (0.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.99%) Analytics
2 49 (35.77%) Data Modelling
3 48 (35.04%) Decision-Making
4 39 (28.47%) Data Governance
5 37 (27.01%) Visualisation
6 35 (25.55%) AI
6 35 (25.55%) ETL
7 34 (24.82%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (24.09%) Data Analysis
9 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (21.90%) Data Management
11 28 (20.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (18.98%) Data Engineering
13 24 (17.52%) Agile
14 23 (16.79%) Data Visualisation
15 21 (15.33%) Data Analytics
16 19 (13.87%) Actionable Insight
17 18 (13.14%) CRM
17 18 (13.14%) Data Science
18 17 (12.41%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 79 (57.66%) SQL
2 40 (29.20%) Python
3 18 (13.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (8.03%) C#
4 11 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.92%) VBA
6 3 (2.19%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.19%) R
7 2 (1.46%) Java
8 1 (0.73%) Ruby
8 1 (0.73%) Scala
8 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (16.06%) Degree
2 14 (10.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.30%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.30%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.38%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.92%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.19%) SnowPro
8 2 (1.46%) ACCA
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.46%) CBAP
8 2 (1.46%) CIMA
8 2 (1.46%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.46%) MBA
8 2 (1.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.73%) CFA
9 1 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.90%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.03%) GDPR
3 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.46%) EMIR
4 2 (1.46%) MiFID
4 2 (1.46%) PMO
4 2 (1.46%) QA
5 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.73%) GRC
5 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.73%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.73%) Docker
1 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (3.65%) Terraform
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.73%) Argo
3 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (41.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.87%) Databricks
3 9 (6.57%) Google
4 8 (5.84%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.38%) Oracle
6 5 (3.65%) Informatica
7 3 (2.19%) Intapp
7 3 (2.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) SAP
8 2 (1.46%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.46%) IBM
8 2 (1.46%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.46%) Workday
9 1 (0.73%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.73%) Bomgar
9 1 (0.73%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.73%) iManage
9 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.73%) Pega
9 1 (0.73%) Red Hat