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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 36 35
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 111 126 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.95% 6.62% 6.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 6.92% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 70 89 121
10th Percentile £51,675 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £66,563 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £63,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.98% -0.78% -1.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £84,500
90th Percentile £105,250 £97,500 £92,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £65,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.14% +0.77% -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 3,024 1,820 2,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.30% 95.69% 92.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,209 1,400 2,018
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £115,000
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 2 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 10 (9.01%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.21%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Appian
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.80%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.90%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (72.07%) Power Platform
2 46 (41.44%) Azure
3 19 (17.12%) Snowflake
4 17 (15.32%) AWS
5 16 (14.41%) dbt
6 14 (12.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.91%) GCP
7 11 (9.91%) Power Automate
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.60%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.70%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.80%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 1 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) Broadband
1 1 (0.90%) DHCP
1 1 (0.90%) DNS
1 1 (0.90%) Firewall
1 1 (0.90%) Intranet
1 1 (0.90%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.90%) Softphone
1 1 (0.90%) VLAN
1 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (72.07%) Power BI
2 24 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (16.22%) SQL Server
4 15 (13.51%) Data Lake
5 13 (11.71%) Tableau
6 8 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (6.31%) BigQuery
7 7 (6.31%) Looker
8 6 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (5.41%) Metabase
8 6 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.70%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.70%) Power Query
10 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.70%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.80%) Big Data
11 2 (1.80%) Metadata
11 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.41%) MLflow
3 4 (3.60%) Git
4 2 (1.80%) JIRA
5 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 50 (45.05%) Finance
2 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 22 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.31%) Front Office
6 6 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.50%) Banking
7 5 (4.50%) Legal
8 4 (3.60%) Law
9 3 (2.70%) Marketing
10 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.90%) Advertising
11 1 (0.90%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.90%) Automotive
11 1 (0.90%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (28.83%) Analyst
2 20 (18.02%) Senior
3 16 (14.41%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.11%) Finance Manager
4 9 (8.11%) Finance Systems Manager
4 9 (8.11%) Systems Manager
5 8 (7.21%) Business Analyst
5 8 (7.21%) IT Analyst
5 8 (7.21%) Report Analyst
6 7 (6.31%) Architect
6 7 (6.31%) Business Manager
6 7 (6.31%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 7 (6.31%) Financial Analyst
6 7 (6.31%) IT Support
6 7 (6.31%) IT Support Analyst
6 7 (6.31%) Support Analyst
6 7 (6.31%) Systems Analyst
7 6 (5.41%) Product Specialist
7 6 (5.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) Kafka
2 7 (6.31%) LangChain
2 7 (6.31%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (6.31%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.31%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.31%) TensorFlow
3 6 (5.41%) pgvector
3 6 (5.41%) PySpark
4 2 (1.80%) REST
5 1 (0.90%) .NET
5 1 (0.90%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.90%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.90%) jQuery
5 1 (0.90%) JSON
5 1 (0.90%) Playwright
5 1 (0.90%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.90%) Web Services
5 1 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.41%) Clustering
2 6 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.70%) FMCG
4 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.80%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.90%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.90%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.90%) iPhone
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Life Science
6 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.90%) Windows
1 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.54%) Analytics
2 32 (28.83%) AI
3 30 (27.03%) Data Engineering
4 28 (25.23%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (22.52%) Data Modelling
7 24 (21.62%) Data Management
8 19 (17.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (16.22%) Data Science
9 18 (16.22%) Decision-Making
10 17 (15.32%) ERP
11 16 (14.41%) Data Governance
11 16 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (13.51%) DevOps
12 15 (13.51%) Machine Learning
13 14 (12.61%) CI/CD
14 13 (11.71%) Data Analysis
14 13 (11.71%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (11.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 13 (11.71%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 69 (62.16%) SQL
2 32 (28.83%) Python
3 7 (6.31%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.60%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.70%) R
6 3 (2.70%) Scala
7 2 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.90%) Bicep
8 1 (0.90%) C#
8 1 (0.90%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (16.22%) Degree
2 10 (9.01%) ACCA
2 10 (9.01%) CIMA
3 4 (3.60%) CFA
3 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.90%) CISM
5 1 (0.90%) CISSP
5 1 (0.90%) CRISC
5 1 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.90%) PMP
5 1 (0.90%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.92%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.21%) GDPR
3 6 (5.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.80%) EMIR
4 2 (1.80%) MiFID
4 2 (1.80%) PMO
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.90%) GRC
5 1 (0.90%) IFRS
5 1 (0.90%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.90%) NIST
5 1 (0.90%) QA
5 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.90%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.90%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (7.21%) Terraform
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.92%) Databricks
3 12 (10.81%) Dell
4 11 (9.91%) SAP
5 9 (8.11%) Concur
5 9 (8.11%) Yardi
6 7 (6.31%) Informatica
7 6 (5.41%) Cloudera
7 6 (5.41%) Denodo
7 6 (5.41%) Teradata
8 5 (4.50%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.80%) Oracle
9 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.90%) Bomgar
10 1 (0.90%) eFront
10 1 (0.90%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.90%) iManage
10 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.90%) Pega
10 1 (0.90%) Planview