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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 41 38
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 139 131 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.41% 6.06% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 6.33% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 88 77 163
10th Percentile £41,734 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,750 £102,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -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 2,652 2,070 2,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.14% 95.79% 92.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,867 1,508 2,488
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,000
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 £118,750 £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 19 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 13 (9.35%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.32%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.16%) Apache
4 3 (2.16%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Appian
5 1 (0.72%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (18.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.44%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.44%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.72%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.72%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 116 (83.45%) Power Platform
2 67 (48.20%) Azure
3 23 (16.55%) Power Automate
4 22 (15.83%) dbt
5 18 (12.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (12.23%) Snowflake
7 14 (10.07%) AWS
7 14 (10.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (9.35%) GCP
9 12 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (5.76%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.88%) GitHub
12 4 (2.88%) Google Analytics
12 4 (2.88%) SaaS
13 3 (2.16%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.16%) Fivetran
13 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (2.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Broadband
1 1 (0.72%) DHCP
1 1 (0.72%) DNS
1 1 (0.72%) Firewall
1 1 (0.72%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.72%) Softphone
1 1 (0.72%) VLAN
1 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (82.01%) Power BI
2 47 (33.81%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (20.14%) SQL Server
4 19 (13.67%) Tableau
5 17 (12.23%) Data Lake
6 15 (10.79%) Metabase
7 8 (5.76%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.04%) Power Query
8 7 (5.04%) Star Schema
9 6 (4.32%) Looker
9 6 (4.32%) Metadata
9 6 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.16%) Big Data
12 3 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (2.16%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (1.44%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 15 (10.79%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.16%) MLflow
3 2 (1.44%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.44%) ERwin
3 2 (1.44%) Git
3 2 (1.44%) JIRA
3 2 (1.44%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 63 (45.32%) Finance
2 47 (33.81%) Social Skills
3 38 (27.34%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.07%) Law
5 13 (9.35%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (7.19%) Marketing
8 8 (5.76%) Banking
8 8 (5.76%) Legal
8 8 (5.76%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.60%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.88%) Retail
11 2 (1.44%) Advertising
11 2 (1.44%) Front Office
11 2 (1.44%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.44%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.72%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (33.81%) Analyst
2 24 (17.27%) Senior
3 18 (12.95%) Support Analyst
4 17 (12.23%) Data Analyst
4 17 (12.23%) Financial Analyst
4 17 (12.23%) IT Analyst
5 16 (11.51%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 16 (11.51%) IT Support
5 16 (11.51%) IT Support Analyst
5 16 (11.51%) Systems Analyst
6 15 (10.79%) Data Engineer
6 15 (10.79%) Systems Support
6 15 (10.79%) Systems Support Analyst
7 14 (10.07%) Developer
8 11 (7.91%) Lead
9 10 (7.19%) Architect
10 8 (5.76%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (5.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (5.04%) Data Architect
12 6 (4.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.60%) HTML5 Canvas
1 5 (3.60%) PySpark
2 4 (2.88%) Kafka
2 4 (2.88%) REST
3 3 (2.16%) .NET
3 3 (2.16%) LangChain
3 3 (2.16%) LlamaIndex
3 3 (2.16%) pgvector
3 3 (2.16%) PyTorch
3 3 (2.16%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.16%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.72%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.72%) CSS
4 1 (0.72%) HTML
4 1 (0.72%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.72%) Pandas
4 1 (0.72%) Playwright
4 1 (0.72%) React
4 1 (0.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.60%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.60%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.16%) Clustering
4 3 (2.16%) Derivative
4 3 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.16%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.44%) ASIC
5 2 (1.44%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.44%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (0.72%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.72%) DTCC
6 1 (0.72%) iPhone
6 1 (0.72%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.44%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.72%) Android
2 1 (0.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (49.64%) Analytics
2 52 (37.41%) Data Modelling
3 47 (33.81%) Decision-Making
4 40 (28.78%) Data Pipeline
5 39 (28.06%) AI
6 37 (26.62%) Data Governance
6 37 (26.62%) Data Management
6 37 (26.62%) ETL
7 35 (25.18%) Data Analysis
8 33 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (23.74%) Visualisation
9 32 (23.02%) Data Engineering
10 31 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (17.27%) Data Science
12 20 (14.39%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (14.39%) Agile
12 20 (14.39%) Data Analytics
12 20 (14.39%) Data Visualisation
13 17 (12.23%) ERP
14 16 (11.51%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 84 (60.43%) SQL
2 42 (30.22%) Python
3 17 (12.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.76%) C#
4 8 (5.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.88%) R
6 3 (2.16%) VBA
7 2 (1.44%) Java
7 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) Bicep
8 1 (0.72%) Ruby
8 1 (0.72%) Scala
8 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (15.83%) Degree
2 10 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.76%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.32%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.16%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.44%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.72%) ACCA
8 1 (0.72%) CBAP
8 1 (0.72%) CFA
8 1 (0.72%) CIMA
8 1 (0.72%) MBA
8 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.02%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.63%) GDPR
3 5 (3.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.44%) EMIR
5 2 (1.44%) MiFID
5 2 (1.44%) PMO
5 2 (1.44%) QA
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.72%) GRC
6 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.72%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.72%) Docker
1 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (5.04%) Terraform
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.72%) Argo
3 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (40.29%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.27%) Databricks
3 9 (6.47%) Google
3 9 (6.47%) Informatica
4 8 (5.76%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.04%) Dell
6 4 (2.88%) Denodo
6 4 (2.88%) Oracle
6 4 (2.88%) Teradata
7 3 (2.16%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) SAP
8 2 (1.44%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.44%) IBM
8 2 (1.44%) Workday
9 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.72%) iManage
9 1 (0.72%) Intapp
9 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.72%) OpenAI