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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 39 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 139 147 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.71% 6.25% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 6.52% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 95 76 151
10th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,813 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £115,000
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 2,504 2,254 2,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.85% 95.79% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,784 1,524 2,514
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £107,500 £117,750 £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 4 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 15 (10.79%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.16%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) Appian
4 1 (0.72%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (17.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.16%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.44%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.44%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.72%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.72%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 118 (84.89%) Power Platform
2 67 (48.20%) Azure
3 24 (17.27%) Power Automate
4 20 (14.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (12.23%) dbt
6 14 (10.07%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (9.35%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (9.35%) Snowflake
8 11 (7.91%) PowerApps
9 10 (7.19%) AWS
9 10 (7.19%) GCP
10 9 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.88%) GitHub
11 4 (2.88%) Google Analytics
11 4 (2.88%) SaaS
12 3 (2.16%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.16%) Fivetran
12 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 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
1 116 (83.45%) Power BI
2 43 (30.94%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (19.42%) SQL Server
4 17 (12.23%) Tableau
5 13 (9.35%) Data Lake
5 13 (9.35%) Metabase
6 8 (5.76%) Power Query
7 7 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (5.04%) Star Schema
8 6 (4.32%) Metadata
9 5 (3.60%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.16%) Big Data
10 3 (2.16%) Data Mining
10 3 (2.16%) Looker
10 3 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.44%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.44%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 13 (9.35%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.16%) Git
3 2 (1.44%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.44%) ERwin
3 2 (1.44%) JIRA
3 2 (1.44%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 64 (46.04%) Finance
2 47 (33.81%) Social Skills
3 34 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.95%) Law
5 14 (10.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (8.63%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (7.91%) Public Sector
8 9 (6.47%) Banking
8 9 (6.47%) Legal
8 9 (6.47%) Marketing
9 6 (4.32%) Financial Institution
10 5 (3.60%) Retail
11 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.16%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.44%) Advertising
13 2 (1.44%) Front Office
13 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.44%) International Banking
13 2 (1.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (33.81%) Analyst
2 23 (16.55%) Senior
3 17 (12.23%) Data Analyst
3 17 (12.23%) Developer
3 17 (12.23%) Support Analyst
4 16 (11.51%) Financial Analyst
5 15 (10.79%) Data Engineer
5 15 (10.79%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 15 (10.79%) IT Analyst
5 15 (10.79%) Systems Analyst
6 14 (10.07%) IT Support
6 14 (10.07%) IT Support Analyst
7 13 (9.35%) Architect
7 13 (9.35%) Systems Support
7 13 (9.35%) Systems Support Analyst
8 11 (7.91%) Lead
9 8 (5.76%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.76%) Power Platform Developer
9 8 (5.76%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.04%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (3.60%) PySpark
3 4 (2.88%) REST
4 3 (2.16%) .NET
5 2 (1.44%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.72%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.72%) CSS
6 1 (0.72%) HTML
6 1 (0.72%) Kafka
6 1 (0.72%) MDX
6 1 (0.72%) Middleware
6 1 (0.72%) Node.js
6 1 (0.72%) Playwright
6 1 (0.72%) React
6 1 (0.72%) SOAP
6 1 (0.72%) Web Services
6 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.63%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.32%) Reinsurance
4 5 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.16%) Derivative
5 3 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.44%) ASIC
6 2 (1.44%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.44%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.44%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.44%) OTC Derivatives
7 1 (0.72%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.72%) DTCC
7 1 (0.72%) iPhone
7 1 (0.72%) Learning Management System
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 66 (47.48%) Analytics
2 51 (36.69%) Data Modelling
3 49 (35.25%) Decision-Making
4 39 (28.06%) Data Governance
5 36 (25.90%) AI
5 36 (25.90%) Data Pipeline
5 36 (25.90%) ETL
5 36 (25.90%) Visualisation
6 34 (24.46%) Data Analysis
7 31 (22.30%) Data Management
7 31 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (20.14%) Data Engineering
10 24 (17.27%) Agile
11 22 (15.83%) Data Visualisation
12 21 (15.11%) Data Analytics
13 19 (13.67%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (13.67%) Data Science
14 18 (12.95%) CRM
15 17 (12.23%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 81 (58.27%) SQL
2 41 (29.50%) Python
3 19 (13.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (7.19%) C#
4 10 (7.19%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.88%) VBA
6 3 (2.16%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.16%) R
7 2 (1.44%) Java
7 2 (1.44%) Scala
8 1 (0.72%) Bicep
8 1 (0.72%) Ruby
8 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (16.55%) Degree
2 13 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (7.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.19%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.04%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.88%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.16%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.44%) ACCA
7 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.44%) CBAP
7 2 (1.44%) CIMA
7 2 (1.44%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.44%) MBA
7 2 (1.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.72%) CFA
8 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.30%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.19%) GDPR
3 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.44%) EMIR
4 2 (1.44%) MiFID
4 2 (1.44%) PMO
4 2 (1.44%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.72%) GRC
5 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 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 6 (4.32%) Terraform
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.72%) Argo
3 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (41.73%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.39%) Databricks
3 9 (6.47%) Google
4 8 (5.76%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.32%) Informatica
5 6 (4.32%) Oracle
6 3 (2.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (2.16%) SAP
7 2 (1.44%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.44%) IBM
7 2 (1.44%) Intapp
7 2 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.44%) Workday
8 1 (0.72%) Bomgar
8 1 (0.72%) Dell
8 1 (0.72%) Denodo
8 1 (0.72%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.72%) Pega
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Teradata