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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 41 36
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 109 121 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.63% 6.26% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 6.50% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 62 82 160
10th Percentile £52,425 £41,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,875 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -5.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,938 £87,125
90th Percentile £107,250 £102,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.52% - -

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 3,321 1,862 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.16% 96.33% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,397 1,405 2,376
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,850 £41,315
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £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 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £112,500
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 June 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 9 (8.26%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Appian
4 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.92%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.92%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 77 (70.64%) Power Platform
2 46 (42.20%) Azure
3 18 (16.51%) dbt
4 16 (14.68%) Snowflake
5 14 (12.84%) AWS
6 13 (11.93%) Power Automate
7 11 (10.09%) GCP
8 9 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (7.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.75%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.75%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.75%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.75%) SaaS
13 2 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.83%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) Broadband
1 1 (0.92%) DHCP
1 1 (0.92%) DNS
1 1 (0.92%) Firewall
1 1 (0.92%) Intranet
1 1 (0.92%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.92%) Softphone
1 1 (0.92%) VLAN
1 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (70.64%) Power BI
2 29 (26.61%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (15.60%) SQL Server
4 15 (13.76%) Data Lake
5 14 (12.84%) Tableau
6 10 (9.17%) Metabase
7 8 (7.34%) Looker
8 7 (6.42%) BigQuery
9 6 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (5.50%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (5.50%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.75%) Power Query
10 3 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.83%) Big Data
11 2 (1.83%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.83%) Metadata
11 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.50%) MLflow
3 2 (1.83%) Git
3 2 (1.83%) JIRA
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 52 (47.71%) Finance
2 30 (27.52%) Social Skills
3 29 (26.61%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.26%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Front Office
6 5 (4.59%) Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.59%) Law
6 5 (4.59%) Legal
6 5 (4.59%) Marketing
7 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.92%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (0.92%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (32.11%) Analyst
2 22 (20.18%) Senior
3 12 (11.01%) Data Engineer
3 12 (11.01%) IT Analyst
4 11 (10.09%) IT Support
4 11 (10.09%) IT Support Analyst
4 11 (10.09%) Support Analyst
5 10 (9.17%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 10 (9.17%) Financial Analyst
5 10 (9.17%) Systems Analyst
5 10 (9.17%) Systems Support
5 10 (9.17%) Systems Support Analyst
6 8 (7.34%) Architect
6 8 (7.34%) Report Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Lead
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Data Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Data Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.42%) Kafka
2 6 (5.50%) LangChain
2 6 (5.50%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (5.50%) pgvector
2 6 (5.50%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.50%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.50%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.59%) PySpark
4 3 (2.75%) .NET
5 2 (1.83%) REST
6 1 (0.92%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.92%) JSON
6 1 (0.92%) Pandas
6 1 (0.92%) Playwright
6 1 (0.92%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.34%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.50%) Clustering
2 6 (5.50%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.83%) Derivative
4 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.92%) ASIC
5 1 (0.92%) DTCC
5 1 (0.92%) iPhone
5 1 (0.92%) Life Science
5 1 (0.92%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.92%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.92%) Windows
1 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (48.62%) Analytics
2 32 (29.36%) AI
3 31 (28.44%) Data Management
3 31 (28.44%) Data Modelling
3 31 (28.44%) Decision-Making
4 29 (26.61%) Data Engineering
5 27 (24.77%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (21.10%) Data Governance
8 21 (19.27%) Data Science
9 19 (17.43%) Data Analysis
9 19 (17.43%) ERP
10 17 (15.60%) Machine Learning
11 16 (14.68%) ETL
12 15 (13.76%) Use Case
13 14 (12.84%) Agile
13 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (11.93%) Actionable Insight
14 13 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (11.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 65 (59.63%) SQL
2 30 (27.52%) Python
3 5 (4.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.83%) C#
5 2 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.83%) R
5 2 (1.83%) Scala
5 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.83%) VBA
6 1 (0.92%) Bicep
6 1 (0.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (17.43%) Degree
2 5 (4.59%) ACCA
2 5 (4.59%) CIMA
3 3 (2.75%) CFA
4 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.83%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.83%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) CISM
5 1 (0.92%) CISSP
5 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) CRISC
5 1 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.92%) PMP
5 1 (0.92%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (0.92%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.02%) Data Quality
2 13 (11.93%) GDPR
3 8 (7.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.75%) EMIR
5 3 (2.75%) MiFID
6 2 (1.83%) GRC
6 2 (1.83%) PMO
7 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.92%) IFRS
7 1 (0.92%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.92%) NIST
7 1 (0.92%) QA
7 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.92%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.92%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.92%) Docker
1 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) Terraform
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (30.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.35%) Databricks
3 12 (11.01%) Dell
4 7 (6.42%) Informatica
4 7 (6.42%) SAP
5 6 (5.50%) Cloudera
5 6 (5.50%) Denodo
5 6 (5.50%) Teradata
6 5 (4.59%) Concur
6 5 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.59%) Yardi
7 4 (3.67%) Oracle
8 2 (1.83%) Google
8 2 (1.83%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.92%) Bomgar
9 1 (0.92%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.92%) iManage
9 1 (0.92%) Pega
9 1 (0.92%) Planview