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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 38 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 116 115 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.78% 6.01% 6.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 6.24% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 66 76 166
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,625 £52,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £66,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.53% -1.85% +3.85%
75th Percentile £91,875 £87,500 £87,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £104,375 £106,375
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.29% +4.62% -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 3,343 1,843 2,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.17% 96.24% 91.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,425 1,394 2,399
10th Percentile £45,500 £41,325 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,703 £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 25 May 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 (7.76%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) Appian
4 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.86%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.86%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.86%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (71.55%) Power Platform
2 48 (41.38%) Azure
3 19 (16.38%) dbt
4 16 (13.79%) Snowflake
5 14 (12.07%) AWS
5 14 (12.07%) Power Automate
6 11 (9.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (9.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (9.48%) GCP
7 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.45%) SaaS
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.59%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.72%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.72%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) Broadband
1 1 (0.86%) DHCP
1 1 (0.86%) DNS
1 1 (0.86%) Firewall
1 1 (0.86%) Intranet
1 1 (0.86%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.86%) Softphone
1 1 (0.86%) VLAN
1 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (69.83%) Power BI
2 33 (28.45%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (18.10%) SQL Server
4 18 (15.52%) Data Lake
5 14 (12.07%) Tableau
6 12 (10.34%) Metabase
7 9 (7.76%) Looker
8 7 (6.03%) BigQuery
9 6 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (5.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (5.17%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.59%) Power Query
11 2 (1.72%) Big Data
11 2 (1.72%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.72%) Metadata
11 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.17%) MLflow
3 2 (1.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.86%) Git
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.86%) Selenium
General
1 56 (48.28%) Finance
2 35 (30.17%) Social Skills
3 32 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.17%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.17%) Front Office
5 6 (5.17%) Marketing
6 5 (4.31%) Banking
6 5 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.31%) Law
6 5 (4.31%) Legal
7 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.86%) Automotive
9 1 (0.86%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (0.86%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (35.34%) Analyst
2 24 (20.69%) Senior
3 14 (12.07%) IT Analyst
4 13 (11.21%) Financial Analyst
4 13 (11.21%) IT Support
4 13 (11.21%) IT Support Analyst
4 13 (11.21%) Support Analyst
5 12 (10.34%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 12 (10.34%) Systems Analyst
5 12 (10.34%) Systems Support
5 12 (10.34%) Systems Support Analyst
6 11 (9.48%) Data Engineer
7 10 (8.62%) Report Analyst
8 8 (6.90%) Architect
8 8 (6.90%) Lead
9 7 (6.03%) Business Analyst
9 7 (6.03%) Data Analyst
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.03%) Kafka
2 6 (5.17%) LangChain
2 6 (5.17%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (5.17%) pgvector
2 6 (5.17%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.17%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.17%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.31%) PySpark
4 3 (2.59%) .NET
5 2 (1.72%) REST
6 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.86%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.86%) JSON
6 1 (0.86%) MDX
6 1 (0.86%) Pandas
6 1 (0.86%) Playwright
6 1 (0.86%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.17%) Clustering
3 6 (5.17%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.59%) Derivative
5 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.72%) ASIC
6 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.72%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.86%) DTCC
7 1 (0.86%) iPhone
7 1 (0.86%) Life Science
7 1 (0.86%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.86%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.86%) Android
2 1 (0.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (49.14%) Analytics
2 37 (31.90%) AI
3 35 (30.17%) Decision-Making
4 33 (28.45%) Data Management
4 33 (28.45%) Data Modelling
5 31 (26.72%) Data Engineering
6 27 (23.28%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (19.83%) Data Governance
9 21 (18.10%) Data Science
10 20 (17.24%) Data Analysis
11 19 (16.38%) ETL
12 18 (15.52%) ERP
12 18 (15.52%) Machine Learning
13 16 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (12.93%) Actionable Insight
14 15 (12.93%) Use Case
15 14 (12.07%) Agile
15 14 (12.07%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (57.76%) SQL
2 33 (28.45%) Python
3 6 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.72%) C#
4 2 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.72%) R
4 2 (1.72%) Scala
4 2 (1.72%) VBA
5 1 (0.86%) Bicep
5 1 (0.86%) Java
5 1 (0.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.38%) Degree
2 3 (2.59%) ACCA
2 3 (2.59%) CFA
2 3 (2.59%) CIMA
3 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.72%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.72%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) CISM
4 1 (0.86%) CISSP
4 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.86%) CRISC
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.86%) PMP
4 1 (0.86%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (0.86%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.55%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.07%) GDPR
3 8 (6.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.45%) EMIR
4 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.45%) MiFID
5 2 (1.72%) GRC
5 2 (1.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.86%) IFRS
6 1 (0.86%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.86%) NIST
6 1 (0.86%) QA
6 1 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.86%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.86%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.86%) Docker
1 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.59%) Terraform
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (32.76%) Microsoft
2 23 (19.83%) Databricks
3 12 (10.34%) Dell
4 7 (6.03%) Informatica
5 6 (5.17%) Cloudera
5 6 (5.17%) Denodo
5 6 (5.17%) SAP
5 6 (5.17%) Teradata
6 5 (4.31%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.45%) Oracle
8 3 (2.59%) Concur
8 3 (2.59%) Google
8 3 (2.59%) Yardi
9 2 (1.72%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.86%) eFront
10 1 (0.86%) iManage
10 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.86%) Pega
10 1 (0.86%) Planview
10 1 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud