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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 39 33
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 107 125 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.88% 6.62% 6.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 6.92% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 68 88 122
10th Percentile £51,025 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,688 £53,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £63,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.98% -0.39% -3.77%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £84,438
90th Percentile £101,500 £97,500 £92,375
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% - -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 2,977 1,806 2,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.20% 95.71% 92.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,173 1,383 1,998
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,642 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 5 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 9 (8.41%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Appian
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.87%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 76 (71.03%) Power Platform
2 45 (42.06%) Azure
3 18 (16.82%) Snowflake
4 17 (15.89%) AWS
5 15 (14.02%) dbt
6 13 (12.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (10.28%) GCP
7 11 (10.28%) Power Automate
8 10 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (8.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.74%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.87%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.87%) SaaS
14 1 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (71.03%) Power BI
2 23 (21.50%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (16.82%) SQL Server
4 15 (14.02%) Data Lake
5 11 (10.28%) Tableau
6 8 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (5.61%) BigQuery
7 6 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (5.61%) Looker
7 6 (5.61%) Metabase
7 6 (5.61%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.80%) Power Query
9 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.87%) Metadata
10 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.61%) MLflow
3 4 (3.74%) Git
4 2 (1.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 49 (45.79%) Finance
2 26 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.54%) Front Office
6 6 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.67%) Banking
7 5 (4.67%) Legal
8 4 (3.74%) Law
9 3 (2.80%) Marketing
10 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Advertising
11 1 (0.93%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.93%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (29.91%) Analyst
2 17 (15.89%) Senior
3 14 (13.08%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Business Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Finance Manager
4 9 (8.41%) Finance Systems Manager
4 9 (8.41%) Systems Manager
5 8 (7.48%) Report Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Architect
6 7 (6.54%) Business Manager
6 7 (6.54%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Financial Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) IT Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Systems Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.61%) Data Management Specialist
7 6 (5.61%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Support Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) Kafka
2 7 (6.54%) LangChain
2 7 (6.54%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (6.54%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.54%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.54%) TensorFlow
3 6 (5.61%) pgvector
4 5 (4.67%) PySpark
5 2 (1.87%) .NET
5 2 (1.87%) REST
6 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.93%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.93%) jQuery
6 1 (0.93%) JSON
6 1 (0.93%) Pandas
6 1 (0.93%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.61%) Clustering
2 6 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.61%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.80%) FMCG
4 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.93%) Derivative
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.93%) Life Science
6 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.19%) Analytics
2 32 (29.91%) AI
3 28 (26.17%) Data Engineering
4 26 (24.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (24.30%) Data Pipeline
5 24 (22.43%) Data Management
6 23 (21.50%) Data Modelling
7 19 (17.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (15.89%) Decision-Making
8 17 (15.89%) ERP
9 16 (14.95%) Data Governance
10 15 (14.02%) Data Science
10 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (13.08%) Data Analysis
11 14 (13.08%) Machine Learning
12 13 (12.15%) CI/CD
12 13 (12.15%) DevOps
12 13 (12.15%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (12.15%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 12 (11.21%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 67 (62.62%) SQL
2 30 (28.04%) Python
3 6 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.74%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.80%) R
5 3 (2.80%) Scala
6 2 (1.87%) C#
6 2 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.93%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Degree
2 10 (9.35%) ACCA
2 10 (9.35%) CIMA
3 4 (3.74%) CFA
3 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.87%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) CISM
5 1 (0.93%) CISSP
5 1 (0.93%) CRISC
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
5 1 (0.93%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.82%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.48%) GDPR
3 6 (5.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.87%) EMIR
4 2 (1.87%) MiFID
4 2 (1.87%) PMO
4 2 (1.87%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.93%) GRC
5 1 (0.93%) IFRS
5 1 (0.93%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.93%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.76%) Databricks
3 12 (11.21%) Dell
4 11 (10.28%) SAP
5 9 (8.41%) Concur
5 9 (8.41%) Yardi
6 7 (6.54%) Informatica
7 6 (5.61%) Cloudera
7 6 (5.61%) Denodo
7 6 (5.61%) Teradata
8 5 (4.67%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.87%) Oracle
9 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.93%) eFront
10 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.93%) Pega
10 1 (0.93%) Planview