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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 36 35
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 108 130 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.70% 6.82% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 7.10% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 65 93 143
10th Percentile £50,050 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £66,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% -2.22% +8.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £102,500 £98,750
Central London median annual salary £83,000 £66,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +24.81% -1.48% +3.85%

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 3,213 1,830 2,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.28% 95.96% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,358 1,412 2,277
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
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 - £121,125 £113,000
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 18 July 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Appian
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Alphatax
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 75 (69.44%) Power Platform
2 46 (42.59%) Azure
3 17 (15.74%) dbt
4 16 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 14 (12.96%) AWS
6 13 (12.04%) Power Automate
7 12 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (10.19%) GCP
9 8 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.70%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.78%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.78%) OneDrive
14 2 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
14 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Broadband
1 1 (0.93%) DHCP
1 1 (0.93%) DNS
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
1 1 (0.93%) Intranet
1 1 (0.93%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.93%) Softphone
1 1 (0.93%) VLAN
1 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (69.44%) Power BI
2 25 (23.15%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (17.59%) SQL Server
4 14 (12.96%) Data Lake
5 12 (11.11%) Tableau
6 8 (7.41%) Metabase
7 7 (6.48%) BigQuery
7 7 (6.48%) Looker
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.63%) Star Schema
10 4 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.78%) Power Query
12 2 (1.85%) Big Data
12 2 (1.85%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.56%) MLflow
3 3 (2.78%) Git
4 2 (1.85%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 49 (45.37%) Finance
2 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Front Office
6 6 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.63%) Legal
8 4 (3.70%) Banking
9 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.78%) Law
9 3 (2.78%) Marketing
10 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.93%) Automotive
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 31 (28.70%) Analyst
2 20 (18.52%) Senior
3 15 (13.89%) Data Engineer
4 10 (9.26%) IT Analyst
5 9 (8.33%) Finance Manager
5 9 (8.33%) Finance Systems Manager
5 9 (8.33%) IT Support
5 9 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
5 9 (8.33%) Support Analyst
5 9 (8.33%) Systems Manager
6 8 (7.41%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 8 (7.41%) Financial Analyst
6 8 (7.41%) Report Analyst
6 8 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
6 8 (7.41%) Systems Support
6 8 (7.41%) Systems Support Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Architect
7 6 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Data Management Specialist
7 6 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.48%) Kafka
2 6 (5.56%) LangChain
2 6 (5.56%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (5.56%) pgvector
2 6 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.56%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.56%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.63%) PySpark
4 2 (1.85%) .NET
4 2 (1.85%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.85%) REST
5 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.93%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.93%) jQuery
5 1 (0.93%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) Pandas
5 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (5.56%) Clustering
3 6 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.78%) FMCG
4 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.85%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.93%) Derivative
6 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.93%) iPhone
6 1 (0.93%) Life Science
6 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.93%) Windows
1 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (45.37%) Analytics
2 31 (28.70%) AI
3 30 (27.78%) Data Engineering
3 30 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (25.00%) Data Management
5 26 (24.07%) Data Modelling
6 25 (23.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (20.37%) Decision-Making
8 20 (18.52%) ERP
9 19 (17.59%) Data Science
10 17 (15.74%) Machine Learning
10 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (14.81%) Data Governance
12 14 (12.96%) Data Analysis
12 14 (12.96%) DevOps
13 13 (12.04%) CI/CD
13 13 (12.04%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (12.04%) Use Case
14 12 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (62.04%) SQL
2 28 (25.93%) Python
3 7 (6.48%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.85%) C#
6 2 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.85%) R
6 2 (1.85%) Scala
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (16.67%) Degree
2 9 (8.33%) ACCA
2 9 (8.33%) CIMA
3 3 (2.78%) CFA
4 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.85%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
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%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
5 1 (0.93%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.59%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.26%) GDPR
3 7 (6.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.85%) EMIR
4 2 (1.85%) GRC
4 2 (1.85%) MiFID
4 2 (1.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
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%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.93%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.93%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.93%) Docker
1 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) Terraform
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.44%) Databricks
3 12 (11.11%) Dell
4 10 (9.26%) SAP
5 9 (8.33%) Concur
5 9 (8.33%) Yardi
6 7 (6.48%) Informatica
7 6 (5.56%) Cloudera
7 6 (5.56%) Denodo
7 6 (5.56%) Teradata
8 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.85%) Oracle
10 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.93%) Bomgar
10 1 (0.93%) eFront
10 1 (0.93%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.93%) Google
10 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.93%) Pega
10 1 (0.93%) Planview