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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 99 129 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.99% 7.26% 6.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 7.57% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 67 99 107
10th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,375 £84,375
90th Percentile £93,500 £99,250 £91,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.30% -1.48% -

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 2,659 1,704 2,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.24% 95.89% 92.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,930 1,335 1,907
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,207
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.12% -2.08%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 1 September 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 8 (8.08%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.01%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 69 (69.70%) Power Platform
2 41 (41.41%) Azure
3 17 (17.17%) AWS
3 17 (17.17%) Snowflake
4 12 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (11.11%) dbt
6 10 (10.10%) GCP
6 10 (10.10%) Power Automate
7 8 (8.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (6.06%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.02%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.02%) Collibra
10 2 (2.02%) SaaS
11 1 (1.01%) GitHub
11 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (69.70%) Power BI
2 18 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (14.14%) SQL Server
4 12 (12.12%) Data Lake
4 12 (12.12%) Tableau
5 8 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (8.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (7.07%) Looker
7 6 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (6.06%) BigQuery
7 6 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (6.06%) Milvus
7 6 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (4.04%) Metadata
9 2 (2.02%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.02%) Metabase
9 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.02%) Power Query
9 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.06%) MLflow
2 3 (3.03%) Git
2 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.02%) JIRA
4 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
General
1 47 (47.47%) Finance
2 21 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.08%) Front Office
5 7 (7.07%) Law
5 7 (7.07%) Legal
6 5 (5.05%) Banking
7 3 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.03%) Marketing
8 2 (2.02%) Advertising
8 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Aeronautics
9 1 (1.01%) Legal Technology
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (28.28%) Analyst
2 19 (19.19%) Senior
3 14 (14.14%) Data Engineer
4 11 (11.11%) Business Analyst
5 9 (9.09%) Finance Manager
5 9 (9.09%) Finance Systems Manager
5 9 (9.09%) Systems Manager
6 8 (8.08%) Business Manager
6 8 (8.08%) Developer
6 8 (8.08%) Report Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 5 (5.05%) Data Analyst
8 5 (5.05%) Data Management Specialist
8 5 (5.05%) Lead
8 5 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Product Specialist
9 3 (3.03%) Finance Systems Analyst
9 3 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.07%) Kafka
1 7 (7.07%) LangChain
1 7 (7.07%) LlamaIndex
1 7 (7.07%) PyTorch
1 7 (7.07%) scikit-learn
1 7 (7.07%) TensorFlow
1 7 (7.07%) Terraform
2 6 (6.06%) pgvector
3 5 (5.05%) .NET
4 4 (4.04%) PySpark
5 2 (2.02%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.02%) REST
5 2 (2.02%) XML
5 2 (2.02%) XSLT
6 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.01%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.01%) jQuery
6 1 (1.01%) JSON
6 1 (1.01%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.06%) Clustering
3 6 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.03%) FMCG
4 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.03%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.02%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.02%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Life Science
6 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (41.41%) Analytics
2 30 (30.30%) AI
3 27 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 24 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (23.23%) Data Pipeline
6 22 (22.22%) Data Modelling
7 20 (20.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (18.18%) Lakehouse
9 17 (17.17%) Data Management
9 17 (17.17%) Decision-Making
10 15 (15.15%) Data Governance
10 15 (15.15%) Machine Learning
11 14 (14.14%) DevOps
12 13 (13.13%) Agile
12 13 (13.13%) CI/CD
12 13 (13.13%) Data Science
12 13 (13.13%) ERP
12 13 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (12.12%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 65 (65.66%) SQL
2 32 (32.32%) Python
3 6 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.06%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.03%) C#
6 2 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.02%) R
6 2 (2.02%) Scala
6 2 (2.02%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.02%) XPath
7 1 (1.01%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (16.16%) Degree
2 10 (10.10%) ACCA
2 10 (10.10%) CIMA
3 5 (5.05%) CFA
4 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.03%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.02%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.01%) CISM
6 1 (1.01%) CISSP
6 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.01%) CRISC
6 1 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.19%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.10%) GDPR
3 6 (6.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.03%) QA
5 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.02%) EMIR
5 2 (2.02%) IFRS
5 2 (2.02%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.02%) MiFID
5 2 (2.02%) PMO
5 2 (2.02%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.01%) GRC
6 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.01%) NIST
6 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.18%) Databricks
3 11 (11.11%) Dell
3 11 (11.11%) SAP
4 9 (9.09%) Concur
4 9 (9.09%) Yardi
5 7 (7.07%) Informatica
6 6 (6.06%) Cloudera
7 5 (5.05%) Denodo
7 5 (5.05%) Teradata
8 4 (4.04%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle
9 1 (1.01%) Planview