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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 28 45
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 -4
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 78 127 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.05% 7.81% 5.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 8.15% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 59 104 72
10th Percentile £55,650 £41,625 £47,525
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,875 £83,750
90th Percentile - £110,625 £94,625
Central London median annual salary £79,200 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +21.85% -10.34% +3.57%

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 2,083 1,559 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.46% 95.88% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,525 1,250 1,743
10th Percentile £46,750 £40,000 £46,032
25th Percentile £60,850 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,000 £122,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%

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 11 October 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 4 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (82.05%) Power Platform
2 35 (44.87%) Azure
3 14 (17.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (14.10%) AWS
5 10 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (12.82%) Power Automate
6 9 (11.54%) Snowflake
7 8 (10.26%) PowerApps
8 6 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (7.69%) dbt
9 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (6.41%) SaaS
10 4 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (1.28%) Azure AI
13 1 (1.28%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (79.49%) Power BI
2 18 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 12 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (7.69%) Tableau
7 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.85%) Metadata
8 3 (3.85%) OLTP
8 3 (3.85%) SSDT
9 2 (2.56%) Looker
10 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.28%) Power Query
10 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.28%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (5.13%) JIRA
3 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (53.85%) Finance
2 14 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (10.26%) Law
6 7 (8.97%) Front Office
7 5 (6.41%) Legal
8 3 (3.85%) Banking
8 3 (3.85%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.56%) Advertising
9 2 (2.56%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.28%) Legal Technology
10 1 (1.28%) Marketing
10 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Analyst
2 15 (19.23%) Developer
3 14 (17.95%) Senior
4 13 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) Business Analyst
6 9 (11.54%) Business Manager
7 8 (10.26%) Finance Manager
7 8 (10.26%) Finance Systems Manager
7 8 (10.26%) Systems Manager
8 5 (6.41%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Lead
8 5 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Report Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Lead Python Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 3 (3.85%) Senior Database Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.97%) Terraform
2 6 (7.69%) .NET
3 4 (5.13%) PySpark
4 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.56%) XML
4 2 (2.56%) XSLT
5 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.28%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.28%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.28%) jQuery
5 1 (1.28%) Kafka
5 1 (1.28%) LangChain
5 1 (1.28%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (1.28%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.28%) React
5 1 (1.28%) REST
5 1 (1.28%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.28%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.85%) FMCG
3 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.56%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.56%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.28%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.28%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.28%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.62%) Analytics
2 20 (25.64%) AI
2 20 (25.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (21.79%) Data Modelling
3 17 (21.79%) Data Pipeline
3 17 (21.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (19.23%) Data Engineering
5 14 (17.95%) DevOps
6 13 (16.67%) Agile
6 13 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 10 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (11.54%) Asset Management
8 9 (11.54%) ERP
8 9 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.26%) Business Analysis
9 8 (10.26%) Data Analysis
9 8 (10.26%) Decision-Making
9 8 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (8.97%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 56 (71.79%) SQL
2 28 (35.90%) Python
3 11 (14.10%) T-SQL
4 7 (8.97%) C#
5 6 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (5.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.56%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.56%) XPath
9 1 (1.28%) Bicep
9 1 (1.28%) Java
9 1 (1.28%) R
9 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (11.54%) ACCA
1 9 (11.54%) CIMA
1 9 (11.54%) Degree
2 6 (7.69%) CFA
3 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.85%) QA
3 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) IFRS
4 1 (1.28%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.28%) PMO
4 1 (1.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.85%) SQL Sentry
2 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.54%) SAP
3 8 (10.26%) Concur
3 8 (10.26%) Databricks
3 8 (10.26%) Yardi
4 4 (5.13%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.85%) RedGate
6 1 (1.28%) Informatica
6 1 (1.28%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) Planview