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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 40 32
Rank change year-on-year -21 -8 +11
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 108 132 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.53% 6.81% 6.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 7.08% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 62 96 160
10th Percentile £49,075 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,875 £53,438 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -5.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £104,500 £103,125 £105,500
Central London median annual salary £84,000 £67,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +25.37% -0.74% -

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 3,410 1,865 2,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 79.82% 96.18% 90.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,470 1,424 2,346
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £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 20 June 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 7 (6.48%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Appian
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (8.33%) 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 77 (71.30%) Power Platform
2 47 (43.52%) Azure
3 18 (16.67%) dbt
4 16 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 14 (12.96%) AWS
6 13 (12.04%) Power Automate
7 11 (10.19%) GCP
8 10 (9.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.78%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.78%) OneDrive
13 3 (2.78%) PowerApps
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 77 (71.30%) Power BI
2 27 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (17.59%) SQL Server
4 15 (13.89%) Data Lake
5 12 (11.11%) Tableau
6 10 (9.26%) Metabase
7 7 (6.48%) BigQuery
7 7 (6.48%) Looker
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.63%) Star Schema
10 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.78%) Power Query
11 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.85%) Big Data
12 2 (1.85%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.85%) Metadata
12 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.19%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.56%) MLflow
3 2 (1.85%) Git
3 2 (1.85%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 51 (47.22%) Finance
2 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 26 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Front Office
6 6 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.63%) Law
7 5 (4.63%) Legal
8 4 (3.70%) Banking
8 4 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.70%) Marketing
9 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.93%) Automotive
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (33.33%) Analyst
2 20 (18.52%) Senior
3 13 (12.04%) Data Engineer
4 12 (11.11%) IT Analyst
5 11 (10.19%) IT Support
5 11 (10.19%) IT Support Analyst
5 11 (10.19%) Support Analyst
6 10 (9.26%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 10 (9.26%) Financial Analyst
6 10 (9.26%) Systems Analyst
6 10 (9.26%) Systems Support
6 10 (9.26%) Systems Support Analyst
7 8 (7.41%) Finance Manager
7 8 (7.41%) Finance Systems Manager
7 8 (7.41%) Report Analyst
7 8 (7.41%) Systems Manager
8 7 (6.48%) Architect
8 7 (6.48%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.56%) Data Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Systems 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%) REST
5 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.93%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) Pandas
5 1 (0.93%) Playwright
5 1 (0.93%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.56%) Clustering
2 6 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.93%) Derivative
5 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.93%) iPhone
5 1 (0.93%) Life Science
5 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
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 29 (26.85%) Data Engineering
3 29 (26.85%) Data Management
3 29 (26.85%) Data Modelling
4 28 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (23.15%) Decision-Making
7 20 (18.52%) Data Governance
7 20 (18.52%) ERP
8 19 (17.59%) Data Science
9 17 (15.74%) Machine Learning
10 16 (14.81%) Data Analysis
10 16 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (12.04%) Roadmaps
11 13 (12.04%) Use Case
12 12 (11.11%) DevOps
12 12 (11.11%) ETL
12 12 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 67 (62.04%) SQL
2 27 (25.00%) Python
3 6 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.63%) PowerShell
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 17 (15.74%) Degree
2 8 (7.41%) ACCA
2 8 (7.41%) CIMA
3 3 (2.78%) CFA
4 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) CISM
5 1 (0.93%) CISSP
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) CRISC
5 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
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
5 1 (0.93%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.30%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.04%) GDPR
3 8 (7.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.85%) EMIR
5 2 (1.85%) GRC
5 2 (1.85%) MiFID
5 2 (1.85%) PMO
6 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.93%) IFRS
6 1 (0.93%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.93%) NIST
6 1 (0.93%) QA
6 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
6 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 6 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.52%) Databricks
3 12 (11.11%) Dell
4 9 (8.33%) SAP
5 8 (7.41%) Concur
5 8 (7.41%) Yardi
6 7 (6.48%) Informatica
7 6 (5.56%) Cloudera
7 6 (5.56%) Denodo
7 6 (5.56%) Teradata
8 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.85%) Google
9 2 (1.85%) Oracle
10 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.93%) Bomgar
10 1 (0.93%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.93%) Pega
10 1 (0.93%) Planview
10 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud