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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 43 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 128 157 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.76% 5.87% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 6.14% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 103 79 144
10th Percentile £39,106 £50,000 £47,875
25th Percentile £56,875 £58,750 £57,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £84,375 £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £101,750 £95,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% - +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 1,929 2,555 2,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.74% 95.51% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,425 1,643 2,385
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,250 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £74,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.68% -0.33% -

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 8 January 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 14 (10.94%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.34%) Confluence
4 2 (1.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (20.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Elite 3E
2 7 (5.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.34%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.56%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.78%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (89.06%) Power Platform
2 59 (46.09%) Azure
3 21 (16.41%) Power Automate
4 19 (14.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (11.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (11.72%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (10.94%) PowerApps
7 13 (10.16%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (10.16%) Snowflake
8 11 (8.59%) AWS
8 11 (8.59%) dbt
9 9 (7.03%) GCP
10 7 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.91%) Serverless
12 4 (3.13%) GitHub
13 3 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.34%) Google Analytics
13 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (1.56%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (87.50%) Power BI
2 40 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (13.28%) SQL Server
4 15 (11.72%) Tableau
5 13 (10.16%) Data Lake
6 11 (8.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (7.81%) Power Query
8 8 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (5.47%) Metadata
10 6 (4.69%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.91%) Data Mining
11 5 (3.91%) Metabase
12 4 (3.13%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.34%) Looker
13 3 (2.34%) Star Schema
14 2 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.56%) DataStage
14 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (1.56%) QlikView
14 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.34%) Git
3 2 (1.56%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.56%) ERwin
3 2 (1.56%) JIRA
3 2 (1.56%) PowerDesigner
General
1 55 (42.97%) Finance
2 44 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 28 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (17.97%) Law
5 20 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (11.72%) Legal
7 13 (10.16%) Public Sector
8 11 (8.59%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (7.81%) Banking
10 8 (6.25%) Marketing
11 7 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (3.91%) Financial Institution
12 5 (3.91%) Retail
13 4 (3.13%) International Banking
14 3 (2.34%) Advertising
14 3 (2.34%) General Ledger
14 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
15 2 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (29.69%) Analyst
2 23 (17.97%) Developer
3 18 (14.06%) Data Analyst
4 17 (13.28%) Senior
5 13 (10.16%) Lead
6 12 (9.38%) Architect
6 12 (9.38%) Data Engineer
7 11 (8.59%) Power Platform Developer
8 10 (7.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (7.03%) Financial Analyst
9 9 (7.03%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.03%) Support Analyst
10 7 (5.47%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.47%) Data Architect
10 7 (5.47%) Finance Systems Analyst
10 7 (5.47%) Systems Analyst
11 6 (4.69%) Data Insight Analyst
11 6 (4.69%) Insight Analyst
11 6 (4.69%) Insight Data Analyst
12 5 (3.91%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.03%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (3.13%) REST
3 3 (2.34%) PySpark
4 2 (1.56%) Hugging Face
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.56%) XML
5 1 (0.78%) .NET
5 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.78%) CSS
5 1 (0.78%) HTML
5 1 (0.78%) MDX
5 1 (0.78%) Middleware
5 1 (0.78%) Node.js
5 1 (0.78%) React
5 1 (0.78%) SOAP
5 1 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.91%) Reinsurance
3 4 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.13%) Credit Risk
3 4 (3.13%) Market Risk
3 4 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.34%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.34%) Learning Management System
4 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.56%) ASIC
5 2 (1.56%) Derivative
5 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.56%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (0.78%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.78%) DTCC
6 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Android
1 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (42.19%) Analytics
2 50 (39.06%) Decision-Making
3 47 (36.72%) Data Modelling
4 41 (32.03%) ETL
5 39 (30.47%) Data Governance
6 38 (29.69%) Visualisation
7 33 (25.78%) AI
8 30 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (20.31%) Data Analysis
10 26 (20.31%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (18.75%) Agile
11 24 (18.75%) Data Engineering
12 23 (17.97%) Actionable Insight
13 22 (17.19%) Data Visualisation
14 21 (16.41%) Data Management
15 20 (15.63%) Data Analytics
16 18 (14.06%) Translating Business Requirements
17 17 (13.28%) DevOps
18 16 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 70 (54.69%) SQL
2 38 (29.69%) Python
3 22 (17.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.81%) C#
6 6 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.13%) VBA
8 3 (2.34%) Scala
9 2 (1.56%) Java
9 2 (1.56%) R
10 1 (0.78%) Ruby
10 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (17.19%) Degree
2 16 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.59%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.34%) SnowPro
7 3 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.56%) ACCA
8 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.56%) CBAP
8 2 (1.56%) CIMA
8 2 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.56%) MBA
9 1 (0.78%) CFA
9 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.78%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.97%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.38%) GDPR
3 5 (3.91%) QA
4 2 (1.56%) EMIR
4 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.56%) MiFID
4 2 (1.56%) PMO
5 1 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Terraform
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.78%) Argo
3 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (38.28%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.50%) Databricks
3 8 (6.25%) Intapp
4 7 (5.47%) Google
5 6 (4.69%) Oracle
6 5 (3.91%) Informatica
7 4 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.34%) SAP
9 2 (1.56%) IBM
9 2 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.56%) Workday
10 1 (0.78%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.78%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.78%) Red Hat