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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 33
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 107 124 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.91% 6.63% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 6.93% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 69 88 121
10th Percentile £51,350 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £64,250 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% +1.18% -2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £84,250
90th Percentile £101,000 £97,500 £91,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.21% +1.54% -3.70%

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 2,951 1,789 2,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.23% 95.67% 92.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 1,368 2,004
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,372 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,875
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.52% -1.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £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 8 August 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 (8.41%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 75 (70.09%) Power Platform
2 45 (42.06%) Azure
3 19 (17.76%) Snowflake
4 17 (15.89%) AWS
5 15 (14.02%) dbt
6 13 (12.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (11.21%) Power Automate
8 11 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (10.28%) GCP
9 9 (8.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (4.67%) PowerApps
12 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (1.87%) Collibra
14 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
14 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
14 2 (1.87%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (70.09%) Power BI
2 23 (21.50%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (17.76%) SQL Server
4 15 (14.02%) Data Lake
5 11 (10.28%) Tableau
6 8 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (5.61%) BigQuery
7 6 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (5.61%) Looker
7 6 (5.61%) Metabase
7 6 (5.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (5.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.80%) Metadata
8 3 (2.80%) Power Query
8 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.61%) MLflow
3 4 (3.74%) Git
4 2 (1.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 50 (46.73%) Finance
2 26 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.54%) Front Office
6 6 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.61%) Legal
7 5 (4.67%) Banking
7 5 (4.67%) Law
8 3 (2.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.93%) Legal Technology
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 31 (28.97%) Analyst
2 19 (17.76%) Senior
3 14 (13.08%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Business Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Finance Manager
4 9 (8.41%) Finance Systems Manager
4 9 (8.41%) Systems Manager
5 8 (7.48%) Report Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Business Manager
6 7 (6.54%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Financial Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) IT Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Systems Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Architect
7 6 (5.61%) Data Management Specialist
7 6 (5.61%) Developer
7 6 (5.61%) IT Support
7 6 (5.61%) Product Specialist
7 6 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) Kafka
2 7 (6.54%) LangChain
2 7 (6.54%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (6.54%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.54%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.54%) TensorFlow
3 6 (5.61%) pgvector
4 5 (4.67%) PySpark
5 3 (2.80%) .NET
6 2 (1.87%) REST
7 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.93%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.93%) jQuery
7 1 (0.93%) JSON
7 1 (0.93%) Pandas
7 1 (0.93%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.61%) Clustering
2 6 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.61%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.80%) FMCG
4 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.80%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.93%) Derivative
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.93%) Life Science
6 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.12%) Analytics
2 33 (30.84%) AI
3 28 (26.17%) Data Engineering
4 27 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (24.30%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (22.43%) Data Management
6 24 (22.43%) Data Modelling
7 20 (18.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (16.82%) Decision-Making
9 17 (15.89%) ERP
10 16 (14.95%) Data Governance
11 15 (14.02%) Data Science
11 15 (14.02%) Machine Learning
11 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (13.08%) Data Analysis
12 14 (13.08%) DevOps
13 13 (12.15%) CI/CD
13 13 (12.15%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (12.15%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 12 (11.21%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 67 (62.62%) SQL
2 30 (28.04%) Python
3 6 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.67%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.80%) R
6 3 (2.80%) Scala
7 2 (1.87%) C#
7 2 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.93%) Java
8 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.93%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Degree
2 10 (9.35%) ACCA
2 10 (9.35%) CIMA
3 4 (3.74%) CFA
3 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.87%) DBS Check
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%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.82%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.41%) GDPR
3 6 (5.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.87%) EMIR
4 2 (1.87%) IFRS
4 2 (1.87%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.87%) MiFID
4 2 (1.87%) PMO
4 2 (1.87%) QA
4 2 (1.87%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.93%) GRC
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (27.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.69%) Databricks
3 12 (11.21%) Dell
4 11 (10.28%) SAP
5 9 (8.41%) Concur
5 9 (8.41%) Yardi
6 8 (7.48%) Informatica
7 6 (5.61%) Cloudera
7 6 (5.61%) Denodo
7 6 (5.61%) Teradata
8 5 (4.67%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.87%) Oracle
9 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.93%) eFront
10 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.93%) Planview