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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 40 33
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 140 120 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.17% 5.77% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 6.02% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 85 79 171
10th Percentile £42,250 £46,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £104,000 £102,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -7.14%

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 2,800 1,995 2,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 83.36% 95.96% 92.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 1,502 2,479
10th Percentile £44,800 £42,500 £41,323
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 £98,750 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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 2 April 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 12 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.86%) SharePoint
3 10 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.14%) Apache
4 3 (2.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) Appian
Applications
1 26 (18.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.43%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.43%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.71%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.71%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (78.57%) Power Platform
2 66 (47.14%) Azure
3 25 (17.86%) dbt
4 23 (16.43%) Snowflake
5 20 (14.29%) Power Automate
6 17 (12.14%) AWS
6 17 (12.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (11.43%) GCP
8 10 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.57%) GitHub
10 5 (3.57%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.86%) Google Analytics
11 4 (2.86%) SaaS
12 3 (2.14%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.14%) Fivetran
12 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Broadband
1 1 (0.71%) DHCP
1 1 (0.71%) DNS
1 1 (0.71%) Firewall
1 1 (0.71%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.71%) Softphone
1 1 (0.71%) VLAN
1 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (77.14%) Power BI
2 49 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (19.29%) SQL Server
4 22 (15.71%) Data Lake
4 22 (15.71%) Tableau
5 15 (10.71%) Metabase
6 11 (7.86%) BigQuery
7 9 (6.43%) Looker
8 8 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (5.00%) Metadata
9 7 (5.00%) Star Schema
10 6 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (4.29%) Power Query
10 6 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.14%) Big Data
11 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (10.71%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.29%) MLflow
3 2 (1.43%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.43%) ERwin
3 2 (1.43%) Git
3 2 (1.43%) JIRA
3 2 (1.43%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 62 (44.29%) Finance
2 45 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 40 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.29%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (8.57%) Law
6 9 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.43%) Marketing
7 8 (5.71%) Banking
7 8 (5.71%) Legal
8 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.57%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.14%) Front Office
11 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.14%) Retail
12 2 (1.43%) Advertising
12 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.43%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.71%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.71%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 45 (32.14%) Analyst
2 27 (19.29%) Senior
3 18 (12.86%) Support Analyst
4 17 (12.14%) IT Analyst
5 16 (11.43%) Financial Analyst
5 16 (11.43%) IT Support
5 16 (11.43%) IT Support Analyst
6 15 (10.71%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 15 (10.71%) Systems Analyst
6 15 (10.71%) Systems Support
6 15 (10.71%) Systems Support Analyst
7 14 (10.00%) Data Engineer
8 13 (9.29%) Data Analyst
9 12 (8.57%) Architect
9 12 (8.57%) Lead
10 11 (7.86%) Developer
11 9 (6.43%) Data Architect
12 8 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (4.29%) Data Management Specialist
13 6 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.00%) Kafka
2 6 (4.29%) LangChain
2 6 (4.29%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (4.29%) pgvector
2 6 (4.29%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.29%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.29%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.86%) PySpark
3 4 (2.86%) REST
4 3 (2.14%) .NET
4 3 (2.14%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.71%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.71%) CSS
5 1 (0.71%) HTML
5 1 (0.71%) Pandas
5 1 (0.71%) Playwright
5 1 (0.71%) React
5 1 (0.71%) Vue
5 1 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.29%) Clustering
3 6 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.86%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.14%) Derivative
6 3 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.43%) ASIC
7 2 (1.43%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.71%) Android
2 1 (0.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (50.71%) Analytics
2 52 (37.14%) Data Modelling
3 46 (32.86%) Decision-Making
4 44 (31.43%) AI
5 42 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (29.29%) Data Management
7 39 (27.86%) Data Engineering
8 37 (26.43%) Data Governance
8 37 (26.43%) ETL
9 33 (23.57%) Data Analysis
10 31 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (20.71%) Visualisation
13 28 (20.00%) Data Science
14 22 (15.71%) Agile
15 21 (15.00%) Use Case
16 20 (14.29%) Machine Learning
17 19 (13.57%) Actionable Insight
18 17 (12.14%) Data Analytics
18 17 (12.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (57.86%) SQL
2 43 (30.71%) Python
3 16 (11.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.29%) C#
4 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.86%) R
6 2 (1.43%) Java
6 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.43%) Scala
6 2 (1.43%) VBA
7 1 (0.71%) Bicep
7 1 (0.71%) Ruby
7 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (15.00%) Degree
2 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.14%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.43%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.71%) CFA
7 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (23.57%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.71%) GDPR
3 8 (5.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.14%) EMIR
4 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.14%) MiFID
4 3 (2.14%) PMO
5 2 (1.43%) QA
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.71%) GRC
6 1 (0.71%) IFRS
6 1 (0.71%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.71%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.71%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.71%) Docker
1 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (5.00%) Terraform
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.71%) Argo
3 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 31 (22.14%) Databricks
3 12 (8.57%) Dell
3 12 (8.57%) Informatica
4 9 (6.43%) Google
5 8 (5.71%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.29%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.29%) Denodo
6 6 (4.29%) Teradata
7 3 (2.14%) Oracle
7 3 (2.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) SAP
8 2 (1.43%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.43%) IBM
8 2 (1.43%) Workday
9 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.71%) eFront
9 1 (0.71%) iManage
9 1 (0.71%) Intapp
9 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft