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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 38 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 107 130 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.73% 6.86% 6.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 7.15% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 65 92 137
10th Percentile £50,050 £41,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £66,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% -2.22% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £102,500 £98,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year +20.30% +0.38% -1.85%

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 3,143 1,819 2,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.10% 95.94% 91.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,309 1,404 2,192
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
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 - £122,125 £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 21 July 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 10 (9.35%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Appian
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) 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 75 (70.09%) Power Platform
2 46 (42.99%) Azure
3 17 (15.89%) dbt
4 16 (14.95%) Snowflake
5 14 (13.08%) AWS
6 13 (12.15%) Power Automate
7 12 (11.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (10.28%) GCP
9 8 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.74%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.80%) OneDrive
14 2 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (1.87%) Azure Storage
14 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
15 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
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 75 (70.09%) Power BI
2 26 (24.30%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (17.76%) SQL Server
4 14 (13.08%) Data Lake
5 13 (12.15%) Tableau
6 8 (7.48%) Metabase
7 7 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (6.54%) BigQuery
7 7 (6.54%) Looker
8 6 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (5.61%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (3.74%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.80%) Power Query
11 2 (1.87%) Big Data
11 2 (1.87%) Metadata
11 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) 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 48 (44.86%) Finance
2 27 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.48%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Front Office
6 6 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.67%) Banking
7 5 (4.67%) Legal
8 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.80%) Law
8 3 (2.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.93%) Automotive
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 15 (14.02%) Data Engineer
4 10 (9.35%) IT Analyst
5 9 (8.41%) Finance Manager
5 9 (8.41%) Finance Systems Manager
5 9 (8.41%) IT Support
5 9 (8.41%) IT Support Analyst
5 9 (8.41%) Support Analyst
5 9 (8.41%) Systems Manager
6 8 (7.48%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 8 (7.48%) Financial Analyst
6 8 (7.48%) Report Analyst
6 8 (7.48%) Systems Analyst
6 8 (7.48%) Systems Support
6 8 (7.48%) Systems Support Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Data Management Specialist
7 6 (5.61%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) Kafka
2 6 (5.61%) LangChain
2 6 (5.61%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (5.61%) pgvector
2 6 (5.61%) PySpark
2 6 (5.61%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.61%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.61%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.87%) .NET
3 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.87%) REST
4 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.93%) jQuery
4 1 (0.93%) JSON
4 1 (0.93%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (0.93%) Web Services
4 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (5.61%) Clustering
3 6 (5.61%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.80%) FMCG
4 3 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.93%) Derivative
6 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.93%) iPhone
6 1 (0.93%) Life Science
6 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.93%) Windows
1 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.93%) Analytics
2 30 (28.04%) AI
2 30 (28.04%) Data Engineering
2 30 (28.04%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (25.23%) Data Management
4 26 (24.30%) Data Modelling
5 25 (23.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (19.63%) Decision-Making
7 19 (17.76%) Data Science
7 19 (17.76%) ERP
8 17 (15.89%) Data Governance
9 16 (14.95%) Machine Learning
9 16 (14.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (13.08%) Data Analysis
10 14 (13.08%) DevOps
11 13 (12.15%) CI/CD
11 13 (12.15%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (12.15%) Use Case
12 12 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.21%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 67 (62.62%) SQL
2 28 (26.17%) Python
3 7 (6.54%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.80%) R
5 3 (2.80%) Scala
5 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.87%) C#
6 2 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Degree
2 9 (8.41%) ACCA
2 9 (8.41%) CIMA
3 3 (2.80%) CFA
3 3 (2.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.80%) 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
5 1 (0.93%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.76%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.35%) GDPR
3 7 (6.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.87%) EMIR
4 2 (1.87%) GRC
4 2 (1.87%) MiFID
4 2 (1.87%) PMO
5 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.93%) IFRS
5 1 (0.93%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.93%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (7.48%) Terraform
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.63%) Databricks
3 12 (11.21%) Dell
4 10 (9.35%) SAP
5 9 (8.41%) Concur
5 9 (8.41%) Yardi
6 7 (6.54%) Informatica
7 6 (5.61%) Cloudera
7 6 (5.61%) Denodo
7 6 (5.61%) Teradata
8 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.87%) Oracle
10 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.93%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.93%) Google
10 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.93%) iManage
10 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.93%) Pega
10 1 (0.93%) Planview