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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 41 35
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 129 117 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.31% 5.62% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 5.86% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 77 74 175
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,400 £41,650
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £104,625 £101,650
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +13.28% -5.19%

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 3,162 1,998 2,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.24% 95.92% 92.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,257 1,493 2,484
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 - £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 30 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 10 (7.75%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.88%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.55%) Apache
4 2 (1.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) Appian
Applications
1 19 (14.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.78%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.78%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (74.42%) Power Platform
2 58 (44.96%) Azure
3 23 (17.83%) dbt
4 18 (13.95%) Snowflake
5 16 (12.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (12.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (12.40%) Power Automate
6 14 (10.85%) AWS
6 14 (10.85%) GCP
7 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.10%) Google Analytics
9 4 (3.10%) SaaS
10 3 (2.33%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.55%) Collibra
11 2 (1.55%) GitHub
11 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.55%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Broadband
1 1 (0.78%) DHCP
1 1 (0.78%) DNS
1 1 (0.78%) Firewall
1 1 (0.78%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.78%) Softphone
1 1 (0.78%) VLAN
1 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (72.87%) Power BI
2 42 (32.56%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (18.60%) SQL Server
4 18 (13.95%) Data Lake
4 18 (13.95%) Tableau
5 15 (11.63%) Metabase
6 9 (6.98%) Looker
7 8 (6.20%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.43%) Star Schema
9 6 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.88%) Power Query
11 3 (2.33%) Big Data
11 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.55%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.55%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (11.63%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.65%) MLflow
3 2 (1.55%) JIRA
4 1 (0.78%) Git
4 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 58 (44.96%) Finance
2 44 (34.11%) Social Skills
3 39 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.08%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.20%) Marketing
6 6 (4.65%) Banking
6 6 (4.65%) Legal
7 5 (3.88%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.10%) Front Office
8 4 (3.10%) Law
8 4 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Advertising
11 1 (0.78%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.78%) Automotive
11 1 (0.78%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (34.11%) Analyst
2 26 (20.16%) Senior
3 17 (13.18%) IT Analyst
3 17 (13.18%) Support Analyst
4 16 (12.40%) Financial Analyst
4 16 (12.40%) IT Support
4 16 (12.40%) IT Support Analyst
5 15 (11.63%) Data Engineer
5 15 (11.63%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 15 (11.63%) Systems Analyst
5 15 (11.63%) Systems Support
5 15 (11.63%) Systems Support Analyst
6 13 (10.08%) Lead
7 10 (7.75%) Data Analyst
8 9 (6.98%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Architect
10 7 (5.43%) Report Analyst
10 7 (5.43%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.65%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) Kafka
2 6 (4.65%) LangChain
2 6 (4.65%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (4.65%) pgvector
2 6 (4.65%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.65%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.65%) TensorFlow
3 5 (3.88%) PySpark
4 3 (2.33%) .NET
5 2 (1.55%) REST
6 1 (0.78%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.78%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.78%) CSS
6 1 (0.78%) HTML
6 1 (0.78%) JSON
6 1 (0.78%) MDX
6 1 (0.78%) Node.js
6 1 (0.78%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.30%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.65%) Clustering
3 6 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.33%) Derivative
5 3 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.55%) ASIC
6 2 (1.55%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (1.55%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.78%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) DTCC
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.78%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.78%) Android
2 1 (0.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (50.39%) Analytics
2 43 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 43 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 39 (30.23%) AI
3 39 (30.23%) Data Engineering
4 38 (29.46%) Data Management
4 38 (29.46%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (23.26%) Data Analysis
6 29 (22.48%) Data Governance
6 29 (22.48%) ETL
6 29 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (19.38%) Data Science
8 22 (17.05%) Visualisation
9 19 (14.73%) Actionable Insight
9 19 (14.73%) Use Case
10 18 (13.95%) Agile
10 18 (13.95%) ERP
10 18 (13.95%) Machine Learning
11 15 (11.63%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 76 (58.91%) SQL
2 41 (31.78%) Python
3 12 (9.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.10%) R
5 2 (1.55%) C#
5 2 (1.55%) Java
5 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.55%) Scala
5 2 (1.55%) VBA
6 1 (0.78%) Bicep
6 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.78%) Ruby
6 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.40%) Degree
2 4 (3.10%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.10%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.78%) ACCA
4 1 (0.78%) CFA
4 1 (0.78%) CIMA
4 1 (0.78%) CISM
4 1 (0.78%) CISSP
4 1 (0.78%) CRISC
4 1 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.78%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.26%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.85%) GDPR
3 8 (6.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.10%) EMIR
4 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.10%) MiFID
5 3 (2.33%) PMO
6 2 (1.55%) GRC
6 2 (1.55%) QA
7 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.78%) IFRS
7 1 (0.78%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.78%) NIST
7 1 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.55%) Terraform
2 1 (0.78%) Argo
2 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (35.66%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.71%) Databricks
3 12 (9.30%) Dell
4 9 (6.98%) Informatica
5 7 (5.43%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.65%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.65%) Denodo
6 6 (4.65%) Google
6 6 (4.65%) Teradata
7 4 (3.10%) SAP
8 3 (2.33%) Oracle
8 3 (2.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.55%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.78%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.78%) Concur
10 1 (0.78%) eFront
10 1 (0.78%) iManage
10 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.78%) Workday