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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -11
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 133 150 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.44% 5.71% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 5.98% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 103 73 154
10th Percentile £39,106 £50,000 £49,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £83,125 £82,500 £92,188
90th Percentile £101,750 £97,200 £116,750
Central London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +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 2,105 2,508 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.02% 95.54% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,592 2,451
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,500
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 £113,625 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +1.35% -1.33%

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 23 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 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.26%) Confluence
4 2 (1.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (20.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (5.26%) Elite 3E
2 3 (2.26%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.50%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.75%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (86.47%) Power Platform
2 62 (46.62%) Azure
3 22 (16.54%) Power Automate
4 19 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (11.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (11.28%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (10.53%) PowerApps
7 13 (9.77%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (9.77%) Snowflake
8 12 (9.02%) dbt
9 11 (8.27%) AWS
10 10 (7.52%) GCP
11 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.76%) Serverless
13 4 (3.01%) GitHub
13 4 (3.01%) Google Analytics
14 3 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (2.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (84.96%) Power BI
2 41 (30.83%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (15.04%) SQL Server
4 15 (11.28%) Tableau
5 13 (9.77%) Data Lake
6 10 (7.52%) Power Query
6 10 (7.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (5.26%) Metabase
8 7 (5.26%) Metadata
9 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.76%) Data Mining
11 4 (3.01%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.01%) Star Schema
12 3 (2.26%) Looker
13 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.50%) DataStage
13 2 (1.50%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.50%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.26%) Git
3 2 (1.50%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.50%) ERwin
3 2 (1.50%) JIRA
3 2 (1.50%) PowerDesigner
General
1 59 (44.36%) Finance
2 47 (35.34%) Social Skills
3 30 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (16.54%) Law
5 21 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (11.28%) Legal
7 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
8 11 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (7.52%) Banking
10 9 (6.77%) Marketing
11 6 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (4.51%) Financial Institution
12 5 (3.76%) Retail
13 4 (3.01%) International Banking
14 3 (2.26%) Advertising
14 3 (2.26%) General Ledger
14 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
15 2 (1.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (30.83%) Analyst
2 23 (17.29%) Developer
3 19 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 19 (14.29%) Senior
4 13 (9.77%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) Architect
5 12 (9.02%) Lead
6 11 (8.27%) Financial Analyst
6 11 (8.27%) Power Platform Developer
7 10 (7.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (7.52%) Support Analyst
8 9 (6.77%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 9 (6.77%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.77%) Systems Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Data Architect
9 7 (5.26%) IT Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) IT Support
9 7 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Systems Support
9 7 (5.26%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.77%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (3.01%) REST
3 3 (2.26%) PySpark
4 2 (1.50%) .NET
4 2 (1.50%) Hugging Face
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.50%) XML
5 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.75%) CSS
5 1 (0.75%) HTML
5 1 (0.75%) MDX
5 1 (0.75%) Middleware
5 1 (0.75%) Node.js
5 1 (0.75%) React
5 1 (0.75%) SOAP
5 1 (0.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (3.76%) Reinsurance
3 4 (3.01%) Credit Risk
3 4 (3.01%) Market Risk
3 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.50%) ASIC
5 2 (1.50%) Derivative
5 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.50%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.50%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (0.75%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.75%) DTCC
6 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Android
1 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (45.11%) Analytics
2 51 (38.35%) Decision-Making
3 49 (36.84%) Data Modelling
4 41 (30.83%) ETL
5 39 (29.32%) Data Governance
5 39 (29.32%) Visualisation
6 37 (27.82%) AI
7 31 (23.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (21.05%) Data Analysis
9 28 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
10 26 (19.55%) Agile
11 25 (18.80%) Data Engineering
12 23 (17.29%) Data Management
12 23 (17.29%) Data Visualisation
13 22 (16.54%) Actionable Insight
14 20 (15.04%) Data Analytics
15 18 (13.53%) DevOps
15 18 (13.53%) Translating Business Requirements
16 17 (12.78%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 74 (55.64%) SQL
2 39 (29.32%) Python
3 22 (16.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (9.02%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.27%) C#
6 6 (4.51%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.01%) VBA
8 3 (2.26%) Scala
9 2 (1.50%) Java
9 2 (1.50%) R
10 1 (0.75%) Ruby
10 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (16.54%) Degree
2 16 (12.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.27%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.26%) SnowPro
7 3 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.50%) ACCA
8 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.50%) CBAP
8 2 (1.50%) CIMA
8 2 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.50%) MBA
9 1 (0.75%) CFA
9 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.75%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.05%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.27%) GDPR
3 6 (4.51%) QA
4 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.50%) EMIR
5 2 (1.50%) MiFID
5 2 (1.50%) PMO
6 1 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.51%) Terraform
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.75%) Argo
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (38.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.53%) Databricks
3 9 (6.77%) Google
4 7 (5.26%) Intapp
5 5 (3.76%) Informatica
5 5 (3.76%) Oracle
5 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (2.26%) SAP
7 2 (1.50%) IBM
7 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.50%) Workday
8 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.75%) Red Hat