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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -19
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 134 163 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 8.16% 5.90% 5.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.64% 6.25% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 109 77 151
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £99,250 £91,250 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £66,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.97% +3.57% +3.70%

All Process and 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 1,551 2,607 2,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 94.40% 94.29% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,197 1,701 2,589
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +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 12 November 2025.

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 17 (12.69%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.48%) Confluence
3 4 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.99%) Moodle
4 2 (1.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (14.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Elite 3E
2 5 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.49%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.75%) Endur
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.75%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 114 (85.07%) Power Platform
2 60 (44.78%) Azure
3 26 (19.40%) Power Automate
4 23 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (17.16%) PowerApps
5 16 (11.94%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (11.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (8.96%) Snowflake
8 11 (8.21%) AWS
9 10 (7.46%) GCP
10 9 (6.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (5.22%) dbt
13 6 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (4.48%) Serverless
14 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (2.99%) Collibra
15 4 (2.99%) ShareGate
16 3 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 3 (2.24%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.73%) Network Security
2 4 (2.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (85.07%) Power BI
2 37 (27.61%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (13.43%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.43%) Tableau
4 15 (11.19%) Data Lake
5 13 (9.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (8.21%) Power Query
7 8 (5.97%) Metadata
7 8 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.73%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.73%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.24%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.49%) DataStage
11 2 (1.49%) Looker
11 2 (1.49%) QlikView
11 2 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.22%) ER Studio
2 5 (3.73%) JIRA
3 3 (2.24%) Git
4 2 (1.49%) ERwin
4 2 (1.49%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (41.04%) Finance
2 41 (30.60%) Social Skills
3 31 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (16.42%) Law
5 19 (14.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (14.18%) Legal
6 16 (11.94%) Public Sector
7 14 (10.45%) Marketing
8 10 (7.46%) Banking
9 8 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (3.73%) Advertising
11 5 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (3.73%) Retail
12 4 (2.99%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.99%) International Banking
13 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.49%) Back Office
14 2 (1.49%) General Ledger
14 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (25.37%) Analyst
2 29 (21.64%) Developer
3 21 (15.67%) Data Analyst
4 19 (14.18%) Architect
5 13 (9.70%) Senior
6 12 (8.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 12 (8.96%) Lead
6 12 (8.96%) Power Platform Developer
7 10 (7.46%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.22%) Applications Support
8 7 (5.22%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.22%) Digital Transformation
8 7 (5.22%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (4.48%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.48%) Power Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Head of IT
10 5 (3.73%) Junior
10 5 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.73%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.72%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (3.73%) .NET
3 4 (2.99%) REST
4 2 (1.49%) Hugging Face
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.49%) PySpark
4 2 (1.49%) XML
5 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.75%) Middleware
5 1 (0.75%) React
5 1 (0.75%) RESTful
5 1 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.97%) Learning Management System
3 6 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.73%) Reinsurance
4 5 (3.73%) Tandem
5 4 (2.99%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.99%) Market Risk
5 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.24%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.79%) Analytics
2 48 (35.82%) Decision-Making
3 45 (33.58%) Data Modelling
4 41 (30.60%) Data Governance
5 38 (28.36%) Visualisation
6 32 (23.88%) ETL
7 31 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (17.91%) Data Visualisation
9 23 (17.16%) AI
10 22 (16.42%) Data Analysis
10 22 (16.42%) Roadmaps
11 21 (15.67%) Agile
11 21 (15.67%) CRM
11 21 (15.67%) Data Analytics
11 21 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (14.93%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (14.93%) Data Management
12 20 (14.93%) Data Strategy
12 20 (14.93%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.51%) SQL
2 27 (20.15%) Python
3 19 (14.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (11.19%) C#
5 14 (10.45%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.22%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.24%) Scala
8 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.49%) VBA
9 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (19.40%) Degree
2 19 (14.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.46%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.24%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.49%) ACCA
8 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.49%) CBAP
8 2 (1.49%) CIMA
8 2 (1.49%) MBA
8 2 (1.49%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.75%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.67%) GDPR
2 19 (14.18%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.97%) QA
4 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.48%) Terraform
2 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 54 (40.30%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.21%) Databricks
3 9 (6.72%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.97%) Intapp
4 8 (5.97%) SAP
5 7 (5.22%) Google
6 6 (4.48%) Alteryx
7 5 (3.73%) Oracle
7 5 (3.73%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.99%) Informatica
8 4 (2.99%) Okta
8 4 (2.99%) Workday
8 4 (2.99%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.49%) IBM
9 2 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Cvent
10 1 (0.75%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.75%) VMware