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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 43 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 135 118 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.70% 5.60% 6.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 5.84% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 81 77 175
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,550 £41,650
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -1.89%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £103,000 £108,600
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +12.40% -7.86%

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 3,002 2,021 2,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 82.34% 95.92% 92.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,109 1,511 2,496
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,000 £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 £97,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%

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 17 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 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.22%) Apache
4 3 (2.22%) Confluence
5 1 (0.74%) Appian
Applications
1 23 (17.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.48%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.74%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.74%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 101 (74.81%) Power Platform
2 59 (43.70%) Azure
3 24 (17.78%) dbt
4 20 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.59%) Power Automate
6 16 (11.85%) AWS
6 16 (11.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (11.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (11.11%) GCP
8 8 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.96%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.96%) SaaS
11 3 (2.22%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.22%) Fivetran
11 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.22%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.48%) Collibra
12 2 (1.48%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) Broadband
1 1 (0.74%) DHCP
1 1 (0.74%) DNS
1 1 (0.74%) Firewall
1 1 (0.74%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.74%) Softphone
1 1 (0.74%) VLAN
1 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (73.33%) Power BI
2 46 (34.07%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (19.26%) SQL Server
4 20 (14.81%) Data Lake
4 20 (14.81%) Tableau
5 15 (11.11%) Metabase
6 9 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.67%) Looker
7 8 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (5.19%) Star Schema
9 6 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.70%) Metadata
10 5 (3.70%) Power Query
11 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (2.22%) Big Data
12 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 2 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.48%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.48%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 15 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.44%) MLflow
3 3 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (0.74%) Git
4 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 61 (45.19%) Finance
2 46 (34.07%) Social Skills
3 41 (30.37%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.63%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.93%) Marketing
7 7 (5.19%) Law
7 7 (5.19%) Legal
8 6 (4.44%) Banking
9 5 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.96%) Front Office
10 4 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.48%) Advertising
12 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.74%) Automotive
13 1 (0.74%) Back Office
13 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (34.07%) Analyst
2 27 (20.00%) Senior
3 18 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 17 (12.59%) IT Analyst
5 16 (11.85%) Financial Analyst
5 16 (11.85%) IT Support
5 16 (11.85%) IT Support Analyst
6 15 (11.11%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 15 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
6 15 (11.11%) Systems Support
6 15 (11.11%) Systems Support Analyst
7 13 (9.63%) Data Engineer
8 12 (8.89%) Data Analyst
8 12 (8.89%) Lead
9 9 (6.67%) Architect
10 8 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Data Architect
11 7 (5.19%) Developer
11 7 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (4.44%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.19%) Kafka
2 6 (4.44%) LangChain
2 6 (4.44%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (4.44%) pgvector
2 6 (4.44%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.44%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.44%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.22%) .NET
3 3 (2.22%) PySpark
4 2 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.48%) REST
5 1 (0.74%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.74%) JSON
5 1 (0.74%) Node.js
5 1 (0.74%) Pandas
5 1 (0.74%) Playwright
5 1 (0.74%) React
5 1 (0.74%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.44%) Clustering
3 6 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.22%) Derivative
5 3 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.48%) ASIC
6 2 (1.48%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (1.48%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.74%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.74%) DTCC
7 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.74%) Android
2 1 (0.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.63%) Analytics
2 46 (34.07%) Data Modelling
3 45 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 40 (29.63%) AI
5 39 (28.89%) Data Management
5 39 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
6 38 (28.15%) Data Engineering
7 33 (24.44%) Data Governance
7 33 (24.44%) ETL
8 32 (23.70%) Data Analysis
9 31 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (19.26%) Visualisation
11 25 (18.52%) Data Science
12 22 (16.30%) Agile
13 21 (15.56%) Actionable Insight
13 21 (15.56%) Use Case
14 19 (14.07%) Machine Learning
15 18 (13.33%) ERP
16 16 (11.85%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 77 (57.04%) SQL
2 39 (28.89%) Python
3 13 (9.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.96%) C#
4 4 (2.96%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.96%) R
5 2 (1.48%) Java
5 2 (1.48%) Scala
5 2 (1.48%) VBA
6 1 (0.74%) Bicep
6 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) Degree
2 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.22%) SnowPro
4 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.48%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (0.74%) ACCA
5 1 (0.74%) CFA
5 1 (0.74%) CIMA
5 1 (0.74%) CISM
5 1 (0.74%) CISSP
5 1 (0.74%) CRISC
5 1 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.96%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.11%) GDPR
3 8 (5.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.96%) EMIR
4 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.96%) MiFID
5 3 (2.22%) PMO
6 2 (1.48%) GRC
6 2 (1.48%) QA
7 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.74%) IFRS
7 1 (0.74%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.74%) NIST
7 1 (0.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.74%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.74%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.74%) Docker
1 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.96%) Terraform
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.74%) Argo
3 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (34.81%) Microsoft
2 28 (20.74%) Databricks
3 12 (8.89%) Dell
4 10 (7.41%) Informatica
5 7 (5.19%) Google
5 7 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.44%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.44%) Denodo
6 6 (4.44%) Teradata
7 4 (2.96%) SAP
8 3 (2.22%) Oracle
8 3 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.48%) Workday
10 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.74%) Concur
10 1 (0.74%) eFront
10 1 (0.74%) iManage
10 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.74%) Red Hat