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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 40 36
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 109 125 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.98% 6.76% 6.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 7.07% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 68 89 120
10th Percentile £53,225 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,625 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +2.36% -2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,875
90th Percentile £101,500 £97,500 £91,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year +21.21% +2.33% -4.44%

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 2,940 1,768 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.46% 95.57% 92.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,363 1,990
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,875
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.86% -1.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 11 August 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 9 (8.26%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.92%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 77 (70.64%) Power Platform
2 46 (42.20%) Azure
3 19 (17.43%) Snowflake
4 18 (16.51%) AWS
5 14 (12.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (12.84%) dbt
6 11 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.09%) GCP
6 11 (10.09%) Power Automate
7 9 (8.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (5.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (4.59%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.83%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (1.83%) Collibra
12 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (70.64%) Power BI
2 22 (20.18%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (16.51%) SQL Server
4 15 (13.76%) Data Lake
5 12 (11.01%) Tableau
6 8 (7.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (6.42%) Looker
7 7 (6.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.50%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (5.50%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.59%) Metabase
10 3 (2.75%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.75%) Metadata
10 3 (2.75%) Power Query
10 3 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) MLflow
1 6 (5.50%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.67%) Git
3 2 (1.83%) JIRA
4 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 51 (46.79%) Finance
2 25 (22.94%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.34%) Front Office
6 6 (5.50%) Law
6 6 (5.50%) Legal
7 5 (4.59%) Banking
7 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Marketing
9 2 (1.83%) Advertising
9 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.92%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (29.36%) Analyst
2 19 (17.43%) Senior
3 14 (12.84%) Data Engineer
4 10 (9.17%) Business Analyst
5 9 (8.26%) Finance Manager
5 9 (8.26%) Finance Systems Manager
5 9 (8.26%) Systems Manager
6 8 (7.34%) Business Manager
6 8 (7.34%) Report Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Data Management Specialist
8 6 (5.50%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) IT Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Product Specialist
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Systems Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Kafka
2 7 (6.42%) LangChain
2 7 (6.42%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (6.42%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.42%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.42%) TensorFlow
3 6 (5.50%) pgvector
4 5 (4.59%) PySpark
5 3 (2.75%) .NET
6 2 (1.83%) REST
7 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.92%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.92%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.92%) jQuery
7 1 (0.92%) JSON
7 1 (0.92%) Pandas
7 1 (0.92%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
1 8 (7.34%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.50%) Clustering
2 6 (5.50%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.75%) FMCG
4 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.75%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.83%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.83%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.92%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) Life Science
6 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.28%) Analytics
2 33 (30.28%) AI
3 29 (26.61%) Data Engineering
4 26 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (22.94%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (22.02%) Data Modelling
7 22 (20.18%) Data Management
8 21 (19.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (17.43%) Decision-Making
10 16 (14.68%) Data Governance
10 16 (14.68%) ERP
11 15 (13.76%) Data Science
11 15 (13.76%) Machine Learning
11 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.84%) DevOps
13 13 (11.93%) CI/CD
13 13 (11.93%) Data Analysis
13 13 (11.93%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (11.93%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 12 (11.01%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 68 (62.39%) SQL
2 34 (31.19%) Python
3 6 (5.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.59%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.75%) R
6 3 (2.75%) Scala
7 2 (1.83%) C#
7 2 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.92%) Bicep
8 1 (0.92%) Java
8 1 (0.92%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.92%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) Degree
2 10 (9.17%) ACCA
2 10 (9.17%) CIMA
3 5 (4.59%) CFA
4 4 (3.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.83%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.92%) CISM
6 1 (0.92%) CISSP
6 1 (0.92%) CRISC
6 1 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.35%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.26%) GDPR
3 6 (5.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.83%) EMIR
4 2 (1.83%) IFRS
4 2 (1.83%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.83%) MiFID
4 2 (1.83%) PMO
4 2 (1.83%) QA
4 2 (1.83%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.92%) GRC
5 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.92%) NIST
5 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.34%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (26.61%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.35%) Databricks
3 12 (11.01%) Dell
4 11 (10.09%) SAP
5 9 (8.26%) Concur
5 9 (8.26%) Yardi
6 8 (7.34%) Informatica
7 6 (5.50%) Cloudera
7 6 (5.50%) Denodo
7 6 (5.50%) Teradata
8 5 (4.59%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle
10 1 (0.92%) eFront
10 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.92%) Planview
10 1 (0.92%) Salesforce