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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 32 42
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 92 130 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.98% 7.56% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 7.88% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 65 102 88
10th Percentile £54,700 £41,250 £51,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -5.36% +0.36%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £105,375 £91,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +20.30% -8.28% +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 2,485 1,650 2,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.42% 95.99% 93.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,801 1,308 1,830
10th Percentile £46,750 £39,835 £43,463
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% -1.02%

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 16 September 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 6 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.09%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 66 (71.74%) Power Platform
2 39 (42.39%) Azure
3 15 (16.30%) AWS
4 13 (14.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (14.13%) Snowflake
5 11 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.70%) GCP
6 8 (8.70%) Power Automate
7 6 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.52%) dbt
7 6 (6.52%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.17%) Collibra
10 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.17%) SaaS
11 1 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (71.74%) Power BI
2 13 (14.13%) SQL Server
3 12 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (10.87%) Tableau
5 9 (9.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (9.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (8.70%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.43%) Looker
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (4.35%) BigQuery
8 4 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (4.35%) Metadata
8 4 (4.35%) Milvus
8 4 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.17%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.17%) Power Query
11 1 (1.09%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (4.35%) MLflow
2 3 (3.26%) Git
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (50.00%) Finance
2 17 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.78%) Front Office
6 6 (6.52%) Law
6 6 (6.52%) Legal
7 5 (5.43%) Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.17%) Advertising
9 2 (2.17%) Marketing
9 2 (2.17%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Aeronautics
10 1 (1.09%) Automotive
10 1 (1.09%) Legal Technology
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.09%) Publishing
10 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (28.26%) Analyst
2 17 (18.48%) Senior
3 13 (14.13%) Data Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Business Analyst
5 9 (9.78%) Business Manager
5 9 (9.78%) Developer
5 9 (9.78%) Finance Manager
5 9 (9.78%) Finance Systems Manager
5 9 (9.78%) Systems Manager
6 8 (8.70%) Report Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Lead
8 5 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 4 (4.35%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.26%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) .NET
3 5 (5.43%) Kafka
3 5 (5.43%) LangChain
3 5 (5.43%) LlamaIndex
3 5 (5.43%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.43%) scikit-learn
3 5 (5.43%) TensorFlow
4 4 (4.35%) pgvector
4 4 (4.35%) PySpark
5 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.17%) XML
5 2 (2.17%) XSLT
6 1 (1.09%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.09%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.09%) jQuery
6 1 (1.09%) React
6 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.35%) Clustering
3 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.26%) FMCG
4 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.26%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.17%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.17%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.09%) Life Science
6 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.13%) Analytics
2 27 (29.35%) AI
3 24 (26.09%) Data Engineering
4 22 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (22.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (19.57%) Data Modelling
6 18 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
7 15 (16.30%) Decision-Making
7 15 (16.30%) DevOps
8 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
8 14 (15.22%) Lakehouse
9 13 (14.13%) Agile
9 13 (14.13%) Data Governance
9 13 (14.13%) Machine Learning
10 11 (11.96%) Data Management
10 11 (11.96%) ERP
10 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (9.78%) Asset Management
12 9 (9.78%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 60 (65.22%) SQL
2 30 (32.61%) Python
3 6 (6.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.52%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.35%) C#
4 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.17%) Scala
5 2 (2.17%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.17%) XPath
6 1 (1.09%) Bicep
6 1 (1.09%) Java
6 1 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) Degree
2 10 (10.87%) ACCA
2 10 (10.87%) CIMA
3 6 (6.52%) CFA
4 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.09%) CISM
6 1 (1.09%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) CRISC
6 1 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.65%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.70%) GDPR
3 4 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.26%) QA
5 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.17%) EMIR
5 2 (2.17%) IFRS
5 2 (2.17%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.17%) MiFID
5 2 (2.17%) PMO
5 2 (2.17%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.09%) GRC
6 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.09%) NIST
6 1 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.22%) Databricks
3 11 (11.96%) SAP
4 9 (9.78%) Concur
4 9 (9.78%) Yardi
5 7 (7.61%) Dell
6 5 (5.43%) Informatica
7 4 (4.35%) Alteryx
7 4 (4.35%) Cloudera
8 3 (3.26%) Denodo
8 3 (3.26%) Teradata
9 1 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.09%) Oracle
9 1 (1.09%) Planview