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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 35 39
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 0
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 92 128 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.83% 7.46% 5.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 7.76% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 65 98 102
10th Percentile £54,700 £41,250 £42,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.30% +2.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,563 £84,438
90th Percentile £94,000 £100,125 £91,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.30% -1.48% -

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 2,615 1,649 2,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.36% 96.10% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,898 1,291 1,861
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,414
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £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 4 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 64 (69.57%) Power Platform
2 37 (40.22%) Azure
3 15 (16.30%) AWS
4 13 (14.13%) Snowflake
5 12 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.78%) Power Automate
8 8 (8.70%) dbt
8 8 (8.70%) GCP
9 6 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (6.52%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (2.17%) Collibra
11 2 (2.17%) SaaS
12 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (69.57%) Power BI
2 13 (14.13%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (14.13%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.87%) Tableau
4 8 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (8.70%) Data Lake
4 8 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (5.43%) Looker
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.35%) Metadata
6 4 (4.35%) Milvus
6 4 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.17%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.17%) Power Query
7 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.09%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.09%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 4 (4.35%) MLflow
2 3 (3.26%) Git
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
General
1 44 (47.83%) Finance
2 18 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.70%) Front Office
6 6 (6.52%) Law
6 6 (6.52%) Legal
7 5 (5.43%) Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.26%) Marketing
9 2 (2.17%) Advertising
9 2 (2.17%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Aeronautics
10 1 (1.09%) Automotive
10 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (28.26%) Analyst
2 17 (18.48%) Senior
3 14 (15.22%) Data Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Business Analyst
5 9 (9.78%) Finance Manager
5 9 (9.78%) Finance Systems Manager
5 9 (9.78%) Systems Manager
6 8 (8.70%) Business Manager
6 8 (8.70%) Developer
6 8 (8.70%) Report Analyst
7 5 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 5 (5.43%) Lead
7 5 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.26%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.26%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) Terraform
2 5 (5.43%) .NET
2 5 (5.43%) Kafka
2 5 (5.43%) LangChain
2 5 (5.43%) LlamaIndex
2 5 (5.43%) PyTorch
2 5 (5.43%) scikit-learn
2 5 (5.43%) TensorFlow
3 4 (4.35%) pgvector
3 4 (4.35%) PySpark
4 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.17%) XML
4 2 (2.17%) XSLT
5 1 (1.09%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.09%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.09%) Pandas
5 1 (1.09%) React
5 1 (1.09%) REST
5 1 (1.09%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) 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%) Analytical Mindset
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%) 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 37 (40.22%) Analytics
2 26 (28.26%) AI
3 23 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 20 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
4 20 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (20.65%) Data Modelling
6 15 (16.30%) Decision-Making
7 14 (15.22%) DevOps
7 14 (15.22%) Lakehouse
8 13 (14.13%) Agile
8 13 (14.13%) CI/CD
8 13 (14.13%) Data Governance
8 13 (14.13%) Machine Learning
9 12 (13.04%) Data Management
9 12 (13.04%) ERP
10 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.87%) Data Analysis
11 10 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 60 (65.22%) SQL
2 29 (31.52%) Python
3 6 (6.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.52%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.26%) C#
6 2 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.17%) Scala
6 2 (2.17%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.17%) XPath
7 1 (1.09%) Java
7 1 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (15.22%) Degree
2 10 (10.87%) ACCA
2 10 (10.87%) CIMA
3 5 (5.43%) CFA
4 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
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 18 (19.57%) 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 20 (21.74%) 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