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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 41 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 126 119 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.07% 5.91% 6.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 6.15% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 75 80 167
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,250 £42,400
25th Percentile £60,625 £52,188 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,563 £87,000
90th Percentile £104,000 £103,875 £105,650
Central London median annual salary £71,121 £68,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.21% +5.00% -3.70%

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 3,304 1,936 2,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.43% 96.08% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,390 1,469 2,423
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 15 May 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 10 (7.94%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Appian
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (12.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.79%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 92 (73.02%) Power Platform
2 53 (42.06%) Azure
3 20 (15.87%) dbt
4 18 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 15 (11.90%) AWS
5 15 (11.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (11.90%) Power Automate
6 13 (10.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (9.52%) GCP
8 6 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.17%) Google Analytics
10 4 (3.17%) SaaS
11 3 (2.38%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.38%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.59%) Collibra
12 2 (1.59%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) Broadband
1 1 (0.79%) DHCP
1 1 (0.79%) DNS
1 1 (0.79%) Firewall
1 1 (0.79%) Intranet
1 1 (0.79%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.79%) Softphone
1 1 (0.79%) VLAN
1 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (71.43%) Power BI
2 36 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 18 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 16 (12.70%) Tableau
6 13 (10.32%) Metabase
7 9 (7.14%) Looker
8 7 (5.56%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (4.76%) Star Schema
10 5 (3.97%) Power Query
11 3 (2.38%) Big Data
12 2 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.59%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (10.32%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.76%) MLflow
3 1 (0.79%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) JIRA
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.79%) Selenium
General
1 59 (46.83%) Finance
2 39 (30.95%) Social Skills
3 35 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.73%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.76%) Banking
6 6 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.76%) Front Office
6 6 (4.76%) Marketing
7 5 (3.97%) Law
7 5 (3.97%) Legal
8 4 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.79%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.79%) Automotive
11 1 (0.79%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (37.30%) Analyst
2 27 (21.43%) Senior
3 15 (11.90%) IT Analyst
4 14 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
4 14 (11.11%) IT Support
4 14 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
4 14 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 13 (10.32%) Data Engineer
5 13 (10.32%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 13 (10.32%) Systems Analyst
5 13 (10.32%) Systems Support
5 13 (10.32%) Systems Support Analyst
6 10 (7.94%) Data Analyst
7 9 (7.14%) Lead
7 9 (7.14%) Report Analyst
7 9 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Architect
9 7 (5.56%) Business Analyst
9 7 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) Kafka
2 6 (4.76%) LangChain
2 6 (4.76%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (4.76%) pgvector
2 6 (4.76%) PySpark
2 6 (4.76%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.76%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.76%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.38%) .NET
4 2 (1.59%) REST
5 1 (0.79%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.79%) JSON
5 1 (0.79%) MDX
5 1 (0.79%) Pandas
5 1 (0.79%) Playwright
5 1 (0.79%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.76%) Clustering
3 6 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.38%) Derivative
6 3 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.59%) ASIC
7 2 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.59%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (1.59%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.79%) DTCC
8 1 (0.79%) Life Science
8 1 (0.79%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.79%) Android
2 1 (0.79%) Windows
2 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (49.21%) Analytics
2 40 (31.75%) AI
3 39 (30.95%) Decision-Making
4 38 (30.16%) Data Modelling
5 35 (27.78%) Data Management
6 33 (26.19%) Data Engineering
7 32 (25.40%) Data Pipeline
8 28 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (20.63%) Data Governance
10 24 (19.05%) Data Analysis
11 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (17.46%) Data Science
12 22 (17.46%) ETL
13 19 (15.08%) Machine Learning
14 18 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
14 18 (14.29%) Use Case
15 17 (13.49%) ERP
15 17 (13.49%) Visualisation
16 15 (11.90%) Agile
16 15 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 71 (56.35%) SQL
2 40 (31.75%) Python
3 10 (7.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.17%) R
5 2 (1.59%) C#
5 2 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.59%) Scala
5 2 (1.59%) VBA
6 1 (0.79%) Bicep
6 1 (0.79%) Java
6 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (2.38%) CFA
3 2 (1.59%) ACCA
3 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.59%) CIMA
3 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.59%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) CISM
4 1 (0.79%) CISSP
4 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.79%) CRISC
4 1 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.79%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.02%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.11%) GDPR
3 8 (6.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.17%) EMIR
4 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.17%) MiFID
5 3 (2.38%) PMO
6 2 (1.59%) GRC
6 2 (1.59%) QA
7 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.79%) IFRS
7 1 (0.79%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.79%) NIST
7 1 (0.79%) SLA
7 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.79%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.79%) Docker
1 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 26 (20.63%) Databricks
3 12 (9.52%) Dell
4 8 (6.35%) Informatica
5 6 (4.76%) Cloudera
5 6 (4.76%) Denodo
5 6 (4.76%) Teradata
6 5 (3.97%) Google
6 5 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.97%) SAP
7 4 (3.17%) Oracle
8 2 (1.59%) Concur
8 2 (1.59%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.59%) Yardi
9 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.79%) eFront
9 1 (0.79%) iManage
9 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Workday