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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 30 41
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 82 131 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.99% 7.87% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 8.20% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 63 107 73
10th Percentile £54,225 £41,250 £47,800
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -8.97% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,375 £84,500
90th Percentile - £108,750 £94,250
Central London median annual salary £79,400 £66,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +20.30% -8.97% +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 2,221 1,597 2,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.00% 95.92% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,628 1,274 1,752
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,300 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,638 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +0.67% +2.76%

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 5 October 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 4 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (79.27%) Power Platform
2 36 (43.90%) Azure
3 13 (15.85%) AWS
3 13 (15.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (12.20%) Power Automate
5 8 (9.76%) PowerApps
5 8 (9.76%) Snowflake
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (6.10%) dbt
7 5 (6.10%) SaaS
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.66%) GCP
9 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (76.83%) Power BI
2 18 (21.95%) SQL Server
3 12 (14.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (10.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (7.32%) Tableau
7 3 (3.66%) Metadata
7 3 (3.66%) OLTP
7 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.66%) SSDT
8 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.22%) Looker
8 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.22%) Power Query
8 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Git
2 5 (6.10%) JIRA
3 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (53.66%) Finance
2 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.76%) Front Office
5 8 (9.76%) Law
6 7 (8.54%) Legal
7 4 (4.88%) Banking
8 3 (3.66%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.44%) Advertising
9 2 (2.44%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.22%) Legal Technology
10 1 (1.22%) Marketing
10 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Analyst
2 15 (18.29%) Senior
3 14 (17.07%) Developer
4 13 (15.85%) Data Engineer
5 11 (13.41%) Business Analyst
6 9 (10.98%) Business Manager
6 9 (10.98%) Finance Manager
6 9 (10.98%) Finance Systems Manager
6 9 (10.98%) Systems Manager
7 6 (7.32%) Report Analyst
8 5 (6.10%) Lead
8 5 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 3 (3.66%) Database Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.66%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.66%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) Terraform
2 6 (7.32%) .NET
3 4 (4.88%) PySpark
4 2 (2.44%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.44%) XML
4 2 (2.44%) XSLT
5 1 (1.22%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.22%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.22%) jQuery
5 1 (1.22%) Kafka
5 1 (1.22%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.22%) React
5 1 (1.22%) REST
5 1 (1.22%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.22%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.66%) FMCG
3 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.44%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.44%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.22%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.22%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.37%) Analytics
2 22 (26.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (23.17%) AI
3 19 (23.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (20.73%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (19.51%) Data Modelling
6 15 (18.29%) Data Engineering
7 14 (17.07%) Agile
7 14 (17.07%) DevOps
8 13 (15.85%) CI/CD
9 10 (12.20%) Decision-Making
9 10 (12.20%) ERP
9 10 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.98%) Asset Management
10 9 (10.98%) Business Analysis
10 9 (10.98%) Data Analysis
10 9 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (9.76%) Data Governance
12 7 (8.54%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 58 (70.73%) SQL
2 27 (32.93%) Python
3 11 (13.41%) T-SQL
4 7 (8.54%) C#
5 6 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.44%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.44%) XPath
9 1 (1.22%) Bicep
9 1 (1.22%) Java
9 1 (1.22%) R
9 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (13.41%) Degree
2 10 (12.20%) ACCA
2 10 (12.20%) CIMA
3 6 (7.32%) CFA
4 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.44%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.22%) CISM
6 1 (1.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) CRISC
6 1 (1.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.66%) GDPR
2 3 (3.66%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.22%) EMIR
4 1 (1.22%) GRC
4 1 (1.22%) IFRS
4 1 (1.22%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.22%) MiFID
4 1 (1.22%) NIST
4 1 (1.22%) PMO
4 1 (1.22%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) SQL Sentry
2 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.20%) SAP
3 9 (10.98%) Concur
3 9 (10.98%) Yardi
4 8 (9.76%) Databricks
5 4 (4.88%) Alteryx
6 3 (3.66%) RedGate
7 1 (1.22%) Informatica
7 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle
7 1 (1.22%) Planview