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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 44 33
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 +6
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 133 121 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.58% 5.73% 6.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 5.98% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 79 78 174
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,600 £41,550
25th Percentile £60,625 £56,250 £53,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +7.55% +1.92%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,688 £87,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,875 £109,575
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -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 3,052 2,024 2,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 82.11% 95.92% 92.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,143 1,510 2,487
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% -2.67%

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 20 April 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 11 (8.27%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.26%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.75%) Appian
Applications
1 22 (16.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.75%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.75%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 99 (74.44%) Power Platform
2 58 (43.61%) Azure
3 24 (18.05%) dbt
4 20 (15.04%) Snowflake
5 16 (12.03%) AWS
5 16 (12.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (12.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (12.03%) Power Automate
6 14 (10.53%) GCP
7 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.01%) Google Analytics
9 4 (3.01%) SaaS
10 3 (2.26%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.26%) Fivetran
10 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.50%) Collibra
11 2 (1.50%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) Broadband
1 1 (0.75%) DHCP
1 1 (0.75%) DNS
1 1 (0.75%) Firewall
1 1 (0.75%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.75%) Softphone
1 1 (0.75%) VLAN
1 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (72.93%) Power BI
2 45 (33.83%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (18.80%) SQL Server
4 20 (15.04%) Data Lake
5 19 (14.29%) Tableau
6 15 (11.28%) Metabase
7 9 (6.77%) Looker
8 8 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.02%) BigQuery
9 7 (5.26%) Star Schema
10 6 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (4.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (3.76%) Metadata
11 5 (3.76%) Power Query
12 3 (2.26%) Big Data
12 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (1.50%) Data Mining
13 2 (1.50%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (11.28%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.51%) MLflow
3 2 (1.50%) JIRA
4 1 (0.75%) Git
4 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 60 (45.11%) Finance
2 45 (33.83%) Social Skills
3 41 (30.83%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.77%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.02%) Marketing
6 6 (4.51%) Banking
6 6 (4.51%) Law
6 6 (4.51%) Legal
7 5 (3.76%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.01%) Front Office
8 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.75%) Automotive
11 1 (0.75%) Back Office
11 1 (0.75%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (34.59%) Analyst
2 26 (19.55%) Senior
3 17 (12.78%) IT Analyst
3 17 (12.78%) Support Analyst
4 16 (12.03%) Financial Analyst
4 16 (12.03%) IT Support
4 16 (12.03%) IT Support Analyst
5 15 (11.28%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 15 (11.28%) Systems Analyst
5 15 (11.28%) Systems Support
5 15 (11.28%) Systems Support Analyst
6 13 (9.77%) Data Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Data Analyst
7 12 (9.02%) Lead
8 9 (6.77%) Architect
9 8 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Data Architect
10 7 (5.26%) Report Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) Kafka
2 6 (4.51%) LangChain
2 6 (4.51%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (4.51%) pgvector
2 6 (4.51%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.51%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.51%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.26%) .NET
3 3 (2.26%) PySpark
4 2 (1.50%) REST
5 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.75%) CSS
5 1 (0.75%) HTML
5 1 (0.75%) JSON
5 1 (0.75%) MDX
5 1 (0.75%) Node.js
5 1 (0.75%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.02%) Analytical Mindset
1 12 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.51%) Clustering
2 6 (4.51%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.26%) Derivative
4 3 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.50%) ASIC
5 2 (1.50%) OTC Derivatives
5 2 (1.50%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.75%) DTCC
6 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Life Science
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.75%) Android
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (49.62%) Analytics
2 45 (33.83%) Data Modelling
3 44 (33.08%) Decision-Making
4 39 (29.32%) AI
4 39 (29.32%) Data Pipeline
5 38 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 38 (28.57%) Data Management
6 33 (24.81%) Data Governance
7 32 (24.06%) ETL
8 31 (23.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (23.31%) Data Analysis
9 30 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (18.80%) Data Science
11 24 (18.05%) Visualisation
12 22 (16.54%) Agile
13 21 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
13 21 (15.79%) Use Case
14 19 (14.29%) Machine Learning
15 18 (13.53%) ERP
16 16 (12.03%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 75 (56.39%) SQL
2 38 (28.57%) Python
3 13 (9.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.01%) R
5 3 (2.26%) C#
5 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.50%) Java
6 2 (1.50%) Scala
6 2 (1.50%) VBA
7 1 (0.75%) Bicep
7 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (13.53%) Degree
2 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.01%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.26%) SnowPro
4 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (0.75%) ACCA
5 1 (0.75%) CFA
5 1 (0.75%) CIMA
5 1 (0.75%) CISM
5 1 (0.75%) CISSP
5 1 (0.75%) CRISC
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.31%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.28%) GDPR
3 8 (6.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.01%) EMIR
4 4 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.01%) MiFID
5 3 (2.26%) PMO
6 2 (1.50%) GRC
6 2 (1.50%) QA
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.75%) IFRS
7 1 (0.75%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.75%) NIST
7 1 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.75%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.75%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
1 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) Terraform
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.75%) Argo
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (33.83%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.05%) Databricks
3 12 (9.02%) Dell
4 9 (6.77%) Informatica
5 7 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.51%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.51%) Denodo
6 6 (4.51%) Google
6 6 (4.51%) Teradata
7 4 (3.01%) SAP
8 3 (2.26%) Oracle
8 3 (2.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.50%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.50%) Workday
10 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.75%) Concur
10 1 (0.75%) eFront
10 1 (0.75%) iManage
10 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.75%) Red Hat