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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 47 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 -13 +6
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 130 115 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.38% 5.47% 6.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 5.70% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 77 72 174
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,300 £41,550
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,688 £53,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +9.62% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £104,875 £101,925
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +12.40% -4.44%

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 3,136 2,018 2,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.52% 95.96% 91.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,212 1,512 2,482
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 27 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 10 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.54%) Apache
4 2 (1.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.77%) Appian
Applications
1 20 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.77%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.77%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.77%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.77%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.77%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (75.38%) Power Platform
2 59 (45.38%) Azure
3 23 (17.69%) dbt
4 18 (13.85%) Snowflake
5 17 (13.08%) Power Automate
6 16 (12.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (12.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (10.77%) AWS
7 14 (10.77%) GCP
8 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.08%) Google Analytics
9 4 (3.08%) SaaS
10 3 (2.31%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.54%) Collibra
11 2 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.54%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Broadband
1 1 (0.77%) DHCP
1 1 (0.77%) DNS
1 1 (0.77%) Firewall
1 1 (0.77%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.77%) Softphone
1 1 (0.77%) VLAN
1 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (73.85%) Power BI
2 42 (32.31%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (18.46%) SQL Server
4 18 (13.85%) Data Lake
4 18 (13.85%) Tableau
5 15 (11.54%) Metabase
6 9 (6.92%) Looker
7 8 (6.15%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.38%) Star Schema
9 6 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.62%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.85%) Power Query
11 3 (2.31%) Big Data
11 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.54%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.54%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (11.54%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.62%) MLflow
3 2 (1.54%) JIRA
4 1 (0.77%) Git
4 1 (0.77%) Selenium
General
1 59 (45.38%) Finance
2 44 (33.85%) Social Skills
3 40 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.15%) Marketing
6 6 (4.62%) Banking
6 6 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.62%) Legal
7 5 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.85%) Law
8 4 (3.08%) Front Office
8 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.77%) Automotive
11 1 (0.77%) Back Office
11 1 (0.77%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (33.08%) Analyst
2 27 (20.77%) Senior
3 17 (13.08%) IT Analyst
3 17 (13.08%) Support Analyst
4 16 (12.31%) Financial Analyst
4 16 (12.31%) IT Support
4 16 (12.31%) IT Support Analyst
5 15 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 15 (11.54%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 15 (11.54%) Systems Analyst
5 15 (11.54%) Systems Support
5 15 (11.54%) Systems Support Analyst
6 13 (10.00%) Lead
7 10 (7.69%) Data Analyst
8 9 (6.92%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) Architect
10 7 (5.38%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.62%) Developer
11 6 (4.62%) Report Analyst
11 6 (4.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.38%) Kafka
2 6 (4.62%) LangChain
2 6 (4.62%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (4.62%) pgvector
2 6 (4.62%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.62%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.62%) TensorFlow
3 5 (3.85%) PySpark
4 3 (2.31%) .NET
5 2 (1.54%) REST
6 1 (0.77%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.77%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.77%) CSS
6 1 (0.77%) HTML
6 1 (0.77%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.77%) JSON
6 1 (0.77%) MDX
6 1 (0.77%) Node.js
6 1 (0.77%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.62%) Clustering
3 6 (4.62%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.31%) Derivative
5 3 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.54%) ASIC
6 2 (1.54%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (1.54%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.77%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.77%) DTCC
7 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.77%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.77%) Android
2 1 (0.77%) Windows
2 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (50.00%) Analytics
2 44 (33.85%) Data Modelling
3 43 (33.08%) Decision-Making
4 39 (30.00%) AI
4 39 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 38 (29.23%) Data Management
5 38 (29.23%) Data Pipeline
6 31 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (23.08%) Data Analysis
8 29 (22.31%) Data Governance
8 29 (22.31%) ETL
8 29 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (19.23%) Data Science
10 24 (18.46%) Visualisation
11 19 (14.62%) Actionable Insight
11 19 (14.62%) Use Case
12 18 (13.85%) Agile
12 18 (13.85%) ERP
12 18 (13.85%) Machine Learning
13 15 (11.54%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 76 (58.46%) SQL
2 41 (31.54%) Python
3 13 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.08%) R
5 3 (2.31%) C#
5 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.54%) Java
6 2 (1.54%) Scala
6 2 (1.54%) VBA
7 1 (0.77%) Bicep
7 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.77%) Ruby
7 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.08%) Degree
2 5 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.54%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (0.77%) ACCA
5 1 (0.77%) CFA
5 1 (0.77%) CIMA
5 1 (0.77%) CISM
5 1 (0.77%) CISSP
5 1 (0.77%) CRISC
5 1 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.77%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.77%) GDPR
3 8 (6.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.08%) EMIR
4 4 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.08%) MiFID
5 3 (2.31%) PMO
6 2 (1.54%) GRC
6 2 (1.54%) QA
7 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.77%) IFRS
7 1 (0.77%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.77%) NIST
7 1 (0.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.77%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.77%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.77%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.54%) Terraform
2 1 (0.77%) Argo
2 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (36.15%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.54%) Databricks
3 12 (9.23%) Dell
4 9 (6.92%) Informatica
5 7 (5.38%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.62%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.62%) Denodo
6 6 (4.62%) Google
6 6 (4.62%) Teradata
7 4 (3.08%) SAP
8 3 (2.31%) Oracle
8 3 (2.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.54%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.77%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.77%) Concur
10 1 (0.77%) eFront
10 1 (0.77%) iManage
10 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.77%) Workday