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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 43 39
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 -11
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 129 160 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.53% 5.55% 6.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.85% 5.95% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 102 88 203
10th Percentile £41,250 £51,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,375 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £84,688 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,375 £91,250 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £66,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.28% +3.57% +7.69%

All Process and 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 1,643 2,689 3,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.91% 93.21% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 1,842 2,914
10th Percentile £39,890 £43,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £73,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +2.74% -1.02% +1.72%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the City of London

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.88%) Moodle
3 3 (2.33%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.78%) SAS
5 1 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 14 (10.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.43%) Elite 3E
2 5 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Endur
4 1 (0.78%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 107 (82.95%) Power Platform
2 50 (38.76%) Azure
3 24 (18.60%) Power Automate
4 22 (17.05%) PowerApps
5 19 (14.73%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (10.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (10.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 12 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (7.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (6.98%) Collibra
10 7 (5.43%) GCP
10 7 (5.43%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.65%) AWS
12 4 (3.10%) dbt
12 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (3.10%) SaaS
12 4 (3.10%) Serverless
12 4 (3.10%) ShareGate
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (1.55%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) Firewall
1 5 (3.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (82.95%) Power BI
2 30 (23.26%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (14.73%) Tableau
4 18 (13.95%) SQL Server
5 13 (10.08%) Data Lake
6 11 (8.53%) Metadata
6 11 (8.53%) Power Query
6 11 (8.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (5.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.88%) IBM InfoSphere
8 5 (3.88%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.33%) Data Mining
10 3 (2.33%) Looker
11 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.55%) Data Hub
11 2 (1.55%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.55%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 7 (5.43%) JIRA
2 5 (3.88%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.55%) Git
4 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
General
1 48 (37.21%) Finance
2 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 31 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.95%) Law
5 15 (11.63%) Legal
5 15 (11.63%) Marketing
6 12 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (7.75%) Banking
7 10 (7.75%) Public Sector
8 8 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (3.88%) Front Office
10 5 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (3.10%) Advertising
11 4 (3.10%) Financial Institution
12 3 (2.33%) International Banking
12 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
12 3 (2.33%) Retail
13 2 (1.55%) Agriculture
13 2 (1.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 30 (23.26%) Analyst
2 29 (22.48%) Developer
3 19 (14.73%) Data Analyst
3 19 (14.73%) Lead
4 15 (11.63%) Architect
5 13 (10.08%) Senior
6 11 (8.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (7.75%) Power BI Developer
8 9 (6.98%) Power Platform Developer
9 8 (6.20%) Digital Transformation
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.65%) Applications Support
10 6 (4.65%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Head of Digital
10 6 (4.65%) Head of Digital Transformation
10 6 (4.65%) Head of IT
10 6 (4.65%) Junior
10 6 (4.65%) Junior Analyst
10 6 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) .NET
2 4 (3.10%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (3.10%) XML
3 2 (1.55%) REST
4 1 (0.78%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.78%) CSS
4 1 (0.78%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.78%) HTML
4 1 (0.78%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.78%) JSON
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.78%) PySpark
4 1 (0.78%) React
4 1 (0.78%) RESTful
4 1 (0.78%) SOAP
4 1 (0.78%) Spring
4 1 (0.78%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.78%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.78%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.20%) Learning Management System
2 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.65%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.88%) Tandem
4 4 (3.10%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.33%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.33%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.55%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (38.76%) Analytics
2 40 (31.01%) Decision-Making
3 39 (30.23%) Data Modelling
4 36 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (27.13%) Visualisation
6 33 (25.58%) Data Governance
7 24 (18.60%) ETL
8 23 (17.83%) Data Visualisation
9 20 (15.50%) Agile
9 20 (15.50%) Data Security
10 19 (14.73%) Business Strategy
11 18 (13.95%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (13.95%) CRM
11 18 (13.95%) Data Management
11 18 (13.95%) Roadmaps
11 18 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (13.18%) Data Analysis
12 17 (13.18%) Data Analytics
12 17 (13.18%) IT Strategy
13 16 (12.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (44.96%) SQL
2 24 (18.60%) Python
3 12 (9.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (8.53%) C#
4 11 (8.53%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.88%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.10%) Scala
8 3 (2.33%) VBA
9 2 (1.55%) Java
10 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (17.83%) Degree
2 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.10%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.78%) ACCA
6 1 (0.78%) CBAP
6 1 (0.78%) CIMA
6 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.78%) MBA
6 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.60%) GDPR
2 19 (14.73%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.20%) QA
4 7 (5.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (43.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.43%) Intapp
2 7 (5.43%) Salesforce
2 7 (5.43%) SAP
3 6 (4.65%) Alteryx
3 6 (4.65%) Databricks
3 6 (4.65%) Informatica
4 5 (3.88%) Google
4 5 (3.88%) IBM
4 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.10%) Okta
5 4 (3.10%) Oracle
5 4 (3.10%) Zscaler
6 3 (2.33%) Workday
7 2 (1.55%) VMware
8 1 (0.78%) Cvent
8 1 (0.78%) NEC
8 1 (0.78%) Nintex
8 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.78%) OpenLink