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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 28 43
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 -2
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 80 131 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.02% 7.89% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 8.23% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 61 107 72
10th Percentile £56,125 £41,250 £47,525
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,000 £55,938
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 £85,000 £84,625
90th Percentile - £113,500 £94,625
Central London median annual salary £79,700 £66,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +20.76% -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 2,148 1,591 2,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.21% 95.84% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 1,272 1,737
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%

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 8 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 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (81.25%) Power Platform
2 34 (42.50%) Azure
3 13 (16.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (13.75%) AWS
5 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (12.50%) Power Automate
6 8 (10.00%) PowerApps
6 8 (10.00%) Snowflake
7 6 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (6.25%) dbt
8 5 (6.25%) SaaS
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (1.25%) Azure AI
12 1 (1.25%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (78.75%) Power BI
2 18 (22.50%) SQL Server
3 12 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (11.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (7.50%) Tableau
7 3 (3.75%) Metadata
7 3 (3.75%) OLTP
7 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.75%) SSDT
8 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.25%) Looker
8 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.25%) Power Query
8 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (53.75%) Finance
2 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (10.00%) Front Office
5 8 (10.00%) Law
6 7 (8.75%) Legal
7 4 (5.00%) Banking
8 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.50%) Advertising
9 2 (2.50%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.25%) Legal Technology
10 1 (1.25%) Marketing
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Analyst
2 15 (18.75%) Senior
3 14 (17.50%) Developer
4 13 (16.25%) Data Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Business Analyst
6 9 (11.25%) Business Manager
6 9 (11.25%) Finance Manager
6 9 (11.25%) Finance Systems Manager
6 9 (11.25%) Systems Manager
7 6 (7.50%) Report Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Lead
8 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Database Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Terraform
2 6 (7.50%) .NET
3 4 (5.00%) PySpark
4 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.50%) XML
4 2 (2.50%) XSLT
5 1 (1.25%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.25%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.25%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.25%) jQuery
5 1 (1.25%) Kafka
5 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.25%) React
5 1 (1.25%) REST
5 1 (1.25%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.75%) FMCG
3 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.50%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) Analytics
2 22 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (23.75%) AI
4 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 16 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (17.50%) Data Engineering
6 14 (17.50%) DevOps
7 13 (16.25%) Agile
7 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
8 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 10 (12.50%) ERP
8 10 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (11.25%) Asset Management
9 9 (11.25%) Data Analysis
9 9 (11.25%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (10.00%) Business Analysis
11 7 (8.75%) Data Architecture
11 7 (8.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 57 (71.25%) SQL
2 27 (33.75%) Python
3 11 (13.75%) T-SQL
4 7 (8.75%) C#
5 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.50%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.50%) XPath
9 1 (1.25%) Bicep
9 1 (1.25%) Java
9 1 (1.25%) R
9 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Degree
2 10 (12.50%) ACCA
2 10 (12.50%) CIMA
3 6 (7.50%) CFA
4 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) CISSP
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) CRISC
6 1 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) GDPR
2 3 (3.75%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.25%) EMIR
4 1 (1.25%) GRC
4 1 (1.25%) IFRS
4 1 (1.25%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) MiFID
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) PMO
4 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) SQL Sentry
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) SAP
3 9 (11.25%) Concur
3 9 (11.25%) Yardi
4 8 (10.00%) Databricks
5 4 (5.00%) Alteryx
6 3 (3.75%) RedGate
7 1 (1.25%) Informatica
7 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle
7 1 (1.25%) Planview