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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 41 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 110 125 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.89% 6.59% 6.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 6.88% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 69 88 127
10th Percentile £51,350 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £64,250 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% +0.39% -1.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,313 £84,375
90th Percentile £105,500 £97,500 £92,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £66,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year +21.21% +2.33% -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 3,052 1,818 2,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.29% 95.79% 91.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,233 1,400 2,056
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
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 £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £115,000
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 30 July 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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) Appian
4 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.91%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (71.82%) Power Platform
2 46 (41.82%) Azure
3 19 (17.27%) Snowflake
4 17 (15.45%) AWS
5 16 (14.55%) dbt
6 13 (11.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (10.91%) Power Automate
8 11 (10.00%) GCP
9 10 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (7.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (3.64%) PowerApps
14 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (2.73%) OneDrive
15 2 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
15 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
15 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
16 1 (0.91%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) Broadband
1 1 (0.91%) DHCP
1 1 (0.91%) DNS
1 1 (0.91%) Firewall
1 1 (0.91%) Intranet
1 1 (0.91%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.91%) Softphone
1 1 (0.91%) VLAN
1 1 (0.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (71.82%) Power BI
2 24 (21.82%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (16.36%) SQL Server
4 15 (13.64%) Data Lake
5 13 (11.82%) Tableau
6 7 (6.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (6.36%) BigQuery
6 7 (6.36%) Looker
6 7 (6.36%) Metabase
7 6 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (5.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.73%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.73%) Power Query
9 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.73%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.82%) Big Data
10 2 (1.82%) Metadata
10 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.45%) MLflow
3 4 (3.64%) Git
4 2 (1.82%) JIRA
5 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 49 (44.55%) Finance
2 28 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.36%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (6.36%) Front Office
4 7 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.55%) Banking
5 5 (4.55%) Legal
6 4 (3.64%) Law
7 3 (2.73%) Marketing
8 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Advertising
9 1 (0.91%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.91%) Automotive
9 1 (0.91%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (29.09%) Analyst
2 19 (17.27%) Senior
3 15 (13.64%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.18%) Finance Manager
4 9 (8.18%) Finance Systems Manager
4 9 (8.18%) IT Analyst
4 9 (8.18%) Systems Manager
5 8 (7.27%) Business Analyst
5 8 (7.27%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 8 (7.27%) Financial Analyst
5 8 (7.27%) IT Support
5 8 (7.27%) IT Support Analyst
5 8 (7.27%) Report Analyst
5 8 (7.27%) Support Analyst
5 8 (7.27%) Systems Analyst
6 7 (6.36%) Architect
6 7 (6.36%) Business Manager
6 7 (6.36%) Systems Support
6 7 (6.36%) Systems Support Analyst
7 6 (5.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) Kafka
2 7 (6.36%) LangChain
2 7 (6.36%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (6.36%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.36%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.36%) TensorFlow
3 6 (5.45%) pgvector
3 6 (5.45%) PySpark
4 2 (1.82%) REST
5 1 (0.91%) .NET
5 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.91%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.91%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.91%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.91%) jQuery
5 1 (0.91%) JSON
5 1 (0.91%) Playwright
5 1 (0.91%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.91%) Web Services
5 1 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (5.45%) Clustering
2 6 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.45%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.73%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.73%) FMCG
3 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.82%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.91%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.91%) Derivative
5 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.91%) iPhone
5 1 (0.91%) Life Science
5 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.91%) Windows
1 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.09%) Analytics
2 31 (28.18%) AI
3 30 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 28 (25.45%) Data Pipeline
5 27 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (22.73%) Data Management
7 24 (21.82%) Data Modelling
8 18 (16.36%) Data Science
8 18 (16.36%) ERP
8 18 (16.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (15.45%) Decision-Making
10 16 (14.55%) Data Governance
10 16 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.64%) Machine Learning
12 14 (12.73%) DevOps
13 13 (11.82%) CI/CD
13 13 (11.82%) Data Analysis
13 13 (11.82%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (11.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 13 (11.82%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 68 (61.82%) SQL
2 31 (28.18%) Python
3 7 (6.36%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.64%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.73%) R
6 3 (2.73%) Scala
7 2 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.91%) Bicep
8 1 (0.91%) C#
8 1 (0.91%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (16.36%) Degree
2 10 (9.09%) ACCA
2 10 (9.09%) CIMA
3 4 (3.64%) CFA
3 4 (3.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.82%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.91%) CISM
5 1 (0.91%) CISSP
5 1 (0.91%) CRISC
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.91%) PMP
5 1 (0.91%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.27%) GDPR
3 6 (5.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.82%) EMIR
4 2 (1.82%) MiFID
4 2 (1.82%) PMO
5 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.91%) GRC
5 1 (0.91%) IFRS
5 1 (0.91%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.91%) NIST
5 1 (0.91%) QA
5 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.91%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.91%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) Terraform
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.09%) Databricks
3 12 (10.91%) Dell
4 10 (9.09%) SAP
5 9 (8.18%) Concur
5 9 (8.18%) Yardi
6 7 (6.36%) Informatica
7 6 (5.45%) Cloudera
7 6 (5.45%) Denodo
7 6 (5.45%) Teradata
8 5 (4.55%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle
9 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.91%) Bomgar
10 1 (0.91%) eFront
10 1 (0.91%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.91%) iManage
10 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.91%) Pega
10 1 (0.91%) Planview