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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 36 36
Rank change year-on-year -23 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 113 121 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.72% 6.30% 6.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 6.54% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 65 82 160
10th Percentile £50,050 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £63,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.56% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,938 £87,125
90th Percentile £106,500 £102,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year +18.52% +1.89% -1.85%

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 3,341 1,851 2,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.33% 96.31% 91.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,414 1,401 2,381
10th Percentile £45,375 £41,750 £41,315
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £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 30 May 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 9 (7.96%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Appian
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (11.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.88%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.88%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 81 (71.68%) Power Platform
2 48 (42.48%) Azure
3 18 (15.93%) dbt
4 16 (14.16%) Snowflake
5 14 (12.39%) AWS
6 12 (10.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (10.62%) Power Automate
7 11 (9.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (9.73%) GCP
8 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.54%) SaaS
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.65%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.77%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.77%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Broadband
1 1 (0.88%) DHCP
1 1 (0.88%) DNS
1 1 (0.88%) Firewall
1 1 (0.88%) Intranet
1 1 (0.88%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.88%) Softphone
1 1 (0.88%) VLAN
1 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (69.91%) Power BI
2 32 (28.32%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (18.58%) SQL Server
4 18 (15.93%) Data Lake
5 14 (12.39%) Tableau
6 11 (9.73%) Metabase
7 8 (7.08%) Looker
8 7 (6.19%) BigQuery
9 6 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (5.31%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (5.31%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.65%) Power Query
11 2 (1.77%) Big Data
11 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.77%) Metadata
11 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.73%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.31%) MLflow
3 2 (1.77%) JIRA
4 1 (0.88%) Git
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 54 (47.79%) Finance
2 31 (27.43%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.96%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.31%) Front Office
6 5 (4.42%) Banking
6 5 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.42%) Law
6 5 (4.42%) Legal
6 5 (4.42%) Marketing
7 4 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Automotive
9 1 (0.88%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (31.86%) Analyst
2 23 (20.35%) Senior
3 13 (11.50%) IT Analyst
4 12 (10.62%) Data Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) IT Support
4 12 (10.62%) IT Support Analyst
4 12 (10.62%) Support Analyst
5 11 (9.73%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 11 (9.73%) Financial Analyst
5 11 (9.73%) Systems Analyst
5 11 (9.73%) Systems Support
5 11 (9.73%) Systems Support Analyst
6 8 (7.08%) Architect
6 8 (7.08%) Report Analyst
7 7 (6.19%) Lead
7 7 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Data Architect
8 6 (5.31%) Data Management Specialist
8 6 (5.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) Kafka
2 6 (5.31%) LangChain
2 6 (5.31%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (5.31%) pgvector
2 6 (5.31%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.31%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.31%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.42%) PySpark
4 3 (2.65%) .NET
5 2 (1.77%) REST
6 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.88%) JSON
6 1 (0.88%) MDX
6 1 (0.88%) Pandas
6 1 (0.88%) Playwright
6 1 (0.88%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.31%) Clustering
2 6 (5.31%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.65%) Derivative
4 3 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.77%) ASIC
5 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.77%) OTC Derivatives
5 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.88%) DTCC
6 1 (0.88%) iPhone
6 1 (0.88%) Life Science
6 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.88%) Windows
1 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (47.79%) Analytics
2 36 (31.86%) AI
3 32 (28.32%) Data Engineering
3 32 (28.32%) Data Management
3 32 (28.32%) Decision-Making
4 31 (27.43%) Data Modelling
5 27 (23.89%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (20.35%) Data Governance
8 21 (18.58%) Data Science
9 19 (16.81%) Data Analysis
9 19 (16.81%) ERP
9 19 (16.81%) ETL
10 17 (15.04%) Machine Learning
11 15 (13.27%) Use Case
12 14 (12.39%) Agile
12 14 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (11.50%) Actionable Insight
13 13 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (59.29%) SQL
2 33 (29.20%) Python
3 6 (5.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.77%) C#
5 2 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.77%) R
5 2 (1.77%) Scala
5 2 (1.77%) VBA
6 1 (0.88%) Bicep
6 1 (0.88%) Java
6 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Degree
2 5 (4.42%) ACCA
2 5 (4.42%) CIMA
3 3 (2.65%) CFA
4 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) CISM
5 1 (0.88%) CISSP
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.88%) CRISC
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PMP
5 1 (0.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (0.88%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.24%) Data Quality
2 13 (11.50%) GDPR
3 8 (7.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.54%) EMIR
4 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.54%) MiFID
5 2 (1.77%) GRC
5 2 (1.77%) PMO
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.88%) IFRS
6 1 (0.88%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.88%) QA
6 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.88%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.88%) Docker
1 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (3.54%) Terraform
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (32.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.35%) Databricks
3 12 (10.62%) Dell
4 7 (6.19%) Informatica
4 7 (6.19%) SAP
5 6 (5.31%) Cloudera
5 6 (5.31%) Denodo
5 6 (5.31%) Teradata
6 5 (4.42%) Concur
6 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.42%) Yardi
7 4 (3.54%) Oracle
8 2 (1.77%) Google
8 2 (1.77%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.88%) eFront
9 1 (0.88%) iManage
9 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.88%) Pega
9 1 (0.88%) Planview
9 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud