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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 42 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 125 117 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.10% 5.59% 6.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 5.82% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 76 74 177
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,400 £42,400
25th Percentile £60,938 £51,563 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £67,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +4.23% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £104,625 £105,650
Central London median annual salary £71,250 £71,250 £64,500
% change year-on-year - +10.47% -7.86%

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 3,251 2,010 2,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.69% 96.08% 91.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,337 1,510 2,473
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,859 £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 7 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 10 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.40%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.80%) Apache
4 1 (0.80%) Appian
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.80%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.80%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.80%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 92 (73.60%) Power Platform
2 54 (43.20%) Azure
3 22 (17.60%) dbt
4 18 (14.40%) Snowflake
5 16 (12.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (12.00%) Power Automate
7 14 (11.20%) AWS
7 14 (11.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (10.40%) GCP
9 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.20%) Google Analytics
11 4 (3.20%) SaaS
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Storage
13 2 (1.60%) Collibra
13 2 (1.60%) GitHub
13 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.60%) OneDrive
14 1 (0.80%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) Broadband
1 1 (0.80%) DHCP
1 1 (0.80%) DNS
1 1 (0.80%) Firewall
1 1 (0.80%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.80%) Softphone
1 1 (0.80%) VLAN
1 1 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (72.00%) Power BI
2 37 (29.60%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (17.60%) SQL Server
4 18 (14.40%) Data Lake
5 17 (13.60%) Tableau
6 14 (11.20%) Metabase
7 9 (7.20%) Looker
8 7 (5.60%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (4.80%) Star Schema
10 5 (4.00%) Power Query
11 3 (2.40%) Big Data
11 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.60%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (11.20%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.80%) MLflow
3 1 (0.80%) Git
3 1 (0.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 57 (45.60%) Finance
2 42 (33.60%) Social Skills
3 36 (28.80%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.60%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.40%) Marketing
6 6 (4.80%) Banking
7 5 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.00%) Law
7 5 (4.00%) Legal
8 4 (3.20%) Front Office
8 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.80%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.80%) Automotive
11 1 (0.80%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (35.20%) Analyst
2 26 (20.80%) Senior
3 16 (12.80%) IT Analyst
4 15 (12.00%) Financial Analyst
4 15 (12.00%) IT Support
4 15 (12.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 15 (12.00%) Support Analyst
5 14 (11.20%) Data Engineer
5 14 (11.20%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 14 (11.20%) Systems Analyst
5 14 (11.20%) Systems Support
5 14 (11.20%) Systems Support Analyst
6 10 (8.00%) Data Analyst
6 10 (8.00%) Lead
7 9 (7.20%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Architect
8 8 (6.40%) Report Analyst
9 7 (5.60%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.80%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.80%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) Kafka
2 6 (4.80%) LangChain
2 6 (4.80%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (4.80%) pgvector
2 6 (4.80%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.80%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.80%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.00%) PySpark
4 3 (2.40%) .NET
5 2 (1.60%) REST
6 1 (0.80%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.80%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.80%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.80%) CSS
6 1 (0.80%) HTML
6 1 (0.80%) JSON
6 1 (0.80%) MDX
6 1 (0.80%) Node.js
6 1 (0.80%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (7.20%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.80%) Clustering
3 6 (4.80%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.40%) Derivative
6 3 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.60%) ASIC
7 2 (1.60%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.80%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.80%) DTCC
8 1 (0.80%) iPhone
8 1 (0.80%) Life Science
8 1 (0.80%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.80%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.80%) Android
2 1 (0.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (48.80%) Analytics
2 39 (31.20%) AI
2 39 (31.20%) Decision-Making
3 38 (30.40%) Data Modelling
4 36 (28.80%) Data Management
5 35 (28.00%) Data Engineering
5 35 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (21.60%) Data Governance
8 26 (20.80%) Data Analysis
8 26 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (19.20%) ETL
10 22 (17.60%) Data Science
11 18 (14.40%) ERP
11 18 (14.40%) Machine Learning
11 18 (14.40%) Use Case
11 18 (14.40%) Visualisation
12 17 (13.60%) Actionable Insight
13 16 (12.80%) Agile
14 14 (11.20%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 71 (56.80%) SQL
2 39 (31.20%) Python
3 10 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.20%) R
5 2 (1.60%) C#
5 2 (1.60%) Java
5 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.60%) Scala
5 2 (1.60%) VBA
6 1 (0.80%) Bicep
6 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.80%) Ruby
6 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Degree
2 3 (2.40%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.40%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.60%) ACCA
3 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.60%) CIMA
3 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.80%) CFA
4 1 (0.80%) CISM
4 1 (0.80%) CISSP
4 1 (0.80%) CRISC
4 1 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.80%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (0.80%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.60%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.20%) GDPR
3 8 (6.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.20%) EMIR
4 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.20%) MiFID
5 3 (2.40%) PMO
6 2 (1.60%) GRC
6 2 (1.60%) QA
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.80%) IFRS
7 1 (0.80%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.80%) NIST
7 1 (0.80%) SLA
7 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.80%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.80%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.60%) Terraform
2 1 (0.80%) Argo
2 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (32.80%) Microsoft
2 27 (21.60%) Databricks
3 12 (9.60%) Dell
4 8 (6.40%) Informatica
5 7 (5.60%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.80%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.80%) Denodo
6 6 (4.80%) Teradata
7 5 (4.00%) Google
7 5 (4.00%) SAP
8 4 (3.20%) Oracle
9 3 (2.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.60%) Concur
10 2 (1.60%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.60%) Yardi
11 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.80%) Bomgar
11 1 (0.80%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.80%) Pega
11 1 (0.80%) Red Hat