Business Intelligence Job Trends in London

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 48 40
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 890 891 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.36% 5.78% 5.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 6.11% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 585 505 834
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +10.62% -5.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,269 14,580 16,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.64% 94.60% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,845 8,006 13,563
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in London

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in London

Business Intelligence
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +8 151 £67,500 -10.00% 50
West London +18 28 £40,000 -40.74% 17
South London +23 8 £42,625 -49.85% 4
East London -6 5 £32,838 - 8
North London +8 1 £52,500 - 3
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 59 (6.63%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.25%) SAS
4 12 (1.35%) Apache
5 9 (1.01%) Confluence
6 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.34%) WordPress
8 2 (0.22%) Moodle
8 2 (0.22%) nginx
8 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.11%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 171 (19.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (2.25%) Maya
5 10 (1.12%) SPSS
6 6 (0.67%) InDesign
7 5 (0.56%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.56%) Trello
8 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.34%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 36 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.24%) SAP CO
3 11 (1.24%) SAP FI
3 11 (1.24%) SAP FI/CO
4 10 (1.12%) Elite 3E
5 9 (1.01%) SAP FSCM
5 9 (1.01%) SAP IBP
5 9 (1.01%) SAP IS-U
6 7 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.67%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.22%) Relativity
11 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 591 (66.40%) Power Platform
2 267 (30.00%) Azure
3 90 (10.11%) AWS
4 83 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (8.99%) Power Automate
5 80 (8.99%) Snowflake
6 79 (8.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 71 (7.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 64 (7.19%) GCP
9 63 (7.08%) PowerApps
10 59 (6.63%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
12 47 (5.28%) dbt
13 43 (4.83%) SaaS
14 29 (3.26%) GitHub
15 28 (3.15%) Fivetran
15 28 (3.15%) Microsoft Copilot
16 22 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (2.36%) Entra ID
17 21 (2.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.24%) Firewall
1 11 (1.24%) VPN
2 3 (0.34%) RTP
2 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.34%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.22%) AMQP
3 2 (0.22%) DHCP
3 2 (0.22%) DNS
3 2 (0.22%) LAN
3 2 (0.22%) WAN
4 1 (0.11%) ADSL
4 1 (0.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) Intranet
4 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 585 (65.73%) Power BI
2 199 (22.36%) Tableau
3 152 (17.08%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (10.79%) SQL Server
5 75 (8.43%) Data Lake
6 46 (5.17%) Metadata
7 42 (4.72%) Looker
8 41 (4.61%) Big Data
9 39 (4.38%) MySQL
10 36 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (3.71%) Power Query
12 32 (3.60%) Relational Database
12 32 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 31 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 27 (3.03%) NoSQL
15 26 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (2.70%) BigQuery
17 23 (2.58%) Hadoop
18 19 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
18 19 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 38 (4.27%) Git
2 13 (1.46%) JIRA
3 9 (1.01%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.56%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.56%) ERwin
5 5 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.22%) GitLab
6 2 (0.22%) Mocha
6 2 (0.22%) Postman
6 2 (0.22%) webpack
7 1 (0.11%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.11%) MLflow
7 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 429 (48.20%) Finance
2 362 (40.67%) Social Skills
3 263 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (16.40%) Marketing
5 98 (11.01%) Law
6 90 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 86 (9.66%) Public Sector
8 81 (9.10%) Banking
9 66 (7.42%) Legal
10 63 (7.08%) Manufacturing
10 63 (7.08%) Telecoms
11 60 (6.74%) Electronics
12 58 (6.52%) Financial Institution
13 47 (5.28%) Retail
14 42 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (2.81%) Games
17 23 (2.58%) Advertising
18 21 (2.36%) Publishing
19 19 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (26.97%) Analyst
2 144 (16.18%) Data Analyst
3 135 (15.17%) Senior
4 91 (10.22%) Lead
5 89 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 75 (8.43%) Developer
7 54 (6.07%) Architect
8 50 (5.62%) Consultant
9 48 (5.39%) Senior Analyst
10 27 (3.03%) Power Platform Developer
11 24 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 24 (2.70%) IT Manager
11 24 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
12 22 (2.47%) Business Analyst
13 21 (2.36%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (2.36%) IT Support
13 21 (2.36%) Junior
14 20 (2.25%) Data Architect
14 20 (2.25%) Financial Analyst
14 20 (2.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.26%) Kafka
2 24 (2.70%) REST
3 22 (2.47%) PySpark
4 16 (1.80%) HTML5 Canvas
5 13 (1.46%) .NET
6 9 (1.01%) JSON
6 9 (1.01%) SOAP
7 8 (0.90%) EDI
7 8 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.90%) React
8 7 (0.79%) HTML
8 7 (0.79%) Pandas
9 6 (0.67%) CSS
9 6 (0.67%) FastAPI
9 6 (0.67%) FHIR
9 6 (0.67%) Flask
9 6 (0.67%) Node.js
10 5 (0.56%) Middleware
10 5 (0.56%) XML
11 4 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
2 44 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 43 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 36 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.25%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.91%) FMCG
9 17 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.80%) Reinsurance
11 14 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.57%) Social Media
12 13 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.46%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.12%) Credit Risk
14 10 (1.12%) Cybercrime
14 10 (1.12%) NHS
15 8 (0.90%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.92%) Windows
2 22 (2.47%) Linux
3 10 (1.12%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.79%) Unix
5 3 (0.34%) Android
6 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (47.75%) Analytics
2 251 (28.20%) Problem-Solving
3 242 (27.19%) Data Modelling
4 218 (24.49%) AI
5 201 (22.58%) Decision-Making
6 183 (20.56%) Visualisation
7 180 (20.22%) ETL
8 161 (18.09%) Data Governance
9 158 (17.75%) Data Analysis
10 156 (17.53%) Data Pipeline
11 146 (16.40%) Agile
12 145 (16.29%) Data Engineering
13 122 (13.71%) CI/CD
14 120 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 120 (13.48%) DevOps
15 115 (12.92%) Business Strategy
16 112 (12.58%) Actionable Insight
17 111 (12.47%) Data Analytics
18 109 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 107 (12.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 435 (48.88%) SQL
2 317 (35.62%) Python
3 54 (6.07%) JavaScript
4 48 (5.39%) C#
5 42 (4.72%) PowerShell
6 41 (4.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 26 (2.92%) R
8 25 (2.81%) Java
9 23 (2.58%) Scala
10 19 (2.13%) T-SQL
10 19 (2.13%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.57%) VBA
12 12 (1.35%) Bash
13 9 (1.01%) C++
13 9 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.34%) Bicep
14 3 (0.34%) Fortran
15 2 (0.22%) C
15 2 (0.22%) Ruby
16 1 (0.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 201 (22.58%) Degree
2 54 (6.07%) Security Cleared
3 47 (5.28%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.71%) CISSP
4 33 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.60%) Numerate Degree
6 29 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (2.81%) CISA
8 23 (2.58%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.47%) ACCA
10 21 (2.36%) CIMA
11 20 (2.25%) Master's Degree
12 19 (2.13%) PMI Certification
12 19 (2.13%) PMP
13 16 (1.80%) DV Cleared
14 12 (1.35%) CISM
14 12 (1.35%) CRISC
15 10 (1.12%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.90%) IIBA
17 7 (0.79%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (21.24%) Data Quality
2 57 (6.40%) QA
3 47 (5.28%) GDPR
4 45 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 22 (2.47%) NIST
7 13 (1.46%) COBIT
7 13 (1.46%) GRC
8 12 (1.35%) ITGC
9 11 (1.24%) PMO
10 9 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.79%) IFRS
11 7 (0.79%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.79%) SLA
12 6 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.67%) HL7
13 5 (0.56%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.34%) GAAP
14 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 23 (2.58%) Docker
2 14 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (3.15%) Terraform
2 23 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.90%) EnCase
3 8 (0.90%) FTK
4 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.56%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.34%) Control-M
8 2 (0.22%) Argo
9 1 (0.11%) Grafana
9 1 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 260 (29.21%) Microsoft
2 108 (12.13%) SAP
3 86 (9.66%) Databricks
4 57 (6.40%) Oracle
5 46 (5.17%) Alteryx
5 46 (5.17%) Salesforce
6 45 (5.06%) Google
7 34 (3.82%) Bloomberg
8 22 (2.47%) Informatica
9 20 (2.25%) Adobe
10 17 (1.91%) Cisco
11 14 (1.57%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.46%) Talend
13 12 (1.35%) Dell
13 12 (1.35%) Intapp
13 12 (1.35%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.12%) Dataiku
15 9 (1.01%) Workday
16 8 (0.90%) Cellebrite
16 8 (0.90%) Palantir