Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 50 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 4,576 5,653 9,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.62% 5.63% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.40% 5.89% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,551 3,747 5,948
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £91,250 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence.

Salary trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
England +5 4,071 £55,000 -4.35% 1,269
UK excluding London +4 3,041 £50,000 - 817
Work from Home +3 2,005 £55,000 -0.75% 640
London +5 1,307 £67,250 -0.37% 495
North of England +11 844 £50,000 -0.47% 205
South East +9 649 £52,500 - 187
Midlands +5 619 £52,500 +13.51% 182
North West +37 465 £50,000 - 117
West Midlands +7 464 £55,000 +22.22% 116
South West -9 339 £49,515 -5.69% 100
Yorkshire -6 261 £50,000 -8.99% 67
East of England +59 260 £48,500 -3.00% 69
Scotland -24 225 £55,000 +15.54% 38
East Midlands -4 148 £45,000 -5.26% 66
North East +7 118 £45,000 -10.00% 21
Northern Ireland +41 52 £35,000 -22.22% 11
Wales -7 52 £52,500 +31.25% 33
Isle of Man - 3 £59,250 - 1
Channel Islands - 2 - -

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 378 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 94 (2.05%) SAS
3 68 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.33%) Confluence
5 49 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 41 (0.90%) Apache
7 34 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
8 33 (0.72%) IIS
9 21 (0.46%) WordPress
10 18 (0.39%) CMS
10 18 (0.39%) nginx
11 12 (0.26%) Drupal
12 11 (0.24%) IBM Notes
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.066%) SharePoint 2010
15 3 (0.066%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.066%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 842 (18.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 239 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 147 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 36 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.68%) SPSS
7 15 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
8 13 (0.28%) Trello
9 8 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.13%) OrCAD
10 6 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.11%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.087%) Doxygen
12 4 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.087%) Simulink
12 4 (0.087%) Sketch
13 3 (0.066%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
13 3 (0.066%) InVision
14 2 (0.044%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 188 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 19 (0.42%) Primavera
4 18 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
5 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.35%) iTrent
6 16 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 16 (0.35%) SAP BPC
7 14 (0.31%) Aladdin
8 13 (0.28%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
10 9 (0.20%) Maximo
11 8 (0.17%) Sage 200
12 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 6 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
13 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
14 5 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 2,980 (65.12%) Power Platform
2 1,425 (31.14%) Azure
3 485 (10.60%) PowerApps
4 430 (9.40%) Power Automate
5 396 (8.65%) AWS
6 395 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
7 347 (7.58%) Dynamics 365
8 266 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 186 (4.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 178 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
11 151 (3.30%) GCP
12 133 (2.91%) Snowflake
13 120 (2.62%) SaaS
14 87 (1.90%) Serverless
15 68 (1.49%) Google Analytics
16 64 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
17 61 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
18 56 (1.22%) GitHub
19 46 (1.01%) Entra ID
20 42 (0.92%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.75%) Broadband
2 55 (1.20%) DNS
3 46 (1.01%) Firewall
4 36 (0.79%) Internet
5 34 (0.74%) Intranet
6 33 (0.72%) Network Security
7 26 (0.57%) DHCP
8 24 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 23 (0.50%) WAN
10 22 (0.48%) Wireless
11 21 (0.46%) HTTP
11 21 (0.46%) VPN
12 18 (0.39%) DSL
12 18 (0.39%) MQTT
13 17 (0.37%) LAN
13 17 (0.37%) SSH
14 15 (0.33%) SAN
14 15 (0.33%) Unified Communications
15 13 (0.28%) SNMP
16 11 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,941 (64.27%) Power BI
2 866 (18.92%) Data Warehouse
3 812 (17.74%) SQL Server
4 648 (14.16%) Tableau
5 478 (10.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 365 (7.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 314 (6.86%) Data Lake
8 189 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 187 (4.09%) Relational Database
10 184 (4.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 157 (3.43%) Big Data
12 150 (3.28%) Power Query
13 114 (2.49%) Data Mining
14 93 (2.03%) Metadata
15 85 (1.86%) Looker
16 83 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
16 83 (1.81%) MySQL
17 81 (1.77%) MongoDB
18 75 (1.64%) NoSQL
19 67 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 204 (4.46%) JIRA
2 149 (3.26%) Git
3 82 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 58 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 32 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.55%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.44%) GitLab
8 16 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.35%) Subversion
9 15 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.17%) MSTest
12 8 (0.17%) RStudio
12 8 (0.17%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.15%) Mocha
14 6 (0.13%) Maven
15 5 (0.11%) IntelliJ
16 4 (0.087%) ERwin
16 4 (0.087%) Toad
General
1 1,583 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 1,488 (32.52%) Finance
3 1,028 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 519 (11.34%) Marketing
5 496 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 393 (8.59%) Retail
7 337 (7.36%) Manufacturing
8 278 (6.08%) Legal
9 262 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 212 (4.63%) Law
11 210 (4.59%) Telecoms
12 189 (4.13%) Banking
13 183 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (3.93%) Electronics
15 81 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
16 65 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 61 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
18 56 (1.22%) Local Government
19 50 (1.09%) Advertising
20 48 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,001 (21.88%) Analyst
2 906 (19.80%) Developer
3 541 (11.82%) Senior
4 377 (8.24%) Data Analyst
5 372 (8.13%) Lead
6 330 (7.21%) Data Engineer
7 311 (6.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 259 (5.66%) Architect
9 249 (5.44%) Consultant
10 210 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 150 (3.28%) Power BI Developer
12 146 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
13 144 (3.15%) Senior Developer
14 141 (3.08%) DBA
15 125 (2.73%) Data Manager
16 119 (2.60%) Power Platform Developer
17 107 (2.34%) SQL DBA
18 106 (2.32%) Business Intelligence Manager
19 104 (2.27%) Data Architect
20 100 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (5.35%) .NET
2 193 (4.22%) HTML
3 152 (3.32%) CSS
4 102 (2.23%) React
5 87 (1.90%) AngularJS
6 83 (1.81%) .NET Framework
7 82 (1.79%) REST
8 75 (1.64%) JSON
9 68 (1.49%) ASP.NET
10 62 (1.35%) XML
11 53 (1.16%) Entity Framework
11 53 (1.16%) HTML5 Canvas
12 51 (1.11%) Kafka
12 51 (1.11%) Node.js
12 51 (1.11%) Web Services
13 49 (1.07%) PySpark
14 43 (0.94%) ASP.NET MVC
14 43 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
15 42 (0.92%) .NET Core
16 33 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 276 (6.03%) Management Information System
2 174 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
3 133 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 121 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 73 (1.60%) Algorithms
6 64 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 63 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 63 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 63 (1.38%) NHS
8 61 (1.33%) IoT
9 56 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 52 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 45 (0.98%) PMI
12 42 (0.92%) Data Centre
13 38 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 34 (0.74%) FMCG
15 31 (0.68%) Taxonomies
16 28 (0.61%) Driving Licence
17 27 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
17 27 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 212 (4.63%) Windows
2 119 (2.60%) Linux
3 78 (1.70%) VMS
4 36 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.50%) Unix
6 19 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.22%) Windows Vista
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.066%) Android
11 3 (0.066%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.066%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.044%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,255 (27.43%) Analytics
2 918 (20.06%) Visualisation
3 854 (18.66%) Agile
4 821 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
5 770 (16.83%) ETL
6 724 (15.82%) Data Modelling
7 678 (14.82%) Data Analysis
8 611 (13.35%) Data Visualisation
9 560 (12.24%) Decision-Making
10 463 (10.12%) Data Analytics
10 463 (10.12%) Machine Learning
11 442 (9.66%) Data Science
12 424 (9.27%) Artificial Intelligence
13 419 (9.16%) Data Governance
14 418 (9.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 397 (8.68%) DevOps
16 396 (8.65%) Roadmaps
17 393 (8.59%) Data Management
18 389 (8.50%) Project Management
19 387 (8.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,214 (48.38%) SQL
2 835 (18.25%) Python
3 404 (8.83%) T-SQL
4 332 (7.26%) C#
5 320 (6.99%) JavaScript
6 241 (5.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 204 (4.46%) R
8 158 (3.45%) Java
9 121 (2.64%) PowerShell
10 117 (2.56%) TypeScript
11 82 (1.79%) PL/SQL
12 71 (1.55%) VBA
13 54 (1.18%) C
14 49 (1.07%) C++
15 45 (0.98%) Scala
16 38 (0.83%) PHP
17 37 (0.81%) MATLAB
18 24 (0.52%) Go
18 24 (0.52%) VB
19 23 (0.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 923 (20.17%) Degree
2 241 (5.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 221 (4.83%) Security Cleared
4 161 (3.52%) DBS Check
5 158 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.10%) SC Cleared
7 109 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 58 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 42 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
11 34 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (0.61%) DV Cleared
13 25 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
14 23 (0.50%) CISSP
15 18 (0.39%) CIMA
16 16 (0.35%) CRISC
16 16 (0.35%) PhD
17 15 (0.33%) MBA
18 14 (0.31%) CISM
19 13 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 188 (4.11%) GDPR
3 125 (2.73%) QA
4 56 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.96%) SLA
6 43 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 29 (0.63%) PMO
9 20 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.28%) NIST
11 12 (0.26%) COBIT
11 12 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.20%) GRC
14 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.11%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.087%) ISO 22301
16 4 (0.087%) JTAG
16 4 (0.087%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 97 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 82 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 60 (1.31%) Docker
4 42 (0.92%) Firmware
5 22 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.066%) NFS
10 2 (0.044%) HDFS
11 1 (0.022%) KVM
11 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.022%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (1.40%) Kubernetes
2 57 (1.25%) Terraform
3 21 (0.46%) Ansible
4 13 (0.28%) Grafana
4 13 (0.28%) WMI
5 12 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.13%) Opsgenie
7 6 (0.13%) VxRail
7 6 (0.13%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.11%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.087%) Kibana
10 3 (0.066%) Podman
10 3 (0.066%) SCCM
11 2 (0.044%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.044%) Foglight
12 1 (0.022%) Consul
12 1 (0.022%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,731 (37.83%) Microsoft
2 341 (7.45%) SAP
3 281 (6.14%) Oracle
4 256 (5.59%) Databricks
5 176 (3.85%) Google
6 92 (2.01%) Alteryx
7 75 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.18%) Cognos
9 43 (0.94%) VMware
10 40 (0.87%) IFS
11 35 (0.76%) Informatica
12 34 (0.74%) Adobe
13 28 (0.61%) IBM
14 27 (0.59%) Cisco
15 25 (0.55%) iManage
16 21 (0.46%) Aderant
17 20 (0.44%) Sophos
17 20 (0.44%) Sybase
18 18 (0.39%) Facebook
18 18 (0.39%) Infor