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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 52 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 4,606 5,435 9,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.49% 5.58% 5.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 5.84% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,550 3,605 5,963
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 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.89%

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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 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 28 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 +2 4,102 £55,000 -4.35% 1,221
UK excluding London +4 3,061 £50,000 - 747
Work from Home +2 1,990 £57,000 +3.64% 595
London +3 1,325 £67,500 - 499
North of England +10 842 £50,000 -0.47% 205
South East +6 655 £52,750 +0.48% 171
Midlands +5 628 £52,500 +13.51% 136
West Midlands +5 474 £55,000 +18.92% 84
North West +38 467 £50,000 -0.47% 124
South West -16 347 £50,000 -4.76% 103
Yorkshire -9 262 £50,000 -8.99% 60
East of England +64 259 £48,500 -7.62% 67
Scotland -25 223 £55,000 +15.28% 45
East Midlands 0 146 £45,000 -5.26% 52
North East +6 113 £45,000 -10.00% 22
Northern Ireland +36 54 £35,000 -22.22% 11
Wales -12 52 £55,000 +37.50% 23
Isle of Man - 3 £59,250 -
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
1 375 (8.14%) SharePoint
2 93 (2.02%) SAS
3 68 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.24%) Confluence
5 47 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 42 (0.91%) Apache
7 33 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 33 (0.72%) IIS
8 21 (0.46%) WordPress
9 18 (0.39%) CMS
9 18 (0.39%) nginx
10 12 (0.26%) Drupal
11 11 (0.24%) IBM Notes
12 5 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.065%) SharePoint 2010
13 3 (0.065%) SharePoint 2013
13 3 (0.065%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 853 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 233 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 145 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 35 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.67%) 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%) Simulink
12 4 (0.087%) Sketch
13 3 (0.065%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.065%) Autodesk Inventor
13 3 (0.065%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.065%) InVision
13 3 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 190 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
4 19 (0.41%) Primavera
5 18 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
6 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
7 16 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 16 (0.35%) SAP BPC
8 15 (0.33%) iTrent
9 14 (0.30%) Aladdin
10 13 (0.28%) SAP Business One
11 12 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
12 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.17%) Sage 200
13 6 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 6 (0.13%) Maximo
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
13 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
14 5 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3,017 (65.50%) Power Platform
2 1,463 (31.76%) Azure
3 491 (10.66%) PowerApps
4 435 (9.44%) Power Automate
5 419 (9.10%) AWS
6 390 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
7 356 (7.73%) Dynamics 365
8 270 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 192 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 173 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
11 149 (3.23%) GCP
12 131 (2.84%) Snowflake
13 121 (2.63%) SaaS
14 86 (1.87%) Serverless
15 63 (1.37%) Google Analytics
16 62 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
17 61 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
18 55 (1.19%) GitHub
19 46 (1.00%) Entra ID
20 41 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.74%) Broadband
2 54 (1.17%) DNS
3 49 (1.06%) Firewall
4 37 (0.80%) Internet
5 34 (0.74%) Network Security
6 33 (0.72%) Intranet
7 26 (0.56%) DHCP
8 25 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 23 (0.50%) WAN
10 22 (0.48%) HTTP
10 22 (0.48%) Wireless
11 21 (0.46%) VPN
12 17 (0.37%) DSL
12 17 (0.37%) LAN
12 17 (0.37%) MQTT
13 16 (0.35%) SSH
14 15 (0.33%) SAN
14 15 (0.33%) Unified Communications
15 14 (0.30%) VoIP
16 13 (0.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,982 (64.74%) Power BI
2 899 (19.52%) Data Warehouse
3 810 (17.59%) SQL Server
4 661 (14.35%) Tableau
5 482 (10.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 365 (7.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 312 (6.77%) Data Lake
8 188 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 187 (4.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 182 (3.95%) Relational Database
11 156 (3.39%) Big Data
12 155 (3.37%) Power Query
13 110 (2.39%) Data Mining
14 92 (2.00%) Metadata
15 87 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
16 84 (1.82%) MySQL
17 81 (1.76%) MongoDB
18 72 (1.56%) Looker
19 70 (1.52%) NoSQL
20 68 (1.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 201 (4.36%) JIRA
2 150 (3.26%) Git
3 85 (1.85%) Visual Studio
4 58 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 32 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 26 (0.56%) Eclipse
7 21 (0.46%) GitLab
8 18 (0.39%) Subversion
9 17 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
13 9 (0.20%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.17%) MSTest
14 8 (0.17%) RStudio
15 7 (0.15%) Mocha
16 6 (0.13%) Maven
17 5 (0.11%) IntelliJ
18 4 (0.087%) ERwin
18 4 (0.087%) Toad
General
1 1,586 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 1,469 (31.89%) Finance
3 1,022 (22.19%) Analytical Skills
4 509 (11.05%) Marketing
5 488 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 385 (8.36%) Retail
7 330 (7.16%) Manufacturing
8 283 (6.14%) Legal
9 272 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 210 (4.56%) Law
11 204 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
12 200 (4.34%) Telecoms
13 183 (3.97%) Banking
14 171 (3.71%) Electronics
15 81 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
16 68 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
17 58 (1.26%) Local Government
18 55 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
19 46 (1.00%) Investment Banking
20 45 (0.98%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 992 (21.54%) Analyst
2 899 (19.52%) Developer
3 541 (11.75%) Senior
4 382 (8.29%) Data Analyst
5 368 (7.99%) Lead
6 337 (7.32%) Data Engineer
7 308 (6.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 291 (6.32%) Architect
9 257 (5.58%) Consultant
10 210 (4.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 151 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
12 144 (3.13%) Senior Developer
13 143 (3.10%) Power BI Developer
14 141 (3.06%) DBA
15 129 (2.80%) Data Architect
16 123 (2.67%) Data Manager
17 113 (2.45%) Power Platform Developer
18 107 (2.32%) SQL DBA
19 103 (2.24%) Business Intelligence Consultant
20 101 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (5.10%) .NET
2 187 (4.06%) HTML
3 148 (3.21%) CSS
4 103 (2.24%) React
5 84 (1.82%) .NET Framework
6 83 (1.80%) AngularJS
7 78 (1.69%) REST
8 72 (1.56%) JSON
9 63 (1.37%) ASP.NET
9 63 (1.37%) XML
10 55 (1.19%) Entity Framework
11 54 (1.17%) HTML5 Canvas
12 53 (1.15%) Web Services
13 51 (1.11%) Node.js
13 51 (1.11%) PySpark
14 50 (1.09%) Kafka
15 43 (0.93%) .NET Core
15 43 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web API
16 42 (0.91%) ASP.NET MVC
17 32 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 282 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 172 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
3 131 (2.84%) Onboarding
4 117 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 78 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 68 (1.48%) NHS
7 67 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 65 (1.41%) Cloud Native
9 62 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 60 (1.30%) IoT
11 57 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 49 (1.06%) Low-Code
13 45 (0.98%) PMI
14 43 (0.93%) Data Centre
15 37 (0.80%) Public Cloud
16 34 (0.74%) FMCG
17 33 (0.72%) Taxonomies
18 28 (0.61%) Driving Licence
18 28 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
19 26 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 225 (4.88%) Windows
2 119 (2.58%) Linux
3 78 (1.69%) VMS
4 39 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.50%) Unix
6 19 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.24%) Windows Vista
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.087%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.065%) Android
11 3 (0.065%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.043%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,270 (27.57%) Analytics
2 914 (19.84%) Visualisation
3 850 (18.45%) Agile
4 839 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
5 757 (16.44%) ETL
6 746 (16.20%) Data Modelling
7 702 (15.24%) Data Analysis
8 609 (13.22%) Data Visualisation
9 560 (12.16%) Decision-Making
10 482 (10.46%) Data Analytics
11 465 (10.10%) Data Science
12 462 (10.03%) Machine Learning
13 424 (9.21%) Artificial Intelligence
14 420 (9.12%) Data Governance
15 416 (9.03%) DevOps
16 400 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 399 (8.66%) Data Management
18 392 (8.51%) Roadmaps
19 386 (8.38%) Migration
20 384 (8.34%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2,212 (48.02%) SQL
2 826 (17.93%) Python
3 400 (8.68%) T-SQL
4 331 (7.19%) C#
5 318 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 249 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 203 (4.41%) R
8 155 (3.37%) Java
9 120 (2.61%) PowerShell
10 113 (2.45%) TypeScript
11 79 (1.72%) PL/SQL
12 76 (1.65%) VBA
13 50 (1.09%) C
14 48 (1.04%) C++
15 43 (0.93%) Scala
16 38 (0.83%) MATLAB
17 37 (0.80%) PHP
18 25 (0.54%) Go
19 24 (0.52%) VB
20 23 (0.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 938 (20.36%) Degree
2 242 (5.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 218 (4.73%) Security Cleared
4 165 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 163 (3.54%) DBS Check
6 138 (3.00%) SC Cleared
7 111 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 59 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 42 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
11 30 (0.65%) DV Cleared
12 29 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (0.56%) CISSP
14 25 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
15 20 (0.43%) CIMA
16 17 (0.37%) CISM
17 16 (0.35%) CRISC
17 16 (0.35%) PhD
18 15 (0.33%) MBA
19 14 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 400 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 190 (4.13%) GDPR
3 115 (2.50%) QA
4 58 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.00%) SLA
6 41 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 27 (0.59%) PMO
9 20 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.28%) COBIT
10 13 (0.28%) NIST
11 12 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.24%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.17%) GRC
14 5 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.087%) IEC 61131
15 4 (0.087%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.087%) JTAG
15 4 (0.087%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 96 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 81 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 61 (1.32%) Docker
4 42 (0.91%) Firmware
5 21 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.065%) HDFS
10 2 (0.043%) NFS
11 1 (0.022%) KVM
11 1 (0.022%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 60 (1.30%) Terraform
3 21 (0.46%) Ansible
4 13 (0.28%) Grafana
4 13 (0.28%) WMI
5 11 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
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 (0.065%) Podman
10 3 (0.065%) SCCM
11 2 (0.043%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.043%) Foglight
11 2 (0.043%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.022%) Consul
Vendors
1 1,750 (37.99%) Microsoft
2 330 (7.16%) SAP
3 277 (6.01%) Oracle
4 259 (5.62%) Databricks
5 173 (3.76%) Google
6 88 (1.91%) Alteryx
7 75 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.17%) Cognos
9 41 (0.89%) VMware
10 39 (0.85%) IFS
11 34 (0.74%) Informatica
12 29 (0.63%) Adobe
13 27 (0.59%) Cisco
14 25 (0.54%) IBM
15 24 (0.52%) iManage
16 20 (0.43%) Aderant
16 20 (0.43%) Sophos
17 19 (0.41%) Sybase
18 17 (0.37%) Facebook
18 17 (0.37%) Infor