Business Intelligence Jobs in Scotland

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 82 79
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 -23
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 223 167 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.33% 3.61% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 3.83% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 137 88 129
10th Percentile £28,323 £31,909 £31,282
25th Percentile £40,800 £39,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -4.52% +10.56%
75th Percentile £59,500 £66,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £77,715 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,194 4,363 5,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.63% 94.19% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 2,187 2,799
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,392 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +8.16%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 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
Glasgow -64 118 £55,000 +22.22% 13
Edinburgh -1 33 £55,000 +15.28% 17
Aberdeen +3 16 £40,000 - 1
Fife +4 15 £40,500 -14.74% 2
Dundee - 14 £50,000 - 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 £42,500 - 1
Lanarkshire -4 3 £42,500 -32.00% 5
Aberdeenshire - 3 £45,000 - 1
West Lothian - 3 £30,000 -
Stirling -3 2 £32,500 -
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
South Ayrshire - 2 £61,250 - 1
North Lanarkshire -6 1 £32,500 -13.33% 2
Inverclyde - 1 £23,000 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £28,921 -
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 25 (11.21%) SharePoint
2 19 (8.52%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.04%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (16.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Primavera
2 5 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 134 (60.09%) Power Platform
2 53 (23.77%) Azure
3 30 (13.45%) Dynamics 365
4 21 (9.42%) AWS
5 19 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (5.83%) PowerApps
7 12 (5.38%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.24%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.35%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.35%) Yammer
12 2 (0.90%) Azure App Service
12 2 (0.90%) Serverless
13 1 (0.45%) IaaS
13 1 (0.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.07%) DSL
2 10 (4.48%) Broadband
3 7 (3.14%) HTTP
3 7 (3.14%) MQTT
4 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.45%) Modbus
4 1 (0.45%) MPLS
4 1 (0.45%) SDH
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (58.74%) Power BI
2 54 (24.22%) Tableau
3 24 (10.76%) SQL Server
4 20 (8.97%) Big Data
4 20 (8.97%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (8.52%) Data Lake
6 18 (8.07%) DB2
6 18 (8.07%) MongoDB
6 18 (8.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (4.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.90%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.90%) EDMS
11 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.45%) OLAP
12 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.45%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 22 (9.87%) JIRA
2 15 (6.73%) Git
3 7 (3.14%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.69%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.69%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.69%) MSTest
General
1 105 (47.09%) Social Skills
2 74 (33.18%) Finance
3 57 (25.56%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (21.08%) Marketing
5 41 (18.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (15.70%) Law
7 29 (13.00%) Banking
8 19 (8.52%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (8.07%) Financial Institution
9 18 (8.07%) Investment Banking
10 17 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (6.73%) Manufacturing
12 12 (5.38%) Public Sector
13 10 (4.48%) Telecoms
14 9 (4.04%) Electronics
15 7 (3.14%) Legal
15 7 (3.14%) Retail
16 3 (1.35%) Publishing
17 2 (0.90%) Advertising
17 2 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 55 (24.66%) Analyst
2 34 (15.25%) Developer
3 26 (11.66%) Lead
4 21 (9.42%) Software Engineer
5 20 (8.97%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.07%) Software Engineering Director
7 17 (7.62%) Lead Software Engineer
7 17 (7.62%) UI Engineer
7 17 (7.62%) UX Engineer
8 16 (7.17%) DBA
8 16 (7.17%) SQL DBA
9 14 (6.28%) Data Analyst
9 14 (6.28%) Senior
10 11 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 11 (4.93%) Systems Analyst
11 9 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (4.04%) Senior Data Analyst
12 8 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 7 (3.14%) Power Platform Developer
13 7 (3.14%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.76%) React
2 19 (8.52%) Kafka
3 9 (4.04%) CSS
3 9 (4.04%) HTML
4 7 (3.14%) Django
4 7 (3.14%) Flask
5 3 (1.35%) Middleware
6 2 (0.90%) .NET
6 2 (0.90%) JSON
6 2 (0.90%) SPFx
7 1 (0.45%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.45%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.45%) REST
7 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.97%) Product Ownership
3 19 (8.52%) Management Information System
4 18 (8.07%) Public Cloud
5 14 (6.28%) IoT
6 8 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (3.14%) Arduino
7 7 (3.14%) Raspberry Pi
8 5 (2.24%) Life Science
8 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.45%) Device Driver
12 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.45%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.97%) Windows
2 10 (4.48%) VMS
3 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (30.04%) Agile
2 52 (23.32%) Analytics
2 52 (23.32%) Software Engineering
3 51 (22.87%) Decision-Making
4 46 (20.63%) Data Analysis
4 46 (20.63%) SDLC
4 46 (20.63%) Visualisation
5 45 (20.18%) Machine Learning
5 45 (20.18%) User Experience
6 43 (19.28%) Artificial Intelligence
7 41 (18.39%) CI/CD
7 41 (18.39%) Continuous Delivery
8 38 (17.04%) Community of Practice
9 36 (16.14%) Collaborative Working
10 35 (15.70%) Operational Stability
10 35 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (13.90%) Data Analytics
13 28 (12.56%) ERP
13 28 (12.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 98 (43.95%) SQL
2 54 (24.22%) Python
3 37 (16.59%) Java
4 24 (10.76%) TypeScript
5 20 (8.97%) T-SQL
6 19 (8.52%) Scala
7 18 (8.07%) PL/SQL
8 14 (6.28%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.48%) C#
10 6 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.35%) C++
11 3 (1.35%) R
12 2 (0.90%) C
13 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (17.94%) Degree
2 19 (8.52%) DBS Check
3 17 (7.62%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.69%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) HND
7 1 (0.45%) PMP
7 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.07%) SLA
2 13 (5.83%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 10 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (4.04%) Firmware
3 5 (2.24%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 80 (35.87%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.31%) Databricks
3 21 (9.42%) Oracle
4 18 (8.07%) Alteryx
4 18 (8.07%) Cognos
4 18 (8.07%) Sybase
5 12 (5.38%) SAP
6 7 (3.14%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.14%) NVIDIA
7 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.90%) Adobe
9 1 (0.45%) Infor
9 1 (0.45%) Teradata