Business Intelligence Analyst Jobs

BI Analyst
UK

The median BI Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 688 753
Rank change year-on-year -1 +65 -204
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 208 290 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.30% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 185 262 439
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,256 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £67,500 £70,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +47 187 £45,000 -2.91% 27
UK excluding London -10 158 £42,500 +6.25% 18
Work from Home +59 83 £43,500 +2.35% 7
London +80 48 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Midlands -2 44 £42,500 +8.97% 3
North of England +69 43 £36,750 -5.77% 4
West Midlands +8 31 £48,750 +25.00% 2
North West +24 28 £36,750 +1.38% 3
South West +6 22 £43,500 +2.35% 6
South East +8 16 £50,000 +7.87% 5
East of England +8 14 £41,250 +9.27%
East Midlands -6 13 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Scotland -58 12 £43,000 +14.67%
Yorkshire +100 10 £43,750 +0.33% 1
Wales -4 7 £32,500 -16.13%
North East -3 5 £32,500 -23.53%

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Business Intelligence Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 208 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 165 (79.33%) Power BI
2 165 (79.33%) Power Platform
3 156 (75.00%) SQL
4 89 (42.79%) Visualisation
5 87 (41.83%) Social Skills
6 83 (39.90%) Analytics
7 82 (39.42%) Finance
8 68 (32.69%) Data Visualisation
9 65 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
10 58 (27.88%) Data Analysis
10 58 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (26.44%) Data Warehouse
12 53 (25.48%) Microsoft Excel
13 47 (22.60%) Data Modelling
14 45 (21.63%) Tableau
15 43 (20.67%) Decision-Making
16 42 (20.19%) Degree
17 41 (19.71%) Microsoft
17 41 (19.71%) Azure
18 38 (18.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 36 (17.31%) Python
20 33 (15.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
21 31 (14.90%) ETL
22 28 (13.46%) T-SQL
23 27 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
23 27 (12.98%) Agile
23 27 (12.98%) Retail
23 27 (12.98%) Actionable Insight
24 26 (12.50%) Computer Science

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
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 5 (2.40%) Oracle Application Server
1 5 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.44%) SAS
Applications
1 53 (25.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Academy Housing
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 165 (79.33%) Power Platform
2 41 (19.71%) Azure
3 11 (5.29%) AWS
3 11 (5.29%) PowerApps
3 11 (5.29%) Snowflake
4 8 (3.85%) GCP
5 7 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (3.37%) Google Analytics
6 6 (2.88%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.92%) ChatGPT
7 4 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.96%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.48%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.48%) OCI
9 1 (0.48%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (79.33%) Power BI
2 55 (26.44%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (21.63%) Tableau
4 33 (15.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (11.54%) Power Query
6 21 (10.10%) SQL Server
7 20 (9.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (5.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (5.29%) Data Mining
10 8 (3.85%) QlikView
11 7 (3.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 7 (3.37%) Looker
12 6 (2.88%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.40%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.40%) MS Access
13 5 (2.40%) Oracle BI EE
13 5 (2.40%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (2.40%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 87 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 82 (39.42%) Finance
3 65 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.98%) Retail
5 23 (11.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.29%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.33%) Legal
9 8 (3.85%) Marketing
9 8 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (3.37%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.88%) Automotive
11 6 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.40%) Law
12 5 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.96%) Advertising
13 2 (0.96%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.48%) Publishing
14 1 (0.48%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.40%) HTML
2 1 (0.48%) .NET
2 1 (0.48%) D3.js
2 1 (0.48%) EDI
2 1 (0.48%) Flash
2 1 (0.48%) Pandas
2 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.33%) NHS
2 8 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.44%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.96%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.96%) Photography
6 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.48%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 89 (42.79%) Visualisation
3 83 (39.90%) Analytics
4 68 (32.69%) Data Visualisation
5 58 (27.88%) Data Analysis
5 58 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (22.60%) Data Modelling
7 43 (20.67%) Decision-Making
8 31 (14.90%) ETL
9 27 (12.98%) Actionable Insight
9 27 (12.98%) Agile
9 27 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (12.50%) Computer Science
11 25 (12.02%) Dashboard Development
12 23 (11.06%) Data Analytics
13 22 (10.58%) Requirements Gathering
14 20 (9.62%) Migration
15 19 (9.13%) Business Analysis
16 17 (8.17%) Statistics
17 16 (7.69%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 156 (75.00%) SQL
2 38 (18.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 36 (17.31%) Python
4 28 (13.46%) T-SQL
5 8 (3.85%) R
5 8 (3.85%) VBA
6 5 (2.40%) PHP
6 5 (2.40%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.48%) C#
7 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 42 (20.19%) Degree
2 13 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.77%) DBS Check
4 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.88%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.48%) ACCA
7 1 (0.48%) CIMA
7 1 (0.48%) MBA
7 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.37%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (2.88%) QA
4 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) PMO
Vendors
1 41 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.77%) SAP
3 10 (4.81%) Oracle
4 8 (3.85%) Google
4 8 (3.85%) Northgate
5 7 (3.37%) YouTube
6 6 (2.88%) Civica
7 4 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.44%) F5
9 2 (0.96%) Advent
9 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.96%) FactSet
10 1 (0.48%) Adobe
10 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.48%) Databricks
10 1 (0.48%) Facebook
10 1 (0.48%) OpenText
10 1 (0.48%) Twitter
10 1 (0.48%) Vertica
10 1 (0.48%) Workday