Head of Business Intelligence Jobs

Head of BI
UK

The median Head of BI salary in the UK is £67,900 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 869 978 1203
Rank change year-on-year +109 +225 -311
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Business Intelligence 38 17 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.017% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.018% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 35 16 12
10th Percentile £60,500 £61,875 £53,375
25th Percentile £63,572 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,900 £73,750 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +3.87% -13.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £140,500 £108,125 £87,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,459 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +6.33% -1.96% -3.13%

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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Head of Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Business Intelligence in the UK

Head of Business Intelligence
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Head of Business Intelligence in the UK

Head of Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Head of Business Intelligence in the UK

Head of Business Intelligence
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Business Intelligence within the UK 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
England +112 33 £66,459 -5.06% 6
UK excluding London +13 27 £66,459 +6.33%
Work from Home +83 16 £66,459 -22.95%
North of England +58 16 £62,994 -8.37%
London +126 8 £142,500 +39.02% 5
North East +3 7 £66,459 -11.39%
Midlands +7 6 £66,650 +17.96%
West Midlands - 6 £66,650 -
Yorkshire - 5 £62,500 -
North West +17 4 £50,000 -20.00%
East of England - 3 £100,000 -
Wales - 2 £79,279 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Head of Business Intelligence 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 Head of Business Intelligence in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (81.58%) Analytics
3 16 (42.11%) Data Strategy
4 15 (39.47%) Power Platform
4 15 (39.47%) Power BI
5 14 (36.84%) Data Analytics
5 14 (36.84%) Decision-Making
6 13 (34.21%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (34.21%) Data Analysis
7 12 (31.58%) SQL
7 12 (31.58%) Data Governance
7 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
8 11 (28.95%) Customer Experience
9 10 (26.32%) AWS
10 8 (21.05%) Visualisation
10 8 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (21.05%) ETL
10 8 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 7 (18.42%) Data Modelling
11 7 (18.42%) Python
11 7 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (18.42%) Data Management
11 7 (18.42%) Machine Learning
11 7 (18.42%) Azure
12 6 (15.79%) Master Data Management
12 6 (15.79%) Driving Licence
12 6 (15.79%) Data Engineering
12 6 (15.79%) Business Analysis
12 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel

Head of Business Intelligence 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:

Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Power Platform
2 10 (26.32%) AWS
3 7 (18.42%) Azure
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (39.47%) Power BI
2 13 (34.21%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (13.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 5 (13.16%) Data Lake
4 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
4 5 (13.16%) Tableau
5 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (7.89%) Big Data
7 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Law
4 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.89%) Retail
5 2 (5.26%) Games
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Welsh Language
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Driving Licence
1 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 5 (13.16%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.16%) Reference Data
3 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (81.58%) Analytics
3 16 (42.11%) Data Strategy
4 14 (36.84%) Data Analytics
4 14 (36.84%) Decision-Making
5 13 (34.21%) Data Analysis
6 12 (31.58%) Data Governance
7 11 (28.95%) Customer Experience
8 8 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
8 8 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 8 (21.05%) ETL
8 8 (21.05%) Visualisation
9 7 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (18.42%) Data Management
9 7 (18.42%) Data Modelling
9 7 (18.42%) Machine Learning
10 6 (15.79%) Business Analysis
10 6 (15.79%) Data Engineering
10 6 (15.79%) Master Data Management
11 5 (13.16%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) SQL
2 7 (18.42%) Python
3 4 (10.53%) R
3 4 (10.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Alteryx