Business Intelligence Analyst Job Trends in Bristol

BI Analyst
South West > Bristol

The median BI Analyst salary in Bristol is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 103 117
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 7 4 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.34% 0.29% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.30% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 14
10th Percentile £38,250 £37,375 -
25th Percentile £38,875 £39,063 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £41,750 £48,438 £38,250
90th Percentile £44,000 £50,125 £51,022
South West median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,934 1,317 1,702
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 95.09% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 769 1,393
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,945 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -3.43% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,886
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.19% +1.77%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Business Intelligence Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancy trend in Bristol

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in Bristol

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Business Intelligence Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Power BI
1 7 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (85.71%) Decision-Making
3 5 (71.43%) ACCA
3 5 (71.43%) CIMA
3 5 (71.43%) Internal Audit
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (71.43%) Power Query
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Looker
4 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) A/B Testing
5 1 (14.29%) AI
5 1 (14.29%) Alteryx
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
5 1 (14.29%) Business Forecasting
5 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Fivetran
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Power BI
2 5 (71.43%) Power Query
3 2 (28.57%) Looker
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Marketing
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
1 1 (14.29%) NumPy
1 1 (14.29%) Pandas
1 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (85.71%) Decision-Making
3 5 (71.43%) Internal Audit
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) AI
5 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Use Case
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) ACCA
1 5 (71.43%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Alteryx
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) HubSpot
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Talend
2 1 (14.29%) Zoho