Business Intelligence Job Trends in the East of England

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 48 38
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 +11
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 160 169 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.82% 4.81% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 5.55% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 122 82 90
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £73,750 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.59% +51.28% +8.33%
75th Percentile £58,438 £76,000 £58,000
90th Percentile £62,375 - £63,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Business Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,124 3,047 2,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.67% 86.73% 86.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 1,202 1,471
10th Percentile £27,725 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the East of England

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the East of England

Business Intelligence
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the East of England region over the 6 months to 7 January 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -23 43 £57,500 -24.34% 19
Cambridgeshire +37 42 £27,500 -45.00% 17
Suffolk +3 32 £46,750 -15.00% 1
Essex -2 19 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Bedfordshire +17 16 £45,000 -40.79% 6
Norfolk +4 8 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.13%) Confluence
1 5 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 75 (46.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.88%) InDesign
5 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.63%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (71.25%) Power Platform
2 66 (41.25%) Azure
3 21 (13.13%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (12.50%) Azure AI
5 10 (6.25%) AWS
6 7 (4.38%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.75%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.13%) SaaS
9 4 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.88%) GCP
11 2 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.25%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.25%) dbt
11 2 (1.25%) OCI
11 2 (1.25%) Workato
12 1 (0.63%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.63%) Fivetran
12 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.63%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.88%) Network Security
2 3 (1.88%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.25%) FTP
3 2 (1.25%) SSL
4 1 (0.63%) DNS
4 1 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.63%) Firewall
4 1 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.63%) SAN
4 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (71.25%) Power BI
2 33 (20.63%) Tableau
3 20 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
4 16 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (10.00%) MySQL
5 11 (6.88%) Crystal Reports
6 7 (4.38%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (4.38%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.13%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.50%) Metadata
9 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.25%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.25%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 2 (1.25%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.25%) PowerPivot
10 2 (1.25%) QlikView
11 1 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.13%) JIRA
2 3 (1.88%) Git
3 1 (0.63%) GitLab
3 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) Postman
3 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
General
1 60 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.88%) Finance
3 25 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.38%) Manufacturing
5 14 (8.75%) Marketing
5 14 (8.75%) Retail
6 10 (6.25%) Electronics
6 10 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.50%) Automotive
7 4 (2.50%) Banking
7 4 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.50%) Publishing
8 2 (1.25%) Law
8 2 (1.25%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 75 (46.88%) Analyst
2 23 (14.38%) Data Analyst
3 21 (13.13%) Junior
4 20 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 20 (12.50%) Developer
4 20 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
4 20 (12.50%) Junior Data Analyst
4 20 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 13 (8.13%) Report Developer
6 10 (6.25%) ERP Support
6 10 (6.25%) Senior
7 8 (5.00%) Applications Support
7 8 (5.00%) Lead
8 7 (4.38%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Accountant
9 6 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (3.75%) IT Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.50%) .NET
2 3 (1.88%) JSON
2 3 (1.88%) Pandas
2 3 (1.88%) REST
3 2 (1.25%) EDI
3 2 (1.25%) SOAP
3 2 (1.25%) Web Services
3 2 (1.25%) XML
4 1 (0.63%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.63%) HTML
4 1 (0.63%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.63%) JSON-LD
4 1 (0.63%) MDX
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.63%) NumPy
4 1 (0.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.63%) Driving Licence
2 14 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.50%) FMCG
3 4 (2.50%) Freedom of Information Act
4 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.88%) Semantic Web
4 3 (1.88%) Social Media
4 3 (1.88%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.25%) PropTech
5 2 (1.25%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.25%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.63%) Clustering
6 1 (0.63%) LLPG
6 1 (0.63%) PKI
6 1 (0.63%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.63%) Windows
2 5 (3.13%) Linux
3 2 (1.25%) Unix
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.13%) Analytics
2 33 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (18.13%) Customer Service
5 27 (16.88%) Data Analysis
6 26 (16.25%) Process Improvement
7 25 (15.63%) Computer Science
8 24 (15.00%) AI
8 24 (15.00%) Data Analytics
9 23 (14.38%) ERP
9 23 (14.38%) Visualisation
10 22 (13.75%) ETL
11 20 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
12 16 (10.00%) Data Management
13 15 (9.38%) Agile
14 14 (8.75%) Decision-Making
15 13 (8.13%) CRM
15 13 (8.13%) ETL Development
15 13 (8.13%) ITIL
16 11 (6.88%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 69 (43.13%) SQL
2 34 (21.25%) Python
3 8 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.88%) VBA
5 1 (0.63%) C
5 1 (0.63%) C#
5 1 (0.63%) C++
5 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.63%) Rust
5 1 (0.63%) SHACL
5 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
5 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (18.75%) Degree
2 22 (13.75%) Azure Certification
3 21 (13.13%) DBS Check
4 10 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.75%) ACCA
5 6 (3.75%) CIMA
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.88%) CISM
7 3 (1.88%) CISSP
7 3 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.38%) SLA
3 5 (3.13%) GDPR
3 5 (3.13%) QA
4 3 (1.88%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Firmware
2 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.63%) NetBackup
1 1 (0.63%) Puppet
1 1 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 52 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.75%) SAP
3 7 (4.38%) Oracle
4 4 (2.50%) Cisco
4 4 (2.50%) Verint
4 4 (2.50%) Zoho
5 3 (1.88%) Adobe
6 2 (1.25%) Google
6 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.25%) VMware
7 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.63%) Cognos
7 1 (0.63%) HP
7 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.63%) IBM
7 1 (0.63%) Netezza
7 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.63%) Talend