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 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 49 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 +29
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 150 168 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.30% 4.93% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 5.53% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 104 82 188
10th Percentile £30,500 £39,775 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £47,875 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £71,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% +50.00% +18.75%
75th Percentile £58,750 £76,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,625 - £63,284
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 3,363 3,037 3,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 73.98% 89.11% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,981 1,205 2,981
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,001
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,967 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.24% +12.67% -12.00%

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 February 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 February 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 -26 43 £55,000 -27.63% 17
Cambridgeshire +23 29 £35,960 -28.08% 12
Suffolk +17 28 £46,750 -15.00% 5
Essex +1 19 £52,500 +5.00% 11
Bedfordshire +13 17 £48,750 -33.22% 6
Norfolk +9 14 £60,000 +14.29% 3
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 6 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (42.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.00%) InDesign
5 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.67%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 106 (70.67%) Power Platform
2 61 (40.67%) Azure
3 32 (21.33%) Azure AI
4 19 (12.67%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.33%) PowerApps
6 9 (6.00%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.67%) AWS
8 3 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.00%) SaaS
9 2 (1.33%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.33%) GCP
9 2 (1.33%) OCI
9 2 (1.33%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.33%) Workato
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.00%) Network Security
2 3 (2.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.67%) FTP
3 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.67%) SSL
3 1 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (70.67%) Power BI
2 39 (26.00%) Tableau
3 19 (12.67%) BusinessObjects
4 15 (10.00%) MySQL
5 14 (9.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.67%) Metadata
7 4 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 2 (1.33%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.33%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.33%) PowerPivot
9 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (0.67%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) Postman
2 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
General
1 65 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.00%) Finance
3 20 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 11 (7.33%) Marketing
5 11 (7.33%) Retail
6 8 (5.33%) Electronics
6 8 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.67%) Automotive
7 4 (2.67%) Banking
7 4 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.67%) Publishing
8 2 (1.33%) Aviation
8 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Legal
8 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (48.67%) Analyst
2 35 (23.33%) Data Analyst
3 32 (21.33%) Junior
3 32 (21.33%) Junior Analyst
3 32 (21.33%) Junior Data Analyst
4 21 (14.00%) Business Analyst
5 20 (13.33%) Developer
6 13 (8.67%) Report Developer
7 9 (6.00%) Senior
7 9 (6.00%) Support Analyst
8 8 (5.33%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) Administrator
9 6 (4.00%) ERP Support
9 6 (4.00%) Lead
10 5 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 5 (3.33%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) IT Support
10 5 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Support Engineer
11 4 (2.67%) ERP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.67%) .NET
2 3 (2.00%) JSON
3 2 (1.33%) Pandas
3 2 (1.33%) REST
3 2 (1.33%) Web Services
3 2 (1.33%) XML
4 1 (0.67%) EDI
4 1 (0.67%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.67%) JSON-LD
4 1 (0.67%) MDX
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.33%) Driving Licence
2 14 (9.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.67%) FMCG
4 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.00%) PropTech
4 3 (2.00%) Semantic Web
4 3 (2.00%) Social Media
4 3 (2.00%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.33%) Freedom of Information Act
5 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.33%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.33%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.33%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.67%) Linked Data
6 1 (0.67%) LLPG
6 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.00%) Windows
2 3 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.67%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (24.00%) AI
2 23 (15.33%) Analytics
2 23 (15.33%) Computer Science
3 20 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (12.67%) ETL
4 19 (12.67%) Visualisation
5 18 (12.00%) Data Management
5 18 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (11.33%) ERP
7 16 (10.67%) Customer Service
7 16 (10.67%) Data Analysis
7 16 (10.67%) Data Visualisation
8 15 (10.00%) Agile
8 15 (10.00%) CRM
9 13 (8.67%) Decision-Making
9 13 (8.67%) ETL Development
10 12 (8.00%) Data Analytics
11 11 (7.33%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (6.67%) Data Modelling
12 10 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 69 (46.00%) SQL
2 40 (26.67%) Python
3 8 (5.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.33%) VBA
5 1 (0.67%) C#
5 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.67%) R
5 1 (0.67%) SHACL
5 1 (0.67%) SPARQL
5 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (22.67%) Azure Certification
2 27 (18.00%) Degree
3 9 (6.00%) DBS Check
4 8 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.33%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.00%) CISM
6 3 (2.00%) CISSP
7 1 (0.67%) ACCA
7 1 (0.67%) CIMA
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.33%) QA
2 4 (2.67%) SLA
3 3 (2.00%) GDPR
3 3 (2.00%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.33%) PMO
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 61 (40.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.00%) SAP
3 4 (2.67%) Oracle
4 3 (2.00%) Adobe
4 3 (2.00%) Cisco
4 3 (2.00%) Epicor
4 3 (2.00%) Zoho
5 2 (1.33%) Facebook
5 2 (1.33%) Verint
6 1 (0.67%) Cognos
6 1 (0.67%) Google
6 1 (0.67%) IBM
6 1 (0.67%) Netezza
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) VMware