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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 49 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +9
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 177 180 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.78% 4.24% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 5.23% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 146 89 74
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,125 £76,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.99% +44.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,000 - £58,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £89,800 £71,375
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Process and 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 2,958 3,441 1,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 79.92% 81.08% 92.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,774 1,492 1,315
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £43,688 £38,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +1.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +49 46 £27,500 -50.00% 28
Hertfordshire -18 45 £55,000 -27.63% 29
Suffolk +8 37 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Essex +4 28 £40,000 -20.00% 21
Bedfordshire +20 19 £31,000 -59.21% 13
Norfolk +8 2 - - 10
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 7 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 87 (49.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.69%) InDesign
5 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 127 (71.75%) Power Platform
2 73 (41.24%) Azure
3 20 (11.30%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.08%) AWS
5 8 (4.52%) Azure AI
6 6 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.82%) Google Data Studio
7 5 (2.82%) SaaS
8 4 (2.26%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.26%) Google Ads
8 4 (2.26%) Google Analytics
8 4 (2.26%) Google Sheets
8 4 (2.26%) Google Tag Manager
8 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Advertising
8 4 (2.26%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.26%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.26%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.69%) GCP
10 2 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.69%) Network Security
2 3 (1.69%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.13%) FTP
3 2 (1.13%) SSL
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.56%) Firewall
4 1 (0.56%) Internet
4 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.56%) SAN
4 1 (0.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (71.75%) Power BI
2 21 (11.86%) Tableau
3 19 (10.73%) BusinessObjects
4 15 (8.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (8.47%) Crystal Reports
4 15 (8.47%) MySQL
5 14 (7.91%) Power Query
6 8 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.95%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (3.95%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.82%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.69%) Metadata
9 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.13%) QlikView
10 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.56%) Cognos Connection
11 1 (0.56%) Cognos Framework Manager
Development Applications
1 4 (2.26%) JIRA
2 2 (1.13%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Postman
3 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.60%) Finance
3 37 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.17%) Marketing
5 14 (7.91%) Manufacturing
6 13 (7.34%) Retail
7 10 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (5.08%) Electronics
8 9 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.08%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.82%) Games
11 4 (2.26%) Automotive
11 4 (2.26%) Banking
11 4 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.26%) Publishing
12 2 (1.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (41.24%) Analyst
2 27 (15.25%) Support Analyst
3 23 (12.99%) Developer
4 22 (12.43%) Lead
5 15 (8.47%) Report Developer
6 14 (7.91%) Business Analyst
7 13 (7.34%) Data Analyst
7 13 (7.34%) Junior
8 11 (6.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 11 (6.21%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 10 (5.65%) Accountant
9 10 (5.65%) ERP Support
9 10 (5.65%) Management Accountant
9 10 (5.65%) Systems Accountant
9 10 (5.65%) Systems Analyst
10 9 (5.08%) Junior Analyst
10 9 (5.08%) Junior Data Analyst
11 8 (4.52%) Business Support Analyst
11 8 (4.52%) Systems Support Analyst
11 8 (4.52%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.26%) .NET
2 3 (1.69%) Pandas
2 3 (1.69%) REST
3 2 (1.13%) EDI
3 2 (1.13%) JSON
3 2 (1.13%) SOAP
3 2 (1.13%) Web Services
3 2 (1.13%) XML
4 1 (0.56%) HTML
4 1 (0.56%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.56%) MDX
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.56%) NumPy
4 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.91%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.82%) FMCG
4 4 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.26%) Freedom of Information Act
4 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.69%) Social Media
5 3 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.13%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.13%) Semantic Web
7 1 (0.56%) Clustering
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.56%) PKI
7 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.52%) Windows
2 5 (2.82%) Linux
3 2 (1.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.38%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (28.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (28.25%) Analytics
4 44 (24.86%) Customer Service
5 39 (22.03%) Process Improvement
6 37 (20.90%) Data Analysis
7 32 (18.08%) Data Analytics
8 31 (17.51%) ETL
9 29 (16.38%) Decision-Making
10 26 (14.69%) ERP
11 25 (14.12%) Visualisation
12 22 (12.43%) Computer Science
13 21 (11.86%) Data Visualisation
14 18 (10.17%) Data Modelling
15 16 (9.04%) Mentoring
16 15 (8.47%) Data Management
17 14 (7.91%) Agile
17 14 (7.91%) CRM
18 13 (7.34%) Digital Marketing
18 13 (7.34%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 71 (40.11%) SQL
2 21 (11.86%) Python
3 12 (6.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.52%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.82%) VBA
6 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.56%) C
7 1 (0.56%) C#
7 1 (0.56%) C++
7 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.56%) Rust
7 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (21.47%) DBS Check
2 24 (13.56%) Degree
3 10 (5.65%) ACCA
3 10 (5.65%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.65%) CIMA
4 9 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.08%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.69%) CISM
6 3 (1.69%) CISSP
6 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.95%) SLA
3 5 (2.82%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) QA
5 2 (1.13%) GRC
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (3.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
1 1 (0.56%) Puppet
1 1 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 58 (32.77%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.25%) SAP
3 7 (3.95%) Oracle
4 6 (3.39%) Google
5 4 (2.26%) Cisco
5 4 (2.26%) Verint
5 4 (2.26%) Zoho
6 3 (1.69%) Adobe
7 2 (1.13%) VMware
8 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.56%) Cognos
8 1 (0.56%) HP
8 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.56%) IBM
8 1 (0.56%) Netezza
8 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) Talend