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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 43 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +18
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 158 166 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.70% 4.79% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 5.48% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 117 79 134
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £72,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +52.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £76,000 £58,563
90th Percentile £61,750 - £63,375
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 3,159 3,029 2,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 73.98% 87.42% 85.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,864 1,171 2,113
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,750 £42,500 £36,250
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 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 21 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 21 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
Cambridgeshire +37 42 £27,500 -45.00% 18
Hertfordshire -17 41 £57,500 -24.34% 19
Suffolk +7 29 £46,750 -15.00% 10
Essex -2 20 £52,500 +5.00% 12
Bedfordshire +20 17 £45,000 -40.79% 15
Norfolk +4 9 £55,000 -8.33% 16
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 (3.16%) Confluence
1 5 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 76 (48.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.90%) InDesign
5 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.63%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (72.78%) Power Platform
2 67 (42.41%) Azure
3 24 (15.19%) Azure AI
4 20 (12.66%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.70%) AWS
6 8 (5.06%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.80%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.53%) SaaS
9 3 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.90%) GCP
9 3 (1.90%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.27%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.27%) OCI
10 2 (1.27%) Workato
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.63%) dbt
11 1 (0.63%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.63%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.16%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.90%) Network Security
2 3 (1.90%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.63%) FTP
3 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.63%) SSL
3 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (72.78%) Power BI
2 37 (23.42%) Tableau
3 20 (12.66%) BusinessObjects
4 16 (10.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (9.49%) MySQL
6 8 (5.06%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (4.43%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (3.80%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.16%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.53%) Metadata
11 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.27%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 2 (1.27%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.27%) PowerPivot
12 2 (1.27%) QlikView
13 1 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.16%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) Git
3 1 (0.63%) Postman
3 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
General
1 62 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.62%) Finance
3 22 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.86%) Manufacturing
5 13 (8.23%) Marketing
5 13 (8.23%) Retail
6 9 (5.70%) Electronics
6 9 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.70%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.53%) Automotive
7 4 (2.53%) Banking
7 4 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.53%) Publishing
8 2 (1.27%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 80 (50.63%) Analyst
2 27 (17.09%) Data Analyst
3 25 (15.82%) Junior
4 24 (15.19%) Junior Analyst
4 24 (15.19%) Junior Data Analyst
5 21 (13.29%) Business Analyst
6 20 (12.66%) Developer
6 20 (12.66%) Support Analyst
7 13 (8.23%) Report Developer
8 10 (6.33%) ERP Support
9 8 (5.06%) Lead
9 8 (5.06%) Senior
10 7 (4.43%) Applications Support
11 6 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 6 (3.80%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.80%) Support Engineer
12 5 (3.16%) Business Support Analyst
12 5 (3.16%) ERP Analyst
12 5 (3.16%) IT Engineer
12 5 (3.16%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.53%) .NET
2 3 (1.90%) JSON
2 3 (1.90%) Pandas
3 2 (1.27%) REST
3 2 (1.27%) Web Services
3 2 (1.27%) XML
4 1 (0.63%) EDI
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
4 1 (0.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.76%) Driving Licence
2 14 (8.86%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.53%) FMCG
3 4 (2.53%) Freedom of Information Act
4 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.90%) PropTech
4 3 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.90%) Semantic Web
4 3 (1.90%) Social Media
4 3 (1.90%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.27%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.27%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.63%) Linked Data
6 1 (0.63%) LLPG
6 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.63%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.43%) Windows
2 3 (1.90%) Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.42%) Analytics
2 32 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (18.99%) Customer Service
4 28 (17.72%) AI
4 28 (17.72%) Data Analysis
5 24 (15.19%) Data Analytics
6 23 (14.56%) Computer Science
6 23 (14.56%) Process Improvement
6 23 (14.56%) Visualisation
7 21 (13.29%) ETL
8 20 (12.66%) Data Visualisation
9 19 (12.03%) ERP
10 16 (10.13%) Data Management
11 13 (8.23%) Agile
11 13 (8.23%) Decision-Making
11 13 (8.23%) ETL Development
11 13 (8.23%) ITIL
12 12 (7.59%) CRM
13 11 (6.96%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (44.30%) SQL
2 36 (22.78%) Python
3 8 (5.06%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.90%) VBA
5 1 (0.63%) C#
5 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.63%) SHACL
5 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
5 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (17.72%) Degree
2 26 (16.46%) Azure Certification
3 21 (13.29%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.70%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.90%) ACCA
6 3 (1.90%) CIMA
6 3 (1.90%) CISM
6 3 (1.90%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.43%) SLA
3 6 (3.80%) QA
4 5 (3.16%) GDPR
5 3 (1.90%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 52 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.72%) SAP
3 7 (4.43%) Oracle
4 4 (2.53%) Verint
4 4 (2.53%) Zoho
5 3 (1.90%) Adobe
5 3 (1.90%) Cisco
6 2 (1.27%) Google
6 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.27%) VMware
7 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.63%) Cognos
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