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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 80 44
Rank change year-on-year +40 -36 +8
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 181 107 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 5.09% 2.54% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 3.24% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 158 50 72
10th Percentile - £28,200 £36,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £77,188 £59,063
90th Percentile £60,000 £96,825 £72,125
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -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 2,908 3,301 1,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 81.85% 78.43% 92.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,763 1,423 1,329
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,750 £26,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £38,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +1.62%
75th Percentile £61,250 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 15 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 15 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 +56 54 £27,500 -66.57% 23
Hertfordshire +5 43 £55,000 +10.00% 34
Suffolk +2 34 £47,500 -13.64% 7
Essex +4 31 £30,000 -40.00% 15
Bedfordshire +30 19 £31,000 -52.31% 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 8 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.21%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 86 (47.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.66%) InDesign
5 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (73.48%) Power Platform
2 78 (43.09%) Azure
3 20 (11.05%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.42%) AWS
5 7 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.76%) Google Data Studio
6 5 (2.76%) SaaS
7 4 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.21%) Google Ads
7 4 (2.21%) Google Analytics
7 4 (2.21%) Google Sheets
7 4 (2.21%) Google Tag Manager
7 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Advertising
7 4 (2.21%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.21%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.10%) dbt
8 2 (1.10%) OCI
8 2 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.66%) Network Security
2 3 (1.66%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.10%) FTP
3 2 (1.10%) SSL
4 1 (0.55%) DNS
4 1 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.55%) Firewall
4 1 (0.55%) Internet
4 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.55%) SAN
4 1 (0.55%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (73.48%) Power BI
2 18 (9.94%) Power Query
3 17 (9.39%) BusinessObjects
4 15 (8.29%) Crystal Reports
5 13 (7.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (7.18%) MySQL
5 13 (7.18%) Tableau
6 8 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.87%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.76%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.21%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.10%) Metadata
11 2 (1.10%) QlikView
12 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 1 (0.55%) Cognos Connection
12 1 (0.55%) Cognos Framework Manager
12 1 (0.55%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (2.21%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) GitLab
3 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.55%) Postman
3 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
General
1 50 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.99%) Finance
3 37 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.39%) Marketing
5 15 (8.29%) Retail
6 13 (7.18%) Manufacturing
7 11 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.42%) Electronics
8 8 (4.42%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.42%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.76%) Games
11 4 (2.21%) Automotive
11 4 (2.21%) Banking
11 4 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.21%) Publishing
12 2 (1.10%) Law
Job Titles
1 75 (41.44%) Analyst
2 35 (19.34%) Support Analyst
3 28 (15.47%) Lead
4 19 (10.50%) Developer
5 14 (7.73%) Report Developer
5 14 (7.73%) Systems Analyst
6 13 (7.18%) Business Analyst
6 13 (7.18%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 13 (7.18%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 12 (6.63%) Business Support Analyst
7 12 (6.63%) Systems Support
7 12 (6.63%) Systems Support Analyst
7 12 (6.63%) Team Leader
8 10 (5.52%) 1st Line Support
8 10 (5.52%) Accountant
8 10 (5.52%) Coordinator
8 10 (5.52%) ERP Support
8 10 (5.52%) Management Accountant
8 10 (5.52%) Support Team Leader
8 10 (5.52%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.21%) .NET
2 3 (1.66%) REST
3 2 (1.10%) EDI
3 2 (1.10%) Pandas
3 2 (1.10%) SOAP
3 2 (1.10%) Web Services
4 1 (0.55%) HTML
4 1 (0.55%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.55%) JSON
4 1 (0.55%) MDX
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.55%) NumPy
4 1 (0.55%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.18%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.76%) FMCG
4 4 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.21%) Freedom of Information Act
4 4 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.66%) Social Media
5 3 (1.66%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.55%) Clustering
7 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.55%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.55%) PKI
7 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.55%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.42%) Windows
2 5 (2.76%) Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.46%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (34.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 56 (30.94%) Analytics
3 56 (30.94%) Customer Service
4 47 (25.97%) Process Improvement
5 46 (25.41%) Data Analysis
6 40 (22.10%) Data Analytics
7 30 (16.57%) ETL
8 29 (16.02%) Decision-Making
9 25 (13.81%) ERP
10 22 (12.15%) Mentoring
11 21 (11.60%) Computer Science
11 21 (11.60%) Visualisation
12 19 (10.50%) Data Visualisation
13 18 (9.94%) Data Modelling
14 14 (7.73%) Coaching
14 14 (7.73%) CRM
15 13 (7.18%) ITIL
16 12 (6.63%) Agile
16 12 (6.63%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (35.91%) SQL
2 16 (8.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (6.08%) Python
4 8 (4.42%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.21%) VBA
6 3 (1.66%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.55%) C
7 1 (0.55%) C#
7 1 (0.55%) C++
7 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.55%) Rust
7 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (27.62%) DBS Check
2 22 (12.15%) Degree
3 10 (5.52%) ACCA
3 10 (5.52%) CIMA
4 8 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.42%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.66%) CISM
6 3 (1.66%) CISSP
6 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) Data Quality
1 7 (3.87%) SLA
2 4 (2.21%) GDPR
3 3 (1.66%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.10%) GRC
4 2 (1.10%) QA
5 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Firmware
2 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
1 1 (0.55%) Puppet
1 1 (0.55%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 54 (29.83%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.26%) SAP
3 7 (3.87%) Oracle
4 6 (3.31%) Google
5 4 (2.21%) Cisco
5 4 (2.21%) Verint
5 4 (2.21%) Zoho
6 3 (1.66%) Adobe
7 2 (1.10%) VMware
8 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.55%) Cognos
8 1 (0.55%) HP
8 1 (0.55%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.55%) IBM
8 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.55%) Talend