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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 44
Rank change year-on-year +20 -6 +59
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 269 166 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.31% 5.52% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 5.92% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 144 113 221
10th Percentile £34,074 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,439 £43,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +34.02% -3.00%
75th Percentile £77,813 £76,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

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 4,319 2,804 4,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.19% 93.28% 80.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,715 1,433 3,705
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,789 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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
Essex +21 70 £62,500 +31.58% 13
Cambridgeshire -8 51 £54,500 +3.81% 9
Suffolk +50 49 £40,000 -15.12% 9
Hertfordshire -47 41 £57,500 -24.34% 14
Norfolk +7 39 £60,000 +96.72% 7
Bedfordshire +12 18 £75,000 +2.74% 11
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 29 (10.78%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) Confluence
4 2 (0.74%) Luigi
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 111 (41.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 3 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.74%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 212 (78.81%) Power Platform
2 138 (51.30%) Azure
3 84 (31.23%) Azure AI
4 42 (15.61%) PowerApps
5 37 (13.75%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (13.75%) Power Automate
6 26 (9.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (8.92%) OneDrive
8 22 (8.18%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (7.06%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 14 (5.20%) Snowflake
11 12 (4.46%) dbt
12 10 (3.72%) AWS
12 10 (3.72%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (2.97%) GCP
15 6 (2.23%) Dataform
15 6 (2.23%) SaaS
16 5 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) Broadband
1 1 (0.37%) DNS
1 1 (0.37%) LTE
1 1 (0.37%) SAN
1 1 (0.37%) SMS
1 1 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (78.44%) Power BI
2 102 (37.92%) Tableau
3 25 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (7.81%) Data Lake
6 14 (5.20%) BusinessObjects
7 13 (4.83%) Looker
8 12 (4.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (3.72%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.97%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.60%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (2.60%) Power Query
12 6 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.23%) Metabase
12 6 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.86%) MySQL
13 5 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 3 (1.12%) Metadata
16 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (2.23%) MLflow
2 5 (1.86%) JIRA
3 1 (0.37%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 130 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (12.64%) Finance
4 14 (5.20%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.97%) Marketing
5 8 (2.97%) Social Housing
6 5 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.49%) Local Government
8 3 (1.12%) Front Office
8 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.74%) Aviation
9 2 (0.74%) Electronics
9 2 (0.74%) Law
9 2 (0.74%) Legal
9 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Retail
9 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 138 (51.30%) Analyst
2 92 (34.20%) Data Analyst
3 84 (31.23%) Junior
3 84 (31.23%) Junior Analyst
3 84 (31.23%) Junior Data Analyst
4 48 (17.84%) Senior
5 36 (13.38%) Developer
6 22 (8.18%) Senior Developer
7 18 (6.69%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.58%) Support Analyst
8 15 (5.58%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (5.58%) Systems Support Analyst
9 11 (4.09%) Business Systems Analyst
9 11 (4.09%) Systems Analyst
10 10 (3.72%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.35%) IT Engineer
12 8 (2.97%) Administrator
12 8 (2.97%) Architect
12 8 (2.97%) Graduate Analyst
12 8 (2.97%) Healthcare Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.55%) HTML
1 23 (8.55%) JSON
2 22 (8.18%) CSS
2 22 (8.18%) HTML5 Canvas
3 21 (7.81%) .NET
4 19 (7.06%) .NET Core
4 19 (7.06%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (7.06%) SPFx
5 6 (2.23%) Kafka
5 6 (2.23%) LangChain
5 6 (2.23%) LlamaIndex
5 6 (2.23%) pgvector
5 6 (2.23%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.23%) scikit-learn
5 6 (2.23%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.12%) HTML5
6 3 (1.12%) XML
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.74%) REST
7 2 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.58%) Driving Licence
2 8 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.60%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.60%) Clustering
4 6 (2.23%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.12%) EPoS
7 3 (1.12%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.12%) PropTech
8 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.74%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.74%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.37%) FMCG
9 1 (0.37%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.09%) Windows
2 10 (3.72%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (43.87%) AI
2 42 (15.61%) Analytics
3 33 (12.27%) Machine Learning
4 29 (10.78%) ERP
5 28 (10.41%) Data Management
5 28 (10.41%) Data Modelling
6 26 (9.67%) Decision-Making
7 25 (9.29%) Data Engineering
7 25 (9.29%) Project Management
8 23 (8.55%) ETL
8 23 (8.55%) User Experience
9 21 (7.81%) Data Science
9 21 (7.81%) Document Management
9 21 (7.81%) Technical Leadership
10 20 (7.43%) Agile
11 19 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (7.06%) Web Design
12 18 (6.69%) CRM
12 18 (6.69%) Visualisation
13 16 (5.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 164 (60.97%) SQL
2 109 (40.52%) Python
3 25 (9.29%) C#
4 21 (7.81%) PowerShell
5 20 (7.43%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.06%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.60%) R
8 6 (2.23%) Julia
8 6 (2.23%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.12%) VBA
11 2 (0.74%) Scala
12 1 (0.37%) Java
12 1 (0.37%) SHACL
12 1 (0.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 85 (31.60%) Azure Certification
2 30 (11.15%) Degree
3 7 (2.60%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.86%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.49%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.74%) PMP
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.83%) Data Quality
1 13 (4.83%) GDPR
2 6 (2.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (2.23%) QA
3 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.12%) PMO
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS
5 1 (0.37%) PERC
5 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (4.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) Grafana
1 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.37%) SQL Sentry
1 1 (0.37%) Terraform
1 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 144 (53.53%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.06%) Adobe
3 17 (6.32%) Databricks
4 14 (5.20%) SAP
5 12 (4.46%) Dell
6 9 (3.35%) Epicor
7 6 (2.23%) Cloudera
7 6 (2.23%) Denodo
7 6 (2.23%) Informatica
7 6 (2.23%) Teradata
8 5 (1.86%) Oracle
8 5 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.74%) Facebook
9 2 (0.74%) Infor
10 1 (0.37%) Fujitsu
10 1 (0.37%) Google
10 1 (0.37%) NetApp
10 1 (0.37%) Netezza
10 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds