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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 31 38
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +61
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 263 154 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.16% 5.88% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 6.36% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 139 106 222
10th Percentile £33,750 £39,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,439 £45,875 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +34.02% +8.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,764 £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 4,456 2,422 4,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.45% 92.55% 81.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,609 1,387 3,671
10th Percentile £29,950 £28,000 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,885 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,295 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +12 67 £61,250 +28.95% 11
Cambridgeshire -4 51 £55,000 - 10
Suffolk +47 47 £41,500 -11.94% 11
Hertfordshire -47 42 £57,500 -24.34% 17
Norfolk +6 36 £60,000 +96.72% 7
Bedfordshire +6 19 £75,000 +2.74% 9
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 25 (9.51%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.76%) Confluence
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 113 (42.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 3 (1.14%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 208 (79.09%) Power Platform
2 133 (50.57%) Azure
3 84 (31.94%) Azure AI
4 38 (14.45%) PowerApps
5 35 (13.31%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (12.55%) Power Automate
7 22 (8.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (7.98%) OneDrive
9 19 (7.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 16 (6.08%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 14 (5.32%) Snowflake
12 12 (4.56%) dbt
13 10 (3.80%) AWS
13 10 (3.80%) Entra ID
14 8 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (3.04%) GCP
15 6 (2.28%) Dataform
16 5 (1.90%) SaaS
17 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Broadband
1 1 (0.38%) DNS
1 1 (0.38%) LTE
1 1 (0.38%) SAN
1 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (78.71%) Power BI
2 102 (38.78%) Tableau
3 22 (8.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (7.98%) Data Lake
4 21 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (6.08%) BusinessObjects
6 14 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (4.94%) Looker
8 9 (3.42%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.04%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.66%) Crystal Reports
10 7 (2.66%) MySQL
10 7 (2.66%) Power Query
11 6 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.28%) Metabase
11 6 (2.28%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (1.14%) Metadata
15 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.28%) MLflow
2 5 (1.90%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) Git
3 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.38%) Toad
General
1 131 (49.81%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (13.69%) Finance
4 14 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.04%) Social Housing
6 7 (2.66%) Marketing
7 5 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.52%) Local Government
8 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Front Office
9 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Aviation
10 2 (0.76%) Electronics
10 2 (0.76%) Law
10 2 (0.76%) Legal
10 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 136 (51.71%) Analyst
2 91 (34.60%) Data Analyst
3 84 (31.94%) Junior
3 84 (31.94%) Junior Analyst
3 84 (31.94%) Junior Data Analyst
4 42 (15.97%) Senior
5 36 (13.69%) Developer
6 21 (7.98%) Senior Developer
7 18 (6.84%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.70%) Support Analyst
8 15 (5.70%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (5.70%) Systems Support Analyst
9 11 (4.18%) Business Systems Analyst
9 11 (4.18%) Systems Analyst
10 10 (3.80%) IT Engineer
11 9 (3.42%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.04%) Administrator
12 8 (3.04%) Graduate
12 8 (3.04%) Graduate Analyst
12 8 (3.04%) Healthcare Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.60%) HTML
1 20 (7.60%) JSON
2 19 (7.22%) CSS
2 19 (7.22%) HTML5 Canvas
3 18 (6.84%) .NET
4 16 (6.08%) .NET Core
4 16 (6.08%) Microsoft Graph
4 16 (6.08%) SPFx
5 6 (2.28%) Kafka
5 6 (2.28%) LangChain
5 6 (2.28%) LlamaIndex
5 6 (2.28%) pgvector
5 6 (2.28%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.28%) scikit-learn
5 6 (2.28%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.14%) HTML5
6 3 (1.14%) XML
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.76%) REST
7 2 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.70%) Driving Licence
2 8 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.66%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.66%) Clustering
3 7 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.28%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.14%) EPoS
7 3 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.14%) PropTech
8 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.76%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.76%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.38%) FMCG
9 1 (0.38%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.56%) Windows
2 10 (3.80%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (43.73%) AI
2 38 (14.45%) Analytics
3 31 (11.79%) ERP
4 30 (11.41%) Data Management
5 28 (10.65%) Machine Learning
6 26 (9.89%) Data Modelling
6 26 (9.89%) Decision-Making
7 24 (9.13%) ETL
8 23 (8.75%) Data Engineering
9 22 (8.37%) Project Management
9 22 (8.37%) Visualisation
10 21 (7.98%) Data Science
11 19 (7.22%) Agile
11 19 (7.22%) User Experience
12 18 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (6.84%) Document Management
12 18 (6.84%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (6.46%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (6.08%) CRM
14 16 (6.08%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 160 (60.84%) SQL
2 107 (40.68%) Python
3 21 (7.98%) C#
4 19 (7.22%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.46%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.08%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.66%) R
8 6 (2.28%) Julia
8 6 (2.28%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.14%) VBA
11 1 (0.38%) Java
11 1 (0.38%) SHACL
11 1 (0.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 86 (32.70%) Azure Certification
2 27 (10.27%) Degree
3 7 (2.66%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.90%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.76%) PMP
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.18%) GDPR
3 6 (2.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.90%) QA
5 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.76%) PMO
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (4.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Grafana
1 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.38%) SQL Sentry
1 1 (0.38%) Terraform
1 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 142 (53.99%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.46%) SAP
3 16 (6.08%) Adobe
4 15 (5.70%) Databricks
5 12 (4.56%) Dell
6 9 (3.42%) Epicor
7 6 (2.28%) Cloudera
7 6 (2.28%) Denodo
7 6 (2.28%) Informatica
7 6 (2.28%) Teradata
8 5 (1.90%) Oracle
9 4 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.76%) Facebook
10 2 (0.76%) Infor
11 1 (0.38%) Fujitsu
11 1 (0.38%) NetApp
11 1 (0.38%) Netezza
11 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.38%) VMware