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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +37
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 196 143 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.61% 5.30% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 5.74% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 109 90 214
10th Percentile £30,500 £39,865 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,563 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +44.33% +14.12%
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £79,000 - £65,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -5.17%

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 3,934 2,493 4,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 72.46% 92.37% 83.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 1,337 3,433
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +13 43 £57,500 +21.05% 13
Hertfordshire -39 41 £57,500 -24.34% 21
Cambridgeshire +14 38 £50,750 +1.50% 24
Suffolk +28 35 £46,750 -15.00% 8
Norfolk +10 24 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Bedfordshire +6 15 £38,407 -45.13% 7
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 11 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.53%) Confluence
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 84 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.53%) InDesign
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 150 (76.53%) Power Platform
2 91 (46.43%) Azure
3 60 (30.61%) Azure AI
4 24 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.16%) PowerApps
6 13 (6.63%) Power Automate
7 12 (6.12%) Snowflake
8 10 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (4.59%) AWS
9 9 (4.59%) dbt
10 7 (3.57%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.57%) GCP
11 6 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (3.06%) OneDrive
11 6 (3.06%) SaaS
12 5 (2.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.04%) Dataform
13 4 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (1.02%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.55%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.53%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (76.53%) Power BI
2 73 (37.24%) Tableau
3 18 (9.18%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (8.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (8.67%) BusinessObjects
5 12 (6.12%) Data Lake
6 11 (5.61%) MySQL
7 9 (4.59%) Looker
8 8 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.06%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.04%) Metabase
12 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.53%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.53%) Metadata
13 3 (1.53%) Power Query
13 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (3.06%) JIRA
2 5 (2.55%) MLflow
3 1 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
General
1 95 (48.47%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.80%) Finance
4 9 (4.59%) Marketing
5 7 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.53%) Electronics
7 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.53%) Retail
7 3 (1.53%) Social Housing
7 3 (1.53%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.02%) Automotive
8 2 (1.02%) Aviation
8 2 (1.02%) Banking
8 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Publishing
9 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Law
9 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 102 (52.04%) Analyst
2 64 (32.65%) Data Analyst
3 60 (30.61%) Junior
3 60 (30.61%) Junior Analyst
3 60 (30.61%) Junior Data Analyst
4 24 (12.24%) Senior
5 22 (11.22%) Developer
6 19 (9.69%) Business Analyst
7 11 (5.61%) IT Engineer
7 11 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
8 10 (5.10%) Report Developer
9 9 (4.59%) Support Analyst
9 9 (4.59%) Systems Support Analyst
10 8 (4.08%) Administrator
10 8 (4.08%) Business Systems Analyst
10 8 (4.08%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Graduate
11 7 (3.57%) Graduate Analyst
11 7 (3.57%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.06%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.59%) JSON
2 8 (4.08%) .NET
3 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (2.55%) .NET Core
4 5 (2.55%) CSS
4 5 (2.55%) HTML
4 5 (2.55%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (2.55%) Kafka
4 5 (2.55%) LangChain
4 5 (2.55%) LlamaIndex
4 5 (2.55%) pgvector
4 5 (2.55%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.55%) scikit-learn
4 5 (2.55%) SPFx
4 5 (2.55%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.53%) REST
5 3 (1.53%) XML
6 2 (1.02%) SOAP
7 1 (0.51%) MDX
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.16%) Driving Licence
2 11 (5.61%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.06%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.06%) Clustering
4 5 (2.55%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.53%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.53%) PropTech
5 3 (1.53%) Social Media
5 3 (1.53%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.02%) FMCG
6 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.02%) Semantic Web
7 1 (0.51%) Linked Data
7 1 (0.51%) LLPG
7 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.12%) Windows
2 6 (3.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.31%) AI
2 32 (16.33%) Analytics
3 29 (14.80%) Data Management
4 25 (12.76%) ETL
5 24 (12.24%) Decision-Making
6 21 (10.71%) Computer Science
6 21 (10.71%) Visualisation
7 18 (9.18%) Data Engineering
7 18 (9.18%) Data Modelling
8 17 (8.67%) ERP
9 16 (8.16%) Agile
9 16 (8.16%) Data Science
9 16 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (7.14%) Machine Learning
11 13 (6.63%) CRM
12 11 (5.61%) Project Management
12 11 (5.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (5.61%) Translating Business Requirements
12 11 (5.61%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 114 (58.16%) SQL
2 78 (39.80%) Python
3 13 (6.63%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.57%) C#
5 6 (3.06%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.06%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.55%) R
7 4 (2.04%) Julia
7 4 (2.04%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.53%) VBA
9 2 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.51%) Java
10 1 (0.51%) SHACL
10 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 62 (31.63%) Azure Certification
2 33 (16.84%) Degree
3 5 (2.55%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.04%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.04%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.02%) PMP
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.57%) GDPR
3 5 (2.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.04%) QA
5 3 (1.53%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.02%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) Grafana
1 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.51%) SQL Sentry
1 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 98 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.69%) SAP
3 12 (6.12%) Databricks
4 10 (5.10%) Dell
5 8 (4.08%) Adobe
6 6 (3.06%) Epicor
7 5 (2.55%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.55%) Denodo
7 5 (2.55%) Informatica
7 5 (2.55%) Teradata
8 4 (2.04%) Oracle
9 3 (1.53%) Cisco
9 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.53%) Zoho
10 2 (1.02%) Facebook
11 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.51%) Cognos
11 1 (0.51%) IBM
11 1 (0.51%) Netezza
11 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds