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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 43 37
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 +40
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 182 139 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.46% 4.95% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 5.37% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 106 89 213
10th Percentile £32,125 £39,852 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £70,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.43% +44.33% +14.12%
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 - £64,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3,812 2,589 4,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 72.40% 92.20% 83.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,225 1,319 3,395
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,900 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,750 £33,583
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £78,250
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 17 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 17 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
Hertfordshire -38 40 £57,500 -24.34% 18
Essex +12 39 £55,000 +15.79% 12
Suffolk +28 33 £46,750 -15.00% 5
Cambridgeshire +8 33 £50,750 +1.50% 17
Norfolk +11 22 £60,000 +14.29% 13
Bedfordshire +11 15 £38,407 -45.13% 5
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 (6.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 80 (43.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.65%) InDesign
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.55%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 140 (76.92%) Power Platform
2 83 (45.60%) Azure
3 56 (30.77%) Azure AI
4 23 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.79%) PowerApps
6 13 (7.14%) Power Automate
7 8 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.85%) Snowflake
9 6 (3.30%) AWS
10 5 (2.75%) dbt
10 5 (2.75%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.75%) SaaS
11 4 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.20%) GCP
12 3 (1.65%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 3 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.65%) Dataform
12 3 (1.65%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.10%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.75%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.65%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (76.92%) Power BI
2 65 (35.71%) Tableau
3 16 (8.79%) BusinessObjects
4 14 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (6.04%) MySQL
7 7 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.75%) Looker
10 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.65%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.65%) Metabase
11 3 (1.65%) Metadata
11 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.10%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 2 (1.10%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.10%) Power Query
12 2 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.75%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) MLflow
3 1 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 89 (48.90%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.29%) Finance
4 8 (4.40%) Marketing
5 6 (3.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.65%) Electronics
7 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.65%) Retail
7 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.10%) Automotive
8 2 (1.10%) Aviation
8 2 (1.10%) Banking
8 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Publishing
8 2 (1.10%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Games
9 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 96 (52.75%) Analyst
2 60 (32.97%) Data Analyst
3 56 (30.77%) Junior
3 56 (30.77%) Junior Analyst
3 56 (30.77%) Junior Data Analyst
4 20 (10.99%) Business Analyst
4 20 (10.99%) Developer
5 18 (9.89%) Senior
6 10 (5.49%) IT Engineer
6 10 (5.49%) Report Developer
7 8 (4.40%) Data Engineer
8 7 (3.85%) Administrator
8 7 (3.85%) Support Analyst
8 7 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (3.85%) Systems Support Analyst
9 6 (3.30%) Business Systems Analyst
9 6 (3.30%) Graduate
9 6 (3.30%) Graduate Analyst
10 5 (2.75%) Graduate Support Analyst
10 5 (2.75%) Healthcare Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.85%) JSON
2 6 (3.30%) .NET
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.65%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.65%) CSS
4 3 (1.65%) HTML
4 3 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (1.65%) REST
4 3 (1.65%) SPFx
4 3 (1.65%) XML
5 2 (1.10%) Kafka
5 2 (1.10%) LangChain
5 2 (1.10%) LlamaIndex
5 2 (1.10%) pgvector
5 2 (1.10%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.10%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.10%) SOAP
5 2 (1.10%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.10%) Web Services
6 1 (0.55%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.79%) Driving Licence
2 11 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.65%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.65%) Clustering
3 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.65%) Low-Code
3 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.65%) PropTech
3 3 (1.65%) Social Media
3 3 (1.65%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.10%) FMCG
4 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.10%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.10%) Semantic Web
5 1 (0.55%) Linked Data
5 1 (0.55%) LLPG
5 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.55%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.04%) Windows
2 5 (2.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (38.46%) AI
2 25 (13.74%) Analytics
3 23 (12.64%) Data Management
4 22 (12.09%) ETL
5 21 (11.54%) Computer Science
5 21 (11.54%) Decision-Making
6 20 (10.99%) Visualisation
7 16 (8.79%) Agile
8 15 (8.24%) ERP
8 15 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (7.69%) Data Modelling
9 14 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
10 13 (7.14%) CRM
11 12 (6.59%) Change Management
11 12 (6.59%) Data Engineering
12 11 (6.04%) ITIL
13 10 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (5.49%) ETL Development
13 10 (5.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (5.49%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 103 (56.59%) SQL
2 70 (38.46%) Python
3 12 (6.59%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.75%) C#
5 4 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.20%) R
5 4 (2.20%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.65%) Julia
6 3 (1.65%) VBA
7 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.55%) Java
8 1 (0.55%) SHACL
8 1 (0.55%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 58 (31.87%) Azure Certification
2 31 (17.03%) Degree
3 4 (2.20%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.20%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.10%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.10%) PMP
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.20%) GDPR
2 4 (2.20%) QA
3 3 (1.65%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Grafana
1 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.55%) SQL Sentry
1 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 93 (51.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.44%) SAP
3 7 (3.85%) Databricks
4 6 (3.30%) Adobe
5 5 (2.75%) Dell
5 5 (2.75%) Epicor
6 4 (2.20%) Oracle
7 3 (1.65%) Cisco
7 3 (1.65%) Denodo
7 3 (1.65%) Informatica
7 3 (1.65%) Teradata
7 3 (1.65%) Zoho
8 2 (1.10%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.10%) Facebook
8 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.55%) Cognos
9 1 (0.55%) Google
9 1 (0.55%) IBM
9 1 (0.55%) Netezza