Business Intelligence Job Trends in Edinburgh

Business Intelligence (BI)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 49 74
Rank change year-on-year +14 +25 +20
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 54 48 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.62% 5.05% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.89% 5.18% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10 24 31
10th Percentile £28,850 £41,051 -
25th Percentile £30,625 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,445 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% -8.28% +7.97%
75th Percentile £85,000 £64,022 £57,500
90th Percentile £91,625 £72,125 £61,250
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £50,445 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.03% -3.91% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 917 926 1,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 78.51% 97.47% 90.12%
Number of salaries quoted 497 447 971
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,608 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -11.80%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in Edinburgh

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (14.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (37.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (18.52%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (18.52%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (18.52%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (18.52%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (18.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.85%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 39 (72.22%) Power Platform
2 38 (70.37%) Azure
3 17 (31.48%) Azure AI
4 16 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (29.63%) GitHub
5 15 (27.78%) GitHub Copilot
6 12 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (14.81%) OCI
8 7 (12.96%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.56%) AWS
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Stack
10 2 (3.70%) dbt
10 2 (3.70%) GCP
10 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (72.22%) Power BI
2 27 (50.00%) Tableau
3 10 (18.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (5.56%) Data Vault
4 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.70%) Metadata
6 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (14.81%) Git
2 8 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 8 (14.81%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (57.41%) Social Skills
2 30 (55.56%) Finance
3 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Marketing
5 2 (3.70%) Advertising
5 2 (3.70%) Electronics
5 2 (3.70%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Police
5 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.85%) Billing
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (50.00%) Analyst
2 18 (33.33%) Junior
3 17 (31.48%) Data Analyst
3 17 (31.48%) Junior Analyst
3 17 (31.48%) Junior Data Analyst
4 15 (27.78%) Applications Engineer
5 10 (18.52%) ERP Analyst
5 10 (18.52%) Oracle Analyst
5 10 (18.52%) Senior
5 10 (18.52%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (18.52%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 8 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Data Modeller
8 2 (3.70%) Field Support Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) IT Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) IT Support
8 2 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Lead
8 2 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) OAuth
1 8 (14.81%) OAuth2
1 8 (14.81%) RESTful
1 8 (14.81%) SAML
2 1 (1.85%) CSS
2 1 (1.85%) HTML
2 1 (1.85%) JSON
2 1 (1.85%) PySpark
2 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 9 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (12.96%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.70%) Digital Media
4 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (62.96%) AI
2 27 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 27 (50.00%) Coaching
3 25 (46.30%) Analytics
4 18 (33.33%) ERP
5 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
5 16 (29.63%) DevOps
6 15 (27.78%) Agile
6 15 (27.78%) Test Automation
7 12 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 12 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (18.52%) Data Management
9 10 (18.52%) Data Migration
9 10 (18.52%) Migration
9 10 (18.52%) Planning and Forecasting
9 10 (18.52%) Process Improvement
9 10 (18.52%) Roadmaps
9 10 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (18.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (85.19%) SQL
2 36 (66.67%) Python
3 8 (14.81%) Java
3 8 (14.81%) PL/SQL
3 8 (14.81%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (31.48%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.70%) A+ Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) SLA
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Single Sign-On
1 8 (14.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 19 (35.19%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) FIS