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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 46 67
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +25
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 59 53 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.00% 5.36% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 5.48% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 11 21 35
10th Percentile £29,000 - -
25th Percentile £32,250 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,445 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -8.28% +12.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £71,250 £71,129
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%

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 959 968 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 81.20% 97.98% 90.99%
Number of salaries quoted 482 434 906
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £73,987 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.74%

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 9 March 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 13 (22.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.78%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (32.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 23 (38.98%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (16.95%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (16.95%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (16.95%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (16.95%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (16.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.69%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 44 (74.58%) Power Platform
2 41 (69.49%) Azure
3 24 (40.68%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (33.90%) GitHub
4 20 (33.90%) GitHub Copilot
5 13 (22.03%) OCI
6 12 (20.34%) Azure AI
6 12 (20.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (11.86%) Power Automate
8 6 (10.17%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.39%) AWS
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Stack
9 2 (3.39%) dbt
9 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.69%) GCP
10 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (74.58%) Power BI
2 30 (50.85%) Tableau
3 10 (16.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 7 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (10.17%) Metadata
6 4 (6.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.08%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.39%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.69%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (38.98%) Oracle Forms
2 17 (28.81%) JIRA
3 13 (22.03%) Git
3 13 (22.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (66.10%) Finance
2 26 (44.07%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.78%) Marketing
5 2 (3.39%) Advertising
5 2 (3.39%) Electronics
5 2 (3.39%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Police
5 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.69%) Billing
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (47.46%) Analyst
2 20 (33.90%) Applications Engineer
3 13 (22.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (22.03%) Junior
4 12 (20.34%) Data Analyst
4 12 (20.34%) Junior Analyst
4 12 (20.34%) Junior Data Analyst
5 10 (16.95%) ERP Analyst
5 10 (16.95%) Oracle Analyst
5 10 (16.95%) Senior
5 10 (16.95%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (16.95%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Account Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.39%) Field Support Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) OAuth
1 13 (22.03%) OAuth2
1 13 (22.03%) RESTful
1 13 (22.03%) SAML
2 1 (1.69%) CSS
2 1 (1.69%) HTML
2 1 (1.69%) JSON
2 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.03%) Cloud Native
1 13 (22.03%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (15.25%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (11.86%) Low-Code
4 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.39%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (61.02%) Asset Management
1 36 (61.02%) Coaching
2 33 (55.93%) AI
3 29 (49.15%) Analytics
4 25 (42.37%) ERP
5 24 (40.68%) Agile
5 24 (40.68%) DevOps
6 20 (33.90%) CI/CD
6 20 (33.90%) Test Automation
7 14 (23.73%) Data Management
7 14 (23.73%) Visualisation
8 13 (22.03%) API Integration
8 13 (22.03%) Clean Code
8 13 (22.03%) Event-Driven
8 13 (22.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 13 (22.03%) Microservices
8 13 (22.03%) RBAC
8 13 (22.03%) SOA
9 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
9 12 (20.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 51 (86.44%) SQL
2 39 (66.10%) Python
3 15 (25.42%) PL/SQL
4 13 (22.03%) Java
4 13 (22.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.39%) A+ Certification
2 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) SLA
Systems Management
1 13 (22.03%) Single Sign-On
1 13 (22.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (55.93%) Microsoft
2 26 (44.07%) Oracle
3 4 (6.78%) SAP
4 2 (3.39%) Concur
5 1 (1.69%) FIS