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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 43 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 +22
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 56 53 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.79% 5.38% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 5.49% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 35
10th Percentile £28,850 - -
25th Percentile £30,625 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,445 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% -8.28% +10.07%
75th Percentile £70,625 £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 946 966 1,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 80.85% 97.97% 91.00%
Number of salaries quoted 485 433 906
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £74,066 £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% -10.26%

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 11 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 11 (19.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.36%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (33.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (37.50%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (17.86%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (17.86%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (17.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (17.86%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (17.86%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.79%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (73.21%) Power Platform
2 39 (69.64%) Azure
3 21 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (32.14%) GitHub
4 18 (32.14%) GitHub Copilot
5 13 (23.21%) Azure AI
6 12 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (19.64%) OCI
8 7 (12.50%) Power Automate
9 5 (8.93%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.57%) AWS
10 2 (3.57%) Azure Stack
10 2 (3.57%) dbt
11 1 (1.79%) GCP
11 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (73.21%) Power BI
2 28 (50.00%) Tableau
3 10 (17.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.93%) Metadata
6 3 (5.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (3.57%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.79%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.79%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (37.50%) Oracle Forms
2 14 (25.00%) JIRA
3 11 (19.64%) Git
3 11 (19.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (64.29%) Finance
2 27 (48.21%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Marketing
5 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.57%) Advertising
6 2 (3.57%) Electronics
6 2 (3.57%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Police
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.79%) Billing
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (48.21%) Analyst
2 18 (32.14%) Applications Engineer
3 14 (25.00%) Junior
4 13 (23.21%) Data Analyst
4 13 (23.21%) Junior Analyst
4 13 (23.21%) Junior Data Analyst
5 11 (19.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (17.86%) ERP Analyst
6 10 (17.86%) Oracle Analyst
6 10 (17.86%) Senior
6 10 (17.86%) Senior Analyst
6 10 (17.86%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Technical Business Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Account Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Field Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) OAuth
1 11 (19.64%) OAuth2
1 11 (19.64%) RESTful
1 11 (19.64%) SAML
2 1 (1.79%) CSS
2 1 (1.79%) HTML
2 1 (1.79%) JSON
2 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Cloud Native
1 11 (19.64%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (16.07%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (12.50%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.57%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.57%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) Asset Management
1 33 (58.93%) Coaching
2 32 (57.14%) AI
3 27 (48.21%) Analytics
4 22 (39.29%) ERP
5 21 (37.50%) Agile
5 21 (37.50%) DevOps
6 18 (32.14%) CI/CD
6 18 (32.14%) Test Automation
7 13 (23.21%) Data Management
7 13 (23.21%) Visualisation
8 12 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 12 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
9 11 (19.64%) API Integration
9 11 (19.64%) Clean Code
9 11 (19.64%) Event-Driven
9 11 (19.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 11 (19.64%) Microservices
9 11 (19.64%) RBAC
9 11 (19.64%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 48 (85.71%) SQL
2 37 (66.07%) Python
3 12 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 11 (19.64%) Java
4 11 (19.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.57%) A+ Certification
2 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) SLA
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Single Sign-On
1 11 (19.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 23 (41.07%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) Concur
4 1 (1.79%) FIS