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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 40 58
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +34
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 76 66 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.92% 6.00% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.09% 6.20% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17 20 50
10th Percentile £29,000 £44,436 £42,439
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,146 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -7.71% +5.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £61,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £64,625 £84,056
Scotland median annual salary £48,750 £50,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.14% +5.68%

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 939 1,065 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.44% 96.82% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 412 406 823
10th Percentile £26,025 £36,125 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% -1.64%
75th Percentile £70,313 £75,270 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £92,387
Scotland median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +6.80% -10.43%

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 22 January 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 17 (22.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (15.79%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (27.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (40.79%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (18.42%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (18.42%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (18.42%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (18.42%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (18.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (11.84%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.32%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 58 (76.32%) Power Platform
2 47 (61.84%) Azure
3 36 (47.37%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (31.58%) GitHub
4 24 (31.58%) GitHub Copilot
5 21 (27.63%) OCI
6 14 (18.42%) Snowflake
7 12 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (11.84%) PowerApps
9 8 (10.53%) Power Automate
10 6 (7.89%) Azure AI
11 2 (2.63%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.63%) dbt
12 1 (1.32%) AWS
12 1 (1.32%) GCP
12 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (76.32%) Power BI
2 36 (47.37%) Tableau
3 14 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (18.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (7.89%) Metadata
5 4 (5.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.63%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (40.79%) Oracle Forms
2 29 (38.16%) JIRA
3 17 (22.37%) Git
3 17 (22.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (71.05%) Finance
2 24 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 23 (30.26%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.79%) Marketing
5 11 (14.47%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.63%) Advertising
8 2 (2.63%) Electronics
8 2 (2.63%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (2.63%) Police
8 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.32%) Billing
9 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (53.95%) Analyst
2 24 (31.58%) Applications Engineer
3 17 (22.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (18.42%) Oracle Analyst
4 14 (18.42%) Senior
4 14 (18.42%) Senior Analyst
4 14 (18.42%) Senior Oracle Analyst
5 10 (13.16%) ERP Analyst
6 9 (11.84%) Applications Support
6 9 (11.84%) Applications Support Analyst
6 9 (11.84%) Support Analyst
7 8 (10.53%) Business Analyst
8 7 (9.21%) Junior
9 6 (7.89%) Data Analyst
9 6 (7.89%) Junior Analyst
9 6 (7.89%) Junior Data Analyst
10 4 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) OAuth
1 17 (22.37%) OAuth2
1 17 (22.37%) RESTful
1 17 (22.37%) SAML
2 1 (1.32%) CSS
2 1 (1.32%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.37%) Cloud Native
1 17 (22.37%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 9 (11.84%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (11.84%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 8 (10.53%) Onboarding
5 7 (9.21%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.63%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.63%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (68.42%) Asset Management
1 52 (68.42%) Coaching
2 41 (53.95%) Agile
3 40 (52.63%) ERP
4 39 (51.32%) AI
5 36 (47.37%) Analytics
5 36 (47.37%) DevOps
6 24 (31.58%) CI/CD
6 24 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 24 (31.58%) Translating Business Requirements
7 23 (30.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (23.68%) Data Management
9 17 (22.37%) API Integration
9 17 (22.37%) Clean Code
9 17 (22.37%) Event-Driven
9 17 (22.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 17 (22.37%) Microservices
9 17 (22.37%) RBAC
9 17 (22.37%) SOA
10 14 (18.42%) Planning and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 68 (89.47%) SQL
2 45 (59.21%) Python
3 26 (34.21%) PL/SQL
4 17 (22.37%) Java
4 17 (22.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.63%) A+ Certification
2 2 (2.63%) Degree
2 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.63%) SLA
4 1 (1.32%) P3O
4 1 (1.32%) PMO
Systems Management
1 17 (22.37%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (22.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (52.63%) Oracle
2 31 (40.79%) Microsoft
3 11 (14.47%) SAP
4 9 (11.84%) Concur
5 1 (1.32%) FIS