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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 33 54
Rank change year-on-year -14 +21 +4
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 22 49 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.00% 6.16% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 6.60% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10 27 22
10th Percentile £66,500 £41,800 £29,554
25th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £50,445 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.80% -8.28% +10.00%
75th Percentile £116,250 £63,044 -
90th Percentile £117,500 £83,738 £66,802
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £50,223 £55,000
% change year-on-year +29.42% -8.69% +10.00%

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 744 742 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.76% 93.33% 85.30%
Number of salaries quoted 451 342 684
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,851 £46,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,332 £93,950
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -

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 31 August 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 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) Power Platform
2 19 (86.36%) Azure
3 10 (45.45%) Azure AI
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (95.45%) Power BI
2 12 (54.55%) Tableau
3 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (13.64%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Analyst
1 10 (45.45%) Data Analyst
1 10 (45.45%) Junior
1 10 (45.45%) Junior Analyst
1 10 (45.45%) Junior Data Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Data Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Data Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Databricks Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Managing Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) AI
2 11 (50.00%) Analytics
3 7 (31.82%) Data Architecture
3 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
3 7 (31.82%) Lakehouse
4 6 (27.27%) Data Strategy
5 5 (22.73%) Data Governance
5 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
5 5 (22.73%) ETL
6 4 (18.18%) Data Transformation
6 4 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (13.64%) Business Strategy
7 3 (13.64%) Customer Insight
7 3 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (13.64%) Data Lineage
7 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
7 3 (13.64%) Metadata Management
7 3 (13.64%) Risk Analytics
7 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 13 (59.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) R
3 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) MCT
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle