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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 54 64
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +18
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 30 31 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.85% 3.61% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 3.72% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8 19 23
10th Percentile £28,550 £37,000 -
25th Percentile £50,375 £49,059 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% +7.97%
75th Percentile £97,813 £77,494 £57,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £84,490 £61,250
Scotland median annual salary £49,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.50% -9.09% +12.58%

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 724 833 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 68.82% 96.97% 85.71%
Number of salaries quoted 456 355 949
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,563 £39,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £73,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £96,731
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%

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 8 June 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 2 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.33%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 25 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 24 (80.00%) Azure
3 17 (56.67%) Azure AI
4 3 (10.00%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (6.67%) OCI
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (83.33%) Power BI
2 22 (73.33%) Tableau
3 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.33%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Electronics
4 1 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Police
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Analyst
2 18 (60.00%) Junior
3 17 (56.67%) Data Analyst
3 17 (56.67%) Junior Analyst
3 17 (56.67%) Junior Data Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.67%) ERP Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) IT Support
7 1 (3.33%) Junior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Lead
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) OAuth
1 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
1 2 (6.67%) RESTful
1 2 (6.67%) SAML
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) PySpark
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) AI
2 11 (36.67%) Analytics
3 4 (13.33%) Asset Management
3 4 (13.33%) Coaching
3 4 (13.33%) Data Architecture
3 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 4 (13.33%) Data Strategy
3 4 (13.33%) ERP
4 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.00%) Data Management
4 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) ETL
4 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.00%) RBAC
4 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (6.67%) API Integration
5 2 (6.67%) Clean Code
5 2 (6.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) SQL
2 23 (76.67%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.33%) A+ Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) MCT
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) FIS
3 1 (3.33%) SAP