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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 40 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +30
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 57 59 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.92% 4.73% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 5.32% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 21 20 45
10th Percentile - £29,087 £42,463
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 - £77,500
90th Percentile - £64,625 £84,056
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and 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 761 1,109 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.35% 88.86% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 314 465 785
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £30,202 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £58,941 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% -1.77% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

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 29 October 2025.

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 12 (21.05%) Confluence
2 9 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (28.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (26.32%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (19.30%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle Financials
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 43 (75.44%) Power Platform
2 27 (47.37%) Azure
3 24 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (29.82%) Snowflake
5 13 (22.81%) OCI
6 12 (21.05%) GitHub
6 12 (21.05%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (19.30%) PowerApps
8 6 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (7.02%) Power Automate
10 3 (5.26%) AWS
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.51%) dbt
11 2 (3.51%) Serverless
12 1 (1.75%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (75.44%) Power BI
2 22 (38.60%) Tableau
3 16 (28.07%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.53%) Metadata
4 6 (10.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (7.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.02%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (3.51%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (3.51%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.75%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.75%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 21 (36.84%) JIRA
2 15 (26.32%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (15.79%) Git
3 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (64.91%) Finance
2 22 (38.60%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
4 12 (21.05%) Marketing
5 11 (19.30%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.02%) Advertising
6 4 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Billing
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (54.39%) Analyst
2 12 (21.05%) Applications Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Applications Support
2 12 (21.05%) Applications Support Analyst
2 12 (21.05%) Support Analyst
3 9 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Oracle Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Senior
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Account Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Lead
6 4 (7.02%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Web Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.51%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) OAuth
1 9 (15.79%) OAuth2
1 9 (15.79%) RESTful
1 9 (15.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 9 (15.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 9 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (14.04%) Management Information System
3 8 (14.04%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.02%) Digital Media
5 3 (5.26%) Low-Code
5 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.51%) Replication
7 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (56.14%) Asset Management
1 32 (56.14%) Coaching
2 31 (54.39%) Agile
3 26 (45.61%) ERP
4 24 (42.11%) Analytics
4 24 (42.11%) DevOps
5 21 (36.84%) AI
6 20 (35.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (28.07%) Translating Business Requirements
8 14 (24.56%) CI/CD
8 14 (24.56%) Test Automation
9 13 (22.81%) ETL
10 12 (21.05%) Acceptance Criteria
10 12 (21.05%) User Stories
11 11 (19.30%) ITIL
11 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (17.54%) Data Engineering
12 10 (17.54%) Data Management
12 10 (17.54%) Visualisation
13 9 (15.79%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 48 (84.21%) SQL
2 28 (49.12%) Python
3 20 (35.09%) PL/SQL
4 9 (15.79%) Java
4 9 (15.79%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.75%) R
5 1 (1.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.75%) P3O
4 1 (1.75%) PMO
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
1 9 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (52.63%) Oracle
2 18 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 11 (19.30%) Concur
3 11 (19.30%) SAP
4 1 (1.75%) Genesys
4 1 (1.75%) Verint