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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 47 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 +7
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 23 35 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.20% 4.12% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 4.36% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7 24 21
10th Percentile £63,500 £39,400 £29,087
25th Percentile £69,375 £48,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% +4.55% +8.98%
75th Percentile £117,500 £71,250 -
90th Percentile - £83,738 £68,114
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £50,445 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.90% -8.28% +4.76%

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 709 803 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.72% 94.47% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 468 377 804
10th Percentile £29,525 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £76,840 £73,886
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -12.04% -1.82%

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 27 July 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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (91.30%) Power Platform
2 20 (86.96%) Azure
3 15 (65.22%) Azure AI
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (91.30%) Power BI
2 17 (73.91%) Tableau
3 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
4 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Analyst
1 15 (65.22%) Data Analyst
1 15 (65.22%) Junior
1 15 (65.22%) Junior Analyst
1 15 (65.22%) Junior Data Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) JSON
1 1 (4.35%) PySpark
1 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Fabric
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) AI
2 8 (34.78%) Analytics
3 4 (17.39%) Data Strategy
3 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
3 4 (17.39%) ETL
4 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
5 2 (8.70%) Data Transformation
5 2 (8.70%) Presales
5 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.70%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (8.70%) Thought Leadership
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (4.35%) Data Lineage
6 1 (4.35%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (4.35%) Requirements Workshops
6 1 (4.35%) Task Automation
6 1 (4.35%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) SQL
2 17 (73.91%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) MCT
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 19 (82.61%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks