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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 41 58
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 +19
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 63 64 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.25% 4.94% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.03% 5.49% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 20 21 45
10th Percentile £44,200 £29,087 £42,439
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £77,500
90th Percentile - £63,750 £84,056
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +0.50%

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 785 1,166 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.33% 90.04% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 350 479 761
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £46,153 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.59% -4.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,938 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,250
% change year-on-year -27.27% +5.26% -5.00%

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 19 November 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 (19.05%) Confluence
2 11 (17.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (30.16%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (17.46%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (12.70%) Oracle Assets
3 8 (12.70%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (12.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (12.70%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (12.70%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 46 (73.02%) Power Platform
2 32 (50.79%) Azure
3 28 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (25.40%) GitHub
4 16 (25.40%) GitHub Copilot
4 16 (25.40%) Snowflake
5 15 (23.81%) OCI
6 11 (17.46%) PowerApps
7 8 (12.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (9.52%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.17%) AWS
9 2 (3.17%) dbt
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.59%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (73.02%) Power BI
2 24 (38.10%) Tableau
3 16 (25.40%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (12.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (9.52%) Metadata
6 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.76%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (3.17%) Data Vault
8 2 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.59%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (1.59%) MS Access
9 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (36.51%) JIRA
2 19 (30.16%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (17.46%) Git
3 11 (17.46%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (66.67%) Finance
2 24 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (31.75%) Social Skills
4 13 (20.63%) Marketing
5 11 (17.46%) Manufacturing
6 5 (7.94%) Advertising
6 5 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Billing
8 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (53.97%) Analyst
2 16 (25.40%) Applications Engineer
3 12 (19.05%) Applications Support
3 12 (19.05%) Applications Support Analyst
3 12 (19.05%) Support Analyst
4 11 (17.46%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Business Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Oracle Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Senior
5 8 (12.70%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) Account Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Web Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) ERP Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Lead
9 2 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) OAuth
1 11 (17.46%) OAuth2
1 11 (17.46%) RESTful
1 11 (17.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 11 (17.46%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (12.70%) Management Information System
4 8 (12.70%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.94%) Digital Media
5 5 (7.94%) Low-Code
5 5 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.59%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (60.32%) Asset Management
1 38 (60.32%) Coaching
2 34 (53.97%) Agile
3 30 (47.62%) ERP
4 28 (44.44%) DevOps
5 26 (41.27%) Analytics
6 25 (39.68%) AI
7 22 (34.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
9 17 (26.98%) CI/CD
9 17 (26.98%) Test Automation
10 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
11 12 (19.05%) Data Management
11 12 (19.05%) ETL
11 12 (19.05%) User Stories
12 11 (17.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (17.46%) ITIL
12 11 (17.46%) SOA
12 11 (17.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (85.71%) SQL
2 32 (50.79%) Python
3 22 (34.92%) PL/SQL
4 11 (17.46%) Java
4 11 (17.46%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.59%) R
5 1 (1.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) P3O
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
3 1 (1.59%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Single Sign-On
1 11 (17.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (52.38%) Oracle
2 21 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 11 (17.46%) Concur
3 11 (17.46%) SAP
4 1 (1.59%) Genesys
4 1 (1.59%) Verint