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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 48 70
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 +17
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 37 35 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.33% 4.02% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 4.14% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 24
10th Percentile £28,400 £37,175 -
25th Percentile £29,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,445 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% -8.28% +10.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £100,250 £83,738 £61,250
Scotland median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +15.28%

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 783 845 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 70.41% 97.13% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 469 364 927
10th Percentile £28,850 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £97,500
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 24 May 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 5 (13.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (54.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.70%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 29 (78.38%) Power Platform
2 28 (75.68%) Azure
3 19 (51.35%) Azure AI
4 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (18.92%) GitHub
5 6 (16.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (13.51%) OCI
7 3 (8.11%) AWS
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.41%) GCP
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (78.38%) Power BI
2 26 (70.27%) Tableau
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (13.51%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.51%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (62.16%) Social Skills
2 14 (37.84%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Electronics
3 2 (5.41%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.41%) Marketing
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Police
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (64.86%) Analyst
2 20 (54.05%) Junior
3 19 (51.35%) Data Analyst
3 19 (51.35%) Junior Analyst
3 19 (51.35%) Junior Data Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) ERP Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Oracle Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Senior
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Field Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Field Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) IT Support
7 2 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) OAuth
1 5 (13.51%) OAuth2
1 5 (13.51%) RESTful
1 5 (13.51%) SAML
2 1 (2.70%) CSS
2 1 (2.70%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) JSON
2 1 (2.70%) PySpark
2 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.41%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (72.97%) AI
2 14 (37.84%) Analytics
3 11 (29.73%) Asset Management
3 11 (29.73%) Coaching
4 10 (27.03%) ERP
5 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.92%) DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
6 6 (16.22%) Agile
6 6 (16.22%) RBAC
6 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
7 5 (13.51%) Data Management
7 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
7 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Data Management
7 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (13.51%) GAP Analysis
7 5 (13.51%) Migration
7 5 (13.51%) Process Improvement
7 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (13.51%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 33 (89.19%) SQL
2 28 (75.68%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (51.35%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.41%) A+ Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (70.27%) Microsoft
2 12 (32.43%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) FIS