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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 51 46
Rank change year-on-year +20 -5 +43
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 51 45 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.68% 3.56% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.21% 4.12% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 25 21 49
10th Percentile £40,200 £29,087 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £47,709
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.28% -4.10%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £72,500
90th Percentile £83,738 £68,114 £77,715
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 707 1,092 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.66% 86.39% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 303 588 859
10th Percentile £26,350 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £32,851 £47,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +0.80% +0.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £95,000 £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

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence 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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in Edinburgh

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (17.65%) Confluence
2 6 (11.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Oracle EBS
1 10 (19.61%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 38 (74.51%) Power Platform
2 15 (29.41%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (27.45%) Snowflake
4 10 (19.61%) OCI
4 10 (19.61%) PowerApps
5 6 (11.76%) GitHub
5 6 (11.76%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (5.88%) AWS
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.92%) Serverless
8 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (74.51%) Power BI
2 24 (47.06%) Tableau
3 11 (21.57%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.92%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.96%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata
6 1 (1.96%) MS Access
6 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (29.41%) JIRA
2 10 (19.61%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (11.76%) Git
3 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (64.71%) Finance
2 21 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (21.57%) Marketing
3 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
4 10 (19.61%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.84%) Banking
5 4 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Advertising
6 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Automotive
8 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (56.86%) Analyst
2 11 (21.57%) Applications Support
2 11 (21.57%) Applications Support Analyst
2 11 (21.57%) Support Analyst
3 9 (17.65%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Applications Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Lead
5 5 (9.80%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Data Manager
6 4 (7.84%) Oracle Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Manager
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Account Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Web Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) OAuth
1 6 (11.76%) OAuth2
1 6 (11.76%) RESTful
1 6 (11.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 8 (15.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (15.69%) Management Information System
2 8 (15.69%) Onboarding
3 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.88%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) Analytics
2 22 (43.14%) Agile
3 20 (39.22%) ERP
4 19 (37.25%) Artificial Intelligence
4 19 (37.25%) Asset Management
4 19 (37.25%) Coaching
5 16 (31.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (29.41%) DevOps
7 12 (23.53%) ETL
7 12 (23.53%) Translating Business Requirements
8 10 (19.61%) Decision-Making
8 10 (19.61%) ITIL
9 9 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
9 9 (17.65%) Data Engineering
9 9 (17.65%) Data Science
9 9 (17.65%) User Stories
10 8 (15.69%) Backlog Refinement
10 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
10 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (15.69%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 40 (78.43%) SQL
2 20 (39.22%) Python
3 16 (31.37%) PL/SQL
4 6 (11.76%) Java
4 6 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.88%) R
6 1 (1.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (3.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.92%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) P3O
4 1 (1.96%) PMO
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (50.98%) Oracle
2 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 10 (19.61%) Concur
3 10 (19.61%) SAP
4 3 (5.88%) Genesys
4 3 (5.88%) Verint