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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 33 47
Rank change year-on-year -17 +14 +1
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 20 51 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.70% 6.85% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 7.37% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 19
10th Percentile £54,350 - £29,087
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £61,250 -
90th Percentile £117,000 £83,738 -
Scotland median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £52,375
% change year-on-year +8.00% -4.53% -0.24%

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 752 692 1,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 63.84% 92.89% 87.29%
Number of salaries quoted 462 282 532
10th Percentile £30,125 £25,684 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,043 £63,437 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,474 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%

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 September 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:

Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) Power Platform
2 14 (70.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 3 (15.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (85.00%) Power BI
2 6 (30.00%) Tableau
3 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (15.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Local Government
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
1 6 (30.00%) Data Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Junior
2 5 (25.00%) Junior Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Junior Data Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Data Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Accountant
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Data Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Systems Accountant
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Managing Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Analytics
2 10 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 8 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 7 (35.00%) AI
5 6 (30.00%) Data Governance
5 6 (30.00%) Data Strategy
5 6 (30.00%) Lakehouse
6 4 (20.00%) Data Management
6 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (20.00%) Data Transformation
6 4 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (20.00%) ETL
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 3 (15.00%) Data Security
7 3 (15.00%) Quality Management
7 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) ACCA
2 1 (5.00%) CIMA
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) MCT
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle