Business Intelligence Lead Jobs in England

BI Leader
UK > England

The median BI Leader salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 778 836
Rank change year-on-year +120 +58 +253
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Lead 21 72 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.080% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.085% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 17 56 61
10th Percentile £53,700 £41,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,938 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Business Intelligence Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Lead in England

Business Intelligence Lead
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence Lead in England.

Salary trend for Business Intelligence Lead in England

Business Intelligence Lead
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Lead in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence Lead in England

Business Intelligence Lead
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +64 7 £62,500 - 2
West Midlands +59 7 £62,500 -3.85% 1
London +95 5 £75,000 -11.76% 11
South West +107 4 £95,000 +46.15%
East of England +43 4 £57,000 -5.00% 2
North of England +25 1 £70,000 +7.69% 2
North West -6 1 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Business Intelligence Lead
UK

Business Intelligence Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Business Intelligence Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Business Intelligence Lead in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (76.19%) Power Platform
2 16 (76.19%) Power BI
3 13 (61.90%) Azure
3 13 (61.90%) SQL
3 13 (61.90%) Data Modelling
3 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
4 12 (57.14%) ETL
5 10 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (42.86%) Visualisation
7 8 (38.10%) Decision-Making
8 7 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (33.33%) AWS
9 6 (28.57%) Data Integration
9 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
9 6 (28.57%) Finance
9 6 (28.57%) Power Query
10 5 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
10 5 (23.81%) GDPR
10 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (23.81%) Data Visualisation
11 4 (19.05%) Data Management
11 4 (19.05%) Supplier Management
11 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
11 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (19.05%) Databricks
11 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
12 3 (14.29%) Metadata

Business Intelligence Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Power Platform
2 13 (61.90%) Azure
3 7 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (76.19%) Power BI
2 6 (28.57%) Power Query
3 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (14.29%) Data Hub
4 3 (14.29%) Metadata
4 3 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
5 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
5 2 (9.52%) OLAP
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
6 1 (4.76%) Tableau
6 1 (4.76%) ThoughtSpot
General
1 10 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (28.57%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.76%) Advertising
6 1 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (61.90%) Data Modelling
3 12 (57.14%) ETL
4 9 (42.86%) Visualisation
5 8 (38.10%) Decision-Making
6 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
6 6 (28.57%) Data Integration
7 5 (23.81%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (19.05%) Data Management
8 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (19.05%) Supplier Management
9 3 (14.29%) Analytics
9 3 (14.29%) Data Science
9 3 (14.29%) ERP
9 3 (14.29%) ETL Development
10 2 (9.52%) Contract Negotiation
10 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Databricks
3 3 (14.29%) Informatica
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Google