Business Intelligence Job Trends in Leeds

Business Intelligence (BI)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 43 30
Rank change year-on-year -7 -13 +15
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 53 45 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.92% 4.46% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 5.01% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 76
10th Percentile £41,163 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £43,505 £46,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £84,375 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £69,750 £84,056
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,070 899 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.14% 89.01% 92.37%
Number of salaries quoted 705 509 946
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £55,970
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -5.31% -0.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Leeds

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in Leeds

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (13.21%) Apache Spark
2 6 (11.32%) Apache
3 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
4 4 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (3.77%) CMS
5 2 (3.77%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (37.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (1.89%) Magento
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (60.38%) Power Platform
2 14 (26.42%) Azure
3 10 (18.87%) AWS
4 7 (13.21%) dbt
4 7 (13.21%) Power Automate
5 5 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (9.43%) Azure AI
5 5 (9.43%) PowerApps
5 5 (9.43%) SaaS
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (5.66%) GitHub
7 3 (5.66%) Serverless
8 2 (3.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Intranet
2 1 (1.89%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (58.49%) Power BI
2 13 (24.53%) Tableau
3 9 (16.98%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (11.32%) Data Lake
5 6 (11.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
7 4 (7.55%) Data Vault
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (5.66%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (5.66%) OLAP
8 3 (5.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.77%) Power Query
9 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.89%) Looker
10 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 25 (47.17%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.85%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (32.08%) Finance
4 7 (13.21%) Legal
4 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.66%) Law
7 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Back Office
8 1 (1.89%) Billing
8 1 (1.89%) Electronics
8 1 (1.89%) Games
8 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Analyst
2 13 (24.53%) Senior
3 11 (20.75%) Data Analyst
4 7 (13.21%) Data Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Junior
6 5 (9.43%) Junior Analyst
6 5 (9.43%) Junior Data Analyst
7 4 (7.55%) Data Manager
7 4 (7.55%) Lead
8 3 (5.66%) HR Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) HR Data Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) Insight Manager
8 3 (5.66%) Project Officer
8 3 (5.66%) Project Support Officer
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Project Officer
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Project Support Officer
8 3 (5.66%) SQL Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) .NET
1 3 (5.66%) CSS
1 3 (5.66%) HTML
1 3 (5.66%) Pandas
2 2 (3.77%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.77%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (1.89%) Blazor
3 1 (1.89%) React
3 1 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (5.66%) Low-Code
1 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
1 3 (5.66%) Virtual Team
2 2 (3.77%) AI Agents
2 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) IoT
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) AI
1 16 (30.19%) Analytics
1 16 (30.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (28.30%) Decision-Making
3 14 (26.42%) Data Governance
3 14 (26.42%) ETL
4 13 (24.53%) Agile
5 12 (22.64%) Data Modelling
6 11 (20.75%) Visualisation
7 10 (18.87%) Actionable Insight
7 10 (18.87%) Migration
7 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (18.87%) Validation
8 9 (16.98%) Data Architecture
8 9 (16.98%) Data Engineering
8 9 (16.98%) DevOps
9 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
9 8 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (13.21%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) SQL
2 17 (32.08%) Python
3 5 (9.43%) T-SQL
4 4 (7.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) Java
6 2 (3.77%) C#
7 1 (1.89%) PHP
7 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Azure Certification
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.89%) PMP
3 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.43%) GDPR
3 3 (5.66%) PMO
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.77%) QA
4 2 (3.77%) WCAG
5 1 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Terraform
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) Oracle
3 3 (5.66%) Openreach
4 2 (3.77%) Databricks
4 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Adobe
5 1 (1.89%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.89%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.89%) Genesys
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Okta
5 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.89%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.89%) UiPath
5 1 (1.89%) Verint