Business Intelligence Job Trends in the North of England

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 110 49
Rank change year-on-year +69 -61 +8
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 728 294 565
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.25% 3.05% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 3.44% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 465 227 410
10th Percentile £34,200 £33,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,897
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.37% +9.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,750 £84,964
England median annual salary £57,250 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.43% -4.17% +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,751 8,555 11,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.35% 88.88% 78.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,794 4,269 7,673
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,863 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.91% -4.27% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the North of England

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the North of England

Business Intelligence
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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
North West +63 328 £48,750 -7.14% 114
Yorkshire +51 312 £45,000 -16.67% 65
North East +1 88 £47,500 - 42
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 57 (7.83%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.37%) Apache
5 7 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.96%) Confluence
6 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 260 (35.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.47%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.96%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 5 (0.69%) Magento
3 5 (0.69%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.55%) Shopify
5 3 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.41%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.41%) SystmOne
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.14%) Primavera
7 1 (0.14%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 537 (73.76%) Power Platform
2 312 (42.86%) Azure
3 169 (23.21%) Azure AI
4 75 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (8.65%) Power Automate
6 59 (8.10%) PowerApps
7 53 (7.28%) Dynamics 365
8 45 (6.18%) AWS
9 31 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (4.26%) GCP
10 25 (3.43%) OneDrive
11 21 (2.88%) Entra ID
11 21 (2.88%) Snowflake
12 18 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 15 (2.06%) SaaS
14 14 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (1.79%) Google Analytics
15 13 (1.79%) Serverless
16 12 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.24%) Broadband
2 8 (1.10%) DHCP
2 8 (1.10%) DNS
2 8 (1.10%) Internet
3 6 (0.82%) LAN
3 6 (0.82%) WAN
4 3 (0.41%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) MQTT
6 1 (0.14%) Firewall
6 1 (0.14%) Network Security
6 1 (0.14%) VoIP
6 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 533 (73.21%) Power BI
2 222 (30.49%) Tableau
3 74 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 32 (4.40%) Data Lake
6 27 (3.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (3.43%) Power Query
8 22 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 21 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (2.88%) Metadata
10 15 (2.06%) Looker
11 14 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.92%) Star Schema
12 13 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (1.51%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
15 9 (1.24%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.10%) NoSQL
17 7 (0.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (2.88%) Git
2 17 (2.34%) JIRA
3 4 (0.55%) MLflow
3 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.14%) NUnit
6 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 340 (46.70%) Social Skills
2 132 (18.13%) Finance
3 113 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (7.28%) Retail
5 44 (6.04%) Manufacturing
6 43 (5.91%) Law
7 32 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 31 (4.26%) Legal
9 30 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (3.57%) Marketing
11 23 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.79%) Advertising
13 11 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.37%) Local Government
14 10 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.24%) Legal Technology
16 8 (1.10%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.96%) Banking
17 7 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 327 (44.92%) Analyst
2 226 (31.04%) Data Analyst
3 170 (23.35%) Junior
4 167 (22.94%) Junior Analyst
5 165 (22.66%) Junior Data Analyst
6 100 (13.74%) Developer
7 73 (10.03%) Senior
8 64 (8.79%) Data Engineer
9 41 (5.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 37 (5.08%) Lead
11 33 (4.53%) Architect
12 30 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 30 (4.12%) Data Architect
13 27 (3.71%) Senior Analyst
14 25 (3.43%) Business Analyst
15 20 (2.75%) Data Manager
16 19 (2.61%) Applications Support
17 18 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Lead
18 17 (2.34%) Senior Data Engineer
18 17 (2.34%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.57%) .NET
2 18 (2.47%) PySpark
3 12 (1.65%) .NET Core
3 12 (1.65%) REST
4 10 (1.37%) EDI
5 9 (1.24%) AngularJS
5 9 (1.24%) Node.js
5 9 (1.24%) React
6 8 (1.10%) CSS
6 8 (1.10%) HTML
6 8 (1.10%) Vue
7 7 (0.96%) .NET Framework
7 7 (0.96%) Middleware
8 6 (0.82%) ASP.NET
8 6 (0.82%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (0.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (0.82%) Entity Framework
9 5 (0.69%) WinForms
9 5 (0.69%) WPF
10 4 (0.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.98%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.61%) Product Ownership
3 18 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 14 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (0.96%) Pricing Data
7 6 (0.82%) Low-Code
8 5 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (0.69%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.55%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.41%) Culture of Ownership
10 3 (0.41%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.41%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.27%) FMCG
11 2 (0.27%) Life Science
11 2 (0.27%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.34%) Windows
2 6 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Android
4 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.27%) Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (32.69%) AI
2 211 (28.98%) Analytics
3 160 (21.98%) Decision-Making
4 130 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 123 (16.90%) Data Modelling
6 79 (10.85%) Visualisation
7 76 (10.44%) Actionable Insight
8 74 (10.16%) Data Governance
9 73 (10.03%) Agile
9 73 (10.03%) Data Pipeline
10 72 (9.89%) ETL
11 71 (9.75%) Data Engineering
11 71 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 67 (9.20%) ERP
13 65 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 56 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
15 52 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
15 52 (7.14%) Validation
16 51 (7.01%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 417 (57.28%) SQL
2 255 (35.03%) Python
3 41 (5.63%) C#
4 27 (3.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.06%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.79%) VBA
8 10 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.24%) Java
9 9 (1.24%) R
10 7 (0.96%) Scala
11 4 (0.55%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.41%) XAML
13 2 (0.27%) Bicep
13 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.14%) C++
14 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.14%) Swift
14 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 172 (23.63%) Azure Certification
2 38 (5.22%) Degree
3 14 (1.92%) Security Cleared
4 12 (1.65%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.37%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.96%) ACCA
8 6 (0.82%) CIMA
9 5 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.55%) ISEB
10 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.55%) PMP
10 4 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.27%) CCNA
11 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.27%) MCSA
12 1 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.36%) GDPR
3 26 (3.57%) QA
4 16 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.37%) PMO
6 8 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.69%) TickIT
9 3 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) AQAP
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.10%) Terraform
3 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.14%) Ansible
5 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 350 (48.08%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.63%) Databricks
3 28 (3.85%) Google
4 23 (3.16%) SAP
5 18 (2.47%) Oracle
6 9 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.10%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.96%) Alteryx
8 7 (0.96%) Cognos
9 5 (0.69%) Workday
10 4 (0.55%) Aderant
10 4 (0.55%) iManage
10 4 (0.55%) Intapp
10 4 (0.55%) Sage
10 4 (0.55%) TOWER Software
11 3 (0.41%) Cisco
11 3 (0.41%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.41%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.41%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.27%) HighQ