Business Intelligence Job Trends in Scotland

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 69 102
Rank change year-on-year +35 +33 -18
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 138 75 224
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.19% 3.77% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.91% 4.04% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 19 51 140
10th Percentile £27,000 £37,000 £28,643
25th Percentile £32,750 £45,000 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.54%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,625 £59,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £87,500 £61,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,336 1,857 5,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.94% 93.41% 92.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 872 2,405
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,933 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Edinburgh +8 45 £60,000 +18.94% 6
Glasgow -6 32 £48,500 -9.77% 8
Aberdeen +1 26 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Dundee 0 21 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
Highlands - 1 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £38,000 -
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (5.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 87 (63.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.70%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (10.87%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (5.07%) Oracle Assets
2 7 (5.07%) Oracle Financials
2 7 (5.07%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (5.07%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (5.07%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.45%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.72%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.72%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 119 (86.23%) Power Platform
2 113 (81.88%) Azure
3 84 (60.87%) Azure AI
4 23 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (7.97%) GitHub
7 10 (7.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 8 (5.80%) OCI
9 5 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.62%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.17%) AWS
11 2 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.45%) GCP
11 2 (1.45%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.45%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.72%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) Broadband
1 2 (1.45%) DHCP
1 2 (1.45%) DNS
1 2 (1.45%) Firewall
1 2 (1.45%) Mobile Broadband
1 2 (1.45%) Softphone
1 2 (1.45%) VLAN
1 2 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (86.23%) Power BI
2 94 (68.12%) Tableau
3 8 (5.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.45%) MySQL
5 2 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.72%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.72%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.72%) Metadata
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (10.87%) Oracle Forms
2 7 (5.07%) Git
2 7 (5.07%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.07%) JIRA
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 97 (70.29%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.84%) Finance
3 12 (8.70%) Billing
4 7 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.90%) Electronics
6 4 (2.90%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (2.90%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.90%) Marketing
6 4 (2.90%) Police
6 4 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.72%) Games
7 1 (0.72%) Law
7 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 107 (77.54%) Analyst
2 85 (61.59%) Junior
3 84 (60.87%) Data Analyst
3 84 (60.87%) Junior Analyst
3 84 (60.87%) Junior Data Analyst
4 14 (10.14%) Support Analyst
5 12 (8.70%) Applications Support
5 12 (8.70%) Applications Support Analyst
6 10 (7.25%) Applications Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Senior
8 8 (5.80%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (5.80%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) ERP Analyst
9 7 (5.07%) Oracle Analyst
9 7 (5.07%) Senior Oracle Analyst
10 6 (4.35%) IT Support
10 6 (4.35%) Lead
11 4 (2.90%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.07%) OAuth
1 7 (5.07%) OAuth2
1 7 (5.07%) RESTful
1 7 (5.07%) SAML
2 2 (1.45%) ODBC
2 2 (1.45%) Web Services
3 1 (0.72%) .NET
3 1 (0.72%) CSS
3 1 (0.72%) HTML
3 1 (0.72%) JSON
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.72%) PySpark
3 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.70%) Management Information System
1 12 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.62%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.17%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.45%) iPhone
7 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.72%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.45%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.45%) Windows
1 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (69.57%) AI
2 25 (18.12%) Agile
3 23 (16.67%) DevOps
4 21 (15.22%) Analytics
5 20 (14.49%) Process Improvement
6 19 (13.77%) Coaching
7 17 (12.32%) Asset Management
8 16 (11.59%) ERP
9 15 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (10.14%) Customer Service
11 13 (9.42%) Mentoring
11 13 (9.42%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (8.70%) Regression Testing
12 12 (8.70%) Storyboarding
12 12 (8.70%) Waterfall
13 11 (7.97%) CI/CD
14 10 (7.25%) Migration
14 10 (7.25%) Test Automation
15 9 (6.52%) Data Management
15 9 (6.52%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 109 (78.99%) SQL
2 99 (71.74%) Python
3 8 (5.80%) PL/SQL
4 7 (5.07%) Java
4 7 (5.07%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.72%) C#
6 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 84 (60.87%) Azure Certification
2 18 (13.04%) Degree
3 12 (8.70%) HND
4 4 (2.90%) A+ Certification
4 4 (2.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.32%) SLA
2 12 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.45%) BitLocker
1 2 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (5.07%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (5.07%) Terraform
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 111 (80.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.32%) Oracle
3 12 (8.70%) Adobe
3 12 (8.70%) Freshdesk
3 12 (8.70%) Nintex
4 4 (2.90%) SAP
5 2 (1.45%) Bomgar
5 2 (1.45%) iManage
5 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.72%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.72%) Databricks
6 1 (0.72%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.72%) FIS
6 1 (0.72%) Genesys
6 1 (0.72%) Infor
6 1 (0.72%) Meraki
6 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.72%) Verint