Business Intelligence Jobs in Scotland

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 105 81
Rank change year-on-year +21 -24 +1
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 85 225 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.90% 3.37% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 3.64% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62 140 92
10th Percentile £37,057 £28,643 £32,979
25th Percentile £43,125 £40,800 £40,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,473 £55,000 £47,605
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +15.54% -4.31%
75th Percentile £66,834 £59,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,738 £61,250 £77,715
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

All Process and 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 2,723 6,177 4,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.81% 92.44% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,398 2,191
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,055
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% +5.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,798 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence in Scotland

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
Edinburgh +27 40 £50,445 -8.28% 41
Glasgow +100 25 £52,500 -4.55% 45
Moray - 4 £60,000 -
Fife -21 3 £60,000 +48.15%
South Ayrshire -33 3 £60,000 -2.04%
East Ayrshire - 3 £60,000 -
Aberdeen +13 2 £45,000 +12.50% 14
Dundee 0 1 £50,000 - 2
Renfrewshire -15 1 £47,000 +62.51% 7
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.06%) Apache
2 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.18%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (14.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Infor LN
1 8 (9.41%) SAP BPC
2 2 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.06%) Power Platform
2 11 (12.94%) Azure
3 7 (8.24%) Power Automate
4 5 (5.88%) AWS
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.88%) OCI
5 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (4.71%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.53%) SaaS
6 3 (3.53%) Serverless
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.18%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.18%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (1.18%) Modbus
1 1 (1.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (47.06%) Power BI
2 26 (30.59%) Tableau
3 12 (14.12%) SQL Server
4 8 (9.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.35%) Looker
8 2 (2.35%) Metadata
8 2 (2.35%) OLAP
8 2 (2.35%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.35%) Power Query
8 2 (2.35%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.18%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.18%) Flink
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (5.88%) Eclipse
2 5 (5.88%) Eclipse RCP
3 2 (2.35%) Git
4 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
General
1 51 (60.00%) Finance
2 34 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
4 19 (22.35%) Banking
5 11 (12.94%) Marketing
6 8 (9.41%) Police
7 7 (8.24%) Legal
7 7 (8.24%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (4.71%) Electronics
9 4 (4.71%) Manufacturing
9 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.35%) Agriculture
11 2 (2.35%) Automotive
11 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) Senior
2 17 (20.00%) Developer
3 16 (18.82%) Analyst
4 15 (17.65%) Lead
5 8 (9.41%) Accountant
5 8 (9.41%) Project Accountant
5 8 (9.41%) Senior Accountant
5 8 (9.41%) Team Leader
6 6 (7.06%) Junior
6 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Data Science Graduate
7 5 (5.88%) Graduate
7 5 (5.88%) Junior Software Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.71%) Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Business Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Data Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.12%) HTML
2 8 (9.41%) CSS
3 5 (5.88%) JSP
3 5 (5.88%) Middleware
4 2 (2.35%) .NET
4 2 (2.35%) JSON
5 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.18%) HTML5
5 1 (1.18%) jQuery
5 1 (1.18%) Kafka
5 1 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.18%) PySpark
5 1 (1.18%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.18%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.06%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.88%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.35%) IoT
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.18%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.18%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.18%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.06%) Linux
1 6 (7.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.47%) Analytics
2 28 (32.94%) Decision-Making
3 23 (27.06%) Data Science
4 21 (24.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (22.35%) Visualisation
6 16 (18.82%) Agile
6 16 (18.82%) Data Visualisation
7 15 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
8 13 (15.29%) Collaborative Working
8 13 (15.29%) Data Analysis
8 13 (15.29%) Machine Learning
9 12 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (14.12%) Mentoring
10 11 (12.94%) ETL
10 11 (12.94%) Software Engineering
11 10 (11.76%) Business Forecasting
11 10 (11.76%) Data Modelling
12 9 (10.59%) Dashboard Development
12 9 (10.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.35%) SQL
2 25 (29.41%) Python
3 11 (12.94%) Java
4 10 (11.76%) C#
5 5 (5.88%) Ada
5 5 (5.88%) Rust
6 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.71%) R
6 4 (4.71%) VBA
7 3 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.35%) C++
9 1 (1.18%) Bash
9 1 (1.18%) C
9 1 (1.18%) PHP
9 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (23.53%) Degree
2 13 (15.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (14.12%) ACCA
4 10 (11.76%) CIMA
5 7 (8.24%) Master's Degree
6 6 (7.06%) PhD
7 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
8 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.35%) CFA
9 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.18%) HND
10 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) GAAP
1 8 (9.41%) IFRS
2 6 (7.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.53%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.53%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) JTAG
4 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Docker
1 1 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (17.65%) Oracle
1 15 (17.65%) SAP
2 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.41%) Cognos
3 8 (9.41%) Infor
4 5 (5.88%) Google
5 4 (4.71%) Blue Prism
5 4 (4.71%) UiPath
6 2 (2.35%) Databricks
6 2 (2.35%) Genesys
6 2 (2.35%) Verint
6 2 (2.35%) Workday
7 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.18%) Epicor
7 1 (1.18%) NVIDIA