Business Intelligence Job Trends in Sheffield

Business Intelligence (BI)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 36 37
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 +19
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 56 9 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 5.09% 2.28% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.39% 2.85% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 53 9 16
10th Percentile - £37,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.51% +32.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £56,000 £58,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £63,500 £71,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.51% +4.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 758 316 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 68.85% 80.20% 74.97%
Number of salaries quoted 633 224 276
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,125 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,813 £68,113
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £41,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.95% -25.45% +22.22%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

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

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in Sheffield

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 23 (41.07%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 34 (60.71%) Power Platform
2 22 (39.29%) Dynamics 365
2 22 (39.29%) Power Automate
2 22 (39.29%) PowerApps
3 20 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (35.71%) OneDrive
4 9 (16.07%) Azure
5 8 (14.29%) dbt
6 6 (10.71%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.57%) AWS
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.57%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.57%) Serverless
8 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (60.71%) Power BI
2 14 (25.00%) Metadata
3 13 (23.21%) Semantic Layer
4 8 (14.29%) Delta Lake
5 6 (10.71%) Metadata Repository
5 6 (10.71%) RDBMS
5 6 (10.71%) Relational Database
5 6 (10.71%) Star Schema
6 4 (7.14%) Tableau
7 2 (3.57%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.79%) OLAP
8 1 (1.79%) Power Query
8 1 (1.79%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
1 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 31 (55.36%) Finance
3 17 (30.36%) Manufacturing
4 14 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 6 (10.71%) Legal
7 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (5.36%) Law
9 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Applications Support
2 16 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 16 (28.57%) Senior
3 13 (23.21%) Analyst
4 9 (16.07%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) Databricks Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (12.50%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 7 (12.50%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Support Analyst
7 6 (10.71%) Architect
7 6 (10.71%) Azure Architect
7 6 (10.71%) Azure Data Architect
7 6 (10.71%) Data Architect
7 6 (10.71%) Databricks Architect
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Architect
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Data Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
9 3 (5.36%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) PySpark
2 3 (5.36%) .NET
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.79%) CSS
4 1 (1.79%) HTML
4 1 (1.79%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Taxonomies
2 5 (8.93%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 27 (48.21%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (44.64%) Analytics
4 23 (41.07%) ITIL
4 23 (41.07%) Service Management
5 22 (39.29%) Mentoring
6 21 (37.50%) Process Improvement
7 20 (35.71%) Business Continuity
8 19 (33.93%) Data Modelling
9 15 (26.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (25.00%) Data Governance
10 14 (25.00%) Decision-Making
10 14 (25.00%) Metadata Management
11 13 (23.21%) Lakehouse
12 11 (19.64%) Actionable Insight
12 11 (19.64%) Analytical Modelling
12 11 (19.64%) Customer Service
13 10 (17.86%) CI/CD
13 10 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (16.07%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (7.14%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) C#
3 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.57%) C++
4 2 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) ACCA
2 1 (1.79%) CIMA
2 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (37.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 29 (51.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.00%) Databricks
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
3 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Cognos
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) SAP