Business Intelligence Analyst Job Trends in the South West

BI Analyst
England > South West

The median BI Analyst salary in the South West is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 190 195
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 12 10 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.24% 0.23% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.25% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 19
10th Percentile £37,625 £36,200 £36,650
25th Percentile £38,938 £36,875 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £41,000 £49,375 £38,500
90th Percentile £42,350 £52,125 £56,704
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 4,667 4,067 4,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 93.77% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,203 2,257 3,234
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,125 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,997 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% -0.96% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Business Intelligence Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancy trend in the South West

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in the South West

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Bristol +18 11 £40,000 -5.88%
Gloucestershire +15 1 £35,000 -4.11%
Business Intelligence Analyst
England

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Business Intelligence Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Power BI
1 12 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 11 (91.67%) Decision-Making
3 10 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (83.33%) Power Query
4 9 (75.00%) ACCA
4 9 (75.00%) CIMA
4 9 (75.00%) Internal Audit
4 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (16.67%) AWS
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Looker
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 2 (16.67%) Tableau
7 1 (8.33%) A/B Testing
7 1 (8.33%) AI
7 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (8.33%) Azure
7 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) dbt
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) Fivetran
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Power BI
2 10 (83.33%) Power Query
3 2 (16.67%) Looker
3 2 (16.67%) Tableau
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (8.33%) NumPy
1 1 (8.33%) Pandas
1 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (91.67%) Decision-Making
3 10 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (75.00%) Internal Audit
5 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (8.33%) AI
7 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
7 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (8.33%) CRM
7 1 (8.33%) Customer Intelligence
7 1 (8.33%) Data Interpretation
7 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
7 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 1 (8.33%) Statistics
7 1 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
7 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) ACCA
1 9 (75.00%) CIMA
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) HubSpot
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Talend
2 1 (8.33%) Zoho