Business Intelligence Analyst Jobs

BI Analyst
UK

The median BI Analyst salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 538 683 630
Rank change year-on-year +145 -53 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 205 420 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.36% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 172 365 448
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,875
25th Percentile £38,688 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +6.08% -4.74%
75th Percentile £71,250 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year +12.50% -3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Top 16 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
England +153 194 £52,500 +5.00% 56
UK excluding London +108 109 £45,000 +12.50% 46
London +188 86 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Work from Home +145 72 £45,000 -10.00% 42
Midlands +100 35 £47,500 +24.18% 6
West Midlands +121 34 £47,500 +24.18% 3
South West +83 22 £37,500 +7.14% 6
South East +109 19 £60,000 +9.09% 6
North of England +113 18 £41,000 +10.81% 9
Yorkshire +75 9 £37,500 +1.35% 4
East of England +113 7 £43,529 +17.64% 3
North West +87 7 £67,500 +77.63% 5
Scotland +55 6 £32,500 -40.91% 14
Wales +5 3 £33,500 -10.67% 2
North East +48 2 £31,250 -3.85%
East Midlands +30 1 £41,000 -3.53% 3

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, Business Intelligence Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 205 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 168 (81.95%) Power BI
2 168 (81.95%) Power Platform
3 147 (71.71%) SQL
4 88 (42.93%) Social Skills
5 83 (40.49%) Visualisation
6 79 (38.54%) Analytics
7 63 (30.73%) Data Analysis
8 60 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
9 59 (28.78%) Data Warehouse
9 59 (28.78%) Decision-Making
10 58 (28.29%) Data Visualisation
11 50 (24.39%) Azure
11 50 (24.39%) Microsoft
12 46 (22.44%) Finance
12 46 (22.44%) Tableau
12 46 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (21.46%) Data Modelling
13 44 (21.46%) Microsoft Excel
14 39 (19.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 37 (18.05%) Degree
15 37 (18.05%) SQL Server
16 34 (16.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 33 (16.10%) Data Analytics
17 33 (16.10%) Snowflake
18 30 (14.63%) ETL
19 28 (13.66%) CRM
20 25 (12.20%) Data Quality
20 25 (12.20%) Retail
21 24 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (4.88%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (0.98%) SAS
2 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
Applications
1 44 (21.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.98%) SPSS
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) NetSuite
1 5 (2.44%) Shopify
2 2 (0.98%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 168 (81.95%) Power Platform
2 50 (24.39%) Azure
3 33 (16.10%) Snowflake
4 13 (6.34%) PowerApps
5 11 (5.37%) Google Analytics
6 9 (4.39%) AWS
7 7 (3.41%) GCP
8 6 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.95%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (81.95%) Power BI
2 59 (28.78%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (22.44%) Tableau
4 37 (18.05%) SQL Server
5 34 (16.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 24 (11.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 21 (10.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (8.29%) Power Query
9 16 (7.80%) QlikView
10 14 (6.83%) Star Schema
11 13 (6.34%) Data Lake
12 10 (4.88%) Oracle BI EE
13 8 (3.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 7 (3.41%) Data Hub
14 7 (3.41%) Data Mining
15 6 (2.93%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (2.44%) Qlik Sense
16 5 (2.44%) ThoughtSpot
17 4 (1.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 4 (1.95%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 88 (42.93%) Social Skills
2 60 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (22.44%) Finance
4 25 (12.20%) Retail
5 24 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (8.78%) Local Government
7 15 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (6.83%) Marketing
9 11 (5.37%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.90%) Banking
10 8 (3.90%) Legal
11 5 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.95%) Law
13 3 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.46%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.49%) Advertising
14 1 (0.49%) Back Office
14 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.49%) Publishing
14 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.88%) HTML
2 7 (3.41%) MDX
3 5 (2.44%) Middleware
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.98%) Pandas
4 2 (0.98%) PySpark
5 1 (0.49%) D3.js
5 1 (0.49%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.49%) NumPy
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.88%) Data Structures
2 5 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (1.95%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.98%) FMCG
5 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.49%) CSOC
6 1 (0.49%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.49%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.49%) NHS
6 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 83 (40.49%) Visualisation
3 79 (38.54%) Analytics
4 63 (30.73%) Data Analysis
5 59 (28.78%) Decision-Making
6 58 (28.29%) Data Visualisation
7 46 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (21.46%) Data Modelling
9 33 (16.10%) Data Analytics
10 30 (14.63%) ETL
11 28 (13.66%) CRM
12 22 (10.73%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (9.27%) Computer Science
14 19 (9.27%) Statistics
14 19 (9.27%) Workflow
15 18 (8.78%) Agile
15 18 (8.78%) Mentoring
15 18 (8.78%) Scrum
15 18 (8.78%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 147 (71.71%) SQL
2 39 (19.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 24 (11.71%) Python
4 17 (8.29%) R
5 16 (7.80%) T-SQL
6 14 (6.83%) VBA
7 10 (4.88%) PHP
8 2 (0.98%) C#
9 1 (0.49%) Bash
9 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (18.05%) Degree
2 11 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.49%) MBA
6 1 (0.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.41%) QA
3 5 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.98%) PMO
Vendors
1 50 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.29%) Oracle
3 13 (6.34%) Google
4 7 (3.41%) JD Edwards
4 7 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.44%) Cognos
5 5 (2.44%) SAP
5 5 (2.44%) Xero
6 4 (1.95%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.46%) Advent
7 3 (1.46%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.46%) Databricks
7 3 (1.46%) FactSet
8 2 (0.98%) Sage
8 2 (0.98%) UiPath
9 1 (0.49%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) Minitab
9 1 (0.49%) Splunk