Business Intelligence Analyst Job Trends

BI Analyst
UK

The median BI Analyst salary in the UK is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 616 530
Rank change year-on-year +60 -86 +139
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 95 95 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.17% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.18% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 77 58 153
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,350 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,813 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,938 £71,250
90th Percentile £66,850 £65,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 53,514 51,440 48,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.14% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,905 27,168 37,760
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Business Intelligence Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Top 15 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 1 January 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
England +78 90 £42,500 -5.56% 32
UK excluding London +72 73 £40,000 - 28
Work from Home +74 33 £40,000 -11.11% 8
Midlands +43 28 £40,000 -5.88% 4
West Midlands +35 19 £42,500 +3.03% 4
London +20 19 £60,000 +9.09% 14
South East +38 17 £47,500 +18.75% 10
South West +9 11 £40,000 -8.57%
North of England +10 9 £40,000 - 11
East Midlands -2 9 £40,000 -15.79%
North West +26 8 £40,500 +1.25% 6
East of England +16 6 £41,250 +3.13%
Scotland +8 1 £38,500 -3.75%
Wales +6 1 £37,500 -6.25% 3
Yorkshire -19 1 £40,000 -6.43% 5

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, 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 featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 77 (81.05%) Power BI
2 77 (81.05%) Power Platform
3 68 (71.58%) SQL
4 59 (62.11%) Analytics
5 49 (51.58%) Decision-Making
6 44 (46.32%) Microsoft Excel
7 34 (35.79%) Tableau
8 32 (33.68%) Actionable Insight
9 30 (31.58%) Data Modelling
9 30 (31.58%) Python
9 30 (31.58%) Visualisation
10 29 (30.53%) Microsoft
11 28 (29.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (27.37%) Data Analysis
13 23 (24.21%) ETL
14 22 (23.16%) Data Visualisation
15 20 (21.05%) Data Quality
15 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (17.89%) Snowflake
17 16 (16.84%) Azure
17 16 (16.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 14 (14.74%) CRM
18 14 (14.74%) Looker
19 13 (13.68%) Data Governance
19 13 (13.68%) Data Pipeline
19 13 (13.68%) Degree
20 12 (12.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 12 (12.63%) Data Warehouse
20 12 (12.63%) Power Query

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.11%) SAS
3 1 (1.05%) Moodle
3 1 (1.05%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (46.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 77 (81.05%) Power Platform
2 17 (17.89%) Snowflake
3 16 (16.84%) Azure
4 9 (9.47%) dbt
5 8 (8.42%) AWS
5 8 (8.42%) SaaS
6 6 (6.32%) GCP
6 6 (6.32%) PowerApps
7 5 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.26%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.21%) Fivetran
8 4 (4.21%) GitHub
8 4 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.21%) Google Data Studio
8 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.11%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.05%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (81.05%) Power BI
2 34 (35.79%) Tableau
3 14 (14.74%) Looker
4 12 (12.63%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (12.63%) Power Query
5 8 (8.42%) SQL Server
6 7 (7.37%) BusinessObjects
6 7 (7.37%) Data Mining
6 7 (7.37%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (6.32%) BigQuery
7 6 (6.32%) Metadata
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (4.21%) QlikView
8 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (3.16%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 3 (3.16%) SAP BW
9 3 (3.16%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (2.11%) KNIME
10 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) JIRA
General
1 45 (47.37%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (41.05%) Finance
3 30 (31.58%) Marketing
4 28 (29.47%) Social Skills
5 15 (15.79%) Retail
6 7 (7.37%) Automotive
7 4 (4.21%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.16%) Law
8 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.16%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.11%) Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Electronics
9 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.11%) Legal
9 2 (2.11%) Publishing
9 2 (2.11%) Social Housing
9 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.21%) Hugging Face
1 4 (4.21%) NumPy
1 4 (4.21%) Pandas
1 4 (4.21%) scikit-learn
2 2 (2.11%) .NET
3 1 (1.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.11%) FMCG
2 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.05%) Multi-touch
3 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (62.11%) Analytics
3 49 (51.58%) Decision-Making
4 32 (33.68%) Actionable Insight
5 30 (31.58%) Data Modelling
5 30 (31.58%) Visualisation
6 28 (29.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (27.37%) Data Analysis
8 23 (24.21%) ETL
9 22 (23.16%) Data Visualisation
10 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (16.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 14 (14.74%) CRM
13 13 (13.68%) Data Governance
13 13 (13.68%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (11.58%) A/B Testing
14 11 (11.58%) Data Analytics
15 10 (10.53%) Customer Experience
15 10 (10.53%) Roadmaps
15 10 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 68 (71.58%) SQL
2 30 (31.58%) Python
3 12 (12.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (8.42%) VBA
5 4 (4.21%) R
5 4 (4.21%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.11%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Degree
2 8 (8.42%) ACCA
2 8 (8.42%) CIMA
3 6 (6.32%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (30.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.63%) Salesforce
3 9 (9.47%) Databricks
4 7 (7.37%) Google
4 7 (7.37%) SAP
5 6 (6.32%) Alteryx
6 5 (5.26%) HubSpot
7 4 (4.21%) Facebook
7 4 (4.21%) OpenAI
7 4 (4.21%) Talend
7 4 (4.21%) Zoho
8 2 (2.11%) Cisco
9 1 (1.05%) Civica
9 1 (1.05%) Freshdesk
9 1 (1.05%) Intapp
9 1 (1.05%) Northgate
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle
9 1 (1.05%) Orchard
9 1 (1.05%) Sage
9 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow