Business Intelligence Developer Jobs

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer 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 505 514 455
Rank change year-on-year +9 -59 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 242 698 923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.56% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.59% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 192 587 782
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,938 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -

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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer 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 +23 223 £52,875 -3.86% 74
UK excluding London +55 160 £46,250 -2.63% 64
Work from Home +38 93 £50,000 -4.76% 46
North of England +116 75 £47,500 +5.56% 16
London +57 72 £70,000 +7.69% 16
Yorkshire +83 47 £40,000 -11.11% 8
Midlands +54 29 £45,000 -5.26% 12
North West +79 25 £55,000 +22.22% 7
South East +131 19 £42,500 -22.73% 17
West Midlands +88 15 £47,500 +1.36% 12
South West +62 15 £60,000 +45.45% 3
East Midlands +17 14 £39,250 -17.37%
Wales +8 8 £45,000 -10.00% 2
East of England +89 7 £26,500 -50.70% 14
Northern Ireland +38 4 £40,000 +23.08%
North East +50 3 £45,000 +32.35% 1
Scotland +49 3 £48,500 +1.04% 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, Business Intelligence Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 242 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 220 (90.91%) Power BI
2 220 (90.91%) Power Platform
3 197 (81.40%) SQL
4 120 (49.59%) Azure
5 113 (46.69%) Data Modelling
6 102 (42.15%) Visualisation
7 98 (40.50%) Analytics
8 94 (38.84%) ETL
9 88 (36.36%) Microsoft
10 86 (35.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 80 (33.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 79 (32.64%) Finance
13 78 (32.23%) Data Warehouse
13 78 (32.23%) SQL Server
13 78 (32.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 58 (23.97%) T-SQL
15 56 (23.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 52 (21.49%) Decision-Making
17 51 (21.07%) Social Skills
18 49 (20.25%) Degree
19 47 (19.42%) Agile
20 46 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
21 41 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
22 38 (15.70%) Power Query
23 37 (15.29%) DevOps
24 36 (14.88%) Data Visualisation
25 32 (13.22%) Law
25 32 (13.22%) Requirements Gathering
26 31 (12.81%) Data Science

Business Intelligence Developer 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 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.65%) IBM Domino
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (8.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.24%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.07%) NetSuite
1 5 (2.07%) Shopify
2 3 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.41%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.41%) iTrent
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 220 (90.91%) Power Platform
2 120 (49.59%) Azure
3 28 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (11.57%) PowerApps
4 23 (9.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (8.26%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.31%) AWS
7 8 (3.31%) WhatsApp
8 7 (2.89%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (90.91%) Power BI
2 80 (33.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 78 (32.23%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (32.23%) SQL Server
3 78 (32.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 56 (23.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 38 (15.70%) Power Query
6 22 (9.09%) Data Lake
7 21 (8.68%) Star Schema
8 19 (7.85%) Tableau
9 9 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (3.72%) BusinessObjects
10 8 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (2.89%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (2.07%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
13 5 (2.07%) Semantic Layer
14 4 (1.65%) OLAP
14 4 (1.65%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (1.65%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 79 (32.64%) Finance
2 51 (21.07%) Social Skills
3 46 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.22%) Law
5 24 (9.92%) Marketing
6 23 (9.50%) Manufacturing
7 21 (8.68%) Electronics
8 17 (7.02%) Legal
9 15 (6.20%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.72%) Banking
12 8 (3.31%) Retail
13 5 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.24%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.07%) Middleware
2 3 (1.24%) .NET
3 2 (0.83%) JSON
3 2 (0.83%) XML
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.07%) Reinsurance
4 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.65%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.24%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.24%) NHS
6 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.41%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.41%) FMCG
7 1 (0.41%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.41%) Life Science
7 1 (0.41%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.41%) Windows
1 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 113 (46.69%) Data Modelling
3 102 (42.15%) Visualisation
4 98 (40.50%) Analytics
5 94 (38.84%) ETL
6 52 (21.49%) Decision-Making
7 47 (19.42%) Agile
8 41 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (15.29%) DevOps
10 36 (14.88%) Data Visualisation
11 32 (13.22%) Requirements Gathering
12 31 (12.81%) Data Analytics
12 31 (12.81%) Data Science
13 29 (11.98%) Business Analytics
14 25 (10.33%) Data Analysis
15 22 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
16 21 (8.68%) Data Integration
17 18 (7.44%) Actionable Insight
17 18 (7.44%) Scrum
17 18 (7.44%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 197 (81.40%) SQL
2 86 (35.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 58 (23.97%) T-SQL
4 15 (6.20%) Python
5 8 (3.31%) C#
6 5 (2.07%) R
7 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.41%) PHP
8 1 (0.41%) VB
8 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (20.25%) Degree
2 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.65%) MCSA
3 4 (1.65%) MCSE
4 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.55%) QA
3 3 (1.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 88 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.92%) Oracle
3 12 (4.96%) Databricks
4 6 (2.48%) Alteryx
4 6 (2.48%) SAP
5 5 (2.07%) Xero
6 4 (1.65%) Computacenter
7 3 (1.24%) Nintex
8 2 (0.83%) Cognos
9 1 (0.41%) IBM
9 1 (0.41%) Informatica