Business Intelligence Developer Jobs

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer salary in the UK is £53,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 616 677
Rank change year-on-year +32 +61 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 118 304 300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.31% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 89 255 251
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
England 0 100 £52,000 -0.95% 80
UK excluding London +65 71 £45,000 - 68
Work from Home +65 56 £50,000 -13.04% 51
London +39 36 £60,000 -8.40% 21
Midlands +58 29 £45,000 -2.03% 18
West Midlands +51 24 £45,000 -6.74% 10
North of England -7 18 £47,000 +4.44% 22
Yorkshire +50 9 £49,000 +8.89% 7
North West -32 9 £44,250 +4.12% 15
South East +43 8 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Scotland +120 6 £45,000 - 11
East of England +45 5 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands +41 5 £40,000 -5.88% 7
South West +86 4 £52,000 +22.35% 3
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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.

1 118 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 111 (94.07%) Power BI
2 111 (94.07%) Power Platform
3 92 (77.97%) SQL
4 67 (56.78%) Azure
5 55 (46.61%) ETL
6 54 (45.76%) Visualisation
7 51 (43.22%) Data Modelling
8 44 (37.29%) Social Skills
9 41 (34.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 38 (32.20%) Analytics
10 38 (32.20%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (31.36%) Decision-Making
11 37 (31.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 36 (30.51%) Microsoft
12 36 (30.51%) Data Visualisation
13 33 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (25.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 28 (23.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 28 (23.73%) Power Query
16 27 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
17 25 (21.19%) Finance
17 25 (21.19%) SQL Server
18 24 (20.34%) Dashboard Development
19 22 (18.64%) Actionable Insight
20 21 (17.80%) PowerApps
21 18 (15.25%) Data Analysis
22 17 (14.41%) Degree
23 16 (13.56%) Python
23 16 (13.56%) Power Automate

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 11 (9.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (94.07%) Power Platform
2 67 (56.78%) Azure
3 37 (31.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (17.80%) PowerApps
5 16 (13.56%) Power Automate
6 11 (9.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (7.63%) IaaS
7 9 (7.63%) PaaS
8 6 (5.08%) AWS
9 5 (4.24%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.39%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (3.39%) SaaS
11 3 (2.54%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.69%) dbt
12 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.69%) GCP
13 1 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (94.07%) Power BI
2 38 (32.20%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (25.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (23.73%) Power Query
4 28 (23.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (21.19%) SQL Server
6 14 (11.86%) Data Lake
7 13 (11.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (7.63%) Star Schema
9 8 (6.78%) Tableau
10 6 (5.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 6 (5.08%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.69%) Data Mart
11 2 (1.69%) Looker
11 2 (1.69%) Metabase
11 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
12 1 (0.85%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 15 (12.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 44 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (21.19%) Finance
4 10 (8.47%) Retail
5 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.69%) Marketing
7 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.85%) Banking
8 1 (0.85%) Billing
8 1 (0.85%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.63%) .NET
2 6 (5.08%) XML
3 4 (3.39%) .NET Framework
3 4 (3.39%) ML.NET
4 2 (1.69%) EDI
5 1 (0.85%) CSS
5 1 (0.85%) HTML
5 1 (0.85%) JSON
5 1 (0.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.47%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.08%) Reinsurance
3 5 (4.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.69%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.69%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.85%) FMCG
5 1 (0.85%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.85%) PropTech
5 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 55 (46.61%) ETL
3 54 (45.76%) Visualisation
4 51 (43.22%) Data Modelling
5 38 (32.20%) Analytics
6 37 (31.36%) Decision-Making
7 36 (30.51%) Data Visualisation
8 33 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (20.34%) Dashboard Development
10 22 (18.64%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (15.25%) Data Analysis
12 15 (12.71%) Customer Service
12 15 (12.71%) Data Governance
13 14 (11.86%) Agile
13 14 (11.86%) CRM
13 14 (11.86%) Kimball Methodology
14 13 (11.02%) Computer Science
15 12 (10.17%) Data Cleansing
16 11 (9.32%) Data Extraction
17 10 (8.47%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 92 (77.97%) SQL
2 41 (34.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 16 (13.56%) Python
4 14 (11.86%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.39%) C#
6 2 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.85%) C
7 1 (0.85%) Java
7 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (14.41%) Degree
2 12 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.32%) Azure Certification
4 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.54%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.54%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.39%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 36 (30.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.17%) Databricks
3 5 (4.24%) SAP
4 4 (3.39%) Cognos
4 4 (3.39%) Google
4 4 (3.39%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.85%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.85%) Informatica
6 1 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) PeopleSoft