Business Intelligence Specialist Jobs

BI Specialist
UK

The median BI Specialist salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 715 870 965
Rank change year-on-year +155 +95 +235
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Specialist 2 24 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.024% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.026% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 2 24 8
10th Percentile £50,500 £41,625 £39,888
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £42,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% -15.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,250 £50,781
90th Percentile £79,500 £66,250 £53,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +6.32%

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 49,922 93,907 92,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.63% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,447 67,290 58,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Business Intelligence Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Business Intelligence Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Business Intelligence Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Specialist over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Business Intelligence Specialist
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +134 2 £65,000 +18.18% 10
UK excluding London +151 1 £50,000 - 5
London +110 1 £80,000 +28.00% 8
North of England +61 1 £50,000 -
North West +2 1 £50,000 +11.11%

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Business Intelligence Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) R
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office

Business Intelligence Specialist 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) R
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft