Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 50 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 4,568 5,992 9,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.66% 5.73% 5.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 5.99% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,532 3,942 5,934
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,125 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +1.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,316 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,125 £92,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +7.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +4 4,067 £55,000 -4.35% 1,141
UK excluding London +1 3,051 £50,000 +0.50% 682
Work from Home +4 2,007 £55,000 -0.75% 549
London +6 1,295 £67,500 - 492
North of England +10 853 £50,000 - 205
South East +6 655 £52,500 - 144
Midlands +3 599 £52,500 +16.67% 138
North West +38 469 £50,000 - 110
West Midlands +2 445 £54,650 +21.44% 83
South West -5 341 £47,500 -9.52% 81
East of England +58 270 £48,500 +7.78% 56
Yorkshire -9 266 £49,827 -9.21% 64
Scotland -31 227 £54,500 +17.04% 36
East Midlands -6 148 £45,000 -5.26% 54
North East +7 118 £45,000 -10.00% 32
Northern Ireland +39 53 £35,000 -22.22% 13
Wales -15 53 £52,500 +31.25% 18
Isle of Man - 3 £59,250 - 2
Channel Islands - 2 - -

Business Intelligence
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
1 376 (8.23%) SharePoint
2 98 (2.15%) SAS
3 75 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 64 (1.40%) Confluence
5 51 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 48 (1.05%) Apache
7 32 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 32 (0.70%) IIS
8 21 (0.46%) WordPress
9 18 (0.39%) CMS
9 18 (0.39%) nginx
10 12 (0.26%) Drupal
11 11 (0.24%) IBM Notes
12 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.066%) IBM Domino
14 3 (0.066%) SharePoint 2010
14 3 (0.066%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.066%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 851 (18.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 233 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
3 150 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.68%) SPSS
7 16 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
8 13 (0.28%) Trello
9 8 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.18%) InDesign
9 8 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.11%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.088%) Doxygen
12 4 (0.088%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.088%) Simulink
12 4 (0.088%) Sketch
13 3 (0.066%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 188 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.42%) Primavera
4 18 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 18 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
5 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.35%) iTrent
6 16 (0.35%) SAP BPC
7 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 13 (0.28%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.24%) Maximo
10 10 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
11 8 (0.18%) Sage 200
12 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 6 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
13 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
14 5 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 2,992 (65.50%) Power Platform
2 1,416 (31.00%) Azure
3 478 (10.46%) PowerApps
4 412 (9.02%) Power Automate
5 398 (8.71%) AWS
6 386 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
7 342 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
8 260 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 175 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 173 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
11 157 (3.44%) GCP
12 136 (2.98%) Snowflake
13 120 (2.63%) SaaS
14 94 (2.06%) Serverless
15 68 (1.49%) Google Analytics
16 67 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
17 66 (1.44%) GitHub
18 63 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
19 47 (1.03%) Entra ID
20 44 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.75%) Broadband
2 54 (1.18%) DNS
3 45 (0.99%) Firewall
4 36 (0.79%) Internet
5 34 (0.74%) Intranet
6 33 (0.72%) Network Security
7 25 (0.55%) DHCP
7 25 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.44%) HTTP
8 20 (0.44%) WAN
9 19 (0.42%) MQTT
10 18 (0.39%) DSL
10 18 (0.39%) VPN
10 18 (0.39%) Wireless
11 17 (0.37%) SSH
12 16 (0.35%) Unified Communications
13 15 (0.33%) SAN
14 14 (0.31%) LAN
15 13 (0.28%) SNMP
16 11 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,952 (64.62%) Power BI
2 851 (18.63%) Data Warehouse
3 817 (17.89%) SQL Server
4 656 (14.36%) Tableau
5 483 (10.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 379 (8.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 317 (6.94%) Data Lake
8 195 (4.27%) Relational Database
8 195 (4.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 191 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 162 (3.55%) Big Data
11 152 (3.33%) Power Query
12 117 (2.56%) Data Mining
13 89 (1.95%) Looker
14 87 (1.90%) MySQL
15 86 (1.88%) NoSQL
16 84 (1.84%) Metadata
17 79 (1.73%) MongoDB
18 78 (1.71%) BusinessObjects
19 66 (1.44%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 206 (4.51%) JIRA
2 156 (3.42%) Git
3 74 (1.62%) Visual Studio
4 60 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 24 (0.53%) Eclipse
7 17 (0.37%) GitLab
7 17 (0.37%) Subversion
7 17 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 16 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (0.22%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.20%) RStudio
12 8 (0.18%) MSTest
13 7 (0.15%) Mocha
14 6 (0.13%) Maven
15 5 (0.11%) IntelliJ
15 5 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,561 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 1,502 (32.88%) Finance
3 1,037 (22.70%) Analytical Skills
4 532 (11.65%) Marketing
5 492 (10.77%) Public Sector
6 410 (8.98%) Retail
7 336 (7.36%) Manufacturing
8 283 (6.20%) Legal
9 249 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 220 (4.82%) Law
11 210 (4.60%) Telecoms
12 201 (4.40%) Banking
13 189 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
14 183 (4.01%) Electronics
15 82 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
16 65 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 56 (1.23%) Local Government
17 56 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 55 (1.20%) Advertising
19 49 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,003 (21.96%) Analyst
2 911 (19.94%) Developer
3 549 (12.02%) Senior
4 379 (8.30%) Data Analyst
5 371 (8.12%) Lead
6 323 (7.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 311 (6.81%) Data Engineer
8 250 (5.47%) Architect
8 250 (5.47%) Consultant
9 208 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 158 (3.46%) Power BI Developer
11 148 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
12 144 (3.15%) Senior Developer
13 142 (3.11%) DBA
14 127 (2.78%) Data Manager
15 114 (2.50%) Power Platform Developer
16 112 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Manager
17 108 (2.36%) SQL DBA
18 106 (2.32%) Data Architect
19 104 (2.28%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (5.14%) .NET
2 194 (4.25%) HTML
3 155 (3.39%) CSS
4 101 (2.21%) React
5 88 (1.93%) AngularJS
6 86 (1.88%) REST
7 81 (1.77%) .NET Framework
8 80 (1.75%) JSON
9 67 (1.47%) ASP.NET
10 60 (1.31%) Kafka
11 59 (1.29%) XML
12 52 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
13 50 (1.09%) Node.js
13 50 (1.09%) Web Services
14 49 (1.07%) Entity Framework
15 43 (0.94%) ASP.NET MVC
15 43 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
16 42 (0.92%) .NET Core
17 41 (0.90%) PySpark
18 34 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 267 (5.85%) Management Information System
2 172 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
3 131 (2.87%) Onboarding
4 122 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 72 (1.58%) Algorithms
6 65 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (1.36%) IoT
8 61 (1.34%) Cloud Native
8 61 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 60 (1.31%) NHS
10 55 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 54 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (0.99%) PMI
13 39 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 39 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 32 (0.70%) FMCG
15 30 (0.66%) Taxonomies
16 29 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
17 26 (0.57%) Social Media
17 26 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 202 (4.42%) Windows
2 115 (2.52%) Linux
3 78 (1.71%) VMS
4 31 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.50%) Unix
6 19 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.22%) Windows Vista
8 7 (0.15%) Android
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.088%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.044%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,268 (27.76%) Analytics
2 929 (20.34%) Visualisation
3 883 (19.33%) Agile
4 828 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
5 787 (17.23%) ETL
6 711 (15.56%) Data Modelling
7 671 (14.69%) Data Analysis
8 617 (13.51%) Data Visualisation
9 564 (12.35%) Decision-Making
10 480 (10.51%) Machine Learning
11 464 (10.16%) Data Analytics
12 454 (9.94%) Data Science
13 433 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 429 (9.39%) Artificial Intelligence
15 403 (8.82%) Data Governance
16 395 (8.65%) DevOps
16 395 (8.65%) Roadmaps
17 391 (8.56%) Project Management
18 383 (8.38%) Data Management
18 383 (8.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,227 (48.75%) SQL
2 844 (18.48%) Python
3 412 (9.02%) T-SQL
4 318 (6.96%) C#
5 316 (6.92%) JavaScript
6 241 (5.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 205 (4.49%) R
8 155 (3.39%) Java
9 118 (2.58%) TypeScript
10 117 (2.56%) PowerShell
11 80 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 69 (1.51%) VBA
13 60 (1.31%) C
14 47 (1.03%) C++
15 45 (0.99%) Scala
16 41 (0.90%) PHP
17 40 (0.88%) MATLAB
18 25 (0.55%) Bash
19 24 (0.53%) Go
20 21 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 888 (19.44%) Degree
2 240 (5.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 211 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 161 (3.52%) DBS Check
5 150 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 137 (3.00%) SC Cleared
7 108 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 54 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.12%) PMI Certification
10 40 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
11 37 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (0.61%) DV Cleared
13 22 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
14 21 (0.46%) CISSP
15 18 (0.39%) CIMA
16 17 (0.37%) MBA
17 16 (0.35%) PhD
18 14 (0.31%) CRISC
19 13 (0.28%) GIAC
19 13 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (8.45%) Data Quality
2 188 (4.12%) GDPR
3 122 (2.67%) QA
4 55 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.96%) SLA
6 43 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.81%) PMO
8 32 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 20 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.28%) COBIT
11 12 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.22%) NIST
13 9 (0.20%) GRC
14 6 (0.13%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 4 (0.088%) IEC 61131
16 4 (0.088%) ISO 22301
16 4 (0.088%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 93 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 82 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 58 (1.27%) Docker
4 43 (0.94%) Firmware
5 19 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.11%) vSphere
9 3 (0.066%) HDFS
9 3 (0.066%) NFS
10 2 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.022%) KVM
11 1 (0.022%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (1.36%) Kubernetes
2 57 (1.25%) Terraform
3 18 (0.39%) Ansible
4 14 (0.31%) Grafana
5 13 (0.28%) WMI
6 12 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.13%) Opsgenie
9 6 (0.13%) VxRail
9 6 (0.13%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.11%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.088%) Kibana
12 3 (0.066%) Podman
13 2 (0.044%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.044%) Foglight
13 2 (0.044%) SCCM
14 1 (0.022%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.022%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,717 (37.59%) Microsoft
2 344 (7.53%) SAP
3 269 (5.89%) Oracle
4 252 (5.52%) Databricks
5 180 (3.94%) Google
6 97 (2.12%) Alteryx
7 78 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.18%) Cognos
9 41 (0.90%) Adobe
10 40 (0.88%) VMware
11 38 (0.83%) IFS
12 32 (0.70%) Informatica
13 31 (0.68%) IBM
14 27 (0.59%) Cisco
15 25 (0.55%) iManage
16 20 (0.44%) Aderant
16 20 (0.44%) Sophos
16 20 (0.44%) Sybase
17 19 (0.42%) Infor
17 19 (0.42%) Splunk