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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 43 54 44
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 -1
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 3,199 7,413 8,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.00% 5.91% 6.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 6.18% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,481 5,492 6,196
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -

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 50,205 119,980 123,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.73% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 73,101 82,277
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Top 18 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 2 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 +11 2,878 £57,500 -4.17% 1,375
UK excluding London +14 1,863 £50,000 - 918
Work from Home +3 1,366 £57,500 -1.90% 702
London +6 1,135 £67,500 -1.48% 535
North of England +19 500 £50,000 - 255
South East +19 400 £52,500 -6.25% 209
Midlands +14 341 £50,000 - 170
South West +14 305 £50,000 - 95
North West +24 251 £54,250 +8.50% 136
West Midlands +22 245 £50,000 - 111
Yorkshire +10 223 £48,000 -4.23% 75
Scotland +10 141 £50,000 +6.95% 69
East of England +8 98 £52,500 +5.00% 90
East Midlands +3 96 £47,500 -5.00% 58
Wales -13 64 £34,000 -24.44% 34
Northern Ireland +14 30 £38,750 -13.89% 7
North East +13 26 £45,000 -10.00% 46
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
1 184 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 96 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 70 (2.19%) Apache
4 55 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.91%) SAS
6 28 (0.88%) Confluence
7 17 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 16 (0.50%) CMS
9 14 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
10 13 (0.41%) IIS
11 12 (0.38%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.28%) nginx
13 9 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.25%) WordPress
15 7 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 7 (0.22%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.22%) Mendix
16 6 (0.19%) Luigi
Applications
1 455 (14.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 160 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 26 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.28%) InDesign
7 9 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.25%) Simulink
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
9 6 (0.19%) SPSS
10 5 (0.16%) Trello
11 4 (0.13%) OrCAD
12 3 (0.094%) Windchill
13 2 (0.063%) 3ds Max
13 2 (0.063%) Blender
13 2 (0.063%) CINEMA 4D
13 2 (0.063%) InfoPath
13 2 (0.063%) MicroStation
13 2 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 156 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.56%) Maximo
2 18 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 18 (0.56%) Primavera
3 14 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
3 14 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.31%) iTrent
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 9 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
7 8 (0.25%) HFM
7 8 (0.25%) Infor M3
7 8 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 6 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.19%) Shopify
10 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.16%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 2,038 (63.71%) Power Platform
2 1,023 (31.98%) Azure
3 300 (9.38%) AWS
4 295 (9.22%) PowerApps
5 272 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
6 244 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
7 209 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 206 (6.44%) GCP
9 189 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
10 187 (5.85%) Power Automate
11 125 (3.91%) Snowflake
12 117 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 84 (2.63%) Google Analytics
14 82 (2.56%) Serverless
15 70 (2.19%) SaaS
16 66 (2.06%) GitHub
17 58 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
18 49 (1.53%) Azure Functions
18 49 (1.53%) PaaS
19 48 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (0.94%) Wireless
2 25 (0.78%) Firewall
3 19 (0.59%) Network Security
4 17 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.50%) WAN
6 15 (0.47%) Internet
6 15 (0.47%) LAN
7 14 (0.44%) VPN
8 12 (0.38%) DNS
9 10 (0.31%) Intranet
10 9 (0.28%) AMQP
11 8 (0.25%) LTE
12 7 (0.22%) 4G
12 7 (0.22%) HTTP
13 6 (0.19%) 5G
13 6 (0.19%) DHCP
13 6 (0.19%) Software-Defined Radio
13 6 (0.19%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.16%) FlexRay
14 5 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,009 (62.80%) Power BI
2 608 (19.01%) Data Warehouse
3 565 (17.66%) SQL Server
4 494 (15.44%) Tableau
5 364 (11.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 336 (10.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 299 (9.35%) Data Lake
8 194 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 164 (5.13%) Looker
10 161 (5.03%) Relational Database
11 148 (4.63%) Big Data
12 137 (4.28%) NoSQL
13 116 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 109 (3.41%) Power Query
15 93 (2.91%) BusinessObjects
16 87 (2.72%) BigQuery
17 82 (2.56%) MySQL
18 79 (2.47%) Metadata
19 76 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
20 63 (1.97%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 117 (3.66%) Git
2 89 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 83 (2.59%) JIRA
4 30 (0.94%) Visual Studio
5 27 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
6 26 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
7 17 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 14 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
9 10 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.31%) Selenium
10 9 (0.28%) Mocha
10 9 (0.28%) webpack
11 8 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
12 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) CMake
13 6 (0.19%) GitLab
13 6 (0.19%) Maven
13 6 (0.19%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 1,023 (31.98%) Finance
2 965 (30.17%) Social Skills
3 702 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
4 430 (13.44%) Marketing
5 363 (11.35%) Manufacturing
6 282 (8.82%) Retail
7 270 (8.44%) Public Sector
8 206 (6.44%) Electronics
9 205 (6.41%) Telecoms
10 202 (6.31%) Banking
11 161 (5.03%) Legal
12 150 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 145 (4.53%) Law
14 141 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
15 57 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
16 47 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
17 43 (1.34%) Advertising
18 29 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
19 27 (0.84%) Local Government
20 24 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 871 (27.23%) Analyst
2 617 (19.29%) Developer
3 441 (13.79%) Senior
4 320 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 305 (9.53%) Data Analyst
6 247 (7.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 221 (6.91%) Lead
8 206 (6.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 163 (5.10%) Consultant
10 156 (4.88%) Architect
11 132 (4.13%) Power BI Developer
12 120 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
13 99 (3.09%) Data Architect
14 98 (3.06%) Data Manager
15 90 (2.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 88 (2.75%) Power BI Analyst
17 87 (2.72%) Senior Developer
18 79 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
19 75 (2.34%) SQL Developer
20 73 (2.28%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (8.10%) .NET
2 173 (5.41%) HTML
3 142 (4.44%) CSS
4 82 (2.56%) Kafka
5 72 (2.25%) REST
6 60 (1.88%) JSON
6 60 (1.88%) XML
7 56 (1.75%) PySpark
8 51 (1.59%) ASP.NET
9 45 (1.41%) AngularJS
10 44 (1.38%) .NET Framework
10 44 (1.38%) React
11 40 (1.25%) Middleware
12 33 (1.03%) .NET Core
13 31 (0.97%) Web Services
14 30 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
15 27 (0.84%) TensorFlow
16 26 (0.81%) RESTful
17 25 (0.78%) ASP.NET MVC
18 22 (0.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 164 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 91 (2.84%) Data Structures
3 87 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
4 81 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 79 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 62 (1.94%) Low-Code
8 59 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 55 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 34 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (0.94%) NHS
14 29 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
15 25 (0.78%) IoT
16 24 (0.75%) Reinsurance
17 23 (0.72%) Mobile App
18 21 (0.66%) Replication
19 20 (0.63%) Virtual Team
20 19 (0.59%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 116 (3.63%) Windows
2 47 (1.47%) Linux
2 47 (1.47%) Windows Server
3 43 (1.34%) Unix
4 27 (0.84%) Android
5 14 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.41%) AIX
7 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.094%) VMS
13 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.031%) CentOS
14 1 (0.031%) Debian
14 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.031%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,171 (36.61%) Analytics
2 837 (26.16%) Agile
3 727 (22.73%) Visualisation
4 661 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
5 636 (19.88%) Data Modelling
6 619 (19.35%) ETL
7 475 (14.85%) Data Analysis
7 475 (14.85%) Data Visualisation
8 427 (13.35%) DevOps
9 425 (13.29%) Decision-Making
10 371 (11.60%) Data Science
11 355 (11.10%) Data Analytics
12 332 (10.38%) CRM
13 318 (9.94%) Machine Learning
14 309 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
15 284 (8.88%) Data Management
16 267 (8.35%) Project Management
17 265 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 264 (8.25%) Mentoring
19 263 (8.22%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,558 (48.70%) SQL
2 576 (18.01%) Python
3 269 (8.41%) C#
4 265 (8.28%) T-SQL
5 237 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 195 (6.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 131 (4.10%) R
8 109 (3.41%) Java
9 103 (3.22%) PowerShell
10 58 (1.81%) TypeScript
11 57 (1.78%) PL/SQL
12 47 (1.47%) C
13 43 (1.34%) MATLAB
14 41 (1.28%) C++
15 39 (1.22%) VBA
16 38 (1.19%) PHP
17 25 (0.78%) Scala
18 23 (0.72%) Bash
19 21 (0.66%) VB
20 19 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 622 (19.44%) Degree
2 201 (6.28%) Security Cleared
3 145 (4.53%) SC Cleared
4 110 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 63 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 36 (1.13%) DV Cleared
8 31 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 19 (0.59%) PMP
13 11 (0.34%) CISSP
13 11 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
14 8 (0.25%) MCSE
14 8 (0.25%) PhD
15 7 (0.22%) CISA
16 6 (0.19%) MCPD
16 6 (0.19%) MCSA
17 5 (0.16%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 336 (10.50%) Data Quality
2 133 (4.16%) QA
3 62 (1.94%) GDPR
4 47 (1.47%) PMO
5 44 (1.38%) SLA
6 35 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.53%) NIST
9 14 (0.44%) GMP
9 14 (0.44%) GRC
10 10 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
12 6 (0.19%) ISO 26262
13 5 (0.16%) MISRA
13 5 (0.16%) WCAG
14 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.094%) HL7
15 3 (0.094%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 54 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 39 (1.22%) Docker
3 20 (0.63%) Firmware
4 16 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.094%) HDFS
9 2 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.031%) NFS
10 1 (0.031%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.031%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (2.84%) Terraform
2 36 (1.13%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.63%) Ansible
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.19%) Puppet
6 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.16%) SCCM
7 3 (0.094%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.063%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.063%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.063%) Grafana
8 2 (0.063%) Kibana
9 1 (0.031%) Foglight
9 1 (0.031%) logstash
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.031%) Nmap
9 1 (0.031%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.031%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.031%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.031%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,017 (31.79%) Microsoft
2 312 (9.75%) SAP
3 216 (6.75%) Oracle
4 189 (5.91%) Google
5 181 (5.66%) Databricks
6 70 (2.19%) Alteryx
7 66 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 33 (1.03%) Adobe
9 29 (0.91%) Informatica
9 29 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 29 (0.91%) VMware
10 24 (0.75%) Teradata
11 19 (0.59%) Hyperion
11 19 (0.59%) IBM
12 15 (0.47%) Sage
13 14 (0.44%) Cisco
14 13 (0.41%) Cognos
15 12 (0.38%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.38%) Hotjar
15 12 (0.38%) MicroStrategy