Business Intelligence Job Trends

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 44 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 -22
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 3,384 2,502 2,945
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.98% 5.05% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 5.69% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,182 1,737 1,970
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,010 £36,423
25th Percentile £41,439 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,375 £91,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Business Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,691 43,965 63,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 88.66% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 57,506 24,819 36,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.23%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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 3,059 £55,000 -4.35% 2,338
UK excluding London +3 2,311 £50,000 - 1,425
Work from Home -4 949 £57,500 - 1,256
London -15 925 £72,500 +3.57% 1,220
North of England +69 714 £47,500 -9.52% 326
Midlands +8 502 £55,000 +5.92% 244
South East -34 393 £55,000 - 419
North West +55 336 £47,500 -9.52% 168
West Midlands +4 308 £55,000 +4.76% 159
Yorkshire +50 280 £47,988 -7.27% 114
South West -14 280 £42,500 -15.00% 153
East of England -4 213 £55,000 +29.41% 135
East Midlands +20 194 £48,750 +8.33% 85
Wales +18 137 £53,171 +20.84% 38
North East +12 98 £47,500 - 46
Scotland -7 70 £65,000 +30.00% 99
Northern Ireland -71 14 £45,000 - 31

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 216 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 58 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 51 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.09%) SAS
5 32 (0.95%) Apache
6 24 (0.71%) Confluence
7 21 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 11 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 10 (0.30%) CMS
9 10 (0.30%) WordPress
10 6 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.15%) MS Project Server
12 3 (0.089%) IIS
12 3 (0.089%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.059%) Appian
13 2 (0.059%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.059%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.059%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 981 (28.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 28 (0.83%) SPSS
6 22 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.47%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.15%) ProjectWise
10 3 (0.089%) Revit
11 2 (0.059%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.059%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.030%) InDesign
12 1 (0.030%) Inkscape
Business Applications
1 77 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (1.68%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
3 17 (0.50%) Elite 3E
4 14 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.38%) Infor M3
6 12 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 12 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 12 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
8 9 (0.27%) Visualfiles
9 7 (0.21%) Lawson
9 7 (0.21%) Magento
10 6 (0.18%) Shopify
11 5 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
11 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.15%) SAP PM
11 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,399 (70.89%) Power Platform
2 1,241 (36.67%) Azure
3 463 (13.68%) Azure AI
4 293 (8.66%) Power Automate
5 281 (8.30%) AWS
6 272 (8.04%) PowerApps
7 265 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
8 213 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 197 (5.82%) Dynamics 365
10 193 (5.70%) SaaS
11 159 (4.70%) Snowflake
12 150 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
13 136 (4.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 135 (3.99%) GCP
15 96 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
16 89 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
17 86 (2.54%) dbt
18 67 (1.98%) Google Ads
19 65 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
20 64 (1.89%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.06%) Firewall
2 25 (0.74%) LAN
2 25 (0.74%) WAN
3 22 (0.65%) Broadband
4 16 (0.47%) VLAN
5 14 (0.41%) SMS
6 13 (0.38%) Internet
6 13 (0.38%) VPN
7 12 (0.35%) BGP
7 12 (0.35%) DNS
8 11 (0.33%) DHCP
9 10 (0.30%) OSPF
9 10 (0.30%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.24%) Network Security
11 7 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (0.21%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
11 7 (0.21%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.21%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,379 (70.30%) Power BI
2 805 (23.79%) Tableau
3 328 (9.69%) Data Warehouse
4 214 (6.32%) SQL Server
5 198 (5.85%) Data Lake
6 146 (4.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 123 (3.63%) Power Query
8 112 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 110 (3.25%) Metadata
10 95 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 83 (2.45%) Looker
11 83 (2.45%) Relational Database
12 76 (2.25%) Star Schema
13 68 (2.01%) Big Data
14 67 (1.98%) BigQuery
15 65 (1.92%) Delta Lake
16 51 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
17 44 (1.30%) NoSQL
18 43 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
19 40 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 123 (3.63%) Git
2 64 (1.89%) JIRA
3 21 (0.62%) MLflow
4 16 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
6 13 (0.38%) Visual Studio
7 9 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.12%) ERwin
9 4 (0.12%) GitLab
9 4 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.089%) Maven
11 2 (0.059%) Ant
11 2 (0.059%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.059%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.059%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.059%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.030%) Browser DevTools
12 1 (0.030%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.030%) kappa
General
1 1,386 (40.96%) Social Skills
2 955 (28.22%) Finance
3 806 (23.82%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (7.57%) Marketing
5 181 (5.35%) Law
6 180 (5.32%) Legal
7 175 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 162 (4.79%) Manufacturing
9 161 (4.76%) Retail
10 158 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 145 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.19%) Banking
13 51 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
15 48 (1.42%) Legal Technology
16 45 (1.33%) Billing
17 44 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (1.21%) Telecoms
19 35 (1.03%) Advertising
20 29 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,127 (33.30%) Analyst
2 681 (20.12%) Data Analyst
3 478 (14.13%) Senior
4 475 (14.04%) Junior
5 461 (13.62%) Junior Analyst
6 447 (13.21%) Junior Data Analyst
7 396 (11.70%) Developer
8 324 (9.57%) Data Engineer
9 260 (7.68%) Lead
10 158 (4.67%) Architect
11 130 (3.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 126 (3.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 120 (3.55%) Data Architect
14 106 (3.13%) Consultant
15 91 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
16 90 (2.66%) Data Manager
17 87 (2.57%) Senior Data Engineer
18 85 (2.51%) Business Analyst
19 75 (2.22%) Systems Analyst
20 65 (1.92%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (4.91%) .NET
2 137 (4.05%) PySpark
3 83 (2.45%) HTML
4 69 (2.04%) CSS
5 63 (1.86%) Terraform
6 59 (1.74%) REST
7 51 (1.51%) Kafka
8 46 (1.36%) .NET Core
9 45 (1.33%) JSON
10 38 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
11 35 (1.03%) ASP.NET
12 31 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
12 31 (0.92%) PyTorch
13 30 (0.89%) .NET Framework
14 29 (0.86%) TensorFlow
14 29 (0.86%) XML
15 28 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
16 25 (0.74%) EDI
16 25 (0.74%) React
16 25 (0.74%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 202 (5.97%) Management Information System
2 160 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 95 (2.81%) Data Structures
4 79 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 76 (2.25%) Cloud Native
6 70 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 53 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 43 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.09%) Driving Licence
11 36 (1.06%) FMCG
12 35 (1.03%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.00%) NHS
14 32 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (0.80%) Cybercrime
16 23 (0.68%) Public Cloud
17 22 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 22 (0.65%) Low-Code
18 21 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
19 20 (0.59%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 75 (2.22%) Windows
2 41 (1.21%) Linux
3 32 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.059%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.059%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.059%) Solaris
7 2 (0.059%) Unix
8 1 (0.030%) Android
8 1 (0.030%) VMS
8 1 (0.030%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,203 (35.55%) Analytics
2 1,186 (35.05%) AI
3 806 (23.82%) Decision-Making
4 711 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
5 648 (19.15%) Data Modelling
6 555 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 471 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 423 (12.50%) Agile
9 422 (12.47%) ETL
10 416 (12.29%) Data Engineering
11 412 (12.17%) Data Governance
12 396 (11.70%) Visualisation
13 375 (11.08%) Actionable Insight
14 359 (10.61%) ERP
15 339 (10.02%) Data Analysis
15 339 (10.02%) Data Pipeline
16 337 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 305 (9.01%) CI/CD
18 279 (8.24%) Dashboard Development
18 279 (8.24%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,882 (55.61%) SQL
2 1,082 (31.97%) Python
3 204 (6.03%) C#
4 193 (5.70%) JavaScript
5 186 (5.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 67 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 58 (1.71%) Java
8 56 (1.65%) R
9 54 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 53 (1.57%) TypeScript
11 49 (1.45%) Scala
12 31 (0.92%) VBA
13 26 (0.77%) C++
14 25 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.53%) Bicep
16 12 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
17 11 (0.33%) VB.NET
18 5 (0.15%) Bash
18 5 (0.15%) PHP
18 5 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 511 (15.10%) Azure Certification
2 372 (10.99%) Degree
3 150 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 112 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 92 (2.72%) ACCA
6 83 (2.45%) CIMA
7 77 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (1.15%) DBS Check
9 38 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 26 (0.77%) PMP
12 19 (0.56%) AAT
13 18 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.50%) SnowPro
15 15 (0.44%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.35%) HND
17 10 (0.30%) CCNA
17 10 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
18 9 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 598 (17.67%) Data Quality
2 191 (5.64%) GDPR
3 86 (2.54%) QA
4 65 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 55 (1.63%) PMO
6 42 (1.24%) SLA
7 37 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 25 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (0.50%) NIST
11 15 (0.44%) GRC
12 13 (0.38%) PERC
13 11 (0.33%) IFRS
14 8 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.24%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.21%) HL7
16 6 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.15%) TickIT
18 4 (0.12%) GAAP
System Software
1 38 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.71%) Docker
3 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.30%) vSphere
5 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.12%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.089%) IAG
8 3 (0.089%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.089%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.089%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.059%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (0.74%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.62%) Ansible
3 20 (0.59%) EnCase
3 20 (0.59%) FTK
4 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.30%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (0.21%) Grafana
8 4 (0.12%) Kibana
9 2 (0.059%) Argo
9 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.059%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.059%) Puppet
10 1 (0.030%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.030%) MOM
10 1 (0.030%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.030%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.030%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.030%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,464 (43.26%) Microsoft
2 310 (9.16%) Databricks
3 159 (4.70%) Google
4 135 (3.99%) SAP
5 119 (3.52%) Oracle
6 59 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 41 (1.21%) Informatica
8 36 (1.06%) Sage
9 33 (0.98%) Alteryx
10 31 (0.92%) Cisco
11 28 (0.83%) Dell
12 27 (0.80%) HubSpot
13 23 (0.68%) Concur
14 22 (0.65%) Intapp
15 21 (0.62%) Adobe
15 21 (0.62%) VMware
16 20 (0.59%) Cellebrite
17 19 (0.56%) Infor
18 16 (0.47%) ServiceNow
18 16 (0.47%) Workday