Business Intelligence Job Trends in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence (BI)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 53 24
Rank change year-on-year +17 -29 +18
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 234 203 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.36% 4.98% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.34% 5.41% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 146 125 254
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £29,013
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.28%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,438
90th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £73,375
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,380 3,752 3,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.66% 92.12% 86.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,293 1,674 3,044
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,719 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -6.40%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the West Midlands

Business Intelligence
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 January 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
Birmingham +12 108 £57,500 +15.00% 44
Warwickshire +36 29 £42,500 -27.66% 11
Staffordshire -5 27 £30,000 -45.45% 5
Herefordshire +5 19 £40,000 -25.93% 3
Coventry +1 13 £52,500 -12.50% 4
Wolverhampton - 11 £40,000 - 6
Shropshire -28 6 - - 6
Walsall - 6 £42,500 - 1
Solihull -4 5 £60,000 -4.00% 4
Worcestershire -24 4 £46,250 -22.92% 4
Business Intelligence
England

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 12 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.85%) CMS
2 2 (0.85%) Confluence
2 2 (0.85%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 72 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.99%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.85%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.43%) Odoo
3 1 (0.43%) Pegasus Opera
3 1 (0.43%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 179 (76.50%) Power Platform
2 84 (35.90%) Azure
3 30 (12.82%) Azure AI
4 23 (9.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (7.26%) Power Automate
5 17 (7.26%) PowerApps
6 12 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (5.13%) Snowflake
7 10 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.99%) SaaS
9 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.85%) AWS
10 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.85%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Serverless
10 2 (0.85%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) DHCP
1 2 (0.85%) DNS
1 2 (0.85%) Intranet
2 1 (0.43%) FTP
2 1 (0.43%) NAS
2 1 (0.43%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (75.64%) Power BI
2 42 (17.95%) Tableau
3 32 (13.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 31 (13.25%) SQL Server
5 22 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.13%) Data Lake
7 10 (4.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (3.85%) Power Query
9 7 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.56%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (2.14%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.28%) Metadata
13 2 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.85%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 2 (0.85%) MySQL
13 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.85%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (4.27%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) Maven
4 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (39.32%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.79%) Finance
3 48 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.97%) Manufacturing
6 18 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (6.41%) Marketing
8 9 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.42%) Electronics
9 8 (3.42%) Retail
10 5 (2.14%) Legal
10 5 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.85%) Automotive
12 2 (0.85%) Billing
12 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Back Office
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) Law
13 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 71 (30.34%) Analyst
2 40 (17.09%) Developer
3 38 (16.24%) Data Analyst
3 38 (16.24%) Senior
4 35 (14.96%) Junior
5 32 (13.68%) Data Engineer
6 30 (12.82%) Junior Analyst
6 30 (12.82%) Junior Data Analyst
7 21 (8.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 20 (8.55%) Business Developer
9 16 (6.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 14 (5.98%) Senior Manager
11 13 (5.56%) Lead
12 12 (5.13%) Systems Developer
13 11 (4.70%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (4.27%) Azure Data Engineer
14 10 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (4.27%) Bid Manager
14 10 (4.27%) Senior Bid Manager
15 9 (3.85%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.69%) .NET
2 10 (4.27%) EDI
3 5 (2.14%) JSON
4 4 (1.71%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.71%) REST
5 3 (1.28%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.28%) CSS
5 3 (1.28%) HTML
5 3 (1.28%) PySpark
5 3 (1.28%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (1.28%) React
5 3 (1.28%) XML
6 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.85%) SOAP
6 2 (0.85%) Web Services
7 1 (0.43%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.43%) RAML
7 1 (0.43%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.99%) FMCG
5 6 (2.56%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.56%) PDA
5 6 (2.56%) Pricing Data
6 5 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.71%) Cyber Security Posture
7 4 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.71%) EPoS
7 4 (1.71%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
10 1 (0.43%) 3D Printing
10 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Social Media
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.85%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (25.21%) Analytics
2 49 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (20.09%) Decision-Making
4 44 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 38 (16.24%) AI
7 37 (15.81%) ETL
8 31 (13.25%) Visualisation
9 29 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 28 (11.97%) ERP
11 27 (11.54%) Agile
12 25 (10.68%) Actionable Insight
12 25 (10.68%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 24 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
14 23 (9.83%) Data Visualisation
15 21 (8.97%) Data Management
15 21 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (8.12%) Data Analysis
16 19 (8.12%) Data Engineering
17 17 (7.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 127 (54.27%) SQL
2 58 (24.79%) Python
3 18 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 11 (4.70%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.42%) C#
7 6 (2.56%) VBA
8 3 (1.28%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.85%) Java
9 2 (0.85%) R
9 2 (0.85%) Scala
10 1 (0.43%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.43%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.43%) Bicep
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (14.53%) Azure Certification
2 22 (9.40%) Degree
3 12 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.27%) PMI Certification
4 10 (4.27%) PMP
5 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.14%) ACCA
7 5 (2.14%) CIMA
8 3 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.28%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.68%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.70%) PMO
3 8 (3.42%) GDPR
4 7 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.14%) SLA
6 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.85%) WCAG
8 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (40.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.12%) Databricks
3 14 (5.98%) SAP
4 7 (2.99%) Sparx
5 3 (1.28%) Infor
5 3 (1.28%) Oracle
5 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.28%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.85%) Civica
6 2 (0.85%) DocuSign
6 2 (0.85%) Google
6 2 (0.85%) IFS
6 2 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (0.85%) VMware
7 1 (0.43%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.43%) Talend
7 1 (0.43%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (0.43%) Verint