Business Intelligence Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Business Intelligence (BI)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Business Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 70 54
Rank change year-on-year +27 -16 -6
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 110 36 82
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.67% 2.42% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 2.69% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 80 30 57
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,375 £37,199
25th Percentile £42,375 £48,438 £42,370
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £61,250 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +14.49% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £93,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,750 £53,000
% change year-on-year -9.95% -0.47% +8.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,840 1,340 1,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.82% 90.05% 77.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,192 756 1,160
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,834 £69,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,875 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,445 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.41% -5.00% -4.76%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Business Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in West Yorkshire

Business Intelligence
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Leeds -2 72 £55,000 -17.92% 31
Wakefield - 23 £56,500 - 4
Bradford -1 14 £58,750 +19.90% 4
Huddersfield - 1 £30,000 - 3
Business Intelligence
Yorkshire

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.82%) Apache
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 41 (37.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.73%) Magento
1 3 (2.73%) Shopify
2 2 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.82%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.91%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 74 (67.27%) Power Platform
2 50 (45.45%) Azure
3 19 (17.27%) Azure AI
4 16 (14.55%) AWS
5 10 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (7.27%) Entra ID
6 8 (7.27%) GCP
6 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.55%) SaaS
8 4 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.73%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.73%) Serverless
9 3 (2.73%) Zapier
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) LAN
1 8 (7.27%) WAN
2 1 (0.91%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (67.27%) Power BI
2 23 (20.91%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (17.27%) Tableau
4 10 (9.09%) Metadata
5 6 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.55%) Spark SQL
7 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.73%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.82%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.82%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.91%) Looker
10 1 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.91%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Git
2 4 (3.64%) JIRA
3 2 (1.82%) GitLab
3 2 (1.82%) MLflow
3 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 39 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.27%) Finance
3 13 (11.82%) Legal
4 12 (10.91%) Manufacturing
5 11 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
7 8 (7.27%) Law
7 8 (7.27%) Retail
8 5 (4.55%) Local Government
8 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.73%) Banking
10 3 (2.73%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 41 (37.27%) Analyst
2 27 (24.55%) Data Analyst
3 18 (16.36%) Junior
3 18 (16.36%) Junior Analyst
3 18 (16.36%) Junior Data Analyst
4 17 (15.45%) Data Engineer
5 14 (12.73%) Architect
5 14 (12.73%) Data Architect
6 11 (10.00%) Developer
7 7 (6.36%) IT Manager
7 7 (6.36%) Senior
8 6 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (5.45%) IT Operations Manager
8 6 (5.45%) Lead
8 6 (5.45%) Operations Manager
9 5 (4.55%) .NET Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) .NET
2 6 (5.45%) PySpark
3 5 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 5 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 5 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 5 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (4.55%) Entity Framework
3 5 (4.55%) Node.js
3 5 (4.55%) React
3 5 (4.55%) Vue
3 5 (4.55%) WinForms
3 5 (4.55%) WPF
4 1 (0.91%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.91%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.27%) Windows
2 6 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.64%) AI
2 30 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 28 (25.45%) Data Modelling
4 24 (21.82%) Analytics
5 19 (17.27%) ERP
6 18 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (15.45%) Coaching
7 17 (15.45%) Mentoring
8 15 (13.64%) ETL
9 13 (11.82%) Agile
10 11 (10.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 11 (10.00%) ITSM
10 11 (10.00%) Service Management
11 10 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.09%) Data Architecture
11 10 (9.09%) Data Engineering
11 10 (9.09%) Data Governance
11 10 (9.09%) Metadata Management
12 9 (8.18%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 61 (55.45%) SQL
2 31 (28.18%) Python
3 12 (10.91%) C#
4 8 (7.27%) Java
4 8 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.64%) XAML
7 3 (2.73%) C++
8 2 (1.82%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.91%) Bicep
9 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (16.36%) Azure Certification
2 10 (9.09%) Degree
3 4 (3.64%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (7.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (6.36%) GDPR
3 7 (6.36%) QA
4 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.73%) PMO
5 2 (1.82%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.91%) AQAP
6 1 (0.91%) GRC
6 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (43.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.45%) Google
3 5 (4.55%) SAP
4 4 (3.64%) Databricks
5 3 (2.73%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle
5 3 (2.73%) TOWER Software
5 3 (2.73%) Workday
6 2 (1.82%) Informatica
7 1 (0.91%) Concur
7 1 (0.91%) Foundry
7 1 (0.91%) HighQ
7 1 (0.91%) Legatics
7 1 (0.91%) Legora
7 1 (0.91%) Planon
7 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow