Business Intelligence Analyst Jobs

BI Analyst
UK

The median BI Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 695 701 760
Rank change year-on-year +6 +59 -205
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Analyst 210 276 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 188 244 438
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -7.30% +5.26%
75th Percentile £55,313 £57,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence Analyst in the UK

Business Intelligence Analyst
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +52 190 £45,000 -3.23% 37
UK excluding London -15 158 £42,500 +6.25% 28
Work from Home +43 82 £43,500 -3.33% 15
London +62 50 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Midlands -15 44 £42,500 +8.97% 3
North of England +71 43 £36,750 -5.77% 7
West Midlands -2 31 £48,750 +25.00% 2
North West +26 28 £36,750 +1.38% 3
South West -15 22 £43,500 +2.35% 9
South East -19 17 £47,500 +2.48% 8
East of England +17 14 £41,250 +5.10%
East Midlands -7 13 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Scotland -62 11 £44,000 -2.22%
Yorkshire +96 10 £43,750 - 3
Wales -12 7 £32,500 -18.75% 1
North East -5 5 £32,500 -23.53% 1

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Business Intelligence Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Business Intelligence Analyst in the job title.

1 210 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 170 (80.95%) Power BI
2 170 (80.95%) Power Platform
3 158 (75.24%) SQL
4 92 (43.81%) Visualisation
5 88 (41.90%) Social Skills
6 83 (39.52%) Finance
7 81 (38.57%) Analytics
8 71 (33.81%) Data Visualisation
9 65 (30.95%) Analytical Skills
10 63 (30.00%) Data Analysis
11 57 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (26.19%) Microsoft Excel
12 55 (26.19%) Data Warehouse
13 48 (22.86%) Data Modelling
14 47 (22.38%) Tableau
15 42 (20.00%) Azure
15 42 (20.00%) Decision-Making
16 41 (19.52%) Microsoft
16 41 (19.52%) Degree
17 38 (18.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 36 (17.14%) Python
19 35 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 30 (14.29%) ETL
21 27 (12.86%) Actionable Insight
22 26 (12.38%) Agile
22 26 (12.38%) Retail
22 26 (12.38%) Computer Science
22 26 (12.38%) T-SQL
23 25 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity

Business Intelligence Analyst Skill Set
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 5 (2.38%) Oracle Application Server
1 5 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 55 (26.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Academy Housing
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 170 (80.95%) Power Platform
2 42 (20.00%) Azure
3 11 (5.24%) AWS
3 11 (5.24%) PowerApps
3 11 (5.24%) Snowflake
4 9 (4.29%) GCP
4 9 (4.29%) Google Analytics
5 7 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.86%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.90%) ChatGPT
7 4 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.95%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.48%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.48%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.48%) OCI
9 1 (0.48%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (80.95%) Power BI
2 55 (26.19%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (22.38%) Tableau
4 35 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (11.43%) Power Query
6 21 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 19 (9.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (5.71%) Data Mining
9 11 (5.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (4.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.29%) Looker
11 8 (3.81%) QlikView
12 6 (2.86%) BigQuery
12 6 (2.86%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.38%) MS Access
13 5 (2.38%) Oracle BI EE
13 5 (2.38%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (2.38%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.90%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 88 (41.90%) Social Skills
2 83 (39.52%) Finance
3 65 (30.95%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.38%) Retail
5 25 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.24%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.76%) Marketing
9 9 (4.29%) Legal
9 9 (4.29%) Retail Banking
10 8 (3.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (2.86%) Automotive
11 6 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.38%) Law
12 5 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.95%) Advertising
13 2 (0.95%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.48%) Publishing
14 1 (0.48%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.38%) HTML
2 1 (0.48%) .NET
2 1 (0.48%) D3.js
2 1 (0.48%) EDI
2 1 (0.48%) Flash
2 1 (0.48%) Pandas
2 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.29%) NHS
2 8 (3.81%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.43%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.95%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.95%) Photography
7 2 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 92 (43.81%) Visualisation
3 81 (38.57%) Analytics
4 71 (33.81%) Data Visualisation
5 63 (30.00%) Data Analysis
6 57 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (22.86%) Data Modelling
8 42 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 30 (14.29%) ETL
10 27 (12.86%) Actionable Insight
11 26 (12.38%) Agile
11 26 (12.38%) Computer Science
12 24 (11.43%) Dashboard Development
12 24 (11.43%) Data Analytics
12 24 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (10.95%) Migration
14 22 (10.48%) Requirements Gathering
15 21 (10.00%) Business Analysis
16 18 (8.57%) Statistics
17 16 (7.62%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 158 (75.24%) SQL
2 38 (18.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 36 (17.14%) Python
4 26 (12.38%) T-SQL
5 8 (3.81%) R
6 7 (3.33%) VBA
7 5 (2.38%) PHP
7 5 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.48%) C#
8 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 41 (19.52%) Degree
2 13 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.71%) DBS Check
4 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.86%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.48%) ACCA
7 1 (0.48%) CIMA
7 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.24%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.81%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (3.33%) QA
4 3 (1.43%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 41 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.24%) SAP
3 10 (4.76%) Google
3 10 (4.76%) Oracle
4 8 (3.81%) Northgate
5 7 (3.33%) YouTube
6 6 (2.86%) Civica
7 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.43%) F5
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe
9 1 (0.48%) Advent
9 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.48%) Databricks
9 1 (0.48%) Facebook
9 1 (0.48%) FactSet
9 1 (0.48%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.48%) Twitter
9 1 (0.48%) Vertica
9 1 (0.48%) Workday