Business Intelligence Developer Jobs

BI Developer
UK

The median BI Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 678 615
Rank change year-on-year +88 -63 -202
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Intelligence Developer 314 326 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.35% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 266 278 672
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £76,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +9.20%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence Developer in the UK

Business Intelligence Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +65 290 £52,500 -4.55% 100
UK excluding London +6 197 £45,000 -5.26% 74
Work from Home +50 119 £57,500 +9.52% 31
London +103 103 £62,000 -14.48% 28
North of England +51 72 £45,000 - 10
North West +33 46 £45,000 +2.86% 6
South East +38 41 £55,000 -8.33% 20
South West -9 31 £38,750 -8.28% 3
Midlands -20 29 £46,500 -2.11% 35
West Midlands -3 22 £53,000 +11.58% 22
Yorkshire +62 20 £45,000 - 3
East of England +3 13 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Scotland -52 8 £45,000 -7.69%
Wales +14 7 £45,000 -5.26%
East Midlands -22 7 £42,500 -10.53% 13
North East -1 6 £42,500 +25.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Business Intelligence Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 314 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 258 (82.17%) Power BI
2 258 (82.17%) Power Platform
3 222 (70.70%) SQL
4 137 (43.63%) ETL
5 136 (43.31%) Visualisation
6 124 (39.49%) Azure
7 123 (39.17%) Data Warehouse
8 112 (35.67%) Microsoft
8 112 (35.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 109 (34.71%) Data Modelling
10 96 (30.57%) Social Skills
11 92 (29.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 91 (28.98%) SQL Server
13 84 (26.75%) Data Visualisation
14 83 (26.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 80 (25.48%) Analytics
16 77 (24.52%) T-SQL
17 67 (21.34%) Analytical Skills
18 63 (20.06%) Finance
19 62 (19.75%) Power Query
20 60 (19.11%) Decision-Making
21 53 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
22 51 (16.24%) Microsoft Excel
23 49 (15.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
24 47 (14.97%) Agile
25 46 (14.65%) Degree
25 46 (14.65%) Tableau
26 38 (12.10%) Requirements Gathering
26 38 (12.10%) Azure Data Factory

Business Intelligence Developer 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 13 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.64%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (16.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.55%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (2.23%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 258 (82.17%) Power Platform
2 124 (39.49%) Azure
3 38 (12.10%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (8.60%) PowerApps
5 20 (6.37%) Power Automate
6 18 (5.73%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.87%) AWS
8 9 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.59%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.96%) Azure Stack
11 3 (0.96%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.96%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.64%) dbt
13 1 (0.32%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.32%) Azure Storage
13 1 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.59%) Network Security
2 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (82.17%) Power BI
2 123 (39.17%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (35.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 92 (29.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 91 (28.98%) SQL Server
6 62 (19.75%) Power Query
7 49 (15.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 46 (14.65%) Tableau
9 27 (8.60%) Data Lake
10 21 (6.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 13 (4.14%) Relational Database
12 11 (3.50%) Qlik Sense
13 10 (3.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 8 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (2.55%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (2.55%) Semantic Layer
15 7 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (1.59%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
16 5 (1.59%) Oracle Database
16 5 (1.59%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 21 (6.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (2.23%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.27%) Git
4 3 (0.96%) Toad
5 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.64%) JIRA
5 2 (0.64%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 96 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 67 (21.34%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (20.06%) Finance
4 27 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.37%) Law
5 20 (6.37%) Retail
6 17 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.87%) Legal
9 8 (2.55%) Marketing
10 6 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.27%) Advertising
11 4 (1.27%) Local Government
11 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.64%) Electronics
13 2 (0.64%) Games
13 2 (0.64%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.64%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.50%) MDX
2 6 (1.91%) CSS
2 6 (1.91%) HTML
2 6 (1.91%) ODBC
3 4 (1.27%) XML
4 2 (0.64%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.64%) RESTful
5 1 (0.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.18%) Management Information System
2 8 (2.55%) AS400
3 6 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.64%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.64%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.64%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.32%) Life Science
7 1 (0.32%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 137 (43.63%) ETL
3 136 (43.31%) Visualisation
4 109 (34.71%) Data Modelling
5 84 (26.75%) Data Visualisation
6 80 (25.48%) Analytics
7 60 (19.11%) Decision-Making
8 53 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (14.97%) Agile
10 38 (12.10%) Requirements Gathering
11 34 (10.83%) Data Analysis
12 33 (10.51%) Actionable Insight
13 32 (10.19%) Dashboard Development
13 32 (10.19%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 30 (9.55%) Data Integration
14 30 (9.55%) Data Science
15 27 (8.60%) Migration
16 25 (7.96%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (7.96%) DevOps
17 24 (7.64%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 222 (70.70%) SQL
2 83 (26.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 77 (24.52%) T-SQL
4 27 (8.60%) Python
5 8 (2.55%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.91%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.59%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.96%) R
9 2 (0.64%) C#
9 2 (0.64%) Java
9 2 (0.64%) VBA
10 1 (0.32%) ABAP
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (14.65%) Degree
2 12 (3.82%) DBS Check
3 9 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.23%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.23%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.18%) QA
3 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.32%) ITGC
Vendors
1 112 (35.67%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.05%) Databricks
3 15 (4.78%) Oracle
4 6 (1.91%) Civica
4 6 (1.91%) Facebook
4 6 (1.91%) SAP
5 5 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.59%) Google
6 4 (1.27%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.96%) Informatica
8 2 (0.64%) Snow
9 1 (0.32%) Nintex