Business Intelligence Jobs

Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 48 51
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 2,424 4,592 5,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.43% 4.63% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.41% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 3,562 3,751
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,975 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Process and 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 51,302 84,920 96,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.59% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,015 59,883 56,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,008 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Intelligence in the UK

Business Intelligence
Top 19 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 11 May 2025. 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 -10 2,182 £60,000 +9.09% 2,706
UK excluding London -10 1,456 £55,000 +10.00% 1,613
Work from Home -20 863 £60,372 +9.77% 1,806
London -4 803 £72,500 +7.41% 1,539
South East 0 396 £56,250 +7.14% 618
North of England -65 369 £52,500 +5.00% 368
Midlands -32 265 £55,000 +4.76% 219
North West -71 237 £52,500 +5.00% 232
West Midlands -28 188 £55,000 - 143
East of England -8 172 £62,500 +28.87% 134
South West -2 140 £57,500 +17.28% 151
Yorkshire -10 123 £52,500 +5.19% 106
Scotland +21 87 £50,445 -8.28% 88
East Midlands -10 75 £50,000 +11.11% 67
Wales +6 17 £57,500 +9.52% 32
North East -26 13 £57,500 +27.78% 38
Northern Ireland -2 6 £32,500 -7.14% 34
Channel Islands +2 3 £87,500 - 2
Isle of Man +13 1 £34,500 -41.77% 3

Business Intelligence
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
1 158 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.82%) Apache
3 43 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.62%) IBM Domino
7 12 (0.50%) SAS
8 11 (0.45%) CMS
8 11 (0.45%) Confluence
9 8 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.29%) IIS
11 5 (0.21%) Moodle
11 5 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 5 (0.21%) WordPress
12 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.12%) SugarCRM
13 2 (0.083%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.083%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 375 (15.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.50%) Trello
7 11 (0.45%) Maya
8 10 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.25%) SPSS
10 2 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.083%) InDesign
10 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.041%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.041%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.041%) Simulink
11 1 (0.041%) Sketch
11 1 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.041%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 80 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (2.48%) Aladdin
3 44 (1.82%) Infor LN
4 43 (1.77%) SAP BPC
5 37 (1.53%) thinkFolio
6 18 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
7 15 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
8 14 (0.58%) NetSuite
9 10 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
9 10 (0.41%) Sage 200
10 8 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
10 8 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 8 (0.33%) iTrent
10 8 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.29%) Infor M3
12 6 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
13 5 (0.21%) Elite 3E
13 5 (0.21%) Sage CRM
13 5 (0.21%) SAP FI
14 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1,507 (62.17%) Power Platform
2 708 (29.21%) Azure
3 214 (8.83%) Power Automate
4 209 (8.62%) AWS
5 195 (8.04%) PowerApps
6 182 (7.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 163 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
8 146 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
9 115 (4.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 101 (4.17%) Snowflake
11 86 (3.55%) GCP
12 81 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
13 69 (2.85%) SaaS
14 56 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 56 (2.31%) Serverless
15 42 (1.73%) GitHub
16 41 (1.69%) Google Analytics
17 35 (1.44%) Azure Functions
18 31 (1.28%) dbt
19 30 (1.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.07%) Firewall
2 16 (0.66%) VPN
3 13 (0.54%) DNS
3 13 (0.54%) Internet
3 13 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (0.45%) DHCP
5 9 (0.37%) Network Security
5 9 (0.37%) SAN
6 8 (0.33%) WAN
7 7 (0.29%) FTP
7 7 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (0.29%) LAN
7 7 (0.29%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.29%) Wireless
8 5 (0.21%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.17%) ADSL
9 4 (0.17%) Modbus
9 4 (0.17%) VoIP
10 3 (0.12%) LTE
10 3 (0.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,500 (61.88%) Power BI
2 369 (15.22%) Tableau
3 366 (15.10%) Data Warehouse
4 258 (10.64%) SQL Server
5 203 (8.37%) Data Lake
6 170 (7.01%) Power Query
6 170 (7.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 143 (5.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 114 (4.70%) GIS
9 101 (4.17%) Big Data
10 95 (3.92%) Geospatial Data
11 81 (3.34%) Metadata
12 72 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
13 62 (2.56%) Relational Database
14 56 (2.31%) NoSQL
15 50 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 40 (1.65%) Looker
16 40 (1.65%) MySQL
17 34 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
18 33 (1.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 63 (2.60%) JIRA
2 48 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
3 47 (1.94%) Git
4 39 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 33 (1.36%) Visual Studio
6 26 (1.07%) Eclipse
6 26 (1.07%) Eclipse RCP
7 12 (0.50%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.45%) ERwin
9 7 (0.29%) GitLab
10 5 (0.21%) MLflow
10 5 (0.21%) Subversion
11 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.083%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.083%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.083%) Visual Studio Team System
13 1 (0.041%) MSI
General
1 870 (35.89%) Finance
2 855 (35.27%) Social Skills
3 563 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (11.30%) Marketing
5 200 (8.25%) Law
6 179 (7.38%) Manufacturing
7 168 (6.93%) Public Sector
8 154 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 120 (4.95%) Telecoms
10 113 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
11 108 (4.46%) Banking
12 104 (4.29%) Electronics
13 101 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
14 93 (3.84%) Retail
15 88 (3.63%) Legal
16 65 (2.68%) Front Office
17 57 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
18 44 (1.82%) Police
19 42 (1.73%) Publishing
20 38 (1.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 606 (25.00%) Analyst
2 338 (13.94%) Senior
3 337 (13.90%) Developer
4 310 (12.79%) Lead
5 187 (7.71%) Data Engineer
6 154 (6.35%) Data Analyst
7 122 (5.03%) Business Manager
8 111 (4.58%) Architect
8 111 (4.58%) Business Analyst
9 100 (4.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 83 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 82 (3.38%) Consultant
12 79 (3.26%) Financial Analyst
13 78 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
14 73 (3.01%) Digital Analyst
15 63 (2.60%) Development Manager
16 62 (2.56%) Power BI Developer
17 60 (2.48%) Business Development Manager
18 58 (2.39%) Data Manager
19 56 (2.31%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (3.67%) .NET
2 68 (2.81%) HTML
3 63 (2.60%) CSS
4 50 (2.06%) REST
5 45 (1.86%) JSON
6 42 (1.73%) Middleware
7 35 (1.44%) XML
8 33 (1.36%) PySpark
9 30 (1.24%) React
10 29 (1.20%) Web Services
11 28 (1.16%) .NET Framework
12 26 (1.07%) JSP
12 26 (1.07%) SOAP
13 25 (1.03%) EDI
14 18 (0.74%) Kafka
14 18 (0.74%) RESTful
15 17 (0.70%) .NET Core
16 16 (0.66%) ASP.NET
17 15 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
18 13 (0.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 140 (5.78%) Management Information System
2 133 (5.49%) Algorithms
3 94 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 93 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.48%) Derivative
6 58 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 57 (2.35%) Fixed Income
7 57 (2.35%) Hedge funds
8 47 (1.94%) Cloud Native
9 45 (1.86%) Social Media
10 43 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 26 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (1.07%) PMI
14 22 (0.91%) Learning Management System
15 20 (0.83%) NHS
16 19 (0.78%) Credit Risk
16 19 (0.78%) FMCG
16 19 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 90 (3.71%) Windows
2 46 (1.90%) Linux
3 17 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.41%) Windows Vista
6 7 (0.29%) Unix
7 4 (0.17%) AIX
7 4 (0.17%) Android
7 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.083%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.041%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.041%) Solaris
10 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 899 (37.09%) Analytics
2 655 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
3 526 (21.70%) Visualisation
4 516 (21.29%) Decision-Making
5 435 (17.95%) Agile
6 416 (17.16%) Data Modelling
7 372 (15.35%) ETL
8 350 (14.44%) Data Management
9 348 (14.36%) Data Analysis
10 341 (14.07%) Data Visualisation
11 329 (13.57%) Actionable Insight
12 306 (12.62%) Artificial Intelligence
13 259 (10.68%) Data Governance
14 251 (10.35%) Data Analytics
15 246 (10.15%) Data Engineering
16 237 (9.78%) Mentoring
16 237 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 227 (9.36%) Project Management
18 217 (8.95%) Data Science
19 214 (8.83%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,156 (47.69%) SQL
2 527 (21.74%) Python
3 145 (5.98%) T-SQL
4 134 (5.53%) C#
5 131 (5.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 103 (4.25%) Java
7 92 (3.80%) R
8 85 (3.51%) JavaScript
9 79 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 46 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 26 (1.07%) C++
12 25 (1.03%) Rust
13 23 (0.95%) Ada
14 22 (0.91%) TypeScript
15 21 (0.87%) Scala
16 19 (0.78%) VBA
17 12 (0.50%) Bash
18 9 (0.37%) VB.NET
19 7 (0.29%) C
19 7 (0.29%) X++
Qualifications
1 486 (20.05%) Degree
2 121 (4.99%) Security Cleared
3 87 (3.59%) ACCA
4 85 (3.51%) DBS Check
5 83 (3.42%) CIMA
6 82 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 75 (3.09%) SC Cleared
8 68 (2.81%) Master's Degree
9 57 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 47 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 45 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 44 (1.82%) Azure Certification
13 43 (1.77%) PMI Certification
14 23 (0.95%) CISSP
15 19 (0.78%) PhD
16 18 (0.74%) PMP
17 14 (0.58%) MBA
18 8 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
19 7 (0.29%) AWS Certification
20 6 (0.25%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (11.67%) Data Quality
2 104 (4.29%) GDPR
3 89 (3.67%) QA
4 56 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.86%) IFRS
6 40 (1.65%) GAAP
7 27 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.74%) SLA
10 14 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.54%) PMO
12 12 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.33%) HL7
14 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.33%) NIST
15 6 (0.25%) GxP
16 4 (0.17%) COBIT
16 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
17 3 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 42 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.99%) Docker
3 18 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.25%) HDFS
7 5 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Firmware
9 2 (0.083%) IAG
9 2 (0.083%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.041%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.041%) vSphere
10 1 (0.041%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.28%) Terraform
3 16 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
5 9 (0.37%) Ansible
6 7 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.17%) Grafana
8 4 (0.17%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.083%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.041%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.041%) Istio
11 1 (0.041%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.041%) Nessus
11 1 (0.041%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.041%) Oracle ZFS
11 1 (0.041%) QRadar
11 1 (0.041%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 720 (29.70%) Microsoft
2 267 (11.01%) SAP
3 146 (6.02%) Databricks
4 144 (5.94%) Oracle
5 111 (4.58%) Google
6 92 (3.80%) Alteryx
7 84 (3.47%) Salesforce
8 64 (2.64%) Cognos
9 57 (2.35%) BISAM
10 51 (2.10%) Infor
11 45 (1.86%) ServiceNow
12 39 (1.61%) Charles River
13 38 (1.57%) Calypso
13 38 (1.57%) Informatica
14 36 (1.49%) SimCorp
15 28 (1.16%) IBM
16 26 (1.07%) VMware
17 19 (0.78%) Adobe
18 17 (0.70%) Sage
19 16 (0.66%) Dell