Business Intelligence (BI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 50 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 4,579 5,929 9,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.66% 5.70% 5.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 5.96% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,542 3,901 5,942
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,571 99,456 148,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,798 58,396 83,204
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 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 +4 4,078 £55,000 -4.35% 1,212
UK excluding London +1 3,058 £50,000 - 724
Work from Home +2 2,009 £55,000 -0.75% 621
London +6 1,297 £67,500 - 517
North of England +7 856 £50,000 - 216
South East +5 658 £52,500 - 162
Midlands +2 602 £52,500 +16.67% 148
North West +33 471 £50,000 - 116
West Midlands +3 448 £54,650 +21.44% 88
South West -10 340 £47,500 -9.52% 87
East of England +63 270 £48,500 +4.86% 57
Yorkshire -9 266 £49,827 -9.21% 70
Scotland -26 226 £55,000 +18.12% 36
East Midlands -4 148 £45,000 -5.26% 59
North East +6 119 £45,000 -10.00% 31
Northern Ireland +39 53 £35,000 -22.22% 10
Wales -11 53 £52,500 +31.25% 18
Isle of Man - 3 £59,250 - 2
Channel Islands - 2 - -

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
1 378 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 98 (2.14%) SAS
3 70 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.38%) Confluence
5 51 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.96%) Apache
7 32 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 32 (0.70%) IIS
8 21 (0.46%) WordPress
9 18 (0.39%) CMS
9 18 (0.39%) nginx
10 12 (0.26%) Drupal
11 11 (0.24%) IBM Notes
12 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.066%) SharePoint 2010
14 3 (0.066%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.066%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 853 (18.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 234 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
3 151 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
5 36 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.68%) SPSS
7 16 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
8 13 (0.28%) Trello
9 8 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.17%) InDesign
9 8 (0.17%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.13%) OrCAD
10 6 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 4 (0.087%) Doxygen
11 4 (0.087%) InfoPath
11 4 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
11 4 (0.087%) Simulink
11 4 (0.087%) Sketch
12 3 (0.066%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 189 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.41%) Primavera
4 18 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 18 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
5 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.35%) iTrent
6 16 (0.35%) SAP BPC
7 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 13 (0.28%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.24%) Maximo
9 11 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
10 8 (0.17%) Sage 200
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
12 6 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
12 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,993 (65.36%) Power Platform
2 1,420 (31.01%) Azure
3 482 (10.53%) PowerApps
4 417 (9.11%) Power Automate
5 400 (8.74%) AWS
6 388 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
7 343 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
8 261 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 176 (3.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 174 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
11 156 (3.41%) GCP
12 136 (2.97%) Snowflake
13 120 (2.62%) SaaS
14 94 (2.05%) Serverless
15 68 (1.49%) Google Analytics
16 67 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
17 63 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
18 62 (1.35%) GitHub
19 47 (1.03%) Entra ID
20 44 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.75%) Broadband
2 54 (1.18%) DNS
3 45 (0.98%) Firewall
4 36 (0.79%) Internet
5 34 (0.74%) Intranet
6 33 (0.72%) Network Security
7 26 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 25 (0.55%) DHCP
9 20 (0.44%) HTTP
9 20 (0.44%) MQTT
9 20 (0.44%) WAN
10 19 (0.41%) Wireless
11 18 (0.39%) DSL
11 18 (0.39%) VPN
12 17 (0.37%) SSH
13 16 (0.35%) Unified Communications
14 15 (0.33%) SAN
15 14 (0.31%) LAN
16 13 (0.28%) SNMP
17 11 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,952 (64.47%) Power BI
2 854 (18.65%) Data Warehouse
3 819 (17.89%) SQL Server
4 650 (14.20%) Tableau
5 482 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 379 (8.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 313 (6.84%) Data Lake
8 195 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 191 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 190 (4.15%) Relational Database
11 158 (3.45%) Big Data
12 151 (3.30%) Power Query
13 116 (2.53%) Data Mining
14 86 (1.88%) Metadata
15 85 (1.86%) Looker
16 84 (1.83%) MySQL
17 82 (1.79%) NoSQL
18 79 (1.73%) BusinessObjects
18 79 (1.73%) MongoDB
19 65 (1.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 206 (4.50%) JIRA
2 156 (3.41%) Git
3 75 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 60 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 37 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 24 (0.52%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.44%) GitLab
8 17 (0.37%) Subversion
8 17 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
9 16 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
11 10 (0.22%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.20%) RStudio
13 8 (0.17%) MSTest
14 7 (0.15%) Mocha
15 6 (0.13%) Maven
16 5 (0.11%) IntelliJ
16 5 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,569 (34.27%) Social Skills
2 1,502 (32.80%) Finance
3 1,034 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 535 (11.68%) Marketing
5 494 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 406 (8.87%) Retail
7 339 (7.40%) Manufacturing
8 283 (6.18%) Legal
9 251 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 221 (4.83%) Law
11 212 (4.63%) Telecoms
12 196 (4.28%) Banking
13 189 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
14 185 (4.04%) Electronics
15 83 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
16 63 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
17 58 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
18 56 (1.22%) Local Government
19 55 (1.20%) Advertising
20 49 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,004 (21.93%) Analyst
2 914 (19.96%) Developer
3 552 (12.06%) Senior
4 380 (8.30%) Data Analyst
5 373 (8.15%) Lead
6 323 (7.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 316 (6.90%) Data Engineer
8 252 (5.50%) Architect
9 250 (5.46%) Consultant
10 208 (4.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 158 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
12 147 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
13 144 (3.14%) Senior Developer
14 142 (3.10%) DBA
15 128 (2.80%) Data Manager
16 114 (2.49%) Power Platform Developer
17 112 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Manager
18 108 (2.36%) Data Architect
18 108 (2.36%) SQL DBA
19 103 (2.25%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (5.13%) .NET
2 194 (4.24%) HTML
3 155 (3.39%) CSS
4 101 (2.21%) React
5 88 (1.92%) AngularJS
6 85 (1.86%) REST
7 82 (1.79%) .NET Framework
8 79 (1.73%) JSON
9 66 (1.44%) ASP.NET
10 58 (1.27%) XML
11 56 (1.22%) Kafka
12 52 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
13 50 (1.09%) Entity Framework
13 50 (1.09%) Node.js
14 49 (1.07%) Web Services
15 43 (0.94%) ASP.NET MVC
15 43 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
16 42 (0.92%) .NET Core
16 42 (0.92%) PySpark
17 34 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 270 (5.90%) Management Information System
2 173 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
3 130 (2.84%) Onboarding
4 123 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 71 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 64 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 63 (1.38%) IoT
8 62 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 61 (1.33%) Cloud Native
10 60 (1.31%) NHS
11 55 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 55 (1.20%) Low-Code
12 45 (0.98%) PMI
13 39 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 39 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 32 (0.70%) FMCG
15 30 (0.66%) Taxonomies
16 29 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
17 26 (0.57%) Social Media
17 26 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 201 (4.39%) Windows
2 116 (2.53%) Linux
3 78 (1.70%) VMS
4 31 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.50%) Unix
6 19 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.22%) Windows Vista
8 7 (0.15%) Android
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.087%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.044%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,269 (27.71%) Analytics
2 923 (20.16%) Visualisation
3 885 (19.33%) Agile
4 832 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
5 787 (17.19%) ETL
6 715 (15.61%) Data Modelling
7 671 (14.65%) Data Analysis
8 612 (13.37%) Data Visualisation
9 563 (12.30%) Decision-Making
10 478 (10.44%) Machine Learning
11 459 (10.02%) Data Analytics
12 453 (9.89%) Data Science
13 435 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 428 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence
15 410 (8.95%) Data Governance
16 402 (8.78%) DevOps
17 401 (8.76%) Roadmaps
18 390 (8.52%) Project Management
19 384 (8.39%) Data Management
20 383 (8.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,228 (48.66%) SQL
2 846 (18.48%) Python
3 412 (9.00%) T-SQL
4 319 (6.97%) C#
5 316 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 242 (5.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 204 (4.46%) R
8 156 (3.41%) Java
9 118 (2.58%) TypeScript
10 117 (2.56%) PowerShell
11 82 (1.79%) PL/SQL
12 69 (1.51%) VBA
13 60 (1.31%) C
14 49 (1.07%) C++
15 45 (0.98%) Scala
16 41 (0.90%) PHP
17 39 (0.85%) MATLAB
18 25 (0.55%) Bash
19 24 (0.52%) Go
20 21 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 892 (19.48%) Degree
2 240 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 212 (4.63%) Security Cleared
4 161 (3.52%) DBS Check
5 151 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 138 (3.01%) SC Cleared
7 109 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 54 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 40 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
11 37 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (0.61%) DV Cleared
13 24 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 21 (0.46%) CISSP
15 18 (0.39%) CIMA
16 16 (0.35%) MBA
16 16 (0.35%) PhD
17 14 (0.31%) CRISC
18 13 (0.28%) GIAC
18 13 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (8.50%) Data Quality
2 188 (4.11%) GDPR
3 123 (2.69%) QA
4 55 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.96%) SLA
6 43 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (0.79%) PMO
8 32 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 20 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.28%) COBIT
11 12 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.22%) NIST
13 9 (0.20%) GRC
14 6 (0.13%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 4 (0.087%) IEC 61131
16 4 (0.087%) ISO 22301
16 4 (0.087%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 95 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 82 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 59 (1.29%) Docker
4 44 (0.96%) Firmware
5 19 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.11%) vSphere
9 3 (0.066%) NFS
10 2 (0.044%) HDFS
10 2 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.022%) KVM
11 1 (0.022%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 56 (1.22%) Terraform
3 21 (0.46%) Ansible
4 14 (0.31%) Grafana
5 13 (0.28%) WMI
6 12 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.13%) Opsgenie
9 6 (0.13%) VxRail
9 6 (0.13%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.11%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.087%) Kibana
12 3 (0.066%) Podman
13 2 (0.044%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.044%) Foglight
13 2 (0.044%) SCCM
14 1 (0.022%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.022%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,721 (37.58%) Microsoft
2 347 (7.58%) SAP
3 273 (5.96%) Oracle
4 254 (5.55%) Databricks
5 176 (3.84%) Google
6 97 (2.12%) Alteryx
7 79 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.18%) Cognos
9 41 (0.90%) Adobe
10 40 (0.87%) VMware
11 38 (0.83%) IFS
12 32 (0.70%) Informatica
13 31 (0.68%) IBM
14 27 (0.59%) Cisco
15 25 (0.55%) iManage
16 20 (0.44%) Aderant
16 20 (0.44%) Sophos
16 20 (0.44%) Sybase
17 19 (0.41%) Splunk
18 18 (0.39%) Facebook