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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 51 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 4,584 5,695 9,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.63% 5.62% 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 5.88% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,556 3,754 5,873
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £36,000
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 £87,000 £91,250 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 May 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 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 +5 4,081 £55,000 -4.35% 1,200
UK excluding London +4 3,049 £50,000 - 764
Work from Home +2 2,011 £55,000 -0.75% 642
London +6 1,307 £67,500 - 475
North of England +9 848 £50,000 -0.24% 206
South East +4 650 £52,500 - 156
Midlands +5 613 £52,500 +16.67% 175
North West +30 463 £50,000 - 115
West Midlands +6 460 £55,000 +22.22% 107
South West -13 344 £49,029 -8.39% 91
Yorkshire -4 266 £49,908 -9.06% 70
East of England +65 264 £48,500 -3.00% 70
Scotland -23 225 £55,000 +15.79% 38
East Midlands -4 146 £45,000 -5.26% 68
North East +5 119 £45,000 -10.00% 22
Northern Ireland +36 52 £35,000 -22.22% 9
Wales -20 52 £52,500 +31.25% 27
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
1 380 (8.29%) SharePoint
2 96 (2.09%) SAS
3 68 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.33%) Confluence
5 50 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 41 (0.89%) Apache
7 34 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
8 33 (0.72%) IIS
9 21 (0.46%) WordPress
10 18 (0.39%) CMS
10 18 (0.39%) nginx
11 12 (0.26%) Drupal
12 11 (0.24%) IBM Notes
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.065%) SharePoint 2010
15 3 (0.065%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.065%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 845 (18.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 241 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 147 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 37 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.68%) SPSS
7 16 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
8 13 (0.28%) Trello
9 8 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.13%) OrCAD
10 6 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.11%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.087%) Doxygen
12 4 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.087%) Simulink
12 4 (0.087%) Sketch
13 3 (0.065%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.065%) Autodesk Inventor
13 3 (0.065%) InVision
14 2 (0.044%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 186 (4.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.68%) 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%) NetSuite
6 16 (0.35%) SAP BPC
7 14 (0.31%) Aladdin
8 13 (0.28%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
10 10 (0.22%) Maximo
11 8 (0.17%) Sage 200
12 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
13 6 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
13 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
14 5 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 2,992 (65.27%) Power Platform
2 1,428 (31.15%) Azure
3 490 (10.69%) PowerApps
4 431 (9.40%) Power Automate
5 399 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 396 (8.64%) AWS
7 349 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
8 268 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 181 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 179 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
11 151 (3.29%) GCP
12 136 (2.97%) Snowflake
13 119 (2.60%) SaaS
14 89 (1.94%) Serverless
15 69 (1.51%) Google Analytics
16 67 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
17 62 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
18 57 (1.24%) GitHub
19 46 (1.00%) Entra ID
20 44 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.75%) Broadband
2 55 (1.20%) DNS
3 46 (1.00%) Firewall
4 35 (0.76%) Internet
5 34 (0.74%) Intranet
6 32 (0.70%) Network Security
7 26 (0.57%) DHCP
8 25 (0.55%) TCP/IP
9 22 (0.48%) WAN
10 21 (0.46%) Wireless
11 20 (0.44%) HTTP
12 19 (0.41%) VPN
13 18 (0.39%) DSL
13 18 (0.39%) MQTT
14 17 (0.37%) SSH
15 16 (0.35%) LAN
16 15 (0.33%) SAN
16 15 (0.33%) Unified Communications
17 13 (0.28%) SNMP
18 11 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,952 (64.40%) Power BI
2 860 (18.76%) Data Warehouse
3 822 (17.93%) SQL Server
4 654 (14.27%) Tableau
5 481 (10.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 372 (8.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 313 (6.83%) Data Lake
8 194 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 189 (4.12%) Relational Database
9 189 (4.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 156 (3.40%) Big Data
11 152 (3.32%) Power Query
12 117 (2.55%) Data Mining
13 90 (1.96%) Metadata
14 85 (1.85%) MySQL
15 84 (1.83%) Looker
16 82 (1.79%) MongoDB
17 80 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
18 74 (1.61%) NoSQL
19 66 (1.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 205 (4.47%) JIRA
2 151 (3.29%) Git
3 80 (1.75%) Visual Studio
4 60 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 34 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.55%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.44%) GitLab
8 16 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.35%) Subversion
9 15 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 15 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (0.22%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.20%) RStudio
12 8 (0.17%) MSTest
13 7 (0.15%) Mocha
14 6 (0.13%) Maven
15 5 (0.11%) IntelliJ
15 5 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
16 4 (0.087%) Toad
General
1 1,577 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 1,491 (32.53%) Finance
3 1,034 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
4 528 (11.52%) Marketing
5 500 (10.91%) Public Sector
6 395 (8.62%) Retail
7 338 (7.37%) Manufacturing
8 278 (6.06%) Legal
9 262 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 214 (4.67%) Telecoms
11 213 (4.65%) Law
12 191 (4.17%) Banking
13 184 (4.01%) Electronics
14 183 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
15 81 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
16 65 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 61 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
18 55 (1.20%) Local Government
19 50 (1.09%) Advertising
20 49 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,007 (21.97%) Analyst
2 912 (19.90%) Developer
3 549 (11.98%) Senior
4 380 (8.29%) Data Analyst
5 374 (8.16%) Lead
6 325 (7.09%) Data Engineer
7 312 (6.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 258 (5.63%) Architect
9 255 (5.56%) Consultant
10 210 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 151 (3.29%) Power BI Developer
12 147 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
13 145 (3.16%) Senior Developer
14 143 (3.12%) DBA
15 124 (2.71%) Data Manager
16 120 (2.62%) Power Platform Developer
17 108 (2.36%) Business Intelligence Manager
17 108 (2.36%) SQL DBA
18 104 (2.27%) Data Architect
19 102 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (5.37%) .NET
2 194 (4.23%) HTML
3 152 (3.32%) CSS
4 103 (2.25%) React
5 88 (1.92%) AngularJS
6 85 (1.85%) REST
7 84 (1.83%) .NET Framework
8 78 (1.70%) JSON
9 69 (1.51%) ASP.NET
10 63 (1.37%) XML
11 54 (1.18%) Entity Framework
11 54 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
12 52 (1.13%) Kafka
13 51 (1.11%) Node.js
13 51 (1.11%) Web Services
14 47 (1.03%) PySpark
15 44 (0.96%) ASP.NET MVC
16 43 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
17 42 (0.92%) .NET Core
18 35 (0.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 276 (6.02%) Management Information System
2 175 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
3 133 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 122 (2.66%) Product Ownership
5 74 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 65 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 64 (1.40%) Cloud Native
7 64 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (1.35%) NHS
9 61 (1.33%) IoT
10 56 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 55 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (0.98%) PMI
13 42 (0.92%) Data Centre
14 37 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 34 (0.74%) FMCG
16 31 (0.68%) Taxonomies
17 28 (0.61%) Driving Licence
18 27 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 26 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 209 (4.56%) Windows
2 119 (2.60%) Linux
3 78 (1.70%) VMS
4 35 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.50%) Unix
6 19 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.22%) Windows Vista
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.11%) Android
11 4 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.065%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.065%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.044%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,261 (27.51%) Analytics
2 923 (20.14%) Visualisation
3 864 (18.85%) Agile
4 824 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
5 775 (16.91%) ETL
6 717 (15.64%) Data Modelling
7 673 (14.68%) Data Analysis
8 614 (13.39%) Data Visualisation
9 560 (12.22%) Decision-Making
10 467 (10.19%) Machine Learning
11 463 (10.10%) Data Analytics
12 443 (9.66%) Data Science
13 424 (9.25%) Artificial Intelligence
14 420 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 415 (9.05%) Data Governance
16 401 (8.75%) DevOps
17 393 (8.57%) Roadmaps
18 390 (8.51%) Data Management
18 390 (8.51%) Project Management
19 388 (8.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,220 (48.43%) SQL
2 839 (18.30%) Python
3 409 (8.92%) T-SQL
4 333 (7.26%) C#
5 324 (7.07%) JavaScript
6 241 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 206 (4.49%) R
8 158 (3.45%) Java
9 121 (2.64%) PowerShell
10 120 (2.62%) TypeScript
11 82 (1.79%) PL/SQL
12 74 (1.61%) VBA
13 56 (1.22%) C
14 49 (1.07%) C++
15 45 (0.98%) Scala
16 41 (0.89%) PHP
17 39 (0.85%) MATLAB
18 24 (0.52%) Go
19 23 (0.50%) Bash
19 23 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 913 (19.92%) Degree
2 242 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 223 (4.86%) Security Cleared
4 161 (3.51%) DBS Check
5 155 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 143 (3.12%) SC Cleared
7 108 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 57 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 42 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
11 35 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (0.61%) DV Cleared
13 24 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 23 (0.50%) CISSP
15 18 (0.39%) CIMA
16 16 (0.35%) CRISC
16 16 (0.35%) PhD
17 15 (0.33%) MBA
18 14 (0.31%) CISM
19 13 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 189 (4.12%) GDPR
3 124 (2.71%) QA
4 57 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 43 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (0.94%) SLA
6 33 (0.72%) PMO
7 32 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.28%) COBIT
9 13 (0.28%) NIST
10 12 (0.26%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.20%) GRC
13 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.11%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.087%) IEC 61131
15 4 (0.087%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.087%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 95 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 82 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 60 (1.31%) Docker
4 42 (0.92%) Firmware
5 22 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.065%) NFS
10 2 (0.044%) HDFS
11 1 (0.022%) KVM
11 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.022%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (1.40%) Kubernetes
2 57 (1.24%) Terraform
3 21 (0.46%) Ansible
4 13 (0.28%) Grafana
4 13 (0.28%) WMI
5 12 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.13%) Opsgenie
7 6 (0.13%) VxRail
7 6 (0.13%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.11%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.087%) Kibana
10 3 (0.065%) Podman
10 3 (0.065%) SCCM
11 2 (0.044%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.044%) Foglight
12 1 (0.022%) Consul
12 1 (0.022%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,730 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 343 (7.48%) SAP
3 280 (6.11%) Oracle
4 257 (5.61%) Databricks
5 175 (3.82%) Google
6 93 (2.03%) Alteryx
7 76 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.18%) Cognos
9 43 (0.94%) VMware
10 39 (0.85%) IFS
11 34 (0.74%) Adobe
12 32 (0.70%) Informatica
13 29 (0.63%) IBM
14 26 (0.57%) Cisco
15 25 (0.55%) iManage
16 21 (0.46%) Aderant
17 20 (0.44%) Sophos
17 20 (0.44%) Sybase
18 18 (0.39%) Facebook
18 18 (0.39%) Infor