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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 51 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Business Intelligence 4,575 5,713 9,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.62% 5.64% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.40% 5.90% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,551 3,784 5,950
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £36,250
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 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 13 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 13 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 4,071 £55,000 -4.35% 1,242
UK excluding London +3 3,043 £50,000 - 786
Work from Home +3 2,005 £55,000 -0.75% 639
London +5 1,306 £67,250 -0.37% 496
North of England +9 845 £50,000 -0.47% 200
South East +9 649 £52,500 - 175
Midlands +4 616 £52,500 +13.58% 172
North West +34 463 £50,000 - 113
West Midlands +7 463 £55,000 +22.22% 106
South West -13 341 £49,515 -5.69% 101
Yorkshire -6 264 £49,908 -9.06% 64
East of England +69 262 £48,500 -3.00% 66
Scotland -24 225 £55,000 +15.54% 35
East Midlands +1 146 £45,000 -5.26% 66
North East +8 118 £45,000 -10.00% 23
Northern Ireland +37 52 £35,000 -22.22% 12
Wales -12 52 £52,500 +31.25% 32
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
1 379 (8.28%) SharePoint
2 93 (2.03%) SAS
3 67 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.33%) Confluence
5 50 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 41 (0.90%) 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 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
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
1 843 (18.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 239 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 146 (3.19%) 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 (0.066%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
13 3 (0.066%) InVision
14 2 (0.044%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 189 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 19 (0.42%) Primavera
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 2,984 (65.22%) Power Platform
2 1,426 (31.17%) Azure
3 487 (10.64%) PowerApps
4 430 (9.40%) Power Automate
5 398 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 397 (8.68%) AWS
7 348 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
8 267 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 183 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 178 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
11 151 (3.30%) GCP
12 134 (2.93%) Snowflake
13 120 (2.62%) SaaS
14 87 (1.90%) Serverless
15 68 (1.49%) Google Analytics
16 64 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
17 62 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
18 57 (1.25%) GitHub
19 46 (1.01%) Entra ID
20 42 (0.92%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.75%) Broadband
2 55 (1.20%) DNS
3 46 (1.01%) Firewall
4 36 (0.79%) Internet
5 34 (0.74%) Intranet
6 33 (0.72%) Network Security
7 26 (0.57%) DHCP
8 24 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 23 (0.50%) WAN
10 22 (0.48%) Wireless
11 21 (0.46%) HTTP
11 21 (0.46%) VPN
12 18 (0.39%) DSL
12 18 (0.39%) MQTT
13 17 (0.37%) LAN
13 17 (0.37%) SSH
14 15 (0.33%) SAN
14 15 (0.33%) Unified Communications
15 13 (0.28%) SNMP
16 11 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,944 (64.35%) Power BI
2 865 (18.91%) Data Warehouse
3 818 (17.88%) SQL Server
4 648 (14.16%) Tableau
5 477 (10.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 367 (8.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 313 (6.84%) Data Lake
8 190 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 188 (4.11%) Relational Database
10 187 (4.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 157 (3.43%) Big Data
12 149 (3.26%) Power Query
13 113 (2.47%) Data Mining
14 92 (2.01%) Metadata
15 84 (1.84%) Looker
15 84 (1.84%) MySQL
16 82 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
16 82 (1.79%) MongoDB
17 74 (1.62%) NoSQL
18 67 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 204 (4.46%) JIRA
2 149 (3.26%) Git
3 81 (1.77%) Visual Studio
4 58 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 32 (0.70%) 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
11 9 (0.20%) RStudio
12 8 (0.17%) MSTest
12 8 (0.17%) TeamCity
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 1,581 (34.56%) Social Skills
2 1,483 (32.42%) Finance
3 1,028 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 520 (11.37%) Marketing
5 497 (10.86%) Public Sector
6 393 (8.59%) Retail
7 337 (7.37%) Manufacturing
8 278 (6.08%) Legal
9 260 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 211 (4.61%) Law
11 210 (4.59%) Telecoms
12 189 (4.13%) Banking
13 182 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (3.93%) Electronics
15 81 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
16 65 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 61 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
18 56 (1.22%) Local Government
19 50 (1.09%) Advertising
20 48 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,002 (21.90%) Analyst
2 908 (19.85%) Developer
3 547 (11.96%) Senior
4 378 (8.26%) Data Analyst
5 373 (8.15%) Lead
6 328 (7.17%) Data Engineer
7 313 (6.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 258 (5.64%) Architect
9 252 (5.51%) Consultant
10 207 (4.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 152 (3.32%) Power BI Developer
12 149 (3.26%) Senior Analyst
13 144 (3.15%) Senior Developer
14 142 (3.10%) DBA
15 125 (2.73%) Data Manager
16 118 (2.58%) Power Platform Developer
17 108 (2.36%) SQL DBA
18 107 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Manager
19 103 (2.25%) Data Architect
20 100 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (5.36%) .NET
2 192 (4.20%) HTML
3 151 (3.30%) CSS
4 102 (2.23%) React
5 88 (1.92%) AngularJS
6 83 (1.81%) .NET Framework
6 83 (1.81%) REST
7 75 (1.64%) JSON
8 68 (1.49%) ASP.NET
9 61 (1.33%) XML
10 53 (1.16%) Entity Framework
10 53 (1.16%) HTML5 Canvas
11 52 (1.14%) Kafka
12 51 (1.11%) Node.js
12 51 (1.11%) Web Services
13 49 (1.07%) PySpark
14 43 (0.94%) ASP.NET MVC
14 43 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
15 42 (0.92%) .NET Core
16 33 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 275 (6.01%) Management Information System
2 175 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
3 132 (2.89%) Onboarding
4 121 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 74 (1.62%) Algorithms
6 64 (1.40%) Cloud Native
6 64 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 63 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (1.36%) NHS
9 61 (1.33%) IoT
10 56 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 52 (1.14%) Low-Code
12 45 (0.98%) PMI
13 42 (0.92%) Data Centre
14 38 (0.83%) 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)
18 27 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 211 (4.61%) Windows
2 119 (2.60%) Linux
3 78 (1.70%) VMS
4 36 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.50%) Unix
6 19 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.22%) Windows Vista
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.066%) Android
11 3 (0.066%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.066%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.044%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.022%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.022%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,254 (27.41%) Analytics
2 918 (20.07%) Visualisation
3 857 (18.73%) Agile
4 823 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
5 768 (16.79%) ETL
6 722 (15.78%) Data Modelling
7 675 (14.75%) Data Analysis
8 612 (13.38%) Data Visualisation
9 561 (12.26%) Decision-Making
10 463 (10.12%) Machine Learning
11 462 (10.10%) Data Analytics
12 442 (9.66%) Data Science
13 423 (9.25%) Artificial Intelligence
14 419 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 418 (9.14%) Data Governance
16 399 (8.72%) DevOps
17 392 (8.57%) Roadmaps
18 390 (8.52%) Project Management
19 389 (8.50%) Data Management
19 389 (8.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,216 (48.44%) SQL
2 836 (18.27%) Python
3 405 (8.85%) T-SQL
4 330 (7.21%) C#
5 320 (6.99%) JavaScript
6 241 (5.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 205 (4.48%) R
8 158 (3.45%) Java
9 120 (2.62%) PowerShell
10 118 (2.58%) TypeScript
11 82 (1.79%) PL/SQL
12 71 (1.55%) VBA
13 54 (1.18%) C
14 49 (1.07%) C++
15 46 (1.01%) Scala
16 38 (0.83%) PHP
17 36 (0.79%) MATLAB
18 24 (0.52%) Go
18 24 (0.52%) VB
19 23 (0.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 919 (20.09%) Degree
2 240 (5.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 222 (4.85%) Security Cleared
4 161 (3.52%) DBS Check
5 158 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 143 (3.13%) SC Cleared
7 109 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 57 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 42 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
11 35 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (0.61%) DV Cleared
13 25 (0.55%) 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
1 392 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 188 (4.11%) GDPR
3 124 (2.71%) QA
4 56 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 43 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (0.94%) SLA
6 32 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 30 (0.66%) PMO
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 97 (2.12%) 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 (0.066%) 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 (1.25%) 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 (0.066%) Podman
10 3 (0.066%) SCCM
11 2 (0.044%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.044%) Foglight
12 1 (0.022%) Consul
12 1 (0.022%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,732 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 340 (7.43%) SAP
3 281 (6.14%) Oracle
4 256 (5.60%) Databricks
5 174 (3.80%) Google
6 93 (2.03%) Alteryx
7 76 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.18%) Cognos
9 43 (0.94%) VMware
10 40 (0.87%) IFS
11 35 (0.77%) Informatica
12 34 (0.74%) Adobe
13 29 (0.63%) IBM
14 27 (0.59%) 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