Business Intelligence Analysts
Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.
Most important skills
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Active Learning
- Writing
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Mathematics
Key knowledge
- Computers and Electronics
- Mathematics
- English Language
- Administration and Management
- Customer and Personal Service
- Economics and Accounting
- Communications and Media
- Education and Training
What the work involves
- Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
- Maintain library of model documents, templates, or other reusable knowledge assets.
- Identify or monitor current and potential customers, using business intelligence tools.
- Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.
- Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends.
- Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
- Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
- Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Conventional, Investigative, Enterprising.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Bachelor's Degree (68.2% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (36.4%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (31.8%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 4: Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Business Intelligence Analysts is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
- Projection education uses SOC 15-2051 (detailed_parent); it may describe a broader group.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Very low | Lower on contact with others than 98% of occupations compared | 36% of surveyed respondents chose “Contact with others about half the time” |
| Dealing with the public | Very low | Lower on dealing with the public than 93% of occupations compared | 43% of surveyed respondents chose “Not important at all” |
| Teamwork | Low | Lower on teamwork than 60% of occupations compared | 43% of surveyed respondents chose “Very important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Moderate | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 59% of occupations compared | 64% of surveyed respondents chose “Some freedom” |
| Time pressure | Low | Lower on time pressure than 61% of occupations compared | 50% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Conflict situations | Very low | Lower on conflict situations than 83% of occupations compared | 45% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a month or more but not every week” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Very low | Lower on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 96% of occupations compared | 67% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Consequence of error | Low | Lower on consequence of error than 63% of occupations compared | 36% of surveyed respondents chose “Fairly serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: low
- Conflict situations: very low
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: very low
- Consequence of error: low
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 22.73%
- Contact with others about half the time: 36.36%
- Contact with others most of the time: 27.27%
- Constant contact with others: 13.64%
n = 22, Occupational Expert 08/2024
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 42.86%
- Fairly important: 33.33%
- Important: 9.52%
- Very important: 9.52%
- Extremely important: 4.76%
n = 21, Occupational Expert 08/2024
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 4.76%
- Important: 14.29%
- Very important: 42.86%
- Extremely important: 38.1%
n = 21, Occupational Expert 08/2024
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 4.55%
- Limited freedom: 0%
- Some freedom: 63.64%
- A lot of freedom: 31.82%
n = 22, Occupational Expert 08/2024
Time pressure
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 4.55%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 31.82%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 50%
- Every day: 13.64%
n = 22, Occupational Expert 08/2024
Conflict situations
- Never: 13.64%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 40.91%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 45.45%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 0%
- Every day: 0%
n = 22, Occupational Expert 08/2024
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 23.81%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 66.67%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 9.52%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 0%
- Every day: 0%
n = 21, Occupational Expert 08/2024
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 18.18%
- Fairly serious: 36.36%
- Serious: 13.64%
- Very serious: 18.18%
- Extremely serious: 13.64%
n = 22, Occupational Expert 08/2024
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