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With data increasingly vital to business success, business intelligence (BI) continues to grow in importance. With a strong BI strategy and team, organizations can perform the kinds of analysis necessary to help users make data-driven business decisions.
BI encompasses numerous roles. BI analysts, with an average salary of $71,493 according to PayScale, provide application analysis and data modeling design for centralized data warehouses and extract data from databases and data warehouses for reporting, among other tasks. BI developers, with an average salary of $83,091, work with databases and software to develop and fine-tune IT solutions. BI architects, with an average salary of $113,263, analyze and implement BI for their organizations, with responsibilities that range from determining platforms to building and maintaining data warehouses. BI directors, with an average salary of $127,169 per year, lead design and development activities related to the enterprise data warehouse.
In its quarterly IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index report released in May, research firm Foote Partners notes that the average pay premium for tech certifications was down 1.2% in the first quarter of 2022 following two consecutive periods of growth. Data and database certifications were among the only ones to buck the general trend: They were up 4.6% annually.
Certifications are not required to work in BI, but they may help you get an edge by proving to employers that you have the right skillset. Below is our guide to some of the most sought-after BI certifications.
Top 9 business intelligence certifications
- Certified Business Intelligence Professional
- IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
- QlikView Business Analyst
- SAP Certified Application Associate: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.3
- SAS Certified Specialist: Visual Business Analytics
- Tableau Certified Data Analyst
- Tableau Desktop Specialist
- Tableau Server Certified Associate
Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP)