Careers after Business Intelligence Analyst: 17 jobs where your skills transfer.
Every related role O*NET lists for business intelligence analysts, scored by how closely the skill profile matches, what it pays and how much extra preparation it needs. Original analysis, sources below.
BLS does not publish pay for business intelligence analysts separately. Every pay figure on this page is for the BLS occupation “Data Scientists” (SOC 15-2051), which includes business intelligence analysts and other jobs; it is not a figure for business intelligence analysts alone.
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Financial Quantitative Analyst
- Marketing Specialist
- SEO Specialist
The jobs closest to a Business Intelligence Analyst's skills are Financial Quantitative Analyst, Marketing Specialist and SEO Specialist (88%, 87% and 77% skill match). 4 related roles pay more without needing more preparation, led by Marketing Manager (+$46,560 median).
Where your skills transfer
Data Skill match and pay change are our calculations from O*NET and BLS data (method below).
The three closest moves
Data Skills where the destination's O*NET level is at least half a point higher are listed as gaps.
Already strong: Mathematics, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Judgment and Decision Making.
To build: Management of Financial Resources, Mathematics, Management of Material Resources.
Already strong: Reading Comprehension, Writing, Judgment and Decision Making, Active Listening.
To build: Science, Operations Analysis, Management of Personnel Resources.
Already strong: Complex Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Critical Thinking.
To build: Technology Design, Management of Personnel Resources, Operations Monitoring.
How to make the move
Advice
- Weeks 1 to 2Pick one destination
Financial Quantitative Analyst is the closest match at 88%. Data Warehousing Specialist pays more without more preparation.
- Weeks 2 to 6Close the top gap
For Financial Quantitative Analyst, the biggest gap is management of financial resources. Build one piece of proof for it.
- Weeks 4 to 8Reframe your resume
Lead with mathematics, critical thinking, written in the destination's language.
- From week 6Talk to people in the role
Ask three financial quantitative analysts what they wish they had known before switching.
How this page is built
Skill match is the cosine similarity of the two occupations' skill profiles: for each of 35 O*NET skills (10 essential, 25 transferable) we multiply importance by level and subtract the average across all occupations, then compare the direction of the two profiles. 100 means identical shape; 0 means unrelated or opposite (negative values are shown as 0). Only occupations that O*NET itself lists as related are compared. Pay change compares the BLS national median annual wages (May 2025) of the two occupations. Preparation change compares O*NET Job Zones (Job Zones 1-2, 3, 4 and 5, from very little to extensive preparation; O*NET 31.0 combines zones 1 and 2). Destinations without BLS wage data or O*NET skill ratings are left out.
- Licensing or degree rules for a specific destination.
- Whether employers in your area hire career changers.
- Your own skills: the scores compare occupations, not people.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. TryHired selected, ranked and combined the data; O*NET is not responsible for these pages.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).
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