Microsoft Power BI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Power BI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Power BI over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 82 119
Rank change year-on-year +9 +37 -15
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 3,529 3,897 5,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.50% 3.96% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.30% 18.44% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,828 2,488 3,615
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,059 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Power BI is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,281 21,129 46,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.11% 21.45% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,536 13,165 21,039
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Power BI.

Salary trend for Power BI in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the UK

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Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +18 3,211 £55,000 - 1,009
UK excluding London +10 2,371 £47,500 - 684
Work from Home +7 1,508 £55,000 - 506
London +13 1,026 £65,000 -2.26% 449
North of England +13 638 £47,500 +4.40% 153
Midlands +14 531 £47,500 - 115
South East +24 514 £50,000 -4.76% 247
West Midlands +15 393 £50,000 +5.26% 73
North West +45 367 £47,500 +5.56% 97
South West -9 251 £47,500 -5.00% 75
East of England +89 216 £47,500 -5.00% 58
Scotland -6 187 £47,500 -0.44% 27
Yorkshire -15 187 £50,000 +5.26% 39
East Midlands +8 136 £43,250 +8.13% 41
North East 0 84 £42,500 -15.00% 17
Wales -36 29 £47,029 +17.57% 12
Northern Ireland +5 7 £67,500 +50.00% 6
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 -

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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
1 355 (10.06%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (1.16%) Confluence
4 37 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.88%) Apache
5 31 (0.88%) SAS
6 27 (0.77%) IIS
7 24 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.43%) WordPress
9 11 (0.31%) CMS
10 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.085%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.057%) Drupal
13 2 (0.057%) IBM Domino
13 2 (0.057%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.057%) Moodle
13 2 (0.057%) nginx
14 1 (0.028%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 862 (24.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 201 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
5 33 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.34%) SPSS
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 3 (0.085%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.085%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.057%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 186 (5.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.57%) Primavera
3 18 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
4 17 (0.48%) Elite 3E
5 15 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
6 13 (0.37%) Epicor Tropos
6 13 (0.37%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.28%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (0.23%) Shopify
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.17%) SAP PLM
9 6 (0.17%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
10 4 (0.11%) Finacle
10 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.11%) Temenos T24
11 3 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.085%) Magento
11 3 (0.085%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 3,529 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,370 (38.82%) Azure
3 514 (14.57%) PowerApps
4 471 (13.35%) Power Automate
5 386 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
6 317 (8.98%) Dynamics 365
7 263 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 239 (6.77%) AWS
9 223 (6.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 157 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
11 121 (3.43%) GCP
12 109 (3.09%) Snowflake
13 69 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 69 (1.96%) Serverless
14 62 (1.76%) Google Analytics
15 59 (1.67%) SaaS
16 45 (1.28%) Entra ID
17 36 (1.02%) OneDrive
18 34 (0.96%) GitHub
19 31 (0.88%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.10%) Broadband
2 41 (1.16%) DNS
3 32 (0.91%) Intranet
4 27 (0.77%) Firewall
5 25 (0.71%) DHCP
6 23 (0.65%) Network Security
7 22 (0.62%) Internet
8 14 (0.40%) LAN
8 14 (0.40%) WAN
9 13 (0.37%) VPN
10 12 (0.34%) Unified Communications
11 10 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (0.20%) NAS
13 6 (0.17%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.17%) VoIP
13 6 (0.17%) WebEx
14 5 (0.14%) SAN
15 4 (0.11%) VLAN
15 4 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 755 (21.39%) SQL Server
2 658 (18.65%) Data Warehouse
3 630 (17.85%) Tableau
4 415 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 343 (9.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 283 (8.02%) Data Lake
7 184 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 174 (4.93%) Power Query
9 160 (4.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 132 (3.74%) Relational Database
11 75 (2.13%) Big Data
12 71 (2.01%) QlikView
13 70 (1.98%) Looker
14 65 (1.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 59 (1.67%) Data Mining
16 57 (1.62%) BusinessObjects
17 56 (1.59%) BigQuery
18 51 (1.45%) Metadata
19 50 (1.42%) Qlik Sense
20 49 (1.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 167 (4.73%) JIRA
2 73 (2.07%) Git
3 65 (1.84%) Visual Studio
4 50 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 16 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (0.40%) RStudio
7 12 (0.34%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.14%) ERwin
9 5 (0.14%) GitLab
10 3 (0.085%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.085%) NUnit
10 3 (0.085%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.085%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.085%) Subversion
11 2 (0.057%) MSTest
11 2 (0.057%) Sourcetree
11 2 (0.057%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.057%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.057%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,280 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 1,014 (28.73%) Finance
3 861 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
4 328 (9.29%) Retail
5 280 (7.93%) Marketing
5 280 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 187 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 183 (5.19%) Legal
8 160 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
9 134 (3.80%) Law
9 134 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 130 (3.68%) Banking
11 67 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.45%) Local Government
13 48 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
14 45 (1.28%) Back Office
15 43 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 39 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
17 36 (1.02%) Advertising
18 29 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 942 (26.69%) Analyst
2 695 (19.69%) Developer
3 404 (11.45%) Senior
4 395 (11.19%) Data Analyst
5 306 (8.67%) Lead
6 292 (8.27%) Data Engineer
7 256 (7.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 233 (6.60%) Consultant
9 182 (5.16%) Architect
10 170 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 156 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
12 151 (4.28%) Power BI Developer
13 126 (3.57%) DBA
14 120 (3.40%) Senior Developer
15 117 (3.32%) SQL DBA
16 115 (3.26%) Power Platform Developer
17 107 (3.03%) Data Manager
18 100 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Consultant
19 84 (2.38%) Power BI Analyst
20 83 (2.35%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (5.24%) .NET
2 130 (3.68%) HTML
3 84 (2.38%) CSS
4 65 (1.84%) JSON
5 61 (1.73%) ASP.NET
6 50 (1.42%) REST
7 49 (1.39%) .NET Framework
8 48 (1.36%) HTML5 Canvas
9 47 (1.33%) Web Services
10 41 (1.16%) PySpark
11 39 (1.11%) XML
12 27 (0.77%) Entity Framework
13 23 (0.65%) MDX
13 23 (0.65%) RESTful
14 21 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
15 19 (0.54%) React
16 16 (0.45%) ASP.NET MVC
17 14 (0.40%) .NET Core
18 12 (0.34%) AngularJS
18 12 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 185 (5.24%) Management Information System
2 134 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
3 79 (2.24%) Onboarding
4 78 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 67 (1.90%) Data Structures
6 60 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 54 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.28%) NHS
9 42 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 38 (1.08%) Low-Code
11 35 (0.99%) FMCG
12 31 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 30 (0.85%) Data Centre
14 25 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (0.62%) Reinsurance
17 20 (0.57%) Cloud Native
17 20 (0.57%) IoT
17 20 (0.57%) PMI
18 18 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.02%) Windows
2 76 (2.15%) VMS
3 53 (1.50%) Linux
4 49 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.71%) Unix
5 25 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.14%) Android
7 5 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.057%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.028%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.028%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.028%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,975 (84.30%) Business Intelligence
2 983 (27.85%) Analytics
3 809 (22.92%) Visualisation
4 647 (18.33%) Agile
5 642 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
6 613 (17.37%) ETL
7 589 (16.69%) Data Analysis
8 544 (15.42%) Data Modelling
9 537 (15.22%) Data Visualisation
10 414 (11.73%) Decision-Making
11 371 (10.51%) Data Science
12 360 (10.20%) Data Analytics
13 348 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 344 (9.75%) Migration
15 343 (9.72%) DevOps
16 335 (9.49%) Machine Learning
17 332 (9.41%) Project Management
18 327 (9.27%) Data Governance
19 318 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
20 310 (8.78%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2,010 (56.96%) SQL
2 599 (16.97%) Python
3 392 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 271 (7.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 268 (7.59%) C#
6 177 (5.02%) JavaScript
7 158 (4.48%) R
8 102 (2.89%) PowerShell
9 76 (2.15%) VBA
10 48 (1.36%) Java
11 36 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 25 (0.71%) TypeScript
13 23 (0.65%) VB
14 17 (0.48%) PHP
15 15 (0.43%) VB.NET
16 14 (0.40%) C
17 13 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (0.34%) Go
19 11 (0.31%) Scala
19 11 (0.31%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 691 (19.58%) Degree
2 235 (6.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 159 (4.51%) DBS Check
4 116 (3.29%) Security Cleared
5 111 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 86 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 65 (1.84%) SC Cleared
8 56 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 20 (0.57%) CIPD
12 19 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
14 17 (0.48%) CIMA
15 16 (0.45%) CISM
15 16 (0.45%) CISSP
15 16 (0.45%) MBA
16 12 (0.34%) ACCA
16 12 (0.34%) MCSE
17 11 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (9.44%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.73%) GDPR
3 78 (2.21%) QA
4 43 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 29 (0.82%) PMO
6 26 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
8 21 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 13 (0.37%) NIST
11 12 (0.34%) SLA
12 11 (0.31%) COBIT
13 9 (0.26%) GRC
13 9 (0.26%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.11%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.085%) PCI DSS
17 2 (0.057%) NCSC
18 1 (0.028%) HIPAA
18 1 (0.028%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 103 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Docker
4 10 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.26%) Firmware
6 2 (0.057%) vSphere
7 1 (0.028%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (1.08%) Terraform
2 28 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.57%) Ansible
4 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.20%) Foglight
5 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (0.20%) Nagios
6 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.11%) Grafana
8 4 (0.11%) Puppet
9 2 (0.057%) cPanel
9 2 (0.057%) SCCM
10 1 (0.028%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.028%) Kibana
10 1 (0.028%) logstash
10 1 (0.028%) Packer
10 1 (0.028%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.028%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.028%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,473 (41.74%) Microsoft
2 243 (6.89%) Databricks
3 189 (5.36%) Oracle
4 170 (4.82%) Google
5 114 (3.23%) SAP
6 101 (2.86%) Alteryx
7 55 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.02%) IFS
9 31 (0.88%) Cognos
10 23 (0.65%) Aderant
11 22 (0.62%) VMware
12 21 (0.60%) iManage
12 21 (0.60%) Sophos
13 20 (0.57%) Adobe
14 19 (0.54%) Epicor
15 16 (0.45%) ServiceNow
16 15 (0.43%) Civica
17 14 (0.40%) Workday
18 13 (0.37%) Apple
18 13 (0.37%) Nintex