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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 79 117
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 -16
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 3,546 3,894 5,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.46% 4.00% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.35% 18.54% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,826 2,482 3,669
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £33,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,625 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
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 18,328 21,007 47,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 21.58% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,523 13,073 21,105
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 28 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 28 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 +16 3,229 £55,000 - 886
UK excluding London +10 2,385 £47,500 - 529
Work from Home +7 1,518 £55,000 - 435
London +13 1,033 £65,000 -2.26% 361
North of England +9 633 £47,500 - 153
Midlands +11 532 £47,500 - 96
South East +21 528 £50,000 -4.76% 131
West Midlands +10 396 £50,000 +5.26% 58
North West +49 365 £47,500 +5.56% 99
South West -10 253 £47,500 -5.00% 79
East of England +85 218 £47,500 -5.00% 43
Scotland -7 188 £47,500 -0.44% 27
Yorkshire -17 185 £49,827 +4.90% 38
East Midlands +1 134 £43,250 +10.90% 38
North East 0 83 £42,500 -15.00% 16
Wales -41 29 £47,029 +17.57% 8
Northern Ireland -2 6 £75,000 +66.67% 4
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86%
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 (10.01%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 40 (1.13%) Confluence
4 37 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 33 (0.93%) Apache
6 31 (0.87%) SAS
7 26 (0.73%) IIS
8 24 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
9 14 (0.39%) WordPress
10 10 (0.28%) CMS
11 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.14%) IBM Notes
13 3 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.085%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.056%) Drupal
14 2 (0.056%) IBM Domino
14 2 (0.056%) Joomla!
14 2 (0.056%) Moodle
14 2 (0.056%) nginx
15 1 (0.028%) Documentum
Applications
1 868 (24.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 200 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
3 114 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.96%) 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
8 3 (0.085%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 185 (5.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.56%) Primavera
3 18 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
4 17 (0.48%) Elite 3E
5 15 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
6 14 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
7 10 (0.28%) SAP Business One
8 9 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.23%) Shopify
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.17%) SAP PLM
10 6 (0.17%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.11%) Finacle
11 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.11%) Temenos T24
12 3 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.085%) Sage 200
12 3 (0.085%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,546 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,370 (38.64%) Azure
3 517 (14.58%) PowerApps
4 473 (13.34%) Power Automate
5 384 (10.83%) Microsoft 365
6 318 (8.97%) Dynamics 365
7 265 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 241 (6.80%) AWS
9 226 (6.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 155 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
11 115 (3.24%) GCP
12 107 (3.02%) Snowflake
13 67 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 67 (1.89%) Serverless
14 58 (1.64%) Google Analytics
15 57 (1.61%) SaaS
16 45 (1.27%) Entra ID
17 34 (0.96%) OneDrive
18 33 (0.93%) GitHub
19 30 (0.85%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.09%) Broadband
2 40 (1.13%) DNS
3 32 (0.90%) Intranet
4 30 (0.85%) Firewall
5 24 (0.68%) DHCP
6 23 (0.65%) Network Security
7 22 (0.62%) Internet
8 13 (0.37%) LAN
8 13 (0.37%) VPN
8 13 (0.37%) WAN
9 12 (0.34%) Unified Communications
10 10 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (0.25%) VoIP
12 7 (0.20%) NAS
13 6 (0.17%) WebEx
14 5 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.14%) SAN
14 5 (0.14%) TCP/IP
15 4 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 751 (21.18%) SQL Server
2 661 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
3 631 (17.79%) Tableau
4 410 (11.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 339 (9.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 281 (7.92%) Data Lake
7 183 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 179 (5.05%) Power Query
9 160 (4.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 133 (3.75%) Relational Database
11 79 (2.23%) Big Data
12 72 (2.03%) QlikView
13 68 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 65 (1.83%) Looker
15 58 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
15 58 (1.64%) Data Mining
16 53 (1.49%) BigQuery
17 50 (1.41%) Metadata
18 49 (1.38%) Qlik Sense
19 48 (1.35%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 166 (4.68%) JIRA
2 74 (2.09%) Git
3 64 (1.80%) Visual Studio
4 50 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 16 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (0.39%) RStudio
7 12 (0.34%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.14%) ERwin
9 5 (0.14%) GitLab
10 4 (0.11%) Subversion
11 3 (0.085%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.085%) NUnit
11 3 (0.085%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.085%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.056%) MSTest
12 2 (0.056%) Sourcetree
12 2 (0.056%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.056%) Visual Studio Team System
13 1 (0.028%) Selenium
General
1 1,293 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 1,020 (28.76%) Finance
3 863 (24.34%) Analytical Skills
4 323 (9.11%) Retail
5 286 (8.07%) Marketing
6 282 (7.95%) Public Sector
7 195 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 186 (5.25%) Legal
9 158 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
10 136 (3.84%) Manufacturing
11 135 (3.81%) Law
12 130 (3.67%) Banking
13 69 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 51 (1.44%) Local Government
16 45 (1.27%) Back Office
17 41 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 40 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
19 35 (0.99%) Advertising
20 29 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 951 (26.82%) Analyst
2 702 (19.80%) Developer
3 407 (11.48%) Senior
4 403 (11.36%) Data Analyst
5 306 (8.63%) Lead
6 288 (8.12%) Data Engineer
7 256 (7.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 235 (6.63%) Consultant
9 185 (5.22%) Architect
10 171 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 162 (4.57%) Senior Analyst
12 153 (4.31%) Power BI Developer
13 127 (3.58%) DBA
14 120 (3.38%) Senior Developer
15 118 (3.33%) SQL DBA
16 113 (3.19%) Power Platform Developer
17 106 (2.99%) Data Manager
18 101 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Consultant
19 86 (2.43%) Power BI Analyst
20 85 (2.40%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (5.16%) .NET
2 130 (3.67%) HTML
3 85 (2.40%) CSS
4 65 (1.83%) JSON
5 58 (1.64%) ASP.NET
6 49 (1.38%) .NET Framework
6 49 (1.38%) HTML5 Canvas
7 48 (1.35%) REST
8 47 (1.33%) Web Services
9 41 (1.16%) PySpark
10 38 (1.07%) XML
11 27 (0.76%) Entity Framework
12 23 (0.65%) MDX
12 23 (0.65%) RESTful
13 21 (0.59%) ASP.NET Web API
14 19 (0.54%) React
15 16 (0.45%) ASP.NET MVC
16 14 (0.39%) .NET Core
17 12 (0.34%) AngularJS
18 11 (0.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 189 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 133 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
3 78 (2.20%) Onboarding
3 78 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 69 (1.95%) Data Structures
5 61 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 52 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 51 (1.44%) NHS
8 43 (1.21%) Algorithms
9 39 (1.10%) Low-Code
10 35 (0.99%) FMCG
11 32 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 30 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 25 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (0.62%) Reinsurance
16 21 (0.59%) Cloud Native
17 20 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 20 (0.56%) IoT
17 20 (0.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 138 (3.89%) Windows
2 76 (2.14%) VMS
3 53 (1.49%) Linux
4 47 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.71%) Unix
6 24 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.14%) Android
8 5 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.056%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.028%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.028%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.028%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,982 (84.09%) Business Intelligence
2 983 (27.72%) Analytics
3 805 (22.70%) Visualisation
4 651 (18.36%) Agile
5 647 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
6 605 (17.06%) ETL
7 597 (16.84%) Data Analysis
8 545 (15.37%) Data Modelling
9 532 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
10 418 (11.79%) Decision-Making
11 372 (10.49%) Data Science
12 357 (10.07%) Data Analytics
13 346 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 344 (9.70%) Migration
15 340 (9.59%) DevOps
16 336 (9.48%) Project Management
17 334 (9.42%) Machine Learning
18 327 (9.22%) Data Governance
19 317 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
20 307 (8.66%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2,014 (56.80%) SQL
2 597 (16.84%) Python
3 387 (10.91%) T-SQL
4 273 (7.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 267 (7.53%) C#
6 177 (4.99%) JavaScript
7 158 (4.46%) R
8 101 (2.85%) PowerShell
9 77 (2.17%) VBA
10 48 (1.35%) Java
11 36 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 25 (0.71%) TypeScript
13 23 (0.65%) VB
14 17 (0.48%) PHP
15 15 (0.42%) VB.NET
16 14 (0.39%) C
17 12 (0.34%) Go
17 12 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
18 11 (0.31%) Scala
18 11 (0.31%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 703 (19.83%) Degree
2 236 (6.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 159 (4.48%) DBS Check
4 119 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 119 (3.36%) Security Cleared
5 87 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 68 (1.92%) SC Cleared
7 58 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 27 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 20 (0.56%) CIPD
11 19 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (0.54%) CISM
11 19 (0.54%) CISSP
12 18 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
13 17 (0.48%) CIMA
14 16 (0.45%) MBA
15 12 (0.34%) MCSE
16 11 (0.31%) ACCA
16 11 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (9.42%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.71%) GDPR
3 78 (2.20%) QA
4 43 (1.21%) Accessibility
5 29 (0.82%) PMO
6 26 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 20 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 13 (0.37%) NIST
10 13 (0.37%) SLA
11 11 (0.31%) COBIT
12 8 (0.23%) GRC
12 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.11%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.056%) GLP
15 2 (0.056%) NCSC
15 2 (0.056%) PCI DSS
16 1 (0.028%) HIPAA
System Software
1 99 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 80 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Docker
5 9 (0.25%) Firmware
5 9 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (1.07%) Terraform
2 28 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.56%) Ansible
4 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.20%) Foglight
5 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (0.20%) Nagios
6 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.11%) Grafana
7 4 (0.11%) Puppet
8 2 (0.056%) cPanel
8 2 (0.056%) SCCM
9 1 (0.028%) Consul
9 1 (0.028%) Kibana
9 1 (0.028%) logstash
9 1 (0.028%) Packer
9 1 (0.028%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.028%) Podman
9 1 (0.028%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,478 (41.68%) Microsoft
2 242 (6.82%) Databricks
3 190 (5.36%) Oracle
4 168 (4.74%) Google
5 114 (3.21%) SAP
6 101 (2.85%) Alteryx
7 55 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.02%) IFS
9 32 (0.90%) Cognos
10 22 (0.62%) Aderant
11 21 (0.59%) Sophos
12 20 (0.56%) iManage
12 20 (0.56%) VMware
13 19 (0.54%) Adobe
14 16 (0.45%) Epicor
15 15 (0.42%) Civica
16 14 (0.39%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.39%) Workday
17 13 (0.37%) Apple
17 13 (0.37%) Nintex