Power BI Job Trends in England

Microsoft Power BI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Power BI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 77 70
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 +11
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,576 1,616 2,526
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 3.72% 3.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.98% 23.72% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,482 1,209 1,942
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,073
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,645 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.16% -3.23% +4.55%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
England

Power BI falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,055 6,814 12,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.93% 15.69% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,497 4,520 8,634
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £84,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -4.00%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Power BI job vacancy trend in England

Power BI
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI

Power BI
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the England region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
London -12 669 £72,500 +7.41% 275
North of England +88 631 £46,500 -11.43% 138
Midlands +25 458 £50,000 - 123
South East +20 382 £52,500 - 189
North West +79 287 £48,000 -8.57% 71
Yorkshire +68 268 £44,500 -11.00% 46
West Midlands +20 267 £50,000 -9.09% 66
South West +4 226 £42,500 -19.05% 70
East Midlands +24 191 £47,500 +5.56% 57
East of England +22 186 £60,000 +37.93% 33
North East +8 76 £45,000 -5.26% 24
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 180 (6.99%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.47%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) WordPress
7 7 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.23%) CMS
8 6 (0.23%) Confluence
9 5 (0.19%) SAS
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.078%) IIS
11 2 (0.078%) Luigi
11 2 (0.078%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.039%) Appian
12 1 (0.039%) Mendix
12 1 (0.039%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,176 (45.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.078%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 50 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (1.71%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.43%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.31%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.27%) Visualfiles
7 6 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.19%) Shopify
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
10 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.078%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.078%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.078%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.078%) Workfront
12 1 (0.039%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 2,576 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,328 (51.55%) Azure
3 716 (27.80%) Azure AI
4 287 (11.14%) Power Automate
5 263 (10.21%) PowerApps
6 249 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
7 170 (6.60%) Dynamics 365
8 151 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 150 (5.82%) AWS
10 124 (4.81%) Snowflake
11 114 (4.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 96 (3.73%) GCP
13 95 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
14 77 (2.99%) SaaS
15 74 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
16 73 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
17 69 (2.68%) dbt
18 61 (2.37%) OneDrive
19 53 (2.06%) Entra ID
19 53 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.62%) Broadband
1 16 (0.62%) Firewall
2 11 (0.43%) DHCP
2 11 (0.43%) DNS
3 8 (0.31%) WAN
4 7 (0.27%) VPN
5 6 (0.23%) VoIP
6 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 4 (0.16%) LAN
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
6 4 (0.16%) Network Security
6 4 (0.16%) SMS
7 3 (0.12%) NAS
7 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.078%) Internet
8 2 (0.078%) VLAN
8 2 (0.078%) Wireless
9 1 (0.039%) Modbus
9 1 (0.039%) MQTT
9 1 (0.039%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,023 (39.71%) Tableau
2 217 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
3 178 (6.91%) SQL Server
4 134 (5.20%) Data Lake
5 127 (4.93%) Power Query
6 125 (4.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 82 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 80 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 72 (2.80%) Looker
10 58 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.10%) BigQuery
12 45 (1.75%) Star Schema
13 44 (1.71%) Metadata
14 39 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
15 36 (1.40%) Big Data
16 30 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
17 29 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
18 28 (1.09%) MySQL
19 27 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
20 26 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 61 (2.37%) Git
2 49 (1.90%) JIRA
3 31 (1.20%) MLflow
4 22 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 14 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.16%) GitLab
9 1 (0.039%) Ant
9 1 (0.039%) Apache Ivy
9 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.039%) ERwin
9 1 (0.039%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.039%) Maven
9 1 (0.039%) NUnit
9 1 (0.039%) Postman
9 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.039%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,399 (54.31%) Social Skills
2 568 (22.05%) Analytical Skills
3 562 (21.82%) Finance
4 138 (5.36%) Law
5 126 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 108 (4.19%) Legal
6 108 (4.19%) Marketing
6 108 (4.19%) Retail
7 104 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 92 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
9 90 (3.49%) Manufacturing
10 35 (1.36%) Banking
11 32 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (0.97%) Military
15 24 (0.93%) Advertising
15 24 (0.93%) Billing
16 21 (0.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,244 (48.29%) Analyst
2 919 (35.68%) Data Analyst
3 736 (28.57%) Junior
4 726 (28.18%) Junior Analyst
5 716 (27.80%) Junior Data Analyst
6 306 (11.88%) Senior
7 286 (11.10%) Developer
8 174 (6.75%) Data Engineer
9 144 (5.59%) Lead
10 89 (3.45%) Architect
11 88 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 80 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 76 (2.95%) Data Manager
14 74 (2.87%) Business Analyst
15 69 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
16 60 (2.33%) Power Platform Developer
17 59 (2.29%) Data Architect
18 56 (2.17%) Systems Analyst
19 55 (2.14%) Consultant
19 55 (2.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (4.39%) .NET
2 62 (2.41%) HTML
3 60 (2.33%) PySpark
3 60 (2.33%) REST
4 58 (2.25%) CSS
5 49 (1.90%) JSON
6 42 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
7 40 (1.55%) Kafka
8 37 (1.44%) .NET Core
9 32 (1.24%) scikit-learn
10 31 (1.20%) PyTorch
11 29 (1.13%) XML
12 27 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
13 26 (1.01%) Middleware
13 26 (1.01%) TensorFlow
14 24 (0.93%) LangChain
14 24 (0.93%) LlamaIndex
15 23 (0.89%) pgvector
16 20 (0.78%) SOAP
16 20 (0.78%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 137 (5.32%) Management Information System
2 77 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 57 (2.21%) Cloud Native
4 54 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 47 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 43 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 35 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.01%) Public Cloud
10 25 (0.97%) Clustering
11 22 (0.85%) Low-Code
12 19 (0.74%) NHS
12 19 (0.74%) Social Media
13 18 (0.70%) Driving Licence
14 17 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.54%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
16 14 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 12 (0.47%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.82%) Windows
2 22 (0.85%) Linux
3 21 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.35%) VMS
5 4 (0.16%) Unix
5 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.078%) Android
7 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.039%) Solaris
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,430 (94.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1,091 (42.35%) AI
3 743 (28.84%) Analytics
4 493 (19.14%) Decision-Making
5 491 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
6 446 (17.31%) Data Modelling
7 381 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 338 (13.12%) Visualisation
9 290 (11.26%) Agile
10 288 (11.18%) Data Governance
11 284 (11.02%) ETL
12 240 (9.32%) ERP
13 236 (9.16%) Data Engineering
14 233 (9.05%) Data Visualisation
15 231 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 230 (8.93%) Actionable Insight
17 223 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 220 (8.54%) Data Analysis
19 209 (8.11%) Data Pipeline
20 196 (7.61%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,723 (66.89%) SQL
2 1,100 (42.70%) Python
3 170 (6.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 160 (6.21%) C#
5 109 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 69 (2.68%) PowerShell
7 57 (2.21%) VBA
8 54 (2.10%) T-SQL
9 43 (1.67%) R
10 29 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 19 (0.74%) Scala
13 13 (0.50%) Java
14 8 (0.31%) VB
14 8 (0.31%) VBScript
15 6 (0.23%) Julia
16 5 (0.19%) Bicep
17 4 (0.16%) PHP
17 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 743 (28.84%) Azure Certification
2 259 (10.05%) Degree
3 103 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 84 (3.26%) ACCA
5 82 (3.18%) SC Cleared
6 79 (3.07%) CIMA
7 45 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (1.51%) DBS Check
9 29 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.05%) AAT
11 24 (0.93%) PMI Certification
12 22 (0.85%) PMP
13 16 (0.62%) Master's Degree
14 13 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
15 9 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (0.35%) SSCP
16 7 (0.27%) HND
16 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
17 5 (0.19%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 129 (5.01%) GDPR
3 84 (3.26%) QA
4 48 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.82%) SLA
6 41 (1.59%) PMO
7 37 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 27 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.66%) TickIT
10 16 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.54%) NIST
12 12 (0.47%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) IFRS
14 6 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.19%) PERC
16 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.16%) GAAP
16 4 (0.16%) ITGC
16 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.70%) Docker
3 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.078%) IAG
8 1 (0.039%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (0.97%) Terraform
2 14 (0.54%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.19%) SCCM
6 4 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.078%) Control-M
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.039%) Puppet
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,441 (55.94%) Microsoft
2 198 (7.69%) Databricks
3 93 (3.61%) SAP
4 79 (3.07%) Oracle
5 64 (2.48%) Google
6 44 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 30 (1.16%) Intapp
8 29 (1.13%) Sage
9 28 (1.09%) Alteryx
10 26 (1.01%) Adobe
11 24 (0.93%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.89%) Dell
13 22 (0.85%) Informatica
14 20 (0.78%) Concur
14 20 (0.78%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.66%) iManage
16 14 (0.54%) Cognos
17 13 (0.50%) Aderant
17 13 (0.50%) HubSpot
18 12 (0.47%) SYSPRO