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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 67 71
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,466 1,717 2,247
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 3.90% 3.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.32% 25.41% 20.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 1,224 1,660
10th Percentile £34,500 £34,150 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £44,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £76,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £93,525
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%

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 8,134 6,756 11,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.58% 15.36% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,588 4,426 7,680
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,173 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,966 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -2.45% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -15 686 £70,000 +5.26% 599
North of England +78 593 £45,000 -14.29% 202
Midlands +22 431 £51,356 +2.71% 159
South East -17 347 £52,500 - 246
North West +59 278 £47,750 -9.91% 113
West Midlands +23 255 £51,356 -3.56% 97
Yorkshire +67 239 £42,500 -15.00% 62
South West -14 216 £42,500 -17.07% 96
East Midlands +20 176 £50,000 +11.11% 62
East of England 0 169 £60,000 +50.00% 61
North East -7 76 £45,000 - 31
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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
1 189 (7.66%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 43 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.65%) Apache
6 10 (0.41%) WordPress
7 8 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.28%) Confluence
9 6 (0.24%) CMS
9 6 (0.24%) SAS
10 4 (0.16%) Luigi
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.081%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.081%) IIS
11 2 (0.081%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.081%) Tornado
11 2 (0.081%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,040 (42.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.81%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.081%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.041%) Revit
9 1 (0.041%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 54 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (1.95%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.57%) Elite 3E
4 12 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.36%) Carpe Diem
5 9 (0.36%) Visualfiles
6 8 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
9 4 (0.16%) Shopify
10 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
11 2 (0.081%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.081%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.081%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.081%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,466 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,195 (48.46%) Azure
3 576 (23.36%) Azure AI
4 296 (12.00%) Power Automate
5 270 (10.95%) PowerApps
6 245 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
7 185 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
8 163 (6.61%) AWS
9 150 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 129 (5.23%) Snowflake
11 111 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 105 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
13 102 (4.14%) GCP
14 73 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
15 71 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
16 70 (2.84%) SaaS
17 65 (2.64%) Microsoft Copilot
18 61 (2.47%) dbt
18 61 (2.47%) OneDrive
19 45 (1.82%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.61%) Firewall
2 14 (0.57%) Broadband
3 10 (0.41%) DHCP
3 10 (0.41%) DNS
4 8 (0.32%) WAN
5 6 (0.24%) LAN
5 6 (0.24%) VoIP
5 6 (0.24%) VPN
6 5 (0.20%) Network Security
6 5 (0.20%) SMS
7 4 (0.16%) Intranet
7 4 (0.16%) LTE
8 3 (0.12%) MQTT
8 3 (0.12%) NAS
8 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.081%) Wireless
10 1 (0.041%) Internet
10 1 (0.041%) Modbus
10 1 (0.041%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 885 (35.89%) Tableau
2 228 (9.25%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 143 (5.80%) Data Lake
5 126 (5.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 123 (4.99%) Power Query
7 87 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 84 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 80 (3.24%) Looker
10 63 (2.55%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.11%) BigQuery
12 50 (2.03%) Metadata
13 45 (1.82%) Star Schema
14 38 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (1.30%) Big Data
16 30 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
17 29 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
18 28 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 27 (1.09%) Delta Lake
19 27 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 69 (2.80%) Git
2 52 (2.11%) JIRA
3 31 (1.26%) MLflow
4 19 (0.77%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.32%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.16%) GitLab
9 2 (0.081%) Ant
9 2 (0.081%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.081%) ERwin
9 2 (0.081%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.081%) Maven
10 1 (0.041%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.041%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.041%) NUnit
10 1 (0.041%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.041%) Toad
10 1 (0.041%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,288 (52.23%) Social Skills
2 588 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
3 578 (23.44%) Finance
4 146 (5.92%) Law
5 130 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 122 (4.95%) Retail
7 121 (4.91%) Marketing
8 116 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
9 115 (4.66%) Legal
10 105 (4.26%) Public Sector
11 98 (3.97%) Manufacturing
12 41 (1.66%) Banking
13 33 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 32 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.22%) Billing
15 30 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.05%) Military
18 25 (1.01%) Advertising
19 23 (0.93%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,082 (43.88%) Analyst
2 769 (31.18%) Data Analyst
3 592 (24.01%) Junior
4 584 (23.68%) Junior Analyst
5 572 (23.20%) Junior Data Analyst
6 302 (12.25%) Senior
7 300 (12.17%) Developer
8 179 (7.26%) Data Engineer
9 138 (5.60%) Lead
10 84 (3.41%) Data Manager
11 83 (3.37%) Architect
12 82 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 79 (3.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 75 (3.04%) Business Analyst
15 67 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
16 61 (2.47%) Power Platform Developer
17 59 (2.39%) Consultant
18 58 (2.35%) Data Architect
19 57 (2.31%) Senior Developer
20 56 (2.27%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (4.66%) .NET
2 63 (2.55%) HTML
3 62 (2.51%) PySpark
4 61 (2.47%) REST
5 55 (2.23%) CSS
6 44 (1.78%) JSON
7 43 (1.74%) Kafka
8 42 (1.70%) HTML5 Canvas
9 36 (1.46%) .NET Core
10 35 (1.42%) PyTorch
11 34 (1.38%) scikit-learn
12 30 (1.22%) TensorFlow
13 28 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
14 24 (0.97%) LangChain
14 24 (0.97%) LlamaIndex
14 24 (0.97%) Middleware
14 24 (0.97%) XML
15 23 (0.93%) EDI
15 23 (0.93%) pgvector
16 20 (0.81%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 145 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 72 (2.92%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.39%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.07%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 47 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 37 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.14%) Public Cloud
10 24 (0.97%) Clustering
11 23 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
12 21 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 19 (0.77%) Driving Licence
13 19 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (0.77%) Social Media
14 18 (0.73%) AI Agents
14 18 (0.73%) NHS
15 15 (0.61%) Educational Technology
16 14 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
17 13 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.99%) Windows
2 22 (0.89%) Linux
3 20 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.20%) VMS
6 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Unix
8 2 (0.081%) Android
8 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.081%) Solaris
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,322 (94.16%) Business Intelligence
2 995 (40.35%) AI
3 782 (31.71%) Analytics
4 532 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
5 514 (20.84%) Decision-Making
6 451 (18.29%) Data Modelling
7 418 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 347 (14.07%) Visualisation
9 303 (12.29%) Agile
10 297 (12.04%) Data Governance
11 293 (11.88%) ETL
12 263 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 256 (10.38%) Data Engineering
14 246 (9.98%) Data Visualisation
15 243 (9.85%) ERP
16 242 (9.81%) Actionable Insight
16 242 (9.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 229 (9.29%) Data Analysis
18 221 (8.96%) Data Pipeline
19 201 (8.15%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 1,606 (65.13%) SQL
2 971 (39.38%) Python
3 166 (6.73%) C#
3 166 (6.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 115 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 59 (2.39%) PowerShell
6 51 (2.07%) VBA
7 50 (2.03%) T-SQL
8 45 (1.82%) R
9 31 (1.26%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.77%) Scala
11 16 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (0.57%) Java
13 8 (0.32%) VB
14 7 (0.28%) VBScript
15 6 (0.24%) Julia
16 5 (0.20%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.16%) Bicep
17 4 (0.16%) PHP
18 3 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 602 (24.41%) Azure Certification
2 266 (10.79%) Degree
3 112 (4.54%) Security Cleared
4 92 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 84 (3.41%) ACCA
6 79 (3.20%) CIMA
7 44 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.54%) DBS Check
9 28 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (0.97%) AAT
11 23 (0.93%) PMI Certification
12 21 (0.85%) PMP
13 15 (0.61%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.32%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.32%) SSCP
16 7 (0.28%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.28%) CFA
16 7 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (15.61%) Data Quality
2 141 (5.72%) GDPR
3 86 (3.49%) QA
4 53 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.87%) SLA
6 41 (1.66%) PMO
7 40 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 22 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.69%) TickIT
10 13 (0.53%) NIST
11 11 (0.45%) GRC
12 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.24%) GAAP
13 6 (0.24%) PERC
14 5 (0.20%) IFRS
15 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.081%) ITGC
System Software
1 34 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 22 (0.89%) Docker
3 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.081%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.081%) IAG
Systems Management
1 26 (1.05%) Terraform
2 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (0.53%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.41%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.20%) Ansible
7 4 (0.16%) SCCM
8 2 (0.081%) Argo
8 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.081%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.081%) Puppet
9 1 (0.041%) Control-M
9 1 (0.041%) Grafana
9 1 (0.041%) MOM
9 1 (0.041%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.041%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,332 (54.01%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.19%) Databricks
3 100 (4.06%) SAP
4 77 (3.12%) Oracle
5 69 (2.80%) Google
6 41 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.26%) Sage
8 29 (1.18%) Alteryx
9 28 (1.14%) Intapp
10 25 (1.01%) Adobe
11 24 (0.97%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.93%) Dell
13 19 (0.77%) Informatica
13 19 (0.77%) ServiceNow
14 18 (0.73%) Concur
15 16 (0.65%) iManage
16 14 (0.57%) Aderant
17 12 (0.49%) HubSpot
17 12 (0.49%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.49%) SYSPRO