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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 82 60
Rank change year-on-year +25 -22 +19
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,590 1,477 3,188
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.15% 3.75% 3.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.48% 22.45% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 1,056 2,583
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,439 £42,500 £41,403
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,635
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.21% -2.48%

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 7,100 6,579 14,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.64% 16.70% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,494 4,506 11,399
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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

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Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 20 May 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 20 May 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
North of England +50 625 £45,000 -14.29% 126
London -13 585 £72,500 +3.57% 247
Midlands +34 489 £47,085 -10.32% 87
South East +37 445 £57,500 +9.30% 200
Yorkshire +55 287 £42,500 -13.27% 41
West Midlands +16 285 £46,042 -14.09% 58
North West +43 273 £46,500 -11.43% 72
South West +16 223 £43,500 -24.35% 48
East of England +53 207 £55,000 +15.79% 46
East Midlands +45 202 £47,500 -7.32% 29
North East +9 65 £48,000 -4.00% 15
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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
1 148 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.39%) SAS
6 9 (0.35%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) Confluence
7 7 (0.27%) WordPress
8 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.19%) CMS
10 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.077%) Luigi
11 2 (0.077%) Moodle
11 2 (0.077%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.039%) Appian
12 1 (0.039%) Drupal
12 1 (0.039%) IIS
12 1 (0.039%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,348 (52.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
4 29 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.93%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.077%) Trello
8 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 44 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.19%) Shopify
10 4 (0.15%) Magento
11 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 3 (0.12%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.077%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.077%) Q-Pulse
12 2 (0.077%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,590 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,505 (58.11%) Azure
3 946 (36.53%) Azure AI
4 237 (9.15%) Power Automate
5 208 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
6 198 (7.64%) PowerApps
7 144 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 125 (4.83%) Snowflake
9 123 (4.75%) Dynamics 365
10 120 (4.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 110 (4.25%) AWS
12 83 (3.20%) dbt
13 77 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
14 71 (2.74%) GCP
15 65 (2.51%) SaaS
16 59 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
17 56 (2.16%) Entra ID
18 55 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
19 42 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
20 40 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.62%) Broadband
2 12 (0.46%) DHCP
2 12 (0.46%) DNS
3 10 (0.39%) Intranet
4 8 (0.31%) Firewall
5 6 (0.23%) VoIP
5 6 (0.23%) WAN
6 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.15%) LTE
7 4 (0.15%) Modbus
7 4 (0.15%) MQTT
8 3 (0.12%) NAS
9 2 (0.077%) Internet
9 2 (0.077%) SMS
9 2 (0.077%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.077%) VPN
10 1 (0.039%) FTP
10 1 (0.039%) Mobile Broadband
10 1 (0.039%) Softphone
10 1 (0.039%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,201 (46.37%) Tableau
2 184 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
3 175 (6.76%) SQL Server
4 122 (4.71%) Data Lake
5 116 (4.48%) Power Query
6 114 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 68 (2.63%) Looker
7 68 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 65 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 51 (1.97%) BigQuery
11 46 (1.78%) Big Data
12 43 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (1.20%) Metadata
13 31 (1.20%) Star Schema
14 29 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
15 27 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (0.89%) MySQL
16 23 (0.89%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 56 (2.16%) Git
2 42 (1.62%) JIRA
3 27 (1.04%) Visual Studio
4 26 (1.00%) MLflow
5 14 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.077%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.039%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.039%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.039%) ERwin
10 1 (0.039%) GitLab
10 1 (0.039%) NUnit
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.039%) Selenium
10 1 (0.039%) Toad
General
1 1,521 (58.73%) Social Skills
2 535 (20.66%) Analytical Skills
3 483 (18.65%) Finance
4 111 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (3.67%) Marketing
5 95 (3.67%) Public Sector
6 93 (3.59%) Law
6 93 (3.59%) Retail
7 77 (2.97%) Legal
8 67 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 56 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (0.93%) Banking
13 24 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 20 (0.77%) Publishing
15 18 (0.69%) Advertising
16 17 (0.66%) Automotive
17 16 (0.62%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,450 (55.98%) Analyst
2 1,149 (44.36%) Data Analyst
3 964 (37.22%) Junior
4 958 (36.99%) Junior Analyst
5 950 (36.68%) Junior Data Analyst
6 278 (10.73%) Senior
7 256 (9.88%) Developer
8 142 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 125 (4.83%) Lead
10 93 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 86 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 80 (3.09%) Business Analyst
13 79 (3.05%) Architect
14 72 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
15 68 (2.63%) Data Manager
16 63 (2.43%) Power BI Developer
17 58 (2.24%) Systems Analyst
18 57 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
19 56 (2.16%) IT Support
20 54 (2.08%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (3.47%) .NET
2 51 (1.97%) JSON
3 48 (1.85%) CSS
4 47 (1.81%) HTML
5 44 (1.70%) PySpark
6 41 (1.58%) HTML5 Canvas
6 41 (1.58%) REST
7 38 (1.47%) XML
8 35 (1.35%) .NET Core
8 35 (1.35%) Kafka
9 29 (1.12%) PyTorch
9 29 (1.12%) scikit-learn
10 24 (0.93%) Middleware
11 23 (0.89%) LangChain
11 23 (0.89%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (0.89%) pgvector
11 23 (0.89%) TensorFlow
12 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
13 20 (0.77%) SOAP
13 20 (0.77%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 81 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 62 (2.39%) Data Structures
3 55 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 51 (1.97%) Cloud Native
5 36 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.08%) Low-Code
8 27 (1.04%) Clustering
9 26 (1.00%) Product Ownership
10 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
11 22 (0.85%) NHS
11 22 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
13 18 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (0.69%) Social Media
14 14 (0.54%) Driving Licence
14 14 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.54%) FMCG
15 11 (0.42%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.12%) Windows
2 18 (0.69%) Windows Server
3 15 (0.58%) Linux
4 12 (0.46%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) Unix
6 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.077%) Android
8 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,449 (94.56%) Business Intelligence
2 1,187 (45.83%) AI
3 639 (24.67%) Analytics
4 442 (17.07%) Decision-Making
5 384 (14.83%) Data Modelling
6 378 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
7 327 (12.63%) Visualisation
8 274 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 261 (10.08%) ETL
10 224 (8.65%) Data Governance
10 224 (8.65%) Data Visualisation
11 216 (8.34%) Agile
12 204 (7.88%) Data Engineering
13 197 (7.61%) Actionable Insight
14 190 (7.34%) Data Analysis
14 190 (7.34%) ERP
15 172 (6.64%) Data Pipeline
15 172 (6.64%) Project Management
16 170 (6.56%) Machine Learning
17 169 (6.53%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,801 (69.54%) SQL
2 1,330 (51.35%) Python
3 147 (5.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 120 (4.63%) C#
5 86 (3.32%) JavaScript
6 72 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 69 (2.66%) VBA
8 53 (2.05%) T-SQL
9 47 (1.81%) R
10 25 (0.97%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (0.50%) Scala
13 12 (0.46%) Java
14 11 (0.42%) Delphi
15 9 (0.35%) VBScript
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
16 6 (0.23%) VB
17 4 (0.15%) Bicep
18 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
19 2 (0.077%) C
Qualifications
1 971 (37.49%) Azure Certification
2 267 (10.31%) Degree
3 82 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 62 (2.39%) SC Cleared
5 61 (2.36%) ACCA
5 61 (2.36%) CIMA
6 38 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 38 (1.47%) PMP
7 30 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 23 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.54%) AAT
10 11 (0.42%) MBA
11 9 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (0.31%) APMP
12 8 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
12 8 (0.31%) SSCP
13 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
14 6 (0.23%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (10.85%) Data Quality
2 116 (4.48%) GDPR
3 60 (2.32%) QA
4 53 (2.05%) SLA
5 34 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 33 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.27%) PMO
7 26 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.66%) TickIT
9 14 (0.54%) NIST
10 12 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.46%) GRC
11 8 (0.31%) IFRS
12 4 (0.15%) GAAP
12 4 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.15%) ITGC
12 4 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.12%) PERC
14 2 (0.077%) MiFID
14 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.54%) Docker
3 10 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) IAG
7 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (0.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.46%) Terraform
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.19%) SCCM
5 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 4 (0.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.077%) MOM
7 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,518 (58.61%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.33%) Databricks
3 90 (3.47%) SAP
4 77 (2.97%) Oracle
5 51 (1.97%) Google
6 39 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.20%) Adobe
7 31 (1.20%) Informatica
8 28 (1.08%) Alteryx
9 25 (0.97%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.93%) Cloudera
10 24 (0.93%) Dell
11 23 (0.89%) Intapp
12 18 (0.69%) Anaplan
13 14 (0.54%) Cognos
13 14 (0.54%) Sage
14 13 (0.50%) iManage
14 13 (0.50%) Verint
15 12 (0.46%) Genesys
15 12 (0.46%) HubSpot