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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 71 80
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,220 1,697 2,052
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.14% 3.92% 3.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.22% 26.91% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,522 1,192 1,274
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,010 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £93,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 7,866 6,307 10,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.57% 14.59% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,521 4,068 6,180
10th Percentile £36,800 £33,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,950
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.92%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -24 739 £65,000 -2.26% 1,255
North of England +68 495 £46,500 -13.08% 429
Midlands +6 360 £51,356 +2.71% 318
South East -44 285 £55,000 +10.00% 499
North West +50 264 £50,000 -9.09% 250
West Midlands +7 229 £53,750 +3.66% 215
South West -34 192 £42,500 -15.00% 178
Yorkshire +45 156 £43,000 -10.42% 134
East Midlands 0 131 £47,500 +5.56% 103
East of England -35 127 £54,000 +35.00% 181
North East -6 75 £45,000 - 46
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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
1 211 (9.50%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 22 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.68%) Apache
6 10 (0.45%) Confluence
7 9 (0.41%) CMS
7 9 (0.41%) WordPress
8 5 (0.23%) IIS
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.18%) Luigi
9 4 (0.18%) SAS
10 2 (0.090%) Appian
10 2 (0.090%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.090%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.090%) Tornado
10 2 (0.090%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.045%) Moodle
11 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 691 (31.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 19 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.41%) ProjectWise
8 5 (0.23%) Revit
9 4 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.18%) Notion
10 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.090%) SPSS
12 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.045%) Civil 3D
12 1 (0.045%) InDesign
12 1 (0.045%) Inkscape
Business Applications
1 60 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (2.21%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
4 16 (0.72%) Elite 3E
5 12 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
6 11 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 9 (0.41%) Visualfiles
9 8 (0.36%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.32%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.18%) SystmOne
12 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 3 (0.14%) Magento
12 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.14%) Shopify
13 2 (0.090%) FastStats
13 2 (0.090%) Sage 200
13 2 (0.090%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,220 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 823 (37.07%) Azure
3 299 (13.47%) Power Automate
4 284 (12.79%) PowerApps
5 253 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
6 211 (9.50%) Azure AI
7 189 (8.51%) Dynamics 365
8 168 (7.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 153 (6.89%) AWS
10 142 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
11 97 (4.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 92 (4.14%) Snowflake
13 84 (3.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 81 (3.65%) GCP
15 80 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
16 78 (3.51%) SaaS
17 57 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
18 55 (2.48%) Google Analytics
19 53 (2.39%) Entra ID
19 53 (2.39%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.86%) Firewall
2 13 (0.59%) Broadband
3 8 (0.36%) DNS
3 8 (0.36%) LAN
3 8 (0.36%) WAN
4 7 (0.32%) VPN
5 5 (0.23%) Network Security
5 5 (0.23%) SMS
6 4 (0.18%) DHCP
6 4 (0.18%) LTE
6 4 (0.18%) MQTT
7 3 (0.14%) VoIP
7 3 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.090%) Intranet
8 2 (0.090%) NAS
8 2 (0.090%) VLAN
8 2 (0.090%) Wireless
9 1 (0.045%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.045%) Modbus
9 1 (0.045%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 499 (22.48%) Tableau
2 235 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
3 166 (7.48%) SQL Server
4 131 (5.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 125 (5.63%) Data Lake
6 122 (5.50%) Power Query
7 106 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 80 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 72 (3.24%) Relational Database
10 67 (3.02%) Metadata
11 59 (2.66%) Looker
12 50 (2.25%) Star Schema
13 33 (1.49%) NoSQL
14 32 (1.44%) Big Data
14 32 (1.44%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.44%) Semantic Layer
15 26 (1.17%) Delta Lake
16 25 (1.13%) MySQL
17 22 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
17 22 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 101 (4.55%) Git
2 54 (2.43%) JIRA
3 15 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.54%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.27%) MLflow
7 5 (0.23%) GitLab
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.090%) Ant
9 2 (0.090%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.090%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.090%) Maven
9 2 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.045%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.045%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.045%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.045%) ERwin
10 1 (0.045%) JMeter
10 1 (0.045%) kappa
10 1 (0.045%) Selenium
General
1 988 (44.50%) Social Skills
2 691 (31.13%) Finance
3 635 (28.60%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (6.80%) Legal
5 150 (6.76%) Law
6 141 (6.35%) Marketing
7 134 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
8 131 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 130 (5.86%) Retail
10 129 (5.81%) Public Sector
11 124 (5.59%) Manufacturing
12 60 (2.70%) Banking
13 52 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
14 38 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.58%) Billing
16 30 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
17 28 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 25 (1.13%) Military
18 25 (1.13%) Social Housing
19 24 (1.08%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 734 (33.06%) Analyst
2 414 (18.65%) Data Analyst
3 309 (13.92%) Developer
4 275 (12.39%) Senior
5 213 (9.59%) Junior
6 207 (9.32%) Junior Analyst
7 193 (8.69%) Junior Data Analyst
8 186 (8.38%) Data Engineer
9 162 (7.30%) Lead
10 87 (3.92%) Architect
11 85 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 76 (3.42%) Data Manager
13 74 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 73 (3.29%) Business Analyst
15 72 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
16 70 (3.15%) Consultant
17 65 (2.93%) Systems Analyst
18 58 (2.61%) Data Architect
18 58 (2.61%) Power Platform Developer
19 55 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (4.41%) .NET
2 73 (3.29%) REST
3 68 (3.06%) HTML
4 67 (3.02%) PySpark
5 55 (2.48%) CSS
6 42 (1.89%) JSON
7 30 (1.35%) Terraform
8 29 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
8 29 (1.31%) XML
9 27 (1.22%) EDI
10 26 (1.17%) .NET Core
10 26 (1.17%) Kafka
11 25 (1.13%) Middleware
12 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
13 19 (0.86%) ASP.NET
14 18 (0.81%) HTML5
15 15 (0.68%) Pandas
15 15 (0.68%) React
15 15 (0.68%) SOAP
16 13 (0.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 179 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 76 (3.42%) Data Structures
3 61 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 60 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 53 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 35 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.26%) Cloud Native
11 27 (1.22%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.13%) NHS
13 23 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 22 (0.99%) FMCG
15 21 (0.95%) Social Media
16 19 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.81%) Educational Technology
18 14 (0.63%) Reference Data
18 14 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 57 (2.57%) Windows
2 26 (1.17%) Linux
3 17 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.090%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.090%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.090%) Solaris
6 2 (0.090%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.045%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,095 (94.37%) Business Intelligence
2 805 (36.26%) Analytics
3 700 (31.53%) AI
4 622 (28.02%) Problem-Solving
5 578 (26.04%) Decision-Making
6 485 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 463 (20.86%) Data Modelling
8 379 (17.07%) Visualisation
9 346 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 330 (14.86%) Agile
11 300 (13.51%) Data Governance
12 292 (13.15%) ETL
13 280 (12.61%) Actionable Insight
14 265 (11.94%) ERP
15 263 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 256 (11.53%) Data Engineering
16 256 (11.53%) Data Visualisation
17 246 (11.08%) Data Analysis
18 243 (10.95%) Dashboard Development
19 229 (10.32%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,264 (56.94%) SQL
2 626 (28.20%) Python
3 182 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 171 (7.70%) C#
5 121 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 60 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 46 (2.07%) R
8 44 (1.98%) T-SQL
9 38 (1.71%) VBA
10 25 (1.13%) Java
10 25 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.95%) Scala
12 12 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.36%) Bicep
13 8 (0.36%) PHP
14 6 (0.27%) C++
14 6 (0.27%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.18%) VB
15 4 (0.18%) XAML
16 3 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (13.02%) Degree
2 231 (10.41%) Azure Certification
3 129 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 106 (4.77%) SC Cleared
5 89 (4.01%) ACCA
6 84 (3.78%) CIMA
7 51 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 30 (1.35%) PMP
10 20 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (0.86%) AAT
12 17 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.63%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.36%) CFA
14 8 (0.36%) CISSP
15 7 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.32%) CIPD
15 7 (0.32%) HND
15 7 (0.32%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 488 (21.98%) Data Quality
2 149 (6.71%) GDPR
3 88 (3.96%) QA
4 64 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.62%) PMO
6 33 (1.49%) SLA
7 26 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 14 (0.63%) TickIT
11 13 (0.59%) GRC
12 12 (0.54%) NIST
13 11 (0.50%) ISO 9001
14 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.32%) GAAP
16 6 (0.27%) PERC
17 4 (0.18%) ISO 19650
17 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (1.31%) Docker
2 25 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.14%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.090%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.090%) IAG
5 2 (0.090%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.045%) Firmware
6 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.45%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.23%) EnCase
5 5 (0.23%) FTK
6 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 3 (0.14%) Ansible
8 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.090%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.090%) Puppet
8 2 (0.090%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.045%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.045%) Grafana
9 1 (0.045%) MOM
9 1 (0.045%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.045%) SCCM
9 1 (0.045%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,031 (46.44%) Microsoft
2 179 (8.06%) Databricks
3 103 (4.64%) SAP
4 85 (3.83%) Google
5 80 (3.60%) Oracle
6 47 (2.12%) Salesforce
7 30 (1.35%) Sage
7 30 (1.35%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.26%) Alteryx
9 25 (1.13%) Informatica
10 23 (1.04%) Intapp
11 19 (0.86%) Concur
12 16 (0.72%) YouTube
13 14 (0.63%) Aderant
13 14 (0.63%) Workday
14 13 (0.59%) Adobe
15 11 (0.50%) Cognos
15 11 (0.50%) HP
15 11 (0.50%) HubSpot
15 11 (0.50%) iManage