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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 80 64
Rank change year-on-year +29 -16 +15
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,532 1,570 3,222
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.95% 3.73% 3.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.12% 23.24% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,398 1,175 2,564
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,225
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -

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 7,645 6,755 14,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.90% 16.05% 16.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,192 4,509 11,066
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,580
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 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%

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 4 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 4 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 -8 630 £72,500 +4.69% 306
North of England +81 620 £45,037 -14.22% 134
Midlands +26 456 £47,500 -5.00% 106
South East +22 404 £55,000 +10.00% 178
North West +58 281 £47,750 -9.05% 75
Yorkshire +69 274 £42,500 -15.00% 45
West Midlands +22 266 £47,500 -12.59% 57
South West +8 218 £42,500 -22.73% 58
East Midlands +26 190 £47,500 +5.56% 49
East of England +33 184 £60,000 +42.01% 45
North East +2 65 £43,750 -7.89% 16
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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
1 172 (6.79%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.43%) Apache
6 10 (0.39%) WordPress
7 8 (0.32%) Confluence
8 7 (0.28%) CMS
9 6 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.24%) SAS
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.079%) IIS
11 2 (0.079%) Luigi
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.079%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.039%) Appian
12 1 (0.039%) Drupal
12 1 (0.039%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,201 (47.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 25 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.91%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.079%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 50 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (1.46%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.32%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.24%) Carpe Diem
6 6 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.20%) Shopify
8 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.16%) Magento
8 4 (0.16%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.12%) Visualfiles
10 2 (0.079%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.079%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,532 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,337 (52.80%) Azure
3 761 (30.06%) Azure AI
4 274 (10.82%) Power Automate
5 246 (9.72%) PowerApps
6 241 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 159 (6.28%) Dynamics 365
8 137 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 134 (5.29%) AWS
10 117 (4.62%) Snowflake
11 112 (4.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 86 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
13 84 (3.32%) GCP
14 76 (3.00%) dbt
15 71 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
16 70 (2.76%) SaaS
17 68 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
18 55 (2.17%) Entra ID
19 54 (2.13%) OneDrive
20 48 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.67%) Broadband
2 16 (0.63%) Firewall
3 10 (0.39%) DHCP
3 10 (0.39%) DNS
4 9 (0.36%) WAN
5 6 (0.24%) Intranet
5 6 (0.24%) VoIP
6 5 (0.20%) VPN
7 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 4 (0.16%) Network Security
8 3 (0.12%) LAN
8 3 (0.12%) NAS
8 3 (0.12%) SMS
8 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.079%) Internet
9 2 (0.079%) Modbus
9 2 (0.079%) MQTT
9 2 (0.079%) VLAN
10 1 (0.039%) Softphone
10 1 (0.039%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,040 (41.07%) Tableau
2 198 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (6.75%) SQL Server
4 119 (4.70%) Data Lake
5 117 (4.62%) Power Query
5 117 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 75 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 74 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 67 (2.65%) Looker
9 60 (2.37%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 41 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 40 (1.58%) Star Schema
13 39 (1.54%) Metadata
14 35 (1.38%) Big Data
15 31 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
16 28 (1.11%) MySQL
16 28 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
17 25 (0.99%) Semantic Layer
18 23 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 56 (2.21%) Git
2 45 (1.78%) JIRA
3 27 (1.07%) MLflow
4 25 (0.99%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.079%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.039%) ERwin
9 1 (0.039%) NUnit
9 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.039%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,403 (55.41%) Social Skills
2 546 (21.56%) Analytical Skills
3 530 (20.93%) Finance
4 125 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 120 (4.74%) Law
6 103 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 97 (3.83%) Marketing
8 96 (3.79%) Retail
9 94 (3.71%) Legal
10 79 (3.12%) Manufacturing
10 79 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (1.26%) Banking
13 27 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 24 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (0.87%) Military
16 20 (0.79%) Billing
16 20 (0.79%) Social Housing
17 19 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,297 (51.22%) Analyst
2 968 (38.23%) Data Analyst
3 782 (30.88%) Junior
4 775 (30.61%) Junior Analyst
5 762 (30.09%) Junior Data Analyst
6 286 (11.30%) Senior
7 276 (10.90%) Developer
8 157 (6.20%) Data Engineer
9 138 (5.45%) Lead
10 95 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 83 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 75 (2.96%) Architect
13 72 (2.84%) Business Analyst
14 71 (2.80%) Data Manager
15 65 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
16 62 (2.45%) Systems Analyst
17 60 (2.37%) Power Platform Developer
18 57 (2.25%) Power BI Analyst
19 55 (2.17%) Financial Analyst
19 55 (2.17%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (4.23%) .NET
2 56 (2.21%) HTML
3 54 (2.13%) CSS
4 53 (2.09%) PySpark
4 53 (2.09%) REST
5 49 (1.94%) JSON
6 42 (1.66%) HTML5 Canvas
7 36 (1.42%) .NET Core
7 36 (1.42%) Kafka
8 32 (1.26%) XML
9 30 (1.18%) PyTorch
9 30 (1.18%) scikit-learn
10 26 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
11 24 (0.95%) Middleware
11 24 (0.95%) TensorFlow
12 23 (0.91%) LangChain
12 23 (0.91%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.91%) pgvector
13 20 (0.79%) SPFx
14 19 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 122 (4.82%) Management Information System
2 78 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 56 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 54 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 43 (1.70%) Onboarding
6 34 (1.34%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.03%) Public Cloud
9 25 (0.99%) Clustering
10 22 (0.87%) Low-Code
11 21 (0.83%) NHS
12 19 (0.75%) Social Media
13 16 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (0.59%) Driving Licence
15 14 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 11 (0.43%) AI Agents
18 10 (0.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.66%) Windows
2 20 (0.79%) Windows Server
3 18 (0.71%) Linux
4 11 (0.43%) VMS
5 5 (0.20%) Unix
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.079%) Android
7 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,386 (94.23%) Business Intelligence
2 1,075 (42.46%) AI
3 705 (27.84%) Analytics
4 459 (18.13%) Decision-Making
5 441 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
6 407 (16.07%) Data Modelling
7 325 (12.84%) Visualisation
8 324 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 271 (10.70%) ETL
10 258 (10.19%) Agile
11 256 (10.11%) Data Governance
12 230 (9.08%) ERP
13 228 (9.00%) Data Visualisation
14 221 (8.73%) Actionable Insight
15 212 (8.37%) Data Engineering
16 209 (8.25%) Data Analysis
17 199 (7.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 196 (7.74%) CRM
19 189 (7.46%) Data Pipeline
20 184 (7.27%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,714 (67.69%) SQL
2 1,127 (44.51%) Python
3 160 (6.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 149 (5.88%) C#
5 97 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 73 (2.88%) PowerShell
7 61 (2.41%) VBA
8 55 (2.17%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.54%) R
10 27 (1.07%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (0.55%) Scala
13 13 (0.51%) Java
14 9 (0.36%) VBScript
15 7 (0.28%) VB
16 6 (0.24%) Delphi
16 6 (0.24%) Julia
17 5 (0.20%) Bicep
17 5 (0.20%) PHP
18 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 788 (31.12%) Azure Certification
2 262 (10.35%) Degree
3 92 (3.63%) Security Cleared
4 85 (3.36%) ACCA
5 80 (3.16%) CIMA
6 74 (2.92%) SC Cleared
7 47 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.38%) DBS Check
9 32 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.07%) AAT
11 23 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.91%) PMP
12 20 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.39%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (0.39%) SSCP
15 8 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.28%) APMP
16 7 (0.28%) HND
16 7 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (12.72%) Data Quality
2 123 (4.86%) GDPR
3 80 (3.16%) QA
4 47 (1.86%) SLA
5 42 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 37 (1.46%) PMO
7 30 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.67%) TickIT
9 16 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.59%) NIST
11 13 (0.51%) GRC
12 8 (0.32%) IFRS
13 5 (0.20%) GAAP
13 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.16%) ITGC
14 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.16%) PERC
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 51 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.55%) Docker
3 9 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.079%) IAG
7 2 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (0.87%) Terraform
2 12 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.39%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.20%) SCCM
6 4 (0.16%) Ansible
6 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.079%) Control-M
7 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,429 (56.44%) Microsoft
2 177 (6.99%) Databricks
3 97 (3.83%) SAP
4 83 (3.28%) Oracle
5 60 (2.37%) Google
6 41 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.22%) Adobe
8 29 (1.15%) Informatica
9 27 (1.07%) Alteryx
9 27 (1.07%) Intapp
10 26 (1.03%) Sage
11 24 (0.95%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.91%) Dell
13 19 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 18 (0.71%) Concur
15 16 (0.63%) iManage
16 14 (0.55%) Cognos
17 13 (0.51%) Aderant
17 13 (0.51%) HubSpot
18 10 (0.39%) Yardi