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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 66 60
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 +20
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,609 1,524 3,189
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.25% 3.97% 3.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.58% 22.84% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,235 1,069 2,587
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,682 £42,500 £41,492
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,756 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 6,942 6,672 14,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.64% 17.36% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,272 4,682 11,394
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 4 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 4 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 +27 608 £45,000 -10.00% 168
London 0 606 £72,500 +3.57% 317
Midlands +25 490 £47,085 -8.48% 138
South East +14 455 £56,250 +2.27% 221
Yorkshire +44 287 £42,039 -11.50% 51
West Midlands +16 283 £44,772 -15.53% 85
North West +8 255 £45,019 -14.25% 102
South West +26 230 £43,953 -11.21% 57
East of England +11 209 £55,000 -21.43% 56
East Midlands +37 205 £47,500 - 53
North East +11 66 £51,000 -5.12% 17
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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 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 43 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.38%) SAS
6 9 (0.34%) Confluence
7 8 (0.31%) Apache
8 7 (0.27%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.23%) CMS
10 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.077%) Moodle
11 2 (0.077%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.038%) Appian
12 1 (0.038%) Drupal
12 1 (0.038%) Luigi
12 1 (0.038%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,413 (54.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.11%) Trello
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 39 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.80%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
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%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.15%) Magento
11 3 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.077%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.077%) Q-Pulse
12 2 (0.077%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 2,609 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,550 (59.41%) Azure
3 993 (38.06%) Azure AI
4 236 (9.05%) Power Automate
5 209 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
6 190 (7.28%) PowerApps
7 147 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 135 (5.17%) Snowflake
9 132 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 116 (4.45%) Dynamics 365
11 110 (4.22%) AWS
12 91 (3.49%) dbt
13 73 (2.80%) GCP
14 72 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
15 65 (2.49%) SaaS
16 62 (2.38%) Entra ID
17 56 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
18 45 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
18 45 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
19 38 (1.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.61%) Broadband
2 12 (0.46%) DHCP
2 12 (0.46%) DNS
2 12 (0.46%) Intranet
3 8 (0.31%) Firewall
4 7 (0.27%) VoIP
5 6 (0.23%) WAN
6 5 (0.19%) Modbus
6 5 (0.19%) MQTT
6 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.11%) Internet
7 3 (0.11%) NAS
8 2 (0.077%) VLAN
8 2 (0.077%) VPN
9 1 (0.038%) ADSL
9 1 (0.038%) FTP
9 1 (0.038%) LTE
9 1 (0.038%) Network Security
9 1 (0.038%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,233 (47.26%) Tableau
2 185 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
3 179 (6.86%) SQL Server
4 130 (4.98%) Data Lake
5 118 (4.52%) Power Query
6 101 (3.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 69 (2.64%) Looker
8 66 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 62 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 50 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 46 (1.76%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.69%) Big Data
13 41 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
16 29 (1.11%) Metadata
17 26 (1.00%) Star Schema
18 23 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (0.88%) MySQL
19 22 (0.84%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 59 (2.26%) Git
2 41 (1.57%) JIRA
3 26 (1.00%) MLflow
3 26 (1.00%) Visual Studio
4 12 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.11%) GitLab
6 3 (0.11%) Postman
7 2 (0.077%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.038%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.038%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.038%) ERwin
8 1 (0.038%) NUnit
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.038%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.038%) Selenium
8 1 (0.038%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.038%) Toad
General
1 1,576 (60.41%) Social Skills
2 533 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
3 497 (19.05%) Finance
4 109 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (3.56%) Marketing
6 88 (3.37%) Retail
7 87 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 85 (3.26%) Law
9 77 (2.95%) Legal
10 72 (2.76%) Manufacturing
11 61 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
12 40 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 36 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (1.26%) Banking
16 25 (0.96%) Telecoms
17 22 (0.84%) Publishing
18 20 (0.77%) Advertising
19 17 (0.65%) Automotive
20 16 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,497 (57.38%) Analyst
2 1,200 (45.99%) Data Analyst
3 1,007 (38.60%) Junior
4 1,001 (38.37%) Junior Analyst
5 997 (38.21%) Junior Data Analyst
6 269 (10.31%) Senior
7 243 (9.31%) Developer
8 140 (5.37%) Data Engineer
9 120 (4.60%) Lead
10 87 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 77 (2.95%) Business Analyst
11 77 (2.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 75 (2.87%) Architect
13 70 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
14 67 (2.57%) Financial Analyst
15 61 (2.34%) IT Support
16 59 (2.26%) Data Manager
17 56 (2.15%) Systems Analyst
18 54 (2.07%) Power BI Developer
18 54 (2.07%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (3.49%) .NET
2 54 (2.07%) JSON
3 49 (1.88%) CSS
4 47 (1.80%) HTML
5 43 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
5 43 (1.65%) REST
6 41 (1.57%) PySpark
7 38 (1.46%) XML
8 37 (1.42%) .NET Core
9 34 (1.30%) Kafka
10 30 (1.15%) PyTorch
11 29 (1.11%) scikit-learn
12 25 (0.96%) EDI
13 24 (0.92%) TensorFlow
14 23 (0.88%) LangChain
14 23 (0.88%) LlamaIndex
14 23 (0.88%) pgvector
15 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
15 22 (0.84%) Middleware
16 21 (0.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 79 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 60 (2.30%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 56 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.07%) Low-Code
8 27 (1.03%) Clustering
9 25 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 24 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 24 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 20 (0.77%) Social Media
13 17 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (0.65%) NHS
14 15 (0.57%) Driving Licence
14 15 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.50%) FMCG
15 13 (0.50%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.42%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.03%) Windows
2 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.50%) Linux
4 12 (0.46%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) Unix
6 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.077%) Android
9 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,472 (94.75%) Business Intelligence
2 1,223 (46.88%) AI
3 615 (23.57%) Analytics
4 425 (16.29%) Decision-Making
5 388 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
6 371 (14.22%) Data Modelling
7 321 (12.30%) Visualisation
8 269 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 265 (10.16%) ETL
10 223 (8.55%) Data Governance
11 217 (8.32%) Agile
12 214 (8.20%) Data Visualisation
13 208 (7.97%) Data Engineering
14 206 (7.90%) Data Analysis
15 204 (7.82%) Actionable Insight
16 190 (7.28%) ERP
17 187 (7.17%) Project Management
18 181 (6.94%) Data Pipeline
19 172 (6.59%) Data Management
19 172 (6.59%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,829 (70.10%) SQL
2 1,391 (53.32%) Python
3 139 (5.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 118 (4.52%) C#
5 86 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 80 (3.07%) PowerShell
7 74 (2.84%) VBA
8 50 (1.92%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.72%) R
10 27 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (0.46%) Scala
13 11 (0.42%) Delphi
13 11 (0.42%) Java
14 9 (0.34%) VBScript
15 6 (0.23%) Julia
15 6 (0.23%) VB
16 5 (0.19%) Bicep
17 3 (0.11%) ANSI SQL
17 3 (0.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,015 (38.90%) Azure Certification
2 257 (9.85%) Degree
3 75 (2.87%) Security Cleared
4 69 (2.64%) ACCA
4 69 (2.64%) CIMA
5 55 (2.11%) SC Cleared
6 41 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.42%) PMP
8 36 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.26%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.57%) AAT
12 12 (0.46%) MBA
13 9 (0.34%) APMP
13 9 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (0.31%) IIBA
14 8 (0.31%) SSCP
15 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 104 (3.99%) GDPR
3 59 (2.26%) QA
4 53 (2.03%) SLA
5 33 (1.26%) PMO
6 32 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 27 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.65%) TickIT
10 14 (0.54%) NIST
11 13 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.46%) GRC
13 8 (0.31%) IFRS
14 4 (0.15%) GAAP
14 4 (0.15%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.15%) ITGC
14 4 (0.15%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.077%) MiFID
15 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.077%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.54%) Docker
3 11 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.077%) IAG
7 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (0.50%) Kubernetes
1 13 (0.50%) Terraform
2 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.19%) SCCM
4 4 (0.15%) Ansible
4 4 (0.15%) Control-M
4 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.11%) Argo
6 2 (0.077%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.038%) Grafana
7 1 (0.038%) MOM
7 1 (0.038%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,541 (59.06%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.21%) Databricks
3 87 (3.33%) SAP
4 69 (2.64%) Oracle
5 44 (1.69%) Google
6 40 (1.53%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.23%) Informatica
8 31 (1.19%) Adobe
9 30 (1.15%) Alteryx
10 25 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 24 (0.92%) Cloudera
11 24 (0.92%) Dell
12 22 (0.84%) Intapp
13 20 (0.77%) Anaplan
14 14 (0.54%) iManage
15 13 (0.50%) HubSpot
16 12 (0.46%) Genesys
16 12 (0.46%) Sage
16 12 (0.46%) Verint
17 11 (0.42%) VMware