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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 68 78
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,347 1,699 2,068
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.35% 3.92% 2.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.63% 26.24% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,513 1,194 1,409
10th Percentile £34,300 £31,713 £36,500
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% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
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 7,921 6,474 10,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.92% 14.92% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,532 4,197 6,666
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -22 695 £70,000 +6.06% 717
North of England +84 553 £45,037 -14.22% 235
Midlands +15 394 £51,356 +2.71% 192
South East -29 325 £52,500 -4.55% 307
North West +61 279 £50,000 -9.09% 122
West Midlands +4 241 £51,356 -2.64% 123
South West -21 212 £42,500 -15.00% 118
Yorkshire +48 195 £43,000 -4.44% 81
East Midlands +8 153 £50,000 +11.11% 69
East of England -11 146 £60,000 +50.00% 98
North East -3 79 £45,000 - 33
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Power BI
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
1 207 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.60%) Apache
6 10 (0.43%) Confluence
7 9 (0.38%) WordPress
8 8 (0.34%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) SAS
10 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.17%) Luigi
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.085%) Appian
12 2 (0.085%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.085%) Tornado
12 2 (0.085%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.043%) Moodle
13 1 (0.043%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 855 (36.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.85%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.55%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.21%) ProjectWise
9 3 (0.13%) Revit
10 2 (0.085%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.085%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.043%) InDesign
11 1 (0.043%) Inkscape
11 1 (0.043%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 56 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (2.17%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.72%) Elite 3E
4 14 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
5 12 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.47%) Carpe Diem
6 11 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 9 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
7 9 (0.38%) Visualfiles
8 6 (0.26%) Infor M3
9 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.13%) Magento
11 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.13%) Shopify
11 3 (0.13%) SystmOne
12 2 (0.085%) FastStats
12 2 (0.085%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 2 (0.085%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 2,347 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,022 (43.54%) Azure
3 395 (16.83%) Azure AI
4 299 (12.74%) Power Automate
5 280 (11.93%) PowerApps
6 258 (10.99%) Microsoft 365
7 193 (8.22%) Dynamics 365
8 163 (6.95%) AWS
8 163 (6.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 126 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (4.47%) Snowflake
11 99 (4.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 94 (4.01%) GCP
13 85 (3.62%) Microsoft Copilot
14 76 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
15 67 (2.85%) SaaS
16 65 (2.77%) Azure Logic Apps
17 60 (2.56%) OneDrive
18 51 (2.17%) Google Analytics
19 48 (2.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.68%) Firewall
2 13 (0.55%) Broadband
3 8 (0.34%) DHCP
3 8 (0.34%) DNS
3 8 (0.34%) LAN
3 8 (0.34%) WAN
4 7 (0.30%) VPN
5 6 (0.26%) VoIP
6 5 (0.21%) Network Security
6 5 (0.21%) SMS
7 4 (0.17%) LTE
7 4 (0.17%) MQTT
7 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.13%) NAS
9 2 (0.085%) Intranet
9 2 (0.085%) VLAN
9 2 (0.085%) Wireless
10 1 (0.043%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.043%) Modbus
10 1 (0.043%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 690 (29.40%) Tableau
2 236 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
3 169 (7.20%) SQL Server
4 140 (5.97%) Data Lake
5 134 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 120 (5.11%) Power Query
7 98 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 83 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 73 (3.11%) Looker
10 68 (2.90%) Relational Database
11 64 (2.73%) Metadata
12 49 (2.09%) Star Schema
13 46 (1.96%) BigQuery
14 34 (1.45%) Big Data
15 31 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
16 29 (1.24%) NoSQL
17 28 (1.19%) Delta Lake
18 27 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
18 27 (1.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 25 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (3.66%) Git
2 51 (2.17%) JIRA
3 21 (0.89%) MLflow
4 14 (0.60%) Visual Studio
5 13 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.17%) GitLab
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.085%) Ant
8 2 (0.085%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.085%) ERwin
8 2 (0.085%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.085%) Maven
8 2 (0.085%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.043%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.043%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.043%) kappa
9 1 (0.043%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.043%) Toad
General
1 1,132 (48.23%) Social Skills
2 628 (26.76%) Finance
3 620 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (6.56%) Law
5 138 (5.88%) Legal
6 127 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 127 (5.41%) Marketing
6 127 (5.41%) Retail
7 125 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
8 112 (4.77%) Manufacturing
9 104 (4.43%) Public Sector
10 49 (2.09%) Banking
11 43 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.45%) Billing
14 29 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.15%) Military
16 25 (1.07%) Social Housing
17 22 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 916 (39.03%) Analyst
2 598 (25.48%) Data Analyst
3 406 (17.30%) Junior
4 398 (16.96%) Junior Analyst
5 384 (16.36%) Junior Data Analyst
6 306 (13.04%) Developer
7 294 (12.53%) Senior
8 178 (7.58%) Data Engineer
9 146 (6.22%) Lead
10 84 (3.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 83 (3.54%) Data Manager
12 79 (3.37%) Architect
13 78 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 77 (3.28%) Business Analyst
15 71 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
16 64 (2.73%) Systems Analyst
17 63 (2.68%) Consultant
18 57 (2.43%) Data Architect
18 57 (2.43%) Power Platform Developer
19 55 (2.34%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (4.69%) .NET
2 70 (2.98%) HTML
2 70 (2.98%) REST
3 64 (2.73%) PySpark
4 58 (2.47%) CSS
5 45 (1.92%) JSON
6 38 (1.62%) Kafka
7 37 (1.58%) HTML5 Canvas
8 34 (1.45%) .NET Core
9 30 (1.28%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.24%) XML
11 27 (1.15%) EDI
11 27 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
12 26 (1.11%) scikit-learn
13 25 (1.07%) TensorFlow
14 24 (1.02%) Middleware
15 23 (0.98%) Terraform
16 22 (0.94%) ASP.NET
17 19 (0.81%) HTML5
18 18 (0.77%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 160 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 72 (3.07%) Data Structures
3 58 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.09%) Onboarding
4 49 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 39 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 36 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (1.07%) Driving Licence
10 23 (0.98%) AI Agents
10 23 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 21 (0.89%) NHS
12 20 (0.85%) Social Media
13 19 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.77%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.72%) FMCG
16 16 (0.68%) Educational Technology
17 15 (0.64%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 55 (2.34%) Windows
2 23 (0.98%) Linux
3 19 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.085%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.085%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.085%) Solaris
7 1 (0.043%) Android
7 1 (0.043%) VMS
7 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,204 (93.91%) Business Intelligence
2 853 (36.34%) AI
3 784 (33.40%) Analytics
4 591 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
5 534 (22.75%) Decision-Making
6 459 (19.56%) Data Modelling
7 439 (18.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 363 (15.47%) Visualisation
9 310 (13.21%) Agile
10 297 (12.65%) Data Governance
10 297 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 290 (12.36%) ETL
12 274 (11.67%) ERP
13 258 (10.99%) Data Engineering
14 256 (10.91%) Actionable Insight
14 256 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 252 (10.74%) Data Visualisation
16 246 (10.48%) Data Analysis
17 228 (9.71%) Dashboard Development
18 213 (9.08%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,452 (61.87%) SQL
2 798 (34.00%) Python
3 178 (7.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 175 (7.46%) C#
5 126 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 58 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 47 (2.00%) R
7 47 (2.00%) T-SQL
8 44 (1.87%) VBA
9 30 (1.28%) TypeScript
10 22 (0.94%) Scala
11 20 (0.85%) Java
12 12 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.26%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.21%) Julia
14 5 (0.21%) PHP
14 5 (0.21%) VB
15 4 (0.17%) XAML
16 3 (0.13%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 417 (17.77%) Azure Certification
2 274 (11.67%) Degree
3 125 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 102 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 87 (3.71%) ACCA
6 82 (3.49%) CIMA
7 48 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.62%) DBS Check
9 26 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 23 (0.98%) PMP
11 20 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (0.81%) AAT
13 17 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.60%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.34%) CFA
15 8 (0.34%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.34%) SSCP
16 7 (0.30%) HND
16 7 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (18.32%) Data Quality
2 150 (6.39%) GDPR
3 86 (3.66%) QA
4 57 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 43 (1.83%) PMO
6 39 (1.66%) SLA
7 37 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 22 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (0.72%) TickIT
11 13 (0.55%) NIST
12 9 (0.38%) GRC
13 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.26%) GAAP
14 6 (0.26%) PERC
15 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.13%) IFRS
17 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 28 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 22 (0.94%) Docker
3 6 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.13%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.085%) IAG
8 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.43%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.17%) Argo
6 3 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.085%) EnCase
7 2 (0.085%) FTK
7 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.085%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.085%) Puppet
8 1 (0.043%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.043%) MOM
8 1 (0.043%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.043%) SCCM
8 1 (0.043%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,190 (50.70%) Microsoft
2 195 (8.31%) Databricks
3 104 (4.43%) SAP
4 78 (3.32%) Google
5 72 (3.07%) Oracle
6 39 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.36%) Sage
8 28 (1.19%) Alteryx
9 27 (1.15%) Intapp
10 22 (0.94%) Informatica
11 20 (0.85%) Adobe
11 20 (0.85%) ServiceNow
12 18 (0.77%) Concur
13 16 (0.68%) Aderant
13 16 (0.68%) Cloudera
13 16 (0.68%) iManage
14 15 (0.64%) Dell
15 12 (0.51%) YouTube
16 11 (0.47%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.47%) Workday