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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 77 58
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 +18
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,034 1,639 2,824
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.36% 3.72% 4.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.60% 20.22% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,124 959 2,362
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £54,375
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +10.34% -5.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -6.25%

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 6,054 8,104 12,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 18.41% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,868 4,667 10,371
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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

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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 February 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 February 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 +10 657 £70,000 - 293
South East +20 383 £55,000 -4.35% 234
North of England +8 377 £48,105 +0.22% 135
Midlands +35 330 £47,085 -5.83% 132
West Midlands +21 205 £47,500 -5.47% 82
North West +1 179 £50,000 +2.04% 83
South West +48 162 £43,500 -3.33% 50
Yorkshire +7 159 £47,000 -1.05% 35
East Midlands +49 123 £45,000 +5.26% 50
East of England -19 109 £46,750 -38.49% 39
North East +18 39 £46,750 -16.89% 21
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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
1 143 (7.03%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.84%) SAS
6 16 (0.79%) Confluence
7 6 (0.29%) WordPress
8 4 (0.20%) Apache
8 4 (0.20%) CMS
8 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.098%) Moodle
9 2 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.049%) Appian
10 1 (0.049%) Drupal
10 1 (0.049%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.049%) Mendix
10 1 (0.049%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 952 (46.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.84%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.49%) Trello
8 8 (0.39%) Maya
9 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.098%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.098%) Revit
11 1 (0.049%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.049%) InDesign
11 1 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.049%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 64 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.44%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.39%) Visualfiles
6 7 (0.34%) Shopify
7 6 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.29%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.25%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 5 (0.25%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
10 3 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 3 (0.15%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.15%) ResourceLink
10 3 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.098%) Oracle Cash Management
11 2 (0.098%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 2,034 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,010 (49.66%) Azure
3 482 (23.70%) Azure AI
4 219 (10.77%) Power Automate
5 204 (10.03%) Microsoft 365
6 185 (9.10%) PowerApps
7 141 (6.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 126 (6.19%) Snowflake
9 122 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
10 115 (5.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 82 (4.03%) AWS
11 82 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
12 73 (3.59%) dbt
13 64 (3.15%) Microsoft Copilot
14 60 (2.95%) Entra ID
15 56 (2.75%) SaaS
16 52 (2.56%) GCP
17 45 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (1.33%) Fivetran
18 27 (1.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.79%) Firewall
2 14 (0.69%) Intranet
3 11 (0.54%) WAN
4 10 (0.49%) DHCP
4 10 (0.49%) DNS
4 10 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.34%) VoIP
6 6 (0.29%) LAN
7 5 (0.25%) Modbus
7 5 (0.25%) MQTT
7 5 (0.25%) VPN
8 3 (0.15%) Broadband
8 3 (0.15%) VLAN
9 2 (0.098%) Internet
9 2 (0.098%) Network Security
9 2 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.049%) BGP
10 1 (0.049%) Mobile Broadband
10 1 (0.049%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.049%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 731 (35.94%) Tableau
2 205 (10.08%) SQL Server
3 178 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (6.00%) Data Lake
5 115 (5.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 102 (5.01%) Power Query
7 65 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 62 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (2.61%) Looker
10 43 (2.11%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 30 (1.47%) Metadata
13 29 (1.43%) BigQuery
14 28 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
15 26 (1.28%) Big Data
15 26 (1.28%) Qlik Sense
16 22 (1.08%) MySQL
16 22 (1.08%) PowerPivot
17 21 (1.03%) Star Schema
18 20 (0.98%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 67 (3.29%) Git
2 33 (1.62%) Visual Studio
3 32 (1.57%) JIRA
4 8 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (0.34%) GitLab
6 4 (0.20%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.20%) ERwin
6 4 (0.20%) Postman
6 4 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.15%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.098%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.049%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.049%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.049%) LSMW
9 1 (0.049%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.049%) Selenium
9 1 (0.049%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,076 (52.90%) Social Skills
2 612 (30.09%) Finance
3 509 (25.02%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (5.60%) Marketing
5 92 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (4.18%) Manufacturing
7 78 (3.83%) Legal
8 77 (3.79%) Law
9 72 (3.54%) Public Sector
10 60 (2.95%) Retail
11 53 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (2.06%) Banking
14 27 (1.33%) Advertising
15 26 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
17 21 (1.03%) Billing
17 21 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.03%) Games
18 18 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,003 (49.31%) Analyst
2 696 (34.22%) Data Analyst
3 485 (23.84%) Junior
4 478 (23.50%) Junior Analyst
5 475 (23.35%) Junior Data Analyst
6 221 (10.87%) Senior
7 206 (10.13%) Developer
8 143 (7.03%) Data Engineer
9 127 (6.24%) Lead
10 83 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 82 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
12 77 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 72 (3.54%) Architect
14 71 (3.49%) Financial Analyst
15 65 (3.20%) Business Analyst
16 59 (2.90%) Support Analyst
17 52 (2.56%) IT Support
18 51 (2.51%) Power Platform Developer
19 49 (2.41%) Report Analyst
20 48 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.65%) .NET
2 39 (1.92%) REST
3 31 (1.52%) XML
4 29 (1.43%) JSON
4 29 (1.43%) PySpark
5 25 (1.23%) HTML
6 24 (1.18%) Web Services
7 20 (0.98%) CSS
7 20 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (0.93%) SOAP
9 17 (0.84%) EDI
10 15 (0.74%) .NET Core
11 11 (0.54%) Middleware
11 11 (0.54%) React
12 9 (0.44%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.44%) SAP CO-PA
12 9 (0.44%) WinForms
13 8 (0.39%) ASP.NET
13 8 (0.39%) RESTful
14 7 (0.34%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 66 (3.24%) Management Information System
3 48 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
4 45 (2.21%) Data Structures
5 42 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 36 (1.77%) Cloud Native
7 34 (1.67%) FMCG
8 30 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 25 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 20 (0.98%) Reinsurance
12 19 (0.93%) Driving Licence
12 19 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.69%) NHS
14 13 (0.64%) Algorithms
15 11 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 10 (0.49%) Social Media
17 9 (0.44%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.02%) Windows
2 13 (0.64%) Linux
3 8 (0.39%) Mac OS
3 8 (0.39%) Unix
3 8 (0.39%) VMS
3 8 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.15%) Android
6 2 (0.098%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,928 (94.79%) Business Intelligence
2 690 (33.92%) AI
3 576 (28.32%) Analytics
4 450 (22.12%) Decision-Making
5 395 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
6 361 (17.75%) Visualisation
7 343 (16.86%) Data Modelling
8 281 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 265 (13.03%) ETL
10 256 (12.59%) Agile
11 254 (12.49%) Data Analysis
12 236 (11.60%) Data Visualisation
13 228 (11.21%) Actionable Insight
14 202 (9.93%) Data Governance
15 184 (9.05%) Data Engineering
16 169 (8.31%) Data Pipeline
17 165 (8.11%) Project Management
18 157 (7.72%) CRM
18 157 (7.72%) Stakeholder Management
19 156 (7.67%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,265 (62.19%) SQL
2 869 (42.72%) Python
3 130 (6.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 87 (4.28%) C#
5 80 (3.93%) PowerShell
6 73 (3.59%) VBA
7 68 (3.34%) JavaScript
8 48 (2.36%) R
9 44 (2.16%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.74%) Scala
11 14 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (0.49%) Java
13 9 (0.44%) Delphi
14 7 (0.34%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.25%) ANSI SQL
16 4 (0.20%) Bash
16 4 (0.20%) Bicep
17 3 (0.15%) C
17 3 (0.15%) VB
17 3 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 504 (24.78%) Azure Certification
2 329 (16.18%) Degree
3 76 (3.74%) Security Cleared
4 71 (3.49%) ACCA
4 71 (3.49%) CIMA
5 60 (2.95%) SC Cleared
6 59 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 52 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 42 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 42 (2.06%) PMP
10 28 (1.38%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.79%) MBA
12 14 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
13 13 (0.64%) AAT
14 12 (0.59%) APMP
15 9 (0.44%) CISA
15 9 (0.44%) CISSP
15 9 (0.44%) IIBA
16 8 (0.39%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (13.67%) Data Quality
2 73 (3.59%) GDPR
3 58 (2.85%) QA
4 43 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 41 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.97%) PMO
7 33 (1.62%) SLA
8 18 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.49%) NIST
11 9 (0.44%) GRC
12 8 (0.39%) ITGC
13 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.25%) COBIT
14 5 (0.25%) IFRS
15 4 (0.20%) IFRS 17
16 3 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 2 (0.098%) EMIR
17 2 (0.098%) MiFID
17 2 (0.098%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.44%) Docker
3 7 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.098%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.049%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.69%) Terraform
3 12 (0.59%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.20%) Control-M
6 4 (0.20%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.20%) SCCM
7 3 (0.15%) Argo
8 1 (0.049%) Ansible
8 1 (0.049%) Grafana
8 1 (0.049%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.049%) MOM
Vendors
1 987 (48.53%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.26%) Databricks
3 97 (4.77%) SAP
4 74 (3.64%) Oracle
5 55 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.16%) Google
7 34 (1.67%) Informatica
7 34 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.33%) Alteryx
9 22 (1.08%) Anaplan
10 18 (0.88%) Adobe
10 18 (0.88%) HubSpot
11 13 (0.64%) IBM
12 12 (0.59%) Genesys
12 12 (0.59%) Verint
13 11 (0.54%) Intapp
14 10 (0.49%) Dataiku
14 10 (0.49%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.44%) Dell
15 9 (0.44%) Foundry