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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 68 81
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -16
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,277 1,694 2,031
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.21% 3.93% 2.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.71% 26.60% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,549 1,198 1,308
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% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 7,930 6,368 10,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.68% 14.77% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,584 4,139 6,354
10th Percentile £36,500 £33,950 £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% +2.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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

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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 25 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 25 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 -23 728 £67,500 +3.85% 1,156
North of England +69 529 £46,500 -12.26% 393
Midlands +8 371 £52,500 +5.00% 281
South East -34 296 £55,000 +10.00% 433
North West +58 283 £50,000 -9.09% 223
West Midlands +4 234 £55,000 +4.76% 189
South West -31 200 £42,500 -15.00% 150
Yorkshire +41 167 £43,000 -9.47% 133
East Midlands -1 137 £47,500 +5.56% 92
East of England -25 129 £56,000 +40.00% 160
North East -13 79 £46,250 +8.82% 38
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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
1 210 (9.22%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.57%) Apache
6 10 (0.44%) Confluence
7 9 (0.40%) CMS
7 9 (0.40%) WordPress
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.22%) SAS
9 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.18%) IIS
9 4 (0.18%) Luigi
10 2 (0.088%) Appian
10 2 (0.088%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.088%) Tornado
10 2 (0.088%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.044%) Moodle
11 1 (0.044%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 744 (32.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.40%) ProjectWise
9 5 (0.22%) Revit
10 4 (0.18%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.088%) SPSS
13 1 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.044%) Civil 3D
13 1 (0.044%) InDesign
13 1 (0.044%) Inkscape
Business Applications
1 61 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (2.15%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.75%) Elite 3E
4 16 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
5 12 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.48%) Carpe Diem
7 10 (0.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 10 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
8 9 (0.40%) Visualfiles
9 8 (0.35%) Infor M3
10 7 (0.31%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.22%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 3 (0.13%) Magento
12 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.13%) Shopify
12 3 (0.13%) SystmOne
13 2 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
13 2 (0.088%) FastStats
13 2 (0.088%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 2,277 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 874 (38.38%) Azure
3 304 (13.35%) Power Automate
4 288 (12.65%) PowerApps
5 261 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
6 257 (11.29%) Azure AI
7 197 (8.65%) Dynamics 365
8 168 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 153 (6.72%) AWS
10 140 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
11 94 (4.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 94 (4.13%) Snowflake
12 85 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 82 (3.60%) GCP
14 78 (3.43%) Microsoft Purview
15 70 (3.07%) SaaS
16 62 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
17 57 (2.50%) Google Analytics
18 55 (2.42%) OneDrive
19 51 (2.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.75%) Firewall
2 13 (0.57%) Broadband
3 8 (0.35%) LAN
3 8 (0.35%) WAN
4 7 (0.31%) DNS
4 7 (0.31%) VPN
5 5 (0.22%) DHCP
5 5 (0.22%) Network Security
5 5 (0.22%) SMS
6 4 (0.18%) LTE
6 4 (0.18%) MQTT
6 4 (0.18%) VoIP
7 3 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.088%) Intranet
8 2 (0.088%) NAS
8 2 (0.088%) VLAN
8 2 (0.088%) Wireless
9 1 (0.044%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.044%) Modbus
9 1 (0.044%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 545 (23.94%) Tableau
2 232 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
3 168 (7.38%) SQL Server
4 133 (5.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 128 (5.62%) Data Lake
6 125 (5.49%) Power Query
7 105 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 85 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 70 (3.07%) Relational Database
10 68 (2.99%) Metadata
11 57 (2.50%) Looker
12 54 (2.37%) Star Schema
13 33 (1.45%) Big Data
14 32 (1.41%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.41%) NoSQL
14 32 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
15 27 (1.19%) Delta Lake
16 23 (1.01%) MySQL
16 23 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 22 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 98 (4.30%) Git
2 54 (2.37%) JIRA
3 15 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.53%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.26%) MLflow
7 4 (0.18%) GitLab
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.088%) Ant
8 2 (0.088%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.088%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.088%) Maven
8 2 (0.088%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.044%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.044%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.044%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.044%) ERwin
9 1 (0.044%) JMeter
9 1 (0.044%) kappa
9 1 (0.044%) Selenium
General
1 1,026 (45.06%) Social Skills
2 675 (29.64%) Finance
3 638 (28.02%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (6.90%) Law
5 151 (6.63%) Legal
6 139 (6.10%) Marketing
7 134 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 132 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 129 (5.67%) Retail
10 126 (5.53%) Public Sector
11 120 (5.27%) Manufacturing
12 57 (2.50%) Banking
13 49 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
14 38 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.54%) Billing
16 34 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.32%) Military
17 30 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (1.14%) Social Housing
19 24 (1.05%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 790 (34.69%) Analyst
2 463 (20.33%) Data Analyst
3 320 (14.05%) Developer
4 282 (12.38%) Senior
5 261 (11.46%) Junior
6 255 (11.20%) Junior Analyst
7 241 (10.58%) Junior Data Analyst
8 185 (8.12%) Data Engineer
9 158 (6.94%) Lead
10 90 (3.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 83 (3.65%) Architect
12 81 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 81 (3.56%) Data Manager
13 80 (3.51%) Business Analyst
14 72 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
15 70 (3.07%) Consultant
16 65 (2.85%) Systems Analyst
17 59 (2.59%) Power Platform Developer
18 56 (2.46%) Data Architect
19 54 (2.37%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (4.48%) .NET
2 73 (3.21%) REST
3 71 (3.12%) HTML
4 69 (3.03%) PySpark
5 58 (2.55%) CSS
6 43 (1.89%) JSON
7 31 (1.36%) HTML5 Canvas
8 30 (1.32%) XML
9 28 (1.23%) .NET Core
9 28 (1.23%) EDI
10 27 (1.19%) Terraform
11 26 (1.14%) Middleware
12 24 (1.05%) Kafka
12 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
13 20 (0.88%) ASP.NET
14 19 (0.83%) HTML5
15 17 (0.75%) SOAP
16 16 (0.70%) Pandas
17 15 (0.66%) React
18 14 (0.61%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 174 (7.64%) Management Information System
2 75 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 61 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 54 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 35 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (1.23%) Cloud Native
11 26 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.14%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.10%) NHS
13 22 (0.97%) Social Media
14 21 (0.92%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.88%) FMCG
16 19 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 16 (0.70%) Educational Technology
18 14 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
18 14 (0.61%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (2.46%) Windows
2 24 (1.05%) Linux
3 16 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.088%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.088%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.088%) Solaris
7 1 (0.044%) Android
7 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,143 (94.12%) Business Intelligence
2 810 (35.57%) Analytics
3 732 (32.15%) AI
4 625 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
5 576 (25.30%) Decision-Making
6 483 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 460 (20.20%) Data Modelling
8 378 (16.60%) Visualisation
9 329 (14.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 328 (14.40%) Agile
11 297 (13.04%) Data Governance
12 289 (12.69%) ETL
13 280 (12.30%) Actionable Insight
14 275 (12.08%) ERP
15 270 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 261 (11.46%) Data Visualisation
17 251 (11.02%) Data Engineering
18 250 (10.98%) Data Analysis
19 242 (10.63%) Dashboard Development
20 228 (10.01%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,321 (58.01%) SQL
2 667 (29.29%) Python
3 182 (7.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 175 (7.69%) C#
5 126 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 56 (2.46%) PowerShell
7 50 (2.20%) T-SQL
8 45 (1.98%) R
9 40 (1.76%) VBA
10 27 (1.19%) TypeScript
11 24 (1.05%) Java
12 22 (0.97%) Scala
13 11 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.31%) PHP
15 6 (0.26%) Bicep
15 6 (0.26%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.22%) C++
17 4 (0.18%) VB
17 4 (0.18%) XAML
18 3 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 286 (12.56%) Degree
2 278 (12.21%) Azure Certification
3 132 (5.80%) Security Cleared
4 108 (4.74%) SC Cleared
5 88 (3.86%) ACCA
6 83 (3.65%) CIMA
7 51 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (1.45%) DBS Check
9 29 (1.27%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.19%) PMP
11 19 (0.83%) AAT
11 19 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.35%) Postgraduate
15 7 (0.31%) CFA
15 7 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
15 7 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (0.31%) HND
15 7 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (20.73%) Data Quality
2 143 (6.28%) GDPR
3 94 (4.13%) QA
4 59 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 40 (1.76%) PMO
6 35 (1.54%) SLA
7 24 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 24 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.75%) TickIT
10 12 (0.53%) NIST
11 11 (0.48%) GRC
12 10 (0.44%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.31%) GAAP
15 6 (0.26%) PERC
16 4 (0.18%) ISO 19650
16 4 (0.18%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 25 (1.10%) Docker
2 24 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.13%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.088%) IAG
5 2 (0.088%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (0.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.44%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.18%) Argo
5 4 (0.18%) EnCase
5 4 (0.18%) FTK
6 3 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.088%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.088%) Puppet
8 1 (0.044%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.044%) Grafana
8 1 (0.044%) MOM
8 1 (0.044%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.044%) SCCM
8 1 (0.044%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.044%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,085 (47.65%) Microsoft
2 178 (7.82%) Databricks
3 109 (4.79%) SAP
4 88 (3.86%) Google
5 79 (3.47%) Oracle
6 41 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 30 (1.32%) Sage
8 29 (1.27%) Alteryx
8 29 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.05%) Informatica
9 24 (1.05%) Intapp
10 19 (0.83%) Concur
11 16 (0.70%) Aderant
12 15 (0.66%) Adobe
12 15 (0.66%) YouTube
13 14 (0.61%) Workday
14 13 (0.57%) iManage
15 11 (0.48%) HP
15 11 (0.48%) Yardi
16 10 (0.44%) Cognos