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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 69 78
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -13
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,343 1,698 2,055
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.34% 3.91% 2.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.69% 26.26% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,509 1,195 1,396
10th Percentile £34,450 £31,736 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.22%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £94,375
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 7,892 6,466 10,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.88% 14.90% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,502 4,197 6,636
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
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% +1.17%
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 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in England

Power BI
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 13 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 -22 693 £70,000 +7.69% 725
North of England +82 553 £45,037 -14.22% 234
Midlands +10 395 £51,356 +2.71% 189
South East -27 324 £52,500 -4.55% 306
North West +64 279 £47,750 -13.18% 122
West Midlands +6 241 £52,500 - 120
South West -14 211 £42,500 -15.00% 117
Yorkshire +51 195 £43,000 -4.44% 83
East Midlands +12 154 £50,000 +11.11% 69
East of England -15 146 £60,000 +50.00% 96
North East -1 79 £45,000 - 30
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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
1 206 (8.79%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.37%) 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
1 853 (36.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 20 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.21%) ProjectWise
8 3 (0.13%) Revit
9 2 (0.085%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.085%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.043%) InDesign
10 1 (0.043%) Inkscape
10 1 (0.043%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 56 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (2.18%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.73%) 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%) Dynamics GP
12 2 (0.085%) FastStats
12 2 (0.085%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,343 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,017 (43.41%) Azure
3 395 (16.86%) Azure AI
4 298 (12.72%) Power Automate
5 280 (11.95%) PowerApps
6 258 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
7 191 (8.15%) Dynamics 365
8 163 (6.96%) AWS
9 161 (6.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 126 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
11 105 (4.48%) Snowflake
12 97 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 94 (4.01%) GCP
14 84 (3.59%) Microsoft Copilot
15 76 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
16 67 (2.86%) SaaS
17 65 (2.77%) Azure Logic Apps
18 60 (2.56%) OneDrive
19 51 (2.18%) Google Analytics
20 47 (2.01%) Entra ID
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
1 688 (29.36%) Tableau
2 234 (9.99%) Data Warehouse
3 168 (7.17%) SQL Server
4 140 (5.98%) Data Lake
5 134 (5.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 120 (5.12%) Power Query
7 98 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 82 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 71 (3.03%) Looker
10 68 (2.90%) Relational Database
11 64 (2.73%) Metadata
12 49 (2.09%) Star Schema
13 46 (1.96%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.37%) Big Data
15 31 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
16 29 (1.24%) NoSQL
17 28 (1.20%) 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 (3.67%) Git
2 51 (2.18%) JIRA
3 21 (0.90%) MLflow
4 13 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.17%) GitLab
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.085%) Ant
7 2 (0.085%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.085%) ERwin
7 2 (0.085%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.085%) Maven
7 2 (0.085%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.043%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.043%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.043%) kappa
8 1 (0.043%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.043%) Toad
General
1 1,131 (48.27%) Social Skills
2 627 (26.76%) Finance
3 618 (26.38%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (6.53%) Law
5 138 (5.89%) Legal
6 127 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 127 (5.42%) Marketing
7 125 (5.34%) Retail
8 124 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
9 111 (4.74%) Manufacturing
10 106 (4.52%) Public Sector
11 49 (2.09%) Banking
12 43 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.45%) Billing
15 29 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (1.15%) Military
18 26 (1.11%) Social Housing
19 22 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 913 (38.97%) Analyst
2 595 (25.39%) Data Analyst
3 405 (17.29%) Junior
4 397 (16.94%) Junior Analyst
5 383 (16.35%) Junior Data Analyst
6 307 (13.10%) Developer
7 293 (12.51%) Senior
8 177 (7.55%) Data Engineer
9 144 (6.15%) Lead
10 85 (3.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 83 (3.54%) Data Manager
12 78 (3.33%) Architect
12 78 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 77 (3.29%) Business Analyst
14 70 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
15 64 (2.73%) Systems Analyst
16 63 (2.69%) Consultant
17 57 (2.43%) Power Platform Developer
18 56 (2.39%) Data Architect
19 54 (2.30%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (4.69%) .NET
2 70 (2.99%) HTML
2 70 (2.99%) REST
3 64 (2.73%) PySpark
4 58 (2.48%) 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
1 159 (6.79%) Management Information System
2 72 (3.07%) Data Structures
3 58 (2.48%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.09%) Onboarding
4 49 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (1.84%) Cloud Native
6 39 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 35 (1.49%) 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 (0.90%) NHS
12 20 (0.85%) Social Media
13 19 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.77%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.73%) FMCG
16 16 (0.68%) Educational Technology
17 15 (0.64%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 55 (2.35%) 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 2,201 (93.94%) Business Intelligence
2 851 (36.32%) AI
3 781 (33.33%) Analytics
4 591 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
5 532 (22.71%) Decision-Making
6 457 (19.50%) Data Modelling
7 442 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 359 (15.32%) Visualisation
9 310 (13.23%) Agile
10 297 (12.68%) Data Governance
11 296 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 289 (12.33%) ETL
13 274 (11.69%) ERP
14 257 (10.97%) Data Engineering
15 256 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 254 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
17 250 (10.67%) Data Visualisation
18 244 (10.41%) Data Analysis
19 227 (9.69%) Dashboard Development
20 212 (9.05%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,449 (61.84%) SQL
2 796 (33.97%) Python
3 177 (7.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 175 (7.47%) C#
5 126 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 58 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 47 (2.01%) T-SQL
8 45 (1.92%) R
9 44 (1.88%) VBA
10 30 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 22 (0.94%) Scala
12 20 (0.85%) Java
13 12 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.26%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.21%) PHP
15 5 (0.21%) VB
16 4 (0.17%) Julia
16 4 (0.17%) XAML
17 3 (0.13%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 417 (17.80%) Azure Certification
2 272 (11.61%) Degree
3 125 (5.34%) Security Cleared
4 102 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 87 (3.71%) ACCA
6 82 (3.50%) CIMA
7 48 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.58%) 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 (0.73%) 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 (18.35%) Data Quality
2 149 (6.36%) GDPR
3 86 (3.67%) QA
4 57 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 43 (1.84%) PMO
6 37 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 37 (1.58%) SLA
7 22 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.73%) TickIT
10 13 (0.55%) NIST
11 9 (0.38%) GRC
12 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.26%) GAAP
13 6 (0.26%) PERC
14 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.13%) IFRS
16 2 (0.085%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 28 (1.20%) 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 1,189 (50.75%) Microsoft
2 193 (8.24%) Databricks
3 104 (4.44%) SAP
4 78 (3.33%) Google
5 72 (3.07%) Oracle
6 39 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.37%) Sage
8 28 (1.20%) Alteryx
9 27 (1.15%) Intapp
10 22 (0.94%) Informatica
10 22 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.81%) Adobe
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