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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 69 72
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,380 1,722 2,264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.47% 3.94% 3.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.75% 25.79% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 1,226 1,633
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £44,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £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 7,999 6,677 11,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.30% 15.26% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,555 4,398 7,573
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £109,125 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -18 687 £72,500 +9.02% 284
North of England +76 571 £45,024 -14.24% 127
Midlands +22 410 £51,356 +2.71% 103
South East -30 323 £52,500 - 118
North West +67 274 £47,500 -10.38% 78
West Midlands +10 247 £51,356 -2.18% 59
Yorkshire +58 219 £42,500 -12.82% 35
South West -23 209 £42,500 -15.00% 62
East Midlands +19 163 £50,000 +11.11% 44
East of England -7 158 £60,000 +50.00% 50
North East -6 78 £45,000 - 15
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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
1 188 (7.90%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.67%) Apache
6 9 (0.38%) WordPress
7 8 (0.34%) CMS
8 7 (0.29%) Confluence
9 6 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.25%) SAS
10 4 (0.17%) Luigi
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.084%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.084%) IIS
11 2 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.084%) Tornado
11 2 (0.084%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.042%) Appian
12 1 (0.042%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 934 (39.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.084%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.042%) Revit
9 1 (0.042%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 57 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (2.06%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.67%) Elite 3E
4 12 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.42%) Carpe Diem
6 9 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 9 (0.38%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.17%) Infor M3
9 4 (0.17%) Magento
9 4 (0.17%) Shopify
10 3 (0.13%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.13%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.084%) Dynamics GP
11 2 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.084%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.084%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,380 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,110 (46.64%) Azure
3 483 (20.29%) Azure AI
4 294 (12.35%) Power Automate
5 272 (11.43%) PowerApps
6 248 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
7 185 (7.77%) Dynamics 365
8 165 (6.93%) AWS
9 155 (6.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 122 (5.13%) Snowflake
11 112 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
12 111 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 102 (4.29%) GCP
14 74 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
15 71 (2.98%) Microsoft Copilot
16 70 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
16 70 (2.94%) SaaS
17 61 (2.56%) OneDrive
18 57 (2.39%) dbt
19 46 (1.93%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.63%) Firewall
2 13 (0.55%) Broadband
3 9 (0.38%) DHCP
3 9 (0.38%) DNS
3 9 (0.38%) WAN
4 8 (0.34%) LAN
5 6 (0.25%) VoIP
5 6 (0.25%) VPN
6 5 (0.21%) Network Security
6 5 (0.21%) SMS
7 4 (0.17%) LTE
7 4 (0.17%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) NAS
8 3 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.084%) Intranet
9 2 (0.084%) Wireless
10 1 (0.042%) Modbus
10 1 (0.042%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 785 (32.98%) Tableau
2 229 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
3 165 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 145 (6.09%) Data Lake
5 128 (5.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 121 (5.08%) Power Query
7 90 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 84 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 81 (3.40%) Looker
10 62 (2.61%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.27%) Metadata
12 53 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 47 (1.97%) Star Schema
14 36 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
15 31 (1.30%) Big Data
16 30 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
16 30 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
17 29 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 28 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 25 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 75 (3.15%) Git
2 53 (2.23%) JIRA
3 31 (1.30%) MLflow
4 15 (0.63%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.17%) GitLab
9 2 (0.084%) Ant
9 2 (0.084%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.084%) ERwin
9 2 (0.084%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.084%) Maven
10 1 (0.042%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.042%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.042%) kappa
10 1 (0.042%) NUnit
10 1 (0.042%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.042%) Toad
10 1 (0.042%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,202 (50.50%) Social Skills
2 589 (24.75%) Analytical Skills
2 589 (24.75%) Finance
3 147 (6.18%) Law
4 128 (5.38%) Legal
5 126 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (5.21%) Marketing
7 123 (5.17%) Retail
8 118 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
9 102 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 99 (4.16%) Manufacturing
11 44 (1.85%) Banking
12 35 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 33 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.34%) Billing
15 30 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.09%) Military
18 24 (1.01%) Social Housing
19 23 (0.97%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 990 (41.60%) Analyst
2 680 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 497 (20.88%) Junior
4 489 (20.55%) Junior Analyst
5 476 (20.00%) Junior Data Analyst
6 302 (12.69%) Developer
6 302 (12.69%) Senior
7 177 (7.44%) Data Engineer
8 140 (5.88%) Lead
9 86 (3.61%) Data Manager
10 85 (3.57%) Architect
11 84 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 81 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 76 (3.19%) Business Analyst
14 69 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
15 59 (2.48%) Consultant
16 58 (2.44%) Systems Analyst
17 57 (2.39%) Data Architect
18 56 (2.35%) Power Platform Developer
19 54 (2.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (4.87%) .NET
2 68 (2.86%) REST
3 64 (2.69%) HTML
3 64 (2.69%) PySpark
4 55 (2.31%) CSS
5 47 (1.97%) Kafka
6 44 (1.85%) JSON
7 39 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
8 36 (1.51%) .NET Core
8 36 (1.51%) PyTorch
9 34 (1.43%) scikit-learn
10 31 (1.30%) TensorFlow
11 29 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
12 26 (1.09%) Terraform
13 25 (1.05%) XML
14 24 (1.01%) EDI
14 24 (1.01%) LangChain
14 24 (1.01%) LlamaIndex
15 23 (0.97%) Middleware
15 23 (0.97%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 146 (6.13%) Management Information System
2 73 (3.07%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.48%) Cloud Native
4 54 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 42 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 40 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.01%) Clustering
11 23 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (0.88%) Driving Licence
14 20 (0.84%) AI Agents
15 19 (0.80%) Social Media
16 18 (0.76%) NHS
17 17 (0.71%) Low-Code
18 16 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 15 (0.63%) Educational Technology
20 14 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.18%) Windows
2 20 (0.84%) Linux
2 20 (0.84%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.13%) VMS
6 2 (0.084%) Android
6 2 (0.084%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.084%) Solaris
7 1 (0.042%) Unix
7 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,236 (93.95%) Business Intelligence
2 912 (38.32%) AI
3 780 (32.77%) Analytics
4 544 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 511 (21.47%) Decision-Making
6 452 (18.99%) Data Modelling
7 411 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 339 (14.24%) Visualisation
9 307 (12.90%) Agile
10 298 (12.52%) Data Governance
11 294 (12.35%) ETL
12 271 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 260 (10.92%) Data Engineering
14 252 (10.59%) ERP
15 249 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 244 (10.25%) Actionable Insight
17 236 (9.92%) Data Visualisation
18 227 (9.54%) Data Analysis
19 216 (9.08%) Data Pipeline
20 210 (8.82%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,525 (64.08%) SQL
2 885 (37.18%) Python
3 169 (7.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 167 (7.02%) C#
5 120 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 58 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 49 (2.06%) T-SQL
8 46 (1.93%) VBA
9 45 (1.89%) R
10 34 (1.43%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.84%) Scala
12 17 (0.71%) Java
13 14 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.25%) Julia
14 6 (0.25%) VB
14 6 (0.25%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.21%) PHP
15 5 (0.21%) VBScript
16 4 (0.17%) Bicep
16 4 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 510 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 267 (11.22%) Degree
3 113 (4.75%) Security Cleared
4 94 (3.95%) SC Cleared
5 83 (3.49%) ACCA
6 78 (3.28%) CIMA
7 47 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 25 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (0.92%) PMP
12 21 (0.88%) AAT
13 15 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.34%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.34%) SSCP
16 7 (0.29%) CFA
16 7 (0.29%) HND
16 7 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (16.60%) Data Quality
2 143 (6.01%) GDPR
3 88 (3.70%) QA
4 52 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.85%) SLA
6 42 (1.76%) PMO
7 41 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 22 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.71%) TickIT
10 15 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.55%) NIST
12 9 (0.38%) GRC
13 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.29%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.25%) GAAP
15 6 (0.25%) PERC
16 5 (0.21%) IFRS
17 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
18 2 (0.084%) GxP
System Software
1 31 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.97%) Docker
3 6 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.13%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.084%) IAG
Systems Management
1 16 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.59%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.42%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.21%) Ansible
6 4 (0.17%) Argo
7 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.084%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.084%) Puppet
7 2 (0.084%) SCCM
8 1 (0.042%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.042%) Grafana
8 1 (0.042%) MOM
8 1 (0.042%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.042%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,245 (52.31%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.49%) Databricks
3 99 (4.16%) SAP
4 74 (3.11%) Oracle
5 72 (3.03%) Google
6 40 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.30%) Sage
8 29 (1.22%) Alteryx
9 27 (1.13%) Intapp
10 24 (1.01%) Cloudera
11 23 (0.97%) Adobe
11 23 (0.97%) Dell
12 19 (0.80%) Informatica
13 18 (0.76%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.71%) Concur
15 16 (0.67%) iManage
16 15 (0.63%) Aderant
17 12 (0.50%) HubSpot
17 12 (0.50%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.50%) SYSPRO