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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 74 64
Rank change year-on-year +23 -10 +11
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,552 1,617 3,106
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.91% 3.73% 3.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.61% 23.72% 21.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 1,213 2,443
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,000 £70,000 £70,931
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -

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 7,827 6,816 14,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.94% 15.73% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,324 4,534 10,486
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,369 £46,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.22% +5.64% -8.00%

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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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -13 633 £72,500 +5.84% 190
North of England +88 627 £46,500 -10.58% 131
Midlands +24 455 £47,500 -5.00% 101
South East +20 400 £52,500 - 154
North West +71 285 £48,000 -8.57% 64
Yorkshire +65 271 £44,000 -12.00% 45
West Midlands +16 264 £47,500 -11.53% 56
South West +9 229 £42,500 -22.73% 55
East Midlands +20 191 £47,500 +5.56% 45
East of England +33 188 £60,000 +32.96% 30
North East -2 71 £45,000 -5.26% 24
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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
1 176 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.39%) Apache
5 10 (0.39%) WordPress
6 7 (0.27%) Confluence
7 6 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.24%) CMS
8 5 (0.20%) SAS
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.078%) IIS
10 2 (0.078%) Luigi
10 2 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.078%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.039%) Appian
11 1 (0.039%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,203 (47.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.078%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 49 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (1.68%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.39%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.31%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.20%) Shopify
7 5 (0.20%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.16%) Magento
9 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.078%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.078%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.078%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.078%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,552 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,349 (52.86%) Azure
3 763 (29.90%) Azure AI
4 277 (10.85%) Power Automate
5 253 (9.91%) PowerApps
6 251 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
7 159 (6.23%) Dynamics 365
8 145 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 136 (5.33%) AWS
10 117 (4.58%) Snowflake
11 112 (4.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 88 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 88 (3.45%) GCP
13 75 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
14 74 (2.90%) dbt
15 73 (2.86%) SaaS
16 69 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
17 60 (2.35%) OneDrive
18 58 (2.27%) Entra ID
19 51 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.67%) Broadband
2 16 (0.63%) Firewall
3 11 (0.43%) DHCP
3 11 (0.43%) DNS
4 9 (0.35%) WAN
5 6 (0.24%) VoIP
5 6 (0.24%) VPN
6 5 (0.20%) Intranet
7 4 (0.16%) LAN
7 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 4 (0.16%) Network Security
7 4 (0.16%) SMS
8 3 (0.12%) NAS
8 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.078%) Internet
9 2 (0.078%) VLAN
10 1 (0.039%) Modbus
10 1 (0.039%) Softphone
10 1 (0.039%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.039%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,051 (41.18%) Tableau
2 207 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 174 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 124 (4.86%) Data Lake
5 120 (4.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 118 (4.62%) Power Query
7 78 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 75 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 68 (2.66%) Looker
10 59 (2.31%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.08%) BigQuery
12 44 (1.72%) Star Schema
13 40 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (1.41%) Metadata
15 35 (1.37%) Big Data
16 31 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
17 29 (1.14%) MySQL
18 27 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
19 24 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 23 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 59 (2.31%) Git
2 46 (1.80%) JIRA
3 27 (1.06%) MLflow
4 25 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.078%) Postman
8 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.039%) ERwin
8 1 (0.039%) NUnit
8 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.039%) Selenium
8 1 (0.039%) Toad
8 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,418 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 547 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 540 (21.16%) Finance
4 127 (4.98%) Law
5 121 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 104 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 100 (3.92%) Marketing
8 99 (3.88%) Retail
9 97 (3.80%) Legal
10 86 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
11 77 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 35 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (1.18%) Banking
14 28 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (0.98%) Military
17 24 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (0.86%) Advertising
19 21 (0.82%) Billing
20 20 (0.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,289 (50.51%) Analyst
2 960 (37.62%) Data Analyst
3 783 (30.68%) Junior
4 775 (30.37%) Junior Analyst
5 762 (29.86%) Junior Data Analyst
6 287 (11.25%) Senior
7 273 (10.70%) Developer
8 167 (6.54%) Data Engineer
9 139 (5.45%) Lead
10 92 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 78 (3.06%) Architect
11 78 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 72 (2.82%) Business Analyst
13 68 (2.66%) Data Manager
14 63 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
15 60 (2.35%) Systems Analyst
16 59 (2.31%) Power Platform Developer
17 57 (2.23%) Support Analyst
18 54 (2.12%) Financial Analyst
18 54 (2.12%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (4.27%) .NET
2 57 (2.23%) HTML
3 56 (2.19%) PySpark
3 56 (2.19%) REST
4 54 (2.12%) CSS
5 49 (1.92%) JSON
6 42 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
7 37 (1.45%) Kafka
8 36 (1.41%) .NET Core
9 32 (1.25%) scikit-learn
10 31 (1.21%) PyTorch
10 31 (1.21%) XML
11 26 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
11 26 (1.02%) TensorFlow
12 24 (0.94%) Middleware
13 23 (0.90%) LangChain
13 23 (0.90%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (0.90%) pgvector
14 20 (0.78%) EDI
14 20 (0.78%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 135 (5.29%) Management Information System
2 79 (3.10%) Data Structures
3 57 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 54 (2.12%) Cloud Native
5 46 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 36 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 35 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.02%) Public Cloud
10 25 (0.98%) Clustering
11 21 (0.82%) Low-Code
11 21 (0.82%) NHS
12 19 (0.74%) Social Media
13 18 (0.71%) Driving Licence
14 15 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
15 13 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (0.47%) AI Agents
17 11 (0.43%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.80%) Windows
2 21 (0.82%) Windows Server
3 20 (0.78%) Linux
4 11 (0.43%) VMS
5 5 (0.20%) Unix
6 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.078%) Android
8 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,403 (94.16%) Business Intelligence
2 1,094 (42.87%) AI
3 711 (27.86%) Analytics
4 469 (18.38%) Decision-Making
5 458 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 419 (16.42%) Data Modelling
7 331 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 320 (12.54%) Visualisation
9 272 (10.66%) ETL
10 269 (10.54%) Agile
11 265 (10.38%) Data Governance
12 233 (9.13%) ERP
13 225 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
14 223 (8.74%) Data Visualisation
15 220 (8.62%) Data Engineering
16 215 (8.42%) Data Analysis
17 205 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 200 (7.84%) Data Pipeline
19 199 (7.80%) CRM
20 197 (7.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,735 (67.99%) SQL
2 1,132 (44.36%) Python
3 162 (6.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 154 (6.03%) C#
5 98 (3.84%) JavaScript
6 74 (2.90%) PowerShell
7 55 (2.16%) T-SQL
7 55 (2.16%) VBA
8 38 (1.49%) R
9 27 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 23 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
11 16 (0.63%) Scala
12 12 (0.47%) Java
13 9 (0.35%) VBScript
14 8 (0.31%) VB
15 6 (0.24%) Julia
16 5 (0.20%) Bicep
16 5 (0.20%) Delphi
16 5 (0.20%) PHP
17 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 786 (30.80%) Azure Certification
2 261 (10.23%) Degree
3 97 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 86 (3.37%) ACCA
5 81 (3.17%) CIMA
6 77 (3.02%) SC Cleared
7 45 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.45%) DBS Check
9 31 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.14%) AAT
11 22 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.86%) PMP
12 20 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 12 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.39%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.39%) SSCP
15 7 (0.27%) HND
15 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
16 6 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (13.05%) Data Quality
2 127 (4.98%) GDPR
3 83 (3.25%) QA
4 46 (1.80%) SLA
5 45 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 37 (1.45%) PMO
7 30 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.67%) TickIT
9 15 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.59%) NIST
10 13 (0.51%) GRC
11 7 (0.27%) IFRS
12 6 (0.24%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.20%) PERC
14 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.16%) GAAP
14 4 (0.16%) ITGC
14 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.59%) Docker
3 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.20%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.078%) IAG
7 2 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (0.98%) Terraform
2 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.47%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.39%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.24%) SCCM
5 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.12%) Ansible
7 2 (0.078%) Control-M
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,448 (56.74%) Microsoft
2 183 (7.17%) Databricks
3 95 (3.72%) SAP
4 82 (3.21%) Oracle
5 60 (2.35%) Google
6 41 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.21%) Adobe
8 29 (1.14%) Intapp
8 29 (1.14%) Sage
9 25 (0.98%) Alteryx
10 24 (0.94%) Cloudera
10 24 (0.94%) Informatica
11 23 (0.90%) Dell
12 19 (0.74%) Concur
12 19 (0.74%) ServiceNow
13 16 (0.63%) iManage
14 14 (0.55%) Cognos
14 14 (0.55%) HubSpot
15 13 (0.51%) Aderant
16 10 (0.39%) Workday