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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 76 60
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 +18
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,572 1,460 3,211
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.09% 3.81% 3.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 35.40% 22.90% 21.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 1,049 2,586
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,625
% change year-on-year -4.35% +5.26% -0.68%

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 7,266 6,376 14,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.73% 16.65% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,692 4,264 11,413
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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
North of England +52 632 £45,000 -14.29% 119
London -16 588 £70,000 - 252
Midlands +30 468 £47,085 -12.30% 75
South East +35 437 £57,500 +15.00% 170
North West +48 281 £46,500 -15.45% 70
Yorkshire +44 281 £42,500 -15.00% 38
West Midlands +16 276 £46,042 -16.29% 51
South West +19 225 £43,500 -24.35% 45
East of England +50 206 £60,000 +28.34% 27
East Midlands +33 190 £50,000 +5.26% 24
North East +13 70 £43,250 -8.95% 14
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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
1 150 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.39%) Apache
5 10 (0.39%) SAS
6 8 (0.31%) Confluence
7 7 (0.27%) WordPress
8 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.078%) IIS
9 2 (0.078%) Luigi
9 2 (0.078%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.078%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.039%) Appian
10 1 (0.039%) Drupal
10 1 (0.039%) Mendix
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,306 (50.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
5 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 26 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.078%) Trello
7 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 44 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.19%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.19%) Shopify
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
10 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 3 (0.12%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.078%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.078%) Q-Pulse
11 2 (0.078%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,572 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,451 (56.42%) Azure
3 898 (34.91%) Azure AI
4 235 (9.14%) Power Automate
5 209 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
6 201 (7.81%) PowerApps
7 138 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 126 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
9 122 (4.74%) Snowflake
10 118 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 115 (4.47%) AWS
12 81 (3.15%) dbt
13 80 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
14 67 (2.60%) GCP
15 63 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
16 62 (2.41%) SaaS
17 60 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
18 55 (2.14%) Entra ID
19 45 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
20 42 (1.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.66%) Broadband
2 10 (0.39%) DHCP
2 10 (0.39%) DNS
2 10 (0.39%) Firewall
3 8 (0.31%) Intranet
4 7 (0.27%) VoIP
5 6 (0.23%) WAN
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
6 4 (0.16%) Modbus
6 4 (0.16%) MQTT
6 4 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.12%) NAS
7 3 (0.12%) SMS
7 3 (0.12%) VPN
8 2 (0.078%) Internet
9 1 (0.039%) FTP
9 1 (0.039%) Network Security
9 1 (0.039%) Softphone
9 1 (0.039%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.039%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,159 (45.06%) Tableau
2 176 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
3 170 (6.61%) SQL Server
4 119 (4.63%) Data Lake
5 118 (4.59%) Power Query
6 116 (4.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 67 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 66 (2.57%) Looker
9 65 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.06%) Relational Database
11 51 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 44 (1.71%) Big Data
13 43 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.32%) Star Schema
15 33 (1.28%) Metadata
16 29 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
17 28 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
18 24 (0.93%) MySQL
18 24 (0.93%) PowerPivot
19 23 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 55 (2.14%) Git
2 40 (1.56%) JIRA
3 26 (1.01%) MLflow
3 26 (1.01%) Visual Studio
4 15 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.19%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.12%) Postman
7 2 (0.078%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.039%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.039%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.039%) ERwin
8 1 (0.039%) NUnit
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.039%) Selenium
8 1 (0.039%) Toad
General
1 1,490 (57.93%) Social Skills
2 546 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
3 493 (19.17%) Finance
4 116 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (3.81%) Law
6 97 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 96 (3.73%) Marketing
8 91 (3.54%) Retail
9 82 (3.19%) Legal
10 65 (2.53%) Manufacturing
11 60 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 41 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 33 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (0.97%) Banking
15 24 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 18 (0.70%) Advertising
16 18 (0.70%) Publishing
16 18 (0.70%) Social Housing
17 17 (0.66%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,405 (54.63%) Analyst
2 1,105 (42.96%) Data Analyst
3 918 (35.69%) Junior
4 912 (35.46%) Junior Analyst
5 903 (35.11%) Junior Data Analyst
6 279 (10.85%) Senior
7 255 (9.91%) Developer
8 140 (5.44%) Data Engineer
9 126 (4.90%) Lead
10 91 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 88 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 78 (3.03%) Architect
13 74 (2.88%) Business Analyst
14 71 (2.76%) Data Manager
15 69 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
16 61 (2.37%) Power BI Developer
17 57 (2.22%) Power BI Analyst
18 56 (2.18%) Systems Analyst
19 54 (2.10%) Financial Analyst
20 52 (2.02%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (3.50%) .NET
2 53 (2.06%) HTML
3 51 (1.98%) CSS
4 49 (1.91%) JSON
5 44 (1.71%) PySpark
5 44 (1.71%) REST
6 40 (1.56%) HTML5 Canvas
7 36 (1.40%) XML
8 35 (1.36%) .NET Core
9 34 (1.32%) Kafka
10 29 (1.13%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.13%) scikit-learn
11 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
11 24 (0.93%) Middleware
12 23 (0.89%) LangChain
12 23 (0.89%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.89%) pgvector
12 23 (0.89%) TensorFlow
13 20 (0.78%) EDI
13 20 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 93 (3.62%) Management Information System
2 60 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 56 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 48 (1.87%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 33 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (1.13%) Product Ownership
8 27 (1.05%) Clustering
8 27 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.01%) Low-Code
9 26 (1.01%) Public Cloud
10 24 (0.93%) NHS
11 19 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
11 19 (0.74%) Social Media
12 15 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.51%) FMCG
15 12 (0.47%) Driving Licence
16 11 (0.43%) Replication
17 10 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.28%) Windows
2 19 (0.74%) Windows Server
3 15 (0.58%) Linux
4 12 (0.47%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) Unix
6 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.078%) Android
8 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,431 (94.52%) Business Intelligence
2 1,158 (45.02%) AI
3 656 (25.51%) Analytics
4 450 (17.50%) Decision-Making
5 392 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
6 382 (14.85%) Data Modelling
7 330 (12.83%) Visualisation
8 296 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 260 (10.11%) ETL
10 231 (8.98%) Data Visualisation
11 228 (8.86%) Data Governance
12 221 (8.59%) Agile
13 207 (8.05%) Data Engineering
14 197 (7.66%) Data Analysis
15 195 (7.58%) ERP
16 192 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
17 175 (6.80%) Data Pipeline
18 172 (6.69%) Data Management
18 172 (6.69%) Project Management
19 168 (6.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,769 (68.78%) SQL
2 1,284 (49.92%) Python
3 148 (5.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 124 (4.82%) C#
5 91 (3.54%) JavaScript
6 74 (2.88%) PowerShell
7 67 (2.60%) VBA
8 55 (2.14%) T-SQL
9 46 (1.79%) R
10 25 (0.97%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (0.54%) Java
13 12 (0.47%) Scala
14 9 (0.35%) Delphi
14 9 (0.35%) VBScript
15 7 (0.27%) VB
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
17 5 (0.19%) Bicep
18 3 (0.12%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 924 (35.93%) Azure Certification
2 263 (10.23%) Degree
3 83 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 63 (2.45%) ACCA
5 62 (2.41%) CIMA
5 62 (2.41%) SC Cleared
6 38 (1.48%) PMI Certification
6 38 (1.48%) PMP
7 37 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (1.32%) DBS Check
9 30 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 16 (0.62%) AAT
12 11 (0.43%) MBA
13 10 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
14 9 (0.35%) SSCP
15 8 (0.31%) APMP
16 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
17 5 (0.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (11.20%) Data Quality
2 118 (4.59%) GDPR
3 66 (2.57%) QA
4 52 (2.02%) SLA
5 38 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 36 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 33 (1.28%) PMO
8 27 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.66%) TickIT
10 15 (0.58%) NIST
11 13 (0.51%) GRC
12 12 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.31%) IFRS
14 4 (0.16%) GAAP
14 4 (0.16%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.16%) ITGC
14 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.16%) PERC
15 2 (0.078%) GxP
15 2 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.51%) Docker
3 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.078%) IAG
7 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (0.54%) Terraform
2 12 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.19%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.19%) SCCM
5 4 (0.16%) Ansible
6 3 (0.12%) Control-M
6 3 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.078%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,493 (58.05%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.38%) Databricks
3 91 (3.54%) SAP
4 78 (3.03%) Oracle
5 54 (2.10%) Google
6 39 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.24%) ServiceNow
8 31 (1.21%) Informatica
9 30 (1.17%) Adobe
10 27 (1.05%) Alteryx
11 24 (0.93%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.89%) Dell
12 23 (0.89%) Intapp
13 17 (0.66%) Anaplan
13 17 (0.66%) Sage
14 14 (0.54%) Cognos
15 13 (0.51%) iManage
15 13 (0.51%) Verint
16 12 (0.47%) Concur
16 12 (0.47%) HubSpot