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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 75 64
Rank change year-on-year +25 -11 +11
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,452 1,527 3,297
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.95% 3.86% 3.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.80% 23.10% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,313 1,124 2,624
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -

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 7,254 6,611 15,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.74% 16.71% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,839 4,401 11,547
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,750
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 £83,750 £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% -10.20%

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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 June 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 June 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 -8 603 £70,000 - 340
North of England +70 599 £45,000 -14.29% 134
Midlands +34 437 £47,085 -10.32% 117
South East +27 398 £57,500 +9.52% 205
North West +54 271 £46,500 -15.45% 83
Yorkshire +53 265 £42,500 -15.00% 40
West Midlands +22 257 £47,085 -14.39% 68
South West +10 207 £42,500 -26.09% 68
East of England +38 186 £60,000 +42.86% 45
East Midlands +27 178 £48,750 +8.33% 49
North East +2 63 £42,000 -11.58% 12
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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
1 160 (6.53%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.49%) Apache
6 8 (0.33%) Confluence
6 8 (0.33%) WordPress
7 6 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.24%) CMS
7 6 (0.24%) SAS
8 2 (0.082%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.082%) IIS
8 2 (0.082%) Luigi
8 2 (0.082%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.082%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.082%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.041%) Appian
9 1 (0.041%) Drupal
9 1 (0.041%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,170 (47.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
5 26 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.082%) ProjectWise
6 2 (0.082%) Trello
7 1 (0.041%) Revit
Business Applications
1 45 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.29%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.20%) Shopify
8 4 (0.16%) Magento
9 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 3 (0.12%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.082%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.082%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.082%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.082%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,452 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,315 (53.63%) Azure
3 758 (30.91%) Azure AI
4 254 (10.36%) Power Automate
5 227 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
6 223 (9.09%) PowerApps
7 141 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
8 136 (5.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 126 (5.14%) AWS
10 118 (4.81%) Snowflake
11 113 (4.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 84 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
13 78 (3.18%) GCP
14 76 (3.10%) dbt
15 67 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
16 63 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
17 60 (2.45%) SaaS
18 54 (2.20%) Entra ID
19 50 (2.04%) OneDrive
20 47 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.69%) Broadband
2 14 (0.57%) Firewall
3 10 (0.41%) DHCP
3 10 (0.41%) DNS
4 7 (0.29%) WAN
5 6 (0.24%) Intranet
5 6 (0.24%) VoIP
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
6 4 (0.16%) VPN
7 3 (0.12%) Modbus
7 3 (0.12%) MQTT
7 3 (0.12%) NAS
7 3 (0.12%) Network Security
7 3 (0.12%) SMS
7 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.082%) Internet
9 1 (0.041%) FTP
9 1 (0.041%) LAN
9 1 (0.041%) Softphone
9 1 (0.041%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,023 (41.72%) Tableau
2 181 (7.38%) Data Warehouse
3 158 (6.44%) SQL Server
4 121 (4.93%) Data Lake
5 118 (4.81%) Power Query
6 105 (4.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 69 (2.81%) Looker
8 68 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 66 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.20%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.12%) BigQuery
12 41 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 40 (1.63%) Big Data
14 39 (1.59%) Metadata
15 36 (1.47%) Star Schema
16 31 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
17 29 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
18 26 (1.06%) MySQL
19 23 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
19 23 (0.94%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 57 (2.32%) Git
2 42 (1.71%) JIRA
3 27 (1.10%) MLflow
4 24 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.082%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.041%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.041%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.041%) ERwin
9 1 (0.041%) NUnit
9 1 (0.041%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.041%) Selenium
9 1 (0.041%) Toad
General
1 1,365 (55.67%) Social Skills
2 537 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
3 504 (20.55%) Finance
4 124 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (4.40%) Law
6 101 (4.12%) Public Sector
7 94 (3.83%) Marketing
8 85 (3.47%) Retail
9 81 (3.30%) Legal
10 69 (2.81%) Manufacturing
11 66 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.10%) Banking
15 26 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (0.94%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.77%) Social Housing
18 18 (0.73%) Billing
18 18 (0.73%) Publishing
19 17 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,279 (52.16%) Analyst
2 964 (39.31%) Data Analyst
3 780 (31.81%) Junior
4 774 (31.57%) Junior Analyst
5 762 (31.08%) Junior Data Analyst
6 269 (10.97%) Senior
7 254 (10.36%) Developer
8 146 (5.95%) Data Engineer
9 139 (5.67%) Lead
10 87 (3.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 82 (3.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 73 (2.98%) Business Analyst
12 73 (2.98%) Data Manager
13 68 (2.77%) Architect
14 64 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
15 58 (2.37%) Power BI Analyst
16 57 (2.32%) Financial Analyst
16 57 (2.32%) Systems Analyst
17 56 (2.28%) Power BI Developer
18 54 (2.20%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (3.75%) .NET
2 55 (2.24%) HTML
3 53 (2.16%) CSS
4 49 (2.00%) JSON
5 46 (1.88%) REST
6 44 (1.79%) PySpark
7 42 (1.71%) HTML5 Canvas
8 36 (1.47%) Kafka
9 34 (1.39%) .NET Core
9 34 (1.39%) XML
10 30 (1.22%) PyTorch
10 30 (1.22%) scikit-learn
11 25 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
12 24 (0.98%) TensorFlow
13 23 (0.94%) LangChain
13 23 (0.94%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (0.94%) Middleware
13 23 (0.94%) pgvector
14 20 (0.82%) SOAP
14 20 (0.82%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.28%) Management Information System
2 64 (2.61%) Data Structures
3 55 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 50 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 41 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 33 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.31%) Product Ownership
8 31 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.06%) Clustering
9 26 (1.06%) Public Cloud
10 23 (0.94%) NHS
11 22 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 19 (0.77%) Social Media
13 18 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (0.49%) FMCG
17 10 (0.41%) Driving Licence
17 10 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 10 (0.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.55%) Windows
2 19 (0.77%) Windows Server
3 15 (0.61%) Linux
4 11 (0.45%) VMS
5 6 (0.24%) Unix
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.082%) Android
7 2 (0.082%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,315 (94.41%) Business Intelligence
2 1,038 (42.33%) AI
3 675 (27.53%) Analytics
4 442 (18.03%) Decision-Making
5 407 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
6 389 (15.86%) Data Modelling
7 326 (13.30%) Visualisation
8 304 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 249 (10.15%) ETL
10 241 (9.83%) Agile
11 236 (9.62%) Data Governance
12 232 (9.46%) Data Visualisation
13 211 (8.61%) Data Engineering
14 205 (8.36%) Actionable Insight
15 203 (8.28%) Data Analysis
16 200 (8.16%) ERP
17 183 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 177 (7.22%) CRM
19 175 (7.14%) Data Management
20 174 (7.10%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,649 (67.25%) SQL
2 1,133 (46.21%) Python
3 151 (6.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 128 (5.22%) C#
5 92 (3.75%) JavaScript
6 73 (2.98%) PowerShell
7 64 (2.61%) VBA
8 56 (2.28%) T-SQL
9 42 (1.71%) R
10 25 (1.02%) TypeScript
11 18 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (0.57%) Scala
13 12 (0.49%) Java
14 9 (0.37%) VBScript
15 7 (0.29%) VB
16 6 (0.24%) Bicep
16 6 (0.24%) Delphi
16 6 (0.24%) Julia
17 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 784 (31.97%) Azure Certification
2 258 (10.52%) Degree
3 90 (3.67%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.06%) ACCA
5 72 (2.94%) CIMA
6 71 (2.90%) SC Cleared
7 44 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.43%) DBS Check
9 31 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (1.22%) PMI Certification
10 30 (1.22%) PMP
11 23 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 22 (0.90%) AAT
13 11 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.41%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (0.41%) MBA
14 10 (0.41%) SSCP
15 7 (0.29%) APMP
15 7 (0.29%) HND
15 7 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (12.23%) Data Quality
2 121 (4.93%) GDPR
3 77 (3.14%) QA
4 49 (2.00%) SLA
5 40 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 38 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 34 (1.39%) PMO
8 28 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.69%) TickIT
10 16 (0.65%) NIST
11 15 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.53%) GRC
13 9 (0.37%) 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 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.082%) GxP
System Software
1 54 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.61%) Docker
3 9 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.082%) IAG
7 2 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (0.82%) Terraform
2 13 (0.53%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.37%) FortiGate
3 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.20%) SCCM
5 4 (0.16%) Ansible
5 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.082%) Control-M
6 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.041%) Grafana
7 1 (0.041%) MOM
7 1 (0.041%) SQL Sentry
7 1 (0.041%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,374 (56.04%) Microsoft
2 168 (6.85%) Databricks
3 93 (3.79%) SAP
4 80 (3.26%) Oracle
5 58 (2.37%) Google
6 37 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.26%) Adobe
7 31 (1.26%) Informatica
8 26 (1.06%) Alteryx
9 24 (0.98%) Cloudera
10 23 (0.94%) Dell
11 22 (0.90%) Intapp
12 21 (0.86%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.77%) Sage
14 15 (0.61%) Concur
15 14 (0.57%) Cognos
16 13 (0.53%) iManage
17 11 (0.45%) HubSpot
18 10 (0.41%) Aderant
19 9 (0.37%) Yardi