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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 83 60
Rank change year-on-year +26 -23 +19
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,590 1,475 3,189
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.16% 3.75% 3.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.49% 22.38% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 1,053 2,584
10th Percentile £35,200 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,448
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,635
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.21% -2.48%

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 7,098 6,591 14,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.66% 16.75% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,493 4,511 11,399
10th Percentile £35,750 £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 £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
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

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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 19 May 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 19 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 +50 625 £45,000 -14.29% 152
London -15 583 £72,500 +3.57% 298
Midlands +36 491 £47,085 -10.32% 95
South East +38 449 £57,500 +9.30% 206
Yorkshire +52 288 £42,500 -11.46% 45
West Midlands +20 287 £44,772 -16.31% 61
North West +45 273 £46,500 -11.43% 93
South West +13 222 £43,500 -20.91% 53
East of England +53 207 £55,000 +16.60% 51
East Midlands +45 202 £47,500 -7.32% 34
North East +9 64 £48,000 -4.00% 16
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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 (5.79%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.39%) SAS
6 9 (0.35%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) Confluence
7 7 (0.27%) CMS
7 7 (0.27%) WordPress
8 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.077%) Luigi
10 2 (0.077%) Moodle
10 2 (0.077%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.039%) Appian
11 1 (0.039%) Drupal
11 1 (0.039%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,348 (52.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
4 29 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.077%) Trello
7 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 43 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.19%) Shopify
10 4 (0.15%) Magento
11 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 3 (0.12%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.077%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.077%) Q-Pulse
12 2 (0.077%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,590 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,503 (58.03%) Azure
3 946 (36.53%) Azure AI
4 237 (9.15%) Power Automate
5 208 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
6 197 (7.61%) PowerApps
7 142 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 130 (5.02%) Snowflake
9 123 (4.75%) Dynamics 365
10 122 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 112 (4.32%) AWS
12 87 (3.36%) dbt
13 74 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
14 71 (2.74%) GCP
15 66 (2.55%) SaaS
16 59 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
17 56 (2.16%) Entra ID
18 53 (2.05%) Microsoft Purview
19 44 (1.70%) Microsoft Copilot
20 40 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.62%) Broadband
2 12 (0.46%) DHCP
2 12 (0.46%) DNS
2 12 (0.46%) Intranet
3 8 (0.31%) Firewall
4 6 (0.23%) VoIP
4 6 (0.23%) WAN
5 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.15%) LTE
6 4 (0.15%) Modbus
6 4 (0.15%) MQTT
7 3 (0.12%) NAS
8 2 (0.077%) Internet
8 2 (0.077%) SMS
8 2 (0.077%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.077%) VPN
9 1 (0.039%) FTP
9 1 (0.039%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.039%) Softphone
9 1 (0.039%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,197 (46.22%) Tableau
2 182 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
3 176 (6.80%) SQL Server
4 124 (4.79%) Data Lake
5 115 (4.44%) Power Query
5 115 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 68 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 67 (2.59%) Looker
8 62 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (1.97%) BigQuery
10 48 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 44 (1.70%) Big Data
12 43 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
13 31 (1.20%) Star Schema
14 28 (1.08%) Metadata
15 27 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
17 22 (0.85%) PowerPivot
17 22 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 57 (2.20%) Git
2 41 (1.58%) JIRA
3 27 (1.04%) Visual Studio
4 26 (1.00%) MLflow
5 14 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.12%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.077%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.039%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.039%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.039%) ERwin
9 1 (0.039%) GitLab
9 1 (0.039%) NUnit
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.039%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.039%) Toad
General
1 1,520 (58.69%) Social Skills
2 536 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 481 (18.57%) Finance
4 110 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (3.71%) Public Sector
6 94 (3.63%) Marketing
7 93 (3.59%) Law
7 93 (3.59%) Retail
8 79 (3.05%) Legal
9 67 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 56 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
11 40 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (0.93%) Banking
14 24 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.77%) Publishing
16 18 (0.69%) Advertising
17 17 (0.66%) Automotive
18 16 (0.62%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,450 (55.98%) Analyst
2 1,148 (44.32%) Data Analyst
3 964 (37.22%) Junior
4 958 (36.99%) Junior Analyst
5 950 (36.68%) Junior Data Analyst
6 280 (10.81%) Senior
7 257 (9.92%) Developer
8 142 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 125 (4.83%) Lead
10 93 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 85 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 81 (3.13%) Business Analyst
13 79 (3.05%) Architect
14 72 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
15 68 (2.63%) Data Manager
16 63 (2.43%) Power BI Developer
17 57 (2.20%) Systems Analyst
18 56 (2.16%) Financial Analyst
18 56 (2.16%) IT Support
19 53 (2.05%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (3.55%) .NET
2 51 (1.97%) JSON
3 50 (1.93%) CSS
4 49 (1.89%) HTML
5 42 (1.62%) PySpark
6 41 (1.58%) HTML5 Canvas
6 41 (1.58%) REST
7 38 (1.47%) XML
8 35 (1.35%) .NET Core
9 32 (1.24%) Kafka
10 29 (1.12%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.12%) scikit-learn
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 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
14 20 (0.77%) SOAP
14 20 (0.77%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 80 (3.09%) Management Information System
2 62 (2.39%) Data Structures
3 55 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 51 (1.97%) Cloud Native
5 36 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.08%) Low-Code
7 28 (1.08%) Product Ownership
8 27 (1.04%) Clustering
9 24 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 22 (0.85%) NHS
10 22 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
12 18 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (0.69%) Social Media
13 14 (0.54%) Driving Licence
13 14 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (0.54%) FMCG
14 12 (0.46%) Replication
15 11 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.08%) Windows
2 17 (0.66%) Windows Server
3 15 (0.58%) Linux
4 12 (0.46%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) Unix
6 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.077%) Android
8 2 (0.077%) 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 2,448 (94.52%) Business Intelligence
2 1,192 (46.02%) AI
3 641 (24.75%) Analytics
4 444 (17.14%) Decision-Making
5 384 (14.83%) Data Modelling
6 376 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
7 325 (12.55%) Visualisation
8 274 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 262 (10.12%) ETL
10 222 (8.57%) Data Governance
11 220 (8.49%) Data Visualisation
12 215 (8.30%) Agile
13 205 (7.92%) Data Engineering
14 198 (7.64%) Actionable Insight
15 191 (7.37%) Data Analysis
16 187 (7.22%) ERP
17 174 (6.72%) Machine Learning
18 173 (6.68%) Project Management
19 171 (6.60%) Data Pipeline
20 169 (6.53%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,801 (69.54%) SQL
2 1,331 (51.39%) Python
3 146 (5.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 122 (4.71%) C#
5 86 (3.32%) JavaScript
6 72 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 68 (2.63%) VBA
8 53 (2.05%) T-SQL
9 47 (1.81%) R
10 25 (0.97%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (0.46%) Java
13 11 (0.42%) Delphi
13 11 (0.42%) Scala
14 9 (0.35%) VBScript
15 6 (0.23%) Julia
15 6 (0.23%) VB
16 4 (0.15%) Bicep
17 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.077%) C
Qualifications
1 967 (37.34%) Azure Certification
2 267 (10.31%) Degree
3 80 (3.09%) Security Cleared
4 60 (2.32%) SC Cleared
5 59 (2.28%) ACCA
5 59 (2.28%) CIMA
6 38 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 38 (1.47%) PMP
7 37 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 30 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.54%) AAT
12 11 (0.42%) MBA
13 9 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.31%) APMP
14 8 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (0.31%) SSCP
15 7 (0.27%) IIBA
15 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (10.73%) Data Quality
2 116 (4.48%) GDPR
3 60 (2.32%) QA
4 53 (2.05%) SLA
5 36 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 33 (1.27%) PMO
8 26 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.66%) TickIT
10 14 (0.54%) NIST
11 13 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.46%) GRC
13 8 (0.31%) IFRS
14 4 (0.15%) GAAP
14 4 (0.15%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.15%) ITGC
14 4 (0.15%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.12%) PERC
16 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.077%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.42%) Docker
3 10 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) IAG
7 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (0.50%) Terraform
2 10 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.19%) SCCM
5 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 4 (0.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.077%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) Argo
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,520 (58.69%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.22%) Databricks
3 88 (3.40%) SAP
4 75 (2.90%) Oracle
5 51 (1.97%) Google
6 39 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.20%) Adobe
7 31 (1.20%) Informatica
8 29 (1.12%) Alteryx
9 25 (0.97%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.93%) Cloudera
10 24 (0.93%) Dell
11 23 (0.89%) Intapp
12 19 (0.73%) Anaplan
13 14 (0.54%) Cognos
14 13 (0.50%) iManage
14 13 (0.50%) Sage
14 13 (0.50%) Verint
15 12 (0.46%) Genesys
15 12 (0.46%) HubSpot