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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 72 80
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -19
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,150 1,689 2,017
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.08% 3.90% 3.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.86% 27.02% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,500 1,180 1,235
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,010 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £93,650
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 7,718 6,252 10,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.45% 14.44% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,421 4,012 6,001
10th Percentile £36,875 £33,775 £38,130
25th Percentile £45,500 £44,988 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 8 October 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 8 October 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 -24 740 £65,000 -5.11% 1,142
North of England +54 463 £46,500 -12.26% 370
Midlands +6 339 £52,500 +7.14% 263
South East -52 273 £55,000 +10.00% 374
North West +39 245 £50,000 -9.09% 232
West Midlands +4 217 £55,000 +5.77% 172
South West -37 186 £42,500 -12.82% 143
Yorkshire +36 144 £43,000 -11.34% 107
East of England -35 126 £52,000 +30.00% 156
East Midlands +2 122 £47,500 +5.56% 91
North East -3 74 £45,000 +5.88% 32
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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
1 209 (9.72%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.26%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.74%) Apache
6 10 (0.47%) Confluence
7 8 (0.37%) CMS
7 8 (0.37%) WordPress
8 5 (0.23%) IIS
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.19%) Luigi
9 4 (0.19%) SAS
10 3 (0.14%) Appian
10 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.093%) Tornado
11 2 (0.093%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.047%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.047%) Moodle
12 1 (0.047%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 639 (29.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.74%) Chatbot
7 15 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.47%) ProjectWise
9 5 (0.23%) Notion
9 5 (0.23%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.093%) SPSS
13 1 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.047%) Civil 3D
13 1 (0.047%) InDesign
13 1 (0.047%) Inkscape
Business Applications
1 58 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (2.28%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
4 15 (0.70%) Elite 3E
5 12 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.51%) Carpe Diem
6 11 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 9 (0.42%) Visualfiles
9 8 (0.37%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.33%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.19%) SystmOne
12 3 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.14%) Shopify
13 2 (0.093%) FastStats
13 2 (0.093%) Magento
13 2 (0.093%) SAP Business One
14 1 (0.047%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 2,150 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 764 (35.53%) Azure
3 292 (13.58%) Power Automate
4 276 (12.84%) PowerApps
5 245 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
6 182 (8.47%) Dynamics 365
7 166 (7.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 163 (7.58%) Azure AI
9 153 (7.12%) AWS
10 141 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
11 98 (4.56%) Microsoft Copilot
12 91 (4.23%) Snowflake
13 84 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 81 (3.77%) SaaS
15 80 (3.72%) Microsoft Purview
16 77 (3.58%) GCP
17 55 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
18 52 (2.42%) Entra ID
18 52 (2.42%) Google Analytics
19 50 (2.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.84%) Firewall
2 13 (0.60%) Broadband
3 8 (0.37%) LAN
3 8 (0.37%) WAN
4 7 (0.33%) DNS
4 7 (0.33%) VPN
5 5 (0.23%) Network Security
5 5 (0.23%) SMS
6 4 (0.19%) LTE
6 4 (0.19%) MQTT
7 3 (0.14%) DHCP
8 2 (0.093%) Intranet
8 2 (0.093%) VLAN
8 2 (0.093%) VoIP
8 2 (0.093%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.093%) Wireless
9 1 (0.047%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.047%) Modbus
9 1 (0.047%) SAN
9 1 (0.047%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (20.79%) Tableau
2 235 (10.93%) Data Warehouse
3 164 (7.63%) SQL Server
4 126 (5.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 125 (5.81%) Data Lake
6 121 (5.63%) Power Query
7 105 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 77 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 73 (3.40%) Relational Database
10 70 (3.26%) Metadata
11 58 (2.70%) Looker
12 51 (2.37%) Star Schema
13 33 (1.53%) NoSQL
14 31 (1.44%) Semantic Layer
15 30 (1.40%) Big Data
16 29 (1.35%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.16%) Delta Lake
17 25 (1.16%) MySQL
18 22 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
19 21 (0.98%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 101 (4.70%) Git
2 51 (2.37%) JIRA
3 15 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.28%) GitLab
7 5 (0.23%) MLflow
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.093%) Ant
9 2 (0.093%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.093%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.093%) Maven
9 2 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.047%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.047%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.047%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.047%) ERwin
10 1 (0.047%) JMeter
10 1 (0.047%) kappa
10 1 (0.047%) Selenium
General
1 933 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 704 (32.74%) Finance
3 619 (28.79%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (7.21%) Legal
5 149 (6.93%) Law
6 138 (6.42%) Marketing
7 132 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
8 126 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 125 (5.81%) Manufacturing
9 125 (5.81%) Public Sector
10 124 (5.77%) Retail
11 62 (2.88%) Banking
12 52 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
13 36 (1.67%) Billing
13 36 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 28 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.16%) Advertising
16 25 (1.16%) Military
17 24 (1.12%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 677 (31.49%) Analyst
2 365 (16.98%) Data Analyst
3 299 (13.91%) Developer
4 266 (12.37%) Senior
5 186 (8.65%) Data Engineer
6 166 (7.72%) Junior
7 161 (7.49%) Lead
8 160 (7.44%) Junior Analyst
9 146 (6.79%) Junior Data Analyst
10 88 (4.09%) Architect
11 81 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 76 (3.53%) Data Manager
13 74 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 67 (3.12%) Business Analyst
14 67 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
15 66 (3.07%) Consultant
16 63 (2.93%) Systems Analyst
17 60 (2.79%) Data Architect
18 57 (2.65%) Power Platform Developer
19 56 (2.60%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (4.47%) .NET
2 68 (3.16%) REST
3 67 (3.12%) PySpark
4 62 (2.88%) HTML
5 50 (2.33%) CSS
6 35 (1.63%) JSON
7 30 (1.40%) Terraform
8 26 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
8 26 (1.21%) Kafka
9 25 (1.16%) XML
10 24 (1.12%) .NET Core
11 23 (1.07%) EDI
12 20 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
13 19 (0.88%) ASP.NET
13 19 (0.88%) Middleware
14 16 (0.74%) HTML5
14 16 (0.74%) React
15 13 (0.60%) Pandas
15 13 (0.60%) Playwright
16 12 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 188 (8.74%) Management Information System
2 76 (3.53%) Data Structures
3 61 (2.84%) Onboarding
4 60 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 53 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 35 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 31 (1.44%) AI Agents
8 31 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.26%) Cloud Native
9 27 (1.26%) Driving Licence
10 25 (1.16%) NHS
11 24 (1.12%) Low-Code
12 23 (1.07%) FMCG
13 19 (0.88%) Educational Technology
13 19 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (0.88%) Social Media
14 15 (0.70%) Reference Data
15 14 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 55 (2.56%) Windows
2 25 (1.16%) Linux
3 14 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.093%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.093%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.093%) Solaris
5 2 (0.093%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.047%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,036 (94.70%) Business Intelligence
2 788 (36.65%) Analytics
3 662 (30.79%) AI
4 607 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
5 572 (26.60%) Decision-Making
6 486 (22.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 466 (21.67%) Data Modelling
8 377 (17.53%) Visualisation
9 351 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 327 (15.21%) Agile
11 301 (14.00%) Data Governance
12 296 (13.77%) ETL
13 273 (12.70%) Actionable Insight
14 257 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 256 (11.91%) ERP
16 254 (11.81%) Data Engineering
17 250 (11.63%) Data Visualisation
18 241 (11.21%) Data Analysis
19 238 (11.07%) Dashboard Development
20 228 (10.60%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,198 (55.72%) SQL
2 586 (27.26%) Python
3 179 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 170 (7.91%) C#
5 118 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 59 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 49 (2.28%) R
8 45 (2.09%) T-SQL
9 37 (1.72%) VBA
10 27 (1.26%) Java
11 22 (1.02%) TypeScript
12 21 (0.98%) Scala
13 12 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.37%) Bicep
14 8 (0.37%) C++
14 8 (0.37%) PHP
15 6 (0.28%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.19%) VB
16 4 (0.19%) XAML
17 3 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 287 (13.35%) Degree
2 184 (8.56%) Azure Certification
3 127 (5.91%) Security Cleared
4 103 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 91 (4.23%) ACCA
6 86 (4.00%) CIMA
7 52 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.44%) PMI Certification
9 30 (1.40%) PMP
10 29 (1.35%) DBS Check
11 19 (0.88%) AAT
11 19 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.60%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.42%) CISSP
15 8 (0.37%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.37%) CFA
16 7 (0.33%) CIPD
16 7 (0.33%) HND
16 7 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 495 (23.02%) Data Quality
2 152 (7.07%) GDPR
3 91 (4.23%) QA
4 65 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 34 (1.58%) PMO
6 30 (1.40%) SLA
7 28 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 14 (0.65%) GRC
11 12 (0.56%) NIST
12 11 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.37%) TickIT
15 7 (0.33%) GAAP
16 6 (0.28%) ISO 19650
16 6 (0.28%) PERC
17 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 4 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (1.35%) Docker
2 22 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.093%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.093%) IAG
4 2 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.047%) Firmware
5 1 (0.047%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 17 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.47%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.33%) EnCase
4 7 (0.33%) FTK
5 6 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.19%) Argo
7 3 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
8 2 (0.093%) Ansible
8 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.093%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.093%) Puppet
9 1 (0.047%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.047%) Grafana
9 1 (0.047%) MOM
9 1 (0.047%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.047%) SCCM
9 1 (0.047%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 971 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 177 (8.23%) Databricks
3 105 (4.88%) SAP
4 81 (3.77%) Google
4 81 (3.77%) Oracle
5 47 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.40%) Alteryx
8 29 (1.35%) Sage
9 25 (1.16%) Informatica
10 22 (1.02%) Intapp
11 19 (0.88%) Concur
12 16 (0.74%) YouTube
13 14 (0.65%) Workday
14 13 (0.60%) Aderant
15 12 (0.56%) Cognos
16 11 (0.51%) Adobe
16 11 (0.51%) HP
16 11 (0.51%) HubSpot
17 10 (0.47%) iManage