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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 71 58
Rank change year-on-year +15 -13 +23
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,384 1,435 3,169
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.35% 3.93% 4.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.04% 20.89% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,178 1,018 2,566
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -0.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £53,300
% change year-on-year -2.54% +10.69% -3.09%

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 6,615 6,868 14,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.30% 18.79% 18.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,113 4,725 11,307
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%

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

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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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +17 635 £70,000 - 258
North of England +5 507 £47,000 -3.59% 176
Midlands +32 433 £47,085 -5.83% 126
South East +17 422 £57,500 +4.55% 212
West Midlands +25 256 £47,085 -10.32% 72
Yorkshire +33 236 £42,039 -11.50% 63
North West -18 212 £47,750 -4.50% 90
South West +36 199 £44,477 -7.82% 70
East Midlands +26 175 £47,500 +10.47% 54
East of England -11 170 £52,500 -25.00% 57
North East +25 59 £51,000 +7.37% 29
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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
1 143 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 48 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.63%) Confluence
6 12 (0.50%) SAS
7 7 (0.29%) Apache
8 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.084%) Moodle
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.084%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.042%) Appian
11 1 (0.042%) Drupal
11 1 (0.042%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.042%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,229 (51.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
5 22 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.71%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.38%) Trello
8 2 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.042%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.042%) Maya
Business Applications
1 38 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.38%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.17%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.17%) Shopify
8 3 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 3 (0.13%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.13%) Visualfiles
9 2 (0.084%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2,384 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,380 (57.89%) Azure
3 808 (33.89%) Azure AI
4 234 (9.82%) Power Automate
5 205 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
6 188 (7.89%) PowerApps
7 158 (6.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 147 (6.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 140 (5.87%) Snowflake
10 111 (4.66%) Dynamics 365
11 107 (4.49%) AWS
12 97 (4.07%) dbt
13 79 (3.31%) GCP
14 73 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
15 64 (2.68%) SaaS
16 61 (2.56%) Entra ID
17 55 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
17 55 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
18 35 (1.47%) Serverless
19 29 (1.22%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.59%) Intranet
2 10 (0.42%) DHCP
2 10 (0.42%) DNS
2 10 (0.42%) Firewall
2 10 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.29%) VoIP
4 6 (0.25%) WAN
5 5 (0.21%) Modbus
5 5 (0.21%) MQTT
6 4 (0.17%) Broadband
6 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.13%) Internet
7 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 2 (0.084%) NAS
8 2 (0.084%) Network Security
8 2 (0.084%) VPN
9 1 (0.042%) ADSL
9 1 (0.042%) FTP
9 1 (0.042%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.042%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,052 (44.13%) Tableau
2 195 (8.18%) SQL Server
3 192 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
4 119 (4.99%) Data Lake
5 116 (4.87%) Power Query
6 113 (4.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 70 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 69 (2.89%) Looker
9 66 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 50 (2.10%) BigQuery
11 45 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 40 (1.68%) Big Data
13 38 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (1.26%) Metadata
16 29 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
17 28 (1.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 26 (1.09%) PowerPivot
18 26 (1.09%) Star Schema
19 23 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 70 (2.94%) Git
2 34 (1.43%) JIRA
3 31 (1.30%) Visual Studio
4 25 (1.05%) MLflow
5 10 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.17%) ERwin
6 4 (0.17%) GitLab
6 4 (0.17%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.17%) Postman
6 4 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.13%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.084%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.042%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.042%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.042%) NUnit
9 1 (0.042%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.042%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.042%) Selenium
9 1 (0.042%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.042%) Toad
General
1 1,365 (57.26%) Social Skills
2 544 (22.82%) Analytical Skills
3 539 (22.61%) Finance
4 93 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 86 (3.61%) Marketing
6 81 (3.40%) Public Sector
7 79 (3.31%) Legal
8 77 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 73 (3.06%) Law
10 68 (2.85%) Retail
11 54 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (1.59%) Banking
14 33 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
16 22 (0.92%) Telecoms
17 20 (0.84%) Publishing
18 19 (0.80%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.71%) Automotive
20 16 (0.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,308 (54.87%) Analyst
2 1,015 (42.58%) Data Analyst
3 817 (34.27%) Junior
4 811 (34.02%) Junior Analyst
5 808 (33.89%) Junior Data Analyst
6 245 (10.28%) Senior
7 219 (9.19%) Developer
8 144 (6.04%) Data Engineer
9 112 (4.70%) Lead
10 88 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 83 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 79 (3.31%) Architect
13 72 (3.02%) Financial Analyst
14 71 (2.98%) Business Analyst
15 70 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
16 64 (2.68%) IT Support
17 59 (2.47%) Support Analyst
18 52 (2.18%) Consultant
19 51 (2.14%) Power BI Developer
20 48 (2.01%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (3.15%) .NET
2 43 (1.80%) JSON
3 41 (1.72%) PySpark
3 41 (1.72%) REST
4 36 (1.51%) XML
5 34 (1.43%) Kafka
6 30 (1.26%) CSS
6 30 (1.26%) PyTorch
7 29 (1.22%) scikit-learn
8 28 (1.17%) .NET Core
9 27 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
10 26 (1.09%) HTML
11 24 (1.01%) TensorFlow
12 23 (0.96%) LangChain
12 23 (0.96%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.96%) pgvector
13 20 (0.84%) EDI
14 17 (0.71%) SOAP
15 13 (0.55%) ASP.NET
15 13 (0.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 76 (3.19%) Management Information System
2 73 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 58 (2.43%) Cloud Native
4 44 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 38 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (1.38%) Low-Code
7 32 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 28 (1.17%) Clustering
10 26 (1.09%) Product Ownership
11 24 (1.01%) Public Cloud
12 16 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (0.63%) Driving Licence
14 14 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.59%) FMCG
14 14 (0.59%) Reinsurance
15 13 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
15 13 (0.55%) Social Media
16 12 (0.50%) NHS
17 11 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.51%) Windows
2 15 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 14 (0.59%) Linux
4 12 (0.50%) VMS
5 9 (0.38%) Unix
6 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.084%) Android
9 1 (0.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,272 (95.30%) Business Intelligence
2 1,035 (43.41%) AI
3 623 (26.13%) Analytics
4 438 (18.37%) Decision-Making
5 397 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
6 361 (15.14%) Data Modelling
7 352 (14.77%) Visualisation
8 276 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 272 (11.41%) ETL
10 236 (9.90%) Agile
11 235 (9.86%) Data Analysis
12 232 (9.73%) Data Visualisation
13 224 (9.40%) Data Governance
14 205 (8.60%) Data Engineering
15 202 (8.47%) Actionable Insight
16 187 (7.84%) Data Pipeline
17 171 (7.17%) Data Management
18 170 (7.13%) Project Management
19 164 (6.88%) ERP
20 153 (6.42%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,637 (68.67%) SQL
2 1,211 (50.80%) Python
3 153 (6.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 104 (4.36%) C#
5 79 (3.31%) PowerShell
6 77 (3.23%) VBA
7 70 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 52 (2.18%) R
9 46 (1.93%) T-SQL
10 20 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
11 16 (0.67%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.50%) Scala
13 11 (0.46%) Delphi
14 9 (0.38%) Java
14 9 (0.38%) VBScript
15 6 (0.25%) Julia
15 6 (0.25%) VB
16 5 (0.21%) Bicep
17 4 (0.17%) Bash
18 3 (0.13%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 830 (34.82%) Azure Certification
2 263 (11.03%) Degree
3 83 (3.48%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.15%) ACCA
4 75 (3.15%) CIMA
5 64 (2.68%) SC Cleared
6 46 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 43 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 36 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 36 (1.51%) PMP
10 35 (1.47%) Master's Degree
11 17 (0.71%) AAT
12 16 (0.67%) MBA
13 13 (0.55%) APMP
14 9 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.34%) IIBA
16 7 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
16 7 (0.29%) Postgraduate
16 7 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (11.20%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.98%) GDPR
3 54 (2.27%) QA
4 43 (1.80%) SLA
5 41 (1.72%) PMO
6 30 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 23 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.29%) GRC
10 7 (0.29%) IFRS
11 6 (0.25%) TickIT
12 4 (0.17%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.17%) ITGC
12 4 (0.17%) NIST
13 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.13%) GAAP
14 2 (0.084%) MiFID
14 2 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.084%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.46%) Docker
2 11 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.13%) BitLocker
3 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.084%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.042%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (0.63%) Terraform
2 12 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.21%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.21%) SCCM
6 4 (0.17%) Control-M
7 3 (0.13%) Ansible
7 3 (0.13%) Argo
8 1 (0.042%) Grafana
8 1 (0.042%) MOM
8 1 (0.042%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.042%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,333 (55.91%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.67%) Databricks
3 81 (3.40%) SAP
4 63 (2.64%) Oracle
5 49 (2.06%) Google
6 42 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 35 (1.47%) Informatica
8 32 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.22%) Alteryx
10 24 (1.01%) Cloudera
10 24 (1.01%) Dell
11 21 (0.88%) Adobe
12 20 (0.84%) Anaplan
13 16 (0.67%) Intapp
14 12 (0.50%) Genesys
14 12 (0.50%) IBM
14 12 (0.50%) Sage
14 12 (0.50%) Verint
15 11 (0.46%) Epicor
15 11 (0.46%) VMware