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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 79 55
Rank change year-on-year +9 -24 +28
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 1,657 1,922 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.87% 3.10% 4.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.12% 19.31% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,161 1,171 1,854
10th Percentile £32,000 £39,750 £35,538
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,006
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.63% -3.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

All Database and 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 6,109 9,954 10,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.28% 16.06% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,934 5,721 8,331
10th Percentile £33,575 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £81,500 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £116,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% +0.42%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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 +4 643 £68,500 -2.14% 691
South East +23 323 £50,000 -13.04% 581
North of England -39 205 £50,000 - 264
Midlands +18 203 £47,500 -8.65% 156
North West -25 143 £52,500 +5.00% 180
East of England +35 137 £40,000 -20.79% 74
South West +40 131 £47,500 -15.18% 106
West Midlands +12 121 £52,250 -5.00% 95
East Midlands +50 82 £42,000 -16.00% 61
Yorkshire -38 50 £48,000 -10.70% 64
North East +10 12 £42,500 -5.56% 24
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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
1 128 (7.72%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.03%) Confluence
4 14 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.78%) SAS
6 10 (0.60%) SugarCRM
7 7 (0.42%) Moodle
8 6 (0.36%) CMS
8 6 (0.36%) WordPress
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.18%) Apache
9 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.060%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.060%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 575 (34.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.60%) Maya
5 10 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.24%) Trello
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) Revit
9 1 (0.060%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.060%) InDesign
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 88 (5.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.72%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.60%) Shopify
5 8 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.48%) Primavera
5 8 (0.48%) SAP Business One
6 6 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
6 6 (0.36%) Visualfiles
7 5 (0.30%) Exchequer
7 5 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.24%) Sage 1000
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.18%) SAP APO
9 3 (0.18%) SAP IBP
10 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.12%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 1,657 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 643 (38.81%) Azure
3 219 (13.22%) Power Automate
4 181 (10.92%) PowerApps
5 161 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
6 141 (8.51%) Dynamics 365
7 122 (7.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 121 (7.30%) Snowflake
9 118 (7.12%) AWS
10 106 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
11 91 (5.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 67 (4.04%) GCP
13 61 (3.68%) SaaS
14 58 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (2.78%) dbt
15 46 (2.78%) Entra ID
16 43 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
17 38 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
18 33 (1.99%) Fivetran
18 33 (1.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.81%) Firewall
2 23 (1.39%) DNS
3 22 (1.33%) WAN
4 18 (1.09%) VPN
5 16 (0.97%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.48%) DHCP
7 7 (0.42%) Broadband
8 6 (0.36%) LAN
8 6 (0.36%) VoIP
9 3 (0.18%) NAS
9 3 (0.18%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.18%) SAN
9 3 (0.18%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.12%) ADSL2
10 2 (0.12%) Intranet
11 1 (0.060%) BGP
11 1 (0.060%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.060%) Modbus
11 1 (0.060%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (17.02%) Tableau
2 215 (12.98%) SQL Server
3 172 (10.38%) Data Warehouse
4 163 (9.84%) Data Lake
5 104 (6.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 86 (5.19%) Power Query
7 84 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 63 (3.80%) SAP BW
9 60 (3.62%) Looker
10 50 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 48 (2.90%) BusinessObjects
12 47 (2.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 41 (2.47%) Metadata
14 38 (2.29%) Data Mining
15 32 (1.93%) Relational Database
16 31 (1.87%) BigQuery
16 31 (1.87%) MySQL
17 28 (1.69%) Crystal Reports
18 22 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
19 21 (1.27%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 73 (4.41%) Git
2 41 (2.47%) JIRA
3 25 (1.51%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.30%) GitLab
6 4 (0.24%) ERwin
6 4 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.24%) RStudio
6 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.18%) Subversion
8 1 (0.060%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.060%) LSMW
8 1 (0.060%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.060%) MLflow
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.060%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.060%) Postman
8 1 (0.060%) Vite
General
1 610 (36.81%) Finance
2 568 (34.28%) Social Skills
3 492 (29.69%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.51%) Retail
5 137 (8.27%) Marketing
6 114 (6.88%) Law
7 106 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 85 (5.13%) Legal
9 75 (4.53%) Public Sector
10 71 (4.28%) Manufacturing
11 55 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
12 52 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
13 41 (2.47%) Advertising
14 39 (2.35%) Banking
15 33 (1.99%) Games
16 20 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.21%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.09%) French Language
18 14 (0.84%) Billing
Job Titles
1 592 (35.73%) Analyst
2 240 (14.48%) Developer
3 195 (11.77%) Senior
4 189 (11.41%) Data Analyst
5 188 (11.35%) Lead
6 142 (8.57%) Data Engineer
7 90 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 83 (5.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 78 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
10 76 (4.59%) Support Analyst
11 72 (4.35%) Business Analyst
12 65 (3.92%) Architect
13 60 (3.62%) Financial Analyst
13 60 (3.62%) Report Analyst
14 54 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 48 (2.90%) Junior
16 46 (2.78%) Power BI Developer
17 44 (2.66%) Data Manager
18 43 (2.60%) Power Platform Developer
19 42 (2.53%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.26%) .NET
2 44 (2.66%) REST
3 39 (2.35%) PySpark
4 30 (1.81%) Web Services
5 26 (1.57%) HTML
6 25 (1.51%) SOAP
7 16 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
7 16 (0.97%) XML
8 15 (0.91%) CSS
8 15 (0.91%) JSON
8 15 (0.91%) Kafka
9 14 (0.84%) Pandas
10 13 (0.78%) .NET Core
10 13 (0.78%) React
11 11 (0.66%) EDI
12 10 (0.60%) ASP.NET
13 7 (0.42%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.42%) Middleware
13 7 (0.42%) scikit-learn
14 6 (0.36%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
2 73 (4.41%) Management Information System
3 65 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 43 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 32 (1.93%) Cloud Native
7 32 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 30 (1.81%) FMCG
9 28 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.33%) Driving Licence
10 22 (1.33%) Social Media
11 21 (1.27%) Reinsurance
12 20 (1.21%) NHS
13 17 (1.03%) Algorithms
13 17 (1.03%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.91%) Learning Management System
15 12 (0.72%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
17 9 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.56%) Windows
2 11 (0.66%) Linux
3 10 (0.60%) Unix
4 8 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Android
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,480 (89.32%) Business Intelligence
2 644 (38.87%) Analytics
3 470 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
4 407 (24.56%) Decision-Making
5 373 (22.51%) Visualisation
6 327 (19.73%) Data Modelling
7 311 (18.77%) Data Analysis
8 298 (17.98%) Agile
9 264 (15.93%) ETL
10 254 (15.33%) Actionable Insight
11 241 (14.54%) Data Visualisation
12 208 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 207 (12.49%) AI
13 207 (12.49%) Data Analytics
14 206 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 197 (11.89%) Data Governance
16 189 (11.41%) CRM
17 185 (11.16%) DevOps
18 175 (10.56%) ERP
19 162 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 875 (52.81%) SQL
2 394 (23.78%) Python
3 102 (6.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 76 (4.59%) T-SQL
5 75 (4.53%) C#
6 72 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 68 (4.10%) PowerShell
8 63 (3.80%) VBA
9 61 (3.68%) R
10 21 (1.27%) Scala
11 17 (1.03%) Bicep
12 13 (0.78%) Java
13 8 (0.48%) Bash
14 7 (0.42%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.36%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.24%) ANSI SQL
16 4 (0.24%) Julia
17 3 (0.18%) PROC SQL
18 2 (0.12%) PHP
18 2 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 390 (23.54%) Degree
2 105 (6.34%) DBS Check
3 64 (3.86%) ACCA
4 60 (3.62%) CIMA
5 57 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (3.20%) Security Cleared
7 48 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 46 (2.78%) SC Cleared
10 34 (2.05%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.21%) CISA
11 20 (1.21%) CISSP
12 17 (1.03%) CISM
12 17 (1.03%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.97%) PMP
14 14 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
15 13 (0.78%) CRISC
15 13 (0.78%) HNC
16 6 (0.36%) CBAP
16 6 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (13.82%) Data Quality
2 85 (5.13%) GDPR
3 72 (4.35%) QA
4 57 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 50 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (2.17%) PMO
7 21 (1.27%) SLA
8 15 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (0.91%) NIST
9 13 (0.78%) GRC
10 12 (0.72%) COBIT
10 12 (0.72%) ITGC
11 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.24%) IFRS
14 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.12%) COSHH
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 16 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.48%) Docker
5 3 (0.18%) Apache Flume
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
5 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.18%) vSphere
6 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.060%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.21%) Terraform
3 19 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.42%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (0.36%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.18%) Kibana
6 3 (0.18%) logstash
6 3 (0.18%) Oozie
7 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.12%) SCCM
7 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.060%) Ansible
8 1 (0.060%) Control-M
8 1 (0.060%) Grafana
Vendors
1 559 (33.74%) Microsoft
2 136 (8.21%) Databricks
3 121 (7.30%) SAP
4 67 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 63 (3.80%) Oracle
6 61 (3.68%) Google
7 42 (2.53%) Alteryx
8 21 (1.27%) Facebook
8 21 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 19 (1.15%) Adobe
10 17 (1.03%) Meraki
10 17 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 16 (0.97%) Intapp
12 14 (0.84%) Informatica
12 14 (0.84%) Sage
13 13 (0.78%) Anaplan
13 13 (0.78%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.66%) Dell
15 10 (0.60%) Cisco
15 10 (0.60%) VMware