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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 82 60
Rank change year-on-year +26 -22 +20
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,581 1,467 3,183
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.14% 3.74% 3.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.31% 22.47% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,251 1,048 2,579
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,439 £42,500 £41,492
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 £68,375
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 7,108 6,530 14,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.65% 16.63% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,504 4,469 11,393
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 £97,125 £115,000 £98,750
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 21 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 21 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 +55 625 £45,000 -14.29% 134
London -16 578 £72,500 +3.57% 264
Midlands +38 485 £47,085 -10.32% 91
South East +38 446 £57,500 +9.52% 196
Yorkshire +58 286 £42,500 -15.00% 47
West Midlands +7 282 £47,085 -12.30% 65
North West +45 274 £46,500 -11.43% 71
South West +19 224 £43,500 -24.35% 47
East of England +50 208 £55,000 +15.79% 44
East Midlands +46 201 £47,500 -7.32% 26
North East +11 65 £48,000 -4.00% 18
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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
1 146 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.35%) Apache
5 9 (0.35%) SAS
6 8 (0.31%) Confluence
7 7 (0.27%) WordPress
8 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.19%) CMS
10 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.077%) Luigi
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%) IIS
11 1 (0.039%) Mendix
11 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,347 (52.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
4 29 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.93%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.077%) Trello
8 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 44 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.74%) 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 2,581 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,501 (58.16%) Azure
3 946 (36.65%) Azure AI
4 236 (9.14%) Power Automate
5 206 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
6 197 (7.63%) PowerApps
7 144 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 125 (4.84%) Snowflake
9 122 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
10 119 (4.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 111 (4.30%) AWS
12 84 (3.25%) dbt
13 77 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
14 71 (2.75%) GCP
15 64 (2.48%) SaaS
16 59 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
17 56 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
18 55 (2.13%) Entra ID
19 42 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
20 40 (1.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.62%) Broadband
2 11 (0.43%) DHCP
2 11 (0.43%) DNS
3 10 (0.39%) Intranet
4 8 (0.31%) Firewall
5 6 (0.23%) VoIP
5 6 (0.23%) WAN
6 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.15%) LTE
7 4 (0.15%) Modbus
7 4 (0.15%) MQTT
8 3 (0.12%) NAS
9 2 (0.077%) Internet
9 2 (0.077%) SMS
9 2 (0.077%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.077%) VPN
10 1 (0.039%) FTP
10 1 (0.039%) Mobile Broadband
10 1 (0.039%) Softphone
10 1 (0.039%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,198 (46.42%) Tableau
2 183 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
3 172 (6.66%) SQL Server
4 122 (4.73%) Data Lake
5 117 (4.53%) Power Query
6 113 (4.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 68 (2.63%) Looker
7 68 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 65 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 51 (1.98%) BigQuery
11 46 (1.78%) Big Data
12 43 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (1.20%) Metadata
13 31 (1.20%) Star Schema
14 29 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
15 27 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (0.89%) MySQL
16 23 (0.89%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 57 (2.21%) Git
2 41 (1.59%) JIRA
3 27 (1.05%) Visual Studio
4 26 (1.01%) MLflow
5 14 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.077%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.039%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.039%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.039%) ERwin
10 1 (0.039%) GitLab
10 1 (0.039%) NUnit
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.039%) Selenium
10 1 (0.039%) Toad
General
1 1,521 (58.93%) Social Skills
2 533 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
3 481 (18.64%) Finance
4 110 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (3.64%) Marketing
5 94 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 93 (3.60%) Law
7 91 (3.53%) Retail
8 77 (2.98%) Legal
9 66 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 57 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 40 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 23 (0.89%) Banking
16 19 (0.74%) Publishing
17 18 (0.70%) Advertising
18 17 (0.66%) Automotive
19 16 (0.62%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,444 (55.95%) Analyst
2 1,147 (44.44%) Data Analyst
3 964 (37.35%) Junior
4 958 (37.12%) Junior Analyst
5 950 (36.81%) Junior Data Analyst
6 278 (10.77%) Senior
7 255 (9.88%) Developer
8 142 (5.50%) Data Engineer
9 124 (4.80%) Lead
10 93 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 84 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 79 (3.06%) Business Analyst
13 78 (3.02%) Architect
14 72 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
15 68 (2.63%) Data Manager
16 63 (2.44%) Power BI Developer
17 57 (2.21%) Systems Analyst
18 56 (2.17%) Financial Analyst
19 54 (2.09%) IT Support
19 54 (2.09%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (3.41%) .NET
2 51 (1.98%) JSON
3 49 (1.90%) CSS
4 48 (1.86%) HTML
5 44 (1.70%) PySpark
6 41 (1.59%) HTML5 Canvas
6 41 (1.59%) REST
7 38 (1.47%) XML
8 35 (1.36%) .NET Core
8 35 (1.36%) Kafka
9 29 (1.12%) PyTorch
9 29 (1.12%) scikit-learn
10 24 (0.93%) Middleware
11 23 (0.89%) LangChain
11 23 (0.89%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (0.89%) pgvector
11 23 (0.89%) TensorFlow
12 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
13 20 (0.77%) SOAP
13 20 (0.77%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 82 (3.18%) Management Information System
2 61 (2.36%) Data Structures
3 55 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 51 (1.98%) Cloud Native
5 37 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 27 (1.05%) Clustering
7 27 (1.05%) Low-Code
8 26 (1.01%) Product Ownership
9 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
10 22 (0.85%) NHS
11 21 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
13 18 (0.70%) Social Media
14 17 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.54%) Driving Licence
15 14 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.50%) FMCG
17 11 (0.43%) Replication
18 10 (0.39%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.12%) Windows
2 18 (0.70%) 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 2,441 (94.58%) Business Intelligence
2 1,189 (46.07%) AI
3 637 (24.68%) Analytics
4 439 (17.01%) Decision-Making
5 383 (14.84%) Data Modelling
6 377 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
7 328 (12.71%) Visualisation
8 272 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 262 (10.15%) ETL
10 225 (8.72%) Data Visualisation
11 224 (8.68%) Data Governance
12 214 (8.29%) Agile
13 205 (7.94%) Data Engineering
14 192 (7.44%) Actionable Insight
15 188 (7.28%) Data Analysis
15 188 (7.28%) ERP
16 174 (6.74%) Data Pipeline
17 170 (6.59%) Machine Learning
17 170 (6.59%) Project Management
18 167 (6.47%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,796 (69.59%) SQL
2 1,328 (51.45%) Python
3 147 (5.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 120 (4.65%) C#
5 87 (3.37%) JavaScript
6 73 (2.83%) PowerShell
7 68 (2.63%) VBA
8 53 (2.05%) T-SQL
9 46 (1.78%) R
10 25 (0.97%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (0.50%) Scala
13 12 (0.46%) Java
14 11 (0.43%) Delphi
15 9 (0.35%) VBScript
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
16 6 (0.23%) VB
17 4 (0.15%) Bicep
18 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
19 2 (0.077%) C
Qualifications
1 971 (37.62%) Azure Certification
2 265 (10.27%) Degree
3 82 (3.18%) Security Cleared
4 62 (2.40%) SC Cleared
5 61 (2.36%) ACCA
5 61 (2.36%) CIMA
6 38 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 38 (1.47%) PMP
7 30 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 23 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.54%) AAT
10 11 (0.43%) MBA
11 9 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (0.31%) APMP
12 8 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
12 8 (0.31%) SSCP
13 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
14 6 (0.23%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 116 (4.49%) GDPR
3 59 (2.29%) QA
4 52 (2.01%) SLA
5 34 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 33 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.28%) PMO
7 26 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.66%) TickIT
9 14 (0.54%) NIST
10 12 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.46%) GRC
11 8 (0.31%) IFRS
12 4 (0.15%) GAAP
12 4 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.15%) ITGC
12 4 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.12%) PERC
14 2 (0.077%) MiFID
14 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.54%) Docker
3 9 (0.35%) 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%) Kubernetes
1 13 (0.50%) Terraform
2 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.19%) SCCM
3 4 (0.15%) Ansible
4 3 (0.12%) Control-M
4 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.077%) MOM
5 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.039%) Grafana
6 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
6 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,517 (58.78%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.32%) Databricks
3 90 (3.49%) SAP
4 77 (2.98%) Oracle
5 50 (1.94%) Google
6 38 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.20%) Adobe
7 31 (1.20%) Informatica
8 28 (1.08%) Alteryx
9 24 (0.93%) Cloudera
9 24 (0.93%) Dell
9 24 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 23 (0.89%) Intapp
11 18 (0.70%) Anaplan
12 14 (0.54%) Cognos
12 14 (0.54%) Sage
13 13 (0.50%) iManage
13 13 (0.50%) Verint
14 12 (0.46%) Genesys
14 12 (0.46%) HubSpot