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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 70 71
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,457 1,671 2,274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 3.82% 3.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.28% 24.76% 20.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 1,207 1,686
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £93,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%

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 8,115 6,748 11,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.62% 15.42% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,568 4,402 7,781
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,966 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -2.45% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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

Power BI
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 14 August 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 14 August 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 -14 684 £70,000 +3.70% 763
North of England +71 592 £45,000 -14.29% 233
Midlands +21 429 £50,000 - 160
South East -5 344 £52,500 - 263
North West +71 277 £47,500 -10.38% 128
West Midlands +17 252 £51,356 -4.01% 97
Yorkshire +62 239 £42,500 -15.00% 78
South West -12 215 £42,500 -17.07% 110
East Midlands +20 177 £50,000 +11.11% 63
East of England -2 170 £60,000 +50.00% 69
North East -5 76 £45,000 - 33
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UK

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
1 183 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.65%) Apache
6 10 (0.41%) WordPress
7 8 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.28%) Confluence
9 6 (0.24%) CMS
9 6 (0.24%) SAS
10 4 (0.16%) Luigi
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.081%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.081%) IIS
11 2 (0.081%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.081%) Tornado
11 2 (0.081%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,043 (42.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.81%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.081%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.041%) Revit
9 1 (0.041%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 53 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (1.91%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.53%) Elite 3E
4 12 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.37%) Visualfiles
6 8 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
6 8 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
9 4 (0.16%) Shopify
10 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
11 2 (0.081%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.081%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.081%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.081%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.081%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,457 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,194 (48.60%) Azure
3 576 (23.44%) Azure AI
4 290 (11.80%) Power Automate
5 263 (10.70%) PowerApps
6 246 (10.01%) Microsoft 365
7 177 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
8 163 (6.63%) AWS
9 152 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 129 (5.25%) Snowflake
11 113 (4.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 103 (4.19%) GCP
13 102 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
14 73 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
15 70 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
15 70 (2.85%) SaaS
16 65 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
17 62 (2.52%) dbt
18 60 (2.44%) OneDrive
19 45 (1.83%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.61%) Firewall
2 14 (0.57%) Broadband
3 10 (0.41%) DHCP
3 10 (0.41%) DNS
4 9 (0.37%) WAN
5 6 (0.24%) LAN
5 6 (0.24%) VoIP
5 6 (0.24%) VPN
6 5 (0.20%) Network Security
6 5 (0.20%) SMS
7 4 (0.16%) Intranet
7 4 (0.16%) LTE
8 3 (0.12%) MQTT
8 3 (0.12%) NAS
8 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.081%) Wireless
10 1 (0.041%) Internet
10 1 (0.041%) Modbus
10 1 (0.041%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 885 (36.02%) Tableau
2 226 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
3 174 (7.08%) SQL Server
4 139 (5.66%) Data Lake
5 127 (5.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 125 (5.09%) Power Query
7 88 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 86 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 80 (3.26%) Looker
10 61 (2.48%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.12%) BigQuery
12 50 (2.04%) Metadata
13 45 (1.83%) Star Schema
14 38 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (1.30%) Big Data
16 30 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
17 29 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
18 28 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 27 (1.10%) Delta Lake
19 27 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 66 (2.69%) Git
2 51 (2.08%) JIRA
3 31 (1.26%) MLflow
4 19 (0.77%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.33%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.16%) GitLab
9 2 (0.081%) Ant
9 2 (0.081%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.081%) ERwin
9 2 (0.081%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.081%) Maven
10 1 (0.041%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.041%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.041%) NUnit
10 1 (0.041%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.041%) Selenium
10 1 (0.041%) Toad
10 1 (0.041%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,285 (52.30%) Social Skills
2 584 (23.77%) Analytical Skills
3 575 (23.40%) Finance
4 145 (5.90%) Law
5 128 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (4.92%) Marketing
7 120 (4.88%) Retail
8 116 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
9 113 (4.60%) Legal
10 107 (4.35%) Public Sector
11 95 (3.87%) Manufacturing
12 40 (1.63%) Banking
13 33 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.22%) Billing
15 30 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.06%) Advertising
17 26 (1.06%) Military
18 23 (0.94%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,078 (43.87%) Analyst
2 768 (31.26%) Data Analyst
3 593 (24.14%) Junior
4 585 (23.81%) Junior Analyst
5 573 (23.32%) Junior Data Analyst
6 303 (12.33%) Senior
7 294 (11.97%) Developer
8 177 (7.20%) Data Engineer
9 138 (5.62%) Lead
10 85 (3.46%) Architect
11 84 (3.42%) Data Manager
12 82 (3.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 79 (3.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 75 (3.05%) Business Analyst
15 67 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
16 59 (2.40%) Data Architect
16 59 (2.40%) Power Platform Developer
17 58 (2.36%) Consultant
18 57 (2.32%) Senior Developer
19 54 (2.20%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (4.64%) .NET
2 63 (2.56%) HTML
3 60 (2.44%) PySpark
3 60 (2.44%) REST
4 56 (2.28%) CSS
5 44 (1.79%) JSON
6 43 (1.75%) Kafka
7 41 (1.67%) HTML5 Canvas
8 36 (1.47%) .NET Core
9 34 (1.38%) PyTorch
9 34 (1.38%) scikit-learn
10 29 (1.18%) TensorFlow
11 28 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
12 25 (1.02%) Middleware
13 24 (0.98%) LangChain
13 24 (0.98%) LlamaIndex
13 24 (0.98%) XML
14 23 (0.94%) EDI
14 23 (0.94%) pgvector
15 20 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 146 (5.94%) Management Information System
2 71 (2.89%) Data Structures
3 60 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 50 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 47 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 37 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.10%) Public Cloud
10 24 (0.98%) Clustering
11 23 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (0.90%) Low-Code
13 19 (0.77%) Social Media
14 18 (0.73%) AI Agents
14 18 (0.73%) Driving Licence
14 18 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (0.73%) NHS
15 15 (0.61%) Educational Technology
16 14 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
17 12 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.99%) Windows
2 21 (0.85%) Linux
3 20 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.20%) VMS
6 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Unix
8 2 (0.081%) Android
8 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.081%) Solaris
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,315 (94.22%) Business Intelligence
2 991 (40.33%) AI
3 778 (31.66%) Analytics
4 523 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
5 514 (20.92%) Decision-Making
6 448 (18.23%) Data Modelling
7 411 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 345 (14.04%) Visualisation
9 298 (12.13%) Agile
9 298 (12.13%) Data Governance
10 293 (11.93%) ETL
11 262 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 255 (10.38%) Data Engineering
13 245 (9.97%) Data Visualisation
14 243 (9.89%) Actionable Insight
15 240 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 236 (9.61%) ERP
17 228 (9.28%) Data Analysis
18 222 (9.04%) Data Pipeline
19 202 (8.22%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,597 (65.00%) SQL
2 967 (39.36%) Python
3 165 (6.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 161 (6.55%) C#
5 113 (4.60%) JavaScript
6 59 (2.40%) PowerShell
7 52 (2.12%) VBA
8 50 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.83%) R
10 31 (1.26%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.77%) Scala
12 16 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (0.53%) Java
14 8 (0.33%) VB
15 7 (0.28%) VBScript
16 6 (0.24%) Julia
17 5 (0.20%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.16%) Bicep
18 4 (0.16%) PHP
19 3 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 601 (24.46%) Azure Certification
2 267 (10.87%) Degree
3 109 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 90 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 84 (3.42%) ACCA
6 79 (3.22%) CIMA
7 44 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 28 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (0.98%) AAT
11 23 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 21 (0.85%) PMP
13 15 (0.61%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.33%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.33%) SSCP
16 7 (0.28%) CFA
16 7 (0.28%) HND
16 7 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 140 (5.70%) GDPR
3 88 (3.58%) QA
4 54 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.83%) SLA
6 41 (1.67%) PMO
7 40 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 22 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (0.69%) TickIT
11 13 (0.53%) NIST
12 11 (0.45%) GRC
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.24%) GAAP
14 6 (0.24%) PERC
15 5 (0.20%) IFRS
16 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.081%) ITGC
System Software
1 34 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 22 (0.90%) Docker
3 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.081%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.081%) IAG
Systems Management
1 26 (1.06%) Terraform
2 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (0.53%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.41%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.20%) Ansible
7 4 (0.16%) SCCM
8 2 (0.081%) Argo
8 2 (0.081%) Control-M
8 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.081%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.081%) Puppet
9 1 (0.041%) Grafana
9 1 (0.041%) MOM
9 1 (0.041%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.041%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,327 (54.01%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.22%) Databricks
3 99 (4.03%) SAP
4 78 (3.17%) Oracle
5 69 (2.81%) Google
6 41 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.26%) Sage
8 29 (1.18%) Alteryx
9 28 (1.14%) Intapp
10 25 (1.02%) Adobe
11 24 (0.98%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.94%) Dell
13 20 (0.81%) Informatica
14 19 (0.77%) Concur
14 19 (0.77%) ServiceNow
15 16 (0.65%) iManage
16 13 (0.53%) Aderant
17 12 (0.49%) HubSpot
17 12 (0.49%) SYSPRO
18 11 (0.45%) Yardi