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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +23
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,557 1,506 3,200
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.31% 4.04% 3.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.07% 22.33% 21.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,212 1,058 2,590
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,758 £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 6,898 6,744 14,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.94% 18.08% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 4,756 11,451
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 19 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 19 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 +2 608 £70,000 - 283
North of England +11 585 £46,500 -7.00% 190
Midlands +26 482 £47,085 -5.83% 142
South East +8 454 £57,500 +4.55% 194
West Midlands +13 277 £47,085 -8.84% 85
Yorkshire +45 276 £41,770 -12.06% 62
North West +4 241 £47,250 -10.00% 105
South West +25 220 £45,000 -6.74% 62
East Midlands +23 203 £45,390 -0.24% 57
East of England -6 194 £53,000 -24.29% 65
North East +17 68 £51,000 +2.00% 28
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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
1 144 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 47 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.47%) Confluence
6 11 (0.43%) SAS
7 8 (0.31%) Apache
8 6 (0.23%) CMS
8 6 (0.23%) WordPress
9 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.078%) Moodle
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.039%) Appian
12 1 (0.039%) Drupal
12 1 (0.039%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,379 (53.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.27%) Trello
8 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 35 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.35%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.16%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.16%) Shopify
8 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 3 (0.12%) Magento
8 3 (0.12%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.12%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.078%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,557 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,517 (59.33%) Azure
3 946 (37.00%) Azure AI
4 231 (9.03%) Power Automate
5 210 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
6 184 (7.20%) PowerApps
7 156 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 151 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 138 (5.40%) Snowflake
10 112 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
11 105 (4.11%) AWS
12 97 (3.79%) dbt
13 75 (2.93%) GCP
14 67 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
15 65 (2.54%) Entra ID
16 63 (2.46%) SaaS
17 52 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
18 51 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
19 37 (1.45%) Serverless
20 34 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.55%) Intranet
2 12 (0.47%) DHCP
2 12 (0.47%) DNS
3 11 (0.43%) Firewall
4 10 (0.39%) Broadband
5 8 (0.31%) VoIP
6 7 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.23%) WAN
8 5 (0.20%) Modbus
8 5 (0.20%) MQTT
8 5 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.12%) Internet
9 3 (0.12%) NAS
9 3 (0.12%) VLAN
10 2 (0.078%) Network Security
10 2 (0.078%) VPN
11 1 (0.039%) ADSL
11 1 (0.039%) FTP
11 1 (0.039%) Mobile Broadband
11 1 (0.039%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,184 (46.30%) Tableau
2 192 (7.51%) SQL Server
3 188 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (4.89%) Power Query
5 123 (4.81%) Data Lake
6 113 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 74 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 68 (2.66%) Looker
9 63 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 49 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 45 (1.76%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.72%) Big Data
13 39 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
16 29 (1.13%) Metadata
17 25 (0.98%) PowerPivot
17 25 (0.98%) Star Schema
18 24 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 23 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 62 (2.42%) Git
2 42 (1.64%) JIRA
3 27 (1.06%) Visual Studio
4 26 (1.02%) MLflow
5 12 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.16%) GitLab
6 4 (0.16%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.16%) Postman
7 2 (0.078%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.039%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.039%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.039%) ERwin
8 1 (0.039%) NUnit
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.039%) Selenium
8 1 (0.039%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.039%) Toad
General
1 1,529 (59.80%) Social Skills
2 550 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
3 534 (20.88%) Finance
4 99 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (3.56%) Marketing
6 85 (3.32%) Public Sector
7 81 (3.17%) Legal
8 78 (3.05%) Retail
9 76 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 72 (2.82%) Law
11 59 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 32 (1.25%) Banking
16 19 (0.74%) Publishing
16 19 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.70%) Advertising
18 17 (0.66%) Automotive
18 17 (0.66%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,470 (57.49%) Analyst
2 1,163 (45.48%) Data Analyst
3 959 (37.50%) Junior
4 953 (37.27%) Junior Analyst
5 950 (37.15%) Junior Data Analyst
6 254 (9.93%) Senior
7 227 (8.88%) Developer
8 141 (5.51%) Data Engineer
9 116 (4.54%) Lead
10 90 (3.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 82 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 76 (2.97%) Architect
13 75 (2.93%) Business Analyst
14 71 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
15 69 (2.70%) Financial Analyst
16 64 (2.50%) IT Support
17 60 (2.35%) Support Analyst
18 54 (2.11%) Systems Analyst
19 52 (2.03%) Consultant
19 52 (2.03%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (3.29%) .NET
2 49 (1.92%) JSON
3 42 (1.64%) PySpark
4 40 (1.56%) CSS
4 40 (1.56%) REST
5 37 (1.45%) HTML
5 37 (1.45%) XML
6 35 (1.37%) HTML5 Canvas
7 34 (1.33%) Kafka
8 32 (1.25%) .NET Core
9 30 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.13%) scikit-learn
11 24 (0.94%) EDI
11 24 (0.94%) TensorFlow
12 23 (0.90%) LangChain
12 23 (0.90%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.90%) pgvector
13 19 (0.74%) Middleware
13 19 (0.74%) SOAP
14 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 82 (3.21%) Management Information System
2 72 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 56 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 50 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 34 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 28 (1.10%) Low-Code
9 27 (1.06%) Clustering
10 25 (0.98%) Product Ownership
11 24 (0.94%) Public Cloud
12 18 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
12 18 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (0.63%) Driving Licence
14 15 (0.59%) Social Media
15 13 (0.51%) NHS
16 12 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (0.47%) FMCG
16 12 (0.47%) Reinsurance
17 11 (0.43%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.10%) Windows
2 17 (0.66%) Windows Server
3 12 (0.47%) Linux
3 12 (0.47%) VMS
4 6 (0.23%) Unix
5 5 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.078%) Android
8 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,439 (95.39%) Business Intelligence
2 1,169 (45.72%) AI
3 634 (24.79%) Analytics
4 445 (17.40%) Decision-Making
5 407 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
6 375 (14.67%) Data Modelling
7 340 (13.30%) Visualisation
8 290 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 266 (10.40%) ETL
10 232 (9.07%) Data Analysis
11 226 (8.84%) Data Governance
12 223 (8.72%) Agile
13 217 (8.49%) Data Visualisation
14 211 (8.25%) Actionable Insight
15 204 (7.98%) Data Engineering
16 183 (7.16%) Data Pipeline
17 180 (7.04%) ERP
18 171 (6.69%) Project Management
19 170 (6.65%) Data Management
20 156 (6.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,797 (70.28%) SQL
2 1,346 (52.64%) Python
3 161 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 110 (4.30%) C#
5 78 (3.05%) VBA
6 77 (3.01%) PowerShell
7 72 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 49 (1.92%) T-SQL
9 43 (1.68%) R
10 21 (0.82%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (0.47%) Scala
13 11 (0.43%) Delphi
14 10 (0.39%) Java
15 9 (0.35%) VBScript
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
16 6 (0.23%) VB
17 5 (0.20%) Bicep
18 3 (0.12%) ANSI SQL
18 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 970 (37.94%) Azure Certification
2 259 (10.13%) Degree
3 77 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 71 (2.78%) ACCA
4 71 (2.78%) CIMA
5 57 (2.23%) SC Cleared
6 42 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 35 (1.37%) PMP
9 33 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.63%) AAT
12 14 (0.55%) MBA
13 11 (0.43%) APMP
14 9 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.31%) IIBA
15 8 (0.31%) SSCP
16 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (10.72%) Data Quality
2 101 (3.95%) GDPR
3 56 (2.19%) QA
4 51 (1.99%) SLA
5 36 (1.41%) PMO
6 29 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 23 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.55%) TickIT
11 12 (0.47%) GRC
12 10 (0.39%) NIST
13 8 (0.31%) IFRS
14 4 (0.16%) GAAP
14 4 (0.16%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.16%) ITGC
15 2 (0.078%) EMIR
15 2 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.078%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.078%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.51%) Docker
3 12 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (0.51%) Kubernetes
1 13 (0.51%) Terraform
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
3 5 (0.20%) SCCM
3 5 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.16%) Ansible
4 4 (0.16%) Control-M
5 3 (0.12%) Argo
6 1 (0.039%) Grafana
6 1 (0.039%) MOM
6 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,487 (58.15%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.34%) Databricks
3 85 (3.32%) SAP
4 62 (2.42%) Oracle
5 44 (1.72%) Google
6 42 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.21%) Informatica
8 30 (1.17%) Alteryx
9 28 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.94%) Adobe
10 24 (0.94%) Cloudera
10 24 (0.94%) Dell
11 20 (0.78%) Anaplan
11 20 (0.78%) Intapp
12 13 (0.51%) HubSpot
12 13 (0.51%) iManage
12 13 (0.51%) Sage
13 12 (0.47%) Genesys
13 12 (0.47%) Verint
13 12 (0.47%) VMware