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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 67 59
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +24
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,469 1,463 3,195
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.34% 4.00% 3.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.30% 21.70% 22.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 1,031 2,586
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £53,635
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 6,802 6,743 14,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.19% 18.45% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,237 4,759 11,411
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -10.20%

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 10 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 10 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 +9 631 £70,000 - 258
North of England +5 542 £47,000 -6.00% 176
Midlands +24 455 £47,085 -5.83% 126
South East +12 433 £56,250 +2.27% 212
West Midlands +22 266 £47,085 -7.54% 72
Yorkshire +35 251 £42,039 -11.50% 63
North West -14 229 £47,500 -5.00% 90
South West +26 206 £45,000 -6.25% 70
East Midlands +22 187 £45,390 +5.56% 54
East of England -11 185 £52,500 -25.00% 57
North East +18 62 £51,250 +5.13% 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
1 148 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.57%) Confluence
6 12 (0.49%) SAS
7 7 (0.28%) Apache
8 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.20%) CMS
9 4 (0.16%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.16%) WordPress
10 2 (0.081%) Moodle
10 2 (0.081%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.081%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.041%) Appian
11 1 (0.041%) Drupal
11 1 (0.041%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.041%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.041%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,286 (52.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 23 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.36%) Trello
8 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.041%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 39 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.36%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 5 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.16%) Shopify
8 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 3 (0.12%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.12%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Visualfiles
9 2 (0.081%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 2,469 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,433 (58.04%) Azure
3 853 (34.55%) Azure AI
4 243 (9.84%) Power Automate
5 212 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
6 195 (7.90%) PowerApps
7 158 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 150 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 137 (5.55%) Snowflake
10 118 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
11 105 (4.25%) AWS
12 96 (3.89%) dbt
13 77 (3.12%) GCP
14 73 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
15 65 (2.63%) SaaS
16 63 (2.55%) Entra ID
17 56 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
18 52 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
19 37 (1.50%) Serverless
20 31 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.57%) Intranet
2 11 (0.45%) DHCP
2 11 (0.45%) DNS
3 10 (0.41%) Firewall
3 10 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.28%) VoIP
5 6 (0.24%) WAN
6 5 (0.20%) Modbus
6 5 (0.20%) MQTT
7 4 (0.16%) Broadband
7 4 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.12%) Internet
8 3 (0.12%) VLAN
9 2 (0.081%) NAS
9 2 (0.081%) Network Security
9 2 (0.081%) VPN
10 1 (0.041%) ADSL
10 1 (0.041%) FTP
10 1 (0.041%) Mobile Broadband
10 1 (0.041%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,096 (44.39%) Tableau
2 198 (8.02%) SQL Server
3 191 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (5.02%) Power Query
5 118 (4.78%) Data Lake
6 114 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 73 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 70 (2.84%) Looker
9 67 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 49 (1.98%) BigQuery
11 46 (1.86%) Relational Database
12 42 (1.70%) Big Data
13 39 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
15 29 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
16 28 (1.13%) Metadata
17 27 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 26 (1.05%) PowerPivot
18 26 (1.05%) Star Schema
19 23 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 68 (2.75%) Git
2 38 (1.54%) JIRA
3 31 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 26 (1.05%) MLflow
5 11 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.16%) GitLab
6 4 (0.16%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.16%) Postman
7 2 (0.081%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.081%) ERwin
7 2 (0.081%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.041%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.041%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.041%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.041%) NUnit
8 1 (0.041%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.041%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.041%) Selenium
8 1 (0.041%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.041%) Toad
General
1 1,435 (58.12%) Social Skills
2 564 (22.84%) Analytical Skills
3 539 (21.83%) Finance
4 98 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (3.81%) Marketing
6 87 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 83 (3.36%) Legal
8 78 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 77 (3.12%) Law
10 73 (2.96%) Retail
11 58 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.38%) Banking
15 31 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
16 22 (0.89%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.77%) Publishing
18 18 (0.73%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.69%) Automotive
20 16 (0.65%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,375 (55.69%) Analyst
2 1,066 (43.18%) Data Analyst
3 864 (34.99%) Junior
4 859 (34.79%) Junior Analyst
5 856 (34.67%) Junior Data Analyst
6 253 (10.25%) Senior
7 232 (9.40%) Developer
8 142 (5.75%) Data Engineer
9 114 (4.62%) Lead
10 93 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 88 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 78 (3.16%) Architect
13 75 (3.04%) Business Analyst
14 73 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
15 70 (2.84%) Financial Analyst
16 66 (2.67%) IT Support
17 61 (2.47%) Support Analyst
18 54 (2.19%) Power BI Developer
19 53 (2.15%) Consultant
20 51 (2.07%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (3.20%) .NET
2 49 (1.98%) JSON
3 43 (1.74%) REST
4 42 (1.70%) PySpark
5 38 (1.54%) XML
6 36 (1.46%) CSS
7 35 (1.42%) Kafka
8 33 (1.34%) HTML
8 33 (1.34%) HTML5 Canvas
9 30 (1.22%) .NET Core
9 30 (1.22%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.17%) scikit-learn
11 24 (0.97%) TensorFlow
12 23 (0.93%) EDI
12 23 (0.93%) LangChain
12 23 (0.93%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.93%) pgvector
13 20 (0.81%) SOAP
14 18 (0.73%) Middleware
15 14 (0.57%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 76 (3.08%) Management Information System
2 75 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 59 (2.39%) Cloud Native
4 44 (1.78%) Data Structures
5 36 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 31 (1.26%) Low-Code
9 27 (1.09%) Clustering
10 26 (1.05%) Product Ownership
11 24 (0.97%) Public Cloud
12 17 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (0.65%) Driving Licence
13 16 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
14 14 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.53%) FMCG
15 13 (0.53%) Reinsurance
16 12 (0.49%) NHS
16 12 (0.49%) Social Media
17 11 (0.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.42%) Windows
2 16 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.53%) Linux
4 12 (0.49%) VMS
5 8 (0.32%) Unix
6 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.081%) Android
9 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,352 (95.26%) Business Intelligence
2 1,077 (43.62%) AI
3 636 (25.76%) Analytics
4 452 (18.31%) Decision-Making
5 415 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
6 368 (14.90%) Data Modelling
7 350 (14.18%) Visualisation
8 286 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 265 (10.73%) ETL
10 237 (9.60%) Data Analysis
11 232 (9.40%) Agile
11 232 (9.40%) Data Governance
12 228 (9.23%) Data Visualisation
13 210 (8.51%) Actionable Insight
14 208 (8.42%) Data Engineering
15 184 (7.45%) Data Pipeline
16 172 (6.97%) ERP
17 170 (6.89%) Data Management
17 170 (6.89%) Project Management
18 157 (6.36%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,704 (69.02%) SQL
2 1,257 (50.91%) Python
3 160 (6.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 110 (4.46%) C#
5 79 (3.20%) PowerShell
6 78 (3.16%) VBA
7 74 (3.00%) JavaScript
8 50 (2.03%) R
9 49 (1.98%) T-SQL
10 20 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
11 19 (0.77%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.49%) Scala
13 11 (0.45%) Delphi
14 9 (0.36%) Java
14 9 (0.36%) VBScript
15 6 (0.24%) Julia
15 6 (0.24%) VB
16 5 (0.20%) Bicep
17 3 (0.12%) Bash
17 3 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 876 (35.48%) Azure Certification
2 265 (10.73%) Degree
3 84 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.04%) ACCA
4 75 (3.04%) CIMA
5 65 (2.63%) SC Cleared
6 46 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 36 (1.46%) PMP
9 33 (1.34%) DBS Check
9 33 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.69%) AAT
11 15 (0.61%) MBA
12 12 (0.49%) APMP
13 9 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.32%) IIBA
15 7 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 7 (0.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (11.10%) Data Quality
2 99 (4.01%) GDPR
3 56 (2.27%) QA
4 47 (1.90%) SLA
5 38 (1.54%) PMO
6 29 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 24 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.45%) GRC
10 11 (0.45%) TickIT
11 8 (0.32%) NIST
12 7 (0.28%) IFRS
13 4 (0.16%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.16%) ITGC
14 3 (0.12%) GAAP
15 2 (0.081%) EMIR
15 2 (0.081%) MiFID
15 2 (0.081%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.081%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.49%) Docker
3 11 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.081%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (0.57%) Terraform
2 13 (0.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.20%) SCCM
4 5 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.16%) Ansible
5 4 (0.16%) Control-M
6 3 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.041%) Grafana
7 1 (0.041%) MOM
7 1 (0.041%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.041%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,400 (56.70%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.52%) Databricks
3 83 (3.36%) SAP
4 63 (2.55%) Oracle
5 48 (1.94%) Google
6 45 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 33 (1.34%) Informatica
8 32 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.22%) Alteryx
10 24 (0.97%) Cloudera
10 24 (0.97%) Dell
11 22 (0.89%) Adobe
12 20 (0.81%) Anaplan
12 20 (0.81%) Intapp
13 13 (0.53%) Sage
14 12 (0.49%) Genesys
14 12 (0.49%) HubSpot
14 12 (0.49%) iManage
14 12 (0.49%) Verint
15 11 (0.45%) Epicor