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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 68 74
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,380 1,723 2,248
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.46% 3.94% 3.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.78% 25.84% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,494 1,219 1,615
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £44,089
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 7,992 6,668 11,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.26% 15.24% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,561 4,370 7,553
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 28 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in England

Power BI
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 28 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 -16 689 £72,500 +9.02% 809
North of England +81 568 £45,024 -14.24% 266
Midlands +20 410 £51,356 +2.71% 193
South East -26 326 £52,500 - 300
North West +57 273 £47,500 -12.04% 155
West Midlands +11 246 £51,356 -3.10% 128
Yorkshire +52 217 £42,500 -12.82% 79
South West -28 209 £42,500 -15.00% 116
East Midlands +11 164 £50,000 +11.11% 65
East of England -4 157 £60,000 +50.00% 85
North East +2 78 £45,000 -5.26% 34
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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
1 189 (7.94%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 42 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.67%) Apache
6 9 (0.38%) WordPress
7 8 (0.34%) CMS
8 7 (0.29%) Confluence
9 6 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.25%) SAS
10 4 (0.17%) Luigi
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.084%) Appian
11 2 (0.084%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.084%) IIS
11 2 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.084%) Tornado
11 2 (0.084%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.042%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 934 (39.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.084%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.042%) InDesign
9 1 (0.042%) Inkscape
9 1 (0.042%) Revit
9 1 (0.042%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 56 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (2.06%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.67%) Elite 3E
4 12 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.42%) Carpe Diem
6 9 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 9 (0.38%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.17%) Infor M3
9 4 (0.17%) Magento
9 4 (0.17%) Shopify
10 3 (0.13%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.084%) Dynamics GP
11 2 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.084%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.084%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.084%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,380 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,113 (46.76%) Azure
3 484 (20.34%) Azure AI
4 295 (12.39%) Power Automate
5 272 (11.43%) PowerApps
6 247 (10.38%) Microsoft 365
7 187 (7.86%) Dynamics 365
8 167 (7.02%) AWS
9 158 (6.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 121 (5.08%) Snowflake
11 116 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
12 110 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 102 (4.29%) GCP
14 74 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
15 71 (2.98%) Microsoft Copilot
16 70 (2.94%) SaaS
17 69 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
18 61 (2.56%) OneDrive
19 57 (2.39%) dbt
20 46 (1.93%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.63%) Firewall
2 13 (0.55%) Broadband
3 9 (0.38%) WAN
4 8 (0.34%) DHCP
4 8 (0.34%) DNS
4 8 (0.34%) LAN
5 6 (0.25%) VoIP
5 6 (0.25%) VPN
6 5 (0.21%) Network Security
6 5 (0.21%) SMS
7 4 (0.17%) LTE
7 4 (0.17%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) NAS
8 3 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.084%) Intranet
9 2 (0.084%) Wireless
10 1 (0.042%) Modbus
10 1 (0.042%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 786 (33.03%) Tableau
2 233 (9.79%) Data Warehouse
3 166 (6.97%) SQL Server
4 145 (6.09%) Data Lake
5 130 (5.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 121 (5.08%) Power Query
7 92 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 84 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 81 (3.40%) Looker
10 61 (2.56%) Relational Database
11 57 (2.39%) Metadata
12 53 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 48 (2.02%) Star Schema
14 35 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
16 30 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
17 29 (1.22%) Big Data
17 29 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 27 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 25 (1.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 78 (3.28%) Git
2 52 (2.18%) JIRA
3 31 (1.30%) MLflow
4 15 (0.63%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.17%) GitLab
9 2 (0.084%) Ant
9 2 (0.084%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.084%) ERwin
9 2 (0.084%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.084%) Maven
10 1 (0.042%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.042%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.042%) kappa
10 1 (0.042%) NUnit
10 1 (0.042%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.042%) Toad
10 1 (0.042%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,204 (50.59%) Social Skills
2 592 (24.87%) Analytical Skills
2 592 (24.87%) Finance
3 145 (6.09%) Law
4 129 (5.42%) Legal
5 125 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (5.25%) Retail
6 123 (5.17%) Marketing
7 115 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
8 102 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 100 (4.20%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.89%) Banking
11 35 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (1.34%) Billing
12 32 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.09%) Military
16 24 (1.01%) Social Housing
17 22 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 992 (41.68%) Analyst
2 683 (28.70%) Data Analyst
3 497 (20.88%) Junior
4 489 (20.55%) Junior Analyst
5 476 (20.00%) Junior Data Analyst
6 303 (12.73%) Senior
7 302 (12.69%) Developer
8 179 (7.52%) Data Engineer
9 139 (5.84%) Lead
10 85 (3.57%) Architect
10 85 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 85 (3.57%) Data Manager
11 79 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 75 (3.15%) Business Analyst
13 68 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
14 59 (2.48%) Consultant
14 59 (2.48%) Systems Analyst
15 57 (2.39%) Data Architect
16 55 (2.31%) Power Platform Developer
16 55 (2.31%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (4.92%) .NET
2 70 (2.94%) REST
3 64 (2.69%) HTML
3 64 (2.69%) PySpark
4 55 (2.31%) CSS
5 47 (1.97%) Kafka
6 44 (1.85%) JSON
7 39 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
8 36 (1.51%) .NET Core
8 36 (1.51%) PyTorch
9 34 (1.43%) scikit-learn
10 31 (1.30%) TensorFlow
11 29 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
12 26 (1.09%) Terraform
13 24 (1.01%) EDI
13 24 (1.01%) LangChain
13 24 (1.01%) LlamaIndex
13 24 (1.01%) XML
14 23 (0.97%) Middleware
14 23 (0.97%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.05%) Management Information System
2 73 (3.07%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.48%) Cloud Native
4 56 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 41 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 40 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.01%) Clustering
12 23 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (0.84%) AI Agents
13 20 (0.84%) Driving Licence
14 19 (0.80%) NHS
15 18 (0.76%) Social Media
16 17 (0.71%) Low-Code
17 16 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 15 (0.63%) Educational Technology
19 14 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.23%) Windows
2 20 (0.84%) Linux
3 19 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.084%) Android
7 2 (0.084%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.084%) Solaris
7 2 (0.084%) VMS
8 1 (0.042%) Unix
8 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,238 (94.03%) Business Intelligence
2 916 (38.49%) AI
3 780 (32.77%) Analytics
4 544 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 511 (21.47%) Decision-Making
6 456 (19.16%) Data Modelling
7 412 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 342 (14.37%) Visualisation
9 308 (12.94%) Agile
10 298 (12.52%) Data Governance
10 298 (12.52%) ETL
11 270 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 262 (11.01%) Data Engineering
13 251 (10.55%) ERP
14 250 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 245 (10.29%) Actionable Insight
16 236 (9.92%) Data Visualisation
17 230 (9.66%) Data Analysis
18 217 (9.12%) Data Pipeline
19 214 (8.99%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,532 (64.37%) SQL
2 889 (37.35%) Python
3 172 (7.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 170 (7.14%) C#
5 121 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 57 (2.39%) PowerShell
7 49 (2.06%) T-SQL
8 46 (1.93%) VBA
9 45 (1.89%) R
10 34 (1.43%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.84%) Scala
12 17 (0.71%) Java
13 13 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.25%) Julia
14 6 (0.25%) VB
14 6 (0.25%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.21%) PHP
15 5 (0.21%) VBScript
16 4 (0.17%) Bicep
16 4 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 510 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 267 (11.22%) Degree
3 112 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 93 (3.91%) SC Cleared
5 83 (3.49%) ACCA
6 78 (3.28%) CIMA
7 47 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 25 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (0.92%) PMP
12 21 (0.88%) AAT
13 15 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.34%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.34%) SSCP
16 7 (0.29%) CFA
16 7 (0.29%) HND
16 7 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 402 (16.89%) Data Quality
2 146 (6.13%) GDPR
3 87 (3.66%) QA
4 52 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 43 (1.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 42 (1.76%) PMO
6 42 (1.76%) SLA
7 22 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.71%) TickIT
9 16 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.55%) NIST
11 9 (0.38%) GRC
12 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.25%) GAAP
13 6 (0.25%) PERC
14 5 (0.21%) IFRS
15 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.084%) GxP
System Software
1 29 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.97%) Docker
3 6 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.13%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.084%) IAG
Systems Management
1 16 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.59%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.42%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.21%) Ansible
6 4 (0.17%) Argo
7 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.084%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.084%) Puppet
7 2 (0.084%) SCCM
8 1 (0.042%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.042%) Grafana
8 1 (0.042%) MOM
8 1 (0.042%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.042%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,251 (52.56%) Microsoft
2 203 (8.53%) Databricks
3 99 (4.16%) SAP
4 72 (3.03%) Google
4 72 (3.03%) Oracle
5 40 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 30 (1.26%) Sage
7 27 (1.13%) Alteryx
7 27 (1.13%) Intapp
8 24 (1.01%) Adobe
8 24 (1.01%) Cloudera
9 23 (0.97%) Dell
10 21 (0.88%) Informatica
11 17 (0.71%) Concur
12 16 (0.67%) iManage
12 16 (0.67%) ServiceNow
13 15 (0.63%) Aderant
14 12 (0.50%) HubSpot
14 12 (0.50%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.50%) SYSPRO