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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 70 60
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 +20
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,631 1,558 3,179
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.26% 4.00% 3.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.32% 23.01% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 1,082 2,581
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,297 £42,500 £41,315
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,625 £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 7,049 6,772 14,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.73% 17.38% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,406 4,653 11,398
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
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 9 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 9 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 +29 619 £45,000 -13.46% 156
London -5 606 £72,500 +3.57% 306
Midlands +28 496 £47,085 -9.76% 110
South East +22 458 £55,000 - 219
Yorkshire +46 291 £42,039 -11.50% 46
West Midlands +17 290 £44,772 -14.72% 71
North West +17 262 £46,500 -11.43% 96
South West +20 229 £43,727 -15.91% 45
East of England +8 211 £55,000 -15.38% 51
East Midlands +51 204 £47,500 -5.00% 39
North East +4 66 £51,000 -5.12% 16
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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
1 152 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 48 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 43 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.38%) SAS
6 9 (0.34%) Apache
7 8 (0.30%) Confluence
8 7 (0.27%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.23%) CMS
10 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.076%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.076%) Luigi
11 2 (0.076%) Moodle
11 2 (0.076%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.038%) Appian
12 1 (0.038%) Drupal
12 1 (0.038%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,405 (53.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.11%) Trello
7 2 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 43 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.30%) 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 (0.11%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.076%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.076%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.076%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 2,631 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,563 (59.41%) Azure
3 993 (37.74%) Azure AI
4 244 (9.27%) Power Automate
5 212 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
6 199 (7.56%) PowerApps
7 148 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 136 (5.17%) Snowflake
9 129 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 124 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
11 116 (4.41%) AWS
12 91 (3.46%) dbt
13 76 (2.89%) GCP
14 75 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
15 66 (2.51%) SaaS
16 62 (2.36%) Entra ID
17 61 (2.32%) Azure Logic Apps
18 47 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
19 45 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
20 41 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.61%) Broadband
2 12 (0.46%) DHCP
2 12 (0.46%) DNS
2 12 (0.46%) Intranet
3 8 (0.30%) Firewall
4 7 (0.27%) VoIP
5 6 (0.23%) WAN
6 5 (0.19%) Modbus
6 5 (0.19%) MQTT
6 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.15%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.11%) LTE
8 3 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.076%) Internet
9 2 (0.076%) VLAN
9 2 (0.076%) VPN
10 1 (0.038%) FTP
10 1 (0.038%) Mobile Broadband
10 1 (0.038%) Network Security
10 1 (0.038%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,236 (46.98%) Tableau
2 185 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
3 178 (6.77%) SQL Server
4 128 (4.87%) Data Lake
5 118 (4.48%) Power Query
6 108 (4.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 69 (2.62%) Looker
8 66 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 64 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 51 (1.94%) BigQuery
11 47 (1.79%) Relational Database
12 45 (1.71%) Big Data
13 42 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 33 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (1.14%) Metadata
15 30 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (1.03%) Star Schema
17 23 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (0.87%) MySQL
18 22 (0.84%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 62 (2.36%) Git
2 39 (1.48%) JIRA
3 27 (1.03%) Visual Studio
4 26 (0.99%) MLflow
5 13 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.11%) GitLab
7 3 (0.11%) Postman
8 2 (0.076%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.038%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.038%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.038%) ERwin
9 1 (0.038%) NUnit
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.038%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.038%) Selenium
9 1 (0.038%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.038%) Toad
General
1 1,579 (60.02%) Social Skills
2 534 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
3 493 (18.74%) Finance
4 113 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (3.65%) Marketing
6 90 (3.42%) Law
7 89 (3.38%) Public Sector
7 89 (3.38%) Retail
8 78 (2.96%) Legal
9 70 (2.66%) Manufacturing
10 62 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 41 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.14%) Banking
15 25 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.84%) Publishing
17 19 (0.72%) Advertising
18 17 (0.65%) Automotive
19 16 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,502 (57.09%) Analyst
2 1,199 (45.57%) Data Analyst
3 1,009 (38.35%) Junior
4 1,003 (38.12%) Junior Analyst
5 997 (37.89%) Junior Data Analyst
6 276 (10.49%) Senior
7 250 (9.50%) Developer
8 142 (5.40%) Data Engineer
9 123 (4.68%) Lead
10 89 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 81 (3.08%) Business Analyst
12 78 (2.96%) Architect
12 78 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 69 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
14 63 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
15 60 (2.28%) IT Support
16 59 (2.24%) Data Manager
17 56 (2.13%) Power BI Developer
17 56 (2.13%) Systems Analyst
18 53 (2.01%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (3.46%) .NET
2 54 (2.05%) JSON
3 50 (1.90%) CSS
4 49 (1.86%) HTML
5 45 (1.71%) REST
6 43 (1.63%) PySpark
7 42 (1.60%) HTML5 Canvas
8 39 (1.48%) XML
9 35 (1.33%) .NET Core
10 34 (1.29%) Kafka
11 29 (1.10%) PyTorch
11 29 (1.10%) scikit-learn
12 24 (0.91%) EDI
13 23 (0.87%) LangChain
13 23 (0.87%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (0.87%) pgvector
13 23 (0.87%) TensorFlow
14 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
14 22 (0.84%) Middleware
14 22 (0.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (3.12%) Management Information System
2 63 (2.39%) Data Structures
3 57 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 55 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 35 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 29 (1.10%) Low-Code
8 27 (1.03%) Clustering
9 24 (0.91%) Product Ownership
9 24 (0.91%) Public Cloud
9 24 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 20 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (0.72%) NHS
12 19 (0.72%) Social Media
13 15 (0.57%) Driving Licence
14 14 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.49%) FMCG
16 12 (0.46%) Reinsurance
17 11 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.03%) Windows
2 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.49%) Linux
4 12 (0.46%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) Unix
6 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.076%) Android
9 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,492 (94.72%) Business Intelligence
2 1,232 (46.83%) AI
3 628 (23.87%) Analytics
4 434 (16.50%) Decision-Making
5 390 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
6 380 (14.44%) Data Modelling
7 321 (12.20%) Visualisation
8 277 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 267 (10.15%) ETL
10 223 (8.48%) Data Governance
11 220 (8.36%) Agile
12 216 (8.21%) Data Visualisation
13 209 (7.94%) Data Engineering
14 202 (7.68%) Data Analysis
15 200 (7.60%) Actionable Insight
16 189 (7.18%) ERP
17 184 (6.99%) Project Management
18 181 (6.88%) Data Pipeline
19 177 (6.73%) Machine Learning
20 172 (6.54%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,843 (70.05%) SQL
2 1,395 (53.02%) Python
3 145 (5.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 120 (4.56%) C#
5 88 (3.34%) JavaScript
6 77 (2.93%) PowerShell
7 72 (2.74%) VBA
8 52 (1.98%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.71%) R
10 26 (0.99%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (0.49%) Java
13 12 (0.46%) Scala
14 11 (0.42%) Delphi
15 9 (0.34%) VBScript
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
16 6 (0.23%) VB
17 5 (0.19%) Bicep
18 3 (0.11%) ANSI SQL
18 3 (0.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,015 (38.58%) Azure Certification
2 269 (10.22%) Degree
3 80 (3.04%) Security Cleared
4 68 (2.58%) ACCA
4 68 (2.58%) CIMA
5 59 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 43 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.48%) PMI Certification
7 39 (1.48%) PMP
8 35 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (1.33%) DBS Check
9 26 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.57%) AAT
11 11 (0.42%) MBA
12 9 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (0.30%) APMP
13 8 (0.30%) CompTIA CySA+
13 8 (0.30%) IIBA
13 8 (0.30%) SSCP
14 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (10.38%) Data Quality
2 107 (4.07%) GDPR
3 61 (2.32%) QA
4 53 (2.01%) SLA
5 34 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.22%) PMO
7 29 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 26 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.65%) TickIT
10 14 (0.53%) NIST
11 12 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.46%) GRC
12 8 (0.30%) IFRS
13 4 (0.15%) GAAP
13 4 (0.15%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.15%) ITGC
13 4 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.076%) EMIR
14 2 (0.076%) MiFID
14 2 (0.076%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.53%) Docker
3 11 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.076%) IAG
7 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (0.53%) Terraform
2 13 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.19%) SCCM
5 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 4 (0.15%) Control-M
5 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.11%) Argo
7 2 (0.076%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.038%) Grafana
8 1 (0.038%) MOM
8 1 (0.038%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,562 (59.37%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.27%) Databricks
3 88 (3.34%) SAP
4 77 (2.93%) Oracle
5 48 (1.82%) Google
6 39 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.22%) Informatica
8 31 (1.18%) Adobe
9 30 (1.14%) Alteryx
10 25 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 24 (0.91%) Cloudera
11 24 (0.91%) Dell
12 22 (0.84%) Intapp
13 20 (0.76%) Anaplan
14 13 (0.49%) iManage
14 13 (0.49%) Sage
15 12 (0.46%) Genesys
15 12 (0.46%) HubSpot
15 12 (0.46%) Verint
16 11 (0.42%) VMware