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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 64 59
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +22
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,633 1,521 3,201
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.35% 4.04% 3.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.78% 22.76% 21.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 1,073 2,587
10th Percentile £35,300 £36,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,942 £42,500 £41,492
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £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 6,970 6,682 14,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.86% 17.76% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,294 4,730 11,432
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,377 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,250
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

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 25 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 25 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
North of England +22 614 £45,000 -10.00% 151
London -1 613 £72,500 +3.57% 203
Midlands +23 496 £47,085 -5.83% 118
South East +10 461 £55,000 - 186
Yorkshire +42 288 £42,039 -11.50% 51
West Midlands +18 286 £46,042 -11.75% 76
North West +5 255 £45,500 -13.33% 80
South West +28 230 £45,000 -7.69% 59
East Midlands +26 208 £47,500 +4.40% 42
East of England -9 207 £55,000 -21.43% 55
North East +6 71 £51,000 +2.00% 24
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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
1 146 (5.55%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 47 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.38%) Confluence
5 10 (0.38%) SAS
6 8 (0.30%) Apache
7 7 (0.27%) WordPress
8 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.23%) CMS
9 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.076%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.076%) Moodle
10 2 (0.076%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.038%) Appian
11 1 (0.038%) Drupal
11 1 (0.038%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,442 (54.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.76%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 36 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.80%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.19%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.19%) Shopify
9 4 (0.15%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.15%) Magento
10 3 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.11%) ResourceLink
11 2 (0.076%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.076%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,633 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,569 (59.59%) Azure
3 993 (37.71%) Azure AI
4 238 (9.04%) Power Automate
5 215 (8.17%) Microsoft 365
6 188 (7.14%) PowerApps
7 158 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 147 (5.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 137 (5.20%) Snowflake
10 117 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
11 108 (4.10%) AWS
12 94 (3.57%) dbt
13 74 (2.81%) GCP
14 69 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
15 66 (2.51%) SaaS
16 65 (2.47%) Entra ID
17 54 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
18 48 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
19 38 (1.44%) Serverless
20 35 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.61%) Broadband
2 13 (0.49%) Intranet
3 12 (0.46%) DHCP
3 12 (0.46%) DNS
4 9 (0.34%) Firewall
5 8 (0.30%) VoIP
6 7 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.23%) WAN
8 5 (0.19%) Modbus
8 5 (0.19%) MQTT
8 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.11%) Internet
9 3 (0.11%) NAS
9 3 (0.11%) VLAN
10 2 (0.076%) Network Security
10 2 (0.076%) VPN
11 1 (0.038%) ADSL
11 1 (0.038%) FTP
11 1 (0.038%) LTE
11 1 (0.038%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,231 (46.75%) Tableau
2 191 (7.25%) SQL Server
3 182 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
4 129 (4.90%) Data Lake
5 120 (4.56%) Power Query
6 109 (4.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 75 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 69 (2.62%) Looker
9 58 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 50 (1.90%) BigQuery
11 45 (1.71%) Big Data
12 44 (1.67%) Relational Database
13 40 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (1.03%) Metadata
17 25 (0.95%) Star Schema
18 24 (0.91%) PowerPivot
19 23 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
19 23 (0.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 58 (2.20%) Git
2 42 (1.60%) JIRA
3 26 (0.99%) MLflow
4 24 (0.91%) Visual Studio
5 12 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.15%) GitLab
6 4 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.15%) Postman
7 2 (0.076%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.038%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.038%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.038%) ERwin
8 1 (0.038%) NUnit
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.038%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.038%) Selenium
8 1 (0.038%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.038%) Toad
General
1 1,593 (60.50%) Social Skills
2 554 (21.04%) Analytical Skills
3 537 (20.39%) Finance
4 100 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (3.53%) Marketing
6 88 (3.34%) Public Sector
7 85 (3.23%) Law
8 83 (3.15%) Retail
9 82 (3.11%) Legal
10 76 (2.89%) Manufacturing
11 61 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
15 33 (1.25%) Banking
16 29 (1.10%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.72%) Advertising
18 18 (0.68%) Publishing
19 16 (0.61%) Automotive
19 16 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,516 (57.58%) Analyst
2 1,207 (45.84%) Data Analyst
3 1,006 (38.21%) Junior
4 1,000 (37.98%) Junior Analyst
5 997 (37.87%) Junior Data Analyst
6 265 (10.06%) Senior
7 238 (9.04%) Developer
8 144 (5.47%) Data Engineer
9 119 (4.52%) Lead
10 87 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 78 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 76 (2.89%) Architect
12 76 (2.89%) Business Analyst
13 70 (2.66%) Financial Analyst
14 69 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
15 63 (2.39%) IT Support
16 61 (2.32%) Support Analyst
17 55 (2.09%) Consultant
17 55 (2.09%) Systems Analyst
18 52 (1.97%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (3.38%) .NET
2 51 (1.94%) JSON
3 45 (1.71%) CSS
4 43 (1.63%) HTML
4 43 (1.63%) PySpark
5 41 (1.56%) HTML5 Canvas
6 40 (1.52%) REST
7 36 (1.37%) XML
8 35 (1.33%) .NET Core
9 34 (1.29%) Kafka
10 30 (1.14%) PyTorch
11 29 (1.10%) scikit-learn
12 25 (0.95%) EDI
13 24 (0.91%) TensorFlow
14 23 (0.87%) LangChain
14 23 (0.87%) LlamaIndex
14 23 (0.87%) pgvector
15 21 (0.80%) Middleware
16 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (0.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 83 (3.15%) Management Information System
2 72 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 59 (2.24%) Data Structures
4 56 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 35 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 27 (1.03%) Clustering
8 27 (1.03%) Low-Code
9 24 (0.91%) Product Ownership
9 24 (0.91%) Public Cloud
10 21 (0.80%) Social Media
11 20 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
12 18 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (0.57%) Driving Licence
13 15 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.53%) NHS
15 13 (0.49%) Reinsurance
16 12 (0.46%) FMCG
17 11 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.06%) 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 2,502 (95.02%) Business Intelligence
2 1,218 (46.26%) AI
3 631 (23.97%) Analytics
4 443 (16.82%) Decision-Making
5 407 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
6 381 (14.47%) Data Modelling
7 338 (12.84%) Visualisation
8 291 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 262 (9.95%) ETL
10 229 (8.70%) Data Analysis
11 222 (8.43%) Data Governance
12 218 (8.28%) Actionable Insight
13 215 (8.17%) Agile
13 215 (8.17%) Data Visualisation
14 200 (7.60%) Data Engineering
15 190 (7.22%) ERP
16 187 (7.10%) Data Pipeline
17 176 (6.68%) Project Management
18 171 (6.49%) Data Management
19 161 (6.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,848 (70.19%) SQL
2 1,395 (52.98%) Python
3 158 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 117 (4.44%) C#
5 82 (3.11%) JavaScript
6 79 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 77 (2.92%) VBA
8 49 (1.86%) T-SQL
9 44 (1.67%) R
10 25 (0.95%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (0.42%) Delphi
12 11 (0.42%) Scala
13 10 (0.38%) Java
14 9 (0.34%) VBScript
15 6 (0.23%) Julia
15 6 (0.23%) VB
16 5 (0.19%) Bicep
17 4 (0.15%) VB.NET
18 3 (0.11%) C
Qualifications
1 1,016 (38.59%) Azure Certification
2 260 (9.87%) Degree
3 79 (3.00%) Security Cleared
4 72 (2.73%) ACCA
4 72 (2.73%) CIMA
5 58 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 40 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 36 (1.37%) PMP
9 32 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.14%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.61%) AAT
12 13 (0.49%) MBA
13 10 (0.38%) APMP
14 9 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.30%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.30%) IIBA
15 8 (0.30%) SSCP
16 7 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (10.33%) Data Quality
2 103 (3.91%) GDPR
3 57 (2.16%) QA
4 53 (2.01%) SLA
5 36 (1.37%) PMO
6 28 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 20 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.61%) TickIT
11 13 (0.49%) NIST
12 12 (0.46%) GRC
13 8 (0.30%) IFRS
14 4 (0.15%) GAAP
14 4 (0.15%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.15%) ITGC
15 3 (0.11%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.076%) EMIR
16 2 (0.076%) MiFID
16 2 (0.076%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.53%) Docker
3 12 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.038%) IAG
6 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (0.49%) Kubernetes
1 13 (0.49%) Terraform
2 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.19%) SCCM
4 4 (0.15%) Ansible
4 4 (0.15%) Control-M
4 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.11%) Argo
5 3 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.038%) Grafana
6 1 (0.038%) MOM
6 1 (0.038%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,544 (58.64%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.15%) Databricks
3 92 (3.49%) SAP
4 68 (2.58%) Oracle
5 44 (1.67%) Google
6 41 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.18%) Informatica
8 30 (1.14%) Alteryx
9 28 (1.06%) Adobe
10 27 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 24 (0.91%) Cloudera
11 24 (0.91%) Dell
12 22 (0.84%) Intapp
13 20 (0.76%) Anaplan
14 14 (0.53%) iManage
15 13 (0.49%) HubSpot
15 13 (0.49%) Sage
16 12 (0.46%) Genesys
16 12 (0.46%) Verint
16 12 (0.46%) VMware