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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 77 64
Rank change year-on-year +25 -13 +13
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,517 1,604 2,944
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 3.71% 3.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.09% 23.66% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 1,202 2,310
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% +1.44% -

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 7,843 6,779 13,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.91% 15.68% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5,373 4,502 10,083
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,064 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,875 £59,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% +3.18% -5.60%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -14 632 £70,000 +2.19% 190
North of England +75 618 £46,500 -7.92% 125
Midlands +21 449 £47,500 -5.00% 97
South East +10 391 £52,500 - 137
North West +71 285 £49,000 -6.67% 63
Yorkshire +61 263 £44,000 -12.00% 41
West Midlands +17 263 £47,500 -11.21% 54
South West +4 221 £42,500 -22.73% 50
East Midlands +27 186 £47,500 +5.56% 43
East of England +28 184 £60,000 +28.34% 27
North East 0 70 £45,000 - 22
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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
1 174 (6.91%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 43 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.40%) Apache
6 9 (0.36%) WordPress
7 7 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.28%) Confluence
8 6 (0.24%) CMS
9 5 (0.20%) SAS
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.079%) IIS
11 2 (0.079%) Luigi
11 2 (0.079%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.040%) Appian
12 1 (0.040%) Mendix
12 1 (0.040%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1,167 (46.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.95%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.079%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.040%) Revit
Business Applications
1 49 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (1.75%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.20%) Shopify
7 5 (0.20%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.16%) Magento
9 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.079%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.079%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.079%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,517 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,304 (51.81%) Azure
3 716 (28.45%) Azure AI
4 276 (10.97%) Power Automate
5 252 (10.01%) PowerApps
6 248 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
7 158 (6.28%) Dynamics 365
8 146 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 135 (5.36%) AWS
10 117 (4.65%) Snowflake
11 111 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 89 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
12 89 (3.54%) GCP
13 76 (3.02%) SaaS
14 75 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 70 (2.78%) dbt
15 70 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
16 60 (2.38%) OneDrive
17 58 (2.30%) Entra ID
18 50 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.68%) Broadband
2 16 (0.64%) Firewall
3 11 (0.44%) DHCP
3 11 (0.44%) DNS
4 8 (0.32%) WAN
5 6 (0.24%) VoIP
5 6 (0.24%) VPN
6 5 (0.20%) Intranet
7 4 (0.16%) LAN
7 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 4 (0.16%) Network Security
7 4 (0.16%) SMS
8 3 (0.12%) NAS
8 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.079%) Internet
9 2 (0.079%) VLAN
10 1 (0.040%) Modbus
10 1 (0.040%) Softphone
10 1 (0.040%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.040%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,009 (40.09%) Tableau
2 205 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
3 173 (6.87%) SQL Server
4 125 (4.97%) Data Lake
5 120 (4.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 119 (4.73%) Power Query
7 78 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 74 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 70 (2.78%) Looker
10 58 (2.30%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.11%) BigQuery
12 44 (1.75%) Star Schema
13 40 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (1.55%) Metadata
15 35 (1.39%) Big Data
16 31 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
17 29 (1.15%) MySQL
18 27 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
19 26 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
20 23 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 56 (2.22%) Git
2 48 (1.91%) JIRA
3 29 (1.15%) MLflow
4 23 (0.91%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.079%) GitLab
7 2 (0.079%) Postman
8 1 (0.040%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.040%) ERwin
8 1 (0.040%) NUnit
8 1 (0.040%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.040%) Selenium
8 1 (0.040%) Toad
8 1 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,376 (54.67%) Social Skills
2 550 (21.85%) Analytical Skills
3 547 (21.73%) Finance
4 131 (5.20%) Law
5 121 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 104 (4.13%) Public Sector
7 102 (4.05%) Legal
8 101 (4.01%) Marketing
9 99 (3.93%) Retail
10 86 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
11 80 (3.18%) Manufacturing
12 32 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (1.19%) Banking
14 29 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (0.99%) Military
16 25 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (0.87%) Advertising
17 22 (0.87%) Billing
18 21 (0.83%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,248 (49.58%) Analyst
2 916 (36.39%) Data Analyst
3 735 (29.20%) Junior
4 727 (28.88%) Junior Analyst
5 715 (28.41%) Junior Data Analyst
6 292 (11.60%) Senior
7 271 (10.77%) Developer
8 169 (6.71%) Data Engineer
9 141 (5.60%) Lead
10 92 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 81 (3.22%) Architect
12 76 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 72 (2.86%) Business Analyst
14 71 (2.82%) Data Manager
15 66 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
16 59 (2.34%) Power Platform Developer
17 57 (2.26%) Systems Analyst
18 55 (2.19%) Support Analyst
19 53 (2.11%) Financial Analyst
19 53 (2.11%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (4.33%) .NET
2 57 (2.26%) HTML
3 56 (2.22%) PySpark
3 56 (2.22%) REST
4 54 (2.15%) CSS
5 50 (1.99%) JSON
6 42 (1.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 37 (1.47%) Kafka
8 36 (1.43%) .NET Core
9 32 (1.27%) scikit-learn
9 32 (1.27%) XML
10 31 (1.23%) PyTorch
11 26 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
11 26 (1.03%) TensorFlow
12 24 (0.95%) Middleware
13 23 (0.91%) LangChain
13 23 (0.91%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (0.91%) pgvector
14 20 (0.79%) EDI
14 20 (0.79%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 136 (5.40%) Management Information System
2 79 (3.14%) Data Structures
3 56 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 54 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 47 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 39 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 35 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.07%) Public Cloud
10 25 (0.99%) Clustering
11 21 (0.83%) Low-Code
11 21 (0.83%) NHS
12 19 (0.75%) Social Media
13 18 (0.72%) Driving Licence
14 14 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
14 14 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 12 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (0.44%) AI Agents
18 10 (0.40%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.87%) Windows
2 21 (0.83%) Linux
2 21 (0.83%) Windows Server
3 11 (0.44%) VMS
4 5 (0.20%) Unix
5 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.079%) Android
7 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,370 (94.16%) Business Intelligence
2 1,051 (41.76%) AI
3 716 (28.45%) Analytics
4 476 (18.91%) Decision-Making
5 460 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
6 423 (16.81%) Data Modelling
7 341 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 327 (12.99%) Visualisation
9 273 (10.85%) Agile
10 272 (10.81%) ETL
11 266 (10.57%) Data Governance
12 235 (9.34%) ERP
13 228 (9.06%) Actionable Insight
14 226 (8.98%) Data Visualisation
15 220 (8.74%) Data Engineering
16 217 (8.62%) Data Analysis
17 210 (8.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 203 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
19 199 (7.91%) Data Pipeline
20 198 (7.87%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,687 (67.02%) SQL
2 1,084 (43.07%) Python
3 161 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 154 (6.12%) C#
5 98 (3.89%) JavaScript
6 74 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 55 (2.19%) T-SQL
8 54 (2.15%) VBA
9 38 (1.51%) R
10 27 (1.07%) TypeScript
11 23 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (0.64%) Scala
13 12 (0.48%) Java
14 9 (0.36%) VBScript
15 8 (0.32%) VB
16 6 (0.24%) Julia
17 5 (0.20%) Bicep
17 5 (0.20%) Delphi
18 4 (0.16%) PHP
18 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 739 (29.36%) Azure Certification
2 262 (10.41%) Degree
3 97 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 88 (3.50%) ACCA
5 83 (3.30%) CIMA
6 76 (3.02%) SC Cleared
7 44 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.47%) DBS Check
9 30 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.15%) AAT
11 23 (0.91%) PMI Certification
12 22 (0.87%) PMP
13 16 (0.64%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
15 10 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.40%) SSCP
16 7 (0.28%) HND
16 7 (0.28%) Postgraduate
17 5 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (13.43%) Data Quality
2 127 (5.05%) GDPR
3 83 (3.30%) QA
4 46 (1.83%) SLA
5 45 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.63%) PMO
7 37 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 31 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.68%) TickIT
10 16 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.60%) NIST
12 13 (0.52%) GRC
13 7 (0.28%) IFRS
14 6 (0.24%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.20%) PERC
16 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.16%) GAAP
16 4 (0.16%) ITGC
16 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.60%) Docker
3 9 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.20%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.079%) IAG
7 2 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (0.99%) Terraform
2 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.48%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.40%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.24%) SCCM
5 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.12%) Ansible
7 2 (0.079%) Control-M
7 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.040%) Grafana
8 1 (0.040%) MOM
8 1 (0.040%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.040%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,402 (55.70%) Microsoft
2 186 (7.39%) Databricks
3 95 (3.77%) SAP
4 82 (3.26%) Oracle
5 61 (2.42%) Google
6 44 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.23%) Adobe
8 29 (1.15%) Intapp
8 29 (1.15%) Sage
9 24 (0.95%) Alteryx
9 24 (0.95%) Cloudera
10 23 (0.91%) Dell
10 23 (0.91%) Informatica
11 19 (0.75%) Concur
11 19 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 16 (0.64%) iManage
13 14 (0.56%) Cognos
14 13 (0.52%) Aderant
14 13 (0.52%) HubSpot
15 11 (0.44%) Yardi