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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 78 70
Rank change year-on-year +26 -8 +9
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,567 1,615 2,572
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 3.72% 3.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.00% 23.62% 21.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 1,210 1,988
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £74,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.42% -2.97% +4.55%

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 8,022 6,837 12,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.95% 15.74% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,474 4,541 8,776
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,438 £46,250 £45,000
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -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

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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

Power BI
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 26 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 26 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 -12 659 £70,000 +2.19% 255
North of England +88 629 £46,500 -11.43% 133
Midlands +25 460 £50,000 - 101
South East +14 384 £52,500 - 175
North West +74 286 £49,000 -6.67% 62
West Midlands +17 268 £50,000 -7.83% 57
Yorkshire +71 267 £44,500 -11.00% 50
South West +4 225 £42,500 -19.05% 70
East Midlands +19 192 £47,500 +5.56% 44
East of England +24 186 £60,000 +39.53% 28
North East +9 76 £45,000 - 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
1 180 (7.01%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.47%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) WordPress
7 7 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.23%) CMS
8 6 (0.23%) Confluence
9 5 (0.19%) SAS
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.078%) IIS
11 2 (0.078%) Luigi
11 2 (0.078%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.039%) Appian
12 1 (0.039%) Mendix
12 1 (0.039%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,176 (45.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.93%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.078%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 50 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (1.75%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.43%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.31%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 6 (0.23%) Visualfiles
7 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.19%) Shopify
8 4 (0.16%) Magento
9 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.078%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.078%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.078%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.078%) Workfront
11 1 (0.039%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 2,567 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,318 (51.34%) Azure
3 716 (27.89%) Azure AI
4 286 (11.14%) Power Automate
5 262 (10.21%) PowerApps
6 249 (9.70%) Microsoft 365
7 166 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
8 150 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 148 (5.77%) AWS
10 126 (4.91%) Snowflake
11 113 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 95 (3.70%) GCP
13 94 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
14 78 (3.04%) SaaS
15 74 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
16 71 (2.77%) Microsoft Purview
17 69 (2.69%) dbt
18 61 (2.38%) OneDrive
19 54 (2.10%) Entra ID
20 53 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.66%) Broadband
2 16 (0.62%) Firewall
3 11 (0.43%) DHCP
3 11 (0.43%) DNS
4 8 (0.31%) WAN
5 7 (0.27%) VPN
6 6 (0.23%) VoIP
7 4 (0.16%) 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 (0.078%) Internet
9 2 (0.078%) VLAN
9 2 (0.078%) Wireless
10 1 (0.039%) Modbus
10 1 (0.039%) MQTT
10 1 (0.039%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,023 (39.85%) Tableau
2 217 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
3 178 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 130 (5.06%) Data Lake
5 125 (4.87%) Power Query
5 125 (4.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 81 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 79 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 72 (2.80%) Looker
9 59 (2.30%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.10%) BigQuery
11 45 (1.75%) Star Schema
12 41 (1.60%) Metadata
13 39 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (1.40%) Big Data
15 30 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
16 29 (1.13%) MySQL
17 27 (1.05%) Semantic Layer
17 27 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
18 25 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 61 (2.38%) Git
2 48 (1.87%) JIRA
3 29 (1.13%) MLflow
4 22 (0.86%) Visual Studio
5 14 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.078%) GitLab
9 1 (0.039%) Ant
9 1 (0.039%) Apache Ivy
9 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.039%) ERwin
9 1 (0.039%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.039%) Maven
9 1 (0.039%) NUnit
9 1 (0.039%) Postman
9 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.039%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,398 (54.46%) Social Skills
2 566 (22.05%) Analytical Skills
3 563 (21.93%) Finance
4 137 (5.34%) Law
5 125 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 108 (4.21%) Marketing
6 108 (4.21%) Retail
7 105 (4.09%) Legal
7 105 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 91 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
9 88 (3.43%) Manufacturing
10 35 (1.36%) Banking
11 32 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 25 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (0.97%) Military
13 25 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (0.93%) Billing
15 23 (0.90%) Advertising
16 21 (0.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,244 (48.46%) Analyst
2 919 (35.80%) Data Analyst
3 737 (28.71%) Junior
4 727 (28.32%) Junior Analyst
5 716 (27.89%) Junior Data Analyst
6 305 (11.88%) Senior
7 284 (11.06%) Developer
8 176 (6.86%) Data Engineer
9 145 (5.65%) Lead
10 90 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 82 (3.19%) Architect
12 78 (3.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 75 (2.92%) Data Manager
14 74 (2.88%) Business Analyst
15 68 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
16 60 (2.34%) Power Platform Developer
17 55 (2.14%) Consultant
17 55 (2.14%) Systems Analyst
18 54 (2.10%) Data Architect
18 54 (2.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (4.32%) .NET
2 62 (2.42%) HTML
3 59 (2.30%) PySpark
3 59 (2.30%) REST
4 58 (2.26%) CSS
5 49 (1.91%) JSON
6 42 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
7 40 (1.56%) Kafka
8 37 (1.44%) .NET Core
9 32 (1.25%) scikit-learn
10 31 (1.21%) PyTorch
11 30 (1.17%) XML
12 27 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
13 26 (1.01%) TensorFlow
14 24 (0.93%) LangChain
14 24 (0.93%) LlamaIndex
14 24 (0.93%) Middleware
15 23 (0.90%) pgvector
16 20 (0.78%) EDI
16 20 (0.78%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 139 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 79 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 56 (2.18%) Cloud Native
4 54 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 48 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 42 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 34 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.01%) Public Cloud
10 25 (0.97%) Clustering
11 22 (0.86%) Low-Code
12 19 (0.74%) NHS
12 19 (0.74%) Social Media
13 18 (0.70%) Driving Licence
13 18 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.55%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
14 14 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (0.47%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.79%) Windows
2 21 (0.82%) Linux
3 20 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.35%) VMS
5 4 (0.16%) Unix
5 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.078%) Android
7 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.039%) Solaris
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,419 (94.23%) Business Intelligence
2 1,082 (42.15%) AI
3 736 (28.67%) Analytics
4 491 (19.13%) Decision-Making
5 488 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
6 442 (17.22%) Data Modelling
7 374 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 338 (13.17%) Visualisation
9 285 (11.10%) Agile
9 285 (11.10%) ETL
10 284 (11.06%) Data Governance
11 238 (9.27%) ERP
12 233 (9.08%) Actionable Insight
12 233 (9.08%) Data Visualisation
13 232 (9.04%) Data Engineering
14 227 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 220 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 218 (8.49%) Data Analysis
17 208 (8.10%) Data Pipeline
18 196 (7.64%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,717 (66.89%) SQL
2 1,098 (42.77%) Python
3 168 (6.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 158 (6.16%) C#
5 107 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 69 (2.69%) PowerShell
7 57 (2.22%) VBA
8 54 (2.10%) T-SQL
9 41 (1.60%) R
10 29 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 19 (0.74%) Scala
13 13 (0.51%) Java
14 8 (0.31%) VB
14 8 (0.31%) VBScript
15 6 (0.23%) Julia
16 5 (0.19%) Bicep
17 4 (0.16%) PHP
17 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 743 (28.94%) Azure Certification
2 259 (10.09%) Degree
3 101 (3.93%) Security Cleared
4 87 (3.39%) ACCA
5 82 (3.19%) CIMA
6 80 (3.12%) SC Cleared
7 45 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 28 (1.09%) AAT
9 28 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.86%) PMP
12 16 (0.62%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
14 9 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (0.35%) SSCP
15 7 (0.27%) HND
15 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
16 5 (0.19%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 356 (13.87%) Data Quality
2 130 (5.06%) GDPR
3 83 (3.23%) QA
4 48 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.79%) SLA
6 41 (1.60%) PMO
7 37 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 28 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.66%) TickIT
10 16 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.55%) NIST
12 12 (0.47%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) IFRS
14 6 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.19%) 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 46 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.66%) Docker
3 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.078%) IAG
8 1 (0.039%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (0.97%) Terraform
2 14 (0.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.19%) SCCM
6 4 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.078%) Control-M
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.039%) Puppet
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,429 (55.67%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.52%) Databricks
3 94 (3.66%) SAP
4 79 (3.08%) Oracle
5 64 (2.49%) Google
6 45 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 29 (1.13%) Intapp
7 29 (1.13%) Sage
8 28 (1.09%) Alteryx
9 27 (1.05%) Adobe
10 24 (0.93%) Cloudera
11 23 (0.90%) Dell
11 23 (0.90%) Informatica
12 20 (0.78%) Concur
13 19 (0.74%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.62%) iManage
15 14 (0.55%) Cognos
16 13 (0.51%) Aderant
16 13 (0.51%) HubSpot
17 12 (0.47%) SYSPRO