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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 68 79
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -13
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,341 1,692 2,049
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.34% 3.91% 2.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.80% 26.33% 19.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,504 1,190 1,389
10th Percentile £34,250 £31,604 £36,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.22%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £95,000
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 7,857 6,426 10,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.85% 14.86% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,488 4,166 6,608
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -21 696 £70,000 +7.69% 1,081
North of England +81 553 £45,037 -14.22% 316
Midlands +14 395 £51,928 +3.86% 220
South East -34 323 £53,750 -2.27% 359
North West +70 279 £47,750 -13.18% 172
West Midlands +8 240 £52,500 - 150
South West -25 210 £42,500 -15.00% 147
Yorkshire +62 194 £43,000 -4.44% 112
East Midlands +13 155 £50,000 +11.11% 70
East of England -13 145 £60,000 +50.00% 114
North East -1 80 £45,000 - 33
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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
1 207 (8.84%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.56%) Apache
6 10 (0.43%) Confluence
7 9 (0.38%) WordPress
8 8 (0.34%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.21%) SAS
10 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.17%) Luigi
11 3 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.085%) Appian
12 2 (0.085%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.085%) Tornado
12 2 (0.085%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.043%) Moodle
13 1 (0.043%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 851 (36.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 20 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.26%) ProjectWise
8 3 (0.13%) Revit
9 2 (0.085%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.085%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.043%) InDesign
10 1 (0.043%) Inkscape
10 1 (0.043%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 56 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (2.18%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.73%) Elite 3E
4 14 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
5 12 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.47%) Carpe Diem
6 11 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 9 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
7 9 (0.38%) Visualfiles
8 7 (0.30%) Infor M3
9 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.13%) Magento
11 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.13%) Shopify
11 3 (0.13%) SystmOne
12 2 (0.085%) FastStats
12 2 (0.085%) Sage 200
12 2 (0.085%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,341 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,015 (43.36%) Azure
3 395 (16.87%) Azure AI
4 296 (12.64%) Power Automate
5 279 (11.92%) PowerApps
6 258 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
7 190 (8.12%) Dynamics 365
8 162 (6.92%) AWS
9 158 (6.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 127 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
11 104 (4.44%) Snowflake
12 96 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 94 (4.02%) GCP
14 84 (3.59%) Microsoft Copilot
15 76 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
16 68 (2.90%) SaaS
17 64 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
18 59 (2.52%) OneDrive
19 51 (2.18%) Google Analytics
20 48 (2.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.68%) Firewall
2 13 (0.56%) Broadband
3 8 (0.34%) DHCP
3 8 (0.34%) DNS
3 8 (0.34%) LAN
3 8 (0.34%) WAN
4 7 (0.30%) VPN
5 6 (0.26%) VoIP
6 5 (0.21%) Network Security
6 5 (0.21%) SMS
7 4 (0.17%) LTE
7 4 (0.17%) MQTT
7 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.13%) NAS
9 2 (0.085%) Intranet
9 2 (0.085%) VLAN
9 2 (0.085%) Wireless
10 1 (0.043%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.043%) Modbus
10 1 (0.043%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 686 (29.30%) Tableau
2 232 (9.91%) Data Warehouse
3 167 (7.13%) SQL Server
4 140 (5.98%) Data Lake
5 133 (5.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 120 (5.13%) Power Query
7 97 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 81 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 69 (2.95%) Looker
10 68 (2.90%) Relational Database
11 65 (2.78%) Metadata
12 50 (2.14%) Star Schema
13 45 (1.92%) BigQuery
14 31 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
15 30 (1.28%) Big Data
16 29 (1.24%) NoSQL
17 27 (1.15%) Delta Lake
18 26 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 24 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (3.67%) Git
2 51 (2.18%) JIRA
3 20 (0.85%) MLflow
4 13 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.17%) GitLab
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.085%) Ant
7 2 (0.085%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.085%) ERwin
7 2 (0.085%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.085%) Maven
7 2 (0.085%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.043%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.043%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.043%) kappa
8 1 (0.043%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.043%) Toad
General
1 1,129 (48.23%) Social Skills
2 629 (26.87%) Finance
3 620 (26.48%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (6.45%) Law
5 138 (5.89%) Legal
6 127 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 126 (5.38%) Marketing
8 124 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
9 123 (5.25%) Retail
10 111 (4.74%) Manufacturing
11 106 (4.53%) Public Sector
12 49 (2.09%) Banking
13 44 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
14 35 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.45%) Billing
16 29 (1.24%) Telecoms
17 28 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
18 27 (1.15%) Military
19 26 (1.11%) Social Housing
20 22 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 912 (38.96%) Analyst
2 593 (25.33%) Data Analyst
3 404 (17.26%) Junior
4 396 (16.92%) Junior Analyst
5 382 (16.32%) Junior Data Analyst
6 306 (13.07%) Developer
7 291 (12.43%) Senior
8 179 (7.65%) Data Engineer
9 144 (6.15%) Lead
10 85 (3.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 82 (3.50%) Data Manager
12 79 (3.37%) Architect
13 78 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 77 (3.29%) Business Analyst
15 70 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
16 65 (2.78%) Systems Analyst
17 62 (2.65%) Consultant
18 56 (2.39%) Data Architect
18 56 (2.39%) Power Platform Developer
19 53 (2.26%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (4.66%) .NET
2 71 (3.03%) REST
3 69 (2.95%) HTML
4 64 (2.73%) PySpark
5 57 (2.43%) CSS
6 44 (1.88%) JSON
7 37 (1.58%) Kafka
8 35 (1.50%) HTML5 Canvas
9 33 (1.41%) .NET Core
10 29 (1.24%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.24%) XML
11 27 (1.15%) EDI
12 26 (1.11%) Microsoft Graph
12 26 (1.11%) scikit-learn
13 24 (1.03%) Middleware
13 24 (1.03%) TensorFlow
14 23 (0.98%) Terraform
15 22 (0.94%) ASP.NET
16 19 (0.81%) HTML5
17 17 (0.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 158 (6.75%) Management Information System
2 74 (3.16%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.52%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.09%) Onboarding
4 49 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 39 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 35 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (1.07%) Driving Licence
10 23 (0.98%) AI Agents
11 22 (0.94%) Public Cloud
12 21 (0.90%) NHS
13 20 (0.85%) Social Media
14 19 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.77%) FMCG
15 18 (0.77%) Low-Code
16 16 (0.68%) Educational Technology
17 14 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (2.35%) Windows
2 23 (0.98%) Linux
3 19 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.085%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.085%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.085%) Solaris
7 1 (0.043%) Android
7 1 (0.043%) VMS
7 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,200 (93.98%) Business Intelligence
2 853 (36.44%) AI
3 782 (33.40%) Analytics
4 591 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
5 528 (22.55%) Decision-Making
6 456 (19.48%) Data Modelling
7 444 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 356 (15.21%) Visualisation
9 312 (13.33%) Agile
10 299 (12.77%) Data Governance
11 296 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 290 (12.39%) ETL
13 275 (11.75%) ERP
14 257 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 256 (10.94%) Data Engineering
16 254 (10.85%) Actionable Insight
17 247 (10.55%) Data Visualisation
18 244 (10.42%) Data Analysis
19 228 (9.74%) Dashboard Development
20 213 (9.10%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,446 (61.77%) SQL
2 794 (33.92%) Python
3 177 (7.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 174 (7.43%) C#
5 125 (5.34%) JavaScript
6 58 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 46 (1.96%) T-SQL
8 44 (1.88%) R
9 43 (1.84%) VBA
10 29 (1.24%) TypeScript
11 22 (0.94%) Scala
12 20 (0.85%) Java
13 12 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.26%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.21%) PHP
15 5 (0.21%) VB
16 4 (0.17%) Julia
16 4 (0.17%) XAML
17 3 (0.13%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 417 (17.81%) Azure Certification
2 273 (11.66%) Degree
3 123 (5.25%) Security Cleared
4 102 (4.36%) SC Cleared
5 87 (3.72%) ACCA
6 82 (3.50%) CIMA
7 47 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.58%) DBS Check
9 28 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 25 (1.07%) PMP
11 19 (0.81%) AAT
11 19 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.60%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.34%) CFA
14 8 (0.34%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.34%) SSCP
15 7 (0.30%) HND
15 7 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (18.45%) Data Quality
2 147 (6.28%) GDPR
3 86 (3.67%) QA
4 58 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.88%) PMO
6 37 (1.58%) SLA
7 36 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 22 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (0.73%) TickIT
11 13 (0.56%) NIST
12 9 (0.38%) GRC
13 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.26%) GAAP
14 6 (0.26%) PERC
15 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.13%) IFRS
17 2 (0.085%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 28 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 22 (0.94%) Docker
3 6 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.13%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.085%) IAG
8 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.43%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.17%) Argo
6 3 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.085%) EnCase
7 2 (0.085%) FTK
7 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.085%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.085%) Puppet
8 1 (0.043%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.043%) MOM
8 1 (0.043%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.043%) SCCM
8 1 (0.043%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,188 (50.75%) Microsoft
2 189 (8.07%) Databricks
3 104 (4.44%) SAP
4 79 (3.37%) Google
5 74 (3.16%) Oracle
6 39 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.37%) Sage
8 28 (1.20%) Alteryx
9 27 (1.15%) Intapp
10 22 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 21 (0.90%) Informatica
12 18 (0.77%) Adobe
12 18 (0.77%) Concur
13 16 (0.68%) Aderant
13 16 (0.68%) iManage
14 15 (0.64%) Cloudera
15 14 (0.60%) Dell
16 13 (0.56%) YouTube
17 11 (0.47%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.47%) Workday