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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 70 80
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,206 1,696 2,040
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.12% 3.92% 3.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.14% 26.99% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,515 1,191 1,259
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,010 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £93,550
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 7,839 6,283 10,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.54% 14.54% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,502 4,049 6,119
10th Percentile £36,513 £33,750 £38,226
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% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -22 736 £65,000 -2.26% 1,207
North of England +63 490 £46,500 -13.08% 421
Midlands +11 355 £52,500 +5.00% 309
South East -43 283 £55,000 +10.00% 488
North West +54 260 £50,000 -9.09% 240
West Midlands +8 228 £55,000 +6.08% 210
South West -35 192 £42,500 -15.00% 173
Yorkshire +33 154 £43,000 -10.42% 135
East of England -33 129 £53,250 +33.13% 176
East Midlands -5 127 £47,500 +5.56% 99
North East -4 76 £45,000 - 47
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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
1 210 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.73%) Apache
5 10 (0.45%) Confluence
6 9 (0.41%) CMS
6 9 (0.41%) WordPress
7 5 (0.23%) IIS
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.18%) Luigi
8 4 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.091%) Appian
9 2 (0.091%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.091%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.091%) Tornado
9 2 (0.091%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.045%) Moodle
10 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 692 (31.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 19 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.45%) ProjectWise
8 5 (0.23%) Notion
8 5 (0.23%) Revit
9 4 (0.18%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.091%) SPSS
12 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.045%) Civil 3D
12 1 (0.045%) InDesign
12 1 (0.045%) Inkscape
Business Applications
1 59 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (2.27%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
4 16 (0.73%) Elite 3E
5 12 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
6 11 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 9 (0.41%) Visualfiles
9 8 (0.36%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.32%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.18%) SystmOne
12 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 3 (0.14%) Magento
12 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.14%) Shopify
13 2 (0.091%) FastStats
13 2 (0.091%) Sage 200
13 2 (0.091%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,206 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 814 (36.90%) Azure
3 296 (13.42%) Power Automate
4 282 (12.78%) PowerApps
5 251 (11.38%) Microsoft 365
6 211 (9.56%) Azure AI
7 185 (8.39%) Dynamics 365
8 164 (7.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 153 (6.94%) AWS
10 140 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
11 97 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
12 92 (4.17%) Snowflake
13 84 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 80 (3.63%) Microsoft Purview
15 79 (3.58%) SaaS
16 77 (3.49%) GCP
17 56 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
18 54 (2.45%) Entra ID
19 53 (2.40%) OneDrive
20 51 (2.31%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.82%) Firewall
2 13 (0.59%) Broadband
3 8 (0.36%) DNS
3 8 (0.36%) LAN
3 8 (0.36%) WAN
4 7 (0.32%) VPN
5 5 (0.23%) Network Security
5 5 (0.23%) SMS
6 4 (0.18%) DHCP
6 4 (0.18%) LTE
6 4 (0.18%) MQTT
7 2 (0.091%) Intranet
7 2 (0.091%) VLAN
7 2 (0.091%) VoIP
7 2 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.091%) Wireless
8 1 (0.045%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.045%) Modbus
8 1 (0.045%) NAS
8 1 (0.045%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 494 (22.39%) Tableau
2 235 (10.65%) Data Warehouse
3 166 (7.52%) SQL Server
4 129 (5.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 125 (5.67%) Data Lake
6 124 (5.62%) Power Query
7 106 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 79 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 72 (3.26%) Relational Database
10 67 (3.04%) Metadata
11 57 (2.58%) Looker
12 50 (2.27%) Star Schema
13 33 (1.50%) NoSQL
14 32 (1.45%) Big Data
14 32 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
15 30 (1.36%) BigQuery
16 26 (1.18%) Delta Lake
17 25 (1.13%) MySQL
18 22 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
18 22 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 100 (4.53%) Git
2 53 (2.40%) JIRA
3 15 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.54%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.27%) GitLab
6 6 (0.27%) MLflow
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.091%) Ant
8 2 (0.091%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.091%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.091%) Maven
8 2 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.045%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.045%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.045%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.045%) ERwin
9 1 (0.045%) JMeter
9 1 (0.045%) kappa
9 1 (0.045%) Selenium
General
1 985 (44.65%) Social Skills
2 692 (31.37%) Finance
3 624 (28.29%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (6.89%) Legal
5 149 (6.75%) Law
6 137 (6.21%) Marketing
7 134 (6.07%) Organisational Skills
8 128 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 128 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 124 (5.62%) Manufacturing
9 124 (5.62%) Retail
10 60 (2.72%) Banking
11 51 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (1.63%) Billing
12 36 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 25 (1.13%) Military
15 25 (1.13%) Social Housing
16 24 (1.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 731 (33.14%) Analyst
2 412 (18.68%) Data Analyst
3 304 (13.78%) Developer
4 271 (12.28%) Senior
5 213 (9.66%) Junior
6 207 (9.38%) Junior Analyst
7 193 (8.75%) Junior Data Analyst
8 186 (8.43%) Data Engineer
9 160 (7.25%) Lead
10 88 (3.99%) Architect
11 83 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 76 (3.45%) Data Manager
13 75 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 72 (3.26%) Business Analyst
15 70 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
16 67 (3.04%) Consultant
17 65 (2.95%) Systems Analyst
18 59 (2.67%) Data Architect
19 58 (2.63%) Power Platform Developer
20 55 (2.49%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (4.40%) .NET
2 70 (3.17%) REST
3 68 (3.08%) HTML
4 67 (3.04%) PySpark
5 55 (2.49%) CSS
6 39 (1.77%) JSON
7 31 (1.41%) Terraform
8 29 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
9 27 (1.22%) Kafka
9 27 (1.22%) XML
10 26 (1.18%) .NET Core
11 25 (1.13%) EDI
12 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
13 22 (1.00%) Middleware
14 19 (0.86%) ASP.NET
15 18 (0.82%) HTML5
16 15 (0.68%) React
17 13 (0.59%) Pandas
17 13 (0.59%) RESTful
17 13 (0.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 179 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 76 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 60 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 59 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 53 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 34 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.27%) Cloud Native
11 27 (1.22%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.13%) NHS
13 23 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 22 (1.00%) FMCG
15 19 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (0.86%) Social Media
16 18 (0.82%) Educational Technology
17 15 (0.68%) Reference Data
18 14 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (2.54%) Windows
2 26 (1.18%) Linux
3 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.091%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.091%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.091%) Solaris
5 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.045%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,087 (94.61%) Business Intelligence
2 793 (35.95%) Analytics
3 700 (31.73%) AI
4 612 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
5 569 (25.79%) Decision-Making
6 484 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 464 (21.03%) Data Modelling
8 370 (16.77%) Visualisation
9 344 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 328 (14.87%) Agile
11 301 (13.64%) Data Governance
12 292 (13.24%) ETL
13 276 (12.51%) Actionable Insight
14 263 (11.92%) ERP
15 259 (11.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 254 (11.51%) Data Engineering
17 249 (11.29%) Data Visualisation
18 243 (11.02%) Data Analysis
19 238 (10.79%) Dashboard Development
20 228 (10.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,252 (56.75%) SQL
2 623 (28.24%) Python
3 181 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 171 (7.75%) C#
5 121 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 60 (2.72%) PowerShell
7 47 (2.13%) R
8 45 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 38 (1.72%) VBA
10 25 (1.13%) Java
10 25 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.95%) Scala
12 12 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.36%) Bicep
13 8 (0.36%) PHP
14 6 (0.27%) C++
14 6 (0.27%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.18%) VB
15 4 (0.18%) XAML
16 3 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 286 (12.96%) Degree
2 231 (10.47%) Azure Certification
3 127 (5.76%) Security Cleared
4 104 (4.71%) SC Cleared
5 89 (4.03%) ACCA
6 84 (3.81%) CIMA
7 51 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 30 (1.36%) PMP
10 28 (1.27%) DBS Check
11 20 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (0.86%) AAT
13 17 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.63%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.36%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.36%) CFA
15 8 (0.36%) CISSP
16 7 (0.32%) CIPD
16 7 (0.32%) HND
16 7 (0.32%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (22.17%) Data Quality
2 150 (6.80%) GDPR
3 89 (4.03%) QA
4 65 (2.95%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.59%) PMO
6 32 (1.45%) SLA
7 26 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 13 (0.59%) GRC
11 12 (0.54%) NIST
12 11 (0.50%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.50%) TickIT
13 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.32%) GAAP
15 6 (0.27%) PERC
16 5 (0.23%) ISO 19650
17 4 (0.18%) NEBOSH
17 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (1.36%) Docker
2 26 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.091%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.091%) IAG
4 2 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.045%) Firmware
5 1 (0.045%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.45%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.23%) EnCase
5 5 (0.23%) FTK
6 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 3 (0.14%) Ansible
7 3 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
8 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.091%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.091%) Puppet
9 1 (0.045%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.045%) Grafana
9 1 (0.045%) MOM
9 1 (0.045%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.045%) SCCM
9 1 (0.045%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,027 (46.55%) Microsoft
2 178 (8.07%) Databricks
3 102 (4.62%) SAP
4 80 (3.63%) Oracle
5 79 (3.58%) Google
6 48 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 30 (1.36%) Sage
7 30 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.27%) Alteryx
9 25 (1.13%) Informatica
10 23 (1.04%) Intapp
11 19 (0.86%) Concur
12 16 (0.73%) YouTube
13 14 (0.63%) Aderant
13 14 (0.63%) Workday
14 13 (0.59%) Adobe
15 11 (0.50%) Cognos
15 11 (0.50%) HP
15 11 (0.50%) HubSpot
15 11 (0.50%) iManage