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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 83 60
Rank change year-on-year +27 -23 +22
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,605 1,411 3,186
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.15% 3.70% 3.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.35% 22.45% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,270 998 2,583
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,482 £42,500 £41,492
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 7,167 6,285 14,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.67% 16.50% 17.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,551 4,200 11,386
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £100,000
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

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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

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 23 May 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 23 May 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 +46 633 £45,000 -14.29% 154
London -10 593 £72,500 +3.57% 321
Midlands +37 485 £47,085 -13.36% 96
South East +43 449 £57,500 +9.52% 200
Yorkshire +54 288 £42,500 -13.27% 51
West Midlands +14 281 £46,042 -16.29% 65
North West +35 277 £46,500 -11.43% 87
South West +24 226 £43,500 -25.32% 55
East of England +54 204 £55,500 +16.84% 48
East Midlands +41 202 £47,500 -9.52% 31
North East +7 68 £41,500 -17.00% 19
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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
1 149 (5.72%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.38%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) SAS
7 8 (0.31%) Confluence
8 7 (0.27%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.077%) Luigi
10 2 (0.077%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.077%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.038%) Appian
11 1 (0.038%) Drupal
11 1 (0.038%) IIS
11 1 (0.038%) Mendix
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,348 (51.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
4 29 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.92%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.077%) Trello
8 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 45 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.19%) Shopify
10 4 (0.15%) Magento
11 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 3 (0.12%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.077%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.077%) Q-Pulse
12 2 (0.077%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,605 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,504 (57.74%) Azure
3 946 (36.31%) Azure AI
4 235 (9.02%) Power Automate
5 209 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
6 198 (7.60%) PowerApps
7 143 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 125 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
9 123 (4.72%) Snowflake
10 119 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 115 (4.41%) AWS
12 83 (3.19%) dbt
13 78 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
14 70 (2.69%) GCP
15 66 (2.53%) SaaS
16 60 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
17 58 (2.23%) Entra ID
18 57 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
19 45 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
20 40 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.65%) Broadband
2 10 (0.38%) DHCP
2 10 (0.38%) DNS
2 10 (0.38%) Intranet
3 9 (0.35%) Firewall
4 7 (0.27%) VoIP
5 6 (0.23%) WAN
6 4 (0.15%) LTE
6 4 (0.15%) Modbus
6 4 (0.15%) MQTT
6 4 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.12%) NAS
7 3 (0.12%) SMS
7 3 (0.12%) VPN
8 2 (0.077%) Internet
9 1 (0.038%) FTP
9 1 (0.038%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.038%) Network Security
9 1 (0.038%) Softphone
9 1 (0.038%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,202 (46.14%) Tableau
2 181 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (6.56%) SQL Server
4 122 (4.68%) Data Lake
5 118 (4.53%) Power Query
6 114 (4.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 69 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 68 (2.61%) Looker
9 65 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 51 (1.96%) BigQuery
12 45 (1.73%) Big Data
13 43 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.23%) Metadata
15 31 (1.19%) Star Schema
16 29 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
17 27 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
18 24 (0.92%) MySQL
19 23 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
20 22 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 56 (2.15%) Git
2 41 (1.57%) JIRA
3 27 (1.04%) Visual Studio
4 26 (1.00%) MLflow
5 15 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.077%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.038%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.038%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.038%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.038%) ERwin
10 1 (0.038%) GitLab
10 1 (0.038%) NUnit
10 1 (0.038%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.038%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.038%) Selenium
10 1 (0.038%) Toad
General
1 1,525 (58.54%) Social Skills
2 540 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
3 488 (18.73%) Finance
4 112 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (3.69%) Public Sector
6 95 (3.65%) Law
6 95 (3.65%) Marketing
7 91 (3.49%) Retail
8 78 (2.99%) Legal
9 66 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 58 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
11 40 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (0.92%) Banking
14 24 (0.92%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.73%) Publishing
16 18 (0.69%) Advertising
17 17 (0.65%) Automotive
18 16 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,450 (55.66%) Analyst
2 1,150 (44.15%) Data Analyst
3 964 (37.01%) Junior
4 958 (36.78%) Junior Analyst
5 950 (36.47%) Junior Data Analyst
6 283 (10.86%) Senior
7 256 (9.83%) Developer
8 141 (5.41%) Data Engineer
9 125 (4.80%) Lead
10 92 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 86 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 79 (3.03%) Architect
13 78 (2.99%) Business Analyst
14 71 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
15 68 (2.61%) Data Manager
16 63 (2.42%) Power BI Developer
17 56 (2.15%) Systems Analyst
18 55 (2.11%) Financial Analyst
19 54 (2.07%) Power BI Analyst
20 52 (2.00%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (3.45%) .NET
2 51 (1.96%) JSON
3 50 (1.92%) CSS
4 48 (1.84%) HTML
5 43 (1.65%) PySpark
6 42 (1.61%) REST
7 40 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
8 38 (1.46%) XML
9 35 (1.34%) .NET Core
9 35 (1.34%) Kafka
10 29 (1.11%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.11%) scikit-learn
11 25 (0.96%) Middleware
12 23 (0.88%) LangChain
12 23 (0.88%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
12 23 (0.88%) pgvector
12 23 (0.88%) TensorFlow
13 20 (0.77%) EDI
13 20 (0.77%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 85 (3.26%) Management Information System
2 62 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 54 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
4 50 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 37 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 27 (1.04%) Clustering
7 27 (1.04%) Low-Code
8 26 (1.00%) Product Ownership
9 25 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 22 (0.84%) NHS
10 22 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 19 (0.73%) Social Media
12 17 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.50%) Driving Licence
14 13 (0.50%) FMCG
15 11 (0.42%) Replication
16 9 (0.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.19%) Windows
2 18 (0.69%) Windows Server
3 15 (0.58%) Linux
4 12 (0.46%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) Unix
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.12%) Android
8 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
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 2,463 (94.55%) Business Intelligence
2 1,197 (45.95%) AI
3 650 (24.95%) Analytics
4 446 (17.12%) Decision-Making
5 389 (14.93%) Data Modelling
6 382 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
7 328 (12.59%) Visualisation
8 280 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 265 (10.17%) ETL
10 230 (8.83%) Data Governance
11 226 (8.68%) Data Visualisation
12 216 (8.29%) Agile
13 205 (7.87%) Data Engineering
14 194 (7.45%) Actionable Insight
15 190 (7.29%) Data Analysis
15 190 (7.29%) ERP
16 175 (6.72%) Data Pipeline
17 172 (6.60%) Machine Learning
18 171 (6.56%) Project Management
19 166 (6.37%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,807 (69.37%) SQL
2 1,329 (51.02%) Python
3 148 (5.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 122 (4.68%) C#
5 88 (3.38%) JavaScript
6 75 (2.88%) PowerShell
7 67 (2.57%) VBA
8 54 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 47 (1.80%) R
10 25 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (0.50%) Scala
13 12 (0.46%) Java
14 11 (0.42%) Delphi
15 9 (0.35%) VBScript
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
16 6 (0.23%) VB
17 4 (0.15%) Bicep
18 3 (0.12%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 972 (37.31%) Azure Certification
2 265 (10.17%) Degree
3 85 (3.26%) Security Cleared
4 64 (2.46%) SC Cleared
5 62 (2.38%) ACCA
6 61 (2.34%) CIMA
7 38 (1.46%) PMI Certification
7 38 (1.46%) PMP
8 37 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (1.27%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.54%) AAT
13 11 (0.42%) MBA
14 9 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.31%) APMP
15 8 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.31%) SSCP
16 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.23%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 117 (4.49%) GDPR
3 61 (2.34%) QA
4 52 (2.00%) SLA
5 35 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 34 (1.31%) PMO
7 26 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.65%) TickIT
9 14 (0.54%) NIST
10 12 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.46%) GRC
11 8 (0.31%) IFRS
12 4 (0.15%) GAAP
12 4 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.15%) ITGC
12 4 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.15%) PERC
13 2 (0.077%) MiFID
13 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.54%) Docker
3 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) IAG
7 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (0.54%) Terraform
2 13 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.19%) SCCM
5 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.12%) Control-M
7 2 (0.077%) MOM
8 1 (0.038%) Grafana
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.038%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.038%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,526 (58.58%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.30%) Databricks
3 92 (3.53%) SAP
4 79 (3.03%) Oracle
5 54 (2.07%) Google
6 41 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.19%) Adobe
7 31 (1.19%) Informatica
8 29 (1.11%) Alteryx
9 28 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.92%) Cloudera
10 24 (0.92%) Dell
11 23 (0.88%) Intapp
12 18 (0.69%) Anaplan
13 16 (0.61%) Sage
14 14 (0.54%) Cognos
15 13 (0.50%) iManage
15 13 (0.50%) Verint
16 12 (0.46%) Genesys
16 12 (0.46%) HubSpot