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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 69 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,390 1,696 2,057
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.41% 3.91% 2.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.83% 26.26% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,519 1,189 1,413
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,008 £36,500
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 £75,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £94,750
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 8,012 6,458 10,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.07% 14.88% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,592 4,190 6,633
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,966 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -6.21% +0.78%
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 9 September 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 9 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 -23 687 £70,000 +5.26% 912
North of England +83 570 £45,500 -13.33% 254
Midlands +17 411 £51,356 +1.25% 209
South East -27 332 £52,500 -4.55% 296
North West +68 285 £50,000 -9.09% 161
West Midlands +7 251 £52,500 -3.23% 136
South West -15 216 £42,500 -15.00% 129
Yorkshire +51 204 £43,000 -4.44% 68
East Midlands +12 160 £50,000 +11.11% 73
East of England -14 155 £60,000 +50.00% 97
North East -4 81 £45,000 - 25
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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
1 206 (8.62%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 33 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.63%) Apache
6 9 (0.38%) Confluence
6 9 (0.38%) WordPress
7 8 (0.33%) CMS
8 5 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.21%) SAS
9 4 (0.17%) Luigi
9 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.084%) Appian
10 2 (0.084%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.084%) IIS
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.084%) Tornado
10 2 (0.084%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.042%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 894 (37.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 20 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.17%) ProjectWise
8 3 (0.13%) Revit
9 2 (0.084%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.084%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.042%) InDesign
10 1 (0.042%) Inkscape
10 1 (0.042%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 57 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (2.13%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.71%) Elite 3E
4 13 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
5 12 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.46%) Carpe Diem
6 11 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 9 (0.38%) Visualfiles
8 8 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.25%) Infor M3
10 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
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
11 3 (0.13%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.084%) Dynamics GP
12 2 (0.084%) Sage 200
12 2 (0.084%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,390 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,077 (45.06%) Azure
3 442 (18.49%) Azure AI
4 303 (12.68%) Power Automate
5 286 (11.97%) PowerApps
6 259 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
7 197 (8.24%) Dynamics 365
8 166 (6.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 162 (6.78%) AWS
10 124 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
11 107 (4.48%) Snowflake
12 101 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 94 (3.93%) GCP
14 82 (3.43%) Microsoft Copilot
15 76 (3.18%) Microsoft Purview
16 71 (2.97%) SaaS
17 70 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
18 61 (2.55%) OneDrive
19 51 (2.13%) Google Analytics
20 48 (2.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.63%) Firewall
2 13 (0.54%) Broadband
3 8 (0.33%) LAN
3 8 (0.33%) WAN
4 7 (0.29%) DHCP
4 7 (0.29%) DNS
5 6 (0.25%) VoIP
5 6 (0.25%) VPN
6 5 (0.21%) Network Security
6 5 (0.21%) SMS
7 4 (0.17%) LTE
7 4 (0.17%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) NAS
8 3 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.084%) Intranet
9 2 (0.084%) Wireless
10 1 (0.042%) Modbus
10 1 (0.042%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 737 (30.84%) Tableau
2 235 (9.83%) Data Warehouse
3 173 (7.24%) SQL Server
4 143 (5.98%) Data Lake
5 136 (5.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 124 (5.19%) Power Query
7 101 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 86 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 75 (3.14%) Looker
10 66 (2.76%) Relational Database
11 63 (2.64%) Metadata
12 51 (2.13%) Star Schema
13 46 (1.92%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.34%) Big Data
15 31 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
16 29 (1.21%) NoSQL
17 28 (1.17%) Delta Lake
18 27 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 27 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 25 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (3.60%) Git
2 52 (2.18%) JIRA
3 22 (0.92%) MLflow
4 14 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 13 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.17%) GitLab
9 2 (0.084%) Ant
9 2 (0.084%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.084%) ERwin
9 2 (0.084%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.084%) Maven
9 2 (0.084%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.042%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.042%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.042%) kappa
10 1 (0.042%) NUnit
10 1 (0.042%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.042%) Toad
General
1 1,181 (49.41%) Social Skills
2 623 (26.07%) Finance
3 612 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (6.40%) Law
5 138 (5.77%) Legal
6 129 (5.40%) Marketing
7 127 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 127 (5.31%) Retail
8 122 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
9 110 (4.60%) Manufacturing
10 104 (4.35%) Public Sector
11 49 (2.05%) Banking
12 41 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
13 36 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.42%) Billing
15 30 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.21%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.13%) Military
18 24 (1.00%) Social Housing
19 22 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 959 (40.13%) Analyst
2 645 (26.99%) Data Analyst
3 452 (18.91%) Junior
4 444 (18.58%) Junior Analyst
5 431 (18.03%) Junior Data Analyst
6 309 (12.93%) Developer
7 298 (12.47%) Senior
8 180 (7.53%) Data Engineer
9 146 (6.11%) Lead
10 85 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 84 (3.51%) Data Manager
12 83 (3.47%) Architect
13 79 (3.31%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 74 (3.10%) Business Analyst
15 70 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
16 64 (2.68%) Consultant
17 63 (2.64%) Systems Analyst
18 57 (2.38%) Data Architect
18 57 (2.38%) Power Platform Developer
19 54 (2.26%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (4.94%) .NET
2 72 (3.01%) REST
3 71 (2.97%) HTML
4 63 (2.64%) PySpark
5 59 (2.47%) CSS
6 46 (1.92%) JSON
7 39 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
8 38 (1.59%) Kafka
9 37 (1.55%) .NET Core
10 30 (1.26%) PyTorch
11 29 (1.21%) XML
12 28 (1.17%) Microsoft Graph
13 26 (1.09%) EDI
13 26 (1.09%) scikit-learn
14 25 (1.05%) TensorFlow
14 25 (1.05%) Terraform
15 24 (1.00%) ASP.NET
15 24 (1.00%) Middleware
16 19 (0.79%) HTML5
16 19 (0.79%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 155 (6.49%) Management Information System
2 72 (3.01%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.05%) Onboarding
5 47 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 45 (1.88%) Cloud Native
7 40 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 36 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.00%) Driving Licence
12 23 (0.96%) Public Cloud
13 22 (0.92%) AI Agents
14 21 (0.88%) NHS
15 20 (0.84%) Social Media
16 19 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.75%) Low-Code
18 16 (0.67%) Clustering
18 16 (0.67%) FMCG
19 15 (0.63%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 55 (2.30%) Windows
2 22 (0.92%) Linux
3 19 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.084%) Android
7 2 (0.084%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.084%) Solaris
7 2 (0.084%) VMS
8 1 (0.042%) Unix
8 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,248 (94.06%) Business Intelligence
2 891 (37.28%) AI
3 791 (33.10%) Analytics
4 579 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
5 531 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 460 (19.25%) Data Modelling
7 437 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 360 (15.06%) Visualisation
9 313 (13.10%) Agile
10 296 (12.38%) ETL
11 295 (12.34%) Data Governance
12 292 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 274 (11.46%) ERP
14 260 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 259 (10.84%) Data Engineering
16 257 (10.75%) Actionable Insight
17 248 (10.38%) Data Visualisation
18 241 (10.08%) Data Analysis
19 225 (9.41%) Dashboard Development
20 218 (9.12%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,504 (62.93%) SQL
2 846 (35.40%) Python
3 181 (7.57%) C#
3 181 (7.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 131 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 60 (2.51%) PowerShell
6 49 (2.05%) T-SQL
7 48 (2.01%) VBA
8 47 (1.97%) R
9 33 (1.38%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.88%) Scala
11 20 (0.84%) Java
12 13 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.25%) Julia
13 6 (0.25%) VB
13 6 (0.25%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.21%) PHP
14 5 (0.21%) VBScript
15 4 (0.17%) XAML
16 3 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 464 (19.41%) Azure Certification
2 275 (11.51%) Degree
3 120 (5.02%) Security Cleared
4 100 (4.18%) SC Cleared
5 88 (3.68%) ACCA
6 83 (3.47%) CIMA
7 49 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.59%) DBS Check
9 27 (1.13%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.00%) PMP
11 21 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (0.84%) AAT
13 15 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.33%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.33%) SSCP
16 7 (0.29%) CFA
16 7 (0.29%) HND
16 7 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 429 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 147 (6.15%) GDPR
3 86 (3.60%) QA
4 56 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 43 (1.80%) PMO
6 40 (1.67%) SLA
7 37 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 22 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (0.71%) TickIT
11 13 (0.54%) NIST
12 9 (0.38%) GRC
13 8 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.25%) GAAP
14 6 (0.25%) PERC
15 4 (0.17%) IFRS
15 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.084%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 28 (1.17%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.96%) Docker
3 6 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.13%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.084%) IAG
Systems Management
1 16 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.42%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.17%) Ansible
5 4 (0.17%) Argo
6 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.084%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.084%) Puppet
6 2 (0.084%) SCCM
7 1 (0.042%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.042%) EnCase
7 1 (0.042%) FTK
7 1 (0.042%) Grafana
7 1 (0.042%) MOM
7 1 (0.042%) SQL Sentry
7 1 (0.042%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,239 (51.84%) Microsoft
2 195 (8.16%) Databricks
3 101 (4.23%) SAP
4 79 (3.31%) Google
5 74 (3.10%) Oracle
6 40 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.30%) Sage
8 27 (1.13%) Intapp
9 26 (1.09%) Alteryx
10 22 (0.92%) Adobe
10 22 (0.92%) Informatica
11 17 (0.71%) Concur
11 17 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 16 (0.67%) Aderant
12 16 (0.67%) Cloudera
12 16 (0.67%) iManage
13 15 (0.63%) Dell
14 12 (0.50%) HubSpot
14 12 (0.50%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.50%) SYSPRO