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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 77 65
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 +22
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 1,698 2,027 2,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.94% 2.96% 4.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.47% 19.16% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,190 1,352 1,952
10th Percentile £31,604 £37,199 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £57,349
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.50% +4.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

All Database and 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 6,414 10,581 11,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.89% 15.43% 21.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,147 6,471 9,210
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.17% +7.08%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% +4.17%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +15 639 £66,000 -5.71% 610
South East +27 341 £53,750 -2.27% 492
Midlands +38 226 £50,000 -1.96% 164
North of England -51 208 £52,500 - 221
West Midlands +23 142 £52,500 -4.55% 99
East of England +24 138 £40,000 -20.00% 103
North West -46 137 £55,000 +7.32% 154
South West +39 130 £48,750 -15.22% 106
East Midlands +47 83 £45,000 -10.00% 60
Yorkshire -25 54 £46,500 -15.45% 56
North East +13 17 £42,500 -19.05% 12
Power BI
UK

Power BI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 145 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.59%) SugarCRM
6 9 (0.53%) CMS
6 9 (0.53%) Confluence
6 9 (0.53%) Moodle
7 7 (0.41%) IIS
7 7 (0.41%) SAS
8 6 (0.35%) WordPress
9 5 (0.29%) Apache
10 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.059%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.059%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.059%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.059%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 536 (31.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.82%) Maya
6 12 (0.71%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Revit
10 1 (0.059%) SPSS
10 1 (0.059%) SPSS Modeler
10 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 89 (5.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.65%) Elite 3E
2 11 (0.65%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.65%) Shopify
3 8 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
3 8 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.41%) Primavera
5 6 (0.35%) SAP Business One
6 5 (0.29%) Exchequer
6 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) Sage 1000
7 4 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.24%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,698 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 667 (39.28%) Azure
3 235 (13.84%) Power Automate
4 191 (11.25%) PowerApps
5 138 (8.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 129 (7.60%) Dynamics 365
7 126 (7.42%) AWS
7 126 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
8 110 (6.48%) Snowflake
9 98 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 87 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
11 75 (4.42%) GCP
12 68 (4.00%) SaaS
13 51 (3.00%) Entra ID
14 48 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
15 47 (2.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 34 (2.00%) dbt
17 31 (1.83%) Google Analytics
17 31 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
18 26 (1.53%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.71%) Firewall
2 24 (1.41%) DNS
3 19 (1.12%) WAN
4 15 (0.88%) SD-WAN
4 15 (0.88%) VPN
5 9 (0.53%) DHCP
6 7 (0.41%) Broadband
6 7 (0.41%) FTP
7 5 (0.29%) VoIP
8 4 (0.24%) LAN
9 3 (0.18%) NAS
9 3 (0.18%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.18%) SAN
10 2 (0.12%) ADSL
10 2 (0.12%) ADSL2
10 2 (0.12%) Internet
10 2 (0.12%) Intranet
11 1 (0.059%) CHAP
11 1 (0.059%) Modbus
11 1 (0.059%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (18.49%) Tableau
2 244 (14.37%) SQL Server
3 190 (11.19%) Data Lake
4 187 (11.01%) Data Warehouse
5 124 (7.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 106 (6.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 79 (4.65%) Power Query
8 63 (3.71%) SAP BW
9 60 (3.53%) Metadata
10 54 (3.18%) Big Data
10 54 (3.18%) Looker
11 52 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 51 (3.00%) BusinessObjects
13 48 (2.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 42 (2.47%) Relational Database
15 38 (2.24%) Data Mining
16 32 (1.88%) MySQL
17 30 (1.77%) BigQuery
18 27 (1.59%) Crystal Reports
19 26 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (3.12%) Git
2 42 (2.47%) JIRA
3 20 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 19 (1.12%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.24%) Postman
6 4 (0.24%) RStudio
6 4 (0.24%) Subversion
7 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.18%) GitLab
8 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.059%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.059%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.059%) Gatling
9 1 (0.059%) Locust
9 1 (0.059%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.059%) MLflow
9 1 (0.059%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.059%) Vite
General
1 603 (35.51%) Finance
2 588 (34.63%) Social Skills
3 477 (28.09%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (9.01%) Retail
5 145 (8.54%) Law
6 143 (8.42%) Marketing
7 107 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 90 (5.30%) Legal
9 72 (4.24%) Manufacturing
10 69 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
11 65 (3.83%) Public Sector
12 47 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (2.65%) Banking
14 43 (2.53%) Advertising
15 39 (2.30%) Games
16 28 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (1.12%) Back Office
19 17 (1.00%) French Language
20 14 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 601 (35.39%) Analyst
2 258 (15.19%) Developer
3 223 (13.13%) Lead
4 201 (11.84%) Senior
5 187 (11.01%) Data Analyst
6 148 (8.72%) Data Engineer
7 84 (4.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 83 (4.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 81 (4.77%) Support Analyst
10 71 (4.18%) Business Analyst
11 66 (3.89%) Senior Analyst
12 62 (3.65%) Architect
13 58 (3.42%) Financial Analyst
13 58 (3.42%) Report Analyst
13 58 (3.42%) SQL Developer
14 55 (3.24%) Power BI Developer
15 52 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 52 (3.06%) Data Manager
16 48 (2.83%) Systems Analyst
17 46 (2.71%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.47%) .NET
2 47 (2.77%) PySpark
3 31 (1.83%) REST
4 28 (1.65%) HTML
5 25 (1.47%) Web Services
6 22 (1.30%) CSS
7 19 (1.12%) Kafka
7 19 (1.12%) SOAP
8 18 (1.06%) Pandas
9 16 (0.94%) React
10 15 (0.88%) XML
11 13 (0.77%) .NET Core
12 12 (0.71%) .NET Framework
12 12 (0.71%) EDI
13 10 (0.59%) ASP.NET
13 10 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
13 10 (0.59%) JSON
14 8 (0.47%) scikit-learn
15 7 (0.41%) AngularJS
15 7 (0.41%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 85 (5.01%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.83%) Analytical Mindset
3 67 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 38 (2.24%) Product Ownership
5 37 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.88%) FMCG
9 30 (1.77%) Cloud Native
10 25 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.47%) Social Media
11 22 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 20 (1.18%) NHS
13 19 (1.12%) Driving Licence
14 17 (1.00%) Data Centre
15 16 (0.94%) Learning Management System
15 16 (0.94%) Reinsurance
16 13 (0.77%) Private Cloud
17 12 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
18 9 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.36%) Windows
2 12 (0.71%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.41%) Unix
4 6 (0.35%) Linux
5 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,516 (89.28%) Business Intelligence
2 704 (41.46%) Analytics
3 533 (31.39%) Problem-Solving
4 416 (24.50%) Visualisation
5 406 (23.91%) Decision-Making
6 348 (20.49%) Data Analysis
7 327 (19.26%) Data Modelling
8 274 (16.14%) Agile
9 267 (15.72%) Data Visualisation
10 256 (15.08%) ETL
11 251 (14.78%) Actionable Insight
12 229 (13.49%) Data Analytics
13 224 (13.19%) Data Governance
14 219 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
15 214 (12.60%) Artificial Intelligence
16 201 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
17 193 (11.37%) CRM
18 183 (10.78%) ERP
19 175 (10.31%) Data Management
20 172 (10.13%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 908 (53.47%) SQL
2 368 (21.67%) Python
3 110 (6.48%) T-SQL
4 105 (6.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 78 (4.59%) C#
6 69 (4.06%) PowerShell
7 67 (3.95%) JavaScript
8 60 (3.53%) R
9 56 (3.30%) VBA
10 24 (1.41%) Scala
11 19 (1.12%) Java
12 18 (1.06%) Bicep
13 9 (0.53%) Bash
13 9 (0.53%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.29%) Julia
15 4 (0.24%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.18%) PROC SQL
17 2 (0.12%) ANSI SQL
17 2 (0.12%) PHP
17 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 400 (23.56%) Degree
2 120 (7.07%) DBS Check
3 62 (3.65%) ACCA
4 58 (3.42%) CIMA
5 50 (2.94%) Security Cleared
6 45 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 44 (2.59%) Azure Certification
8 42 (2.47%) SC Cleared
9 41 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.06%) CISM
11 18 (1.06%) CISSP
12 16 (0.94%) CISA
13 14 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.77%) PMP
15 12 (0.71%) CRISC
15 12 (0.71%) HNC
16 7 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
17 6 (0.35%) AWS Certification
18 5 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (15.55%) Data Quality
2 95 (5.59%) GDPR
3 64 (3.77%) QA
4 54 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.18%) SLA
7 17 (1.00%) PMO
8 13 (0.77%) COBIT
9 12 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.71%) GRC
9 12 (0.71%) NIST
10 11 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.65%) ITGC
11 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.29%) IFRS
13 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.12%) COSHH
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.059%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 18 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.65%) Docker
4 3 (0.18%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.18%) HDFS
4 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.059%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
1 21 (1.24%) Terraform
2 16 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
4 11 (0.65%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.24%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.18%) Ansible
6 3 (0.18%) Kibana
6 3 (0.18%) logstash
6 3 (0.18%) Oozie
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.059%) Grafana
8 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.059%) Nessus
8 1 (0.059%) SCCM
Vendors
1 610 (35.92%) Microsoft
2 143 (8.42%) Databricks
3 125 (7.36%) SAP
4 71 (4.18%) Google
5 68 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 54 (3.18%) Oracle
7 48 (2.83%) Alteryx
8 38 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 23 (1.35%) Informatica
10 22 (1.30%) Adobe
11 21 (1.24%) Facebook
12 18 (1.06%) HubSpot
13 17 (1.00%) Anaplan
13 17 (1.00%) Dell
14 16 (0.94%) IBM
14 16 (0.94%) Meraki
14 16 (0.94%) MuleSoft
14 16 (0.94%) VMware
15 15 (0.88%) Cognos
16 14 (0.82%) Sage