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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 76 63
Rank change year-on-year +25 -13 +13
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,569 1,623 3,126
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.93% 3.74% 3.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.61% 23.74% 22.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,429 1,217 2,455
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £33,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -
75th Percentile £74,000 £70,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -

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 7,878 6,838 14,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.00% 15.76% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,368 4,539 10,537
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,529
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £57,501
% change year-on-year -1.93% +6.40% -8.00%

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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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -10 641 £72,500 +5.84% 300
North of England +85 630 £46,500 -11.43% 149
Midlands +28 460 £47,500 -5.00% 123
South East +21 405 £52,500 - 181
North West +62 285 £48,000 -8.57% 74
Yorkshire +64 275 £43,250 -14.36% 51
West Midlands +18 268 £49,000 -8.41% 66
South West +8 226 £42,500 -22.73% 58
East Midlands +21 192 £47,500 +5.56% 57
East of England +29 187 £60,000 +32.96% 46
North East -3 70 £45,000 -5.26% 27
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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
1 176 (6.85%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.43%) Apache
6 10 (0.39%) WordPress
7 8 (0.31%) Confluence
8 7 (0.27%) CMS
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.23%) SAS
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.078%) IIS
11 2 (0.078%) Luigi
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.078%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.039%) Appian
12 1 (0.039%) Drupal
12 1 (0.039%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,208 (47.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
5 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.93%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.078%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (1.63%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.27%) Carpe Diem
7 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.19%) Shopify
8 5 (0.19%) Visualfiles
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
10 3 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.12%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.078%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.078%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.078%) SAP HR
11 2 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,569 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,353 (52.67%) Azure
3 761 (29.62%) Azure AI
4 274 (10.67%) Power Automate
5 248 (9.65%) Microsoft 365
5 248 (9.65%) PowerApps
6 163 (6.34%) Dynamics 365
7 146 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 138 (5.37%) AWS
9 120 (4.67%) Snowflake
10 114 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 89 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
12 88 (3.43%) GCP
13 77 (3.00%) dbt
14 74 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
15 73 (2.84%) SaaS
16 68 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
17 58 (2.26%) Entra ID
17 58 (2.26%) OneDrive
18 52 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.66%) Broadband
2 16 (0.62%) Firewall
3 10 (0.39%) DHCP
3 10 (0.39%) DNS
3 10 (0.39%) WAN
4 6 (0.23%) Intranet
4 6 (0.23%) VoIP
5 5 (0.19%) VPN
6 4 (0.16%) LAN
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
6 4 (0.16%) Network Security
6 4 (0.16%) SMS
7 3 (0.12%) NAS
7 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.078%) Internet
8 2 (0.078%) Modbus
8 2 (0.078%) MQTT
8 2 (0.078%) VLAN
9 1 (0.039%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.039%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,049 (40.83%) Tableau
2 208 (8.10%) Data Warehouse
3 174 (6.77%) SQL Server
4 122 (4.75%) Data Lake
5 120 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 118 (4.59%) Power Query
7 78 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 75 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 68 (2.65%) Looker
10 61 (2.37%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.10%) BigQuery
12 46 (1.79%) Star Schema
13 41 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (1.52%) Metadata
15 36 (1.40%) Big Data
16 32 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
17 29 (1.13%) MySQL
18 28 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
19 25 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
20 23 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 58 (2.26%) Git
2 48 (1.87%) JIRA
3 27 (1.05%) MLflow
4 25 (0.97%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.19%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.078%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.039%) ERwin
9 1 (0.039%) NUnit
9 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.039%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,420 (55.27%) Social Skills
2 552 (21.49%) Analytical Skills
3 542 (21.10%) Finance
4 126 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (4.87%) Law
6 107 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 101 (3.93%) Marketing
8 100 (3.89%) Retail
9 97 (3.78%) Legal
10 84 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 82 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 35 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.21%) Banking
14 28 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (0.93%) Military
16 24 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (0.86%) Advertising
18 21 (0.82%) Billing
19 20 (0.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,302 (50.68%) Analyst
2 968 (37.68%) Data Analyst
3 783 (30.48%) Junior
4 775 (30.17%) Junior Analyst
5 762 (29.66%) Junior Data Analyst
6 291 (11.33%) Senior
7 278 (10.82%) Developer
8 167 (6.50%) Data Engineer
9 139 (5.41%) Lead
10 93 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 81 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 77 (3.00%) Architect
13 73 (2.84%) Business Analyst
14 72 (2.80%) Data Manager
15 65 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
16 61 (2.37%) Power Platform Developer
17 59 (2.30%) Systems Analyst
18 57 (2.22%) Support Analyst
19 56 (2.18%) Financial Analyst
20 54 (2.10%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (4.24%) .NET
2 58 (2.26%) HTML
3 56 (2.18%) PySpark
4 55 (2.14%) CSS
4 55 (2.14%) REST
5 49 (1.91%) JSON
6 43 (1.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 38 (1.48%) Kafka
8 36 (1.40%) .NET Core
9 32 (1.25%) scikit-learn
9 32 (1.25%) XML
10 31 (1.21%) PyTorch
11 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
11 26 (1.01%) TensorFlow
12 24 (0.93%) Middleware
13 23 (0.90%) LangChain
13 23 (0.90%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (0.90%) pgvector
14 20 (0.78%) SPFx
15 19 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 130 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 81 (3.15%) Data Structures
3 57 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 54 (2.10%) Cloud Native
5 45 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 37 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 33 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.01%) Public Cloud
10 25 (0.97%) Clustering
11 21 (0.82%) Low-Code
11 21 (0.82%) NHS
12 19 (0.74%) Social Media
13 17 (0.66%) Driving Licence
14 15 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
15 14 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
17 11 (0.43%) Web Conferencing
18 10 (0.39%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.75%) Windows
2 20 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 19 (0.74%) Linux
4 11 (0.43%) VMS
5 5 (0.19%) Unix
6 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.078%) Android
8 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,420 (94.20%) Business Intelligence
2 1,091 (42.47%) AI
3 720 (28.03%) Analytics
4 469 (18.26%) Decision-Making
5 454 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
6 421 (16.39%) Data Modelling
7 332 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 327 (12.73%) Visualisation
9 278 (10.82%) ETL
10 269 (10.47%) Agile
11 266 (10.35%) Data Governance
12 237 (9.23%) ERP
13 228 (8.88%) Actionable Insight
13 228 (8.88%) Data Visualisation
14 220 (8.56%) Data Engineering
15 213 (8.29%) Data Analysis
16 201 (7.82%) CRM
16 201 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 199 (7.75%) Data Pipeline
18 192 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,736 (67.57%) SQL
2 1,137 (44.26%) Python
3 162 (6.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 153 (5.96%) C#
5 98 (3.81%) JavaScript
6 76 (2.96%) PowerShell
7 56 (2.18%) VBA
8 55 (2.14%) T-SQL
9 40 (1.56%) R
10 27 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (0.58%) Scala
13 13 (0.51%) Java
14 9 (0.35%) VBScript
15 8 (0.31%) VB
16 6 (0.23%) Delphi
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
17 5 (0.19%) Bicep
17 5 (0.19%) PHP
18 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 787 (30.63%) Azure Certification
2 264 (10.28%) Degree
3 94 (3.66%) Security Cleared
4 86 (3.35%) ACCA
5 81 (3.15%) CIMA
6 75 (2.92%) SC Cleared
7 47 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (1.32%) DBS Check
9 32 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.13%) AAT
11 22 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.86%) PMP
12 20 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.39%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (0.39%) SSCP
15 7 (0.27%) HND
15 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
16 6 (0.23%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (13.12%) Data Quality
2 126 (4.90%) GDPR
3 83 (3.23%) QA
4 48 (1.87%) SLA
5 43 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 37 (1.44%) PMO
7 31 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.66%) TickIT
9 16 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.58%) NIST
11 13 (0.51%) GRC
12 8 (0.31%) IFRS
13 6 (0.23%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.19%) PERC
15 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.16%) GAAP
15 4 (0.16%) ITGC
15 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.58%) Docker
3 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.078%) IAG
7 2 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (0.97%) Terraform
2 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.47%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.39%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.19%) SCCM
7 4 (0.16%) Ansible
8 2 (0.078%) Control-M
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.039%) Grafana
9 1 (0.039%) MOM
9 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,449 (56.40%) Microsoft
2 182 (7.08%) Databricks
3 97 (3.78%) SAP
4 84 (3.27%) Oracle
5 63 (2.45%) Google
6 42 (1.63%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.21%) Adobe
8 28 (1.09%) Intapp
8 28 (1.09%) Sage
9 27 (1.05%) Informatica
10 26 (1.01%) Alteryx
11 24 (0.93%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.90%) Dell
13 19 (0.74%) Concur
13 19 (0.74%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.62%) iManage
15 14 (0.54%) Cognos
15 14 (0.54%) HubSpot
16 13 (0.51%) Aderant
17 10 (0.39%) SYSPRO