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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 77 62
Rank change year-on-year +27 -15 +16
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,557 1,591 3,203
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.96% 3.74% 3.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.92% 23.49% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 1,189 2,546
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £74,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% +1.44% -

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 7,768 6,772 14,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.98% 15.92% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,295 4,505 10,949
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,200
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,500
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 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 8 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 8 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 -5 634 £72,500 +5.84% 313
North of England +78 626 £45,037 -14.22% 136
Midlands +28 462 £47,500 -5.00% 113
South East +24 409 £52,500 +5.00% 178
North West +63 283 £47,750 -9.05% 65
Yorkshire +68 276 £42,500 -15.00% 55
West Midlands +28 270 £47,500 -13.64% 61
South West +10 222 £42,500 -22.73% 65
East Midlands +23 192 £47,500 +5.56% 52
East of England +29 184 £60,000 +41.18% 44
North East +5 67 £45,000 -5.26% 18
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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
1 175 (6.84%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.39%) Apache
5 10 (0.39%) WordPress
6 8 (0.31%) Confluence
7 7 (0.27%) CMS
8 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.078%) IIS
10 2 (0.078%) Luigi
10 2 (0.078%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.078%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.039%) Appian
11 1 (0.039%) Drupal
11 1 (0.039%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,205 (47.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 25 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.94%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.20%) 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 38 (1.49%) 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
6 7 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.20%) Shopify
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
10 3 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.12%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.12%) Visualfiles
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 2,557 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,347 (52.68%) Azure
3 761 (29.76%) Azure AI
4 277 (10.83%) Power Automate
5 251 (9.82%) PowerApps
6 247 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
7 164 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
8 142 (5.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 135 (5.28%) AWS
10 118 (4.61%) Snowflake
11 114 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 87 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
13 85 (3.32%) GCP
14 76 (2.97%) dbt
15 72 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
16 71 (2.78%) SaaS
17 69 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
18 56 (2.19%) Entra ID
18 56 (2.19%) OneDrive
19 50 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.66%) Broadband
2 16 (0.63%) 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 (0.20%) 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%) Softphone
9 1 (0.039%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,047 (40.95%) Tableau
2 205 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (6.69%) SQL Server
4 121 (4.73%) Data Lake
5 119 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 118 (4.61%) Power Query
7 76 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 75 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 67 (2.62%) Looker
10 61 (2.39%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.07%) BigQuery
12 44 (1.72%) Star Schema
13 41 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (1.56%) Metadata
15 36 (1.41%) Big Data
16 32 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
17 29 (1.13%) MySQL
18 28 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
19 25 (0.98%) Semantic Layer
20 23 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 57 (2.23%) Git
2 46 (1.80%) JIRA
3 27 (1.06%) MLflow
4 25 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.20%) 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 1,412 (55.22%) Social Skills
2 554 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 539 (21.08%) Finance
4 124 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 122 (4.77%) Law
6 104 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 100 (3.91%) Marketing
8 98 (3.83%) Retail
9 95 (3.72%) Legal
10 81 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
11 80 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 35 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.21%) Banking
14 27 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 24 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (0.90%) Military
17 20 (0.78%) Advertising
17 20 (0.78%) Billing
17 20 (0.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,301 (50.88%) Analyst
2 968 (37.86%) Data Analyst
3 782 (30.58%) Junior
4 775 (30.31%) Junior Analyst
5 762 (29.80%) Junior Data Analyst
6 286 (11.18%) Senior
7 278 (10.87%) Developer
8 163 (6.37%) Data Engineer
9 140 (5.48%) Lead
10 97 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 83 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 76 (2.97%) Architect
13 72 (2.82%) Data Manager
14 71 (2.78%) Business Analyst
15 65 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
16 63 (2.46%) Systems Analyst
17 60 (2.35%) Power Platform Developer
18 57 (2.23%) Financial Analyst
18 57 (2.23%) Power BI Analyst
19 55 (2.15%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (4.22%) .NET
2 57 (2.23%) HTML
2 57 (2.23%) PySpark
3 55 (2.15%) CSS
3 55 (2.15%) REST
4 49 (1.92%) JSON
5 43 (1.68%) HTML5 Canvas
6 37 (1.45%) Kafka
7 36 (1.41%) .NET Core
8 32 (1.25%) XML
9 30 (1.17%) PyTorch
9 30 (1.17%) scikit-learn
10 26 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
11 24 (0.94%) Middleware
11 24 (0.94%) TensorFlow
12 23 (0.90%) LangChain
12 23 (0.90%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.90%) pgvector
13 20 (0.78%) SPFx
14 19 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 126 (4.93%) Management Information System
2 80 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 56 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 54 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 43 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 35 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 32 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.02%) Public Cloud
10 25 (0.98%) 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 16 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
15 14 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 11 (0.43%) AI Agents
19 10 (0.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (1.68%) Windows
2 20 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 19 (0.74%) Linux
4 11 (0.43%) VMS
5 5 (0.20%) 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 2,408 (94.17%) Business Intelligence
2 1,084 (42.39%) AI
3 718 (28.08%) Analytics
4 472 (18.46%) Decision-Making
5 449 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
6 417 (16.31%) Data Modelling
7 332 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 332 (12.98%) Visualisation
8 278 (10.87%) ETL
9 262 (10.25%) Agile
9 262 (10.25%) Data Governance
10 235 (9.19%) ERP
11 232 (9.07%) Data Visualisation
12 229 (8.96%) Actionable Insight
13 217 (8.49%) Data Engineering
14 211 (8.25%) Data Analysis
15 201 (7.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 200 (7.82%) CRM
17 197 (7.70%) Data Pipeline
18 190 (7.43%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,733 (67.77%) SQL
2 1,136 (44.43%) Python
3 162 (6.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 152 (5.94%) C#
5 98 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 73 (2.85%) PowerShell
7 61 (2.39%) VBA
8 54 (2.11%) T-SQL
9 40 (1.56%) R
10 27 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (0.59%) Scala
13 13 (0.51%) Java
14 9 (0.35%) VBScript
15 7 (0.27%) VB
16 6 (0.23%) Delphi
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
17 5 (0.20%) Bicep
17 5 (0.20%) PHP
18 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 788 (30.82%) Azure Certification
2 263 (10.29%) Degree
3 92 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 86 (3.36%) ACCA
5 81 (3.17%) CIMA
6 74 (2.89%) SC Cleared
7 47 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.37%) DBS Check
9 32 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.10%) AAT
11 23 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.90%) 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%) MBA
15 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (12.98%) Data Quality
2 126 (4.93%) GDPR
3 82 (3.21%) QA
4 46 (1.80%) SLA
5 43 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 37 (1.45%) PMO
7 30 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.66%) TickIT
9 16 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.59%) NIST
11 13 (0.51%) GRC
12 8 (0.31%) IFRS
13 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.20%) PERC
14 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.16%) GAAP
14 4 (0.16%) ITGC
14 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.55%) Docker
3 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.20%) 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 22 (0.86%) Terraform
2 12 (0.47%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.20%) SCCM
5 4 (0.16%) Ansible
5 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.078%) Control-M
6 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.039%) Grafana
7 1 (0.039%) MOM
7 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
7 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,442 (56.39%) Microsoft
2 179 (7.00%) Databricks
3 97 (3.79%) SAP
4 84 (3.29%) Oracle
5 61 (2.39%) Google
6 42 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.21%) Adobe
8 29 (1.13%) Informatica
9 28 (1.10%) Intapp
9 28 (1.10%) Sage
10 27 (1.06%) Alteryx
11 24 (0.94%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.90%) Dell
13 19 (0.74%) ServiceNow
14 18 (0.70%) Concur
15 16 (0.63%) iManage
16 14 (0.55%) Cognos
17 13 (0.51%) Aderant
17 13 (0.51%) HubSpot
18 10 (0.39%) Yardi