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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 80 59
Rank change year-on-year +22 -21 +21
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,554 1,435 3,196
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.09% 3.75% 3.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 35.95% 22.63% 21.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,268 1,016 2,588
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,498
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 7,105 6,341 14,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.59% 16.56% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,544 4,235 11,408
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,744
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +10.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 25 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 25 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 +47 620 £45,000 -14.29% 154
London -13 587 £71,250 +1.79% 315
Midlands +29 472 £47,085 -12.15% 93
South East +44 437 £57,500 +15.00% 195
Yorkshire +47 280 £42,500 -13.27% 52
West Midlands +20 278 £45,000 -18.18% 65
North West +43 274 £46,500 -11.43% 87
South West +19 222 £43,500 -25.32% 54
East of England +50 200 £55,500 +18.72% 47
East Midlands +43 192 £50,000 - 28
North East +8 66 £41,500 -17.00% 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
1 149 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.39%) 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 (0.078%) Headless CMS
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%) IIS
11 1 (0.039%) Mendix
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,302 (50.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 25 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.90%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.078%) Trello
8 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 43 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.39%) 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 (0.20%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.20%) Shopify
10 4 (0.16%) Magento
11 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 3 (0.12%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.078%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.078%) Q-Pulse
12 2 (0.078%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,554 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,453 (56.89%) Azure
3 899 (35.20%) Azure AI
4 235 (9.20%) Power Automate
5 209 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
6 198 (7.75%) PowerApps
7 141 (5.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 125 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
9 123 (4.82%) Snowflake
10 118 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 114 (4.46%) AWS
12 83 (3.25%) dbt
13 77 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
14 70 (2.74%) GCP
15 65 (2.55%) SaaS
16 59 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
16 59 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
17 58 (2.27%) Entra ID
18 44 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
19 40 (1.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.67%) Broadband
2 10 (0.39%) DHCP
2 10 (0.39%) DNS
2 10 (0.39%) Firewall
3 8 (0.31%) Intranet
4 7 (0.27%) VoIP
5 6 (0.23%) WAN
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
6 4 (0.16%) Modbus
6 4 (0.16%) MQTT
6 4 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.12%) NAS
7 3 (0.12%) SMS
7 3 (0.12%) VPN
8 2 (0.078%) Internet
9 1 (0.039%) FTP
9 1 (0.039%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.039%) Softphone
9 1 (0.039%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.039%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,156 (45.26%) Tableau
2 177 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (6.70%) SQL Server
4 122 (4.78%) Data Lake
5 115 (4.50%) Power Query
6 113 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 68 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 67 (2.62%) Looker
9 64 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 51 (2.00%) BigQuery
11 50 (1.96%) Relational Database
12 45 (1.76%) Big Data
13 43 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.25%) Metadata
14 32 (1.25%) Star Schema
15 29 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
16 27 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
17 23 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (0.90%) MySQL
17 23 (0.90%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 56 (2.19%) Git
2 40 (1.57%) JIRA
3 26 (1.02%) MLflow
3 26 (1.02%) Visual Studio
4 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.078%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.039%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.039%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.039%) ERwin
9 1 (0.039%) NUnit
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.039%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Toad
General
1 1,482 (58.03%) Social Skills
2 541 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
3 482 (18.87%) Finance
4 114 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (3.76%) Public Sector
6 95 (3.72%) Marketing
7 93 (3.64%) Law
8 91 (3.56%) Retail
9 77 (3.01%) Legal
10 65 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 60 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
12 40 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (0.94%) Banking
15 24 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.74%) Publishing
17 18 (0.70%) Advertising
18 17 (0.67%) Automotive
19 16 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,401 (54.86%) Analyst
2 1,103 (43.19%) Data Analyst
3 917 (35.90%) Junior
4 911 (35.67%) Junior Analyst
5 903 (35.36%) Junior Data Analyst
6 281 (11.00%) Senior
7 251 (9.83%) Developer
8 140 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 125 (4.89%) Lead
10 89 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 87 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 79 (3.09%) Architect
13 76 (2.98%) Business Analyst
14 70 (2.74%) Data Manager
14 70 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
15 61 (2.39%) Power BI Developer
16 56 (2.19%) Financial Analyst
16 56 (2.19%) Systems Analyst
17 55 (2.15%) Power BI Analyst
18 52 (2.04%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (3.52%) .NET
2 51 (2.00%) JSON
3 50 (1.96%) CSS
4 48 (1.88%) HTML
5 42 (1.64%) PySpark
5 42 (1.64%) REST
6 40 (1.57%) HTML5 Canvas
7 38 (1.49%) XML
8 35 (1.37%) .NET Core
9 34 (1.33%) Kafka
10 29 (1.14%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.14%) scikit-learn
11 25 (0.98%) Middleware
12 23 (0.90%) LangChain
12 23 (0.90%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
12 23 (0.90%) pgvector
12 23 (0.90%) TensorFlow
13 20 (0.78%) EDI
13 20 (0.78%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 89 (3.48%) Management Information System
2 61 (2.39%) Data Structures
3 54 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 50 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 35 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (1.29%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 27 (1.06%) Clustering
8 27 (1.06%) Low-Code
9 25 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 24 (0.94%) NHS
11 22 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
12 19 (0.74%) Social Media
13 17 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.51%) Driving Licence
15 13 (0.51%) FMCG
16 11 (0.43%) Replication
17 9 (0.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.25%) Windows
2 18 (0.70%) Windows Server
3 15 (0.59%) Linux
4 12 (0.47%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) Unix
6 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.12%) Android
8 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,412 (94.44%) Business Intelligence
2 1,151 (45.07%) AI
3 649 (25.41%) Analytics
4 445 (17.42%) Decision-Making
5 382 (14.96%) Data Modelling
5 382 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
6 328 (12.84%) Visualisation
7 281 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 263 (10.30%) ETL
9 228 (8.93%) Data Governance
10 227 (8.89%) Data Visualisation
11 214 (8.38%) Agile
12 203 (7.95%) Data Engineering
13 193 (7.56%) Data Analysis
14 190 (7.44%) Actionable Insight
14 190 (7.44%) ERP
15 173 (6.77%) Data Pipeline
16 172 (6.73%) Project Management
17 171 (6.70%) Machine Learning
18 168 (6.58%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,758 (68.83%) SQL
2 1,282 (50.20%) Python
3 145 (5.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 122 (4.78%) C#
5 88 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 75 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 68 (2.66%) VBA
8 54 (2.11%) T-SQL
9 46 (1.80%) R
10 25 (0.98%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (0.51%) Java
13 12 (0.47%) Scala
14 11 (0.43%) Delphi
15 9 (0.35%) VBScript
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
16 6 (0.23%) VB
17 4 (0.16%) Bicep
18 3 (0.12%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 923 (36.14%) Azure Certification
2 266 (10.42%) Degree
3 84 (3.29%) Security Cleared
4 63 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 61 (2.39%) ACCA
6 60 (2.35%) CIMA
7 38 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 38 (1.49%) PMP
8 36 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (1.33%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.55%) AAT
13 11 (0.43%) 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
1 282 (11.04%) Data Quality
2 116 (4.54%) GDPR
3 64 (2.51%) QA
4 52 (2.04%) SLA
5 36 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 35 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.33%) PMO
8 26 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.67%) TickIT
10 14 (0.55%) NIST
11 12 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.47%) GRC
12 8 (0.31%) IFRS
13 4 (0.16%) GAAP
13 4 (0.16%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.16%) ITGC
13 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.16%) PERC
14 2 (0.078%) MiFID
14 2 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.51%) Docker
3 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.078%) IAG
7 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (0.55%) Terraform
2 12 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.20%) SCCM
5 4 (0.16%) Ansible
5 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.12%) Control-M
7 2 (0.078%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,481 (57.99%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.34%) Databricks
3 91 (3.56%) SAP
4 78 (3.05%) Oracle
5 53 (2.08%) Google
6 41 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.21%) Adobe
7 31 (1.21%) Informatica
8 29 (1.14%) Alteryx
9 28 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.94%) Cloudera
10 24 (0.94%) Dell
11 23 (0.90%) Intapp
12 18 (0.70%) Anaplan
13 16 (0.63%) Sage
14 14 (0.55%) Cognos
15 13 (0.51%) iManage
15 13 (0.51%) Verint
16 12 (0.47%) Genesys
16 12 (0.47%) HubSpot