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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 68 56
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 +23
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,253 1,468 3,155
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.31% 3.97% 4.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 35.35% 21.00% 22.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,135 994 2,557
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.54% +12.38% -4.55%

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 6,373 6,989 14,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.38% 18.88% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,966 4,679 11,220
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,181 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%

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

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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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +9 643 £70,000 - 262
North of England +3 455 £47,042 -3.50% 171
South East +18 405 £56,250 +2.27% 216
Midlands +28 396 £45,000 -7.69% 116
West Midlands +31 239 £46,042 -11.46% 71
Yorkshire +28 214 £42,039 -11.50% 65
North West -15 189 £50,000 - 87
South West +42 183 £43,953 -4.45% 69
East Midlands +22 155 £45,000 +5.88% 45
East of England -8 153 £49,500 -30.53% 58
North East +21 52 £41,250 -15.38% 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
1 146 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 45 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.67%) Confluence
6 14 (0.62%) SAS
7 7 (0.31%) Apache
8 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.18%) CMS
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.089%) Moodle
9 2 (0.089%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.089%) WordPress
10 1 (0.044%) Appian
10 1 (0.044%) Drupal
10 1 (0.044%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.044%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,131 (50.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 21 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.58%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.40%) Trello
8 4 (0.18%) Maya
9 2 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.044%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.044%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.044%) InDesign
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 43 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 6 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 3 (0.13%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.13%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.13%) Shopify
8 3 (0.13%) Visualfiles
9 2 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,253 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,274 (56.55%) Azure
3 716 (31.78%) Azure AI
4 238 (10.56%) Power Automate
5 209 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
6 190 (8.43%) PowerApps
7 149 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 146 (6.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 138 (6.13%) Snowflake
10 112 (4.97%) Dynamics 365
11 102 (4.53%) AWS
12 96 (4.26%) dbt
13 80 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
14 72 (3.20%) GCP
15 66 (2.93%) SaaS
16 60 (2.66%) Entra ID
17 58 (2.57%) Microsoft Copilot
18 53 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
19 36 (1.60%) Serverless
20 28 (1.24%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.62%) Intranet
2 11 (0.49%) Firewall
3 10 (0.44%) DHCP
3 10 (0.44%) DNS
3 10 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.36%) WAN
5 5 (0.22%) Modbus
5 5 (0.22%) MQTT
5 5 (0.22%) VoIP
6 4 (0.18%) Broadband
6 4 (0.18%) VPN
7 3 (0.13%) Internet
7 3 (0.13%) VLAN
7 3 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.089%) Network Security
9 1 (0.044%) BGP
9 1 (0.044%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.044%) NAS
9 1 (0.044%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.044%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 955 (42.39%) Tableau
2 199 (8.83%) SQL Server
3 196 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (5.42%) Data Lake
5 109 (4.84%) Power Query
6 108 (4.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 68 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 68 (3.02%) Looker
8 57 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 48 (2.13%) BigQuery
10 42 (1.86%) Relational Database
11 37 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 37 (1.64%) Big Data
11 37 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
12 29 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (1.24%) Metadata
13 28 (1.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 26 (1.15%) PowerPivot
14 26 (1.15%) Star Schema
15 23 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 70 (3.11%) Git
2 34 (1.51%) Visual Studio
3 31 (1.38%) JIRA
4 25 (1.11%) MLflow
5 9 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.27%) GitLab
7 5 (0.22%) ERwin
7 5 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.18%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.18%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.18%) Postman
9 2 (0.089%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.044%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.044%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.044%) NUnit
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.044%) Selenium
10 1 (0.044%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.044%) Toad
General
1 1,262 (56.01%) Social Skills
2 544 (24.15%) Finance
3 525 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (3.91%) Marketing
5 86 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (3.42%) Legal
6 77 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 76 (3.37%) Manufacturing
8 64 (2.84%) Law
9 62 (2.75%) Retail
10 52 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (1.78%) Banking
13 29 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (0.89%) Games
16 19 (0.84%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.75%) Publishing
17 17 (0.75%) Telecoms
18 16 (0.71%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,197 (53.13%) Analyst
2 914 (40.57%) Data Analyst
3 725 (32.18%) Junior
4 716 (31.78%) Junior Analyst
5 713 (31.65%) Junior Data Analyst
6 239 (10.61%) Senior
7 212 (9.41%) Developer
8 141 (6.26%) Data Engineer
9 115 (5.10%) Lead
10 85 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 81 (3.60%) Architect
12 75 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 73 (3.24%) Financial Analyst
14 71 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
15 62 (2.75%) Business Analyst
16 60 (2.66%) IT Support
17 57 (2.53%) Support Analyst
18 50 (2.22%) Power BI Developer
18 50 (2.22%) Power Platform Developer
19 49 (2.17%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (3.15%) .NET
2 40 (1.78%) REST
3 38 (1.69%) PySpark
4 37 (1.64%) JSON
5 34 (1.51%) Kafka
6 33 (1.46%) XML
7 26 (1.15%) .NET Core
7 26 (1.15%) HTML5 Canvas
7 26 (1.15%) PyTorch
8 25 (1.11%) CSS
8 25 (1.11%) scikit-learn
9 24 (1.07%) TensorFlow
10 23 (1.02%) HTML
10 23 (1.02%) LangChain
10 23 (1.02%) LlamaIndex
10 23 (1.02%) pgvector
11 17 (0.75%) EDI
11 17 (0.75%) SOAP
12 15 (0.67%) Web Services
13 12 (0.53%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 78 (3.46%) Management Information System
2 74 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 62 (2.75%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 40 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (1.46%) Low-Code
7 32 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 28 (1.24%) Clustering
10 27 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 24 (1.07%) Public Cloud
12 16 (0.71%) Driving Licence
12 16 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.71%) Reinsurance
13 15 (0.67%) FMCG
14 14 (0.62%) NHS
15 12 (0.53%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.44%) Replication
16 10 (0.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.55%) Windows
2 14 (0.62%) Linux
2 14 (0.62%) Windows Server
3 12 (0.53%) VMS
4 9 (0.40%) Unix
5 3 (0.13%) Android
5 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.089%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,152 (95.52%) Business Intelligence
2 945 (41.94%) AI
3 585 (25.97%) Analytics
4 424 (18.82%) Decision-Making
5 377 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
6 355 (15.76%) Data Modelling
7 333 (14.78%) Visualisation
8 278 (12.34%) ETL
9 272 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 235 (10.43%) Agile
11 234 (10.39%) Data Analysis
12 218 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
13 217 (9.63%) Data Governance
14 201 (8.92%) Data Engineering
15 197 (8.74%) Actionable Insight
16 187 (8.30%) Data Pipeline
17 170 (7.55%) Data Management
18 157 (6.97%) Project Management
19 153 (6.79%) CI/CD
19 153 (6.79%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,501 (66.62%) SQL
2 1,112 (49.36%) Python
3 138 (6.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 105 (4.66%) C#
5 83 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 79 (3.51%) VBA
7 72 (3.20%) JavaScript
8 55 (2.44%) R
9 40 (1.78%) T-SQL
10 20 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (0.62%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.49%) Delphi
13 10 (0.44%) Scala
14 9 (0.40%) Java
15 8 (0.36%) VBScript
16 6 (0.27%) VB
17 5 (0.22%) Bicep
17 5 (0.22%) Julia
18 4 (0.18%) ANSI SQL
18 4 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 736 (32.67%) Azure Certification
2 273 (12.12%) Degree
3 77 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 72 (3.20%) ACCA
4 72 (3.20%) CIMA
5 58 (2.57%) SC Cleared
6 52 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 38 (1.69%) PMP
9 36 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.55%) DBS Check
11 17 (0.75%) AAT
12 16 (0.71%) MBA
13 13 (0.58%) APMP
14 11 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
15 8 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.36%) IIBA
16 7 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 6 (0.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (11.67%) Data Quality
2 93 (4.13%) GDPR
3 57 (2.53%) QA
4 44 (1.95%) PMO
5 40 (1.78%) SLA
6 31 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 25 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.31%) IFRS
11 6 (0.27%) GRC
12 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.22%) NIST
13 4 (0.18%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.18%) ITGC
14 3 (0.13%) GAAP
14 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.089%) EMIR
15 2 (0.089%) MiFID
15 2 (0.089%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (2.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.53%) Docker
3 11 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.089%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.044%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 17 (0.75%) Terraform
2 12 (0.53%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.27%) SCCM
6 5 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.18%) Control-M
8 3 (0.13%) Ansible
8 3 (0.13%) Argo
9 1 (0.044%) Grafana
9 1 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.044%) MOM
9 1 (0.044%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.044%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,230 (54.59%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.48%) Databricks
3 73 (3.24%) SAP
4 70 (3.11%) Oracle
5 48 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 41 (1.82%) Google
7 36 (1.60%) Informatica
8 33 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.29%) Alteryx
10 28 (1.24%) Dell
11 23 (1.02%) Adobe
11 23 (1.02%) Cloudera
12 20 (0.89%) Anaplan
13 14 (0.62%) IBM
13 14 (0.62%) Intapp
14 12 (0.53%) Genesys
14 12 (0.53%) Verint
15 11 (0.49%) HubSpot
15 11 (0.49%) VMware
16 9 (0.40%) Northgate