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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 76 70
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 +11
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,565 1,625 2,461
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.84% 3.74% 3.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.91% 23.84% 20.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,474 1,213 1,887
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,755 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +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 8,037 6,815 11,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.91% 15.69% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,478 4,513 8,455
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,600
25th Percentile £45,438 £46,250 £45,000
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 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% -4.00%

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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 29 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 29 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 -11 662 £72,500 +7.41% 264
North of England +87 631 £46,500 -11.43% 130
Midlands +24 455 £50,000 - 116
South East +14 384 £52,500 - 183
North West +68 286 £48,000 -9.43% 69
Yorkshire +74 268 £44,000 -12.00% 42
West Midlands +14 264 £50,000 -7.83% 63
South West -2 225 £42,500 -19.05% 64
East Midlands +24 191 £47,500 +5.56% 53
East of England +14 187 £60,000 +42.01% 26
North East +5 77 £45,000 -5.26% 24
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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
1 181 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 43 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.47%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) WordPress
7 7 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.23%) CMS
9 5 (0.19%) Confluence
9 5 (0.19%) 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%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.039%) Appian
12 1 (0.039%) Mendix
12 1 (0.039%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,175 (45.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (0.90%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.078%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 50 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (1.75%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.43%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.31%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.27%) Visualfiles
7 6 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
9 4 (0.16%) Shopify
10 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.078%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.078%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.078%) Workday HCM
12 1 (0.039%) Oracle SCM
12 1 (0.039%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,565 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,323 (51.58%) Azure
3 716 (27.91%) Azure AI
4 286 (11.15%) Power Automate
5 262 (10.21%) PowerApps
6 247 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
7 169 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
8 149 (5.81%) AWS
9 147 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 123 (4.80%) Snowflake
11 111 (4.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 95 (3.70%) GCP
13 93 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
14 76 (2.96%) SaaS
15 74 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
16 73 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
17 68 (2.65%) dbt
18 61 (2.38%) OneDrive
19 54 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
20 52 (2.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.62%) Broadband
1 16 (0.62%) Firewall
2 11 (0.43%) DHCP
2 11 (0.43%) DNS
3 8 (0.31%) WAN
4 7 (0.27%) VPN
5 6 (0.23%) VoIP
6 4 (0.16%) Intranet
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%) VLAN
8 2 (0.078%) Wireless
9 1 (0.039%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.039%) Modbus
9 1 (0.039%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,023 (39.88%) Tableau
2 214 (8.34%) Data Warehouse
3 176 (6.86%) SQL Server
4 133 (5.19%) Data Lake
5 126 (4.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 125 (4.87%) Power Query
7 81 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 79 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 73 (2.85%) Looker
10 58 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.07%) BigQuery
12 45 (1.75%) Star Schema
13 44 (1.72%) Metadata
14 39 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (1.33%) Big Data
16 30 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
16 30 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
17 28 (1.09%) MySQL
18 27 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
18 27 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 60 (2.34%) Git
2 48 (1.87%) JIRA
3 31 (1.21%) MLflow
4 21 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 14 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.16%) GitLab
9 1 (0.039%) Ant
9 1 (0.039%) Apache Ivy
9 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.039%) ERwin
9 1 (0.039%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.039%) Maven
9 1 (0.039%) NUnit
9 1 (0.039%) Postman
9 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.039%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,401 (54.62%) Social Skills
2 565 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
3 558 (21.75%) Finance
4 139 (5.42%) Law
5 127 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 109 (4.25%) Marketing
7 108 (4.21%) Legal
8 107 (4.17%) Retail
9 104 (4.05%) Public Sector
10 94 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
11 90 (3.51%) Manufacturing
12 35 (1.36%) Banking
13 32 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 28 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (0.97%) Military
18 24 (0.94%) Advertising
18 24 (0.94%) Billing
19 22 (0.86%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,240 (48.34%) Analyst
2 915 (35.67%) Data Analyst
3 736 (28.69%) Junior
4 726 (28.30%) Junior Analyst
5 716 (27.91%) Junior Data Analyst
6 304 (11.85%) Senior
7 286 (11.15%) Developer
8 170 (6.63%) Data Engineer
9 142 (5.54%) Lead
10 89 (3.47%) Architect
11 88 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 80 (3.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 77 (3.00%) Data Manager
14 76 (2.96%) Business Analyst
15 68 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
16 59 (2.30%) Data Architect
16 59 (2.30%) Power Platform Developer
17 56 (2.18%) Senior Developer
18 55 (2.14%) Consultant
18 55 (2.14%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (4.41%) .NET
2 62 (2.42%) HTML
3 60 (2.34%) REST
4 59 (2.30%) PySpark
5 58 (2.26%) CSS
6 49 (1.91%) JSON
7 42 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
8 40 (1.56%) Kafka
9 37 (1.44%) .NET Core
10 32 (1.25%) scikit-learn
11 31 (1.21%) PyTorch
12 29 (1.13%) XML
13 27 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
14 26 (1.01%) Middleware
14 26 (1.01%) TensorFlow
15 24 (0.94%) LangChain
15 24 (0.94%) LlamaIndex
16 23 (0.90%) pgvector
17 21 (0.82%) EDI
18 20 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (5.38%) Management Information System
2 77 (3.00%) Data Structures
3 57 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 53 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 47 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 42 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 35 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.01%) Public Cloud
10 25 (0.97%) Clustering
11 23 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 19 (0.74%) NHS
12 19 (0.74%) Social Media
13 18 (0.70%) Driving Licence
13 18 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.55%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
15 14 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 12 (0.47%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.83%) Windows
2 22 (0.86%) Linux
3 21 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.35%) VMS
5 4 (0.16%) Unix
5 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.078%) Android
7 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.039%) Solaris
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,421 (94.39%) Business Intelligence
2 1,093 (42.61%) AI
3 737 (28.73%) Analytics
4 493 (19.22%) Decision-Making
5 491 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
6 441 (17.19%) Data Modelling
7 384 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 333 (12.98%) Visualisation
9 289 (11.27%) Agile
10 288 (11.23%) Data Governance
11 282 (10.99%) ETL
12 238 (9.28%) ERP
13 236 (9.20%) Data Engineering
14 233 (9.08%) Data Visualisation
15 231 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
16 230 (8.97%) Actionable Insight
17 225 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 218 (8.50%) Data Analysis
19 206 (8.03%) Data Pipeline
20 194 (7.56%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,716 (66.90%) SQL
2 1,095 (42.69%) Python
3 166 (6.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 160 (6.24%) C#
5 109 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 69 (2.69%) PowerShell
7 56 (2.18%) VBA
8 54 (2.11%) T-SQL
9 43 (1.68%) R
10 29 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 18 (0.70%) Scala
13 13 (0.51%) Java
14 8 (0.31%) VB
14 8 (0.31%) VBScript
15 6 (0.23%) Julia
16 4 (0.16%) Bicep
16 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.16%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 743 (28.97%) Azure Certification
2 258 (10.06%) Degree
3 103 (4.02%) Security Cleared
4 86 (3.35%) ACCA
5 81 (3.16%) CIMA
5 81 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 45 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 29 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (1.05%) AAT
10 25 (0.97%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.90%) PMP
12 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
14 9 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (0.35%) SSCP
15 7 (0.27%) HND
15 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
16 6 (0.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (14.11%) Data Quality
2 131 (5.11%) GDPR
3 84 (3.27%) QA
4 49 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.75%) SLA
6 41 (1.60%) PMO
7 37 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 28 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.66%) TickIT
10 16 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.55%) NIST
12 12 (0.47%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) IFRS
14 6 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.19%) GAAP
15 5 (0.19%) PERC
16 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.16%) ITGC
16 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 44 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.70%) Docker
3 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.078%) IAG
8 1 (0.039%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (0.97%) Terraform
2 14 (0.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.19%) SCCM
6 4 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.078%) Control-M
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.039%) Puppet
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,440 (56.14%) Microsoft
2 195 (7.60%) Databricks
3 94 (3.66%) SAP
4 79 (3.08%) Oracle
5 64 (2.50%) Google
6 44 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 30 (1.17%) Sage
8 29 (1.13%) Intapp
9 27 (1.05%) Alteryx
10 26 (1.01%) Adobe
11 24 (0.94%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.90%) Dell
13 22 (0.86%) Informatica
14 20 (0.78%) Concur
15 19 (0.74%) ServiceNow
16 18 (0.70%) iManage
17 13 (0.51%) Aderant
17 13 (0.51%) Cognos
18 12 (0.47%) HubSpot
18 12 (0.47%) SYSPRO