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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 73 71
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,463 1,664 2,270
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.62% 3.81% 3.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.35% 24.50% 20.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,498 1,202 1,684
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,960 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%

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 8,116 6,791 11,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.64% 15.55% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,589 4,428 7,777
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,625 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% -3.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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

Power BI
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI

Power BI
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in England

Power BI
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 August 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 -8 684 £72,500 +8.21% 747
North of England +74 598 £45,005 -14.28% 232
Midlands +26 428 £50,678 +1.36% 151
South East -5 345 £52,500 - 261
North West +62 278 £49,000 -7.55% 129
West Midlands +17 252 £51,356 -5.33% 91
Yorkshire +66 242 £42,500 -15.00% 78
South West -12 214 £42,500 -17.07% 111
East Midlands +17 176 £50,000 +11.11% 60
East of England -4 170 £60,000 +48.15% 63
North East +2 78 £45,000 - 31
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UK

Power BI
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
1 183 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.69%) Apache
6 10 (0.41%) WordPress
7 8 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.24%) CMS
8 6 (0.24%) Confluence
9 5 (0.20%) SAS
10 4 (0.16%) Luigi
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.081%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.081%) IIS
11 2 (0.081%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.081%) Tornado
11 2 (0.081%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,040 (42.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.81%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.081%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.041%) Revit
Business Applications
1 53 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (1.91%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.53%) Elite 3E
4 12 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.37%) Carpe Diem
5 9 (0.37%) Visualfiles
6 7 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.16%) Magento
8 4 (0.16%) Shopify
9 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.081%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.081%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.081%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.081%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,463 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,202 (48.80%) Azure
3 576 (23.39%) Azure AI
4 292 (11.86%) Power Automate
5 264 (10.72%) PowerApps
6 250 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
7 178 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
8 164 (6.66%) AWS
9 150 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 128 (5.20%) Snowflake
11 114 (4.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 106 (4.30%) GCP
13 101 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
14 73 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
14 73 (2.96%) SaaS
15 72 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
16 63 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
17 62 (2.52%) dbt
18 60 (2.44%) OneDrive
19 47 (1.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.61%) Firewall
2 14 (0.57%) Broadband
3 10 (0.41%) DHCP
3 10 (0.41%) DNS
4 8 (0.32%) WAN
5 6 (0.24%) VoIP
5 6 (0.24%) VPN
6 5 (0.20%) LAN
6 5 (0.20%) SMS
7 4 (0.16%) Intranet
7 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 4 (0.16%) Network Security
8 3 (0.12%) MQTT
8 3 (0.12%) NAS
8 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.081%) Wireless
10 1 (0.041%) Internet
10 1 (0.041%) Modbus
10 1 (0.041%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 888 (36.05%) Tableau
2 225 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
3 174 (7.06%) SQL Server
4 140 (5.68%) Data Lake
5 128 (5.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 125 (5.08%) Power Query
7 87 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 86 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 82 (3.33%) Looker
10 61 (2.48%) Relational Database
11 56 (2.27%) BigQuery
12 49 (1.99%) Metadata
13 44 (1.79%) Star Schema
14 39 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
15 33 (1.34%) Big Data
16 30 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
17 28 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
17 28 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
17 28 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 27 (1.10%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 64 (2.60%) Git
2 49 (1.99%) JIRA
3 31 (1.26%) MLflow
4 19 (0.77%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.32%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.16%) GitLab
9 2 (0.081%) Ant
9 2 (0.081%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.081%) ERwin
9 2 (0.081%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.081%) Maven
10 1 (0.041%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.041%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.041%) NUnit
10 1 (0.041%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.041%) Selenium
10 1 (0.041%) Toad
10 1 (0.041%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,286 (52.21%) Social Skills
2 582 (23.63%) Analytical Skills
3 575 (23.35%) Finance
4 147 (5.97%) Law
5 129 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (4.91%) Retail
7 120 (4.87%) Marketing
8 116 (4.71%) Legal
9 111 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
10 110 (4.47%) Public Sector
11 95 (3.86%) Manufacturing
12 38 (1.54%) Banking
13 33 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.22%) Billing
15 30 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.14%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.06%) Advertising
17 26 (1.06%) Military
18 23 (0.93%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,084 (44.01%) Analyst
2 770 (31.26%) Data Analyst
3 594 (24.12%) Junior
4 585 (23.75%) Junior Analyst
5 573 (23.26%) Junior Data Analyst
6 305 (12.38%) Senior
7 293 (11.90%) Developer
8 178 (7.23%) Data Engineer
9 140 (5.68%) Lead
10 87 (3.53%) Architect
11 84 (3.41%) Data Manager
12 81 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 79 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 77 (3.13%) Business Analyst
15 69 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
16 60 (2.44%) Consultant
16 60 (2.44%) Data Architect
16 60 (2.44%) Power Platform Developer
17 57 (2.31%) Senior Developer
18 54 (2.19%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (4.67%) .NET
2 62 (2.52%) HTML
3 60 (2.44%) PySpark
3 60 (2.44%) REST
4 55 (2.23%) CSS
5 46 (1.87%) JSON
6 43 (1.75%) Kafka
7 41 (1.66%) HTML5 Canvas
8 37 (1.50%) .NET Core
9 34 (1.38%) PyTorch
9 34 (1.38%) scikit-learn
10 29 (1.18%) TensorFlow
11 28 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
12 26 (1.06%) XML
13 25 (1.02%) Middleware
14 24 (0.97%) LangChain
14 24 (0.97%) LlamaIndex
15 23 (0.93%) EDI
15 23 (0.93%) pgvector
16 20 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 148 (6.01%) Management Information System
2 72 (2.92%) Data Structures
3 60 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 49 (1.99%) Product Ownership
6 48 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 37 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.10%) Public Cloud
10 24 (0.97%) Clustering
11 23 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (0.89%) Low-Code
13 19 (0.77%) Social Media
14 18 (0.73%) Driving Licence
14 18 (0.73%) NHS
15 17 (0.69%) AI Agents
15 17 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.61%) Educational Technology
17 14 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
18 12 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.91%) Windows
2 22 (0.89%) Linux
3 20 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.24%) VMS
5 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.16%) Unix
6 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.081%) Android
7 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.081%) Solaris
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,318 (94.11%) Business Intelligence
2 983 (39.91%) AI
3 772 (31.34%) Analytics
4 521 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
5 515 (20.91%) Decision-Making
6 446 (18.11%) Data Modelling
7 407 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 342 (13.89%) Visualisation
9 305 (12.38%) Agile
10 298 (12.10%) Data Governance
11 293 (11.90%) ETL
12 260 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 251 (10.19%) Data Engineering
14 243 (9.87%) Data Visualisation
15 242 (9.83%) Actionable Insight
16 241 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 237 (9.62%) ERP
18 227 (9.22%) Data Analysis
19 220 (8.93%) Data Pipeline
20 205 (8.32%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,599 (64.92%) SQL
2 967 (39.26%) Python
3 163 (6.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 161 (6.54%) C#
5 112 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 55 (2.23%) VBA
8 51 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.83%) R
10 31 (1.26%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.77%) Scala
12 17 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (0.57%) Java
14 9 (0.37%) VB
15 8 (0.32%) VBScript
16 6 (0.24%) Julia
17 5 (0.20%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.16%) Bicep
18 4 (0.16%) PHP
19 3 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 602 (24.44%) Azure Certification
2 268 (10.88%) Degree
3 110 (4.47%) Security Cleared
4 90 (3.65%) SC Cleared
5 84 (3.41%) ACCA
6 79 (3.21%) CIMA
7 44 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.54%) DBS Check
9 28 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.02%) AAT
10 25 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.93%) PMP
12 16 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.32%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.32%) SSCP
15 7 (0.28%) CFA
15 7 (0.28%) HND
15 7 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (15.39%) Data Quality
2 139 (5.64%) GDPR
3 89 (3.61%) QA
4 54 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.87%) SLA
6 40 (1.62%) PMO
7 39 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 23 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.69%) TickIT
10 13 (0.53%) NIST
11 11 (0.45%) GRC
12 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.24%) GAAP
13 6 (0.24%) PERC
14 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.20%) IFRS
15 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.081%) ITGC
System Software
1 35 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 22 (0.89%) Docker
3 8 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.081%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.081%) IAG
Systems Management
1 26 (1.06%) Terraform
2 16 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.41%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.20%) Ansible
6 5 (0.20%) SCCM
7 2 (0.081%) Argo
7 2 (0.081%) Control-M
7 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.081%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.081%) Puppet
8 1 (0.041%) Grafana
8 1 (0.041%) MOM
8 1 (0.041%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.041%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,326 (53.84%) Microsoft
2 201 (8.16%) Databricks
3 99 (4.02%) SAP
4 79 (3.21%) Oracle
5 70 (2.84%) Google
6 41 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 30 (1.22%) Sage
8 29 (1.18%) Alteryx
9 28 (1.14%) Intapp
10 26 (1.06%) Adobe
11 24 (0.97%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.93%) Dell
13 19 (0.77%) Concur
14 18 (0.73%) Informatica
14 18 (0.73%) ServiceNow
15 16 (0.65%) iManage
16 13 (0.53%) Aderant
17 12 (0.49%) HubSpot
17 12 (0.49%) SYSPRO
18 11 (0.45%) Yardi