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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 74 73
Rank change year-on-year +20 -1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,521 1,642 2,275
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 3.77% 3.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.09% 24.10% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,513 1,207 1,710
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -7.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,300
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 8,110 6,812 11,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.74% 15.64% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,583 4,478 7,886
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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

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 6 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 6 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 -10 685 £70,000 +3.70% 460
North of England +82 611 £45,010 -14.27% 189
Midlands +24 444 £50,000 - 152
South East -7 360 £52,500 - 235
North West +69 280 £48,000 -11.11% 100
West Midlands +21 259 £51,356 -3.56% 86
Yorkshire +68 253 £43,000 -14.00% 70
South West -8 218 £42,500 -19.05% 75
East Midlands +26 185 £50,000 +11.11% 66
East of England +1 178 £60,000 +42.86% 51
North East +6 78 £45,000 -5.26% 23
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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
1 182 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.60%) Apache
6 10 (0.40%) WordPress
7 8 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.24%) CMS
8 6 (0.24%) Confluence
8 6 (0.24%) SAS
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.12%) Luigi
11 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.079%) IIS
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.079%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.040%) Mendix
12 1 (0.040%) Tornado
Applications
1 1,090 (43.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.87%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.079%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.040%) Revit
Business Applications
1 52 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.82%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.48%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 8 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.32%) Visualfiles
5 7 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 6 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
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 (0.079%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.079%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.079%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.079%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,521 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,244 (49.35%) Azure
3 622 (24.67%) Azure AI
4 289 (11.46%) Power Automate
5 262 (10.39%) PowerApps
6 248 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
7 175 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
8 165 (6.55%) AWS
9 150 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 127 (5.04%) Snowflake
11 114 (4.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 103 (4.09%) GCP
13 100 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
14 73 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
14 73 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
14 73 (2.90%) SaaS
15 66 (2.62%) dbt
16 60 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
16 60 (2.38%) OneDrive
17 49 (1.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.60%) Broadband
1 15 (0.60%) Firewall
2 10 (0.40%) DHCP
2 10 (0.40%) DNS
3 8 (0.32%) WAN
4 6 (0.24%) VoIP
4 6 (0.24%) VPN
5 5 (0.20%) SMS
6 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 4 (0.16%) LAN
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
6 4 (0.16%) Network Security
7 3 (0.12%) NAS
7 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.079%) Internet
8 2 (0.079%) MQTT
8 2 (0.079%) Wireless
9 1 (0.040%) Modbus
9 1 (0.040%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 937 (37.17%) Tableau
2 222 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
3 177 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 139 (5.51%) Data Lake
5 129 (5.12%) Power Query
6 127 (5.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 85 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 84 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 80 (3.17%) Looker
10 60 (2.38%) Relational Database
11 56 (2.22%) BigQuery
12 46 (1.82%) Metadata
13 42 (1.67%) Star Schema
14 39 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (1.27%) Big Data
16 30 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
17 28 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
17 28 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 27 (1.07%) Delta Lake
18 27 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (2.50%) Git
2 49 (1.94%) JIRA
3 31 (1.23%) MLflow
4 20 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.32%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.16%) GitLab
9 2 (0.079%) Ant
9 2 (0.079%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (0.079%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.079%) Maven
10 1 (0.040%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.040%) ERwin
10 1 (0.040%) NUnit
10 1 (0.040%) Postman
10 1 (0.040%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.040%) Selenium
10 1 (0.040%) Toad
10 1 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,334 (52.92%) Social Skills
2 586 (23.24%) Analytical Skills
3 580 (23.01%) Finance
4 144 (5.71%) Law
5 129 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 120 (4.76%) Marketing
7 115 (4.56%) Retail
8 114 (4.52%) Legal
9 110 (4.36%) Public Sector
10 109 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
11 93 (3.69%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.43%) Banking
13 33 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
15 29 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.11%) Billing
17 25 (0.99%) Military
18 24 (0.95%) Advertising
19 22 (0.87%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,147 (45.50%) Analyst
2 823 (32.65%) Data Analyst
3 642 (25.47%) Junior
4 631 (25.03%) Junior Analyst
5 620 (24.59%) Junior Data Analyst
6 314 (12.46%) Senior
7 290 (11.50%) Developer
8 178 (7.06%) Data Engineer
9 140 (5.55%) Lead
10 89 (3.53%) Architect
11 86 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 81 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 80 (3.17%) Data Manager
14 76 (3.01%) Business Analyst
15 73 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
16 59 (2.34%) Consultant
16 59 (2.34%) Data Architect
16 59 (2.34%) Power Platform Developer
17 57 (2.26%) Senior Developer
17 57 (2.26%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (4.56%) .NET
2 64 (2.54%) HTML
3 60 (2.38%) REST
4 59 (2.34%) PySpark
5 58 (2.30%) CSS
6 46 (1.82%) JSON
7 41 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
7 41 (1.63%) Kafka
8 37 (1.47%) .NET Core
9 33 (1.31%) scikit-learn
10 32 (1.27%) PyTorch
11 27 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
11 27 (1.07%) TensorFlow
11 27 (1.07%) XML
12 25 (0.99%) Middleware
13 24 (0.95%) LangChain
13 24 (0.95%) LlamaIndex
14 23 (0.91%) pgvector
15 21 (0.83%) EDI
16 20 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 145 (5.75%) Management Information System
2 75 (2.98%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.34%) Cloud Native
4 53 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 49 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 44 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 37 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 25 (0.99%) Clustering
11 23 (0.91%) Low-Code
12 21 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (0.75%) Social Media
14 18 (0.71%) Driving Licence
14 18 (0.71%) NHS
15 17 (0.67%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.60%) Educational Technology
16 15 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
17 14 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.82%) Windows
2 23 (0.91%) Linux
3 21 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.28%) VMS
5 4 (0.16%) Unix
5 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.079%) Android
6 2 (0.079%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.079%) Solaris
7 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,374 (94.17%) Business Intelligence
2 1,025 (40.66%) AI
3 771 (30.58%) Analytics
4 518 (20.55%) Decision-Making
5 513 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
6 447 (17.73%) Data Modelling
7 404 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 347 (13.76%) Visualisation
9 301 (11.94%) Agile
10 296 (11.74%) Data Governance
11 288 (11.42%) ETL
12 253 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 248 (9.84%) Data Engineering
14 245 (9.72%) Data Visualisation
15 241 (9.56%) ERP
16 240 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
17 238 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 234 (9.28%) Data Analysis
19 214 (8.49%) Data Pipeline
20 203 (8.05%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,644 (65.21%) SQL
2 1,015 (40.26%) Python
3 167 (6.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 160 (6.35%) C#
5 113 (4.48%) JavaScript
6 64 (2.54%) PowerShell
7 58 (2.30%) VBA
8 54 (2.14%) T-SQL
9 47 (1.86%) R
10 31 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.75%) Scala
12 18 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (0.52%) Java
14 9 (0.36%) 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
1 649 (25.74%) Azure Certification
2 267 (10.59%) Degree
3 109 (4.32%) Security Cleared
4 87 (3.45%) ACCA
4 87 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 82 (3.25%) CIMA
6 46 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 28 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.03%) AAT
10 25 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.91%) PMP
12 16 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.32%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.32%) SSCP
15 7 (0.28%) HND
15 7 (0.28%) Postgraduate
16 6 (0.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (14.99%) Data Quality
2 135 (5.36%) GDPR
3 89 (3.53%) QA
4 51 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.75%) SLA
6 40 (1.59%) PMO
7 37 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 24 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (0.67%) TickIT
11 13 (0.52%) NIST
12 11 (0.44%) GRC
13 7 (0.28%) IFRS
14 6 (0.24%) GAAP
14 6 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.24%) PERC
15 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 38 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.79%) 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 (0.079%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.079%) IAG
8 1 (0.040%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (1.03%) Terraform
2 15 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.40%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.20%) Ansible
6 5 (0.20%) SCCM
7 2 (0.079%) Control-M
7 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.079%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.079%) Puppet
8 1 (0.040%) Argo
8 1 (0.040%) Grafana
8 1 (0.040%) MOM
8 1 (0.040%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.040%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,372 (54.42%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.01%) Databricks
3 100 (3.97%) SAP
4 79 (3.13%) Oracle
5 69 (2.74%) Google
6 44 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.23%) Sage
8 29 (1.15%) Alteryx
8 29 (1.15%) Intapp
9 26 (1.03%) Adobe
10 24 (0.95%) Cloudera
11 23 (0.91%) Dell
12 20 (0.79%) Concur
12 20 (0.79%) Informatica
13 19 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.67%) iManage
15 13 (0.52%) Aderant
15 13 (0.52%) Cognos
15 13 (0.52%) HubSpot
16 12 (0.48%) SYSPRO