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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 72 60
Rank change year-on-year +18 -12 +19
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,613 1,554 3,174
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.26% 4.00% 3.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.08% 23.22% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 1,082 2,574
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,315
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,818
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.84% -2.15%

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 7,046 6,693 14,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.80% 17.23% 17.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,423 4,572 11,383
10th Percentile £35,194 £37,275 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
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 13 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 13 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 +52 624 £45,000 -14.29% 131
London -11 585 £70,000 - 274
Midlands +29 499 £47,085 -10.32% 82
South East +22 453 £57,500 +4.55% 183
West Midlands +17 293 £45,000 -15.89% 51
Yorkshire +43 292 £42,500 -10.53% 37
North West +37 267 £46,500 -11.43% 80
South West +20 229 £43,500 -19.07% 36
East of England +16 211 £55,000 -15.38% 39
East Midlands +44 204 £47,500 -2.56% 31
North East +12 65 £46,250 -13.95% 16
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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
1 150 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 41 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.38%) SAS
5 9 (0.34%) Apache
5 9 (0.34%) Confluence
6 7 (0.27%) WordPress
7 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.23%) CMS
8 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.077%) Luigi
9 2 (0.077%) Moodle
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.038%) Appian
10 1 (0.038%) Drupal
10 1 (0.038%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,398 (53.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
5 23 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.077%) Trello
7 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 41 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.34%) 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 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.19%) Shopify
10 4 (0.15%) Magento
11 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.077%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.077%) Q-Pulse
12 2 (0.077%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,613 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,549 (59.28%) Azure
3 993 (38.00%) Azure AI
4 236 (9.03%) Power Automate
5 206 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
6 194 (7.42%) PowerApps
7 140 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 132 (5.05%) Snowflake
9 122 (4.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 122 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
10 113 (4.32%) AWS
11 87 (3.33%) dbt
12 75 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
13 72 (2.76%) GCP
14 66 (2.53%) SaaS
15 58 (2.22%) Entra ID
16 57 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
17 50 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
18 41 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
19 38 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.61%) Broadband
2 12 (0.46%) DHCP
2 12 (0.46%) DNS
2 12 (0.46%) Intranet
3 7 (0.27%) Firewall
4 6 (0.23%) VoIP
4 6 (0.23%) WAN
5 5 (0.19%) Modbus
5 5 (0.19%) MQTT
5 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.11%) LTE
6 3 (0.11%) NAS
7 2 (0.077%) Internet
7 2 (0.077%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.077%) VPN
8 1 (0.038%) FTP
8 1 (0.038%) Mobile Broadband
8 1 (0.038%) SMS
8 1 (0.038%) Softphone
8 1 (0.038%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,235 (47.26%) Tableau
2 180 (6.89%) Data Warehouse
3 178 (6.81%) SQL Server
4 123 (4.71%) Data Lake
5 116 (4.44%) Power Query
6 110 (4.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 68 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 67 (2.56%) Looker
9 61 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 50 (1.91%) BigQuery
11 47 (1.80%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.68%) Big Data
13 42 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 31 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
15 29 (1.11%) Star Schema
16 28 (1.07%) Metadata
16 28 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
17 23 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
18 22 (0.84%) PowerPivot
19 21 (0.80%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (2.18%) Git
2 40 (1.53%) JIRA
3 26 (1.00%) MLflow
3 26 (1.00%) Visual Studio
4 14 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.11%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.11%) Postman
7 2 (0.077%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.038%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.038%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.038%) ERwin
8 1 (0.038%) GitLab
8 1 (0.038%) NUnit
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.038%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.038%) Selenium
8 1 (0.038%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.038%) Toad
General
1 1,571 (60.12%) Social Skills
2 528 (20.21%) Analytical Skills
3 478 (18.29%) Finance
4 114 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (3.60%) Marketing
6 91 (3.48%) Law
6 91 (3.48%) Retail
7 90 (3.44%) Public Sector
8 78 (2.99%) Legal
9 70 (2.68%) Manufacturing
10 60 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 41 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (1.00%) Banking
15 25 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.80%) Publishing
17 18 (0.69%) Advertising
18 17 (0.65%) Automotive
19 16 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,495 (57.21%) Analyst
2 1,196 (45.77%) Data Analyst
3 1,010 (38.65%) Junior
4 1,004 (38.42%) Junior Analyst
5 997 (38.16%) Junior Data Analyst
6 275 (10.52%) Senior
7 250 (9.57%) Developer
8 142 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 122 (4.67%) Lead
10 90 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 82 (3.14%) Business Analyst
12 79 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 78 (2.99%) Architect
14 67 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
15 64 (2.45%) Data Manager
16 59 (2.26%) Financial Analyst
16 59 (2.26%) Power BI Developer
17 57 (2.18%) IT Support
18 56 (2.14%) Systems Analyst
19 51 (1.95%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (3.48%) .NET
2 51 (1.95%) JSON
3 49 (1.88%) CSS
4 48 (1.84%) HTML
5 42 (1.61%) HTML5 Canvas
6 41 (1.57%) REST
7 40 (1.53%) PySpark
8 38 (1.45%) XML
9 35 (1.34%) .NET Core
10 32 (1.22%) Kafka
11 29 (1.11%) PyTorch
11 29 (1.11%) scikit-learn
12 23 (0.88%) EDI
12 23 (0.88%) LangChain
12 23 (0.88%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.88%) pgvector
12 23 (0.88%) TensorFlow
13 22 (0.84%) Middleware
14 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
15 20 (0.77%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 79 (3.02%) Management Information System
2 62 (2.37%) Data Structures
3 55 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 53 (2.03%) Cloud Native
5 35 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.07%) Low-Code
8 27 (1.03%) Clustering
8 27 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 24 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 23 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 20 (0.77%) NHS
12 19 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (0.69%) Social Media
14 15 (0.57%) Driving Licence
15 14 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.54%) FMCG
16 11 (0.42%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.00%) Windows
2 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.50%) Linux
4 12 (0.46%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) Unix
6 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.077%) Android
9 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,474 (94.68%) Business Intelligence
2 1,229 (47.03%) AI
3 624 (23.88%) Analytics
4 430 (16.46%) Decision-Making
5 383 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
6 379 (14.50%) Data Modelling
7 318 (12.17%) Visualisation
8 273 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 262 (10.03%) ETL
10 219 (8.38%) Data Governance
11 216 (8.27%) Data Visualisation
12 211 (8.08%) Agile
13 203 (7.77%) Data Engineering
14 200 (7.65%) Actionable Insight
15 197 (7.54%) Data Analysis
16 189 (7.23%) ERP
17 180 (6.89%) Project Management
18 177 (6.77%) Data Pipeline
19 174 (6.66%) Machine Learning
20 169 (6.47%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,830 (70.03%) SQL
2 1,382 (52.89%) Python
3 145 (5.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 120 (4.59%) C#
5 85 (3.25%) JavaScript
6 74 (2.83%) PowerShell
7 70 (2.68%) VBA
8 52 (1.99%) T-SQL
9 46 (1.76%) R
10 25 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (0.46%) Java
13 11 (0.42%) Delphi
13 11 (0.42%) Scala
14 9 (0.34%) VBScript
15 6 (0.23%) Julia
15 6 (0.23%) VB
16 5 (0.19%) Bicep
17 3 (0.11%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.077%) C
Qualifications
1 1,014 (38.81%) Azure Certification
2 263 (10.07%) Degree
3 79 (3.02%) Security Cleared
4 63 (2.41%) ACCA
4 63 (2.41%) CIMA
5 58 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 40 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (1.45%) PMI Certification
7 38 (1.45%) PMP
8 31 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.19%) DBS Check
9 23 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.54%) AAT
11 11 (0.42%) MBA
12 9 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (0.31%) APMP
13 8 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
13 8 (0.31%) SSCP
14 7 (0.27%) IIBA
14 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (10.56%) Data Quality
2 112 (4.29%) GDPR
3 59 (2.26%) QA
4 53 (2.03%) SLA
5 34 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 33 (1.26%) PMO
7 26 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.65%) TickIT
9 14 (0.54%) NIST
10 13 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.46%) GRC
12 8 (0.31%) IFRS
13 4 (0.15%) GAAP
13 4 (0.15%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.15%) ITGC
13 4 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.077%) MiFID
14 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.077%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.46%) Docker
3 10 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) IAG
7 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (0.54%) Terraform
2 11 (0.42%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.19%) SCCM
5 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 4 (0.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.077%) Argo
7 2 (0.077%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.038%) Grafana
8 1 (0.038%) MOM
8 1 (0.038%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,560 (59.70%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.08%) Databricks
3 87 (3.33%) SAP
4 75 (2.87%) Oracle
5 48 (1.84%) Google
6 37 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.19%) Adobe
7 31 (1.19%) Informatica
8 29 (1.11%) Alteryx
9 24 (0.92%) Cloudera
9 24 (0.92%) Dell
9 24 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 22 (0.84%) Intapp
11 19 (0.73%) Anaplan
12 13 (0.50%) iManage
12 13 (0.50%) Sage
13 12 (0.46%) Cognos
13 12 (0.46%) Genesys
13 12 (0.46%) HubSpot
13 12 (0.46%) Verint