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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 73 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 -14 +20
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,150 1,534 3,075
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.27% 3.90% 4.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.42% 20.61% 22.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,147 1,000 2,489
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 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +12.68% -6.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,900 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.71% +11.43% -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 6,247 7,442 13,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.49% 18.91% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,958 4,747 11,053
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,750 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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

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 15 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 15 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 +7 646 £70,000 - 283
North of England +4 427 £47,750 -4.50% 160
South East +25 378 £57,500 +5.38% 218
Midlands +27 369 £47,085 -0.87% 104
West Midlands +25 225 £47,085 -5.83% 76
Yorkshire +16 195 £46,000 -3.66% 58
North West -12 185 £50,000 - 86
South West +50 175 £43,953 -8.43% 66
East Midlands +23 142 £45,000 +5.88% 28
East of England -11 135 £49,000 -30.00% 48
North East +25 47 £42,500 -15.00% 20
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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
1 147 (6.84%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.79%) SAS
5 15 (0.70%) Confluence
6 7 (0.33%) Apache
7 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.19%) CMS
7 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.093%) Moodle
8 2 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.093%) WordPress
9 1 (0.047%) Appian
9 1 (0.047%) Drupal
9 1 (0.047%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.047%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,042 (48.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.65%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.42%) Trello
8 4 (0.19%) Maya
9 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.047%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.047%) InDesign
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 45 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.42%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 5 (0.23%) SAP Business One
6 5 (0.23%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.19%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 3 (0.14%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.14%) Shopify
9 2 (0.093%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.093%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 2,150 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,166 (54.23%) Azure
3 623 (28.98%) Azure AI
4 235 (10.93%) Power Automate
5 206 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
6 193 (8.98%) PowerApps
7 154 (7.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 137 (6.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 132 (6.14%) Snowflake
10 114 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
11 87 (4.05%) AWS
12 85 (3.95%) dbt
13 83 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
14 62 (2.88%) SaaS
15 59 (2.74%) Entra ID
15 59 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
16 54 (2.51%) GCP
17 51 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
18 36 (1.67%) Serverless
19 30 (1.40%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.65%) Intranet
2 13 (0.60%) Firewall
3 10 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.47%) WAN
4 9 (0.42%) DHCP
4 9 (0.42%) DNS
5 5 (0.23%) Modbus
5 5 (0.23%) MQTT
5 5 (0.23%) VPN
6 4 (0.19%) Broadband
6 4 (0.19%) VoIP
7 3 (0.14%) Internet
7 3 (0.14%) LAN
7 3 (0.14%) VLAN
8 2 (0.093%) Network Security
8 2 (0.093%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.047%) ADSL
9 1 (0.047%) BGP
9 1 (0.047%) FTP
9 1 (0.047%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 861 (40.05%) Tableau
2 202 (9.40%) SQL Server
3 190 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
4 113 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 113 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 107 (4.98%) Power Query
6 66 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 64 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 55 (2.56%) Looker
9 42 (1.95%) Relational Database
10 35 (1.63%) Big Data
11 34 (1.58%) BigQuery
12 33 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 30 (1.40%) Metadata
14 28 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
15 27 (1.26%) Qlik Sense
16 26 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.16%) PowerPivot
17 25 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
17 25 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (3.30%) Git
2 33 (1.53%) JIRA
2 33 (1.53%) Visual Studio
3 11 (0.51%) MLflow
4 9 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (0.33%) GitLab
6 4 (0.19%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.19%) ERwin
6 4 (0.19%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.19%) Postman
6 4 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.093%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.047%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.047%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.047%) NUnit
8 1 (0.047%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.047%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.047%) Selenium
8 1 (0.047%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,178 (54.79%) Social Skills
2 559 (26.00%) Finance
3 495 (23.02%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (4.14%) Marketing
6 79 (3.67%) Manufacturing
7 78 (3.63%) Public Sector
8 76 (3.53%) Legal
9 68 (3.16%) Law
10 59 (2.74%) Retail
11 51 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (2.00%) Banking
14 27 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 20 (0.93%) Games
17 19 (0.88%) Advertising
17 19 (0.88%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.79%) Billing
18 17 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,107 (51.49%) Analyst
2 825 (38.37%) Data Analyst
3 629 (29.26%) Junior
4 622 (28.93%) Junior Analyst
5 619 (28.79%) Junior Data Analyst
6 227 (10.56%) Senior
7 218 (10.14%) Developer
8 145 (6.74%) Data Engineer
9 121 (5.63%) Lead
10 87 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 79 (3.67%) Architect
12 76 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 76 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
13 71 (3.30%) Financial Analyst
14 62 (2.88%) Business Analyst
15 56 (2.60%) Support Analyst
16 54 (2.51%) Power Platform Developer
17 51 (2.37%) IT Support
18 50 (2.33%) Consultant
19 49 (2.28%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (2.93%) .NET
2 40 (1.86%) REST
3 37 (1.72%) PySpark
4 35 (1.63%) JSON
5 32 (1.49%) XML
6 24 (1.12%) CSS
6 24 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
7 22 (1.02%) .NET Core
7 22 (1.02%) HTML
8 19 (0.88%) Kafka
9 18 (0.84%) Web Services
10 17 (0.79%) EDI
10 17 (0.79%) SOAP
11 11 (0.51%) React
12 10 (0.47%) ASP.NET
12 10 (0.47%) PyTorch
12 10 (0.47%) RESTful
12 10 (0.47%) TensorFlow
12 10 (0.47%) WinForms
13 9 (0.42%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 74 (3.44%) Management Information System
2 73 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 50 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.09%) Data Structures
5 42 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.49%) Low-Code
6 32 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 30 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.30%) Product Ownership
9 18 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (0.79%) Driving Licence
10 17 (0.79%) Reinsurance
11 15 (0.70%) FMCG
12 14 (0.65%) Clustering
12 14 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (0.65%) NHS
13 13 (0.60%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.51%) Social Media
15 10 (0.47%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.53%) Windows
2 14 (0.65%) Linux
3 11 (0.51%) VMS
4 10 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.42%) Unix
6 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.19%) Android
8 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.047%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,052 (95.44%) Business Intelligence
2 836 (38.88%) AI
3 568 (26.42%) Analytics
4 439 (20.42%) Decision-Making
5 372 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
6 343 (15.95%) Data Modelling
7 339 (15.77%) Visualisation
8 277 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 276 (12.84%) ETL
10 240 (11.16%) Agile
10 240 (11.16%) Data Analysis
11 221 (10.28%) Data Visualisation
12 208 (9.67%) Data Governance
13 206 (9.58%) Actionable Insight
14 189 (8.79%) Data Engineering
15 182 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
16 160 (7.44%) Project Management
17 159 (7.40%) DevOps
18 154 (7.16%) CI/CD
19 151 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,403 (65.26%) SQL
2 1,011 (47.02%) Python
3 135 (6.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 97 (4.51%) C#
5 82 (3.81%) PowerShell
6 77 (3.58%) VBA
7 71 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 53 (2.47%) R
9 44 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 18 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (0.56%) TypeScript
12 10 (0.47%) Delphi
13 9 (0.42%) Java
13 9 (0.42%) Scala
14 6 (0.28%) Bicep
14 6 (0.28%) VBScript
15 5 (0.23%) ANSI SQL
15 5 (0.23%) VB
16 4 (0.19%) Bash
17 3 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 643 (29.91%) Azure Certification
2 279 (12.98%) Degree
3 79 (3.67%) Security Cleared
4 71 (3.30%) ACCA
4 71 (3.30%) CIMA
5 60 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 55 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 51 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (1.86%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 38 (1.77%) PMP
10 30 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 17 (0.79%) AAT
11 17 (0.79%) MBA
12 13 (0.60%) APMP
13 12 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
14 8 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.37%) IIBA
15 7 (0.33%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 84 (3.91%) GDPR
3 53 (2.47%) QA
4 42 (1.95%) PMO
5 38 (1.77%) SLA
6 36 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.33%) IFRS
11 6 (0.28%) GRC
11 6 (0.28%) NIST
12 5 (0.23%) ITGC
13 4 (0.19%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.14%) GAAP
15 2 (0.093%) EMIR
15 2 (0.093%) MiFID
15 2 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.093%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.56%) Docker
3 9 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.047%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (0.84%) Terraform
2 15 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (0.60%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.28%) SCCM
6 5 (0.23%) Control-M
6 5 (0.23%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.14%) Ansible
7 3 (0.14%) Argo
8 2 (0.093%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.047%) Grafana
9 1 (0.047%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.047%) MOM
9 1 (0.047%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,129 (52.51%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.00%) Databricks
3 73 (3.40%) SAP
4 71 (3.30%) Oracle
5 50 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 42 (1.95%) Google
7 37 (1.72%) Informatica
8 34 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.35%) Alteryx
10 21 (0.98%) Adobe
10 21 (0.98%) Anaplan
11 14 (0.65%) Dell
11 14 (0.65%) IBM
12 12 (0.56%) Genesys
12 12 (0.56%) HubSpot
12 12 (0.56%) Verint
13 11 (0.51%) Intapp
14 9 (0.42%) Cloudera
14 9 (0.42%) Foundry
14 9 (0.42%) VMware