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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 72 72
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,526 1,642 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.71% 3.77% 3.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.99% 24.15% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,517 1,207 1,705
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -7.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,250 £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 8,152 6,799 11,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.76% 15.61% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,602 4,468 7,853
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,297 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,406 £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 7 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 7 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 -12 689 £70,000 +3.70% 436
North of England +84 612 £45,010 -14.27% 176
Midlands +22 445 £50,000 - 135
South East +3 358 £55,000 +4.76% 221
North West +69 281 £47,750 -9.91% 95
West Midlands +17 259 £51,356 -5.33% 79
Yorkshire +69 252 £43,000 -15.69% 64
South West -5 221 £42,500 -19.05% 72
East Midlands +21 186 £48,750 +8.33% 56
East of England +2 176 £60,000 +45.45% 42
North East +7 79 £45,000 -5.26% 21
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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
1 182 (7.21%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.59%) 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 (43.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (1.86%) 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 47 (1.86%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.48%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.36%) Visualfiles
5 8 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 6 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
9 4 (0.16%) Shopify
10 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.079%) Dynamics GP
11 2 (0.079%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.079%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.079%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,526 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,246 (49.33%) Azure
3 622 (24.62%) Azure AI
4 290 (11.48%) Power Automate
5 262 (10.37%) PowerApps
6 249 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
7 175 (6.93%) Dynamics 365
8 164 (6.49%) AWS
9 151 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 128 (5.07%) Snowflake
11 116 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 104 (4.12%) GCP
13 101 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
14 75 (2.97%) SaaS
15 73 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
15 73 (2.89%) Microsoft Purview
16 64 (2.53%) dbt
17 60 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
17 60 (2.38%) OneDrive
18 49 (1.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.59%) Broadband
1 15 (0.59%) 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 (37.09%) Tableau
2 224 (8.87%) Data Warehouse
3 179 (7.09%) SQL Server
4 140 (5.54%) Data Lake
5 129 (5.11%) Power Query
6 128 (5.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 87 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 85 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 82 (3.25%) Looker
10 61 (2.41%) Relational Database
11 57 (2.26%) BigQuery
12 48 (1.90%) Metadata
13 44 (1.74%) Star Schema
14 39 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (1.27%) Big Data
16 30 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
17 28 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
17 28 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
17 28 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 27 (1.07%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (2.57%) 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 1,340 (53.05%) Social Skills
2 590 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
3 581 (23.00%) Finance
4 145 (5.74%) Law
5 130 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (4.79%) Marketing
7 116 (4.59%) Retail
8 115 (4.55%) Legal
9 111 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
9 111 (4.39%) Public Sector
10 96 (3.80%) Manufacturing
11 37 (1.46%) Banking
12 34 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (1.15%) Billing
14 29 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 25 (0.99%) Advertising
15 25 (0.99%) Military
16 23 (0.91%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,150 (45.53%) Analyst
2 825 (32.66%) Data Analyst
3 643 (25.46%) Junior
4 632 (25.02%) Junior Analyst
5 621 (24.58%) Junior Data Analyst
6 313 (12.39%) Senior
7 291 (11.52%) Developer
8 176 (6.97%) Data Engineer
9 140 (5.54%) Lead
10 89 (3.52%) Architect
11 85 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 82 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 81 (3.21%) Data Manager
14 76 (3.01%) Business Analyst
15 73 (2.89%) 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
18 55 (2.18%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (4.55%) .NET
2 64 (2.53%) HTML
3 60 (2.38%) PySpark
3 60 (2.38%) REST
4 58 (2.30%) CSS
5 46 (1.82%) JSON
6 41 (1.62%) HTML5 Canvas
6 41 (1.62%) Kafka
7 37 (1.46%) .NET Core
8 33 (1.31%) scikit-learn
9 32 (1.27%) PyTorch
10 27 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
10 27 (1.07%) TensorFlow
10 27 (1.07%) XML
11 25 (0.99%) Middleware
12 24 (0.95%) LangChain
12 24 (0.95%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (0.91%) pgvector
14 22 (0.87%) EDI
15 20 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 147 (5.82%) Management Information System
2 75 (2.97%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.34%) Cloud Native
4 54 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 49 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 45 (1.78%) Product Ownership
7 38 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.35%) 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 16 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.55%) Educational Technology
17 14 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
17 14 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.86%) 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 2,382 (94.30%) Business Intelligence
2 1,028 (40.70%) AI
3 774 (30.64%) Analytics
4 520 (20.59%) Decision-Making
5 517 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
6 445 (17.62%) Data Modelling
7 408 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 347 (13.74%) Visualisation
9 303 (12.00%) Agile
10 297 (11.76%) Data Governance
11 291 (11.52%) ETL
12 255 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 248 (9.82%) Data Engineering
14 246 (9.74%) Data Visualisation
15 242 (9.58%) Actionable Insight
16 240 (9.50%) ERP
16 240 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 233 (9.22%) Data Analysis
18 214 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
19 202 (8.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,651 (65.36%) SQL
2 1,015 (40.18%) Python
3 167 (6.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 161 (6.37%) C#
5 113 (4.47%) JavaScript
6 64 (2.53%) PowerShell
7 57 (2.26%) 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 (0.51%) 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 (25.69%) Azure Certification
2 268 (10.61%) Degree
3 108 (4.28%) Security Cleared
4 86 (3.40%) ACCA
4 86 (3.40%) SC Cleared
5 81 (3.21%) CIMA
6 45 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.54%) DBS Check
8 29 (1.15%) 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 (0.55%) 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
1 379 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 138 (5.46%) GDPR
3 90 (3.56%) QA
4 51 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.82%) SLA
6 40 (1.58%) PMO
7 38 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 24 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.67%) TickIT
10 13 (0.51%) NIST
11 11 (0.44%) GRC
12 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.24%) GAAP
13 6 (0.24%) IFRS
13 6 (0.24%) PERC
14 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 38 (1.50%) 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 (0.59%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.51%) 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 1,378 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 201 (7.96%) Databricks
3 100 (3.96%) SAP
4 80 (3.17%) Oracle
5 71 (2.81%) Google
6 44 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.23%) Sage
8 30 (1.19%) Alteryx
9 29 (1.15%) Intapp
10 26 (1.03%) Adobe
11 24 (0.95%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.91%) Dell
13 21 (0.83%) Informatica
14 20 (0.79%) Concur
15 19 (0.75%) ServiceNow
16 17 (0.67%) iManage
17 13 (0.51%) Aderant
17 13 (0.51%) Cognos
17 13 (0.51%) HubSpot
18 12 (0.48%) SYSPRO