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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 78 61
Rank change year-on-year +27 -17 +18
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,557 1,587 3,212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.95% 3.74% 3.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.93% 23.46% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,185 2,554
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,225
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £74,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £89,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,145 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -

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 7,764 6,766 14,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.96% 15.94% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,294 4,504 11,035
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,624
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -6 637 £72,500 +5.84% 306
North of England +76 626 £45,037 -14.22% 150
Midlands +30 461 £47,500 -5.00% 126
South East +19 408 £52,500 +5.00% 190
North West +62 283 £47,750 -9.05% 71
Yorkshire +68 276 £42,500 -15.00% 57
West Midlands +22 269 £47,500 -13.64% 64
South West +8 221 £42,500 -22.73% 72
East Midlands +25 192 £47,500 +5.56% 62
East of England +32 184 £60,000 +41.18% 55
North East +3 67 £45,000 -5.26% 24
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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
1 175 (6.84%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 39 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.39%) Apache
4 10 (0.39%) WordPress
5 8 (0.31%) Confluence
6 7 (0.27%) CMS
7 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.23%) SAS
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.078%) IIS
9 2 (0.078%) Luigi
9 2 (0.078%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.078%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.039%) Appian
10 1 (0.039%) Drupal
10 1 (0.039%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,206 (47.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 25 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.94%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.078%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.53%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.27%) Carpe Diem
6 7 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.20%) Shopify
9 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
10 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.12%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.12%) Visualfiles
11 2 (0.078%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.078%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.078%) SAP HR
11 2 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,557 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,343 (52.52%) Azure
3 761 (29.76%) Azure AI
4 277 (10.83%) Power Automate
5 250 (9.78%) PowerApps
6 246 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
7 163 (6.37%) Dynamics 365
8 138 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 135 (5.28%) AWS
10 119 (4.65%) Snowflake
11 111 (4.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 87 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
13 85 (3.32%) GCP
14 76 (2.97%) dbt
15 72 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
16 71 (2.78%) SaaS
17 69 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
18 56 (2.19%) OneDrive
19 55 (2.15%) Entra ID
20 49 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.66%) Broadband
2 16 (0.63%) Firewall
3 10 (0.39%) DHCP
3 10 (0.39%) DNS
4 9 (0.35%) WAN
5 6 (0.23%) Intranet
5 6 (0.23%) VoIP
6 5 (0.20%) VPN
7 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 4 (0.16%) Network Security
7 4 (0.16%) SMS
8 3 (0.12%) LAN
8 3 (0.12%) NAS
8 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.078%) Internet
9 2 (0.078%) Modbus
9 2 (0.078%) MQTT
9 2 (0.078%) VLAN
10 1 (0.039%) Mobile Broadband
10 1 (0.039%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,048 (40.99%) Tableau
2 205 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
3 170 (6.65%) SQL Server
4 120 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 119 (4.65%) Power Query
5 119 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 76 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 75 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (2.62%) Looker
9 61 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.07%) BigQuery
11 43 (1.68%) Star Schema
12 41 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (1.53%) Metadata
14 35 (1.37%) Big Data
15 31 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
16 28 (1.10%) MySQL
16 28 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
17 25 (0.98%) Semantic Layer
18 24 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 56 (2.19%) Git
2 46 (1.80%) JIRA
3 27 (1.06%) MLflow
4 25 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.078%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.039%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.039%) ERwin
9 1 (0.039%) NUnit
9 1 (0.039%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.039%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,416 (55.38%) Social Skills
2 554 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 540 (21.12%) Finance
4 125 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 121 (4.73%) Law
6 104 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 100 (3.91%) Marketing
8 99 (3.87%) Retail
9 94 (3.68%) Legal
10 81 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 81 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (1.25%) Banking
13 27 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 25 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (0.90%) Military
16 20 (0.78%) Advertising
16 20 (0.78%) Billing
16 20 (0.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,307 (51.11%) Analyst
2 970 (37.94%) Data Analyst
3 782 (30.58%) Junior
4 775 (30.31%) Junior Analyst
5 762 (29.80%) Junior Data Analyst
6 285 (11.15%) Senior
7 277 (10.83%) Developer
8 159 (6.22%) Data Engineer
9 140 (5.48%) Lead
10 98 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 83 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 76 (2.97%) Architect
13 73 (2.85%) Business Analyst
14 72 (2.82%) Data Manager
15 65 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
16 63 (2.46%) Systems Analyst
17 60 (2.35%) Power Platform Developer
18 58 (2.27%) Power BI Analyst
19 57 (2.23%) Financial Analyst
20 56 (2.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (4.22%) .NET
2 57 (2.23%) HTML
3 55 (2.15%) CSS
4 54 (2.11%) PySpark
4 54 (2.11%) REST
5 49 (1.92%) JSON
6 43 (1.68%) HTML5 Canvas
7 36 (1.41%) .NET Core
7 36 (1.41%) Kafka
8 32 (1.25%) XML
9 30 (1.17%) PyTorch
9 30 (1.17%) scikit-learn
10 26 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
11 24 (0.94%) Middleware
11 24 (0.94%) TensorFlow
12 23 (0.90%) LangChain
12 23 (0.90%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.90%) pgvector
13 20 (0.78%) SPFx
14 19 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 125 (4.89%) Management Information System
2 81 (3.17%) Data Structures
3 56 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 54 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 43 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 35 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 32 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.02%) Public Cloud
10 25 (0.98%) Clustering
11 22 (0.86%) NHS
12 21 (0.82%) Low-Code
13 19 (0.74%) Social Media
14 17 (0.66%) Driving Licence
15 16 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
16 14 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 11 (0.43%) AI Agents
19 10 (0.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.64%) Windows
2 20 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 19 (0.74%) Linux
4 11 (0.43%) VMS
5 5 (0.20%) Unix
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.078%) Android
7 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,410 (94.25%) Business Intelligence
2 1,081 (42.28%) AI
3 716 (28.00%) Analytics
4 470 (18.38%) Decision-Making
5 450 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
6 416 (16.27%) Data Modelling
7 331 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 331 (12.94%) Visualisation
8 275 (10.75%) ETL
9 263 (10.29%) Agile
10 261 (10.21%) Data Governance
11 236 (9.23%) ERP
12 231 (9.03%) Data Visualisation
13 230 (8.99%) Actionable Insight
14 216 (8.45%) Data Engineering
15 213 (8.33%) Data Analysis
16 203 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 200 (7.82%) CRM
18 194 (7.59%) Data Pipeline
19 190 (7.43%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,731 (67.70%) SQL
2 1,133 (44.31%) Python
3 161 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 151 (5.91%) C#
5 97 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 73 (2.85%) PowerShell
7 61 (2.39%) VBA
8 54 (2.11%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.53%) R
10 27 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (0.55%) Scala
13 13 (0.51%) Java
14 9 (0.35%) VBScript
15 7 (0.27%) VB
16 6 (0.23%) Delphi
16 6 (0.23%) Julia
17 5 (0.20%) Bicep
17 5 (0.20%) PHP
18 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 788 (30.82%) Azure Certification
2 265 (10.36%) Degree
3 92 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 87 (3.40%) ACCA
5 82 (3.21%) CIMA
6 74 (2.89%) SC Cleared
7 47 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.37%) DBS Check
9 32 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.10%) AAT
11 23 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.90%) PMP
12 20 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.39%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (0.39%) SSCP
15 9 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.27%) APMP
16 7 (0.27%) HND
16 7 (0.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (12.94%) Data Quality
2 125 (4.89%) GDPR
3 82 (3.21%) QA
4 47 (1.84%) SLA
5 43 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 37 (1.45%) PMO
7 30 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.66%) TickIT
9 16 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.59%) NIST
11 13 (0.51%) GRC
12 8 (0.31%) IFRS
13 5 (0.20%) GAAP
13 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.20%) PERC
14 4 (0.16%) ITGC
14 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 51 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.55%) Docker
3 9 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.078%) IAG
7 2 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (0.86%) Terraform
2 12 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.39%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.20%) SCCM
6 4 (0.16%) Ansible
6 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.078%) Control-M
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.039%) Grafana
8 1 (0.039%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.039%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,439 (56.28%) Microsoft
2 178 (6.96%) Databricks
3 97 (3.79%) SAP
4 85 (3.32%) Oracle
5 60 (2.35%) Google
6 43 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.21%) Adobe
8 29 (1.13%) Informatica
9 28 (1.10%) Intapp
9 28 (1.10%) Sage
10 27 (1.06%) Alteryx
11 24 (0.94%) Cloudera
12 23 (0.90%) Dell
13 19 (0.74%) ServiceNow
14 18 (0.70%) Concur
15 16 (0.63%) iManage
16 14 (0.55%) Cognos
17 13 (0.51%) Aderant
17 13 (0.51%) HubSpot
18 10 (0.39%) Yardi