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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 69 78
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,199 1,692 2,010
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.11% 3.92% 3.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.16% 27.08% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,504 1,187 1,231
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,010 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.36%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 7,809 6,249 10,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.50% 14.46% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,471 4,017 5,976
10th Percentile £36,962 £33,750 £38,107
25th Percentile £45,750 £44,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 6 October 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 6 October 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 -24 736 £65,000 -2.26% 1,214
North of England +63 483 £46,500 -13.89% 416
Midlands +4 354 £52,500 +5.00% 320
South East -43 283 £55,000 +10.00% 486
North West +43 253 £50,000 -9.09% 253
West Midlands +9 226 £55,000 +5.77% 209
South West -37 192 £42,500 -15.00% 168
Yorkshire +40 154 £42,750 -11.86% 125
East of England -27 129 £52,250 +30.63% 177
East Midlands +4 128 £47,500 +5.56% 111
North East -8 76 £45,000 - 39
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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
1 211 (9.60%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.73%) Apache
6 10 (0.45%) Confluence
7 8 (0.36%) CMS
8 7 (0.32%) WordPress
9 5 (0.23%) IIS
9 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.18%) Luigi
10 4 (0.18%) SAS
11 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.091%) Appian
12 2 (0.091%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.091%) Tornado
12 2 (0.091%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.045%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.045%) Moodle
13 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 685 (31.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.45%) ProjectWise
8 5 (0.23%) Notion
8 5 (0.23%) Revit
9 4 (0.18%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.091%) SPSS
12 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.045%) Civil 3D
12 1 (0.045%) InDesign
12 1 (0.045%) Inkscape
Business Applications
1 56 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (2.23%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
4 15 (0.68%) Elite 3E
5 12 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
6 11 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 9 (0.41%) Visualfiles
9 8 (0.36%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.32%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.18%) SystmOne
12 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
13 2 (0.091%) FastStats
13 2 (0.091%) Magento
13 2 (0.091%) Sage 200
13 2 (0.091%) SAP Business One
13 2 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,199 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 816 (37.11%) Azure
3 293 (13.32%) Power Automate
4 279 (12.69%) PowerApps
5 250 (11.37%) Microsoft 365
6 211 (9.60%) Azure AI
7 182 (8.28%) Dynamics 365
8 166 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 154 (7.00%) AWS
10 139 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
11 97 (4.41%) Microsoft Copilot
12 92 (4.18%) Snowflake
13 85 (3.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 81 (3.68%) Microsoft Purview
15 78 (3.55%) SaaS
16 77 (3.50%) GCP
17 56 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
18 54 (2.46%) Entra ID
19 52 (2.36%) Google Analytics
19 52 (2.36%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.82%) Firewall
2 13 (0.59%) Broadband
3 8 (0.36%) DNS
3 8 (0.36%) LAN
3 8 (0.36%) WAN
4 7 (0.32%) VPN
5 5 (0.23%) Network Security
5 5 (0.23%) SMS
6 4 (0.18%) DHCP
6 4 (0.18%) LTE
6 4 (0.18%) MQTT
7 2 (0.091%) Intranet
7 2 (0.091%) VLAN
7 2 (0.091%) VoIP
7 2 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.091%) Wireless
8 1 (0.045%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.045%) Modbus
8 1 (0.045%) SAN
8 1 (0.045%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 493 (22.42%) Tableau
2 235 (10.69%) Data Warehouse
3 165 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 126 (5.73%) Data Lake
4 126 (5.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 120 (5.46%) Power Query
6 107 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 77 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 72 (3.27%) Relational Database
9 68 (3.09%) Metadata
10 57 (2.59%) Looker
11 51 (2.32%) Star Schema
12 33 (1.50%) NoSQL
13 32 (1.46%) Big Data
14 30 (1.36%) Semantic Layer
15 29 (1.32%) BigQuery
16 26 (1.18%) Delta Lake
17 24 (1.09%) MySQL
18 22 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
19 21 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 100 (4.55%) Git
2 52 (2.36%) JIRA
3 15 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.27%) GitLab
6 6 (0.27%) MLflow
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.091%) Ant
8 2 (0.091%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.091%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.091%) Maven
8 2 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.045%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.045%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.045%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.045%) ERwin
9 1 (0.045%) JMeter
9 1 (0.045%) kappa
9 1 (0.045%) Selenium
General
1 977 (44.43%) Social Skills
2 697 (31.70%) Finance
3 615 (27.97%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (6.96%) Legal
5 148 (6.73%) Law
6 135 (6.14%) Marketing
7 134 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
8 128 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 126 (5.73%) Public Sector
10 125 (5.68%) Manufacturing
11 123 (5.59%) Retail
12 61 (2.77%) Banking
13 53 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
14 37 (1.68%) Billing
15 36 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
17 28 (1.27%) Telecoms
18 25 (1.14%) Advertising
18 25 (1.14%) Military
19 24 (1.09%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 724 (32.92%) Analyst
2 411 (18.69%) Data Analyst
3 301 (13.69%) Developer
4 270 (12.28%) Senior
5 213 (9.69%) Junior
6 207 (9.41%) Junior Analyst
7 193 (8.78%) Junior Data Analyst
8 186 (8.46%) Data Engineer
9 161 (7.32%) Lead
10 89 (4.05%) Architect
11 82 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 77 (3.50%) Data Manager
13 75 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 68 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
15 67 (3.05%) Business Analyst
15 67 (3.05%) Consultant
16 63 (2.86%) Systems Analyst
17 60 (2.73%) Data Architect
18 58 (2.64%) Power Platform Developer
19 55 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (4.37%) .NET
2 68 (3.09%) PySpark
2 68 (3.09%) REST
3 65 (2.96%) HTML
4 53 (2.41%) CSS
5 38 (1.73%) JSON
6 31 (1.41%) Terraform
7 28 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
8 27 (1.23%) Kafka
9 26 (1.18%) .NET Core
9 26 (1.18%) XML
10 24 (1.09%) EDI
11 22 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
12 20 (0.91%) Middleware
13 19 (0.86%) ASP.NET
14 17 (0.77%) HTML5
15 15 (0.68%) React
16 13 (0.59%) Pandas
16 13 (0.59%) Playwright
17 12 (0.55%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 183 (8.32%) Management Information System
2 76 (3.46%) Data Structures
3 60 (2.73%) Onboarding
3 60 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 53 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 34 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 31 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 28 (1.27%) Cloud Native
10 27 (1.23%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.14%) NHS
12 24 (1.09%) Low-Code
13 23 (1.05%) FMCG
14 19 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (0.86%) Social Media
15 18 (0.82%) Educational Technology
16 15 (0.68%) Reference Data
17 14 (0.64%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (2.55%) Windows
2 25 (1.14%) Linux
3 15 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.091%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.091%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.091%) Solaris
5 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.045%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,083 (94.72%) Business Intelligence
2 789 (35.88%) Analytics
3 702 (31.92%) AI
4 607 (27.60%) Problem-Solving
5 568 (25.83%) Decision-Making
6 485 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 464 (21.10%) Data Modelling
8 371 (16.87%) Visualisation
9 342 (15.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 328 (14.92%) Agile
11 301 (13.69%) Data Governance
12 295 (13.42%) ETL
13 272 (12.37%) Actionable Insight
14 260 (11.82%) ERP
15 258 (11.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 256 (11.64%) Data Engineering
17 250 (11.37%) Data Visualisation
18 240 (10.91%) Data Analysis
19 237 (10.78%) Dashboard Development
20 226 (10.28%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,245 (56.62%) SQL
2 626 (28.47%) Python
3 177 (8.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 170 (7.73%) C#
5 118 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.77%) PowerShell
7 49 (2.23%) R
8 44 (2.00%) T-SQL
9 37 (1.68%) VBA
10 26 (1.18%) Java
11 24 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 21 (0.95%) Scala
13 12 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.36%) Bicep
14 8 (0.36%) PHP
15 7 (0.32%) C++
16 6 (0.27%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.18%) VB
17 4 (0.18%) XAML
18 3 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 286 (13.01%) Degree
2 231 (10.50%) Azure Certification
3 127 (5.78%) Security Cleared
4 104 (4.73%) SC Cleared
5 90 (4.09%) ACCA
6 85 (3.87%) CIMA
7 52 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 30 (1.36%) PMP
10 28 (1.27%) DBS Check
11 20 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (0.86%) AAT
13 17 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.64%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.41%) CISSP
16 8 (0.36%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.36%) CFA
17 7 (0.32%) CIPD
17 7 (0.32%) HND
17 7 (0.32%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (22.37%) Data Quality
2 150 (6.82%) GDPR
3 89 (4.05%) QA
4 65 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 34 (1.55%) PMO
6 31 (1.41%) SLA
7 28 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 14 (0.64%) GRC
11 12 (0.55%) NIST
12 11 (0.50%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.41%) TickIT
15 7 (0.32%) GAAP
16 6 (0.27%) PERC
17 5 (0.23%) ISO 19650
17 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (1.36%) Docker
2 25 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.091%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.091%) IAG
4 2 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.045%) Firmware
5 1 (0.045%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.45%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.27%) EnCase
4 6 (0.27%) FTK
4 6 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.18%) Argo
6 3 (0.14%) Ansible
6 3 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
7 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.091%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.091%) Puppet
8 1 (0.045%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.045%) Grafana
8 1 (0.045%) MOM
8 1 (0.045%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.045%) SCCM
8 1 (0.045%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,021 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 178 (8.09%) Databricks
3 103 (4.68%) SAP
4 80 (3.64%) Google
4 80 (3.64%) Oracle
5 47 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 30 (1.36%) Alteryx
6 30 (1.36%) Sage
6 30 (1.36%) ServiceNow
7 25 (1.14%) Informatica
8 21 (0.95%) Intapp
9 19 (0.86%) Concur
10 16 (0.73%) YouTube
11 14 (0.64%) Workday
12 13 (0.59%) Aderant
12 13 (0.59%) Adobe
13 12 (0.55%) Cognos
14 11 (0.50%) HP
14 11 (0.50%) HubSpot
14 11 (0.50%) OpenAI