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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 62 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +18
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,613 1,516 3,191
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.26% 4.01% 3.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.59% 22.93% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,241 1,070 2,583
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £41,492
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 6,952 6,611 14,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.68% 17.49% 17.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,282 4,689 11,427
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,813 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 2 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 2 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
London -1 610 £72,500 +3.57% 313
North of England +19 606 £45,000 -10.00% 180
Midlands +22 490 £47,085 -8.84% 142
South East +13 457 £55,000 - 231
Yorkshire +40 288 £42,039 -11.50% 59
West Midlands +20 283 £44,772 -16.31% 86
North West +7 252 £45,037 -14.22% 104
South West +27 230 £43,953 -11.21% 68
East of England +8 209 £55,000 -21.43% 71
East Midlands +34 205 £47,500 - 56
North East +11 66 £51,000 -5.12% 19
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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
1 148 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 43 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.38%) SAS
6 9 (0.34%) Confluence
7 8 (0.31%) Apache
8 7 (0.27%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.23%) CMS
10 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.077%) Moodle
11 2 (0.077%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.038%) Appian
12 1 (0.038%) Drupal
12 1 (0.038%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,416 (54.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
5 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.15%) Trello
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 37 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.80%) 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%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.15%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.15%) Magento
11 3 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
11 3 (0.11%) ResourceLink
12 2 (0.077%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.077%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 2,613 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,550 (59.32%) Azure
3 993 (38.00%) Azure AI
4 237 (9.07%) Power Automate
5 210 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
6 191 (7.31%) PowerApps
7 148 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 137 (5.24%) Snowflake
9 134 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 114 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
11 110 (4.21%) AWS
12 92 (3.52%) dbt
13 73 (2.79%) GCP
14 71 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
15 66 (2.53%) SaaS
16 64 (2.45%) Entra ID
17 56 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
18 45 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
19 41 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
20 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 8 (0.31%) Firewall
4 7 (0.27%) VoIP
5 6 (0.23%) WAN
6 5 (0.19%) Modbus
6 5 (0.19%) MQTT
6 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.11%) Internet
7 3 (0.11%) NAS
8 2 (0.077%) VLAN
8 2 (0.077%) VPN
9 1 (0.038%) ADSL
9 1 (0.038%) FTP
9 1 (0.038%) LTE
9 1 (0.038%) Network Security
9 1 (0.038%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,233 (47.19%) Tableau
2 186 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
3 178 (6.81%) SQL Server
4 130 (4.98%) Data Lake
5 118 (4.52%) Power Query
6 100 (3.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 69 (2.64%) Looker
8 66 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 61 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 50 (1.91%) BigQuery
11 44 (1.68%) Big Data
11 44 (1.68%) Relational Database
12 41 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
14 30 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
15 28 (1.07%) Metadata
16 26 (1.00%) Star Schema
17 23 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (0.88%) MySQL
18 22 (0.84%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 59 (2.26%) Git
2 41 (1.57%) JIRA
3 26 (1.00%) MLflow
4 25 (0.96%) Visual Studio
5 12 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.11%) GitLab
7 3 (0.11%) Postman
8 2 (0.077%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.038%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.038%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.038%) ERwin
9 1 (0.038%) NUnit
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.038%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.038%) Selenium
9 1 (0.038%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.038%) Toad
General
1 1,579 (60.43%) Social Skills
2 535 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
3 505 (19.33%) Finance
4 103 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (3.48%) Marketing
6 87 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 86 (3.29%) Law
7 86 (3.29%) Retail
8 78 (2.99%) Legal
9 72 (2.76%) Manufacturing
10 62 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
11 40 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 36 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.26%) Banking
15 26 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.80%) Publishing
17 20 (0.77%) Advertising
18 17 (0.65%) Automotive
19 16 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,503 (57.52%) Analyst
2 1,201 (45.96%) Data Analyst
3 1,007 (38.54%) Junior
4 1,001 (38.31%) Junior Analyst
5 997 (38.16%) Junior Data Analyst
6 270 (10.33%) Senior
7 241 (9.22%) Developer
8 139 (5.32%) Data Engineer
9 120 (4.59%) Lead
10 87 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 78 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 77 (2.95%) Business Analyst
13 75 (2.87%) Architect
14 71 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
15 67 (2.56%) Financial Analyst
16 63 (2.41%) IT Support
17 58 (2.22%) Support Analyst
18 56 (2.14%) Systems Analyst
19 54 (2.07%) Consultant
19 54 (2.07%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (3.48%) .NET
2 54 (2.07%) JSON
3 49 (1.88%) CSS
4 47 (1.80%) HTML
5 43 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
5 43 (1.65%) REST
6 41 (1.57%) PySpark
7 37 (1.42%) .NET Core
7 37 (1.42%) XML
8 34 (1.30%) Kafka
9 30 (1.15%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.11%) scikit-learn
11 26 (1.00%) EDI
12 24 (0.92%) TensorFlow
13 23 (0.88%) LangChain
13 23 (0.88%) LlamaIndex
13 23 (0.88%) pgvector
14 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
14 22 (0.84%) Middleware
15 21 (0.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 81 (3.10%) Management Information System
2 60 (2.30%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 56 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 35 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 27 (1.03%) Clustering
7 27 (1.03%) Low-Code
8 24 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 24 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (0.84%) Product Ownership
10 21 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 20 (0.77%) Social Media
12 18 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (0.61%) NHS
14 15 (0.57%) Driving Licence
14 15 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.50%) FMCG
15 13 (0.50%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.42%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.03%) 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 2,478 (94.83%) Business Intelligence
2 1,218 (46.61%) AI
3 613 (23.46%) Analytics
4 424 (16.23%) Decision-Making
5 388 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
6 372 (14.24%) Data Modelling
7 322 (12.32%) Visualisation
8 274 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 261 (9.99%) ETL
10 219 (8.38%) Data Governance
11 214 (8.19%) Agile
11 214 (8.19%) Data Visualisation
12 210 (8.04%) Data Analysis
13 204 (7.81%) Actionable Insight
14 203 (7.77%) Data Engineering
15 190 (7.27%) ERP
16 184 (7.04%) Project Management
17 183 (7.00%) Data Pipeline
18 171 (6.54%) Data Management
19 169 (6.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,833 (70.15%) SQL
2 1,393 (53.31%) Python
3 142 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 119 (4.55%) C#
5 85 (3.25%) JavaScript
6 80 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 74 (2.83%) VBA
8 50 (1.91%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.72%) R
10 27 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (0.42%) Delphi
12 11 (0.42%) Java
12 11 (0.42%) Scala
13 9 (0.34%) VBScript
14 6 (0.23%) Julia
14 6 (0.23%) VB
15 5 (0.19%) Bicep
16 4 (0.15%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.11%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 1,015 (38.84%) Azure Certification
2 254 (9.72%) Degree
3 77 (2.95%) Security Cleared
4 69 (2.64%) ACCA
4 69 (2.64%) CIMA
5 57 (2.18%) SC Cleared
6 41 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.42%) PMP
8 35 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.26%) DBS Check
10 30 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.57%) AAT
12 12 (0.46%) MBA
13 9 (0.34%) APMP
13 9 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (0.31%) IIBA
14 8 (0.31%) SSCP
15 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 103 (3.94%) GDPR
3 58 (2.22%) QA
4 53 (2.03%) SLA
5 34 (1.30%) PMO
6 30 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 27 (1.03%) 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%) EMIR
14 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.077%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.54%) Docker
3 11 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.077%) IAG
7 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (0.50%) Kubernetes
1 13 (0.50%) Terraform
2 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.19%) SCCM
4 4 (0.15%) Ansible
4 4 (0.15%) Control-M
4 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.11%) Argo
6 2 (0.077%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.038%) Grafana
7 1 (0.038%) MOM
7 1 (0.038%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,543 (59.05%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.12%) Databricks
3 87 (3.33%) SAP
4 69 (2.64%) Oracle
5 44 (1.68%) Google
6 39 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.22%) Informatica
8 31 (1.19%) Adobe
9 30 (1.15%) Alteryx
10 27 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 24 (0.92%) Cloudera
11 24 (0.92%) Dell
12 23 (0.88%) Intapp
13 20 (0.77%) Anaplan
14 14 (0.54%) iManage
15 13 (0.50%) HubSpot
16 12 (0.46%) Genesys
16 12 (0.46%) Sage
16 12 (0.46%) Verint
17 11 (0.42%) VMware