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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 74 60
Rank change year-on-year +20 -14 +20
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,632 1,566 3,176
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.24% 4.00% 3.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.98% 23.45% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,256 1,095 2,575
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,284
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,767 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,635
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.21% -2.48%

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 7,118 6,679 14,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.75% 17.05% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,482 4,557 11,393
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,550 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 16 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 16 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
North of England +45 629 £45,000 -14.29% 156
London -10 592 £70,000 - 308
Midlands +41 501 £47,085 -10.32% 95
South East +28 458 £56,250 +2.27% 200
Yorkshire +47 294 £42,500 -10.99% 54
West Midlands +14 293 £47,085 -12.15% 59
North West +38 270 £46,500 -11.43% 89
South West +19 229 £43,500 -20.91% 48
East of England +15 211 £55,000 -12.00% 55
East Midlands +45 206 £47,500 -5.00% 36
North East +8 65 £46,250 -7.50% 15
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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
1 150 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.38%) SAS
6 9 (0.34%) Apache
6 9 (0.34%) Confluence
7 7 (0.27%) CMS
7 7 (0.27%) WordPress
8 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.076%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.076%) Luigi
10 2 (0.076%) Moodle
10 2 (0.076%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.038%) Appian
11 1 (0.038%) Drupal
11 1 (0.038%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,399 (53.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
5 24 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.87%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.076%) Trello
8 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 44 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.19%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.19%) Shopify
9 4 (0.15%) Magento
10 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.076%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.076%) Q-Pulse
11 2 (0.076%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,632 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,551 (58.93%) Azure
3 993 (37.73%) Azure AI
4 237 (9.00%) Power Automate
5 208 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
6 195 (7.41%) PowerApps
7 142 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 131 (4.98%) Snowflake
9 124 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 122 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
11 111 (4.22%) AWS
12 87 (3.31%) dbt
13 74 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
14 72 (2.74%) GCP
15 66 (2.51%) SaaS
16 59 (2.24%) Entra ID
17 58 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
18 50 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
19 45 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
20 38 (1.44%) 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 (0.30%) Firewall
4 6 (0.23%) Modbus
4 6 (0.23%) MQTT
4 6 (0.23%) VoIP
4 6 (0.23%) WAN
5 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.11%) LTE
6 3 (0.11%) NAS
7 2 (0.076%) Internet
7 2 (0.076%) SMS
7 2 (0.076%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.076%) VPN
8 1 (0.038%) FTP
8 1 (0.038%) Mobile Broadband
8 1 (0.038%) Softphone
8 1 (0.038%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,239 (47.07%) Tableau
2 180 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
3 177 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 124 (4.71%) Data Lake
5 119 (4.52%) Power Query
6 113 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 67 (2.55%) Looker
7 67 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 62 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (1.94%) BigQuery
10 47 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 44 (1.67%) Big Data
12 42 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
14 29 (1.10%) Star Schema
15 27 (1.03%) Metadata
15 27 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
17 22 (0.84%) MySQL
17 22 (0.84%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 56 (2.13%) Git
2 41 (1.56%) JIRA
3 26 (0.99%) MLflow
3 26 (0.99%) Visual Studio
4 14 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.11%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.11%) Postman
7 2 (0.076%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.038%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.038%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.038%) ERwin
8 1 (0.038%) GitLab
8 1 (0.038%) NUnit
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.038%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.038%) Selenium
8 1 (0.038%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.038%) Toad
General
1 1,570 (59.65%) Social Skills
2 536 (20.36%) Analytical Skills
3 484 (18.39%) Finance
4 114 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (3.61%) Marketing
5 95 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 92 (3.50%) Law
7 91 (3.46%) Retail
8 79 (3.00%) Legal
9 68 (2.58%) Manufacturing
10 62 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (0.99%) Banking
15 24 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.80%) Publishing
17 18 (0.68%) Advertising
18 17 (0.65%) Automotive
19 16 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,497 (56.88%) Analyst
2 1,199 (45.55%) Data Analyst
3 1,010 (38.37%) Junior
4 1,004 (38.15%) Junior Analyst
5 997 (37.88%) Junior Data Analyst
6 278 (10.56%) Senior
7 254 (9.65%) Developer
8 140 (5.32%) Data Engineer
9 127 (4.83%) Lead
10 91 (3.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 82 (3.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 80 (3.04%) Architect
12 80 (3.04%) Business Analyst
13 70 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
14 65 (2.47%) Data Manager
15 59 (2.24%) Power BI Developer
16 58 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
17 57 (2.17%) IT Support
18 56 (2.13%) Systems Analyst
19 51 (1.94%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (3.53%) .NET
2 51 (1.94%) JSON
3 50 (1.90%) CSS
4 49 (1.86%) HTML
5 41 (1.56%) HTML5 Canvas
5 41 (1.56%) PySpark
5 41 (1.56%) REST
6 38 (1.44%) XML
7 35 (1.33%) .NET Core
8 32 (1.22%) Kafka
9 29 (1.10%) PyTorch
9 29 (1.10%) scikit-learn
10 24 (0.91%) Middleware
11 23 (0.87%) EDI
11 23 (0.87%) LangChain
11 23 (0.87%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (0.87%) pgvector
11 23 (0.87%) TensorFlow
12 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
13 20 (0.76%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 80 (3.04%) Management Information System
2 62 (2.36%) Data Structures
3 56 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 51 (1.94%) Cloud Native
5 35 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
8 27 (1.03%) Clustering
9 26 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 24 (0.91%) Public Cloud
11 23 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (0.80%) NHS
13 20 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
14 19 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (0.72%) Social Media
15 14 (0.53%) Driving Licence
15 14 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.53%) FMCG
16 11 (0.42%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.10%) Windows
2 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 15 (0.57%) 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 (0.076%) Android
8 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
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 2,493 (94.72%) Business Intelligence
2 1,233 (46.85%) AI
3 635 (24.13%) Analytics
4 439 (16.68%) Decision-Making
5 388 (14.74%) Data Modelling
6 382 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
7 323 (12.27%) Visualisation
8 279 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 261 (9.92%) ETL
10 221 (8.40%) Data Governance
11 218 (8.28%) Data Visualisation
12 213 (8.09%) Agile
13 204 (7.75%) Data Engineering
14 202 (7.67%) Actionable Insight
15 195 (7.41%) Data Analysis
16 189 (7.18%) ERP
17 180 (6.84%) Project Management
18 177 (6.72%) Data Pipeline
19 175 (6.65%) Machine Learning
20 169 (6.42%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,843 (70.02%) SQL
2 1,382 (52.51%) Python
3 149 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 121 (4.60%) C#
5 86 (3.27%) JavaScript
6 72 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 70 (2.66%) VBA
8 53 (2.01%) T-SQL
9 46 (1.75%) R
10 25 (0.95%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.72%) 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 3 (0.11%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.076%) C
Qualifications
1 1,014 (38.53%) Azure Certification
2 264 (10.03%) Degree
3 78 (2.96%) Security Cleared
4 62 (2.36%) ACCA
4 62 (2.36%) CIMA
5 58 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 38 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 38 (1.44%) PMP
7 31 (1.18%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.53%) AAT
11 11 (0.42%) MBA
12 9 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (0.30%) APMP
13 8 (0.30%) CompTIA CySA+
13 8 (0.30%) SSCP
14 7 (0.27%) IIBA
14 7 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (10.49%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.29%) GDPR
3 59 (2.24%) QA
4 53 (2.01%) SLA
5 35 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.33%) PMO
6 32 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 26 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.65%) TickIT
9 14 (0.53%) NIST
10 13 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.46%) GRC
12 8 (0.30%) 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 (0.076%) MiFID
14 2 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.076%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.42%) Docker
3 10 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.076%) IAG
7 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (0.53%) Terraform
2 10 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.19%) SCCM
5 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 4 (0.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.076%) MOM
8 1 (0.038%) Argo
8 1 (0.038%) Grafana
8 1 (0.038%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.038%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,568 (59.57%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.12%) Databricks
3 86 (3.27%) SAP
4 75 (2.85%) Oracle
5 51 (1.94%) Google
6 38 (1.44%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.22%) Informatica
8 31 (1.18%) Adobe
9 29 (1.10%) Alteryx
10 25 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 24 (0.91%) Cloudera
11 24 (0.91%) Dell
12 23 (0.87%) Intapp
13 19 (0.72%) Anaplan
14 13 (0.49%) iManage
14 13 (0.49%) Sage
14 13 (0.49%) Verint
15 12 (0.46%) Cognos
15 12 (0.46%) Genesys
15 12 (0.46%) HubSpot