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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 74 62
Rank change year-on-year +25 -12 +13
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,467 1,518 3,276
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.02% 3.87% 3.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.30% 23.00% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 1,106 2,610
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £33,475
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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 7,193 6,601 15,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.80% 16.81% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,719 4,381 11,506
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +64 609 £45,000 -14.29% 148
London -12 596 £70,000 - 287
Midlands +38 439 £47,085 -10.32% 110
South East +29 403 £57,500 +9.52% 187
North West +55 273 £46,500 -15.45% 92
Yorkshire +52 269 £42,500 -15.00% 46
West Midlands +20 255 £47,085 -14.39% 71
South West +13 212 £43,000 -26.18% 68
East of England +42 191 £60,000 +42.86% 41
East Midlands +29 182 £50,000 +6.95% 39
North East +7 67 £42,000 -11.58% 12
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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
1 157 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.45%) Apache
6 9 (0.36%) Confluence
7 8 (0.32%) WordPress
8 7 (0.28%) SAS
9 6 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.081%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.081%) IIS
10 2 (0.081%) Luigi
10 2 (0.081%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.081%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.081%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.041%) Appian
11 1 (0.041%) Drupal
11 1 (0.041%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,209 (49.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
5 26 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.081%) ProjectWise
6 2 (0.081%) Trello
7 1 (0.041%) Revit
Business Applications
1 46 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 6 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.20%) Shopify
8 4 (0.16%) Magento
8 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.081%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.081%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.081%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.081%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,467 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,351 (54.76%) Azure
3 804 (32.59%) Azure AI
4 250 (10.13%) Power Automate
5 219 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
6 217 (8.80%) PowerApps
7 138 (5.59%) Dynamics 365
8 133 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 123 (4.99%) AWS
10 118 (4.78%) Snowflake
11 109 (4.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 82 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
13 77 (3.12%) dbt
14 74 (3.00%) GCP
15 64 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 64 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
16 59 (2.39%) SaaS
17 53 (2.15%) Entra ID
18 48 (1.95%) OneDrive
19 46 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.69%) Broadband
2 13 (0.53%) Firewall
3 10 (0.41%) DHCP
3 10 (0.41%) DNS
4 6 (0.24%) Intranet
4 6 (0.24%) VoIP
4 6 (0.24%) WAN
5 4 (0.16%) LTE
6 3 (0.12%) Modbus
6 3 (0.12%) MQTT
6 3 (0.12%) NAS
6 3 (0.12%) SMS
6 3 (0.12%) VPN
6 3 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.081%) Internet
7 2 (0.081%) Network Security
8 1 (0.041%) FTP
8 1 (0.041%) Softphone
8 1 (0.041%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.041%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,068 (43.29%) Tableau
2 176 (7.13%) Data Warehouse
3 160 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 118 (4.78%) Data Lake
4 118 (4.78%) Power Query
5 105 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 68 (2.76%) Looker
7 67 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 64 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (2.07%) BigQuery
9 51 (2.07%) Relational Database
10 42 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (1.62%) Big Data
12 36 (1.46%) Metadata
13 34 (1.38%) Star Schema
14 31 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
15 29 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
16 25 (1.01%) MySQL
17 23 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (0.93%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 57 (2.31%) Git
2 43 (1.74%) JIRA
3 27 (1.09%) MLflow
4 24 (0.97%) Visual Studio
5 14 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.081%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.041%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.041%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.041%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.041%) ERwin
9 1 (0.041%) NUnit
9 1 (0.041%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.041%) Selenium
9 1 (0.041%) Toad
General
1 1,398 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 527 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
3 493 (19.98%) Finance
4 124 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (4.26%) Law
6 97 (3.93%) Public Sector
7 90 (3.65%) Marketing
8 87 (3.53%) Retail
9 80 (3.24%) Legal
10 64 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 63 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (1.01%) Banking
15 23 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 18 (0.73%) Billing
16 18 (0.73%) Social Housing
17 17 (0.69%) Advertising
17 17 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,311 (53.14%) Analyst
2 1,007 (40.82%) Data Analyst
3 826 (33.48%) Junior
4 820 (33.24%) Junior Analyst
5 809 (32.79%) Junior Data Analyst
6 268 (10.86%) Senior
7 250 (10.13%) Developer
8 141 (5.72%) Data Engineer
9 133 (5.39%) Lead
10 86 (3.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 83 (3.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 74 (3.00%) Business Analyst
13 73 (2.96%) Data Manager
14 70 (2.84%) Architect
15 63 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
16 58 (2.35%) Power BI Analyst
17 56 (2.27%) Power BI Developer
18 55 (2.23%) Systems Analyst
19 54 (2.19%) Financial Analyst
20 52 (2.11%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (3.65%) .NET
2 55 (2.23%) HTML
3 53 (2.15%) CSS
4 49 (1.99%) JSON
5 45 (1.82%) REST
6 44 (1.78%) PySpark
7 42 (1.70%) HTML5 Canvas
8 35 (1.42%) Kafka
8 35 (1.42%) XML
9 34 (1.38%) .NET Core
10 29 (1.18%) PyTorch
10 29 (1.18%) scikit-learn
11 25 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
12 23 (0.93%) LangChain
12 23 (0.93%) LlamaIndex
12 23 (0.93%) Middleware
12 23 (0.93%) pgvector
12 23 (0.93%) TensorFlow
13 20 (0.81%) SOAP
13 20 (0.81%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 100 (4.05%) Management Information System
2 60 (2.43%) Data Structures
3 54 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 49 (1.99%) Cloud Native
5 38 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 32 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 31 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.05%) Clustering
8 26 (1.05%) Public Cloud
9 24 (0.97%) Low-Code
10 22 (0.89%) NHS
11 19 (0.77%) Social Media
12 18 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
13 15 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.49%) FMCG
16 11 (0.45%) Driving Licence
16 11 (0.45%) Replication
17 10 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.46%) Windows
2 19 (0.77%) Windows Server
3 16 (0.65%) Linux
4 11 (0.45%) VMS
5 6 (0.24%) Unix
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.081%) Android
7 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,332 (94.53%) Business Intelligence
2 1,073 (43.49%) AI
3 656 (26.59%) Analytics
4 436 (17.67%) Decision-Making
5 386 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
6 381 (15.44%) Data Modelling
7 322 (13.05%) Visualisation
8 299 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 245 (9.93%) ETL
10 234 (9.49%) Agile
11 233 (9.44%) Data Governance
12 228 (9.24%) Data Visualisation
13 206 (8.35%) Data Engineering
14 198 (8.03%) Actionable Insight
15 195 (7.90%) Data Analysis
15 195 (7.90%) ERP
16 177 (7.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 173 (7.01%) CRM
17 173 (7.01%) Data Management
18 171 (6.93%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,676 (67.94%) SQL
2 1,182 (47.91%) Python
3 149 (6.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 127 (5.15%) C#
5 92 (3.73%) JavaScript
6 74 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 64 (2.59%) VBA
8 56 (2.27%) T-SQL
9 44 (1.78%) R
10 25 (1.01%) TypeScript
11 18 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (0.53%) Java
12 13 (0.53%) Scala
13 9 (0.36%) VBScript
14 7 (0.28%) Delphi
14 7 (0.28%) VB
15 6 (0.24%) Bicep
15 6 (0.24%) Julia
16 3 (0.12%) PHP
16 3 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 830 (33.64%) Azure Certification
2 257 (10.42%) Degree
3 85 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 71 (2.88%) ACCA
5 68 (2.76%) CIMA
6 67 (2.72%) SC Cleared
7 42 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 34 (1.38%) PMP
9 33 (1.34%) DBS Check
10 31 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.81%) AAT
13 11 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.41%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (0.41%) MBA
14 10 (0.41%) SSCP
15 7 (0.28%) APMP
15 7 (0.28%) HND
15 7 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (11.80%) Data Quality
2 119 (4.82%) GDPR
3 73 (2.96%) QA
4 49 (1.99%) SLA
5 40 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 38 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 31 (1.26%) PMO
8 28 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.69%) TickIT
10 16 (0.65%) NIST
11 13 (0.53%) GRC
12 12 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.36%) IFRS
14 4 (0.16%) GAAP
14 4 (0.16%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.16%) ITGC
14 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.16%) PERC
15 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.081%) GxP
System Software
1 54 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.57%) Docker
3 9 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.081%) IAG
7 2 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (0.77%) Terraform
2 12 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.32%) FortiGate
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.20%) SCCM
5 4 (0.16%) Ansible
5 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.081%) Control-M
6 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.041%) Grafana
7 1 (0.041%) MOM
7 1 (0.041%) SQL Sentry
7 1 (0.041%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1,407 (57.03%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.61%) Databricks
3 91 (3.69%) SAP
4 81 (3.28%) Oracle
5 56 (2.27%) Google
6 35 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.26%) Adobe
7 31 (1.26%) Informatica
8 26 (1.05%) Alteryx
9 25 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.97%) Cloudera
11 23 (0.93%) Dell
12 22 (0.89%) Intapp
13 18 (0.73%) Sage
14 14 (0.57%) Cognos
14 14 (0.57%) Concur
15 13 (0.53%) iManage
16 11 (0.45%) HubSpot
17 10 (0.41%) Aderant
18 9 (0.36%) Anaplan