Power BI Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Power BI
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Power BI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 61 55
Rank change year-on-year +23 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 457 233 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.45% 4.15% 3.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.51% 29.72% 29.45%
Number of salaries quoted 218 196 401
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,938 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.14% +4.32% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 962 784 1,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.26% 13.97% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 642 559 1,232
10th Percentile £32,526 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,000 £67,500 £63,041
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Power BI job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
West Midlands +17 267 £47,802 -10.96% 75
East Midlands +24 190 £47,500 +5.56% 68
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.66%) ArcGIS
2 3 (0.66%) WordPress
3 1 (0.22%) Apache
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 236 (51.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.88%) Shopify
3 3 (0.66%) Magento
3 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.44%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 457 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 261 (57.11%) Azure
3 176 (38.51%) Azure AI
4 43 (9.41%) Power Automate
5 41 (8.97%) PowerApps
6 39 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (4.38%) AWS
10 16 (3.50%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.41%) GCP
13 6 (1.31%) SaaS
14 4 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.88%) Azure Stack
14 4 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (0.88%) Smartsheet
15 3 (0.66%) Google Ads
15 3 (0.66%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) DHCP
1 1 (0.22%) DNS
1 1 (0.22%) Firewall
1 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (47.26%) Tableau
2 35 (7.66%) Power Query
3 31 (6.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 24 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (5.25%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.28%) Star Schema
6 13 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.53%) MySQL
9 6 (1.31%) Looker
9 6 (1.31%) QlikView
10 5 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.88%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Git
2 5 (1.09%) JIRA
3 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 260 (56.89%) Social Skills
2 92 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (13.57%) Finance
4 30 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (5.47%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.81%) Manufacturing
7 21 (4.60%) Retail
8 16 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.28%) Law
10 11 (2.41%) Marketing
11 7 (1.53%) Legal
11 7 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.53%) Social Housing
12 6 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (0.66%) Legal Technology
13 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.44%) Advertising
14 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 244 (53.39%) Analyst
2 210 (45.95%) Data Analyst
3 187 (40.92%) Junior
4 185 (40.48%) Junior Analyst
4 185 (40.48%) Junior Data Analyst
5 66 (14.44%) Developer
6 34 (7.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 30 (6.56%) Senior
8 28 (6.13%) Data Engineer
9 20 (4.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 19 (4.16%) Power BI Developer
11 15 (3.28%) Data Manager
11 15 (3.28%) Data Scientist
12 14 (3.06%) Lead
13 13 (2.84%) Power Platform Developer
13 13 (2.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 13 (2.84%) Snowflake Engineer
14 12 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 11 (2.41%) Power BI Analyst
16 10 (2.19%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.60%) .NET
2 9 (1.97%) REST
3 8 (1.75%) Pandas
3 8 (1.75%) PySpark
3 8 (1.75%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.75%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.09%) EDI
4 5 (1.09%) HTML
4 5 (1.09%) WinForms
4 5 (1.09%) XML
5 3 (0.66%) CSS
5 3 (0.66%) RESTful
6 2 (0.44%) JSON
6 2 (0.44%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.44%) React
6 2 (0.44%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.44%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.13%) Management Information System
2 11 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (2.19%) NHS
4 9 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 4 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.66%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.66%) e-Learning
6 3 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (0.44%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.44%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.44%) FMCG
7 2 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.44%) Robotics
8 1 (0.22%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.22%) Replication
8 1 (0.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.66%) Linux
1 3 (0.66%) Windows
1 3 (0.66%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (97.81%) Business Intelligence
2 217 (47.48%) AI
3 142 (31.07%) Analytics
4 96 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (17.51%) Decision-Making
6 65 (14.22%) Data Modelling
7 59 (12.91%) Visualisation
8 49 (10.72%) Agile
9 48 (10.50%) ETL
10 46 (10.07%) Data Analysis
11 43 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (9.19%) Data Visualisation
13 40 (8.75%) Data Governance
14 37 (8.10%) ERP
15 34 (7.44%) Data Analytics
15 34 (7.44%) Data Management
16 32 (7.00%) Actionable Insight
17 31 (6.78%) Validation
18 30 (6.56%) Computer Science
19 29 (6.35%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 332 (72.65%) SQL
2 231 (50.55%) Python
3 54 (11.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (5.47%) C#
5 11 (2.41%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.53%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.53%) R
7 5 (1.09%) Delphi
8 3 (0.66%) VBA
9 1 (0.22%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 178 (38.95%) Azure Certification
2 61 (13.35%) Degree
3 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.75%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.53%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.31%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.31%) PMP
6 6 (1.31%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.66%) AAT
7 3 (0.66%) CCAB
7 3 (0.66%) CITP
7 3 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.66%) SSCP
8 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.22%) ACCA
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CIMA
9 1 (0.22%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.60%) Data Quality
2 37 (8.10%) GDPR
3 10 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.31%) QA
6 5 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.09%) SLA
7 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.66%) NIST
9 2 (0.44%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 282 (61.71%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.03%) Databricks
3 16 (3.50%) Google
4 11 (2.41%) Oracle
5 6 (1.31%) SYSPRO
6 4 (0.88%) ESRI
6 4 (0.88%) SAP
7 3 (0.66%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.44%) Cognos
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe
9 1 (0.22%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.22%) Civica
9 1 (0.22%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.22%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.22%) Informatica
9 1 (0.22%) Jedox
9 1 (0.22%) Northgate
9 1 (0.22%) Orchard
9 1 (0.22%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.22%) VMware