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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 66 52
Rank change year-on-year +31 -14 0
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 439 217 535
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.51% 4.30% 3.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.36% 28.89% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 205 182 443
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,175 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +5.40% +4.21%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £61,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,625 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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 927 751 1,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.41% 14.89% 13.56%
Number of salaries quoted 616 530 1,447
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £39,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,125 £72,500
England 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 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 19 June 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 19 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
West Midlands +25 258 £47,085 -14.39% 66
East Midlands +25 179 £50,000 +11.11% 51
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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 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
2 3 (0.68%) WordPress
3 1 (0.23%) Apache
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 236 (53.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.91%) Shopify
3 3 (0.68%) Magento
3 3 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.46%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 439 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 259 (59.00%) Azure
3 176 (40.09%) Azure AI
4 37 (8.43%) Power Automate
5 35 (7.97%) PowerApps
6 32 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (4.10%) AWS
10 17 (3.87%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.28%) GCP
13 8 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.91%) Azure Stack
16 4 (0.91%) SaaS
16 4 (0.91%) Smartsheet
17 3 (0.68%) Google Analytics
17 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.23%) DHCP
1 1 (0.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (47.38%) Tableau
2 32 (7.29%) Power Query
3 23 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 22 (5.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.64%) Star Schema
7 12 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.37%) Looker
10 6 (1.37%) MySQL
11 5 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.14%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.14%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.68%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Git
2 5 (1.14%) JIRA
3 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 254 (57.86%) Social Skills
2 92 (20.96%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (14.12%) Finance
4 28 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (4.78%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.10%) Retail
7 17 (3.87%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.19%) Law
9 12 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.59%) Legal
10 7 (1.59%) Marketing
10 7 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.37%) Social Housing
12 5 (1.14%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.68%) Electronics
13 3 (0.68%) Legal Technology
13 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Billing
14 2 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 245 (55.81%) Analyst
2 210 (47.84%) Data Analyst
3 187 (42.60%) Junior
4 185 (42.14%) Junior Analyst
4 185 (42.14%) Junior Data Analyst
5 62 (14.12%) Developer
6 37 (8.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 28 (6.38%) Senior
8 27 (6.15%) Data Engineer
9 22 (5.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 18 (4.10%) Power BI Developer
11 15 (3.42%) Power BI Analyst
12 14 (3.19%) Business Developer
12 14 (3.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 14 (3.19%) Snowflake Engineer
13 12 (2.73%) Data Manager
13 12 (2.73%) Data Scientist
13 12 (2.73%) Power BI Engineer
14 10 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (2.28%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.96%) .NET
2 8 (1.82%) Pandas
3 7 (1.59%) PySpark
3 7 (1.59%) PyTorch
3 7 (1.59%) scikit-learn
4 6 (1.37%) REST
4 6 (1.37%) WinForms
4 6 (1.37%) XML
5 5 (1.14%) HTML
6 3 (0.68%) CSS
6 3 (0.68%) RESTful
7 2 (0.46%) JSON
7 2 (0.46%) React
7 2 (0.46%) Web Services
8 1 (0.23%) EDI
8 1 (0.23%) Matplotlib
8 1 (0.23%) Seaborn
8 1 (0.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.92%) Management Information System
2 12 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (2.05%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.59%) NHS
5 4 (0.91%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.46%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.46%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.46%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.46%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.46%) FMCG
7 2 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.46%) Robotics
7 2 (0.46%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.23%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.23%) Replication
8 1 (0.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.68%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Windows
2 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (97.72%) Business Intelligence
2 213 (48.52%) AI
3 132 (30.07%) Analytics
4 82 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (16.86%) Decision-Making
6 61 (13.90%) Data Modelling
7 57 (12.98%) Visualisation
8 46 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (9.79%) Agile
10 42 (9.57%) ETL
11 41 (9.34%) Data Visualisation
12 38 (8.66%) Data Analysis
13 34 (7.74%) Data Governance
14 29 (6.61%) Actionable Insight
14 29 (6.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 28 (6.38%) CRM
15 28 (6.38%) ERP
16 27 (6.15%) Computer Science
16 27 (6.15%) Data Management
16 27 (6.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 316 (71.98%) SQL
2 227 (51.71%) Python
3 50 (11.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (4.33%) C#
5 11 (2.51%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.05%) VBA
7 7 (1.59%) R
8 6 (1.37%) Delphi
9 5 (1.14%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.23%) PHP
10 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 180 (41.00%) Azure Certification
2 50 (11.39%) Degree
3 14 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.28%) PMI Certification
4 10 (2.28%) PMP
5 8 (1.82%) Security Cleared
6 7 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.37%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.68%) ACCA
8 3 (0.68%) CIMA
8 3 (0.68%) CITP
8 3 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.68%) MBA
8 3 (0.68%) SSCP
9 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.23%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.48%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.74%) GDPR
3 8 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.37%) QA
6 5 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.14%) SLA
7 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.68%) NIST
9 2 (0.46%) GRC
9 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 265 (60.36%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.69%) Databricks
3 15 (3.42%) Oracle
4 12 (2.73%) Google
5 6 (1.37%) SAP
6 4 (0.91%) ESRI
7 3 (0.68%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.68%) QAD
8 2 (0.46%) Cognos
8 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe
9 1 (0.23%) Civica
9 1 (0.23%) HighQ
9 1 (0.23%) Informatica
9 1 (0.23%) Legora
9 1 (0.23%) Northgate
9 1 (0.23%) Orchard
9 1 (0.23%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.23%) SYSPRO
9 1 (0.23%) VMware