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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 73 96
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 -51
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 355 220 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.25% 3.92% 2.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.41% 30.86% 22.07%
Number of salaries quoted 215 172 153
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +4.66%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £79,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

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 949 713 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.02% 12.70% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 660 490 554
10th Percentile £34,950 £34,975 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,974 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,250 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +7.43% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,842 £76,128
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +8 228 £55,000 +6.08% 210
East Midlands -5 127 £47,500 +5.56% 100
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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 22 (6.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.85%) WordPress
3 2 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 113 (31.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.97%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.41%) Notion
5 4 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.97%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.85%) Magento
3 3 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.85%) Shopify
4 2 (0.56%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.56%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 355 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 135 (38.03%) Azure
3 53 (14.93%) PowerApps
4 51 (14.37%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (13.80%) Power Automate
6 44 (12.39%) Azure AI
7 34 (9.58%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (3.38%) AWS
8 12 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (3.10%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.25%) SaaS
13 7 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.97%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.69%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.69%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.69%) GCP
15 5 (1.41%) Google Analytics
15 5 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) VLAN
2 1 (0.28%) VPN
2 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (24.23%) Tableau
2 40 (11.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 38 (10.70%) Power Query
4 36 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.35%) QlikView
6 18 (5.07%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.23%) Data Lake
8 14 (3.94%) Relational Database
9 13 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.82%) Star Schema
11 7 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.97%) MySQL
11 7 (1.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.69%) GIS
13 5 (1.41%) Big Data
13 5 (1.41%) Data Mining
13 5 (1.41%) Looker
13 5 (1.41%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (1.13%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.13%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (3.66%) Git
2 4 (1.13%) JIRA
3 2 (0.56%) Ant
3 2 (0.56%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.56%) Maven
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 141 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 126 (35.49%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (26.76%) Finance
4 32 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (8.45%) Manufacturing
6 26 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.79%) Marketing
7 17 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.79%) Retail
8 16 (4.51%) Legal
9 13 (3.66%) Law
10 11 (3.10%) Social Housing
11 10 (2.82%) Fire and Rescue
12 7 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.56%) Advertising
14 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 107 (30.14%) Analyst
2 71 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 69 (19.44%) Developer
4 45 (12.68%) Junior
4 45 (12.68%) Junior Analyst
4 45 (12.68%) Junior Data Analyst
5 37 (10.42%) Lead
6 32 (9.01%) Data Engineer
6 32 (9.01%) Senior
7 24 (6.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 21 (5.92%) Data Manager
9 19 (5.35%) Power Platform Developer
10 13 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 12 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 12 (3.38%) Power BI Developer
12 11 (3.10%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 11 (3.10%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (3.10%) Systems Analyst
13 10 (2.82%) Performance Manager
13 10 (2.82%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.48%) .NET
2 11 (3.10%) REST
3 9 (2.54%) EDI
4 7 (1.97%) PyTorch
4 7 (1.97%) TensorFlow
5 6 (1.69%) HTML
5 6 (1.69%) JSON
5 6 (1.69%) PySpark
6 3 (0.85%) CSS
6 3 (0.85%) RESTful
7 2 (0.56%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.56%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.56%) React
7 2 (0.56%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.56%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.56%) Terraform
7 2 (0.56%) Web Services
7 2 (0.56%) XML
8 1 (0.28%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.27%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.94%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.10%) Driving Licence
4 10 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (2.82%) NHS
4 10 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.82%) Reference Data
5 9 (2.54%) FMCG
6 6 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.13%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.13%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.56%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.97%) Windows
2 6 (1.69%) Linux
3 4 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (99.44%) Business Intelligence
2 138 (38.87%) Analytics
3 121 (34.08%) AI
4 120 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (27.04%) Decision-Making
6 73 (20.56%) Agile
7 69 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (18.59%) Data Modelling
9 59 (16.62%) ERP
10 58 (16.34%) Data Governance
10 58 (16.34%) ETL
10 58 (16.34%) Visualisation
11 54 (15.21%) Data Management
12 50 (14.08%) Data Analytics
13 44 (12.39%) Dashboard Development
13 44 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (11.83%) Data Visualisation
15 41 (11.55%) Data Analysis
16 36 (10.14%) Data Architecture
17 33 (9.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 201 (56.62%) SQL
2 101 (28.45%) Python
3 62 (17.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (7.04%) C#
5 12 (3.38%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.54%) R
7 6 (1.69%) Java
8 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (20.85%) Degree
2 47 (13.24%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.23%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.66%) PMP
7 3 (0.85%) AAT
7 3 (0.85%) ACCA
7 3 (0.85%) CCAB
7 3 (0.85%) CIMA
7 3 (0.85%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.85%) SSCP
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.28%) CITP
9 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (19.72%) Data Quality
2 48 (13.52%) GDPR
3 14 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.97%) SLA
5 5 (1.41%) PMO
6 4 (1.13%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.85%) GRC
7 3 (0.85%) NIST
7 3 (0.85%) QA
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.56%) Ansible
1 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.56%) Puppet
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 188 (52.96%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.79%) Databricks
3 12 (3.38%) Google
4 11 (3.10%) Oracle
5 9 (2.54%) SAP
6 8 (2.25%) SYSPRO
7 7 (1.97%) Infor
8 5 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.13%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.85%) Cognos
10 3 (0.85%) HP
10 3 (0.85%) YouTube
11 2 (0.56%) Adaptive Insights
11 2 (0.56%) Anaplan
11 2 (0.56%) Jedox
12 1 (0.28%) Denodo
12 1 (0.28%) Marketo
12 1 (0.28%) Qualtrics
12 1 (0.28%) Xero