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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 66 74
Rank change year-on-year +25 +8 -20
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 460 230 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.36% 4.04% 3.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.37% 29.19% 26.82%
Number of salaries quoted 227 193 291
10th Percentile £31,550 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +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 971 788 1,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.09% 13.85% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 650 563 972
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - +9.45% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,250 £68,750 £64,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,637 £75,000
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 26 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 26 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 +17 268 £50,000 -7.83% 60
East Midlands +19 192 £47,500 +5.56% 48
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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 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.87%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.65%) WordPress
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 233 (50.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.87%) Shopify
3 3 (0.65%) Magento
3 3 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.43%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 460 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 255 (55.43%) Azure
3 165 (35.87%) Azure AI
4 46 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 43 (9.35%) PowerApps
6 42 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (4.57%) AWS
10 15 (3.26%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.39%) GCP
13 8 (1.74%) SaaS
14 5 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.09%) Azure Stack
15 4 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (0.87%) Smartsheet
16 3 (0.65%) Google Ads
16 3 (0.65%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DHCP
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
2 1 (0.22%) VLAN
2 1 (0.22%) VPN
2 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (45.22%) Tableau
2 41 (8.91%) Power Query
3 34 (7.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 29 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (5.22%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (3.26%) Star Schema
7 13 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.74%) QlikView
9 7 (1.52%) MySQL
10 6 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.09%) Looker
12 4 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.87%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.65%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
14 2 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (1.52%) Git
2 4 (0.87%) JIRA
3 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Ant
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Ivy
4 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Maven
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 258 (56.09%) Social Skills
2 105 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (14.78%) Finance
4 29 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (5.65%) Manufacturing
5 26 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.78%) Retail
7 17 (3.70%) Law
8 16 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.61%) Marketing
10 8 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.74%) Legal
11 7 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.52%) Social Housing
12 5 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (0.43%) Advertising
13 2 (0.43%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.43%) Billing
13 2 (0.43%) Legal Technology
13 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 234 (50.87%) Analyst
2 199 (43.26%) Data Analyst
3 176 (38.26%) Junior
4 174 (37.83%) Junior Analyst
4 174 (37.83%) Junior Data Analyst
5 68 (14.78%) Developer
6 34 (7.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 33 (7.17%) Senior
8 29 (6.30%) Data Engineer
9 19 (4.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 19 (4.13%) Power BI Developer
10 18 (3.91%) Data Manager
11 16 (3.48%) Lead
12 15 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 15 (3.26%) Data Scientist
13 13 (2.83%) Power Platform Developer
14 12 (2.61%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 12 (2.61%) Snowflake Engineer
15 9 (1.96%) Power BI Analyst
15 9 (1.96%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.57%) .NET
2 9 (1.96%) REST
3 8 (1.74%) Pandas
3 8 (1.74%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.74%) scikit-learn
4 7 (1.52%) PySpark
5 5 (1.09%) EDI
5 5 (1.09%) HTML
5 5 (1.09%) XML
6 4 (0.87%) JSON
6 4 (0.87%) WinForms
7 3 (0.65%) CSS
7 3 (0.65%) RESTful
8 2 (0.43%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.43%) React
8 2 (0.43%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.43%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.43%) Web Services
9 1 (0.22%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.09%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.17%) NHS
2 10 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 9 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 4 (0.87%) Cloud Native
5 4 (0.87%) e-Learning
5 4 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (0.65%) Driving Licence
6 3 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (0.43%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.43%) FMCG
7 2 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.43%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.43%) Robotics
8 1 (0.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.09%) Linux
1 5 (1.09%) Windows
2 4 (0.87%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.22%) Solaris
3 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (97.83%) Business Intelligence
2 214 (46.52%) AI
3 146 (31.74%) Analytics
4 106 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (18.70%) Decision-Making
6 70 (15.22%) Data Modelling
7 63 (13.70%) Visualisation
8 53 (11.52%) Agile
9 51 (11.09%) ETL
10 49 (10.65%) Data Analysis
11 47 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (10.22%) Data Visualisation
12 42 (9.13%) Data Governance
13 39 (8.48%) ERP
14 38 (8.26%) Data Management
15 37 (8.04%) Data Analytics
16 32 (6.96%) Actionable Insight
16 32 (6.96%) Dashboard Development
16 32 (6.96%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 31 (6.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 328 (71.30%) SQL
2 222 (48.26%) Python
3 59 (12.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 24 (5.22%) C#
5 11 (2.39%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.30%) R
8 4 (0.87%) Delphi
9 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.65%) VBA
10 1 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 168 (36.52%) Azure Certification
2 64 (13.91%) Degree
3 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.74%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.52%) DBS Check
5 7 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.30%) PMP
6 6 (1.30%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.65%) AAT
7 3 (0.65%) CCAB
7 3 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.65%) SSCP
8 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.43%) CITP
8 2 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.22%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.22%) ACCA
9 1 (0.22%) CIMA
9 1 (0.22%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (12.39%) Data Quality
2 39 (8.48%) GDPR
3 10 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.30%) SLA
6 5 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.09%) QA
7 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.65%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.65%) NIST
9 2 (0.43%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.22%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Ansible
1 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.22%) Puppet
1 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 278 (60.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.78%) Databricks
3 16 (3.48%) Google
4 9 (1.96%) Oracle
5 8 (1.74%) SYSPRO
6 5 (1.09%) SAP
7 4 (0.87%) ESRI
8 3 (0.65%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.43%) Cognos
9 2 (0.43%) Jedox
10 1 (0.22%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.22%) Civica
10 1 (0.22%) Informatica
10 1 (0.22%) Northgate
10 1 (0.22%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.22%) Orchard
10 1 (0.22%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.22%) VMware