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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 66 54
Rank change year-on-year +30 -12 -7
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 461 224 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.54% 4.12% 3.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.48% 28.98% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 221 188 421
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £68,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -

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 971 773 1,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.45% 14.23% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 651 542 1,317
10th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -2.03%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,717 £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 7 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 7 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 +22 269 £47,500 -13.64% 63
East Midlands +25 192 £47,500 +5.56% 63
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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 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.65%) ArcGIS
2 3 (0.65%) WordPress
3 1 (0.22%) Apache
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 237 (51.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
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 EHS
Cloud Services
1 461 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 262 (56.83%) Azure
3 176 (38.18%) Azure AI
4 44 (9.54%) Power Automate
5 42 (9.11%) PowerApps
6 39 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (4.12%) AWS
10 17 (3.69%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.17%) GCP
13 6 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.30%) SaaS
14 5 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (0.87%) Azure Stack
15 4 (0.87%) Smartsheet
16 3 (0.65%) Google Analytics
16 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
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
1 214 (46.42%) Tableau
2 35 (7.59%) Power Query
3 31 (6.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (5.64%) SQL Server
5 24 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.04%) Star Schema
7 13 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.52%) MySQL
9 6 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.30%) Looker
9 6 (1.30%) QlikView
10 5 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.08%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.65%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Git
1 5 (1.08%) JIRA
2 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 261 (56.62%) Social Skills
2 97 (21.04%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (13.88%) Finance
4 30 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.77%) Manufacturing
7 21 (4.56%) Retail
8 15 (3.25%) Law
8 15 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.17%) Marketing
10 7 (1.52%) Legal
10 7 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.52%) Social Housing
11 6 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.65%) Legal Technology
12 3 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.43%) Billing
13 2 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 248 (53.80%) Analyst
2 211 (45.77%) Data Analyst
3 187 (40.56%) Junior
4 185 (40.13%) Junior Analyst
4 185 (40.13%) Junior Data Analyst
5 70 (15.18%) Developer
6 38 (8.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 31 (6.72%) Senior
8 28 (6.07%) Data Engineer
9 22 (4.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 21 (4.56%) Power BI Developer
11 15 (3.25%) Data Manager
12 14 (3.04%) Data Scientist
12 14 (3.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 14 (3.04%) Snowflake Engineer
13 13 (2.82%) Lead
13 13 (2.82%) Power BI Analyst
14 12 (2.60%) Business Developer
14 12 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Manager
14 12 (2.60%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.34%) .NET
2 8 (1.74%) Pandas
2 8 (1.74%) REST
3 7 (1.52%) PySpark
3 7 (1.52%) PyTorch
3 7 (1.52%) scikit-learn
4 6 (1.30%) WinForms
4 6 (1.30%) XML
5 5 (1.08%) HTML
6 4 (0.87%) EDI
7 3 (0.65%) CSS
7 3 (0.65%) RESTful
8 2 (0.43%) JSON
8 2 (0.43%) React
8 2 (0.43%) Web Services
9 1 (0.22%) Matplotlib
9 1 (0.22%) Seaborn
9 1 (0.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.86%) Management Information System
2 12 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (1.95%) NHS
3 9 (1.95%) Product Ownership
4 4 (0.87%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (0.65%) e-Learning
5 3 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (0.43%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.43%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.43%) FMCG
6 2 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.43%) Robotics
7 1 (0.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.22%) Replication
7 1 (0.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.65%) Linux
1 3 (0.65%) Windows
1 3 (0.65%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (97.83%) Business Intelligence
2 217 (47.07%) AI
3 143 (31.02%) Analytics
4 94 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (17.57%) Decision-Making
6 67 (14.53%) Data Modelling
7 62 (13.45%) Visualisation
8 50 (10.85%) ETL
9 48 (10.41%) Agile
10 46 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (9.54%) Data Visualisation
12 43 (9.33%) Data Analysis
13 41 (8.89%) Data Governance
14 37 (8.03%) ERP
15 35 (7.59%) Actionable Insight
16 33 (7.16%) Data Analytics
17 32 (6.94%) Data Management
18 30 (6.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 29 (6.29%) Computer Science
19 29 (6.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 335 (72.67%) SQL
2 230 (49.89%) Python
3 53 (11.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (5.42%) C#
5 11 (2.39%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.52%) R
7 6 (1.30%) Delphi
8 5 (1.08%) VBA
9 1 (0.22%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 180 (39.05%) Azure Certification
2 58 (12.58%) Degree
3 13 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.74%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.52%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.30%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.30%) PMP
6 6 (1.30%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.65%) CITP
7 3 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.65%) SSCP
8 2 (0.43%) AAT
8 2 (0.43%) ACCA
8 2 (0.43%) CCAB
8 2 (0.43%) CIMA
8 2 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.22%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (11.28%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.81%) GDPR
3 10 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.30%) QA
6 5 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.08%) SLA
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%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 281 (60.95%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.21%) Databricks
3 14 (3.04%) Google
4 12 (2.60%) Oracle
5 6 (1.30%) SYSPRO
6 4 (0.87%) ESRI
6 4 (0.87%) SAP
7 3 (0.65%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.43%) Cognos
8 2 (0.43%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe
9 1 (0.22%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.22%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.22%) HighQ
9 1 (0.22%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.22%) Informatica
9 1 (0.22%) Jedox
9 1 (0.22%) Legora
9 1 (0.22%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.22%) VMware