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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 75 37
Rank change year-on-year +26 -38 +25
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 367 195 483
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.70% 3.73% 4.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 45.09% 24.68% 29.11%
Number of salaries quoted 185 155 408
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +12.15% -4.46%

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 814 790 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.21% 15.10% 16.99%
Number of salaries quoted 547 523 1,388
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,900 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +23 223 £47,085 -5.83% 79
East Midlands +28 142 £45,000 +5.88% 30
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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 18 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.54%) CMS
3 2 (0.54%) Confluence
3 2 (0.54%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 199 (54.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.27%) Odoo
3 1 (0.27%) Primavera
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 367 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 227 (61.85%) Azure
3 143 (38.96%) Azure AI
4 34 (9.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (7.36%) Power Automate
6 25 (6.81%) PowerApps
7 23 (6.27%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.54%) Snowflake
11 9 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.36%) Smartsheet
14 4 (1.09%) AWS
15 3 (0.82%) Azure Functions
15 3 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
15 3 (0.82%) dbt
15 3 (0.82%) SaaS
15 3 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) Intranet
2 1 (0.27%) DHCP
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (46.05%) Tableau
2 37 (10.08%) SQL Server
3 36 (9.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 20 (5.45%) Power Query
5 19 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (4.09%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.72%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.63%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.36%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (1.36%) Looker
12 4 (1.09%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
14 2 (0.54%) MySQL
14 2 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Git
1 7 (1.91%) JIRA
2 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.27%) GitLab
3 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 208 (56.68%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (16.35%) Finance
4 22 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.54%) Marketing
6 12 (3.27%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.18%) Law
7 8 (2.18%) Legal
8 7 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.91%) Retail
9 4 (1.09%) Local Government
9 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.82%) Electronics
10 3 (0.82%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.54%) Billing
11 2 (0.54%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 198 (53.95%) Analyst
2 170 (46.32%) Data Analyst
3 151 (41.14%) Junior
4 149 (40.60%) Junior Analyst
4 149 (40.60%) Junior Data Analyst
5 69 (18.80%) Developer
6 36 (9.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 26 (7.08%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.54%) Business Developer
8 24 (6.54%) Senior
9 21 (5.72%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 17 (4.63%) Power BI Developer
11 13 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (3.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 12 (3.27%) Snowflake Engineer
13 11 (3.00%) Architect
13 11 (3.00%) Systems Developer
14 10 (2.72%) Azure Data Engineer
14 10 (2.72%) Lead
14 10 (2.72%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.72%) .NET
2 14 (3.81%) XML
3 10 (2.72%) WinForms
4 9 (2.45%) EDI
5 7 (1.91%) JSON
6 5 (1.36%) PySpark
6 5 (1.36%) REST
7 2 (0.54%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.54%) CSS
7 2 (0.54%) HTML
7 2 (0.54%) Pandas
7 2 (0.54%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (0.27%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.27%) EDIFACT
8 1 (0.27%) ODBC
8 1 (0.27%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.27%) SOAP
8 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 15 (4.09%) Management Information System
2 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.27%) 3D Printing
5 1 (0.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.27%) FMCG
5 1 (0.27%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (0.27%) IoT
5 1 (0.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.27%) Replication
5 1 (0.27%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (98.64%) Business Intelligence
2 157 (42.78%) AI
3 83 (22.62%) Analytics
4 69 (18.80%) Decision-Making
5 52 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (13.35%) Visualisation
7 44 (11.99%) Data Modelling
8 37 (10.08%) Actionable Insight
8 37 (10.08%) ETL
9 34 (9.26%) Data Visualisation
10 32 (8.72%) Agile
11 29 (7.90%) CRM
12 28 (7.63%) Data Analysis
13 27 (7.36%) ERP
14 25 (6.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 22 (5.99%) Migration
16 20 (5.45%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (5.45%) DevOps
17 19 (5.18%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 257 (70.03%) SQL
2 190 (51.77%) Python
3 30 (8.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (4.36%) C#
5 10 (2.72%) Delphi
6 9 (2.45%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.45%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.45%) VBA
7 8 (2.18%) R
8 3 (0.82%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.54%) C
10 1 (0.27%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.27%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.27%) PHP
10 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 149 (40.60%) Azure Certification
2 34 (9.26%) Degree
3 13 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.72%) PMI Certification
4 10 (2.72%) PMP
5 6 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (1.63%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.36%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.82%) MBA
8 3 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.54%) ACCA
9 2 (0.54%) CIMA
9 2 (0.54%) CITP
9 2 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.81%) GDPR
3 8 (2.18%) PMO
4 5 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.09%) QA
6 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.54%) SLA
7 2 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.27%) MOM
Vendors
1 213 (58.04%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.81%) Oracle
3 13 (3.54%) Databricks
4 7 (1.91%) Sparx
5 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.63%) SAP
6 5 (1.36%) Google
7 4 (1.09%) Civica
8 3 (0.82%) ESRI
8 3 (0.82%) Infor
8 3 (0.82%) QAD
9 2 (0.54%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.54%) Epicor
9 2 (0.54%) Northgate
9 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.54%) Orchard
10 1 (0.27%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.27%) IFS
10 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.27%) Verint