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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 70 38
Rank change year-on-year +25 -32 +23
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 407 184 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.86% 3.86% 4.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.38% 26.21% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 185 160 424
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,045
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -3.57%

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 859 702 1,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.14% 14.72% 16.66%
Number of salaries quoted 552 532 1,423
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £38,875
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 £77,500 £72,500 £72,398
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 27 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 27 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 +27 244 £47,085 -9.45% 72
East Midlands +23 161 £45,000 +4.65% 54
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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 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.74%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.49%) CMS
4 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 229 (56.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.25%) Odoo
3 1 (0.25%) Primavera
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 407 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 268 (65.85%) Azure
3 176 (43.24%) Azure AI
4 34 (8.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (6.14%) Power Automate
6 23 (5.65%) PowerApps
7 22 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (3.69%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.97%) AWS
12 6 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.47%) GCP
12 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.23%) Smartsheet
14 3 (0.74%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (0.74%) dbt
14 3 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) DHCP
1 2 (0.49%) DNS
1 2 (0.49%) Intranet
2 1 (0.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (49.14%) Tableau
2 36 (8.85%) SQL Server
3 33 (8.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (5.41%) Power Query
5 21 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.44%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.72%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.47%) Looker
12 4 (0.98%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
14 2 (0.49%) MySQL
14 2 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (1.97%) Git
2 6 (1.47%) JIRA
3 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.25%) GitLab
4 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 238 (58.48%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (14.50%) Finance
4 23 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.16%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.19%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.95%) Retail
8 10 (2.46%) Marketing
9 9 (2.21%) Law
10 8 (1.97%) Legal
11 7 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.74%) Billing
13 3 (0.74%) Electronics
13 3 (0.74%) Local Government
13 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.74%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 231 (56.76%) Analyst
2 204 (50.12%) Data Analyst
3 185 (45.45%) Junior
4 183 (44.96%) Junior Analyst
4 183 (44.96%) Junior Data Analyst
5 69 (16.95%) Developer
6 36 (8.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 27 (6.63%) Data Engineer
8 25 (6.14%) Business Developer
9 24 (5.90%) Senior
10 21 (5.16%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 18 (4.42%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 13 (3.19%) Snowflake Engineer
13 11 (2.70%) Architect
14 10 (2.46%) Azure Data Engineer
14 10 (2.46%) C# Developer
14 10 (2.46%) Power BI Engineer
14 10 (2.46%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.42%) .NET
2 15 (3.69%) XML
3 11 (2.70%) WinForms
4 9 (2.21%) EDI
5 7 (1.72%) JSON
6 6 (1.47%) PySpark
7 5 (1.23%) Pandas
7 5 (1.23%) REST
8 4 (0.98%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.74%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.49%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.49%) CSS
10 2 (0.49%) HTML
10 2 (0.49%) Razor View Engine
11 1 (0.25%) AngularJS
11 1 (0.25%) EDIFACT
11 1 (0.25%) HTML5 Canvas
11 1 (0.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
1 15 (3.69%) Management Information System
2 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.25%) 3D Printing
5 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.25%) FMCG
5 1 (0.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.25%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (0.25%) IoT
5 1 (0.25%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.25%) Replication
5 1 (0.25%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.25%) Windows
1 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (98.03%) Business Intelligence
2 192 (47.17%) AI
3 90 (22.11%) Analytics
4 67 (16.46%) Decision-Making
5 51 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (12.53%) Visualisation
6 50 (12.29%) Data Modelling
6 50 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (9.58%) ETL
8 36 (8.85%) Actionable Insight
8 36 (8.85%) Data Visualisation
9 31 (7.62%) Agile
10 27 (6.63%) Data Analysis
10 27 (6.63%) ERP
11 26 (6.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 24 (5.90%) CRM
13 21 (5.16%) Computer Science
14 20 (4.91%) Data Engineering
14 20 (4.91%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (4.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 295 (72.48%) SQL
2 226 (55.53%) Python
3 36 (8.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (3.69%) C#
5 11 (2.70%) Delphi
6 10 (2.46%) T-SQL
7 9 (2.21%) VBA
8 8 (1.97%) R
9 7 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.49%) C
10 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.25%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.25%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.25%) PHP
11 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 183 (44.96%) Azure Certification
2 35 (8.60%) Degree
3 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.21%) PMI Certification
4 9 (2.21%) PMP
5 7 (1.72%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.47%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.23%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.74%) ACCA
9 3 (0.74%) CIMA
9 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.74%) MBA
10 2 (0.49%) CITP
10 2 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.85%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.19%) GDPR
3 7 (1.72%) PMO
4 5 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.23%) QA
5 4 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.49%) SLA
6 2 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 245 (60.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.91%) Databricks
3 15 (3.69%) Oracle
4 9 (2.21%) Google
5 7 (1.72%) Sparx
6 6 (1.47%) SAP
7 4 (0.98%) Civica
7 4 (0.98%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.74%) ESRI
8 3 (0.74%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.74%) QAD
9 2 (0.49%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.49%) Epicor
9 2 (0.49%) Northgate
9 2 (0.49%) Orchard
9 2 (0.49%) VMware
10 1 (0.25%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.25%) Infor
10 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.25%) Verint