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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 78 99
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 -59
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 334 209 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.12% 3.79% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.72% 29.86% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 218 161 141
10th Percentile £36,635 £34,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £47,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -8.65% +5.33%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - -10.57% +6.96%

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 962 700 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.11% 12.69% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 677 475 522
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,411
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 16 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 16 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 +4 219 £55,000 +4.76% 48
East Midlands -7 115 £47,500 +5.56% 23
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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 (6.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.60%) Confluence
2 2 (0.60%) SAS
2 2 (0.60%) WordPress
3 1 (0.30%) Apache
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 84 (25.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.40%) Notion
4 7 (2.10%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (3.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.10%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.60%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.30%) Magento
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.30%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 334 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 105 (31.44%) Azure
3 56 (16.77%) PowerApps
4 51 (15.27%) Power Automate
5 48 (14.37%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (11.68%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (3.59%) AWS
7 12 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.59%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (3.29%) Azure AI
9 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (2.69%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.69%) SaaS
11 7 (2.10%) GCP
11 7 (2.10%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.80%) Azure Stack
12 6 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.80%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (1.80%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.30%) VLAN
2 1 (0.30%) VPN
2 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.47%) Tableau
2 40 (11.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 38 (11.38%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (11.38%) Power Query
4 19 (5.69%) QlikView
5 18 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.79%) Relational Database
7 15 (4.49%) Data Lake
8 12 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.99%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.80%) GIS
12 6 (1.80%) Looker
12 6 (1.80%) MySQL
13 5 (1.50%) Big Data
13 5 (1.50%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.50%) Data Mining
13 5 (1.50%) Oracle BI EE
13 5 (1.50%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (4.19%) Git
2 6 (1.80%) JIRA
3 2 (0.60%) Ant
3 2 (0.60%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.60%) Maven
4 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 133 (39.82%) Analytical Skills
2 113 (33.83%) Social Skills
3 105 (31.44%) Finance
4 31 (9.28%) Manufacturing
5 30 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (7.49%) Public Sector
7 23 (6.89%) Marketing
8 16 (4.79%) Legal
9 15 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (4.49%) Retail
10 14 (4.19%) Law
11 11 (3.29%) Social Housing
12 10 (2.99%) Fire and Rescue
13 8 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Legal Technology
15 2 (0.60%) Advertising
15 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.60%) Automotive
15 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (22.16%) Developer
2 72 (21.56%) Analyst
3 40 (11.98%) Lead
4 38 (11.38%) Data Analyst
5 34 (10.18%) Data Engineer
5 34 (10.18%) Senior
6 23 (6.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 23 (6.89%) Data Manager
7 21 (6.29%) Power Platform Developer
8 14 (4.19%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 13 (3.89%) Systems Analyst
10 12 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 12 (3.59%) Junior
11 11 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 11 (3.29%) Junior Analyst
11 11 (3.29%) Junior Data Analyst
11 11 (3.29%) Power BI Developer
11 11 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (2.99%) Business Manager
12 10 (2.99%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.08%) .NET
2 12 (3.59%) REST
3 9 (2.69%) EDI
4 7 (2.10%) PyTorch
4 7 (2.10%) TensorFlow
5 6 (1.80%) JSON
5 6 (1.80%) PySpark
6 4 (1.20%) HTML
7 3 (0.90%) Terraform
8 2 (0.60%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (0.60%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.60%) React
8 2 (0.60%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.60%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.60%) Web Services
8 2 (0.60%) XML
9 1 (0.30%) CSS
9 1 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.47%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.19%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.59%) Reference Data
4 11 (3.29%) FMCG
5 10 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.99%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.99%) NHS
5 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.50%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.40%) Windows
2 4 (1.20%) Linux
2 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.60%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (99.40%) Business Intelligence
2 147 (44.01%) Analytics
3 118 (35.33%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (33.53%) Decision-Making
5 97 (29.04%) AI
6 82 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 79 (23.65%) Agile
8 74 (22.16%) Data Modelling
9 68 (20.36%) Visualisation
10 67 (20.06%) Data Governance
10 67 (20.06%) ETL
11 60 (17.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 58 (17.37%) ERP
13 57 (17.07%) Data Management
14 56 (16.77%) Data Analytics
15 48 (14.37%) Dashboard Development
16 45 (13.47%) Data Visualisation
17 42 (12.57%) Data Analysis
18 41 (12.28%) Data Architecture
19 38 (11.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 177 (52.99%) SQL
2 73 (21.86%) Python
3 64 (19.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 29 (8.68%) C#
5 14 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.69%) R
7 6 (1.80%) Java
7 6 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.60%) VBA
9 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 70 (20.96%) Degree
2 17 (5.09%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.49%) Azure Certification
3 15 (4.49%) PMI Certification
3 15 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (3.89%) PMP
6 7 (2.10%) ACCA
6 7 (2.10%) CIMA
7 3 (0.90%) AAT
7 3 (0.90%) CCAB
8 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.60%) CITP
8 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) MCT
9 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (25.15%) Data Quality
2 50 (14.97%) GDPR
3 16 (4.79%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (2.40%) PMO
5 7 (2.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.50%) SLA
7 4 (1.20%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.20%) QA
8 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.60%) GRC
9 2 (0.60%) NIST
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 7 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.60%) Ansible
1 2 (0.60%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.60%) Puppet
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 165 (49.40%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.69%) Databricks
3 15 (4.49%) Oracle
3 15 (4.49%) SAP
4 14 (4.19%) Google
5 8 (2.40%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.40%) SYSPRO
6 7 (2.10%) Infor
7 6 (1.80%) Adaptive Insights
7 6 (1.80%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.20%) Cognos
9 4 (1.20%) YouTube
10 3 (0.90%) HP
10 3 (0.90%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.60%) Jedox
12 1 (0.30%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.30%) Marketo
12 1 (0.30%) Talend
12 1 (0.30%) Xero