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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 66 95
Rank change year-on-year +15 +29 -48
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 398 235 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.62% 4.12% 2.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 42.16% 31.21% 23.14%
Number of salaries quoted 225 184 182
10th Percentile £33,500 £34,750 £34,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,938 £41,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,724 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -2.45% +4.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,938
90th Percentile £72,500 £66,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

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 944 753 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.20% 13.20% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 647 526 616
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,023 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% -5.87% +0.78%

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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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +9 244 £52,500 -3.23% 131
East Midlands +10 154 £48,750 +8.33% 67
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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 20 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.75%) WordPress
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 148 (37.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.01%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.75%) Magento
3 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.75%) Shopify
4 2 (0.50%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.50%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 398 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 191 (47.99%) Azure
3 88 (22.11%) Azure AI
4 50 (12.56%) Power Automate
4 50 (12.56%) PowerApps
5 47 (11.81%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (8.79%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (4.77%) AWS
8 14 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (3.02%) GCP
11 11 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.26%) SaaS
12 9 (2.26%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.51%) Azure Stack
16 5 (1.26%) PaaS
17 4 (1.01%) Google Ads
17 4 (1.01%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) DHCP
2 1 (0.25%) DNS
2 1 (0.25%) VLAN
2 1 (0.25%) VPN
2 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (32.91%) Tableau
2 41 (10.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 40 (10.05%) Power Query
4 36 (9.05%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (5.03%) SQL Server
6 19 (4.77%) QlikView
7 15 (3.77%) Data Lake
8 14 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (3.52%) Star Schema
9 12 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.76%) MySQL
10 7 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (1.51%) GIS
12 5 (1.26%) Big Data
12 5 (1.26%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.26%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.26%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.01%) Looker
Development Applications
1 14 (3.52%) Git
2 4 (1.01%) JIRA
3 2 (0.50%) Ant
3 2 (0.50%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.50%) Maven
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 182 (45.73%) Social Skills
2 117 (29.40%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (20.60%) Finance
4 30 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (7.29%) Manufacturing
6 27 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 23 (5.78%) Retail
8 17 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.77%) Legal
10 14 (3.52%) Law
11 12 (3.02%) Marketing
12 11 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.51%) Social Housing
14 8 (2.01%) Fire and Rescue
15 7 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.75%) Legal Technology
17 2 (0.50%) Advertising
17 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (37.19%) Analyst
2 115 (28.89%) Data Analyst
3 94 (23.62%) Junior
4 92 (23.12%) Junior Analyst
4 92 (23.12%) Junior Data Analyst
5 68 (17.09%) Developer
6 37 (9.30%) Senior
7 34 (8.54%) Data Engineer
8 30 (7.54%) Lead
9 26 (6.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 22 (5.53%) Data Manager
11 18 (4.52%) Power Platform Developer
12 17 (4.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 16 (4.02%) Business Intelligence Manager
14 13 (3.27%) Power BI Developer
15 12 (3.02%) Data Scientist
15 12 (3.02%) Senior Data Engineer
16 10 (2.51%) Business Intelligence Lead
16 10 (2.51%) Performance Manager
16 10 (2.51%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.53%) .NET
2 13 (3.27%) PyTorch
3 10 (2.51%) REST
4 9 (2.26%) EDI
5 8 (2.01%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.76%) PySpark
6 7 (1.76%) TensorFlow
7 6 (1.51%) JSON
7 6 (1.51%) Pandas
8 5 (1.26%) HTML
9 3 (0.75%) CSS
9 3 (0.75%) RESTful
9 3 (0.75%) XML
10 2 (0.50%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.50%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.50%) React
10 2 (0.50%) Seaborn
10 2 (0.50%) Terraform
10 2 (0.50%) Web Services
11 1 (0.25%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.05%) Management Information System
2 11 (2.76%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.51%) NHS
3 10 (2.51%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.51%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.51%) FMCG
6 6 (1.51%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.01%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.75%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.75%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.50%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.50%) PMI
10 2 (0.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.51%) Linux
1 6 (1.51%) Windows
2 5 (1.26%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.50%) Solaris
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (97.74%) Business Intelligence
2 156 (39.20%) AI
3 146 (36.68%) Analytics
4 118 (29.65%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (21.86%) Decision-Making
6 69 (17.34%) Data Modelling
7 64 (16.08%) Agile
7 64 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (14.82%) Visualisation
9 56 (14.07%) ERP
10 53 (13.32%) ETL
11 48 (12.06%) Data Governance
11 48 (12.06%) Data Management
12 46 (11.56%) Data Visualisation
13 43 (10.80%) Data Analytics
14 41 (10.30%) Data Analysis
15 39 (9.80%) Dashboard Development
15 39 (9.80%) Roadmaps
16 35 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (8.04%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 255 (64.07%) SQL
2 150 (37.69%) Python
3 66 (16.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (6.28%) C#
5 13 (3.27%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.26%) R
7 6 (1.51%) Java
8 5 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.01%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.25%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 92 (23.12%) Azure Certification
2 77 (19.35%) Degree
3 16 (4.02%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (3.52%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.02%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.51%) PMP
7 6 (1.51%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.75%) AAT
8 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.75%) CCAB
8 3 (0.75%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.75%) SSCP
9 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.25%) ACCA
10 1 (0.25%) CIMA
10 1 (0.25%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (15.08%) Data Quality
2 44 (11.06%) GDPR
3 9 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.76%) SLA
5 4 (1.01%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.01%) PMO
5 4 (1.01%) QA
6 3 (0.75%) NIST
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.50%) Ansible
1 2 (0.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.50%) Puppet
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 218 (54.77%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.04%) Databricks
3 17 (4.27%) Google
4 10 (2.51%) Oracle
5 8 (2.01%) SYSPRO
6 5 (1.26%) SAP
7 4 (1.01%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.01%) Infor
7 4 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.75%) HP
8 3 (0.75%) YouTube
9 2 (0.50%) Jedox
10 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.25%) Cognos
10 1 (0.25%) ESRI
10 1 (0.25%) Informatica
10 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.25%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.25%) VMware
10 1 (0.25%) Xero
198 Power BI jobs in the Midlands