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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 63 85
Rank change year-on-year +22 +22 -26
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 431 236 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.97% 4.06% 2.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 45.27% 29.99% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 224 189 221
10th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -1.96% +4.08%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 952 787 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.56% 13.53% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 644 554 785
10th Percentile £32,250 £35,375 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.80% -1.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £79,200
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,966 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.58% -2.45% -3.85%

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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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +23 255 £51,356 -3.56% 102
East Midlands +20 176 £50,000 +11.11% 63
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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 14 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.93%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.70%) WordPress
4 1 (0.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 199 (46.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.70%) Magento
2 3 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.70%) Shopify
3 2 (0.46%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.46%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics SL
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 431 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 227 (52.67%) Azure
3 132 (30.63%) Azure AI
4 49 (11.37%) Power Automate
5 46 (10.67%) PowerApps
6 43 (9.98%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (7.66%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (4.41%) AWS
9 16 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (3.25%) Snowflake
11 13 (3.02%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.55%) GCP
13 9 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.09%) SaaS
14 6 (1.39%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (0.93%) Smartsheet
17 3 (0.70%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) DHCP
2 1 (0.23%) DNS
2 1 (0.23%) VLAN
2 1 (0.23%) VPN
2 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (39.91%) Tableau
2 42 (9.74%) Power Query
3 37 (8.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (5.34%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 14 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (3.02%) Star Schema
8 10 (2.32%) QlikView
9 9 (2.09%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.62%) MySQL
10 7 (1.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.16%) GIS
12 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.93%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.70%) Looker
13 3 (0.70%) Metadata
13 3 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (2.55%) Git
2 4 (0.93%) JIRA
3 2 (0.46%) Ant
3 2 (0.46%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.46%) Maven
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 226 (52.44%) Social Skills
2 114 (26.45%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (16.71%) Finance
4 30 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.26%) Manufacturing
6 26 (6.03%) Public Sector
7 23 (5.34%) Retail
8 16 (3.71%) Law
8 16 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.55%) Marketing
10 10 (2.32%) Legal
11 9 (2.09%) Social Housing
12 7 (1.62%) Fire and Rescue
12 7 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.46%) Advertising
13 2 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.46%) Billing
13 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.46%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 197 (45.71%) Analyst
2 162 (37.59%) Data Analyst
3 140 (32.48%) Junior
4 138 (32.02%) Junior Analyst
4 138 (32.02%) Junior Data Analyst
5 71 (16.47%) Developer
6 38 (8.82%) Senior
7 32 (7.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 31 (7.19%) Data Engineer
9 21 (4.87%) Data Manager
10 20 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 20 (4.64%) Lead
11 18 (4.18%) Power BI Developer
12 16 (3.71%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 15 (3.48%) Power Platform Developer
14 14 (3.25%) Data Scientist
15 12 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
16 11 (2.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 11 (2.55%) Snowflake Engineer
17 10 (2.32%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.10%) .NET
2 10 (2.32%) PyTorch
3 9 (2.09%) REST
4 8 (1.86%) EDI
4 8 (1.86%) scikit-learn
5 7 (1.62%) JSON
6 6 (1.39%) Pandas
6 6 (1.39%) PySpark
7 5 (1.16%) HTML
7 5 (1.16%) XML
8 4 (0.93%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.70%) CSS
9 3 (0.70%) RESTful
9 3 (0.70%) WinForms
10 2 (0.46%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.46%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.46%) React
10 2 (0.46%) Seaborn
10 2 (0.46%) Web Services
11 1 (0.23%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.96%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.32%) NHS
2 10 (2.32%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.16%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (0.93%) e-Learning
7 3 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.46%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.46%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.46%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.46%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.39%) Linux
1 6 (1.39%) Windows
2 5 (1.16%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.46%) Solaris
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (97.91%) Business Intelligence
2 192 (44.55%) AI
3 149 (34.57%) Analytics
4 116 (26.91%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (20.42%) Decision-Making
6 70 (16.24%) Data Modelling
7 61 (14.15%) Agile
8 59 (13.69%) Visualisation
9 54 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (11.37%) ETL
11 48 (11.14%) Data Visualisation
12 44 (10.21%) Data Analysis
13 43 (9.98%) Data Governance
14 42 (9.74%) Data Management
15 40 (9.28%) ERP
16 38 (8.82%) Dashboard Development
16 38 (8.82%) Data Analytics
17 35 (8.12%) Roadmaps
18 30 (6.96%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 29 (6.73%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 295 (68.45%) SQL
2 189 (43.85%) Python
3 61 (14.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (5.80%) C#
5 9 (2.09%) T-SQL
6 8 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.86%) R
7 4 (0.93%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.70%) Delphi
8 3 (0.70%) Java
9 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 136 (31.55%) Azure Certification
2 70 (16.24%) Degree
3 13 (3.02%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (2.55%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.86%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.39%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.39%) PMP
7 3 (0.70%) AAT
7 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.70%) CCAB
7 3 (0.70%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.70%) SSCP
8 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.46%) CITP
8 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.23%) ACCA
9 1 (0.23%) CIMA
9 1 (0.23%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.76%) Data Quality
2 43 (9.98%) GDPR
3 9 (2.09%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.62%) SLA
5 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.93%) QA
6 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.70%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.70%) NIST
7 2 (0.46%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.46%) Ansible
1 2 (0.46%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.46%) Puppet
1 2 (0.46%) Terraform
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 258 (59.86%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.80%) Databricks
3 15 (3.48%) Google
4 11 (2.55%) Oracle
5 8 (1.86%) SYSPRO
6 5 (1.16%) SAP
7 4 (0.93%) ESRI
7 4 (0.93%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.46%) Jedox
8 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.23%) Cognos
9 1 (0.23%) Denodo
9 1 (0.23%) HP
9 1 (0.23%) Informatica
9 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.23%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.23%) VMware
9 1 (0.23%) Xero