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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 62 43
Rank change year-on-year +22 -19 +20
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 493 196 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.99% 4.00% 4.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 51.73% 27.53% 27.76%
Number of salaries quoted 207 174 431
10th Percentile £31,700 £37,500 £31,000
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 £62,250 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,250 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.43% +5.00% -

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 953 712 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.72% 14.54% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 584 549 1,446
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,000 £72,500
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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +10 284 £47,085 -9.76% 81
East Midlands +27 207 £46,445 +2.08% 47
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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 17 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.61%) ArcGIS
2 3 (0.61%) WordPress
3 2 (0.41%) CMS
3 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.20%) Apache
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 293 (59.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.81%) Shopify
3 3 (0.61%) Magento
4 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) Odoo
5 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 493 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 332 (67.34%) Azure
3 231 (46.86%) Azure AI
4 35 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (5.48%) Power Automate
6 24 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (4.46%) PowerApps
8 18 (3.65%) Snowflake
9 15 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (2.84%) AWS
11 9 (1.83%) GCP
12 7 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.01%) Smartsheet
14 3 (0.61%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.61%) dbt
14 3 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) DHCP
1 2 (0.41%) DNS
1 2 (0.41%) Intranet
2 1 (0.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (51.72%) Tableau
2 37 (7.51%) SQL Server
3 34 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 31 (6.29%) Power Query
5 21 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (2.64%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.83%) Star Schema
10 8 (1.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.01%) Looker
12 4 (0.81%) MySQL
13 3 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.61%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (0.41%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
14 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Git
1 6 (1.22%) JIRA
2 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.20%) GitLab
3 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 302 (61.26%) Social Skills
2 89 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (13.79%) Finance
4 29 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.06%) Retail
7 15 (3.04%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.83%) Law
9 9 (1.83%) Marketing
10 7 (1.42%) Legal
10 7 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Billing
12 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.61%) Electronics
13 3 (0.61%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.41%) Local Government
14 2 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 304 (61.66%) Analyst
2 265 (53.75%) Data Analyst
3 242 (49.09%) Junior
4 240 (48.68%) Junior Analyst
4 240 (48.68%) Junior Data Analyst
5 67 (13.59%) Developer
6 37 (7.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 28 (5.68%) Senior
8 27 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.27%) Business Developer
9 26 (5.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 19 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
11 15 (3.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 15 (3.04%) Snowflake Engineer
12 14 (2.84%) Power BI Analyst
12 14 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (2.43%) Data Scientist
14 11 (2.23%) Architect
14 11 (2.23%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.45%) .NET
2 12 (2.43%) XML
3 11 (2.23%) WinForms
4 9 (1.83%) EDI
5 8 (1.62%) Pandas
6 7 (1.42%) PyTorch
7 6 (1.22%) PySpark
7 6 (1.22%) scikit-learn
8 5 (1.01%) CSS
8 5 (1.01%) HTML
9 4 (0.81%) JSON
10 3 (0.61%) REST
10 3 (0.61%) RESTful
11 2 (0.41%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.41%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.41%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (0.41%) Razor View Engine
12 1 (0.20%) EDIFACT
12 1 (0.20%) ODBC
12 1 (0.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 16 (3.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
4 2 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.20%) 3D Printing
5 1 (0.20%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.20%) FMCG
5 1 (0.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.20%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (0.20%) IoT
5 1 (0.20%) Replication
5 1 (0.20%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (97.97%) Business Intelligence
2 246 (49.90%) AI
3 111 (22.52%) Analytics
4 73 (14.81%) Decision-Making
5 69 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (12.78%) Data Modelling
7 59 (11.97%) Visualisation
8 50 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (8.32%) Data Visualisation
9 41 (8.32%) ETL
10 39 (7.91%) Actionable Insight
11 35 (7.10%) Data Analysis
12 32 (6.49%) Agile
13 31 (6.29%) ERP
14 27 (5.48%) Computer Science
14 27 (5.48%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 26 (5.27%) CRM
16 24 (4.87%) Data Engineering
17 22 (4.46%) Data Science
18 20 (4.06%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 369 (74.85%) SQL
2 290 (58.82%) Python
3 47 (9.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (3.04%) C#
5 11 (2.23%) Delphi
5 11 (2.23%) T-SQL
6 9 (1.83%) VBA
7 8 (1.62%) R
8 7 (1.42%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.41%) C
9 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.20%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.20%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.20%) PHP
10 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 237 (48.07%) Azure Certification
2 42 (8.52%) Degree
3 10 (2.03%) DBS Check
3 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.62%) PMI Certification
4 8 (1.62%) PMP
5 6 (1.22%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.01%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.61%) ACCA
7 3 (0.61%) CIMA
7 3 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.61%) MBA
7 3 (0.61%) SSCP
8 2 (0.41%) CITP
8 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.20%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.65%) GDPR
3 7 (1.42%) QA
4 6 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.22%) PMO
5 5 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.81%) SLA
7 2 (0.41%) GRC
7 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.41%) NIST
7 2 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.20%) MOM
Vendors
1 310 (62.88%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.88%) Databricks
3 15 (3.04%) Oracle
4 12 (2.43%) Google
5 7 (1.42%) Sparx
6 6 (1.22%) SAP
7 4 (0.81%) Civica
7 4 (0.81%) ESRI
8 3 (0.61%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.61%) QAD
9 2 (0.41%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.41%) Epicor
9 2 (0.41%) Northgate
9 2 (0.41%) Orchard
9 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.41%) VMware
10 1 (0.20%) Genesys
10 1 (0.20%) Infor
10 1 (0.20%) Sage