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

 6 months to
1 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 70 93
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 -48
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 366 224 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.33% 3.99% 2.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 38.77% 31.15% 22.21%
Number of salaries quoted 221 176 155
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,183 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +5.33%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.45%

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 944 719 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.00% 12.80% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 666 498 555
10th Percentile £34,750 £34,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,412 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,594 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +6.13% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,932 £77,145
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 1 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 1 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 +2 231 £53,750 +3.51% 213
East Midlands +5 135 £47,500 +5.56% 96
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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 23 (6.28%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.82%) WordPress
3 2 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 115 (31.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.91%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.09%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.91%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.82%) Magento
3 3 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.82%) Shopify
4 2 (0.55%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.55%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.27%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.27%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 366 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 141 (38.52%) Azure
3 53 (14.48%) PowerApps
4 51 (13.93%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (13.93%) Power Automate
5 44 (12.02%) Azure AI
6 34 (9.29%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (4.10%) AWS
8 12 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.01%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.46%) GCP
12 8 (2.19%) SaaS
13 7 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.64%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.64%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.64%) Snowflake
15 5 (1.37%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) VLAN
2 1 (0.27%) VPN
2 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (24.04%) Tableau
2 41 (11.20%) Power Query
2 41 (11.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 37 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (5.19%) QlikView
4 19 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 16 (4.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (4.10%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.83%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.73%) Star Schema
9 7 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.91%) MySQL
9 7 (1.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (1.64%) GIS
11 5 (1.37%) Big Data
11 5 (1.37%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.37%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.09%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.09%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (3.28%) Git
2 4 (1.09%) JIRA
3 2 (0.55%) Ant
3 2 (0.55%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.55%) Maven
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 144 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 135 (36.89%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (26.23%) Finance
4 31 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (8.47%) Manufacturing
5 27 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.74%) Retail
7 18 (4.92%) Marketing
8 17 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (4.37%) Legal
10 13 (3.55%) Law
11 11 (3.01%) Social Housing
12 10 (2.73%) Fire and Rescue
13 9 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.82%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.55%) Advertising
16 2 (0.55%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (30.33%) Analyst
2 73 (19.95%) Data Analyst
3 70 (19.13%) Developer
4 46 (12.57%) Junior
4 46 (12.57%) Junior Analyst
4 46 (12.57%) Junior Data Analyst
5 37 (10.11%) Lead
6 33 (9.02%) Senior
7 32 (8.74%) Data Engineer
8 25 (6.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 22 (6.01%) Data Manager
10 19 (5.19%) Power Platform Developer
11 16 (4.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 14 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 12 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Lead
13 12 (3.28%) Power BI Developer
14 11 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (3.01%) Systems Analyst
15 10 (2.73%) Performance Manager
15 10 (2.73%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.28%) .NET
2 10 (2.73%) PyTorch
2 10 (2.73%) REST
3 9 (2.46%) EDI
4 7 (1.91%) TensorFlow
5 6 (1.64%) HTML
5 6 (1.64%) JSON
5 6 (1.64%) PySpark
6 5 (1.37%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.82%) CSS
7 3 (0.82%) Pandas
7 3 (0.82%) RESTful
8 2 (0.55%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.55%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.55%) React
8 2 (0.55%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.55%) Terraform
8 2 (0.55%) Web Services
8 2 (0.55%) XML
9 1 (0.27%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.20%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.83%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.01%) Driving Licence
4 10 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (2.73%) NHS
4 10 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.46%) FMCG
5 9 (2.46%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.37%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.09%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.09%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.55%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.55%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.91%) Windows
2 6 (1.64%) Linux
3 4 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (98.63%) Business Intelligence
2 146 (39.89%) Analytics
3 127 (34.70%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (33.06%) AI
5 99 (27.05%) Decision-Making
6 74 (20.22%) Agile
7 72 (19.67%) Data Modelling
8 70 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (17.76%) Visualisation
10 60 (16.39%) ETL
11 59 (16.12%) ERP
12 58 (15.85%) Data Governance
13 55 (15.03%) Data Management
14 51 (13.93%) Data Analytics
15 48 (13.11%) Data Visualisation
16 45 (12.30%) Data Analysis
17 44 (12.02%) Dashboard Development
17 44 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
18 36 (9.84%) Data Architecture
18 36 (9.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 211 (57.65%) SQL
2 106 (28.96%) Python
3 65 (17.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (6.83%) C#
5 12 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.46%) R
7 6 (1.64%) Java
8 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (21.58%) Degree
2 47 (12.84%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.64%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.10%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.10%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.55%) PMP
7 4 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.82%) AAT
8 3 (0.82%) ACCA
8 3 (0.82%) CCAB
8 3 (0.82%) CIMA
8 3 (0.82%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.82%) SSCP
9 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.27%) CITP
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (19.67%) Data Quality
2 47 (12.84%) GDPR
3 13 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.91%) SLA
5 5 (1.37%) PMO
6 4 (1.09%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) QA
7 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.82%) GRC
7 3 (0.82%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 4 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.55%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.55%) Ansible
1 2 (0.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.55%) Puppet
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 188 (51.37%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.01%) Databricks
3 15 (4.10%) Google
4 11 (3.01%) Oracle
5 9 (2.46%) SAP
6 8 (2.19%) SYSPRO
7 7 (1.91%) Infor
8 5 (1.37%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.82%) Cognos
10 3 (0.82%) HP
10 3 (0.82%) YouTube
11 2 (0.55%) Adaptive Insights
11 2 (0.55%) Anaplan
11 2 (0.55%) Jedox
12 1 (0.27%) Denodo
12 1 (0.27%) Marketo
12 1 (0.27%) Qualtrics
12 1 (0.27%) Xero
309 Power BI jobs in the Midlands