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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 75 40
Rank change year-on-year +33 -35 +22
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 470 187 511
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.02% 3.86% 4.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 50.54% 26.68% 28.61%
Number of salaries quoted 207 165 430
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 £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,250 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +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 930 701 1,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.94% 14.46% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 586 542 1,441
10th Percentile £31,875 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £39,000
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 £72,500 £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 12 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 12 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 +28 274 £47,085 -8.48% 72
East Midlands +33 194 £45,195 +5.10% 54
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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 18 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.64%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.43%) CMS
3 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.43%) WordPress
4 1 (0.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.21%) Confluence
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 271 (57.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.64%) Shopify
3 2 (0.43%) Magento
3 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Odoo
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 470 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 310 (65.96%) Azure
3 209 (44.47%) Azure AI
4 36 (7.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 28 (5.96%) Power Automate
6 23 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.89%) PowerApps
7 17 (3.62%) Snowflake
8 16 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (2.55%) AWS
10 9 (1.91%) GCP
11 8 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.06%) Smartsheet
14 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (0.64%) Azure Functions
15 3 (0.64%) Copilot Studio
15 3 (0.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) DHCP
1 2 (0.43%) DNS
1 2 (0.43%) Intranet
2 1 (0.21%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (50.43%) Tableau
2 39 (8.30%) SQL Server
3 34 (7.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (6.38%) Power Query
5 23 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (2.98%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.91%) Star Schema
10 8 (1.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.06%) Looker
12 4 (0.85%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.85%) MySQL
13 3 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.64%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.64%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
14 2 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (1.28%) Git
1 6 (1.28%) JIRA
2 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.21%) GitLab
3 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (59.79%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (14.47%) Finance
4 28 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (4.68%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.83%) Retail
7 15 (3.19%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.34%) Marketing
8 11 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.91%) Law
10 8 (1.70%) Legal
11 6 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.85%) Billing
13 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.64%) Electronics
14 3 (0.64%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.43%) Local Government
15 2 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 280 (59.57%) Analyst
2 243 (51.70%) Data Analyst
3 220 (46.81%) Junior
4 218 (46.38%) Junior Analyst
4 218 (46.38%) Junior Data Analyst
5 72 (15.32%) Developer
6 39 (8.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 28 (5.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 27 (5.74%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.53%) Business Developer
9 26 (5.53%) Senior
10 19 (4.04%) Power BI Developer
11 14 (2.98%) Power BI Analyst
11 14 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (2.98%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 14 (2.98%) Snowflake Engineer
12 12 (2.55%) Data Scientist
13 11 (2.34%) Architect
13 11 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
14 10 (2.13%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.62%) .NET
2 14 (2.98%) XML
3 11 (2.34%) WinForms
4 9 (1.91%) EDI
5 8 (1.70%) Pandas
6 7 (1.49%) PyTorch
7 6 (1.28%) JSON
7 6 (1.28%) PySpark
7 6 (1.28%) scikit-learn
8 4 (0.85%) CSS
8 4 (0.85%) HTML
8 4 (0.85%) REST
9 2 (0.43%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.43%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (0.43%) RESTful
10 1 (0.21%) EDIFACT
10 1 (0.21%) ODBC
10 1 (0.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
1 16 (3.40%) Management Information System
2 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (0.43%) Cloud Native
3 2 (0.43%) Driving Licence
3 2 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.21%) 3D Printing
4 1 (0.21%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.21%) FMCG
4 1 (0.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.21%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (0.21%) IoT
4 1 (0.21%) Replication
4 1 (0.21%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Windows
2 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (97.87%) Business Intelligence
2 225 (47.87%) AI
3 112 (23.83%) Analytics
4 76 (16.17%) Decision-Making
5 69 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (13.40%) Data Modelling
7 60 (12.77%) Visualisation
8 55 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (9.15%) Data Visualisation
10 42 (8.94%) ETL
11 39 (8.30%) Actionable Insight
12 35 (7.45%) Data Analysis
13 33 (7.02%) Agile
14 30 (6.38%) ERP
15 29 (6.17%) Computer Science
16 27 (5.74%) CRM
16 27 (5.74%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 25 (5.32%) Data Engineering
18 23 (4.89%) Data Science
19 20 (4.26%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 346 (73.62%) SQL
2 267 (56.81%) Python
3 45 (9.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (3.19%) C#
5 13 (2.77%) T-SQL
6 11 (2.34%) Delphi
7 9 (1.91%) VBA
8 8 (1.70%) R
9 7 (1.49%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.43%) C
10 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.21%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.21%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.21%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 216 (45.96%) Azure Certification
2 44 (9.36%) Degree
3 11 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.13%) DBS Check
5 8 (1.70%) PMI Certification
5 8 (1.70%) PMP
6 6 (1.28%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.06%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.64%) ACCA
9 3 (0.64%) CIMA
9 3 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.64%) MBA
10 2 (0.43%) CITP
10 2 (0.43%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.43%) SSCP
11 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.40%) GDPR
3 7 (1.49%) QA
4 6 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.28%) PMO
5 5 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.85%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (0.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.21%) MOM
Vendors
1 288 (61.28%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.74%) Databricks
3 15 (3.19%) Oracle
4 12 (2.55%) Google
5 7 (1.49%) Sparx
6 6 (1.28%) SAP
7 4 (0.85%) Civica
7 4 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.64%) ESRI
8 3 (0.64%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.64%) QAD
9 2 (0.43%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.43%) Epicor
9 2 (0.43%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.43%) Northgate
9 2 (0.43%) Orchard
9 2 (0.43%) VMware
10 1 (0.21%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.21%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.21%) Verint