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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 66 97
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 -51
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 371 226 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.36% 4.02% 2.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.34% 31.09% 22.28%
Number of salaries quoted 218 178 162
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,869 £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 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%

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 943 727 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.99% 12.93% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 658 502 569
10th Percentile £34,238 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,412 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.91% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.17%

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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 26 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 26 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 +11 233 £55,000 +4.76% 184
East Midlands +2 138 £47,500 +5.56% 91
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England

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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 22 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.81%) WordPress
3 2 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 121 (32.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.62%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.54%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.62%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.81%) Magento
3 3 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.81%) Shopify
4 2 (0.54%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.54%) 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%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 371 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 151 (40.70%) Azure
3 55 (14.82%) Azure AI
4 52 (14.02%) PowerApps
5 51 (13.75%) Power Automate
6 50 (13.48%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (8.89%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (4.04%) AWS
9 12 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.43%) GCP
12 8 (2.16%) SaaS
13 7 (1.89%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.62%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (1.35%) Copilot Studio
15 5 (1.35%) Entra ID
15 5 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) VLAN
2 1 (0.27%) VPN
2 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (26.42%) Tableau
2 42 (11.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 41 (11.05%) Power Query
4 37 (9.97%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.12%) QlikView
5 19 (5.12%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (4.04%) Data Lake
8 12 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.96%) Star Schema
10 7 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.89%) MySQL
10 7 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (1.62%) GIS
12 5 (1.35%) Big Data
12 5 (1.35%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.35%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (1.08%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.08%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.08%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (2.96%) Git
2 4 (1.08%) JIRA
3 2 (0.54%) Ant
3 2 (0.54%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.54%) Maven
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 151 (40.70%) Social Skills
2 127 (34.23%) Analytical Skills
3 93 (25.07%) Finance
4 30 (8.09%) Manufacturing
5 29 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (7.55%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.39%) Retail
8 17 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (4.31%) Legal
9 16 (4.31%) Marketing
10 13 (3.50%) Law
11 11 (2.96%) Social Housing
12 10 (2.70%) Fire and Rescue
13 9 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.81%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.54%) Advertising
16 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (32.35%) Analyst
2 82 (22.10%) Data Analyst
3 70 (18.87%) Developer
4 57 (15.36%) Junior
4 57 (15.36%) Junior Analyst
4 57 (15.36%) Junior Data Analyst
5 35 (9.43%) Lead
6 34 (9.16%) Senior
7 32 (8.63%) Data Engineer
8 25 (6.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 21 (5.66%) Data Manager
10 19 (5.12%) Power Platform Developer
11 16 (4.31%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 13 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 12 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Lead
13 12 (3.23%) Power BI Developer
14 11 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (2.96%) Systems Analyst
15 10 (2.70%) Performance Manager
15 10 (2.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.20%) .NET
2 10 (2.70%) PyTorch
2 10 (2.70%) REST
3 9 (2.43%) EDI
4 7 (1.89%) TensorFlow
5 6 (1.62%) HTML
5 6 (1.62%) JSON
5 6 (1.62%) PySpark
6 5 (1.35%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.81%) CSS
7 3 (0.81%) Pandas
7 3 (0.81%) RESTful
8 2 (0.54%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.54%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.54%) React
8 2 (0.54%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.54%) Terraform
8 2 (0.54%) Web Services
8 2 (0.54%) XML
9 1 (0.27%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.51%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.50%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (2.70%) Driving Licence
3 10 (2.70%) NHS
3 10 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.16%) FMCG
4 8 (2.16%) Reference Data
5 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.35%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.08%) e-Learning
8 3 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.54%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.54%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.89%) Windows
2 6 (1.62%) Linux
3 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (98.65%) Business Intelligence
2 142 (38.27%) Analytics
3 128 (34.50%) AI
4 125 (33.69%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (25.07%) Decision-Making
6 72 (19.41%) Agile
7 69 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 69 (18.60%) Data Modelling
8 61 (16.44%) Visualisation
9 58 (15.63%) ERP
10 55 (14.82%) ETL
11 53 (14.29%) Data Governance
11 53 (14.29%) Data Management
12 48 (12.94%) Data Analytics
13 46 (12.40%) Data Visualisation
14 42 (11.32%) Data Analysis
15 41 (11.05%) Dashboard Development
16 40 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (9.43%) Data Architecture
17 35 (9.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 218 (58.76%) SQL
2 113 (30.46%) Python
3 61 (16.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (6.74%) C#
5 12 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.89%) R
7 6 (1.62%) Java
8 5 (1.35%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (20.75%) Degree
2 58 (15.63%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.77%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.23%) PMP
8 4 (1.08%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.81%) AAT
9 3 (0.81%) CCAB
9 3 (0.81%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.81%) SSCP
10 2 (0.54%) ACCA
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.54%) CIMA
10 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.27%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (18.33%) Data Quality
2 46 (12.40%) GDPR
3 11 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.89%) SLA
5 5 (1.35%) PMO
6 4 (1.08%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.81%) GRC
7 3 (0.81%) NIST
7 3 (0.81%) QA
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.54%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.54%) Ansible
1 2 (0.54%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.54%) Puppet
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 196 (52.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.39%) Databricks
3 15 (4.04%) Google
4 10 (2.70%) Oracle
5 8 (2.16%) SAP
5 8 (2.16%) SYSPRO
6 6 (1.62%) Infor
7 5 (1.35%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.08%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.81%) Cognos
9 3 (0.81%) HP
9 3 (0.81%) YouTube
10 2 (0.54%) Jedox
10 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.27%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.27%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.27%) Denodo
11 1 (0.27%) ESRI
11 1 (0.27%) HighQ
11 1 (0.27%) Marketo