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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 67 97
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 -49
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 382 227 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.44% 4.06% 2.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.08% 30.80% 22.21%
Number of salaries quoted 220 180 161
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,563 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
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% +4.35%

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 953 737 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.08% 13.17% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 661 513 564
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.82%

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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 24 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 24 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 +1 239 £55,000 +4.76% 189
East Midlands +6 143 £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 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.79%) WordPress
3 2 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 130 (34.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.57%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.57%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.79%) Magento
3 3 (0.79%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.79%) Shopify
4 2 (0.52%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.52%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 382 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 164 (42.93%) Azure
3 66 (17.28%) Azure AI
4 53 (13.87%) PowerApps
5 52 (13.61%) Power Automate
6 50 (13.09%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (8.90%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (4.19%) AWS
9 13 (3.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.62%) GCP
11 10 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.09%) SaaS
14 7 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.83%) Snowflake
15 6 (1.57%) Azure Stack
16 5 (1.31%) Copilot Studio
16 5 (1.31%) Google Analytics
16 5 (1.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) VLAN
2 1 (0.26%) VPN
2 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (28.53%) Tableau
2 41 (10.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 39 (10.21%) Power Query
4 35 (9.16%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.97%) QlikView
5 19 (4.97%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.93%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.88%) Star Schema
8 7 (1.83%) MySQL
8 7 (1.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.57%) GIS
10 5 (1.31%) Big Data
10 5 (1.31%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.31%) Oracle BI EE
11 4 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.05%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.05%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (2.88%) Git
2 4 (1.05%) JIRA
3 2 (0.52%) Ant
3 2 (0.52%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.52%) Maven
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 162 (42.41%) Social Skills
2 124 (32.46%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (24.08%) Finance
4 30 (7.85%) Manufacturing
5 28 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (7.07%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.24%) Retail
8 17 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (4.19%) Legal
10 15 (3.93%) Marketing
11 13 (3.40%) Law
12 11 (2.88%) Social Housing
13 9 (2.36%) Fire and Rescue
13 9 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.79%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.52%) Advertising
16 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.52%) Billing
16 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (33.77%) Analyst
2 92 (24.08%) Data Analyst
3 71 (18.59%) Developer
4 68 (17.80%) Junior
4 68 (17.80%) Junior Analyst
4 68 (17.80%) Junior Data Analyst
5 35 (9.16%) Senior
6 34 (8.90%) Lead
7 32 (8.38%) Data Engineer
8 26 (6.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 22 (5.76%) Data Manager
10 20 (5.24%) Power Platform Developer
11 15 (3.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 14 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 13 (3.40%) Power BI Developer
14 11 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Lead
14 11 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (2.88%) Systems Analyst
15 10 (2.62%) Performance Manager
16 9 (2.36%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.02%) .NET
2 11 (2.88%) PyTorch
3 10 (2.62%) REST
4 9 (2.36%) EDI
5 7 (1.83%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.57%) HTML
6 6 (1.57%) JSON
6 6 (1.57%) PySpark
6 6 (1.57%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.05%) Pandas
8 3 (0.79%) CSS
8 3 (0.79%) RESTful
9 2 (0.52%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.52%) Matplotlib
9 2 (0.52%) React
9 2 (0.52%) Seaborn
9 2 (0.52%) Terraform
9 2 (0.52%) Web Services
9 2 (0.52%) XML
10 1 (0.26%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.21%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.40%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.62%) Driving Licence
3 10 (2.62%) NHS
3 10 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.09%) FMCG
6 7 (1.83%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.31%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.31%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.05%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.52%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.57%) Linux
1 6 (1.57%) Windows
2 4 (1.05%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (98.43%) Business Intelligence
2 142 (37.17%) Analytics
3 140 (36.65%) AI
4 122 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (24.08%) Decision-Making
6 70 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (17.80%) Agile
7 68 (17.80%) Data Modelling
8 61 (15.97%) ERP
9 60 (15.71%) Visualisation
10 54 (14.14%) ETL
11 52 (13.61%) Data Governance
11 52 (13.61%) Data Management
12 47 (12.30%) Data Analytics
13 45 (11.78%) Data Visualisation
14 41 (10.73%) Data Analysis
14 41 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 40 (10.47%) Dashboard Development
16 38 (9.95%) Roadmaps
17 33 (8.64%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 230 (60.21%) SQL
2 124 (32.46%) Python
3 58 (15.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (6.54%) C#
5 12 (3.14%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.83%) R
7 6 (1.57%) Java
8 4 (1.05%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (20.16%) Degree
2 70 (18.32%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.45%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.93%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.66%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.14%) PMP
8 5 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.79%) AAT
9 3 (0.79%) ACCA
9 3 (0.79%) CCAB
9 3 (0.79%) CIMA
9 3 (0.79%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.79%) SSCP
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.26%) CITP
11 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (17.28%) Data Quality
2 45 (11.78%) GDPR
3 9 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.83%) SLA
5 5 (1.31%) PMO
6 4 (1.05%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.79%) GRC
7 3 (0.79%) NIST
7 3 (0.79%) QA
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.52%) Ansible
1 2 (0.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.52%) Puppet
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 204 (53.40%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.02%) Databricks
3 16 (4.19%) Google
4 10 (2.62%) Oracle
5 8 (2.09%) SAP
5 8 (2.09%) SYSPRO
6 6 (1.57%) Infor
7 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.05%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.79%) HP
9 3 (0.79%) YouTube
10 2 (0.52%) Cognos
10 2 (0.52%) Jedox
11 1 (0.26%) Adaptive Insights
11 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.26%) Denodo
11 1 (0.26%) ESRI
11 1 (0.26%) HighQ
11 1 (0.26%) Marketo
11 1 (0.26%) OpenAI