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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 74 37
Rank change year-on-year +28 -37 +24
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 379 188 491
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.73% 3.75% 4.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 46.05% 25.37% 29.17%
Number of salaries quoted 186 155 412
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,195 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -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 823 741 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.10% 14.76% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 548 525 1,398
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,991
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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +30 232 £47,085 -7.68% 78
East Midlands +14 145 £45,000 +5.88% 42
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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 (4.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.79%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.53%) CMS
4 2 (0.53%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 209 (55.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.26%) Odoo
3 1 (0.26%) Primavera
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 379 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 238 (62.80%) Azure
3 154 (40.63%) Azure AI
4 32 (8.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (7.12%) Power Automate
6 25 (6.60%) PowerApps
7 24 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (3.96%) Snowflake
10 14 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.32%) AWS
13 5 (1.32%) Smartsheet
14 3 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (0.79%) dbt
14 3 (0.79%) Google Analytics
14 3 (0.79%) SaaS
14 3 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) DHCP
1 2 (0.53%) DNS
1 2 (0.53%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (47.23%) Tableau
2 36 (9.50%) SQL Server
3 35 (9.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 21 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (5.54%) Power Query
5 14 (3.69%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (2.64%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.85%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.58%) Looker
12 5 (1.32%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (1.06%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 2 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.53%) MySQL
15 2 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Git
2 6 (1.58%) JIRA
3 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.26%) GitLab
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 219 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (14.78%) Finance
4 23 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.43%) Manufacturing
6 11 (2.90%) Marketing
7 9 (2.37%) Law
8 8 (2.11%) Legal
9 7 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.85%) Retail
10 4 (1.06%) Local Government
10 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.79%) Electronics
11 3 (0.79%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.53%) Billing
12 2 (0.53%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.26%) Games
13 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 209 (55.15%) Analyst
2 182 (48.02%) Data Analyst
3 164 (43.27%) Junior
4 161 (42.48%) Junior Analyst
4 161 (42.48%) Junior Data Analyst
5 68 (17.94%) Developer
6 35 (9.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 27 (7.12%) Data Engineer
8 25 (6.60%) Business Developer
9 24 (6.33%) Senior
10 20 (5.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 17 (4.49%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 13 (3.43%) Snowflake Engineer
13 11 (2.90%) Architect
13 11 (2.90%) Systems Developer
14 10 (2.64%) Azure Data Engineer
14 10 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (2.64%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.28%) .NET
2 14 (3.69%) XML
3 10 (2.64%) WinForms
4 9 (2.37%) EDI
5 7 (1.85%) JSON
6 6 (1.58%) PySpark
7 5 (1.32%) REST
8 2 (0.53%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.53%) CSS
8 2 (0.53%) HTML
8 2 (0.53%) Pandas
8 2 (0.53%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (0.26%) EDIFACT
9 1 (0.26%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.26%) ODBC
9 1 (0.26%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.26%) SOAP
9 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
1 15 (3.96%) Management Information System
2 4 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.26%) 3D Printing
4 1 (0.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.26%) FMCG
4 1 (0.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.26%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (0.26%) IoT
4 1 (0.26%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.26%) Replication
4 1 (0.26%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.26%) Windows
1 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (98.68%) Business Intelligence
2 169 (44.59%) AI
3 84 (22.16%) Analytics
4 67 (17.68%) Decision-Making
5 52 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (12.93%) Visualisation
8 46 (12.14%) Data Modelling
9 38 (10.03%) ETL
10 36 (9.50%) Actionable Insight
11 34 (8.97%) Data Visualisation
12 30 (7.92%) Agile
13 29 (7.65%) Data Analysis
14 28 (7.39%) CRM
15 26 (6.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 26 (6.86%) ERP
16 21 (5.54%) Migration
17 20 (5.28%) DevOps
18 19 (5.01%) Data Pipeline
18 19 (5.01%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 268 (70.71%) SQL
2 203 (53.56%) Python
3 32 (8.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (4.22%) C#
5 10 (2.64%) Delphi
5 10 (2.64%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.37%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.37%) VBA
7 8 (2.11%) R
8 3 (0.79%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.53%) C
9 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.26%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.26%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 160 (42.22%) Azure Certification
2 34 (8.97%) Degree
3 14 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.64%) PMI Certification
4 10 (2.64%) PMP
5 6 (1.58%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (1.32%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.79%) MBA
8 3 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.53%) ACCA
9 2 (0.53%) CIMA
9 2 (0.53%) CITP
9 2 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.26%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.43%) GDPR
3 7 (1.85%) PMO
4 5 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.32%) QA
5 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.26%) Docker
3 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.26%) MOM
Vendors
1 226 (59.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.69%) Oracle
3 13 (3.43%) Databricks
4 7 (1.85%) Sparx
5 6 (1.58%) Google
5 6 (1.58%) SAP
6 5 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.06%) Civica
8 3 (0.79%) ESRI
8 3 (0.79%) Infor
8 3 (0.79%) QAD
9 2 (0.53%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.53%) Epicor
9 2 (0.53%) Northgate
9 2 (0.53%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.53%) Orchard
9 2 (0.53%) VMware
10 1 (0.26%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.26%) Verint