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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 71 91
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -49
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 339 216 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.17% 3.83% 2.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.49% 30.42% 22.23%
Number of salaries quoted 210 168 152
10th Percentile £35,900 £34,525 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.85% +4.32%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £77,411
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 929 710 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.95% 12.58% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 653 489 547
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,897 £41,250 £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 £75,000
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 8 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 8 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 +4 217 £55,000 +5.77% 174
East Midlands +2 122 £47,500 +5.56% 93
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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 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.59%) Confluence
2 2 (0.59%) WordPress
3 1 (0.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 102 (30.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.06%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.47%) Notion
5 4 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.06%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.88%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.59%) Magento
4 2 (0.59%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.59%) Shopify
4 2 (0.59%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 339 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 124 (36.58%) Azure
3 52 (15.34%) PowerApps
4 48 (14.16%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (14.16%) Power Automate
5 35 (10.32%) Dynamics 365
6 33 (9.73%) Azure AI
7 11 (3.24%) AWS
7 11 (3.24%) Microsoft Copilot
7 11 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.36%) SaaS
11 7 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (2.06%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.77%) Azure Stack
12 6 (1.77%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (1.77%) GCP
13 5 (1.47%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.29%) VLAN
2 1 (0.29%) VPN
2 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (21.83%) Tableau
2 40 (11.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 36 (10.62%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (10.62%) Power Query
4 19 (5.60%) QlikView
5 18 (5.31%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.42%) Data Lake
7 14 (4.13%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.65%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.77%) GIS
12 6 (1.77%) MySQL
13 5 (1.47%) Big Data
13 5 (1.47%) Data Mining
13 5 (1.47%) Looker
13 5 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (1.18%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.18%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (3.83%) Git
2 4 (1.18%) JIRA
3 2 (0.59%) Ant
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.59%) Maven
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 128 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 125 (36.87%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (28.32%) Finance
4 30 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (8.85%) Manufacturing
5 25 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.01%) Marketing
6 17 (5.01%) Retail
7 16 (4.72%) Legal
8 15 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.83%) Law
10 11 (3.24%) Social Housing
11 10 (2.95%) Fire and Rescue
12 7 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.88%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.59%) Advertising
14 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (27.73%) Analyst
2 68 (20.06%) Developer
3 60 (17.70%) Data Analyst
4 37 (10.91%) Lead
5 34 (10.03%) Junior
5 34 (10.03%) Junior Analyst
5 34 (10.03%) Junior Data Analyst
6 32 (9.44%) Data Engineer
6 32 (9.44%) Senior
7 22 (6.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 21 (6.19%) Data Manager
9 18 (5.31%) Power Platform Developer
10 12 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 12 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 12 (3.54%) Systems Analyst
11 11 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 11 (3.24%) Power BI Developer
11 11 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (2.95%) Performance Manager
12 10 (2.95%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.78%) .NET
2 11 (3.24%) REST
3 9 (2.65%) EDI
4 7 (2.06%) PyTorch
4 7 (2.06%) TensorFlow
5 6 (1.77%) JSON
5 6 (1.77%) PySpark
6 5 (1.47%) HTML
7 2 (0.59%) CSS
7 2 (0.59%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.59%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.59%) React
7 2 (0.59%) RESTful
7 2 (0.59%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.59%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.59%) Terraform
7 2 (0.59%) Web Services
7 2 (0.59%) XML
8 1 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.39%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.13%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (2.95%) Driving Licence
3 10 (2.95%) NHS
3 10 (2.95%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.95%) Reference Data
4 9 (2.65%) FMCG
5 6 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.47%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.18%) e-Learning
7 4 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.59%) PMI
9 2 (0.59%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.36%) Windows
2 5 (1.47%) Linux
3 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (99.41%) Business Intelligence
2 135 (39.82%) Analytics
3 115 (33.92%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (33.04%) AI
5 97 (28.61%) Decision-Making
6 73 (21.53%) Agile
7 69 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (19.76%) Data Modelling
9 60 (17.70%) ETL
10 59 (17.40%) Data Governance
10 59 (17.40%) Visualisation
11 57 (16.81%) ERP
12 56 (16.52%) Data Management
13 51 (15.04%) Data Analytics
14 46 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
15 45 (13.27%) Dashboard Development
16 42 (12.39%) Data Visualisation
17 40 (11.80%) Data Analysis
18 36 (10.62%) Data Architecture
19 33 (9.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 189 (55.75%) SQL
2 91 (26.84%) Python
3 60 (17.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (7.37%) C#
5 12 (3.54%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.65%) R
7 6 (1.77%) Java
7 6 (1.77%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (21.53%) Degree
2 36 (10.62%) Azure Certification
3 17 (5.01%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.42%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.42%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.83%) PMP
7 5 (1.47%) ACCA
7 5 (1.47%) CIMA
8 3 (0.88%) AAT
8 3 (0.88%) CCAB
9 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.59%) SSCP
10 1 (0.29%) CITP
10 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.29%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (21.24%) Data Quality
2 47 (13.86%) GDPR
3 14 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.77%) SLA
6 5 (1.47%) PMO
7 4 (1.18%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.88%) GRC
8 3 (0.88%) NIST
8 3 (0.88%) QA
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 5 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.59%) Ansible
1 2 (0.59%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.59%) Puppet
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 175 (51.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.01%) Databricks
3 13 (3.83%) Oracle
4 12 (3.54%) Google
5 11 (3.24%) SAP
6 8 (2.36%) SYSPRO
7 7 (2.06%) Infor
8 5 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.18%) Adaptive Insights
9 4 (1.18%) Anaplan
9 4 (1.18%) Cognos
9 4 (1.18%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.88%) HP
10 3 (0.88%) YouTube
11 2 (0.59%) Jedox
12 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.29%) Marketo
12 1 (0.29%) Qualtrics
12 1 (0.29%) Xero