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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 59 81
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 -27
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 442 234 304
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.06% 4.07% 2.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 45.90% 29.51% 25.55%
Number of salaries quoted 227 189 231
10th Percentile £33,203 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% +5.21%
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% +9.09%

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 963 793 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.67% 13.79% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 648 559 797
10th Percentile £32,425 £36,250 £33,200
25th Percentile £41,063 £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 £84,125 £76,250 £79,050
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% -2.11% -3.85%

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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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +18 257 £51,356 -5.33% 80
East Midlands +23 185 £50,000 +11.11% 48
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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 11 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.90%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.68%) WordPress
4 1 (0.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 211 (47.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.68%) Magento
2 3 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.68%) Shopify
3 2 (0.45%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.45%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics SL
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 442 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 234 (52.94%) Azure
3 143 (32.35%) Azure AI
4 46 (10.41%) Power Automate
5 43 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (9.50%) PowerApps
7 29 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (4.30%) AWS
9 16 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (3.17%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.49%) GCP
13 9 (2.04%) SaaS
14 6 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.36%) Azure Stack
15 5 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (0.90%) Smartsheet
17 3 (0.68%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) DHCP
2 1 (0.23%) DNS
2 1 (0.23%) VLAN
2 1 (0.23%) VPN
2 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (41.63%) Tableau
2 43 (9.73%) Power Query
3 37 (8.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (5.20%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 14 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (2.94%) Star Schema
8 9 (2.04%) QlikView
9 7 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.58%) MySQL
9 7 (1.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.13%) GIS
11 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.90%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.90%) Looker
12 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (1.81%) Git
2 4 (0.90%) JIRA
3 2 (0.45%) Ant
3 2 (0.45%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.45%) Maven
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 238 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 113 (25.57%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (15.84%) Finance
4 30 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.11%) Manufacturing
5 27 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.98%) Retail
7 16 (3.62%) Law
7 16 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.71%) Marketing
9 11 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.04%) Legal
10 9 (2.04%) Social Housing
11 7 (1.58%) Fire and Rescue
11 7 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.45%) Advertising
12 2 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.45%) Billing
12 2 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (47.74%) Analyst
2 175 (39.59%) Data Analyst
3 152 (34.39%) Junior
4 150 (33.94%) Junior Analyst
4 150 (33.94%) Junior Data Analyst
5 68 (15.38%) Developer
6 39 (8.82%) Senior
7 33 (7.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 30 (6.79%) Data Engineer
9 21 (4.75%) Data Manager
10 19 (4.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 19 (4.30%) Lead
10 19 (4.30%) Power BI Developer
11 16 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 14 (3.17%) Data Scientist
13 13 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
14 12 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (2.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 11 (2.49%) Snowflake Engineer
16 10 (2.26%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.75%) .NET
2 9 (2.04%) PyTorch
2 9 (2.04%) REST
3 8 (1.81%) EDI
3 8 (1.81%) Pandas
3 8 (1.81%) scikit-learn
4 7 (1.58%) JSON
5 6 (1.36%) PySpark
6 5 (1.13%) HTML
6 5 (1.13%) XML
7 3 (0.68%) CSS
7 3 (0.68%) RESTful
7 3 (0.68%) TensorFlow
7 3 (0.68%) WinForms
8 2 (0.45%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.45%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.45%) React
8 2 (0.45%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.79%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.26%) NHS
2 10 (2.26%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (1.58%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.36%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.13%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (0.90%) e-Learning
7 3 (0.68%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.68%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.45%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.45%) FMCG
8 2 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.45%) PMI
8 2 (0.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.36%) Linux
1 6 (1.36%) Windows
2 5 (1.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.45%) Solaris
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (97.96%) Business Intelligence
2 202 (45.70%) AI
3 148 (33.48%) Analytics
4 112 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (20.14%) Decision-Making
6 70 (15.84%) Data Modelling
7 59 (13.35%) Agile
7 59 (13.35%) Visualisation
8 52 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (10.86%) Data Visualisation
9 48 (10.86%) ETL
10 47 (10.63%) Data Analysis
11 43 (9.73%) Data Governance
12 42 (9.50%) Data Management
13 39 (8.82%) ERP
14 38 (8.60%) Dashboard Development
14 38 (8.60%) Data Analytics
15 33 (7.47%) Roadmaps
16 31 (7.01%) Actionable Insight
16 31 (7.01%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 306 (69.23%) SQL
2 201 (45.48%) Python
3 62 (14.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 23 (5.20%) C#
5 10 (2.26%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.58%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.58%) R
7 4 (0.90%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.68%) Delphi
9 2 (0.45%) Java
9 2 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 146 (33.03%) Azure Certification
2 70 (15.84%) Degree
3 11 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (2.49%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.04%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.81%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.36%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.36%) PMP
7 3 (0.68%) AAT
7 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.68%) CCAB
7 3 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.68%) SSCP
8 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.45%) CITP
8 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.23%) CIMA
9 1 (0.23%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (12.67%) Data Quality
2 43 (9.73%) GDPR
3 10 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.58%) SLA
5 5 (1.13%) QA
6 4 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.68%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.68%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.45%) Ansible
1 2 (0.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.45%) Puppet
1 2 (0.45%) Terraform
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 266 (60.18%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.43%) Databricks
3 15 (3.39%) Google
4 11 (2.49%) Oracle
5 8 (1.81%) SYSPRO
6 5 (1.13%) SAP
7 4 (0.90%) ESRI
8 3 (0.68%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.45%) Cognos
9 2 (0.45%) Jedox
9 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.23%) Denodo
10 1 (0.23%) Informatica
10 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.23%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.23%) VMware