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

 6 months to
2 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 67 91
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -46
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 360 220 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.28% 3.91% 2.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.85% 30.68% 22.16%
Number of salaries quoted 217 172 156
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -3.85% +5.33%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £78,750
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 951 717 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.03% 12.75% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 660 493 560
10th Percentile £34,950 £34,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,974 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +6.31% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,796 £76,701
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 2 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 2 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 +7 229 £53,750 +3.66% 211
East Midlands 0 131 £47,500 +5.56% 95
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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 23 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.83%) WordPress
3 2 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 113 (31.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.94%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.94%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.83%) Magento
3 3 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.83%) Shopify
4 2 (0.56%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.56%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 360 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 139 (38.61%) Azure
3 53 (14.72%) PowerApps
4 51 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (13.61%) Power Automate
6 44 (12.22%) Azure AI
7 34 (9.44%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (3.89%) AWS
9 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.22%) GCP
12 8 (2.22%) SaaS
13 7 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.67%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.67%) Entra ID
15 5 (1.39%) Google Analytics
15 5 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) VLAN
2 1 (0.28%) VPN
2 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (23.89%) Tableau
2 40 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 38 (10.56%) Power Query
4 37 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.28%) QlikView
6 18 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.17%) Data Lake
8 14 (3.89%) Relational Database
8 14 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.78%) Star Schema
10 7 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.94%) MySQL
10 7 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (1.67%) GIS
12 5 (1.39%) Big Data
12 5 (1.39%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.39%) Looker
12 5 (1.39%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (3.61%) Git
2 4 (1.11%) JIRA
3 2 (0.56%) Ant
3 2 (0.56%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.56%) Maven
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 142 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 129 (35.83%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (26.39%) Finance
4 31 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 27 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.56%) Retail
8 17 (4.72%) Marketing
8 17 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (4.44%) Legal
10 13 (3.61%) Law
11 11 (3.06%) Social Housing
12 10 (2.78%) Fire and Rescue
13 8 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Legal Technology
14 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.56%) Advertising
15 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (30.00%) Analyst
2 72 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 70 (19.44%) Developer
4 45 (12.50%) Junior
4 45 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
4 45 (12.50%) Junior Data Analyst
5 37 (10.28%) Lead
6 33 (9.17%) Senior
7 32 (8.89%) Data Engineer
8 25 (6.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 22 (6.11%) Data Manager
10 19 (5.28%) Power Platform Developer
11 13 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 13 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 12 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Lead
12 12 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
13 11 (3.06%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Systems Analyst
14 10 (2.78%) Performance Manager
14 10 (2.78%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.39%) .NET
2 11 (3.06%) REST
3 9 (2.50%) EDI
3 9 (2.50%) PyTorch
4 7 (1.94%) JSON
4 7 (1.94%) TensorFlow
5 6 (1.67%) HTML
5 6 (1.67%) PySpark
6 4 (1.11%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.83%) CSS
7 3 (0.83%) RESTful
8 2 (0.56%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.56%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.56%) Pandas
8 2 (0.56%) React
8 2 (0.56%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.56%) Terraform
8 2 (0.56%) Web Services
8 2 (0.56%) XML
9 1 (0.28%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.39%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.89%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.06%) Driving Licence
4 10 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (2.78%) NHS
4 10 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.50%) FMCG
5 9 (2.50%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.11%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.56%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.56%) PMI
10 2 (0.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.94%) Windows
2 6 (1.67%) Linux
3 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (98.89%) Business Intelligence
2 143 (39.72%) Analytics
3 123 (34.17%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (33.61%) AI
5 97 (26.94%) Decision-Making
6 73 (20.28%) Agile
7 70 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (18.89%) Data Modelling
9 62 (17.22%) Visualisation
10 59 (16.39%) ERP
10 59 (16.39%) ETL
11 58 (16.11%) Data Governance
12 54 (15.00%) Data Management
13 50 (13.89%) Data Analytics
14 46 (12.78%) Data Visualisation
15 44 (12.22%) Dashboard Development
15 44 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 42 (11.67%) Data Analysis
17 36 (10.00%) Data Architecture
18 35 (9.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 206 (57.22%) SQL
2 104 (28.89%) Python
3 62 (17.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (6.94%) C#
5 12 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.50%) R
7 6 (1.67%) Java
8 5 (1.39%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (21.39%) Degree
2 47 (13.06%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.72%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.61%) PMP
7 3 (0.83%) AAT
7 3 (0.83%) ACCA
7 3 (0.83%) CCAB
7 3 (0.83%) CIMA
7 3 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.83%) SSCP
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.28%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 47 (13.06%) GDPR
3 13 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.94%) SLA
5 5 (1.39%) PMO
6 4 (1.11%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.83%) GRC
7 3 (0.83%) NIST
7 3 (0.83%) QA
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 4 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.83%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.56%) Ansible
1 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.56%) Puppet
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 187 (51.94%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.56%) Databricks
3 14 (3.89%) Google
4 11 (3.06%) Oracle
5 9 (2.50%) SAP
6 8 (2.22%) SYSPRO
7 7 (1.94%) Infor
8 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.11%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.11%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.83%) Cognos
10 3 (0.83%) HP
10 3 (0.83%) YouTube
11 2 (0.56%) Adaptive Insights
11 2 (0.56%) Anaplan
11 2 (0.56%) Jedox
12 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.28%) Marketo
12 1 (0.28%) Qualtrics
12 1 (0.28%) Xero
306 Power BI jobs in the Midlands