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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 74 37
Rank change year-on-year +28 -37 +22
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 396 183 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.81% 3.75% 4.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 46.86% 25.77% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 187 156 423
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,000 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -3.57%

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 845 710 1,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.12% 14.55% 16.85%
Number of salaries quoted 551 525 1,421
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +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 24 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 24 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 +31 239 £46,042 -11.46% 72
East Midlands +22 155 £45,000 +5.88% 47
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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 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.76%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.51%) CMS
4 2 (0.51%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 220 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.25%) Odoo
3 1 (0.25%) Primavera
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 396 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 253 (63.89%) Azure
3 165 (41.67%) Azure AI
4 32 (8.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (6.82%) Power Automate
6 25 (6.31%) PowerApps
7 24 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (3.79%) Snowflake
10 14 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.77%) AWS
13 6 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.26%) GCP
14 5 (1.26%) Smartsheet
15 3 (0.76%) Azure Functions
15 3 (0.76%) Google Analytics
15 3 (0.76%) SaaS
15 3 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) DHCP
1 2 (0.51%) DNS
1 2 (0.51%) Intranet
2 1 (0.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (47.98%) Tableau
2 37 (9.34%) SQL Server
3 35 (8.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (5.56%) Power Query
5 21 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.54%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.77%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.52%) Looker
12 5 (1.26%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (1.01%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 2 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.51%) MySQL
15 2 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (2.02%) Git
2 6 (1.52%) JIRA
3 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.25%) GitLab
4 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 230 (58.08%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (14.14%) Finance
4 22 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 11 (2.78%) Marketing
6 11 (2.78%) Retail
7 9 (2.27%) Law
8 8 (2.02%) Legal
9 7 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.01%) Local Government
10 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.76%) Electronics
11 3 (0.76%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.51%) Billing
12 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 221 (55.81%) Analyst
2 193 (48.74%) Data Analyst
3 176 (44.44%) Junior
4 172 (43.43%) Junior Analyst
4 172 (43.43%) Junior Data Analyst
5 70 (17.68%) Developer
6 36 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 27 (6.82%) Data Engineer
8 26 (6.57%) Business Developer
9 24 (6.06%) Senior
10 21 (5.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 17 (4.29%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 13 (3.28%) Snowflake Engineer
13 11 (2.78%) Architect
13 11 (2.78%) Systems Developer
14 10 (2.53%) Azure Data Engineer
14 10 (2.53%) C# Developer
14 10 (2.53%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.05%) .NET
2 15 (3.79%) XML
3 11 (2.78%) WinForms
4 9 (2.27%) EDI
5 7 (1.77%) JSON
6 6 (1.52%) PySpark
7 5 (1.26%) REST
8 4 (1.01%) Pandas
9 3 (0.76%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.51%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.51%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.51%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.51%) CSS
10 2 (0.51%) HTML
10 2 (0.51%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (0.51%) scikit-learn
11 1 (0.25%) EDIFACT
11 1 (0.25%) ODBC
11 1 (0.25%) SOAP
11 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
1 15 (3.79%) Management Information System
2 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.25%) 3D Printing
4 1 (0.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.25%) FMCG
4 1 (0.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.25%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (0.25%) IoT
4 1 (0.25%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.25%) Replication
4 1 (0.25%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.25%) Windows
1 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (98.23%) Business Intelligence
2 180 (45.45%) AI
3 88 (22.22%) Analytics
4 66 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 55 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (12.88%) Visualisation
7 48 (12.12%) Data Modelling
8 38 (9.60%) ETL
9 36 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
10 35 (8.84%) Actionable Insight
11 32 (8.08%) Agile
12 28 (7.07%) Data Analysis
13 27 (6.82%) CRM
14 26 (6.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 26 (6.57%) ERP
15 21 (5.30%) Migration
16 20 (5.05%) Computer Science
16 20 (5.05%) DevOps
17 19 (4.80%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 284 (71.72%) SQL
2 216 (54.55%) Python
3 36 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (4.29%) C#
5 11 (2.78%) Delphi
6 10 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 9 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.27%) VBA
8 8 (2.02%) R
9 3 (0.76%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.51%) C
10 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.25%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.25%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 171 (43.18%) Azure Certification
2 36 (9.09%) Degree
3 14 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.53%) PMI Certification
4 10 (2.53%) PMP
5 6 (1.52%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.52%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (1.26%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.76%) MBA
7 3 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.51%) ACCA
8 2 (0.51%) CIMA
8 2 (0.51%) CITP
8 2 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.25%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.03%) GDPR
3 7 (1.77%) PMO
4 5 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.26%) QA
5 4 (1.01%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.51%) SLA
6 2 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 237 (59.85%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.29%) Databricks
3 15 (3.79%) Oracle
4 8 (2.02%) Google
5 7 (1.77%) Sparx
6 6 (1.52%) SAP
7 5 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.01%) Civica
9 3 (0.76%) ESRI
9 3 (0.76%) Infor
9 3 (0.76%) QAD
10 2 (0.51%) DocuSign
10 2 (0.51%) Epicor
10 2 (0.51%) Northgate
10 2 (0.51%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.51%) Orchard
10 2 (0.51%) VMware
11 1 (0.25%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.25%) Verint