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

 6 months to
4 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 67 44
Rank change year-on-year +25 -23 +17
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 490 196 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.83% 3.87% 4.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 51.47% 26.74% 27.58%
Number of salaries quoted 205 173 433
10th Percentile £31,550 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £51,447 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +8.31% +2.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

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 952 733 1,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.44% 14.46% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 585 535 1,439
10th Percentile £32,200 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,500
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 £76,250 £72,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +16 283 £44,772 -15.53% 85
East Midlands +37 205 £47,500 - 53
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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 15 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.61%) ArcGIS
2 3 (0.61%) WordPress
3 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.41%) CMS
3 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.20%) Apache
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 288 (58.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.82%) Shopify
2 3 (0.61%) Magento
2 3 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Odoo
4 1 (0.20%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 490 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 327 (66.73%) Azure
3 231 (47.14%) Azure AI
4 32 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (5.31%) Power Automate
6 23 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.29%) PowerApps
8 20 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (3.67%) Snowflake
10 15 (3.06%) AWS
11 13 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.63%) GCP
12 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.02%) Smartsheet
15 4 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
16 3 (0.61%) Azure Stack
16 3 (0.61%) Google Analytics
17 2 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) DHCP
1 2 (0.41%) DNS
1 2 (0.41%) Intranet
2 1 (0.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (52.04%) Tableau
2 35 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 30 (6.12%) Power Query
3 30 (6.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 21 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.65%) Data Lake
5 13 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (2.24%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.04%) Star Schema
8 7 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.02%) Looker
10 4 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.82%) MySQL
11 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.41%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.41%) Metadata
11 2 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.20%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.20%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Git
1 6 (1.22%) JIRA
2 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 298 (60.82%) Social Skills
2 85 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (12.65%) Finance
4 33 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.08%) Retail
7 13 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.63%) Law
9 8 (1.63%) Marketing
10 7 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.22%) Legal
12 3 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.61%) Billing
12 3 (0.61%) Electronics
12 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.41%) Local Government
13 2 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 299 (61.02%) Analyst
2 263 (53.67%) Data Analyst
3 242 (49.39%) Junior
4 240 (48.98%) Junior Analyst
4 240 (48.98%) Junior Data Analyst
5 65 (13.27%) Developer
6 36 (7.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 29 (5.92%) Senior
8 25 (5.10%) Business Developer
8 25 (5.10%) Data Engineer
9 24 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 19 (3.88%) Power BI Developer
11 15 (3.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 15 (3.06%) Snowflake Engineer
12 14 (2.86%) Power BI Analyst
13 13 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (2.45%) Data Scientist
15 11 (2.24%) Azure Data Engineer
15 11 (2.24%) Azure Engineer
15 11 (2.24%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.06%) .NET
2 12 (2.45%) XML
3 11 (2.24%) WinForms
4 9 (1.84%) EDI
5 8 (1.63%) Pandas
6 7 (1.43%) PyTorch
7 6 (1.22%) scikit-learn
8 5 (1.02%) CSS
8 5 (1.02%) HTML
8 5 (1.02%) PySpark
9 4 (0.82%) JSON
10 3 (0.61%) REST
10 3 (0.61%) RESTful
11 2 (0.41%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.41%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.41%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (0.41%) Razor View Engine
12 1 (0.20%) React
12 1 (0.20%) SOAP
12 1 (0.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.06%) Management Information System
2 13 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (0.41%) Cyberattack
4 2 (0.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
4 2 (0.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.20%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.20%) FMCG
5 1 (0.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.20%) NHS
5 1 (0.20%) Replication
5 1 (0.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.20%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (97.76%) Business Intelligence
2 252 (51.43%) AI
3 112 (22.86%) Analytics
4 69 (14.08%) Decision-Making
5 65 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (13.06%) Data Modelling
7 56 (11.43%) Visualisation
8 44 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (8.57%) ETL
10 39 (7.96%) Data Visualisation
11 35 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
12 33 (6.73%) Data Analysis
13 31 (6.33%) Agile
14 29 (5.92%) ERP
15 27 (5.51%) CRM
16 26 (5.31%) Data Engineering
16 26 (5.31%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 24 (4.90%) Computer Science
18 22 (4.49%) Data Governance
19 21 (4.29%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 362 (73.88%) SQL
2 288 (58.78%) Python
3 44 (8.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (3.06%) C#
5 11 (2.24%) Delphi
5 11 (2.24%) T-SQL
6 9 (1.84%) VBA
7 8 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.63%) R
8 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.20%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.20%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.20%) C
9 1 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 237 (48.37%) Azure Certification
2 40 (8.16%) Degree
3 10 (2.04%) DBS Check
4 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.43%) PMI Certification
5 7 (1.43%) PMP
6 6 (1.22%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.82%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) ACCA
8 3 (0.61%) CIMA
8 3 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.61%) MBA
8 3 (0.61%) SSCP
9 2 (0.41%) CITP
9 2 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.20%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.78%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.08%) GDPR
3 8 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.43%) QA
5 5 (1.02%) PMO
5 5 (1.02%) SLA
6 4 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.61%) NIST
8 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.41%) GRC
8 2 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.20%) MOM
Vendors
1 305 (62.24%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.92%) Databricks
3 17 (3.47%) Oracle
4 11 (2.24%) Google
5 7 (1.43%) Sparx
6 6 (1.22%) SAP
7 4 (0.82%) Civica
7 4 (0.82%) ESRI
8 3 (0.61%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.61%) QAD
9 2 (0.41%) Cognos
9 2 (0.41%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.41%) Northgate
9 2 (0.41%) Orchard
9 2 (0.41%) VMware
10 1 (0.20%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.20%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.20%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.20%) Verint
138 Power BI jobs in the Midlands