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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 66 74
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 -19
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 457 230 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.28% 4.03% 3.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.16% 29.22% 26.72%
Number of salaries quoted 226 193 277
10th Percentile £32,125 £35,000 £32,560
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £76,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% +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 969 787 1,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.95% 13.80% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 647 563 920
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £76,159 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +16 264 £50,000 -7.83% 67
East Midlands +24 193 £47,500 +5.56% 53
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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 10 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.88%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.66%) WordPress
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 235 (51.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.66%) Magento
2 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.66%) Shopify
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 457 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 250 (54.70%) Azure
3 165 (36.11%) Azure AI
4 45 (9.85%) Power Automate
5 42 (9.19%) PowerApps
6 41 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (4.60%) AWS
9 18 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (3.06%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.41%) GCP
13 8 (1.75%) SaaS
14 5 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.09%) Azure Stack
15 4 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (0.88%) Smartsheet
16 3 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 3 (0.66%) Google Ads
16 3 (0.66%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DHCP
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
2 1 (0.22%) VLAN
2 1 (0.22%) VPN
2 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (45.51%) Tableau
2 41 (8.97%) Power Query
3 34 (7.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 28 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (4.81%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.28%) Star Schema
7 13 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.75%) QlikView
10 7 (1.53%) MySQL
11 6 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (1.09%) Looker
13 4 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.88%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.66%) GIS
14 3 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Git
2 4 (0.88%) JIRA
3 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Ant
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Ivy
4 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Maven
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 259 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 106 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (15.10%) Finance
4 29 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (5.69%) Manufacturing
6 25 (5.47%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.81%) Retail
8 17 (3.72%) Law
9 16 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.63%) Marketing
11 10 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.97%) Legal
13 8 (1.75%) Social Housing
14 7 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
16 2 (0.44%) Advertising
16 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.44%) Billing
16 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (51.42%) Analyst
2 199 (43.54%) Data Analyst
3 176 (38.51%) Junior
4 174 (38.07%) Junior Analyst
4 174 (38.07%) Junior Data Analyst
5 66 (14.44%) Developer
6 36 (7.88%) Senior
7 34 (7.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 27 (5.91%) Data Engineer
9 20 (4.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 19 (4.16%) Data Manager
10 19 (4.16%) Power BI Developer
11 16 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 16 (3.50%) Lead
12 15 (3.28%) Data Scientist
13 12 (2.63%) Power Platform Developer
14 11 (2.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 11 (2.41%) Snowflake Engineer
15 9 (1.97%) Power BI Analyst
15 9 (1.97%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.60%) .NET
2 9 (1.97%) REST
3 8 (1.75%) Pandas
3 8 (1.75%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.75%) scikit-learn
4 6 (1.31%) EDI
4 6 (1.31%) PySpark
5 5 (1.09%) HTML
5 5 (1.09%) JSON
5 5 (1.09%) XML
6 3 (0.66%) CSS
6 3 (0.66%) RESTful
6 3 (0.66%) WinForms
7 2 (0.44%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.44%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.44%) React
7 2 (0.44%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.44%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.13%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.19%) NHS
2 10 (2.19%) Product Ownership
3 8 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (0.88%) Cloud Native
5 4 (0.88%) e-Learning
5 4 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (0.66%) Driving Licence
6 3 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (0.44%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.44%) FMCG
7 2 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.44%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.44%) PMI
7 2 (0.44%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.09%) Linux
1 5 (1.09%) Windows
2 4 (0.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.22%) Solaris
3 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (97.81%) Business Intelligence
2 216 (47.26%) AI
3 147 (32.17%) Analytics
4 106 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (19.47%) Decision-Making
6 68 (14.88%) Data Modelling
7 61 (13.35%) Visualisation
8 54 (11.82%) Agile
9 48 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (10.50%) Data Analysis
9 48 (10.50%) ETL
10 47 (10.28%) Data Visualisation
11 42 (9.19%) Data Governance
12 39 (8.53%) Data Management
13 38 (8.32%) ERP
14 37 (8.10%) Data Analytics
15 34 (7.44%) Dashboard Development
16 33 (7.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 32 (7.00%) Actionable Insight
18 30 (6.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 326 (71.33%) SQL
2 221 (48.36%) Python
3 58 (12.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 23 (5.03%) C#
5 11 (2.41%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.53%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.31%) R
8 3 (0.66%) Delphi
8 3 (0.66%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 168 (36.76%) Azure Certification
2 64 (14.00%) Degree
3 11 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.75%) PMI Certification
4 8 (1.75%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.53%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.31%) PMP
6 6 (1.31%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.66%) AAT
7 3 (0.66%) CCAB
7 3 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.66%) SSCP
8 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.44%) CITP
8 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.22%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.22%) ACCA
9 1 (0.22%) CIMA
9 1 (0.22%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.91%) Data Quality
2 40 (8.75%) GDPR
3 10 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.31%) SLA
6 5 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.09%) QA
7 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.66%) NIST
9 2 (0.44%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.22%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Ansible
1 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.22%) Puppet
1 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 279 (61.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.03%) Databricks
3 16 (3.50%) Google
4 9 (1.97%) Oracle
5 8 (1.75%) SYSPRO
6 5 (1.09%) SAP
7 4 (0.88%) ESRI
8 3 (0.66%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.44%) Cognos
9 2 (0.44%) Jedox
10 1 (0.22%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.22%) Civica
10 1 (0.22%) Informatica
10 1 (0.22%) Northgate
10 1 (0.22%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.22%) Orchard
10 1 (0.22%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.22%) VMware