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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 66 97
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 -55
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 395 228 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.58% 4.04% 2.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 42.02% 30.94% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 220 181 175
10th Percentile £33,500 £34,750 £34,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,627
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,928 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -1.96% +3.31%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.22%

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 940 737 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.15% 13.07% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 642 517 606
10th Percentile £32,831 £34,900 £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 £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%

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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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +8 240 £52,500 - 187
East Midlands +13 155 £50,000 +11.11% 93
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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 20 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.76%) WordPress
3 2 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 147 (37.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.27%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.27%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.76%) Magento
3 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.76%) Shopify
4 2 (0.51%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.51%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 395 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 189 (47.85%) Azure
3 88 (22.28%) Azure AI
4 49 (12.41%) Power Automate
4 49 (12.41%) PowerApps
5 46 (11.65%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (8.10%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (4.56%) AWS
8 13 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.04%) GCP
10 9 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.28%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (2.03%) SaaS
12 7 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.52%) Azure Stack
14 5 (1.27%) PaaS
15 4 (1.01%) Google Ads
15 4 (1.01%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) DHCP
2 1 (0.25%) DNS
2 1 (0.25%) VLAN
2 1 (0.25%) VPN
2 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (33.16%) Tableau
2 41 (10.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 38 (9.62%) Power Query
4 35 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.81%) QlikView
5 19 (4.81%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.80%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (3.04%) Relational Database
8 12 (3.04%) Star Schema
9 7 (1.77%) MySQL
9 7 (1.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (1.52%) GIS
11 5 (1.27%) Big Data
11 5 (1.27%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.27%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.01%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (2.78%) Git
2 4 (1.01%) JIRA
3 2 (0.51%) Ant
3 2 (0.51%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.51%) Maven
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 181 (45.82%) Social Skills
2 118 (29.87%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (21.01%) Finance
4 29 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (7.09%) Manufacturing
6 25 (6.33%) Public Sector
7 23 (5.82%) Retail
8 16 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.80%) Legal
10 12 (3.04%) Law
10 12 (3.04%) Marketing
11 11 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.78%) Social Housing
12 8 (2.03%) Fire and Rescue
13 7 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.76%) Legal Technology
15 2 (0.51%) Advertising
15 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (36.96%) Analyst
2 112 (28.35%) Data Analyst
3 92 (23.29%) Junior
4 90 (22.78%) Junior Analyst
4 90 (22.78%) Junior Data Analyst
5 69 (17.47%) Developer
6 35 (8.86%) Senior
7 33 (8.35%) Data Engineer
8 31 (7.85%) Lead
9 27 (6.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 22 (5.57%) Data Manager
11 18 (4.56%) Power Platform Developer
12 16 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 16 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 13 (3.29%) Power BI Developer
14 11 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (2.53%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 10 (2.53%) Data Scientist
15 10 (2.53%) Performance Manager
15 10 (2.53%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.32%) .NET
2 13 (3.29%) PyTorch
3 10 (2.53%) REST
4 9 (2.28%) EDI
5 8 (2.03%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.77%) TensorFlow
7 6 (1.52%) JSON
7 6 (1.52%) Pandas
7 6 (1.52%) PySpark
8 5 (1.27%) HTML
9 3 (0.76%) CSS
9 3 (0.76%) RESTful
9 3 (0.76%) XML
10 2 (0.51%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.51%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.51%) React
10 2 (0.51%) Seaborn
10 2 (0.51%) Terraform
10 2 (0.51%) Web Services
11 1 (0.25%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.11%) Management Information System
2 12 (3.04%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.53%) NHS
3 10 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.28%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.77%) FMCG
7 6 (1.52%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.01%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.51%) PMI
11 2 (0.51%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.52%) Linux
1 6 (1.52%) Windows
2 5 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.51%) Solaris
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (97.72%) Business Intelligence
2 159 (40.25%) AI
3 141 (35.70%) Analytics
4 118 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (21.52%) Decision-Making
6 67 (16.96%) Data Modelling
7 64 (16.20%) Agile
8 63 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (14.43%) ERP
9 57 (14.43%) Visualisation
10 52 (13.16%) ETL
11 49 (12.41%) Data Governance
11 49 (12.41%) Data Management
12 44 (11.14%) Data Visualisation
13 42 (10.63%) Data Analytics
14 40 (10.13%) Data Analysis
15 39 (9.87%) Dashboard Development
15 39 (9.87%) Roadmaps
16 36 (9.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 31 (7.85%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 251 (63.54%) SQL
2 147 (37.22%) Python
3 62 (15.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 24 (6.08%) C#
5 12 (3.04%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.77%) R
7 6 (1.52%) Java
8 4 (1.01%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.25%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 92 (23.29%) Azure Certification
2 76 (19.24%) Degree
3 15 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (3.29%) PMI Certification
4 13 (3.29%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.78%) PMP
6 7 (1.77%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.76%) AAT
7 3 (0.76%) CCAB
7 3 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.76%) SSCP
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.25%) CIMA
9 1 (0.25%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.25%) CITP
9 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (15.70%) Data Quality
2 44 (11.14%) GDPR
3 10 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.52%) SLA
6 5 (1.27%) PMO
7 4 (1.01%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.76%) NIST
8 3 (0.76%) QA
9 2 (0.51%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.51%) Ansible
1 2 (0.51%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.51%) Puppet
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 216 (54.68%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.84%) Databricks
3 17 (4.30%) Google
4 10 (2.53%) Oracle
5 8 (2.03%) SYSPRO
6 5 (1.27%) Infor
6 5 (1.27%) SAP
7 4 (1.01%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.76%) HP
8 3 (0.76%) YouTube
9 2 (0.51%) Jedox
10 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.25%) Denodo
10 1 (0.25%) ESRI
10 1 (0.25%) HighQ
10 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.25%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.25%) VMware
10 1 (0.25%) Xero