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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 74 97
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 -56
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 330 213 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.11% 3.84% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 35.14% 30.30% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 207 165 145
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,300 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -7.69% +6.12%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

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 939 703 1,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.00% 12.68% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 657 474 533
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,125 £76,290
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Power BI
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

Power BI
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

Power BI
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the Midlands

Power BI
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 12 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 +3 214 £55,000 +4.76% 165
East Midlands +2 116 £47,500 +5.56% 93
Power BI
England

Power BI
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 22 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.61%) Confluence
2 2 (0.61%) SAS
2 2 (0.61%) WordPress
3 1 (0.30%) Apache
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 91 (27.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.12%) Chatbot
3 7 (2.12%) Notion
4 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.12%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.61%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.61%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.30%) Magento
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.30%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 330 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 112 (33.94%) Azure
3 53 (16.06%) PowerApps
4 48 (14.55%) Power Automate
5 46 (13.94%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (11.21%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (6.67%) Azure AI
8 12 (3.64%) AWS
9 11 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.42%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.42%) SaaS
13 7 (2.12%) GCP
14 6 (1.82%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.82%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.82%) Google Analytics
15 5 (1.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.30%) VLAN
2 1 (0.30%) VPN
2 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.09%) Tableau
2 40 (12.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 37 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (10.91%) Power Query
5 19 (5.76%) QlikView
6 17 (5.15%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.55%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.55%) Relational Database
8 12 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.73%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.82%) GIS
12 6 (1.82%) Looker
12 6 (1.82%) MySQL
13 5 (1.52%) Big Data
13 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.52%) Data Mining
13 5 (1.52%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (1.21%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (3.94%) Git
2 4 (1.21%) JIRA
3 2 (0.61%) Ant
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (0.61%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.61%) Maven
4 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 126 (38.18%) Analytical Skills
2 121 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 97 (29.39%) Finance
4 29 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (8.79%) Manufacturing
5 25 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.76%) Marketing
7 16 (4.85%) Legal
8 15 (4.55%) Retail
9 14 (4.24%) Law
9 14 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.33%) Social Housing
11 10 (3.03%) Fire and Rescue
12 7 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.61%) Advertising
14 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (23.94%) Analyst
2 70 (21.21%) Developer
3 48 (14.55%) Data Analyst
4 38 (11.52%) Lead
5 33 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 33 (10.00%) Senior
6 23 (6.97%) Junior
7 22 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 22 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
7 22 (6.67%) Junior Data Analyst
8 21 (6.36%) Data Manager
9 19 (5.76%) Power Platform Developer
10 13 (3.94%) Systems Analyst
11 12 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Lead
12 11 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
12 11 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 10 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 10 (3.03%) Performance Manager
13 10 (3.03%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.27%) .NET
2 11 (3.33%) REST
3 9 (2.73%) EDI
4 7 (2.12%) PyTorch
4 7 (2.12%) TensorFlow
5 6 (1.82%) JSON
5 6 (1.82%) PySpark
6 4 (1.21%) HTML
7 3 (0.91%) Terraform
8 2 (0.61%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.61%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.61%) React
8 2 (0.61%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.61%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.61%) Web Services
8 2 (0.61%) XML
9 1 (0.30%) CSS
9 1 (0.30%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.24%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.33%) Reference Data
4 10 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.03%) NHS
4 10 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.73%) Driving Licence
5 9 (2.73%) FMCG
6 6 (1.82%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.21%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.42%) Windows
2 4 (1.21%) Linux
2 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (99.39%) Business Intelligence
2 137 (41.52%) Analytics
3 112 (33.94%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (31.82%) AI
5 102 (30.91%) Decision-Making
6 75 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (22.42%) Agile
8 69 (20.91%) Data Modelling
9 64 (19.39%) Visualisation
10 63 (19.09%) Data Governance
10 63 (19.09%) ETL
11 57 (17.27%) Data Management
12 56 (16.97%) ERP
13 52 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 51 (15.45%) Data Analytics
15 46 (13.94%) Dashboard Development
16 44 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
17 40 (12.12%) Data Analysis
18 39 (11.82%) Data Architecture
19 34 (10.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 182 (55.15%) SQL
2 81 (24.55%) Python
3 60 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 26 (7.88%) C#
5 13 (3.94%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.73%) R
7 6 (1.82%) Java
7 6 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.61%) VBA
9 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (20.91%) Degree
2 25 (7.58%) Azure Certification
3 17 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.55%) PMI Certification
4 15 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.94%) PMP
7 7 (2.12%) ACCA
7 7 (2.12%) CIMA
8 3 (0.91%) AAT
8 3 (0.91%) CCAB
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.61%) CITP
9 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.30%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 47 (14.24%) GDPR
3 15 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (2.12%) PMO
5 5 (1.52%) SLA
6 4 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.21%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.91%) QA
8 2 (0.61%) GRC
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 6 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.91%) Docker
3 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.61%) Ansible
1 2 (0.61%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
1 2 (0.61%) Puppet
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 166 (50.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.85%) Databricks
3 15 (4.55%) Oracle
4 14 (4.24%) Google
5 13 (3.94%) SAP
6 8 (2.42%) SYSPRO
7 7 (2.12%) Infor
7 7 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.82%) Adaptive Insights
8 6 (1.82%) Anaplan
9 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.21%) Cognos
10 4 (1.21%) YouTube
11 3 (0.91%) HP
12 2 (0.61%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.61%) Jedox
13 1 (0.30%) Denodo
13 1 (0.30%) ESRI
13 1 (0.30%) Informatica
13 1 (0.30%) Sage