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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 66 95
Rank change year-on-year +15 +29 -51
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 394 231 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.59% 4.08% 2.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 41.96% 31.17% 23.01%
Number of salaries quoted 220 183 181
10th Percentile £33,500 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,375 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -3.85% +5.33%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £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 939 741 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.16% 13.09% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 642 518 617
10th Percentile £32,526 £34,925 £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 £76,625 £76,000
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 12 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 12 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 +4 241 £51,356 -2.64% 123
East Midlands +8 153 £50,000 +11.11% 71
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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 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.76%) WordPress
3 2 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 149 (37.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.27%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.02%) 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
1 394 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 187 (47.46%) Azure
3 88 (22.34%) Azure AI
4 49 (12.44%) Power Automate
4 49 (12.44%) PowerApps
5 46 (11.68%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (8.63%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (4.82%) AWS
8 13 (3.30%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.05%) 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 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.52%) Azure Stack
14 5 (1.27%) PaaS
15 4 (1.02%) Google Ads
15 4 (1.02%) 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 (33.25%) Tableau
2 41 (10.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 38 (9.64%) Power Query
4 36 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.82%) QlikView
5 19 (4.82%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.81%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 12 (3.05%) Star Schema
9 7 (1.78%) MySQL
9 7 (1.78%) 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%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.27%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.02%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (3.05%) Git
2 4 (1.02%) 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 (45.94%) Social Skills
2 117 (29.70%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (21.07%) Finance
4 29 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (7.36%) Manufacturing
5 25 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 23 (5.84%) Retail
7 16 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.81%) Legal
9 14 (3.55%) Law
10 12 (3.05%) Marketing
11 11 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.79%) Social Housing
12 8 (2.03%) Fire and Rescue
13 7 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.76%) Legal Technology
15 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.51%) Billing
15 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (37.56%) Analyst
2 114 (28.93%) Data Analyst
3 94 (23.86%) Junior
4 92 (23.35%) Junior Analyst
4 92 (23.35%) Junior Data Analyst
5 68 (17.26%) Developer
6 34 (8.63%) Senior
7 32 (8.12%) Data Engineer
8 30 (7.61%) Lead
9 26 (6.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 22 (5.58%) Data Manager
11 18 (4.57%) Power Platform Developer
12 16 (4.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 16 (4.06%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 13 (3.30%) Power BI Developer
14 12 (3.05%) Data Scientist
15 10 (2.54%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 10 (2.54%) Performance Manager
15 10 (2.54%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (2.54%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.33%) .NET
2 13 (3.30%) PyTorch
3 10 (2.54%) REST
4 9 (2.28%) EDI
5 8 (2.03%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.78%) PySpark
6 7 (1.78%) TensorFlow
7 6 (1.52%) JSON
7 6 (1.52%) Pandas
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 35 (8.88%) Management Information System
2 11 (2.79%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.54%) NHS
3 10 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.28%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.52%) FMCG
6 6 (1.52%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.02%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.51%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.51%) PMI
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
1 385 (97.72%) Business Intelligence
2 157 (39.85%) AI
3 142 (36.04%) Analytics
4 118 (29.95%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (22.34%) Decision-Making
6 68 (17.26%) Data Modelling
7 63 (15.99%) Agile
8 62 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (14.97%) Visualisation
10 56 (14.21%) ERP
11 51 (12.94%) ETL
12 48 (12.18%) Data Governance
12 48 (12.18%) Data Management
13 46 (11.68%) Data Visualisation
14 42 (10.66%) Data Analysis
14 42 (10.66%) Data Analytics
15 39 (9.90%) Dashboard Development
15 39 (9.90%) Roadmaps
16 35 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
17 31 (7.87%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 253 (64.21%) SQL
2 150 (38.07%) Python
3 64 (16.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 24 (6.09%) C#
5 12 (3.05%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.28%) R
7 6 (1.52%) Java
8 5 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.25%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 92 (23.35%) Azure Certification
2 77 (19.54%) Degree
3 15 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (3.30%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.05%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.54%) PMP
7 7 (1.78%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.76%) AAT
8 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.76%) CCAB
8 3 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.76%) SSCP
9 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.25%) CIMA
10 1 (0.25%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.25%) CITP
10 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (15.48%) Data Quality
2 44 (11.17%) GDPR
3 10 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.52%) SLA
6 5 (1.27%) PMO
7 4 (1.02%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.02%) 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
1 213 (54.06%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.11%) Databricks
3 17 (4.31%) Google
4 10 (2.54%) Oracle
5 8 (2.03%) SYSPRO
6 5 (1.27%) SAP
7 4 (1.02%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.02%) Infor
7 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.76%) HP
8 3 (0.76%) YouTube
9 2 (0.51%) Jedox
10 1 (0.25%) Denodo
10 1 (0.25%) ESRI
10 1 (0.25%) HighQ
10 1 (0.25%) Informatica
10 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.25%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.25%) VMware
10 1 (0.25%) Xero