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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 80 41
Rank change year-on-year +38 -39 +17
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 485 197 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.69% 3.85% 4.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 51.49% 26.62% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 209 170 443
10th Percentile £31,850 £37,500 £31,050
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.32% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,500 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 942 740 1,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.16% 14.46% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 596 525 1,439
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £76,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 21 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 21 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 +7 282 £47,085 -12.30% 60
East Midlands +46 201 £47,500 -7.32% 28
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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 13 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.62%) ArcGIS
2 3 (0.62%) WordPress
3 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.21%) Apache
Applications
1 278 (57.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Shopify
2 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.62%) Magento
2 3 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 485 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 312 (64.33%) Azure
3 220 (45.36%) Azure AI
4 29 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (4.95%) Power Automate
6 22 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.33%) PowerApps
8 19 (3.92%) Snowflake
9 18 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (3.30%) AWS
11 13 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.65%) GCP
14 4 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.82%) Azure Stack
14 4 (0.82%) SaaS
14 4 (0.82%) Smartsheet
15 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
16 2 (0.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) DHCP
1 1 (0.21%) DNS
1 1 (0.21%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (51.55%) Tableau
2 37 (7.63%) Power Query
3 30 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 28 (5.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.89%) Star Schema
7 13 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (2.47%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.06%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.03%) Looker
12 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.82%) MySQL
12 4 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
13 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.41%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.41%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.41%) Metadata
13 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.44%) Git
2 5 (1.03%) JIRA
3 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 291 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (12.78%) Finance
4 30 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.12%) Retail
7 11 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.06%) Law
8 10 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.24%) Marketing
11 5 (1.03%) Legal
11 5 (1.03%) Social Housing
12 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.62%) Billing
13 3 (0.62%) Electronics
14 2 (0.41%) Local Government
14 2 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 287 (59.18%) Analyst
2 253 (52.16%) Data Analyst
3 231 (47.63%) Junior
4 229 (47.22%) Junior Analyst
4 229 (47.22%) Junior Data Analyst
5 68 (14.02%) Developer
6 43 (8.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 31 (6.39%) Senior
8 29 (5.98%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.15%) Power BI Developer
10 23 (4.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 21 (4.33%) Business Developer
12 16 (3.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 16 (3.30%) Snowflake Engineer
13 15 (3.09%) Power BI Analyst
14 13 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.47%) Azure Data Engineer
15 12 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.47%) Data Scientist
16 10 (2.06%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.47%) XML
2 11 (2.27%) WinForms
3 9 (1.86%) .NET
4 8 (1.65%) Pandas
5 6 (1.24%) PySpark
5 6 (1.24%) PyTorch
5 6 (1.24%) scikit-learn
6 5 (1.03%) EDI
7 4 (0.82%) HTML
7 4 (0.82%) JSON
7 4 (0.82%) REST
8 3 (0.62%) CSS
8 3 (0.62%) RESTful
9 2 (0.41%) React
10 1 (0.21%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.21%) EDIFACT
10 1 (0.21%) HTML5 Canvas
10 1 (0.21%) SOAP
10 1 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.33%) Management Information System
2 13 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (1.44%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.03%) NHS
5 3 (0.62%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.41%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.41%) FMCG
6 2 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.41%) Robotics
7 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.21%) Replication
7 1 (0.21%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Windows
2 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (97.73%) Business Intelligence
2 248 (51.13%) AI
3 123 (25.36%) Analytics
4 72 (14.85%) Decision-Making
5 70 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (14.23%) Data Modelling
7 58 (11.96%) Visualisation
8 42 (8.66%) ETL
9 41 (8.45%) Data Visualisation
10 40 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (7.01%) Data Analysis
12 33 (6.80%) Actionable Insight
13 31 (6.39%) Agile
14 28 (5.77%) CRM
14 28 (5.77%) Data Governance
14 28 (5.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 26 (5.36%) ERP
16 25 (5.15%) Data Engineering
17 24 (4.95%) Computer Science
17 24 (4.95%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 355 (73.20%) SQL
2 277 (57.11%) Python
3 55 (11.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (2.68%) C#
5 11 (2.27%) Delphi
5 11 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 9 (1.86%) VBA
7 8 (1.65%) R
8 7 (1.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.21%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.21%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.21%) C
9 1 (0.21%) PHP
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 226 (46.60%) Azure Certification
2 45 (9.28%) Degree
3 10 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (1.86%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.65%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.44%) PMP
6 7 (1.44%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.62%) ACCA
7 3 (0.62%) CIMA
7 3 (0.62%) CITP
7 3 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.62%) MBA
7 3 (0.62%) SSCP
8 2 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.21%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.21%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.28%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.15%) GDPR
3 7 (1.44%) QA
4 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.03%) SLA
6 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.62%) NIST
8 2 (0.41%) GRC
8 2 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.21%) MOM
Vendors
1 295 (60.82%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.57%) Databricks
3 20 (4.12%) Oracle
4 11 (2.27%) Google
5 5 (1.03%) SAP
6 4 (0.82%) Civica
6 4 (0.82%) ESRI
7 3 (0.62%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.62%) QAD
7 3 (0.62%) Sparx
8 2 (0.41%) Cognos
8 2 (0.41%) DocuSign
8 2 (0.41%) Northgate
8 2 (0.41%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.41%) Orchard
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe
9 1 (0.21%) Epicor
9 1 (0.21%) Genesys
9 1 (0.21%) Informatica
9 1 (0.21%) VMware