Power BI Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Power BI
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Power BI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 111 61
Rank change year-on-year +63 -50 +15
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 600 259 647
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.02% 3.18% 3.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 38.73% 22.40% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 296 161 534
10th Percentile £31,375 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,772 £41,750 £37,211
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,250 £71,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,549 1,156 3,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.79% 14.19% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,072 775 2,275
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -5.21%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Power BI job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
North West +54 271 £46,500 -15.45% 81
Yorkshire +53 266 £42,500 -15.00% 38
North East -2 63 £42,000 -11.58% 12
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 49 (8.17%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.00%) Apache
5 4 (0.67%) Confluence
6 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 357 (59.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.33%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 5 (0.83%) SAP PM
4 3 (0.50%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.50%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.17%) Primavera
6 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.17%) Shopify
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 600 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 342 (57.00%) Azure
3 242 (40.33%) Azure AI
4 60 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 58 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (8.67%) Dynamics 365
6 52 (8.67%) PowerApps
7 28 (4.67%) AWS
8 25 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (3.33%) GCP
11 19 (3.17%) OneDrive
12 17 (2.83%) Boomi
13 15 (2.50%) Snowflake
14 14 (2.33%) GitHub
15 12 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (1.83%) Entra ID
16 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (1.83%) Serverless
17 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.33%) DHCP
1 8 (1.33%) DNS
2 3 (0.50%) Broadband
2 3 (0.50%) LTE
3 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LAN
4 1 (0.17%) VoIP
4 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (47.67%) Tableau
2 39 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (6.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 32 (5.33%) Power Query
5 28 (4.67%) SQL Server
6 17 (2.83%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (2.17%) Metadata
8 12 (2.00%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.00%) Looker
8 12 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.67%) PowerPivot
10 8 (1.33%) Star Schema
11 7 (1.17%) MySQL
11 7 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.00%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.00%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 25 (4.17%) JIRA
2 13 (2.17%) Git
3 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.33%) MLflow
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 392 (65.33%) Social Skills
2 107 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (13.67%) Finance
4 43 (7.17%) Retail
5 30 (5.00%) Law
6 27 (4.50%) Legal
7 26 (4.33%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (3.83%) Marketing
10 18 (3.00%) Manufacturing
10 18 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.50%) Advertising
12 15 (2.50%) Military
13 11 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.17%) Automotive
16 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.67%) Banking
17 4 (0.67%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 377 (62.83%) Analyst
2 289 (48.17%) Data Analyst
3 242 (40.33%) Junior
4 241 (40.17%) Junior Analyst
4 241 (40.17%) Junior Data Analyst
5 57 (9.50%) Developer
6 56 (9.33%) Senior
7 31 (5.17%) Data Engineer
8 28 (4.67%) Business Analyst
9 22 (3.67%) Data Manager
10 21 (3.50%) Lead
11 20 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
12 19 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 19 (3.17%) Support Analyst
13 18 (3.00%) Applications Support
13 18 (3.00%) Architect
14 15 (2.50%) Administrator
14 15 (2.50%) Data Architect
14 15 (2.50%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.00%) REST
2 19 (3.17%) Middleware
3 17 (2.83%) .NET
4 15 (2.50%) JSON
5 13 (2.17%) SOAP
5 13 (2.17%) XML
6 12 (2.00%) EDI
7 10 (1.67%) PySpark
8 6 (1.00%) CSS
9 5 (0.83%) HTML
10 4 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (0.67%) React
11 3 (0.50%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.50%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.50%) Node.js
11 3 (0.50%) RESTful
12 2 (0.33%) Kafka
12 2 (0.33%) Lightning Web Components
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
12 2 (0.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 14 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 10 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.17%) Pricing Data
4 7 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
5 6 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.67%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.50%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.33%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.33%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.33%) Life Science
9 2 (0.33%) Replication
9 2 (0.33%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.00%) Windows
2 2 (0.33%) Android
2 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.17%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (93.00%) Business Intelligence
2 284 (47.33%) AI
3 144 (24.00%) Analytics
4 106 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (16.50%) Decision-Making
6 92 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 79 (13.17%) Data Modelling
8 67 (11.17%) Visualisation
9 65 (10.83%) Actionable Insight
10 61 (10.17%) Data Analysis
11 56 (9.33%) Data Governance
12 54 (9.00%) Data Visualisation
13 51 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 48 (8.00%) ERP
15 46 (7.67%) Agile
16 42 (7.00%) DevOps
17 40 (6.67%) Data Engineering
17 40 (6.67%) ETL
18 37 (6.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 36 (6.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 436 (72.67%) SQL
2 293 (48.83%) Python
3 24 (4.00%) C#
3 24 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (2.33%) T-SQL
5 11 (1.83%) Java
5 11 (1.83%) VBA
6 9 (1.50%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.17%) R
8 4 (0.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.50%) Scala
10 2 (0.33%) Bicep
10 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) C++
11 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.17%) Swift
11 1 (0.17%) VB
11 1 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 247 (41.17%) Azure Certification
2 32 (5.33%) Degree
3 14 (2.33%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.83%) ISEB
7 5 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.83%) PMP
8 3 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.17%) ACCA
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.17%) CFA
10 1 (0.17%) CISM
10 1 (0.17%) CISSP
10 1 (0.17%) CRISC
10 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.00%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.17%) QA
3 22 (3.67%) GDPR
4 17 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.83%) TickIT
5 9 (1.50%) PMO
6 8 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) AQAP
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) GxP
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (0.67%) Terraform
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 375 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.17%) Databricks
3 15 (2.50%) Google
3 15 (2.50%) SAP
4 12 (2.00%) Oracle
5 9 (1.50%) Aderant
5 9 (1.50%) iManage
5 9 (1.50%) Intapp
5 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.00%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.00%) Cognos
7 5 (0.83%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.67%) Sage
9 3 (0.50%) Informatica
9 3 (0.50%) Northgate
9 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.33%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.33%) IFS
10 2 (0.33%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.33%) Splunk