Power BI Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Power BI
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Power BI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 60 91
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 -4
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 208 105 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.66% 3.71% 2.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.55% 22.63% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 87 78 202
10th Percentile £29,700 £34,500 £32,575
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,931 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £49,515
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +16.13% -0.97%
75th Percentile £50,313 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £102,410 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 620 464 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.94% 16.41% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 335 299 944
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -0.38%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,114 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,948 £77,125
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 South West

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the South West over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Devon +9 46 £28,750 -58.93% 6
Gloucestershire +1 41 £35,000 -36.36% 11
Somerset -7 40 £38,979 -25.75% 4
Bristol -36 38 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Dorset +19 34 £42,500 +6.25% 8
Wiltshire -22 7 £55,000 -4.35% 10
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 153 (73.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.85%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.48%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 208 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 134 (64.42%) Azure
3 109 (52.40%) Azure AI
4 13 (6.25%) AWS
4 13 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 11 (5.29%) Snowflake
6 7 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.88%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.92%) dbt
9 3 (1.44%) GCP
9 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.44%) Serverless
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (60.10%) Tableau
2 14 (6.73%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.77%) Power Query
4 11 (5.29%) PowerPivot
5 9 (4.33%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.88%) Data Vault
8 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.92%) Looker
9 4 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.44%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.96%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.48%) Metadata
12 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (0.96%) DBeaver
3 1 (0.48%) Git
General
1 144 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (13.94%) Finance
4 12 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (4.33%) Legal
6 8 (3.85%) Agriculture
7 7 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.92%) Retail
10 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Marketing
10 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 147 (70.67%) Analyst
2 130 (62.50%) Data Analyst
3 120 (57.69%) Junior
4 119 (57.21%) Junior Analyst
5 109 (52.40%) Junior Data Analyst
6 15 (7.21%) Financial Analyst
7 12 (5.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 10 (4.81%) Developer
8 10 (4.81%) Power BI Analyst
8 10 (4.81%) Senior
8 10 (4.81%) SQL Analyst
9 9 (4.33%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Report Analyst
10 8 (3.85%) Lead
11 7 (3.37%) Head of Analytics
12 5 (2.40%) Administrator
12 5 (2.40%) Applications Support Specialist
12 5 (2.40%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.40%) SQL Data Analyst
12 5 (2.40%) SQL Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.37%) .NET
2 6 (2.88%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.44%) .NET Framework
3 3 (1.44%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (1.44%) Blazor
3 3 (1.44%) Entity Framework
3 3 (1.44%) jQuery
3 3 (1.44%) React
4 2 (0.96%) HTML
4 2 (0.96%) PySpark
5 1 (0.48%) CSS
5 1 (0.48%) Kafka
5 1 (0.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.10%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
4 7 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.40%) NHS
6 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.96%) Social Media
8 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (99.52%) Business Intelligence
2 118 (56.73%) AI
3 39 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (16.35%) Analytics
5 28 (13.46%) Visualisation
6 22 (10.58%) Data Analysis
7 19 (9.13%) Decision-Making
8 18 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (7.21%) Workflow
10 14 (6.73%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (6.73%) Information Management
10 14 (6.73%) Process Improvement
11 13 (6.25%) Budget Management
11 13 (6.25%) Data Engineering
11 13 (6.25%) ETL
11 13 (6.25%) Storytelling
12 11 (5.29%) Data Architecture
12 11 (5.29%) Data Modelling
12 11 (5.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 159 (76.44%) SQL
2 134 (64.42%) Python
3 12 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (5.29%) R
5 7 (3.37%) C#
5 7 (3.37%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.88%) VBA
7 5 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.44%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.44%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.48%) PHP
9 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 109 (52.40%) Azure Certification
2 17 (8.17%) Degree
3 8 (3.85%) AAT
3 8 (3.85%) ACCA
3 8 (3.85%) CIMA
4 4 (1.92%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.96%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.37%) QA
3 3 (1.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 155 (74.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.88%) Cognos
2 6 (2.88%) MicroStrategy
3 3 (1.44%) Databricks
3 3 (1.44%) Oracle
4 1 (0.48%) Google
4 1 (0.48%) Zoho