Power BI Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 85 75
Rank change year-on-year +30 -10 +12
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,220 1,041 2,336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.38% 3.62% 3.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 44.14% 23.74% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 848 714 1,914
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £53,594 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +12.83% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,000 £71,600
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,568
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.34% -2.60%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,029 4,385 11,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.65% 15.26% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,968 2,866 8,121
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK 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 UK excluding London

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
North of England +53 625 £45,000 -14.29% 129
Midlands +32 500 £47,085 -10.32% 76
South East +25 455 £57,500 +4.55% 180
Yorkshire +51 293 £42,500 -10.53% 42
West Midlands +14 293 £45,000 -16.04% 49
North West +42 267 £46,500 -11.43% 75
South West +19 229 £43,500 -20.91% 42
East of England +18 211 £55,000 -15.38% 39
East Midlands +49 205 £47,500 -2.56% 27
Scotland +49 118 £55,000 +11.68% 16
Wales +19 75 £38,500 -25.60% 10
North East +13 65 £46,250 -13.95% 15
Northern Ireland -9 31 £45,000 +38.46% 1
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 114 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.27%) Apache
5 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.23%) Confluence
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) CMS
8 3 (0.14%) SAS
9 2 (0.090%) Luigi
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.090%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,439 (64.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 26 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 21 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 9 (0.41%) SAP CO
4 8 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.23%) SAP PM
6 5 (0.23%) Shopify
7 4 (0.18%) Magento
8 3 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.090%) Alphatax
9 2 (0.090%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.090%) Q-Pulse
10 1 (0.045%) Raiser’s Edge
10 1 (0.045%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2,220 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,468 (66.13%) Azure
3 1,137 (51.22%) Azure AI
4 160 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
5 159 (7.16%) Power Automate
6 135 (6.08%) PowerApps
7 87 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 81 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
9 70 (3.15%) Snowflake
10 69 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
11 63 (2.84%) AWS
12 38 (1.71%) GCP
13 35 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
13 35 (1.58%) dbt
14 34 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 33 (1.49%) Entra ID
15 33 (1.49%) OneDrive
16 25 (1.13%) GitHub
17 22 (0.99%) SaaS
18 20 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.59%) DHCP
1 13 (0.59%) DNS
2 9 (0.41%) Intranet
3 7 (0.32%) Broadband
4 6 (0.27%) VoIP
5 5 (0.23%) Firewall
5 5 (0.23%) Modbus
5 5 (0.23%) MQTT
5 5 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.14%) LTE
6 3 (0.14%) NAS
6 3 (0.14%) VPN
7 2 (0.090%) Internet
7 2 (0.090%) Mobile Broadband
7 2 (0.090%) SMS
7 2 (0.090%) Softphone
7 2 (0.090%) VLAN
8 1 (0.045%) FTP
8 1 (0.045%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.045%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,277 (57.52%) Tableau
2 115 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 89 (4.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 87 (3.92%) Power Query
5 85 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (2.07%) Data Lake
7 42 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 40 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 34 (1.53%) Relational Database
10 32 (1.44%) Looker
11 24 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (1.04%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.99%) PowerPivot
13 22 (0.99%) Star Schema
14 20 (0.90%) MySQL
15 18 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (0.77%) Metadata
17 12 (0.54%) Crystal Reports
17 12 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (1.80%) JIRA
2 33 (1.49%) Git
3 10 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.32%) MLflow
5 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.090%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.045%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.045%) NUnit
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.045%) Toad
8 1 (0.045%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,511 (68.06%) Social Skills
2 359 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
3 275 (12.39%) Finance
4 68 (3.06%) Retail
5 61 (2.75%) Public Sector
6 60 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 52 (2.34%) Marketing
8 47 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (2.07%) Law
10 40 (1.80%) Legal
11 37 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.86%) Games
15 17 (0.77%) Advertising
16 15 (0.68%) Billing
16 15 (0.68%) Military
17 13 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.59%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1,510 (68.02%) Analyst
2 1,271 (57.25%) Data Analyst
3 1,155 (52.03%) Junior
4 1,149 (51.76%) Junior Analyst
5 1,144 (51.53%) Junior Data Analyst
6 198 (8.92%) Developer
7 173 (7.79%) Senior
8 85 (3.83%) Data Engineer
9 78 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 66 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 54 (2.43%) Business Analyst
12 53 (2.39%) Lead
13 49 (2.21%) Power BI Developer
14 48 (2.16%) Support Analyst
15 47 (2.12%) Senior Analyst
16 44 (1.98%) IT Support
17 41 (1.85%) Architect
17 41 (1.85%) Senior Developer
17 41 (1.85%) Systems Analyst
18 40 (1.80%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (3.24%) .NET
2 48 (2.16%) JSON
3 45 (2.03%) HTML
4 44 (1.98%) CSS
5 35 (1.58%) XML
6 30 (1.35%) REST
7 29 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
8 22 (0.99%) .NET Core
8 22 (0.99%) EDI
9 21 (0.95%) PySpark
10 19 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
10 19 (0.86%) Middleware
10 19 (0.86%) SPFx
11 17 (0.77%) SOAP
12 14 (0.63%) HTML5
13 13 (0.59%) PyTorch
13 13 (0.59%) scikit-learn
14 12 (0.54%) jQuery
14 12 (0.54%) RESTful
15 11 (0.50%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 74 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 33 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 30 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 23 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 17 (0.77%) NHS
8 15 (0.68%) Driving Licence
8 15 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 15 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
10 11 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (0.50%) Low-Code
11 9 (0.41%) Clustering
12 8 (0.36%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.32%) Pricing Data
13 7 (0.32%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.32%) SCADA
14 6 (0.27%) Replication
15 5 (0.23%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.04%) Windows
2 14 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.32%) Linux
4 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.045%) Android
7 1 (0.045%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.045%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,136 (96.22%) Business Intelligence
2 1,249 (56.26%) AI
3 384 (17.30%) Analytics
4 302 (13.60%) Decision-Making
5 275 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
6 228 (10.27%) Data Modelling
7 205 (9.23%) Visualisation
8 196 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 163 (7.34%) ETL
10 158 (7.12%) ERP
11 147 (6.62%) Agile
12 137 (6.17%) Data Analysis
13 132 (5.95%) Data Visualisation
14 121 (5.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 119 (5.36%) Actionable Insight
16 116 (5.23%) Data Governance
16 116 (5.23%) Project Management
17 111 (5.00%) Data Engineering
18 110 (4.95%) DevOps
19 103 (4.64%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,690 (76.13%) SQL
2 1,363 (61.40%) Python
3 109 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 83 (3.74%) C#
5 57 (2.57%) JavaScript
5 57 (2.57%) VBA
6 43 (1.94%) T-SQL
7 38 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 36 (1.62%) R
9 23 (1.04%) TypeScript
10 15 (0.68%) Java
11 11 (0.50%) Delphi
12 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.27%) Julia
13 6 (0.27%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.23%) Scala
15 4 (0.18%) VBScript
16 3 (0.14%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.090%) C
17 2 (0.090%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,146 (51.62%) Azure Certification
2 182 (8.20%) Degree
3 40 (1.80%) ACCA
3 40 (1.80%) CIMA
4 38 (1.71%) Security Cleared
5 33 (1.49%) PMI Certification
5 33 (1.49%) PMP
6 32 (1.44%) SC Cleared
7 28 (1.26%) DBS Check
8 21 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (0.77%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.63%) AAT
11 13 (0.59%) HND
12 11 (0.50%) MBA
13 10 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (0.36%) APMP
15 5 (0.23%) ISEB
16 3 (0.14%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.14%) CITP
16 3 (0.14%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.15%) GDPR
3 42 (1.89%) QA
4 37 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 31 (1.40%) SLA
6 21 (0.95%) PMO
7 17 (0.77%) TickIT
8 15 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 13 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.18%) ITGC
12 3 (0.14%) NIST
13 2 (0.090%) GRC
13 2 (0.090%) PERC
13 2 (0.090%) WCAG
14 1 (0.045%) GxP
14 1 (0.045%) IFRS
14 1 (0.045%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 48 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.23%) BitLocker
2 5 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.14%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.045%) Docker
5 1 (0.045%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (0.45%) Terraform
2 6 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.045%) Argo
4 1 (0.045%) Grafana
4 1 (0.045%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.045%) MOM
4 1 (0.045%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,527 (68.78%) Microsoft
2 69 (3.11%) Databricks
3 56 (2.52%) SAP
4 54 (2.43%) Oracle
5 34 (1.53%) Adobe
6 29 (1.31%) Google
7 23 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 20 (0.90%) Informatica
8 20 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 18 (0.81%) Anaplan
9 18 (0.81%) Genesys
9 18 (0.81%) Verint
10 12 (0.54%) Cognos
10 12 (0.54%) Freshdesk
10 12 (0.54%) Nintex
11 11 (0.50%) iManage
12 10 (0.45%) Epicor
12 10 (0.45%) HubSpot
13 9 (0.41%) Aderant
13 9 (0.41%) Intapp