Microsoft Power BI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Power BI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Power BI over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 64 84 91
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 +31
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,393 4,806 4,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.48% 3.83% 3.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.09% 16.49% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,928 3,584 3,638
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,075 £32,999
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £40,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,011 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Power BI is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11,344 29,144 35,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.26% 23.25% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8,519 17,764 22,707
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,773 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Power BI.

Salary trend for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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
England +20 2,121 £57,500 - 1,058
UK excluding London +29 1,372 £49,000 -2.00% 734
Work from Home +16 1,066 £56,700 +3.09% 534
London +20 883 £67,500 +3.85% 408
North of England +27 415 £50,000 - 199
Midlands +42 272 £49,000 -2.00% 133
West Midlands +52 223 £50,000 - 89
South East -16 218 £51,250 -6.82% 163
South West +34 207 £50,000 +6.38% 75
North West +46 202 £50,000 +8.38% 104
Yorkshire +9 190 £50,000 - 57
Scotland +32 124 £47,557 +11.90% 72
East of England +58 73 £47,500 -13.64% 71
Wales +1 62 £34,000 -15.00% 26
East Midlands +3 49 £37,500 -25.00% 43
North East +21 23 £44,000 -12.00% 40
Northern Ireland +9 16 £50,000 +21.21% 6
Channel Islands +10 2 - -

Power BI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 168 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 68 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 60 (2.51%) Apache
4 40 (1.67%) Confluence
5 27 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.71%) IIS
7 15 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 12 (0.50%) SAS
9 10 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
10 9 (0.38%) CMS
11 7 (0.29%) Mendix
11 7 (0.29%) MS Exchange
12 6 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.25%) WordPress
13 5 (0.21%) IBM Domino
13 5 (0.21%) Luigi
14 2 (0.084%) Drupal
15 1 (0.042%) Cloud Foundry
15 1 (0.042%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.042%) WebLogic
Applications
1 459 (19.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (5.89%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.38%) InDesign
9 7 (0.29%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.25%) SPSS
11 5 (0.21%) Trello
12 2 (0.084%) 3ds Max
12 2 (0.084%) Blender
12 2 (0.084%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.084%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.042%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.042%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 157 (6.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.75%) Primavera
3 13 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
5 8 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.25%) iTrent
7 6 (0.25%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.21%) BusinessWorks
8 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.21%) Shopify
8 5 (0.21%) SystmOne
9 4 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
9 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
10 3 (0.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 2,393 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 933 (38.99%) Azure
3 327 (13.66%) PowerApps
4 248 (10.36%) Dynamics 365
5 242 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
6 211 (8.82%) Power Automate
7 205 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
8 185 (7.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 185 (7.73%) GCP
9 162 (6.77%) AWS
10 138 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 94 (3.93%) Snowflake
12 90 (3.76%) Google Analytics
13 71 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 71 (2.97%) Serverless
14 61 (2.55%) GitHub
15 55 (2.30%) Azure Functions
16 49 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
16 49 (2.05%) PaaS
17 47 (1.96%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (0.92%) DNS
2 16 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.59%) Network Security
4 13 (0.54%) SSL
4 13 (0.54%) VPN
5 11 (0.46%) Firewall
5 11 (0.46%) Intranet
6 8 (0.33%) LAN
6 8 (0.33%) WAN
7 7 (0.29%) DHCP
8 6 (0.25%) SAN
9 5 (0.21%) VSAN
10 4 (0.17%) BGP
10 4 (0.17%) FTP
10 4 (0.17%) IPv6
10 4 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.17%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.17%) VLAN
10 4 (0.17%) WebEx
11 3 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (20.35%) Tableau
2 486 (20.31%) SQL Server
3 401 (16.76%) Data Warehouse
4 313 (13.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 293 (12.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 227 (9.49%) Data Lake
7 170 (7.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 124 (5.18%) Relational Database
9 112 (4.68%) Power Query
10 100 (4.18%) Looker
11 91 (3.80%) Big Data
12 87 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 87 (3.64%) BigQuery
12 87 (3.64%) MySQL
13 84 (3.51%) NoSQL
14 80 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
15 66 (2.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 62 (2.59%) BusinessObjects
17 51 (2.13%) Bigtable
18 49 (2.05%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 75 (3.13%) JIRA
2 57 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 43 (1.80%) Git
4 26 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 19 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 14 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.29%) Visual Studio Team System
8 6 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 4 (0.17%) Maven
10 4 (0.17%) RStudio
10 4 (0.17%) Selenium
11 3 (0.13%) ERwin
11 3 (0.13%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.084%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.084%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.084%) git-flow
12 2 (0.084%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.042%) MSTest
General
1 762 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 698 (29.17%) Finance
3 557 (23.28%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (10.36%) Retail
5 223 (9.32%) Marketing
6 194 (8.11%) Banking
7 134 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
8 117 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 106 (4.43%) Law
10 100 (4.18%) Manufacturing
11 90 (3.76%) Legal
12 68 (2.84%) Public Sector
13 37 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (1.38%) Advertising
16 30 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (1.04%) Electronics
18 24 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 22 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
20 12 (0.50%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 721 (30.13%) Analyst
2 520 (21.73%) Developer
3 311 (13.00%) Data Analyst
4 304 (12.70%) Senior
5 234 (9.78%) Data Engineer
6 225 (9.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 169 (7.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 163 (6.81%) Lead
9 134 (5.60%) Power BI Developer
10 119 (4.97%) Consultant
11 117 (4.89%) Senior Analyst
12 106 (4.43%) Architect
13 95 (3.97%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 92 (3.84%) Power BI Analyst
15 90 (3.76%) Data Manager
16 73 (3.05%) CRM Developer
17 70 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM Developer
18 68 (2.84%) Senior Developer
19 66 (2.76%) Data Architect
20 64 (2.67%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (8.73%) .NET
2 147 (6.14%) HTML
3 115 (4.81%) CSS
4 52 (2.17%) ASP.NET
5 50 (2.09%) Kafka
6 46 (1.92%) XML
7 43 (1.80%) JSON
8 41 (1.71%) PySpark
9 38 (1.59%) REST
10 36 (1.50%) .NET Framework
11 26 (1.09%) HTML5 Canvas
12 25 (1.04%) Pandas
12 25 (1.04%) Web Services
13 23 (0.96%) React
14 22 (0.92%) Middleware
15 20 (0.84%) Entity Framework
15 20 (0.84%) MDX
16 18 (0.75%) jQuery
17 17 (0.71%) ASP.NET MVC
18 15 (0.63%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 110 (4.60%) Management Information System
2 87 (3.64%) Data Structures
3 65 (2.72%) Public Cloud
4 62 (2.59%) Low-Code
5 54 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 44 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 35 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.30%) Onboarding
11 27 (1.13%) Algorithms
12 23 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (0.88%) Reinsurance
14 20 (0.84%) NHS
14 20 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
15 19 (0.79%) Cloud Native
15 19 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (0.71%) Mobile App
17 16 (0.67%) Data Centre
17 16 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (3.09%) Windows
2 36 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 32 (1.34%) Linux
4 27 (1.13%) Unix
5 16 (0.67%) Android
6 13 (0.54%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.084%) VMS
9 1 (0.042%) CentOS
9 1 (0.042%) Debian
9 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,009 (83.95%) Business Intelligence
2 881 (36.82%) Analytics
3 696 (29.08%) Visualisation
4 686 (28.67%) Agile
5 503 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
6 453 (18.93%) Data Visualisation
7 448 (18.72%) ETL
8 445 (18.60%) Data Modelling
9 429 (17.93%) Data Analysis
10 379 (15.84%) DevOps
11 348 (14.54%) Decision-Making
12 324 (13.54%) Data Analytics
13 250 (10.45%) CRM
14 235 (9.82%) Data Science
15 209 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 204 (8.52%) Mentoring
17 201 (8.40%) Data Pipeline
18 200 (8.36%) Data Management
18 200 (8.36%) Machine Learning
19 198 (8.27%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,305 (54.53%) SQL
2 409 (17.09%) Python
3 252 (10.53%) C#
4 229 (9.57%) T-SQL
5 206 (8.61%) JavaScript
6 195 (8.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 121 (5.06%) R
8 85 (3.55%) PowerShell
9 36 (1.50%) VBA
10 31 (1.30%) Java
11 26 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 24 (1.00%) VB.NET
13 20 (0.84%) PHP
14 19 (0.79%) VB
15 17 (0.71%) Scala
16 13 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.29%) Delphi
18 5 (0.21%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.21%) U-SQL
18 5 (0.21%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 416 (17.38%) Degree
2 99 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 76 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 73 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 52 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 41 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 15 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.46%) ACCA
9 9 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (0.33%) MCSE
11 7 (0.29%) MBA
12 6 (0.25%) MCSA
13 5 (0.21%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.21%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.17%) PhD
14 4 (0.17%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (10.15%) Data Quality
2 84 (3.51%) QA
3 60 (2.51%) GDPR
4 34 (1.42%) SLA
5 26 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.96%) PMO
7 19 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.59%) GMP
9 12 (0.50%) NIST
10 11 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.46%) GRC
11 8 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.21%) WCAG
13 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.13%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.084%) GAAP
15 2 (0.084%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.042%) COBIT
System Software
1 58 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.25%) Docker
3 22 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.29%) vSphere
6 5 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.13%) IAG
8 2 (0.084%) HDFS
9 1 (0.042%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 61 (2.55%) Terraform
2 27 (1.13%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.42%) SCCM
5 6 (0.25%) Ansible
6 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.084%) Kibana
8 1 (0.042%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.042%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.042%) logstash
8 1 (0.042%) Nagios
8 1 (0.042%) Puppet
8 1 (0.042%) SCOM
8 1 (0.042%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 894 (37.36%) Microsoft
2 189 (7.90%) Google
3 159 (6.64%) Databricks
4 127 (5.31%) Oracle
5 91 (3.80%) SAP
6 66 (2.76%) Alteryx
7 57 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 30 (1.25%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.17%) VMware
10 26 (1.09%) Adobe
11 23 (0.96%) Atlassian
12 21 (0.88%) Teradata
13 19 (0.79%) Informatica
14 12 (0.50%) Hotjar
14 12 (0.50%) MicroStrategy
15 11 (0.46%) Dataiku
15 11 (0.46%) UiPath
16 10 (0.42%) Cisco
16 10 (0.42%) Cognos
17 9 (0.38%) Sage