Microsoft Power BI
UK

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 68 68
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 +18
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 2,870 1,626 3,499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.36% 3.95% 3.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.29% 22.01% 20.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 1,125 2,823
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% -3.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,300 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,697 7,388 17,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.01% 17.95% 18.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,512 5,181 12,534
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in the UK

Power BI
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Power BI

Power BI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Top 17 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 15 April 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
England +10 2,542 £57,500 -0.86% 660
UK excluding London +9 2,116 £50,000 -4.76% 575
London +6 622 £70,000 - 212
North of England +3 567 £47,000 -6.00% 138
Work from Home -12 558 £55,000 -4.35% 259
Midlands +27 481 £47,085 -5.83% 119
South East +13 449 £56,250 +2.27% 183
West Midlands +12 280 £47,085 -8.84% 75
Yorkshire +38 269 £42,039 -11.50% 44
North West -10 232 £47,500 -5.00% 74
South West +37 220 £45,000 -2.17% 53
East Midlands +26 199 £45,390 +3.16% 44
East of England -6 191 £52,750 -24.64% 55
Scotland +31 126 £56,250 +22.28% 26
Wales +27 73 £38,500 -10.47% 12
North East +21 66 £51,250 +5.13% 25
Northern Ireland -13 32 £47,500 +46.15% 2

Power BI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 151 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.56%) Confluence
6 14 (0.49%) SAS
7 9 (0.31%) CMS
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.24%) Apache
10 6 (0.21%) WordPress
11 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.14%) Drupal
12 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.070%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.070%) Moodle
13 2 (0.070%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.070%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.035%) Appian
14 1 (0.035%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.035%) Mendix
Applications
1 1,566 (54.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.38%) Trello
8 2 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.035%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.035%) Maya
Business Applications
1 52 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.31%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 6 (0.21%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.17%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.14%) Shopify
8 4 (0.14%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.10%) Alphatax
9 3 (0.10%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 3 (0.10%) Magento
9 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.10%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,870 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,753 (61.08%) Azure
3 1,107 (38.57%) Azure AI
4 265 (9.23%) Power Automate
5 239 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 201 (7.00%) PowerApps
7 182 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 164 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 139 (4.84%) Snowflake
10 137 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
11 106 (3.69%) AWS
12 98 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
13 96 (3.34%) dbt
14 79 (2.75%) GCP
15 68 (2.37%) Entra ID
16 66 (2.30%) SaaS
17 57 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
18 53 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
19 44 (1.53%) GitHub
20 38 (1.32%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.49%) Intranet
2 13 (0.45%) DHCP
2 13 (0.45%) DNS
2 13 (0.45%) Firewall
3 8 (0.28%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.28%) VoIP
4 6 (0.21%) Broadband
4 6 (0.21%) WAN
5 5 (0.17%) Modbus
5 5 (0.17%) MQTT
5 5 (0.17%) VLAN
5 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.14%) VPN
7 3 (0.10%) Internet
7 3 (0.10%) Mobile Broadband
7 3 (0.10%) NAS
7 3 (0.10%) Softphone
8 2 (0.070%) Network Security
9 1 (0.035%) ADSL
9 1 (0.035%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,365 (47.56%) Tableau
2 215 (7.49%) SQL Server
3 196 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
4 130 (4.53%) Power Query
5 123 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 118 (4.11%) Data Lake
7 87 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 75 (2.61%) Looker
9 69 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 48 (1.67%) BigQuery
10 48 (1.67%) Relational Database
11 46 (1.60%) Big Data
12 39 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 39 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
13 32 (1.11%) Metadata
14 29 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
15 28 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 26 (0.91%) MySQL
16 26 (0.91%) Star Schema
17 25 (0.87%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 71 (2.47%) Git
2 50 (1.74%) JIRA
3 30 (1.05%) Visual Studio
4 26 (0.91%) MLflow
5 12 (0.42%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 9 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.14%) ERwin
7 4 (0.14%) GitLab
7 4 (0.14%) Postman
8 2 (0.070%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.070%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.035%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.035%) NUnit
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.035%) RStudio
9 1 (0.035%) Selenium
9 1 (0.035%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.035%) Toad
9 1 (0.035%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,745 (60.80%) Social Skills
2 608 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
3 591 (20.59%) Finance
4 108 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (3.59%) Marketing
6 90 (3.14%) Public Sector
7 86 (3.00%) Manufacturing
8 85 (2.96%) Legal
9 79 (2.75%) Law
10 77 (2.68%) Retail
11 67 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 60 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 37 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (1.15%) Banking
16 32 (1.11%) Billing
17 24 (0.84%) Games
18 20 (0.70%) Telecoms
19 19 (0.66%) Publishing
20 18 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,669 (58.15%) Analyst
2 1,332 (46.41%) Data Analyst
3 1,120 (39.02%) Junior
4 1,113 (38.78%) Junior Analyst
5 1,110 (38.68%) Junior Data Analyst
6 276 (9.62%) Senior
7 237 (8.26%) Developer
8 148 (5.16%) Data Engineer
9 132 (4.60%) Lead
10 98 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 91 (3.17%) Architect
12 85 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 80 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
13 80 (2.79%) Support Analyst
14 73 (2.54%) Business Analyst
15 72 (2.51%) IT Support
16 70 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
17 59 (2.06%) Consultant
18 57 (1.99%) Power BI Developer
19 53 (1.85%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (2.96%) .NET
2 51 (1.78%) JSON
3 43 (1.50%) CSS
3 43 (1.50%) PySpark
4 42 (1.46%) XML
5 40 (1.39%) HTML
5 40 (1.39%) REST
6 35 (1.22%) HTML5 Canvas
6 35 (1.22%) Kafka
7 30 (1.05%) .NET Core
7 30 (1.05%) PyTorch
8 29 (1.01%) scikit-learn
9 25 (0.87%) EDI
10 24 (0.84%) TensorFlow
11 23 (0.80%) LangChain
11 23 (0.80%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (0.80%) pgvector
12 20 (0.70%) RESTful
12 20 (0.70%) SOAP
13 18 (0.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 99 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 83 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 69 (2.40%) Cloud Native
4 49 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 48 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 39 (1.36%) Low-Code
6 39 (1.36%) Product Ownership
7 36 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (0.94%) Clustering
10 24 (0.84%) Public Cloud
11 22 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (0.59%) Driving Licence
12 17 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (0.45%) FMCG
14 13 (0.45%) NHS
14 13 (0.45%) Reinsurance
14 13 (0.45%) Social Media
15 11 (0.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.32%) Windows
2 17 (0.59%) Linux
2 17 (0.59%) Windows Server
3 12 (0.42%) VMS
4 7 (0.24%) Unix
5 5 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.070%) Android
8 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,746 (95.68%) Business Intelligence
2 1,370 (47.74%) AI
3 695 (24.22%) Analytics
4 492 (17.14%) Decision-Making
5 458 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
6 399 (13.90%) Data Modelling
7 383 (13.34%) Visualisation
8 343 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 277 (9.65%) ETL
10 275 (9.58%) Data Analysis
11 269 (9.37%) Agile
12 241 (8.40%) Data Governance
13 234 (8.15%) Data Visualisation
14 232 (8.08%) Actionable Insight
15 215 (7.49%) Data Engineering
16 189 (6.59%) ERP
16 189 (6.59%) Project Management
17 186 (6.48%) Data Pipeline
18 178 (6.20%) Data Management
19 176 (6.13%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2,020 (70.38%) SQL
2 1,541 (53.69%) Python
3 175 (6.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 114 (3.97%) C#
5 84 (2.93%) PowerShell
6 79 (2.75%) VBA
7 76 (2.65%) JavaScript
8 53 (1.85%) R
9 51 (1.78%) T-SQL
10 20 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 20 (0.70%) TypeScript
11 17 (0.59%) Java
12 13 (0.45%) Scala
13 11 (0.38%) Delphi
13 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.31%) VBScript
15 6 (0.21%) Julia
15 6 (0.21%) VB
16 5 (0.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,132 (39.44%) Azure Certification
2 303 (10.56%) Degree
3 85 (2.96%) Security Cleared
4 76 (2.65%) ACCA
4 76 (2.65%) CIMA
5 65 (2.26%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 45 (1.57%) PMP
8 42 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.43%) DBS Check
10 35 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.66%) HND
12 16 (0.56%) AAT
13 15 (0.52%) MBA
14 12 (0.42%) APMP
14 12 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 9 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (0.28%) IIBA
16 8 (0.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 110 (3.83%) GDPR
3 68 (2.37%) SLA
4 54 (1.88%) QA
5 42 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 38 (1.32%) PMO
7 27 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
7 27 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 12 (0.42%) GRC
10 11 (0.38%) TickIT
11 9 (0.31%) NIST
12 7 (0.24%) IFRS
13 4 (0.14%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.14%) ITGC
14 3 (0.10%) GAAP
15 2 (0.070%) MiFID
15 2 (0.070%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.070%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.070%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.42%) Docker
2 12 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.21%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.10%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.10%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.035%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 21 (0.73%) Terraform
2 13 (0.45%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.17%) FortiGate
3 5 (0.17%) SCCM
4 4 (0.14%) Ansible
4 4 (0.14%) Control-M
5 3 (0.10%) Argo
5 3 (0.10%) MOM
6 1 (0.035%) Grafana
6 1 (0.035%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,723 (60.03%) Microsoft
2 169 (5.89%) Databricks
3 84 (2.93%) SAP
4 69 (2.40%) Oracle
5 56 (1.95%) Google
6 45 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 38 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 36 (1.25%) Informatica
9 35 (1.22%) Adobe
10 29 (1.01%) Alteryx
11 28 (0.98%) Anaplan
12 24 (0.84%) Cloudera
12 24 (0.84%) Dell
13 20 (0.70%) Genesys
13 20 (0.70%) Verint
14 19 (0.66%) Intapp
15 14 (0.49%) Freshdesk
15 14 (0.49%) iManage
16 13 (0.45%) Sage
17 12 (0.42%) VMware