Power BI Jobs

Microsoft Power BI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Power BI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Power BI over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 72 80
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +29
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 1,670 3,526 4,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.24% 3.59% 3.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.28% 19.45% 18.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,155 2,834 2,624
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,079 £85,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -

All Database and 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 7,497 18,124 22,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.53% 18.46% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,236 12,600 14,080
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +5.77%

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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

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Power BI in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the UK

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Top 19 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 26 April 2025. 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 -14 1,521 £57,500 +4.55% 1,956
UK excluding London -21 1,013 £52,500 +10.53% 990
Work from Home -10 600 £57,500 +4.55% 1,018
London -10 551 £70,000 +7.69% 1,142
North of England -59 271 £50,000 +5.26% 253
South East +10 267 £55,000 +10.00% 288
Midlands -43 196 £50,000 +5.26% 166
North West -56 194 £52,500 +10.53% 146
West Midlands -35 142 £52,175 +4.35% 98
East of England +3 131 £70,000 +47.37% 60
South West +11 82 £48,750 +2.63% 127
Yorkshire -19 67 £47,500 -2.39% 83
East Midlands -12 53 £45,500 +7.06% 62
Scotland +21 50 £49,250 +3.68% 75
North East -17 10 £50,000 +14.29% 25
Northern Ireland +34 6 £32,500 -50.94% 20
Wales +18 5 £48,500 +2.11% 19
Isle of Man +16 3 £38,000 +5.56%
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 2

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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
1 142 (8.50%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 21 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.90%) Apache
5 12 (0.72%) Confluence
6 9 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.54%) CMS
6 9 (0.54%) IIS
7 6 (0.36%) SAS
8 3 (0.18%) EPiServer
8 3 (0.18%) SugarCRM
8 3 (0.18%) WordPress
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.12%) Moodle
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 388 (23.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.78%) Trello
6 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.48%) Maya
7 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.30%) SPSS
9 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.060%) Simulink
10 1 (0.060%) Sketch
10 1 (0.060%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 70 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
2 9 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.48%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.36%) Infor M3
4 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.24%) Infor LN
6 4 (0.24%) iTrent
6 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.18%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.18%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.18%) Shopify
8 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.12%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,670 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 624 (37.37%) Azure
3 211 (12.63%) Power Automate
4 199 (11.92%) PowerApps
5 155 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
6 152 (9.10%) Dynamics 365
7 131 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
8 130 (7.78%) AWS
9 118 (7.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 81 (4.85%) Snowflake
11 79 (4.73%) GCP
12 77 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
14 47 (2.81%) SaaS
15 43 (2.57%) Google Analytics
16 41 (2.46%) Serverless
17 39 (2.34%) GitHub
18 30 (1.80%) Azure Functions
19 29 (1.74%) Entra ID
20 27 (1.62%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) DNS
1 14 (0.84%) Firewall
2 11 (0.66%) DHCP
3 10 (0.60%) Internet
4 9 (0.54%) VPN
5 7 (0.42%) FTP
6 6 (0.36%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.30%) SAN
7 5 (0.30%) VoIP
7 5 (0.30%) WAN
8 4 (0.24%) ADSL
8 4 (0.24%) LAN
8 4 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.18%) 5G
9 3 (0.18%) IP Telephony
9 3 (0.18%) VLAN
9 3 (0.18%) Wireless
10 2 (0.12%) CHAP
10 2 (0.12%) Intranet
10 2 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (20.06%) Tableau
2 291 (17.43%) Data Warehouse
3 224 (13.41%) SQL Server
4 171 (10.24%) Power Query
5 168 (10.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 162 (9.70%) Data Lake
7 110 (6.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 98 (5.87%) GIS
9 95 (5.69%) Geospatial Data
10 84 (5.03%) Big Data
11 72 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 65 (3.89%) Metadata
13 47 (2.81%) Relational Database
14 41 (2.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 40 (2.40%) Looker
16 36 (2.16%) BigQuery
17 28 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
18 25 (1.50%) Data Mining
19 24 (1.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
20 23 (1.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (3.29%) JIRA
2 35 (2.10%) Git
3 30 (1.80%) Visual Studio
4 25 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.30%) ERwin
6 5 (0.30%) JMeter
6 5 (0.30%) Postman
7 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.24%) GitLab
7 4 (0.24%) Selenium
8 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.18%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.18%) Gatling
8 3 (0.18%) MLflow
8 3 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.12%) ESLint
9 2 (0.12%) TestRail
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 638 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 479 (28.68%) Finance
3 389 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 121 (7.25%) Marketing
6 116 (6.95%) Law
7 105 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
8 90 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
9 82 (4.91%) Retail
10 69 (4.13%) Banking
11 64 (3.83%) Legal
12 61 (3.65%) Public Sector
13 51 (3.05%) Manufacturing
14 32 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (1.62%) Advertising
15 27 (1.62%) Automotive
16 22 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.26%) Billing
17 21 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 19 (1.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 515 (30.84%) Analyst
2 271 (16.23%) Developer
3 208 (12.46%) Senior
4 186 (11.14%) Data Analyst
5 174 (10.42%) Lead
6 145 (8.68%) Data Engineer
7 93 (5.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 81 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
9 74 (4.43%) Digital Analyst
10 70 (4.19%) Architect
10 70 (4.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 61 (3.65%) Financial Analyst
12 60 (3.59%) Power BI Developer
13 50 (2.99%) Data Manager
14 43 (2.57%) Business Analyst
15 42 (2.51%) SQL Developer
16 39 (2.34%) Consultant
17 38 (2.28%) Power Platform Developer
18 35 (2.10%) Data Scientist
19 34 (2.04%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (4.91%) .NET
2 37 (2.22%) REST
3 36 (2.16%) CSS
3 36 (2.16%) JSON
4 33 (1.98%) HTML
5 32 (1.92%) XML
6 25 (1.50%) .NET Framework
6 25 (1.50%) PySpark
7 23 (1.38%) Kafka
8 21 (1.26%) EDI
9 19 (1.14%) SOAP
10 18 (1.08%) React
11 17 (1.02%) ASP.NET
12 15 (0.90%) Web Services
13 14 (0.84%) Middleware
13 14 (0.84%) RESTful
14 13 (0.78%) .NET Core
15 11 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web API
15 11 (0.66%) Pandas
16 9 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.13%) Algorithms
2 117 (7.01%) Management Information System
3 53 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.10%) Data Structures
5 34 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 30 (1.80%) Social Media
7 27 (1.62%) Cloud Native
8 24 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.14%) Low-Code
12 13 (0.78%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.72%) NHS
13 12 (0.72%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.60%) Blockchain
14 10 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.60%) FMCG
14 10 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.60%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.28%) Windows
2 19 (1.14%) Linux
3 14 (0.84%) Windows Vista
4 10 (0.60%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.12%) SUSE
6 2 (0.12%) Unix
7 1 (0.060%) Android
7 1 (0.060%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.060%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,462 (87.54%) Business Intelligence
2 682 (40.84%) Analytics
3 522 (31.26%) Problem-Solving
4 509 (30.48%) Visualisation
5 357 (21.38%) Data Analysis
6 328 (19.64%) Data Visualisation
7 313 (18.74%) Data Management
8 310 (18.56%) Decision-Making
9 307 (18.38%) Data Modelling
10 303 (18.14%) Actionable Insight
11 271 (16.23%) Agile
12 263 (15.75%) ETL
13 258 (15.45%) Data Analytics
14 229 (13.71%) Artificial Intelligence
15 198 (11.86%) Data Governance
16 184 (11.02%) Data Engineering
17 168 (10.06%) Data Science
17 168 (10.06%) DevOps
17 168 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 161 (9.64%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 951 (56.95%) SQL
2 349 (20.90%) Python
3 139 (8.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 110 (6.59%) T-SQL
5 102 (6.11%) C#
6 95 (5.69%) R
7 71 (4.25%) PowerShell
8 57 (3.41%) JavaScript
9 42 (2.51%) Java
10 19 (1.14%) VBA
11 16 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.90%) C++
13 13 (0.78%) Scala
14 12 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.66%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.54%) Bash
17 7 (0.42%) X++
18 5 (0.30%) PHP
18 5 (0.30%) VB
19 4 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 392 (23.47%) Degree
2 92 (5.51%) DBS Check
3 49 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (2.93%) Security Cleared
4 42 (2.51%) ACCA
5 41 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.40%) CIMA
7 39 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (2.22%) SC Cleared
9 25 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.72%) CISSP
12 10 (0.60%) AAT
12 10 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
13 9 (0.54%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.48%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.36%) CISM
15 6 (0.36%) CSPO
15 6 (0.36%) HND
15 6 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (15.33%) Data Quality
2 76 (4.55%) GDPR
3 66 (3.95%) QA
4 36 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.60%) PMO
8 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.36%) GxP
9 6 (0.36%) NIST
9 6 (0.36%) SLA
10 5 (0.30%) IFRS
11 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.18%) COBIT
12 3 (0.18%) GRC
12 3 (0.18%) HL7
12 3 (0.18%) MiFID
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 31 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.50%) Docker
3 15 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.30%) HDFS
7 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.060%) XenApp
8 1 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 16 (0.96%) Terraform
3 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (0.36%) SCCM
6 5 (0.30%) Ansible
7 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.12%) Grafana
7 2 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.12%) Nessus
7 2 (0.12%) SCOM
7 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.060%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.060%) Istio
8 1 (0.060%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.060%) QRadar
8 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 579 (34.67%) Microsoft
2 167 (10.00%) Databricks
3 95 (5.69%) Google
4 89 (5.33%) SAP
5 84 (5.03%) Alteryx
6 62 (3.71%) Salesforce
7 42 (2.51%) Oracle
8 40 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.68%) IBM
9 28 (1.68%) Informatica
10 19 (1.14%) Cognos
11 17 (1.02%) Dell
12 16 (0.96%) Aderant
12 16 (0.96%) VMware
13 14 (0.84%) Adobe
14 12 (0.72%) Intapp
15 10 (0.60%) Infor
16 9 (0.54%) Anaplan
17 8 (0.48%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.48%) Sage