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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 72 81
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +22
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 1,577 3,472 4,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.12% 3.74% 3.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.51% 19.79% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,099 2,800 2,801
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,300 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £67,500 £72,647
90th Percentile £90,164 £84,964 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.89% - -

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 7,689 17,548 23,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 18.90% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,241 12,473 14,525
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £84,056
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% +10.00%

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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 3 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 3 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 -17 1,441 £60,000 +9.09% 1,832
UK excluding London -21 949 £51,250 +7.89% 886
Work from Home -13 571 £57,500 +4.55% 905
London -18 534 £70,000 +7.69% 1,085
North of England -46 256 £48,000 +1.05% 240
South East +3 243 £55,000 +10.00% 266
Midlands -52 185 £50,000 +5.26% 164
North West -43 181 £50,000 +5.26% 137
West Midlands -50 136 £52,500 +8.25% 105
East of England +5 125 £70,000 +47.37% 61
South West -16 76 £48,250 +1.58% 78
Yorkshire -17 67 £47,500 -4.83% 76
Scotland +15 50 £47,750 +0.41% 73
East Midlands -15 49 £43,000 +1.18% 55
North East -27 8 £47,500 +8.57% 28
Northern Ireland +35 6 £32,500 -50.94% 10
Wales +14 5 £43,000 -9.47% 11
Isle of Man +14 3 £38,000 +5.56%
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

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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
1 118 (7.48%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.08%) Apache
4 15 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.82%) Confluence
6 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.38%) SAS
8 5 (0.32%) IIS
9 4 (0.25%) CMS
10 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.19%) SugarCRM
10 3 (0.19%) WordPress
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.063%) Moodle
Applications
1 392 (24.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.82%) Trello
6 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) Maya
8 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.25%) SPSS
9 1 (0.063%) Simulink
9 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 62 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (0.63%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.38%) Infor M3
4 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (0.25%) Infor LN
5 4 (0.25%) iTrent
6 3 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.19%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.19%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.19%) Shopify
7 2 (0.13%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.13%) Relativity
7 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,577 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 592 (37.54%) Azure
3 185 (11.73%) PowerApps
4 179 (11.35%) Power Automate
5 148 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
6 146 (9.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 129 (8.18%) AWS
8 127 (8.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 121 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
10 80 (5.07%) GCP
11 78 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
11 78 (4.95%) Snowflake
12 52 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 51 (3.23%) GitHub
14 39 (2.47%) Serverless
15 36 (2.28%) dbt
16 34 (2.16%) SaaS
17 30 (1.90%) Azure Functions
17 30 (1.90%) Google Analytics
18 23 (1.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.95%) DNS
2 11 (0.70%) DHCP
2 11 (0.70%) Firewall
3 9 (0.57%) VPN
4 8 (0.51%) Internet
5 7 (0.44%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.38%) SAN
6 6 (0.38%) VoIP
7 4 (0.25%) 5G
7 4 (0.25%) Wireless
8 3 (0.19%) FTP
8 3 (0.19%) IP Telephony
8 3 (0.19%) VLAN
9 2 (0.13%) ADSL
9 2 (0.13%) LAN
9 2 (0.13%) NAS
9 2 (0.13%) Network Security
9 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) WAN
9 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (18.39%) Tableau
2 289 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
3 190 (12.05%) SQL Server
4 179 (11.35%) Power Query
5 157 (9.96%) Data Lake
6 143 (9.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 98 (6.21%) GIS
8 95 (6.02%) Geospatial Data
9 94 (5.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 73 (4.63%) Big Data
11 71 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (2.92%) Metadata
13 40 (2.54%) BigQuery
14 39 (2.47%) Looker
14 39 (2.47%) Relational Database
15 36 (2.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 26 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.59%) Data Mining
17 25 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
18 23 (1.46%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (3.23%) JIRA
2 34 (2.16%) Git
3 29 (1.84%) Visual Studio
4 16 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (0.38%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.32%) ERwin
7 4 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.25%) JMeter
7 4 (0.25%) MLflow
7 4 (0.25%) Selenium
8 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.19%) GitLab
9 2 (0.13%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.13%) ESLint
9 2 (0.13%) Gatling
9 2 (0.13%) git-flow
9 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) TestRail
9 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 606 (38.43%) Social Skills
2 445 (28.22%) Finance
3 383 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (6.59%) Marketing
6 101 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
7 94 (5.96%) Law
8 89 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
9 69 (4.38%) Retail
10 67 (4.25%) Banking
11 56 (3.55%) Manufacturing
12 53 (3.36%) Legal
12 53 (3.36%) Public Sector
13 25 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (1.52%) Advertising
15 22 (1.40%) Automotive
15 22 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 20 (1.27%) Billing
17 15 (0.95%) Games
Job Titles
1 496 (31.45%) Analyst
2 230 (14.58%) Developer
3 195 (12.37%) Senior
4 185 (11.73%) Data Analyst
5 150 (9.51%) Data Engineer
6 143 (9.07%) Lead
7 88 (5.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 84 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
9 72 (4.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 72 (4.57%) Digital Analyst
10 66 (4.19%) Architect
11 54 (3.42%) Power BI Developer
12 53 (3.36%) Financial Analyst
13 48 (3.04%) Data Manager
14 40 (2.54%) Consultant
15 39 (2.47%) Power BI Analyst
16 36 (2.28%) Analytics Manager
17 35 (2.22%) Business Analyst
18 34 (2.16%) Data Scientist
19 33 (2.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (4.69%) .NET
2 36 (2.28%) JSON
3 35 (2.22%) CSS
4 33 (2.09%) REST
5 31 (1.97%) HTML
6 30 (1.90%) XML
7 23 (1.46%) Kafka
8 22 (1.40%) .NET Framework
9 20 (1.27%) PySpark
10 18 (1.14%) EDI
11 16 (1.01%) ASP.NET
11 16 (1.01%) React
11 16 (1.01%) SOAP
12 14 (0.89%) Middleware
12 14 (0.89%) RESTful
13 12 (0.76%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (0.70%) .NET Core
14 11 (0.70%) Web Services
15 10 (0.63%) Pandas
16 9 (0.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 113 (7.17%) Algorithms
2 106 (6.72%) Management Information System
3 49 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.09%) Data Structures
5 27 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 24 (1.52%) Social Media
7 23 (1.46%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 17 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (0.82%) NHS
11 13 (0.82%) Onboarding
12 12 (0.76%) Mobile App
13 11 (0.70%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.63%) Blockchain
14 10 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.57%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.57%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.97%) Windows
2 19 (1.20%) Linux
3 10 (0.63%) Windows Vista
4 6 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.13%) SUSE
6 2 (0.13%) Unix
7 1 (0.063%) Android
7 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.063%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,357 (86.05%) Business Intelligence
2 650 (41.22%) Analytics
3 475 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
4 474 (30.06%) Visualisation
5 345 (21.88%) Data Analysis
6 309 (19.59%) Data Management
7 296 (18.77%) Data Visualisation
8 295 (18.71%) Actionable Insight
9 291 (18.45%) Data Modelling
10 286 (18.14%) Decision-Making
11 272 (17.25%) ETL
12 256 (16.23%) Agile
13 249 (15.79%) Data Analytics
14 195 (12.37%) Artificial Intelligence
15 192 (12.18%) Data Engineering
16 184 (11.67%) Data Governance
17 165 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
18 162 (10.27%) DevOps
19 150 (9.51%) Data Science
20 146 (9.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 884 (56.06%) SQL
2 342 (21.69%) Python
3 145 (9.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 90 (5.71%) R
5 89 (5.64%) C#
6 88 (5.58%) T-SQL
7 63 (3.99%) PowerShell
8 51 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 43 (2.73%) Java
10 20 (1.27%) C++
11 14 (0.89%) VBA
12 13 (0.82%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.70%) Scala
14 11 (0.70%) VB.NET
15 8 (0.51%) Bash
16 5 (0.32%) PHP
16 5 (0.32%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.32%) VB
16 5 (0.32%) X++
Qualifications
1 353 (22.38%) Degree
2 79 (5.01%) DBS Check
3 42 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (2.66%) Security Cleared
4 37 (2.35%) ACCA
5 35 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 35 (2.22%) CIMA
6 34 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (1.84%) SC Cleared
8 22 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (0.82%) CISSP
11 10 (0.63%) AAT
11 10 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
12 9 (0.57%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.44%) CISM
13 7 (0.44%) HND
13 7 (0.44%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.38%) CSPO
15 5 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (14.77%) Data Quality
2 67 (4.25%) QA
3 58 (3.68%) GDPR
4 24 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (0.95%) PMO
6 9 (0.57%) SLA
7 8 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.38%) GxP
9 6 (0.38%) HL7
9 6 (0.38%) NIST
9 6 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
10 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.25%) IFRS
10 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.19%) GRC
11 3 (0.19%) MiFID
11 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.33%) Docker
3 9 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.38%) XenDesktop
7 5 (0.32%) HDFS
8 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.19%) vSphere
9 3 (0.19%) XenApp
10 1 (0.063%) pfSense
10 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (1.27%) Terraform
2 14 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.51%) SCCM
5 3 (0.19%) Ansible
6 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.13%) Grafana
6 2 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.13%) SCOM
7 1 (0.063%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.063%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.063%) Istio
7 1 (0.063%) Nessus
7 1 (0.063%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.063%) QRadar
7 1 (0.063%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 509 (32.28%) Microsoft
2 176 (11.16%) Databricks
3 83 (5.26%) SAP
4 81 (5.14%) Google
5 78 (4.95%) Alteryx
6 59 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 41 (2.60%) Oracle
8 37 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 20 (1.27%) IBM
10 16 (1.01%) Aderant
10 16 (1.01%) Informatica
11 13 (0.82%) Cognos
11 13 (0.82%) Dell
12 12 (0.76%) Intapp
13 10 (0.63%) Infor
14 9 (0.57%) Adobe
14 9 (0.57%) Citrix
14 9 (0.57%) VMware
15 8 (0.51%) Teradata
16 7 (0.44%) Sage