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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 82 112
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 -8
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 3,509 4,073 5,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.56% 3.93% 3.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.36% 18.42% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,831 2,564 3,608
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £41,622
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £80,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

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 18,127 22,107 43,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.40% 21.35% 27.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12,551 13,795 21,439
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +15 3,195 £55,000 - 929
UK excluding London +6 2,357 £47,500 - 578
Work from Home +6 1,510 £55,000 - 512
London +11 1,016 £65,000 -2.90% 370
North of England +13 651 £47,500 +5.56% 150
Midlands +16 515 £47,500 +2.70% 138
South East +16 499 £50,000 -4.76% 132
West Midlands +16 378 £50,000 +5.26% 84
North West +41 367 £47,500 +5.56% 86
South West -4 244 £47,500 - 65
East of England +105 228 £47,500 -5.00% 51
Yorkshire -14 196 £47,500 +2.15% 45
Scotland -13 186 £47,500 -0.44% 36
East Midlands +6 135 £42,500 -5.56% 54
North East 0 88 £43,750 -12.50% 19
Wales -32 29 £47,264 +18.16% 11
Northern Ireland +3 8 £67,500 +50.00% 5
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 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
1 364 (10.37%) SharePoint
2 56 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.34%) Confluence
4 43 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 33 (0.94%) SAS
6 30 (0.85%) Apache
7 26 (0.74%) IIS
8 25 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) WordPress
10 12 (0.34%) CMS
11 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.085%) IBM Domino
13 3 (0.085%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.057%) Drupal
14 2 (0.057%) Joomla!
14 2 (0.057%) Moodle
14 2 (0.057%) nginx
14 2 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 865 (24.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 201 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.34%) SPSS
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 7 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.17%) InDesign
10 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.085%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.028%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 184 (5.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.57%) Primavera
3 19 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 17 (0.48%) Elite 3E
5 14 (0.40%) Epicor Tropos
6 12 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
7 10 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.28%) SAP Business One
8 7 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (0.20%) Shopify
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.17%) SAP PLM
9 6 (0.17%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.11%) Finacle
10 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.11%) Temenos T24
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle General Ledger
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle iProcurement
11 3 (0.085%) Sage 200
11 3 (0.085%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,509 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,321 (37.65%) Azure
3 517 (14.73%) PowerApps
4 468 (13.34%) Power Automate
5 400 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
6 306 (8.72%) Dynamics 365
7 261 (7.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 209 (5.96%) AWS
8 209 (5.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 155 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
10 137 (3.90%) GCP
11 109 (3.11%) Snowflake
12 75 (2.14%) Serverless
13 73 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
14 66 (1.88%) Google Analytics
15 56 (1.60%) SaaS
16 45 (1.28%) Entra ID
17 40 (1.14%) GitHub
18 39 (1.11%) OneDrive
19 35 (1.00%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.11%) Broadband
2 41 (1.17%) DNS
3 33 (0.94%) Intranet
4 28 (0.80%) Firewall
5 23 (0.66%) DHCP
5 23 (0.66%) Network Security
6 22 (0.63%) Internet
7 13 (0.37%) LAN
7 13 (0.37%) WAN
8 12 (0.34%) Unified Communications
8 12 (0.34%) VPN
9 10 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (0.23%) WebEx
11 7 (0.20%) NAS
11 7 (0.20%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.17%) SAN
13 5 (0.14%) VoIP
14 4 (0.11%) FTP
14 4 (0.11%) Wireless
15 3 (0.085%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 758 (21.60%) SQL Server
2 615 (17.53%) Tableau
3 611 (17.41%) Data Warehouse
4 412 (11.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 357 (10.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 268 (7.64%) Data Lake
7 187 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 170 (4.84%) Power Query
9 163 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 135 (3.85%) Relational Database
11 79 (2.25%) Looker
12 75 (2.14%) Big Data
13 72 (2.05%) QlikView
14 63 (1.80%) BigQuery
15 58 (1.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 58 (1.65%) Data Mining
16 55 (1.57%) NoSQL
17 50 (1.42%) BusinessObjects
18 48 (1.37%) Qlik Sense
19 47 (1.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 179 (5.10%) JIRA
2 71 (2.02%) Git
3 60 (1.71%) Visual Studio
4 52 (1.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 18 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.43%) RStudio
6 15 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.14%) GitLab
9 4 (0.11%) ERwin
9 4 (0.11%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.085%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.085%) NUnit
10 3 (0.085%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.085%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.085%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.085%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.057%) MSTest
11 2 (0.057%) Sourcetree
12 1 (0.028%) Moq
General
1 1,277 (36.39%) Social Skills
2 1,005 (28.64%) Finance
3 857 (24.42%) Analytical Skills
4 345 (9.83%) Retail
5 286 (8.15%) Marketing
6 280 (7.98%) Public Sector
7 182 (5.19%) Legal
8 177 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 142 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
10 140 (3.99%) Banking
11 139 (3.96%) Law
12 135 (3.85%) Manufacturing
13 67 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.40%) Local Government
15 46 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
17 44 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
18 43 (1.23%) Back Office
19 42 (1.20%) Advertising
20 31 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 943 (26.87%) Analyst
2 702 (20.01%) Developer
3 403 (11.48%) Senior
4 395 (11.26%) Data Analyst
5 312 (8.89%) Lead
6 269 (7.67%) Data Engineer
7 263 (7.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 230 (6.55%) Consultant
9 168 (4.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 161 (4.59%) Power BI Developer
11 156 (4.45%) Senior Analyst
12 154 (4.39%) Architect
13 128 (3.65%) DBA
14 118 (3.36%) Senior Developer
15 117 (3.33%) SQL DBA
16 115 (3.28%) Power Platform Developer
17 111 (3.16%) Data Manager
18 101 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
19 84 (2.39%) Administrator
20 83 (2.37%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (5.16%) .NET
2 131 (3.73%) HTML
3 83 (2.37%) CSS
4 71 (2.02%) JSON
5 68 (1.94%) ASP.NET
6 50 (1.42%) .NET Framework
7 49 (1.40%) REST
8 48 (1.37%) HTML5 Canvas
9 45 (1.28%) Web Services
10 36 (1.03%) PySpark
11 35 (1.00%) XML
12 27 (0.77%) Entity Framework
13 25 (0.71%) RESTful
14 24 (0.68%) MDX
15 21 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
16 19 (0.54%) ASP.NET MVC
17 18 (0.51%) React
18 14 (0.40%) .NET Core
18 14 (0.40%) Kafka
19 12 (0.34%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.24%) Management Information System
2 133 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
3 79 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 76 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 64 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 56 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 47 (1.34%) Low-Code
9 41 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 38 (1.08%) NHS
11 34 (0.97%) FMCG
12 29 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 28 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 24 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (0.66%) Reinsurance
16 20 (0.57%) IoT
16 20 (0.57%) PMI
17 18 (0.51%) Cloud Native
17 18 (0.51%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 148 (4.22%) Windows
2 76 (2.17%) VMS
3 53 (1.51%) Linux
4 52 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.74%) Unix
5 26 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.14%) Android
7 5 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.028%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.028%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.028%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.028%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,958 (84.30%) Business Intelligence
2 957 (27.27%) Analytics
3 816 (23.25%) Visualisation
4 678 (19.32%) Agile
5 634 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
6 627 (17.87%) ETL
7 556 (15.84%) Data Analysis
8 541 (15.42%) Data Visualisation
9 511 (14.56%) Data Modelling
10 428 (12.20%) Decision-Making
11 359 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 354 (10.09%) Data Science
13 351 (10.00%) Data Analytics
14 341 (9.72%) Migration
15 338 (9.63%) Machine Learning
16 329 (9.38%) Project Management
17 325 (9.26%) Data Governance
18 322 (9.18%) DevOps
19 314 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
20 309 (8.81%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,986 (56.60%) SQL
2 595 (16.96%) Python
3 397 (11.31%) T-SQL
4 262 (7.47%) C#
5 260 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 177 (5.04%) JavaScript
7 163 (4.65%) R
8 98 (2.79%) PowerShell
9 72 (2.05%) VBA
10 50 (1.42%) Java
11 37 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 28 (0.80%) TypeScript
13 23 (0.66%) VB
14 19 (0.54%) PHP
15 15 (0.43%) VB.NET
16 14 (0.40%) C
17 13 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
17 13 (0.37%) Scala
18 12 (0.34%) Go
19 11 (0.31%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 668 (19.04%) Degree
2 236 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 159 (4.53%) DBS Check
4 116 (3.31%) Security Cleared
5 99 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 84 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 64 (1.82%) SC Cleared
8 49 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 20 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (0.57%) CIPD
12 17 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
13 16 (0.46%) CIMA
13 16 (0.46%) CISM
13 16 (0.46%) CISSP
13 16 (0.46%) MBA
14 13 (0.37%) MCSE
15 12 (0.34%) ACCA
16 11 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (9.29%) Data Quality
2 164 (4.67%) GDPR
3 79 (2.25%) QA
4 43 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 30 (0.85%) PMO
6 26 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 21 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.43%) SLA
9 13 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 13 (0.37%) NIST
10 12 (0.34%) COBIT
11 9 (0.26%) GRC
11 9 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.11%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.057%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.057%) NCSC
15 1 (0.028%) GMP
System Software
1 106 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Docker
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Firmware
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.085%) vSphere
9 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (1.05%) Terraform
2 28 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.57%) Ansible
4 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.20%) Foglight
5 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (0.20%) Nagios
6 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.11%) Grafana
8 4 (0.11%) Puppet
9 3 (0.085%) SCCM
10 2 (0.057%) cPanel
11 1 (0.028%) Consul
11 1 (0.028%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.028%) Kibana
11 1 (0.028%) logstash
11 1 (0.028%) Packer
11 1 (0.028%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.028%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,467 (41.81%) Microsoft
2 236 (6.73%) Databricks
3 192 (5.47%) Oracle
4 178 (5.07%) Google
5 114 (3.25%) SAP
6 107 (3.05%) Alteryx
7 57 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 35 (1.00%) IFS
9 31 (0.88%) Cognos
10 27 (0.77%) Adobe
11 26 (0.74%) VMware
12 25 (0.71%) ServiceNow
13 21 (0.60%) Sophos
14 20 (0.57%) Aderant
14 20 (0.57%) iManage
15 19 (0.54%) Epicor
16 15 (0.43%) Civica
17 14 (0.40%) Nintex
17 14 (0.40%) Workday
18 13 (0.37%) Apple