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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 82 113
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -9
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 3,473 4,001 5,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.53% 3.94% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.24% 18.46% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,808 2,523 3,573
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,162 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £80,000
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 18,050 21,669 43,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.34% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,498 13,515 21,192
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 £79,000
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% +8.25%

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 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
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 7 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 +14 3,162 £55,000 - 940
UK excluding London +5 2,337 £47,500 - 587
Work from Home +2 1,488 £55,000 - 507
London +12 1,003 £65,000 -2.67% 375
North of England +13 643 £47,500 +5.56% 145
Midlands +15 514 £47,500 +2.70% 143
South East +15 496 £50,000 -4.76% 134
West Midlands +17 379 £50,000 +5.26% 90
North West +40 364 £47,500 +5.56% 86
South West -11 243 £47,500 -3.06% 64
East of England +97 225 £47,500 -5.00% 55
Yorkshire -17 192 £47,500 +2.70% 44
Scotland -9 183 £47,500 -0.44% 35
East Midlands +2 133 £42,500 +6.25% 53
North East -3 87 £43,750 -12.50% 15
Wales -34 28 £47,029 +17.57% 11
Northern Ireland +6 7 £67,500 +50.00% 6
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86% 1
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
1 358 (10.31%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 43 (1.24%) Confluence
4 37 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.89%) SAS
6 26 (0.75%) IIS
7 25 (0.72%) Apache
7 25 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.43%) WordPress
9 12 (0.35%) CMS
10 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.14%) IBM Notes
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.086%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.058%) Drupal
13 2 (0.058%) IBM Domino
13 2 (0.058%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.058%) Moodle
13 2 (0.058%) nginx
14 1 (0.029%) Documentum
Applications
1 854 (24.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 201 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.35%) SPSS
7 12 (0.35%) Trello
8 6 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.14%) InDesign
10 3 (0.086%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.086%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.029%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 181 (5.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.58%) Primavera
3 19 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 17 (0.49%) Elite 3E
5 14 (0.40%) Epicor Tropos
6 12 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
7 10 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.29%) 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 (0.12%) Finacle
10 4 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.12%) Temenos T24
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle General Ledger
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle iProcurement
11 3 (0.086%) Sage 200
11 3 (0.086%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,473 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,308 (37.66%) Azure
3 513 (14.77%) PowerApps
4 467 (13.45%) Power Automate
5 395 (11.37%) Microsoft 365
6 302 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
7 260 (7.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 211 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 203 (5.85%) AWS
10 154 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
11 122 (3.51%) GCP
12 108 (3.11%) Snowflake
13 72 (2.07%) Serverless
14 71 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
15 65 (1.87%) Google Analytics
16 55 (1.58%) SaaS
17 44 (1.27%) Entra ID
18 38 (1.09%) OneDrive
19 35 (1.01%) GitHub
20 33 (0.95%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.13%) Broadband
2 40 (1.15%) DNS
3 33 (0.95%) Intranet
4 27 (0.78%) Firewall
5 24 (0.69%) DHCP
6 22 (0.63%) Internet
6 22 (0.63%) Network Security
7 13 (0.37%) LAN
7 13 (0.37%) WAN
8 12 (0.35%) Unified Communications
8 12 (0.35%) VPN
9 10 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (0.23%) WebEx
11 7 (0.20%) NAS
12 6 (0.17%) SAN
13 5 (0.14%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.14%) VoIP
13 5 (0.14%) Wireless
14 3 (0.086%) FTP
14 3 (0.086%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 749 (21.57%) SQL Server
2 610 (17.56%) Data Warehouse
3 603 (17.36%) Tableau
4 408 (11.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 351 (10.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 262 (7.54%) Data Lake
7 187 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 167 (4.81%) Power Query
9 161 (4.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 132 (3.80%) Relational Database
11 75 (2.16%) Looker
12 71 (2.04%) QlikView
13 70 (2.02%) Big Data
14 59 (1.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 57 (1.64%) Data Mining
16 55 (1.58%) BigQuery
17 49 (1.41%) Metadata
18 48 (1.38%) NoSQL
19 47 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
19 47 (1.35%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 175 (5.04%) JIRA
2 70 (2.02%) Git
3 60 (1.73%) Visual Studio
4 52 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 15 (0.43%) RStudio
5 15 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (0.40%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.14%) ERwin
8 5 (0.14%) GitLab
9 4 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.086%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.086%) NUnit
10 3 (0.086%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.086%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.086%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.058%) MSTest
11 2 (0.058%) Sourcetree
11 2 (0.058%) Visual Studio Team System
12 1 (0.029%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,271 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 988 (28.45%) Finance
3 846 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
4 338 (9.73%) Retail
5 285 (8.21%) Marketing
6 278 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 181 (5.21%) Legal
8 176 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 139 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 134 (3.86%) Law
11 133 (3.83%) Manufacturing
12 129 (3.71%) Banking
13 67 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.41%) Local Government
15 45 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 45 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 43 (1.24%) Back Office
16 43 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
17 40 (1.15%) Advertising
18 29 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 940 (27.07%) Analyst
2 693 (19.95%) Developer
3 399 (11.49%) Senior
4 397 (11.43%) Data Analyst
5 311 (8.95%) Lead
6 265 (7.63%) Data Engineer
7 257 (7.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 232 (6.68%) Consultant
9 167 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 156 (4.49%) Power BI Developer
11 155 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
12 151 (4.35%) Architect
13 128 (3.69%) DBA
14 118 (3.40%) Senior Developer
15 117 (3.37%) SQL DBA
16 115 (3.31%) Power Platform Developer
17 108 (3.11%) Data Manager
18 100 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
19 83 (2.39%) Administrator
20 82 (2.36%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (5.24%) .NET
2 131 (3.77%) HTML
3 82 (2.36%) CSS
4 70 (2.02%) JSON
5 66 (1.90%) ASP.NET
6 50 (1.44%) REST
7 49 (1.41%) .NET Framework
8 47 (1.35%) HTML5 Canvas
9 45 (1.30%) Web Services
10 37 (1.07%) PySpark
11 35 (1.01%) XML
12 26 (0.75%) Entity Framework
13 25 (0.72%) RESTful
14 23 (0.66%) MDX
15 21 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
16 18 (0.52%) ASP.NET MVC
16 18 (0.52%) React
17 14 (0.40%) .NET Core
18 13 (0.37%) GraphQL
19 12 (0.35%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 182 (5.24%) Management Information System
2 134 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
3 77 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 74 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 64 (1.84%) Data Structures
6 54 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 53 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.30%) Low-Code
9 39 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 38 (1.09%) NHS
11 34 (0.98%) FMCG
12 29 (0.84%) Data Centre
12 29 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 24 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (0.63%) Reinsurance
16 20 (0.58%) IoT
16 20 (0.58%) PMI
17 18 (0.52%) Housing Association
18 17 (0.49%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.20%) Windows
2 76 (2.19%) VMS
3 52 (1.50%) Linux
4 50 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.75%) Windows 10
6 24 (0.69%) Unix
7 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.14%) Android
9 5 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.058%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.029%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.029%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,930 (84.37%) Business Intelligence
2 946 (27.24%) Analytics
3 801 (23.06%) Visualisation
4 660 (19.00%) Agile
5 626 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
6 613 (17.65%) ETL
7 555 (15.98%) Data Analysis
8 528 (15.20%) Data Visualisation
9 504 (14.51%) Data Modelling
10 421 (12.12%) Decision-Making
11 354 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 349 (10.05%) Data Science
13 342 (9.85%) Data Analytics
13 342 (9.85%) Migration
14 330 (9.50%) Project Management
15 328 (9.44%) Machine Learning
16 324 (9.33%) Data Governance
17 316 (9.10%) DevOps
18 312 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
19 306 (8.81%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,965 (56.58%) SQL
2 581 (16.73%) Python
3 390 (11.23%) T-SQL
4 261 (7.52%) C#
5 256 (7.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 176 (5.07%) JavaScript
7 160 (4.61%) R
8 99 (2.85%) PowerShell
9 71 (2.04%) VBA
10 50 (1.44%) Java
11 37 (1.07%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.78%) TypeScript
13 23 (0.66%) VB
14 19 (0.55%) PHP
15 15 (0.43%) VB.NET
16 14 (0.40%) C
17 13 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (0.35%) Go
18 12 (0.35%) Scala
19 11 (0.32%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 662 (19.06%) Degree
2 235 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 159 (4.58%) DBS Check
4 116 (3.34%) Security Cleared
5 98 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 84 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 64 (1.84%) SC Cleared
8 51 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 20 (0.58%) CIPD
12 19 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
14 17 (0.49%) CIMA
15 16 (0.46%) CISM
15 16 (0.46%) CISSP
15 16 (0.46%) MBA
16 13 (0.37%) ACCA
16 13 (0.37%) MCSE
17 11 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 163 (4.69%) GDPR
3 77 (2.22%) QA
4 43 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 30 (0.86%) PMO
6 26 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 20 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 13 (0.37%) NIST
9 13 (0.37%) SLA
10 12 (0.35%) COBIT
11 9 (0.26%) GRC
11 9 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.12%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.058%) NCSC
15 1 (0.029%) IFRS
15 1 (0.029%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 104 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.29%) Docker
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Firmware
7 3 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (0.98%) Terraform
2 27 (0.78%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.58%) Ansible
4 12 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) Grafana
8 4 (0.12%) Puppet
9 3 (0.086%) SCCM
10 2 (0.058%) cPanel
11 1 (0.029%) Consul
11 1 (0.029%) Kibana
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
11 1 (0.029%) Packer
11 1 (0.029%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.029%) Podman
11 1 (0.029%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,451 (41.78%) Microsoft
2 231 (6.65%) Databricks
3 191 (5.50%) Oracle
4 171 (4.92%) Google
5 112 (3.22%) SAP
6 106 (3.05%) Alteryx
7 57 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 35 (1.01%) IFS
9 31 (0.89%) Cognos
10 26 (0.75%) Adobe
11 24 (0.69%) VMware
12 21 (0.60%) Aderant
12 21 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 21 (0.60%) Sophos
13 20 (0.58%) iManage
14 19 (0.55%) Epicor
15 15 (0.43%) Civica
16 14 (0.40%) Nintex
16 14 (0.40%) Workday
17 13 (0.37%) Apple