Power BI Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Power BI
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Power BI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 66 34
Rank change year-on-year +22 -32 +22
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 266 139 373
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.53% 4.15% 5.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 48.10% 32.18% 32.55%
Number of salaries quoted 150 122 309
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £50,925 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +1.85% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,188 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £68,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 553 432 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.34% 12.89% 16.66%
Number of salaries quoted 391 309 962
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Birmingham +3 103 £57,500 +12.20% 36
Staffordshire +8 38 £38,750 -8.82% 10
Herefordshire -3 30 £40,000 -25.93% 1
Coventry -1 26 £44,000 -26.67% 4
Wolverhampton - 24 £40,000 - 2
Warwickshire +16 23 £42,500 -21.55% 6
Walsall +11 7 £40,000 -4.76% 1
Worcestershire -24 4 £42,500 -22.73% 3
Solihull -2 2 £67,500 +10.20% 3
Shropshire -29 2 - - 1
Halesowen - 2 £36,500 -
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 - 1
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 11 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.75%) CMS
3 2 (0.75%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 128 (48.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.75%) Trello
5 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.75%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
2 1 (0.38%) Odoo
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 266 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 164 (61.65%) Azure
3 90 (33.83%) Azure AI
4 32 (12.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (7.89%) Power Automate
6 19 (7.14%) PowerApps
7 16 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (5.64%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.88%) Smartsheet
12 3 (1.13%) AWS
12 3 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.13%) dbt
12 3 (1.13%) GCP
12 3 (1.13%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.13%) SaaS
13 2 (0.75%) IaaS
13 2 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) DHCP
1 2 (0.75%) DNS
1 2 (0.75%) Intranet
2 1 (0.38%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (39.85%) Tableau
2 33 (12.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 22 (8.27%) SQL Server
4 17 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (5.26%) Power Query
6 10 (3.76%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (3.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.63%) Star Schema
9 5 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.88%) Looker
10 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.13%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (1.13%) MySQL
10 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.75%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (2.26%) JIRA
2 3 (1.13%) Git
3 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
General
1 124 (46.62%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (18.05%) Finance
3 22 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (5.64%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.51%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.63%) Law
6 7 (2.63%) Marketing
7 6 (2.26%) Legal
8 4 (1.50%) Billing
9 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.13%) Retail
9 3 (1.13%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.38%) Back Office
10 1 (0.38%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.38%) Games
10 1 (0.38%) Local Government
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (50.00%) Analyst
2 111 (41.73%) Data Analyst
3 97 (36.47%) Junior
4 95 (35.71%) Junior Analyst
4 95 (35.71%) Junior Data Analyst
5 45 (16.92%) Developer
6 27 (10.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 26 (9.77%) Data Engineer
8 25 (9.40%) Business Developer
9 22 (8.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 22 (8.27%) Senior
10 14 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 14 (5.26%) Snowflake Engineer
11 11 (4.14%) Power BI Analyst
11 11 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.76%) Architect
12 10 (3.76%) Azure Data Engineer
12 10 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.76%) Systems Developer
13 9 (3.38%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.26%) .NET
2 9 (3.38%) EDI
3 6 (2.26%) PySpark
4 4 (1.50%) JSON
5 3 (1.13%) CSS
5 3 (1.13%) HTML
5 3 (1.13%) XML
6 2 (0.75%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.75%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (0.75%) REST
7 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.38%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.38%) ODBC
7 1 (0.38%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.38%) React
7 1 (0.38%) RESTful
7 1 (0.38%) SOAP
7 1 (0.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.14%) Management Information System
2 10 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.75%) Cloud Native
4 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.38%) 3D Printing
5 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.38%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.38%) FMCG
5 1 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.38%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (0.38%) IoT
5 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.38%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.38%) Linux
1 1 (0.38%) Windows
1 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (98.50%) Business Intelligence
2 99 (37.22%) AI
3 77 (28.95%) Analytics
4 49 (18.42%) Decision-Making
5 44 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (15.04%) Data Modelling
7 35 (13.16%) Visualisation
8 30 (11.28%) ETL
9 26 (9.77%) Data Analysis
9 26 (9.77%) Data Visualisation
10 24 (9.02%) Actionable Insight
11 21 (7.89%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 19 (7.14%) Agile
13 18 (6.77%) Data Engineering
13 18 (6.77%) ERP
14 17 (6.39%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (6.02%) Computer Science
16 13 (4.89%) Data Architecture
16 13 (4.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 187 (70.30%) SQL
2 128 (48.12%) Python
3 26 (9.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (3.38%) T-SQL
5 6 (2.26%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.26%) VBA
6 4 (1.50%) C#
6 4 (1.50%) R
7 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.38%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.38%) C
8 1 (0.38%) PHP
8 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 93 (34.96%) Azure Certification
2 22 (8.27%) Degree
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (2.26%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.88%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.88%) PMP
4 5 (1.88%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.13%) ACCA
5 3 (1.13%) CIMA
5 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.75%) CITP
6 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.26%) PMO
3 5 (1.88%) GDPR
4 4 (1.50%) QA
5 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 144 (54.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.89%) Databricks
3 7 (2.63%) Sparx
4 4 (1.50%) Google
5 3 (1.13%) SAP
6 2 (0.75%) Civica
6 2 (0.75%) DocuSign
6 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.75%) VMware
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.38%) Epicor
7 1 (0.38%) Genesys
7 1 (0.38%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.38%) IFS
7 1 (0.38%) Infor
7 1 (0.38%) Informatica
7 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) Verint