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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 82 110
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 -5
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 3,516 4,079 5,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.57% 3.93% 3.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.36% 18.42% 11.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,836 2,563 3,592
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,500
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 £80,500
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 18,159 22,148 43,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.41% 21.34% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,577 13,812 21,421
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 £78,750
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% +7.78%

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 3 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 3 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 +16 3,202 £55,000 - 885
UK excluding London +7 2,362 £47,500 - 558
Work from Home +7 1,513 £55,000 - 467
London +13 1,017 £65,000 -2.90% 352
North of England +13 655 £47,500 +5.56% 145
Midlands +12 515 £47,500 +2.70% 136
South East +12 500 £50,000 -4.76% 124
West Midlands +15 378 £50,000 +5.26% 85
North West +40 369 £47,500 +5.56% 81
South West -6 244 £47,500 - 61
East of England +104 228 £47,500 -5.00% 46
Yorkshire -15 198 £47,500 +2.70% 43
Scotland -16 186 £47,500 -0.44% 38
East Midlands +4 135 £42,500 -5.56% 51
North East +1 88 £43,750 -12.50% 21
Wales -39 29 £47,264 +18.16% 11
Northern Ireland +6 8 £67,500 +50.00% 6
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 (10.35%) SharePoint
2 56 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.34%) Confluence
4 43 (1.22%) 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 (24.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 201 (5.72%) 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
1 185 (5.26%) 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 3,516 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,326 (37.71%) Azure
3 517 (14.70%) PowerApps
4 468 (13.31%) Power Automate
5 400 (11.38%) Microsoft 365
6 307 (8.73%) Dynamics 365
7 262 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 211 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 209 (5.94%) AWS
10 155 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
11 137 (3.90%) GCP
12 109 (3.10%) Snowflake
13 76 (2.16%) Serverless
14 74 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 67 (1.91%) Google Analytics
16 56 (1.59%) SaaS
17 45 (1.28%) Entra ID
18 40 (1.14%) GitHub
19 39 (1.11%) OneDrive
20 36 (1.02%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.10%) Broadband
2 41 (1.17%) DNS
3 33 (0.94%) Intranet
4 28 (0.80%) Firewall
5 23 (0.65%) DHCP
5 23 (0.65%) 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%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 758 (21.56%) SQL Server
2 617 (17.55%) Tableau
3 613 (17.43%) Data Warehouse
4 414 (11.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 359 (10.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 270 (7.68%) Data Lake
7 187 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 170 (4.84%) Power Query
9 164 (4.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 135 (3.84%) Relational Database
11 80 (2.28%) Looker
12 75 (2.13%) Big Data
13 72 (2.05%) QlikView
14 63 (1.79%) BigQuery
15 59 (1.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 58 (1.65%) Data Mining
17 55 (1.56%) NoSQL
18 50 (1.42%) BusinessObjects
19 48 (1.37%) Qlik Sense
20 47 (1.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 179 (5.09%) 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%) ERwin
8 5 (0.14%) GitLab
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%) Postman
General
1 1,280 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 1,008 (28.67%) Finance
3 858 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
4 346 (9.84%) Retail
5 288 (8.19%) Marketing
6 280 (7.96%) Public Sector
7 182 (5.18%) Legal
8 177 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 143 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
10 140 (3.98%) Banking
10 140 (3.98%) Law
11 135 (3.84%) Manufacturing
12 67 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (1.39%) Local Government
14 46 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
14 46 (1.31%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
16 43 (1.22%) Back Office
17 42 (1.19%) Advertising
18 31 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 945 (26.88%) Analyst
2 705 (20.05%) Developer
3 405 (11.52%) Senior
4 396 (11.26%) Data Analyst
5 312 (8.87%) Lead
6 270 (7.68%) Data Engineer
7 265 (7.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 230 (6.54%) Consultant
9 169 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 163 (4.64%) Power BI Developer
11 157 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
12 155 (4.41%) Architect
13 128 (3.64%) DBA
14 119 (3.38%) Senior Developer
15 117 (3.33%) SQL DBA
16 115 (3.27%) Power Platform Developer
17 111 (3.16%) Data Manager
18 101 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Consultant
19 84 (2.39%) Administrator
20 83 (2.36%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (5.18%) .NET
2 131 (3.73%) HTML
3 83 (2.36%) CSS
4 72 (2.05%) JSON
5 69 (1.96%) ASP.NET
6 50 (1.42%) .NET Framework
7 49 (1.39%) REST
8 48 (1.37%) HTML5 Canvas
9 45 (1.28%) Web Services
10 36 (1.02%) PySpark
10 36 (1.02%) XML
11 27 (0.77%) Entity Framework
12 25 (0.71%) RESTful
13 24 (0.68%) MDX
14 21 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
15 19 (0.54%) ASP.NET MVC
16 18 (0.51%) React
17 14 (0.40%) .NET Core
17 14 (0.40%) Kafka
18 12 (0.34%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.23%) Management Information System
2 133 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
3 79 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 76 (2.16%) Onboarding
5 64 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 56 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (1.56%) 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 (0.82%) Data Centre
13 28 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 24 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (0.65%) Reinsurance
16 20 (0.57%) IoT
16 20 (0.57%) PMI
17 19 (0.54%) Cloud Native
18 18 (0.51%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 148 (4.21%) Windows
2 76 (2.16%) 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 2,964 (84.30%) Business Intelligence
2 961 (27.33%) Analytics
3 816 (23.21%) Visualisation
4 681 (19.37%) Agile
5 634 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
6 629 (17.89%) ETL
7 559 (15.90%) Data Analysis
8 541 (15.39%) Data Visualisation
9 513 (14.59%) Data Modelling
10 429 (12.20%) Decision-Making
11 361 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 357 (10.15%) Data Science
13 352 (10.01%) Data Analytics
14 341 (9.70%) Migration
15 339 (9.64%) Machine Learning
16 329 (9.36%) Project Management
17 326 (9.27%) Data Governance
18 324 (9.22%) DevOps
19 314 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
20 310 (8.82%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,991 (56.63%) SQL
2 598 (17.01%) Python
3 398 (11.32%) T-SQL
4 263 (7.48%) C#
5 260 (7.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 178 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 163 (4.64%) 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 (0.65%) 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 (19.00%) Degree
2 236 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 159 (4.52%) DBS Check
4 116 (3.30%) Security Cleared
5 99 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 84 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 64 (1.82%) SC Cleared
8 49 (1.39%) 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%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 164 (4.66%) GDPR
3 80 (2.28%) QA
4 43 (1.22%) 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%) NIST 800
System Software
1 106 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.33%) 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%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.028%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.028%) Kibana
11 1 (0.028%) logstash
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.028%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.028%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,468 (41.75%) Microsoft
2 237 (6.74%) Databricks
3 192 (5.46%) Oracle
4 179 (5.09%) Google
5 114 (3.24%) SAP
6 107 (3.04%) 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