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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 81 114
Rank change year-on-year +8 +33 -9
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 3,501 3,997 5,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.53% 3.96% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.26% 18.56% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,827 2,523 3,576
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £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 £91,000 £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 18,181 21,530 43,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.31% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 13,451 21,070
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% +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

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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

Power BI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 10 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 10 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 3,189 £55,000 - 912
UK excluding London +5 2,348 £47,500 - 579
Work from Home +5 1,504 £55,000 - 490
London +13 1,017 £65,000 -2.41% 349
North of England +11 645 £47,500 +5.56% 149
Midlands +11 515 £47,500 +2.70% 146
South East +20 505 £50,000 -4.76% 126
West Midlands +16 381 £50,000 +5.26% 94
North West +38 367 £47,500 +5.56% 90
South West -7 245 £47,500 - 64
East of England +93 223 £47,500 -5.00% 53
Yorkshire -16 192 £47,500 - 47
Scotland 0 182 £47,500 -0.44% 28
East Midlands 0 132 £42,500 +6.25% 52
North East -1 86 £43,125 -13.75% 12
Wales -38 28 £47,029 +17.57% 14
Northern Ireland -2 7 £67,500 +50.00% 5
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
1 359 (10.25%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 43 (1.23%) Confluence
4 38 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.89%) SAS
6 26 (0.74%) IIS
7 25 (0.71%) Apache
7 25 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.43%) WordPress
9 11 (0.31%) 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 (0.057%) Drupal
13 2 (0.057%) IBM Domino
13 2 (0.057%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.057%) Moodle
13 2 (0.057%) nginx
14 1 (0.029%) Documentum
Applications
1 860 (24.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 205 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
3 114 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.34%) SPSS
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 3 (0.086%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.086%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.086%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.057%) InDesign
10 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 184 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.57%) Primavera
3 19 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 17 (0.49%) Elite 3E
5 14 (0.40%) Epicor Tropos
6 13 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
7 11 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.29%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
10 7 (0.20%) Shopify
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.17%) SAP PLM
11 6 (0.17%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.11%) Finacle
12 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
12 4 (0.11%) Temenos T24
13 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 3 (0.086%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 3 (0.086%) Sage 200
13 3 (0.086%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,501 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,324 (37.82%) Azure
3 520 (14.85%) PowerApps
4 473 (13.51%) Power Automate
5 400 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
6 310 (8.85%) Dynamics 365
7 264 (7.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 217 (6.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 206 (5.88%) AWS
10 155 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
11 122 (3.48%) GCP
12 108 (3.08%) Snowflake
13 72 (2.06%) Serverless
14 69 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
15 65 (1.86%) Google Analytics
16 58 (1.66%) SaaS
17 45 (1.29%) Entra ID
18 38 (1.09%) OneDrive
19 35 (1.00%) GitHub
20 33 (0.94%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.11%) Broadband
2 41 (1.17%) DNS
3 33 (0.94%) Intranet
4 27 (0.77%) Firewall
5 25 (0.71%) DHCP
6 23 (0.66%) Network Security
7 22 (0.63%) Internet
8 14 (0.40%) LAN
8 14 (0.40%) VPN
8 14 (0.40%) WAN
9 12 (0.34%) Unified Communications
10 10 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
11 8 (0.23%) WebEx
12 7 (0.20%) NAS
13 6 (0.17%) SAN
13 6 (0.17%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.17%) VoIP
14 5 (0.14%) Wireless
15 3 (0.086%) FTP
15 3 (0.086%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 753 (21.51%) SQL Server
2 618 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 608 (17.37%) Tableau
4 406 (11.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 346 (9.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 271 (7.74%) Data Lake
7 187 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 167 (4.77%) Power Query
9 160 (4.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 134 (3.83%) Relational Database
11 76 (2.17%) Looker
12 71 (2.03%) QlikView
13 70 (2.00%) Big Data
14 61 (1.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 60 (1.71%) Data Mining
16 56 (1.60%) BigQuery
17 51 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
18 50 (1.43%) Metadata
19 49 (1.40%) NoSQL
20 47 (1.34%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 175 (5.00%) JIRA
2 70 (2.00%) Git
3 60 (1.71%) Visual Studio
4 51 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 15 (0.43%) RStudio
6 14 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
7 13 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.14%) ERwin
9 5 (0.14%) GitLab
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%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.086%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.057%) MSTest
11 2 (0.057%) Sourcetree
11 2 (0.057%) Visual Studio Team System
12 1 (0.029%) Postman
General
1 1,278 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 1,004 (28.68%) Finance
3 857 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (9.60%) Retail
5 282 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 281 (8.03%) Marketing
7 183 (5.23%) Legal
8 180 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 137 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
10 134 (3.83%) Law
11 133 (3.80%) Manufacturing
12 129 (3.68%) Banking
13 67 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 50 (1.43%) Local Government
15 46 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 44 (1.26%) Telecoms
17 43 (1.23%) Back Office
18 42 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
19 38 (1.09%) Advertising
20 30 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 954 (27.25%) Analyst
2 696 (19.88%) Developer
3 403 (11.51%) Senior
4 402 (11.48%) Data Analyst
5 310 (8.85%) Lead
6 276 (7.88%) Data Engineer
7 258 (7.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 231 (6.60%) Consultant
9 170 (4.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 160 (4.57%) Senior Analyst
11 158 (4.51%) Power BI Developer
12 154 (4.40%) Architect
13 128 (3.66%) DBA
14 118 (3.37%) Power Platform Developer
15 117 (3.34%) Senior Developer
15 117 (3.34%) SQL DBA
16 109 (3.11%) Data Manager
17 99 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Consultant
18 83 (2.37%) Administrator
18 83 (2.37%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (5.28%) .NET
2 130 (3.71%) HTML
3 82 (2.34%) CSS
4 69 (1.97%) JSON
5 65 (1.86%) ASP.NET
6 50 (1.43%) .NET Framework
7 49 (1.40%) HTML5 Canvas
7 49 (1.40%) REST
8 45 (1.29%) Web Services
9 38 (1.09%) PySpark
10 36 (1.03%) XML
11 27 (0.77%) Entity Framework
12 24 (0.69%) RESTful
13 23 (0.66%) MDX
14 21 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
15 18 (0.51%) ASP.NET MVC
15 18 (0.51%) React
16 14 (0.40%) .NET Core
17 12 (0.34%) AngularJS
17 12 (0.34%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 134 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
3 78 (2.23%) Onboarding
4 77 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 65 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 55 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 54 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.29%) Low-Code
9 41 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 40 (1.14%) NHS
11 35 (1.00%) FMCG
12 30 (0.86%) Virtual Team
13 29 (0.83%) Data Centre
14 24 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (0.63%) Reinsurance
17 20 (0.57%) IoT
17 20 (0.57%) PMI
18 19 (0.54%) Cloud Native
19 18 (0.51%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.11%) Windows
2 76 (2.17%) VMS
3 53 (1.51%) Linux
4 50 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.71%) Unix
6 24 (0.69%) Windows 10
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 (0.057%) 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 2,955 (84.40%) Business Intelligence
2 953 (27.22%) Analytics
3 810 (23.14%) Visualisation
4 660 (18.85%) Agile
5 624 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
6 610 (17.42%) ETL
7 561 (16.02%) Data Analysis
8 539 (15.40%) Data Visualisation
9 511 (14.60%) Data Modelling
10 422 (12.05%) Decision-Making
11 357 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 350 (10.00%) Data Science
13 345 (9.85%) Data Analytics
14 343 (9.80%) Migration
15 333 (9.51%) Project Management
16 332 (9.48%) Machine Learning
17 327 (9.34%) Data Governance
18 319 (9.11%) DevOps
19 314 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
20 307 (8.77%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,991 (56.87%) SQL
2 592 (16.91%) Python
3 393 (11.23%) T-SQL
4 265 (7.57%) C#
5 260 (7.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 177 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 160 (4.57%) R
8 99 (2.83%) PowerShell
9 74 (2.11%) VBA
10 50 (1.43%) Java
11 37 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.77%) 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
18 12 (0.34%) Go
18 12 (0.34%) Scala
19 10 (0.29%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 676 (19.31%) Degree
2 237 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 159 (4.54%) DBS Check
4 118 (3.37%) Security Cleared
5 103 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 84 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 66 (1.89%) SC Cleared
8 52 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 20 (0.57%) CIPD
12 19 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.51%) 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 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 166 (4.74%) GDPR
3 78 (2.23%) QA
4 44 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 30 (0.86%) PMO
6 26 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 21 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 13 (0.37%) NIST
9 13 (0.37%) SLA
10 12 (0.34%) COBIT
11 9 (0.26%) GRC
11 9 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.11%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.057%) NCSC
15 1 (0.029%) IFRS
15 1 (0.029%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 106 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.31%) 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%) vSphere
8 2 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (1.00%) Terraform
2 28 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.57%) Ansible
4 11 (0.31%) 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 (0.086%) SCCM
10 2 (0.057%) 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 1,464 (41.82%) Microsoft
2 237 (6.77%) Databricks
3 193 (5.51%) Oracle
4 172 (4.91%) Google
5 112 (3.20%) SAP
6 105 (3.00%) Alteryx
7 57 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.03%) IFS
9 31 (0.89%) Cognos
10 24 (0.69%) VMware
11 23 (0.66%) Aderant
12 22 (0.63%) Adobe
13 21 (0.60%) Sophos
14 20 (0.57%) iManage
14 20 (0.57%) ServiceNow
15 19 (0.54%) Epicor
16 15 (0.43%) Civica
17 14 (0.40%) Workday
18 13 (0.37%) Apple
18 13 (0.37%) Nintex