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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 82 117
Rank change year-on-year +9 +35 -13
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 3,507 3,950 5,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.51% 3.98% 3.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.21% 18.51% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,829 2,523 3,616
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,206 £41,750
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 £90,000 £81,250
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 18,257 21,342 45,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.27% 21.52% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,529 13,306 21,042
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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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

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the UK

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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 18 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 3,195 £55,000 - 973
UK excluding London +7 2,352 £47,500 - 629
Work from Home +8 1,511 £55,000 - 479
London +11 1,018 £65,000 -2.41% 398
North of England +13 638 £47,500 +5.56% 149
Midlands +17 525 £47,500 - 128
South East +19 509 £50,000 -4.76% 179
West Midlands +15 388 £50,000 +5.26% 88
North West +45 363 £47,500 +5.56% 92
South West -11 248 £47,500 -3.06% 77
East of England +88 218 £47,500 -5.00% 54
Yorkshire -16 188 £47,500 - 44
Scotland -15 182 £47,529 -0.38% 29
East Midlands +5 135 £42,500 +6.25% 40
North East 0 87 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Wales -39 28 £47,029 +17.57% 15
Northern Ireland -3 6 £67,500 +50.00% 6
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

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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
1 356 (10.15%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (1.20%) Confluence
4 37 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.88%) SAS
6 29 (0.83%) Apache
7 26 (0.74%) IIS
8 24 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.43%) WordPress
10 11 (0.31%) CMS
11 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.14%) IBM Notes
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.086%) SharePoint Server
15 2 (0.057%) Drupal
15 2 (0.057%) IBM Domino
15 2 (0.057%) Joomla!
15 2 (0.057%) Moodle
15 2 (0.057%) nginx
16 1 (0.029%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 861 (24.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.68%) 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
9 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 185 (5.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.57%) Primavera
3 19 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 17 (0.48%) Elite 3E
5 15 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
6 13 (0.37%) Epicor Tropos
7 12 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.29%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.23%) Shopify
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.17%) SAP PLM
10 6 (0.17%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.11%) Finacle
11 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.11%) Temenos T24
12 3 (0.086%) Magento
12 3 (0.086%) Sage 200
12 3 (0.086%) Sage 300 ERP
12 3 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,507 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1,332 (37.98%) Azure
3 519 (14.80%) PowerApps
4 474 (13.52%) Power Automate
5 389 (11.09%) Microsoft 365
6 316 (9.01%) Dynamics 365
7 262 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 223 (6.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 209 (5.96%) AWS
10 157 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
11 122 (3.48%) GCP
12 108 (3.08%) Snowflake
13 70 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 70 (2.00%) Serverless
14 64 (1.82%) Google Analytics
15 58 (1.65%) SaaS
16 45 (1.28%) Entra ID
17 37 (1.06%) OneDrive
18 34 (0.97%) GitHub
19 32 (0.91%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.11%) Broadband
2 40 (1.14%) DNS
3 32 (0.91%) Intranet
4 26 (0.74%) Firewall
5 24 (0.68%) DHCP
5 24 (0.68%) Network Security
6 22 (0.63%) Internet
7 14 (0.40%) LAN
7 14 (0.40%) WAN
8 13 (0.37%) VPN
9 12 (0.34%) Unified Communications
10 10 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (0.20%) NAS
11 7 (0.20%) WebEx
12 6 (0.17%) SAN
12 6 (0.17%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.17%) VoIP
13 4 (0.11%) Wireless
14 3 (0.086%) FTP
14 3 (0.086%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 751 (21.41%) SQL Server
2 629 (17.94%) Data Warehouse
3 608 (17.34%) Tableau
4 409 (11.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 342 (9.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 280 (7.98%) Data Lake
7 185 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 173 (4.93%) Power Query
9 160 (4.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 133 (3.79%) Relational Database
11 73 (2.08%) Big Data
12 72 (2.05%) Looker
13 71 (2.02%) QlikView
14 62 (1.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 59 (1.68%) Data Mining
16 56 (1.60%) BigQuery
17 55 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
18 50 (1.43%) Metadata
19 49 (1.40%) NoSQL
20 47 (1.34%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 173 (4.93%) JIRA
2 72 (2.05%) Git
3 64 (1.82%) Visual Studio
4 50 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 16 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (0.40%) RStudio
7 12 (0.34%) 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
11 2 (0.057%) MSTest
11 2 (0.057%) Sourcetree
11 2 (0.057%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.057%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.057%) Visual Studio Team System
12 1 (0.029%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,281 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 1,014 (28.91%) Finance
3 865 (24.66%) Analytical Skills
4 333 (9.50%) Retail
5 284 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 280 (7.98%) Marketing
7 183 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 183 (5.22%) Legal
8 136 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
9 133 (3.79%) Law
9 133 (3.79%) Manufacturing
10 130 (3.71%) Banking
11 68 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.45%) Local Government
13 46 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
14 44 (1.25%) Back Office
14 44 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 39 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 36 (1.03%) Advertising
17 31 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 945 (26.95%) Analyst
2 701 (19.99%) Developer
3 398 (11.35%) Senior
4 395 (11.26%) Data Analyst
5 308 (8.78%) Lead
6 286 (8.16%) Data Engineer
7 260 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 229 (6.53%) Consultant
9 172 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 158 (4.51%) Power BI Developer
11 157 (4.48%) Architect
12 155 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
13 127 (3.62%) DBA
14 121 (3.45%) Power Platform Developer
15 118 (3.36%) Senior Developer
16 117 (3.34%) SQL DBA
17 106 (3.02%) Data Manager
18 99 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Consultant
19 83 (2.37%) Administrator
19 83 (2.37%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (5.36%) .NET
2 131 (3.74%) HTML
3 84 (2.40%) CSS
4 67 (1.91%) JSON
5 64 (1.82%) ASP.NET
6 50 (1.43%) .NET Framework
7 49 (1.40%) HTML5 Canvas
8 48 (1.37%) REST
9 46 (1.31%) Web Services
10 40 (1.14%) PySpark
11 39 (1.11%) XML
12 27 (0.77%) Entity Framework
13 23 (0.66%) MDX
13 23 (0.66%) RESTful
14 21 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
15 18 (0.51%) React
16 17 (0.48%) ASP.NET MVC
17 14 (0.40%) .NET Core
18 12 (0.34%) AngularJS
18 12 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 184 (5.25%) Management Information System
2 133 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
3 80 (2.28%) Onboarding
4 79 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 66 (1.88%) Data Structures
6 63 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 54 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.23%) NHS
9 42 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 41 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.00%) FMCG
12 31 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 29 (0.83%) Data Centre
14 25 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (0.63%) Reinsurance
17 20 (0.57%) Cloud Native
17 20 (0.57%) IoT
17 20 (0.57%) PMI
18 18 (0.51%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.05%) Windows
2 76 (2.17%) VMS
3 53 (1.51%) Linux
4 48 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.71%) Unix
6 24 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.14%) Android
8 5 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.057%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.029%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.029%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.029%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,955 (84.26%) Business Intelligence
2 958 (27.32%) Analytics
3 812 (23.15%) Visualisation
4 649 (18.51%) Agile
5 626 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
6 614 (17.51%) ETL
7 563 (16.05%) Data Analysis
8 540 (15.40%) Data Visualisation
9 519 (14.80%) Data Modelling
10 421 (12.00%) Decision-Making
11 352 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 348 (9.92%) Data Science
13 345 (9.84%) Migration
14 339 (9.67%) Data Analytics
15 334 (9.52%) Machine Learning
15 334 (9.52%) Project Management
16 327 (9.32%) Data Governance
17 320 (9.12%) DevOps
18 317 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
19 309 (8.81%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,997 (56.94%) SQL
2 597 (17.02%) Python
3 389 (11.09%) T-SQL
4 269 (7.67%) C#
4 269 (7.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 178 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 160 (4.56%) R
7 100 (2.85%) PowerShell
8 76 (2.17%) VBA
9 49 (1.40%) Java
10 36 (1.03%) PL/SQL
11 26 (0.74%) TypeScript
12 23 (0.66%) VB
13 18 (0.51%) PHP
14 15 (0.43%) VB.NET
15 14 (0.40%) C
16 13 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.34%) Go
18 11 (0.31%) Scala
18 11 (0.31%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 688 (19.62%) Degree
2 237 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 159 (4.53%) DBS Check
4 116 (3.31%) Security Cleared
5 110 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 85 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 65 (1.85%) SC Cleared
8 54 (1.54%) 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 17 (0.48%) CIMA
13 17 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
14 16 (0.46%) CISM
14 16 (0.46%) CISSP
14 16 (0.46%) MBA
15 13 (0.37%) MCSE
16 12 (0.34%) ACCA
17 11 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 166 (4.73%) GDPR
3 79 (2.25%) QA
4 44 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 30 (0.86%) PMO
6 26 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 21 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 13 (0.37%) NIST
10 13 (0.37%) SLA
11 11 (0.31%) COBIT
12 9 (0.26%) GRC
12 9 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.11%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.11%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.057%) NCSC
16 1 (0.029%) IFRS
16 1 (0.029%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 104 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (0.46%) 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 36 (1.03%) 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%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.029%) Kibana
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.029%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.029%) Salt
11 1 (0.029%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,473 (42.00%) Microsoft
2 244 (6.96%) Databricks
3 191 (5.45%) Oracle
4 173 (4.93%) Google
5 113 (3.22%) SAP
6 103 (2.94%) Alteryx
7 55 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.03%) IFS
9 31 (0.88%) Cognos
10 23 (0.66%) Aderant
10 23 (0.66%) VMware
11 21 (0.60%) Sophos
12 20 (0.57%) Adobe
12 20 (0.57%) iManage
13 19 (0.54%) Epicor
14 18 (0.51%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.43%) Civica
16 13 (0.37%) Apple
16 13 (0.37%) Nintex
16 13 (0.37%) Workday