Power BI Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Power BI
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Power BI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 67 94
Rank change year-on-year +22 +27 -18
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 176 167 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.83% 3.86% 2.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.71% 22.66% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 68 63 72
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,253 £40,125
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,563 £76,000 £58,388
90th Percentile £69,840 - £67,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £59,313 £52,000
% change year-on-year -11.49% +14.06% -5.45%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 555 737 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.23% 17.01% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 257 399 497
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.53% -8.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Power BI in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 November 2025. 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
Berkshire +8 100 £69,840 +33.03% 20
Buckinghamshire +16 52 £49,000 -24.62% 21
Oxfordshire +42 24 £62,500 +38.89% 21
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (5.68%) SugarCRM
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 106 (60.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 94 (53.41%) Azure
3 12 (6.82%) Power Automate
3 12 (6.82%) Snowflake
4 9 (5.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (3.41%) SaaS
7 5 (2.84%) AWS
7 5 (2.84%) dbt
8 4 (2.27%) Azure AI
8 4 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.70%) Fivetran
9 3 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.14%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.14%) GCP
10 2 (1.14%) GitHub
10 2 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.14%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.27%) Broadband
2 3 (1.70%) Modbus
3 2 (1.14%) MQTT
4 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (39.77%) Data Lake
2 63 (35.80%) SAP BW
3 21 (11.93%) Tableau
4 17 (9.66%) SQL Server
5 14 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (6.25%) Power Query
7 10 (5.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (5.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (3.98%) Metadata
9 7 (3.98%) PowerPivot
10 5 (2.84%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (2.27%) Looker
12 2 (1.14%) Airbyte
12 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.14%) MySQL
12 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Git
2 2 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 96 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 76 (43.18%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (29.55%) Finance
4 23 (13.07%) Marketing
5 16 (9.09%) Retail
6 12 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.68%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.98%) Games
9 5 (2.84%) Legal
10 4 (2.27%) Retail Finance
10 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.14%) Back Office
11 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.14%) Law
12 1 (0.57%) Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Billing
12 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (46.59%) Analyst
2 51 (28.98%) Lead
3 37 (21.02%) Report Analyst
4 30 (17.05%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (15.91%) Data Analyst
5 28 (15.91%) Sustainability Analyst
6 16 (9.09%) Senior
7 13 (7.39%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (6.82%) Commercial Data Analyst
8 12 (6.82%) Procurement Analyst
9 11 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 9 (5.11%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (3.98%) Data Manager
11 7 (3.98%) Developer
12 6 (3.41%) Manufacturing Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.41%) Systems Engineer
13 5 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 5 (2.84%) Senior Manager
13 5 (2.84%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.14%) .NET
1 2 (1.14%) .NET Framework
1 2 (1.14%) Hugging Face
1 2 (1.14%) NumPy
1 2 (1.14%) Pandas
1 2 (1.14%) scikit-learn
1 2 (1.14%) Snowpark
2 1 (0.57%) Flash
2 1 (0.57%) GeoPandas
2 1 (0.57%) JSON
2 1 (0.57%) MapLibre
2 1 (0.57%) NetworkX
2 1 (0.57%) PostGIS
2 1 (0.57%) REST
2 1 (0.57%) Streamlit
2 1 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.80%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (7.39%) FMCG
2 13 (7.39%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.98%) SCADA
4 6 (3.41%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.27%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.27%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.70%) IoT
7 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Replication
8 1 (0.57%) Robotics
8 1 (0.57%) SCORM
8 1 (0.57%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (98.30%) Business Intelligence
2 120 (68.18%) Analytics
3 88 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (41.48%) Data Modelling
5 64 (36.36%) Decision-Making
6 57 (32.39%) Actionable Insight
7 48 (27.27%) Data Governance
8 37 (21.02%) Data Cleansing
9 35 (19.89%) ERP
10 30 (17.05%) Quality Management
11 29 (16.48%) Data Analysis
11 29 (16.48%) Visualisation
12 28 (15.91%) GAP Analysis
12 28 (15.91%) Source to Pay
13 27 (15.34%) AI
14 24 (13.64%) Data Management
15 22 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
15 22 (12.50%) Validation
16 21 (11.93%) Data Analytics
16 21 (11.93%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 66 (37.50%) SQL
2 35 (19.89%) Python
3 19 (10.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.55%) C#
5 7 (3.98%) VBA
6 5 (2.84%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (2.84%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.14%) R
8 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (60.23%) Degree
2 11 (6.25%) CIMA
3 10 (5.68%) ACCA
3 10 (5.68%) HNC
4 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.14%) AAT
6 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.57%) PhD
6 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.57%) PMP
6 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (46.02%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.14%) QA
4 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (0.57%) Argo
1 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 72 (40.91%) SAP
2 17 (9.66%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.84%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (2.84%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.84%) Siemens
4 4 (2.27%) Databricks
5 3 (1.70%) Google
5 3 (1.70%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.70%) Talend
6 2 (1.14%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.14%) Cognos
6 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.14%) Oracle
6 2 (1.14%) Xero
6 2 (1.14%) Zoho
7 1 (0.57%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.57%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.57%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.57%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow