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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 61 91
Rank change year-on-year +20 +30 -19
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 188 162 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.92% 4.10% 2.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.36% 21.51% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 71 68 73
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,175 £40,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,563 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +19.13% -5.66%
75th Percentile £66,875 £76,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,840 - £67,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £58,750 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.64% +16.34% -8.18%

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 517 753 723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.53% 19.04% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 231 429 493
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,305 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% +11.46% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9 December 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 9 December 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 +20 104 £69,840 +36.27% 46
Buckinghamshire +15 58 £51,250 -21.15% 31
Oxfordshire +42 26 £60,000 +26.32% 14
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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 (5.32%) SugarCRM
2 2 (1.06%) SAS
2 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 116 (61.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 101 (53.72%) Azure
3 13 (6.91%) Azure AI
3 13 (6.91%) Power Automate
3 13 (6.91%) Snowflake
4 10 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (3.72%) AWS
6 6 (3.19%) dbt
7 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (2.66%) SaaS
8 4 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.13%) GCP
8 4 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.60%) Fivetran
10 2 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.06%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) Broadband
1 3 (1.60%) Modbus
1 3 (1.60%) MQTT
2 1 (0.53%) DHCP
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (37.23%) Data Lake
2 63 (33.51%) SAP BW
3 31 (16.49%) Tableau
4 16 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (8.51%) SQL Server
5 13 (6.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (6.38%) Power Query
7 10 (5.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.72%) Metadata
8 7 (3.72%) PowerPivot
9 5 (2.66%) Looker
9 5 (2.66%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.60%) MySQL
10 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Git
2 3 (1.60%) JIRA
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
General
1 107 (56.91%) Social Skills
2 81 (43.09%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (27.13%) Finance
4 21 (11.17%) Marketing
5 14 (7.45%) Retail
6 12 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.85%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.66%) Games
8 5 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.13%) Legal
10 3 (1.60%) Retail Finance
10 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.06%) Back Office
11 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.53%) Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Billing
12 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 95 (50.53%) Analyst
2 49 (26.06%) Lead
3 42 (22.34%) Data Analyst
4 37 (19.68%) Report Analyst
5 30 (15.96%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (14.89%) Sustainability Analyst
7 15 (7.98%) Senior
8 13 (6.91%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (6.38%) Commercial Data Analyst
9 12 (6.38%) Financial Analyst
9 12 (6.38%) Junior
9 12 (6.38%) Junior Analyst
9 12 (6.38%) Junior Data Analyst
9 12 (6.38%) Procurement Analyst
10 11 (5.85%) Developer
11 10 (5.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 10 (5.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.72%) Data Manager
13 6 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.06%) Hugging Face
1 2 (1.06%) NumPy
1 2 (1.06%) Pandas
1 2 (1.06%) scikit-learn
1 2 (1.06%) Snowpark
2 1 (0.53%) Flash
2 1 (0.53%) GeoPandas
2 1 (0.53%) JSON
2 1 (0.53%) MapLibre
2 1 (0.53%) NetworkX
2 1 (0.53%) PostGIS
2 1 (0.53%) REST
2 1 (0.53%) Streamlit
2 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (6.91%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.38%) FMCG
4 7 (3.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 7 (3.72%) SCADA
5 5 (2.66%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.13%) Industry 4.0
7 3 (1.60%) IoT
7 3 (1.60%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Replication
8 1 (0.53%) SCORM
8 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
1 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (98.94%) Business Intelligence
2 120 (63.83%) Analytics
3 88 (46.81%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (39.89%) Data Modelling
5 66 (35.11%) Decision-Making
6 56 (29.79%) Actionable Insight
7 47 (25.00%) Data Governance
8 40 (21.28%) ERP
9 38 (20.21%) Data Cleansing
10 36 (19.15%) AI
11 30 (15.96%) Quality Management
12 29 (15.43%) Visualisation
13 28 (14.89%) Data Analysis
13 28 (14.89%) GAP Analysis
13 28 (14.89%) Source to Pay
14 26 (13.83%) ETL
15 23 (12.23%) Data Visualisation
16 22 (11.70%) Data Analytics
17 20 (10.64%) Data Management
17 20 (10.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (42.55%) SQL
2 46 (24.47%) Python
3 21 (11.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.32%) VBA
5 5 (2.66%) C#
5 5 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (2.66%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.60%) R
7 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (56.38%) Degree
2 14 (7.45%) CIMA
3 13 (6.91%) ACCA
4 12 (6.38%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.32%) HNC
6 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.06%) AAT
8 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.53%) PhD
8 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMP
8 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (42.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.60%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Argo
1 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 76 (40.43%) SAP
2 25 (13.30%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.13%) Allen-Bradley
3 4 (2.13%) Databricks
3 4 (2.13%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.13%) Siemens
4 3 (1.60%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.60%) Oracle
4 3 (1.60%) Talend
5 2 (1.06%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.06%) Cognos
5 2 (1.06%) Google
5 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.06%) Xero
5 2 (1.06%) Zoho
6 1 (0.53%) Foundry
6 1 (0.53%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.53%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.53%) RedPrairie
6 1 (0.53%) SendGrid