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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 62 96
Rank change year-on-year +22 +34 -20
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 189 151 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.73% 4.34% 2.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.72% 21.36% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 72 62 74
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,251 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,938 £45,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £76,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,850 - £63,508
South East median annual salary £52,500 £58,750 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.64% +16.34% -4.72%

All Database & 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 501 707 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.54% 20.31% 21.31%
Number of salaries quoted 226 404 501
10th Percentile £34,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 29 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 29 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 +20 109 £60,000 +14.29% 149
Buckinghamshire +9 58 £52,500 -30.92% 60
Oxfordshire +34 22 £47,500 - 30
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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 (5.29%) SugarCRM
2 3 (1.59%) SAS
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 117 (61.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.65%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.06%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 189 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 102 (53.97%) Azure
3 16 (8.47%) Azure AI
4 12 (6.35%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.82%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.70%) AWS
8 6 (3.17%) dbt
9 5 (2.65%) SaaS
10 4 (2.12%) GCP
10 4 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.59%) Fivetran
12 2 (1.06%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.06%) Google Data Studio
12 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.12%) Modbus
1 4 (2.12%) 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 67 (35.45%) Data Lake
2 63 (33.33%) SAP BW
3 35 (18.52%) Tableau
4 12 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (5.82%) Power Query
5 11 (5.82%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (3.70%) Metadata
7 7 (3.70%) PowerPivot
8 5 (2.65%) Looker
8 5 (2.65%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.59%) MySQL
9 3 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.59%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.23%) Git
2 3 (1.59%) JIRA
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
General
1 114 (60.32%) Social Skills
2 80 (42.33%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (28.57%) Finance
4 17 (8.99%) Marketing
5 15 (7.94%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.82%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.76%) Retail
8 6 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.12%) Games
10 2 (1.06%) Back Office
10 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 96 (50.79%) Analyst
2 48 (25.40%) Lead
3 45 (23.81%) Data Analyst
4 35 (18.52%) Report Analyst
5 30 (15.87%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (14.81%) Sustainability Analyst
7 16 (8.47%) Developer
8 15 (7.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 15 (7.94%) Junior
8 15 (7.94%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (7.94%) Junior Data Analyst
9 13 (6.88%) Senior
10 12 (6.35%) Commercial Analyst
10 12 (6.35%) Commercial Data Analyst
10 12 (6.35%) Financial Analyst
10 12 (6.35%) Procurement Analyst
11 10 (5.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.23%) Power BI Developer
13 6 (3.17%) Data Manager
13 6 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.12%) SAP CO-PA
2 2 (1.06%) Hugging Face
2 2 (1.06%) NumPy
2 2 (1.06%) Pandas
2 2 (1.06%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.06%) Snowpark
3 1 (0.53%) Flash
3 1 (0.53%) GeoPandas
3 1 (0.53%) MapLibre
3 1 (0.53%) NetworkX
3 1 (0.53%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.53%) REST
3 1 (0.53%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (6.35%) FMCG
2 12 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 7 (3.70%) SCADA
4 4 (2.12%) IoT
5 3 (1.59%) Industry 4.0
5 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Replication
7 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
1 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (98.94%) Business Intelligence
2 119 (62.96%) Analytics
3 93 (49.21%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (39.68%) Data Modelling
5 66 (34.92%) Decision-Making
6 53 (28.04%) Actionable Insight
7 45 (23.81%) Data Governance
8 42 (22.22%) ERP
9 38 (20.11%) AI
10 37 (19.58%) Data Cleansing
11 32 (16.93%) Visualisation
12 30 (15.87%) Quality Management
13 28 (14.81%) GAP Analysis
13 28 (14.81%) Source to Pay
14 27 (14.29%) ETL
15 26 (13.76%) Data Visualisation
16 25 (13.23%) Data Analysis
17 24 (12.70%) Data Analytics
18 23 (12.17%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 22 (11.64%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 80 (42.33%) SQL
2 47 (24.87%) Python
3 23 (12.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (5.82%) VBA
5 5 (2.65%) C#
5 5 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.59%) R
7 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 103 (54.50%) Degree
2 16 (8.47%) CIMA
3 15 (7.94%) ACCA
3 15 (7.94%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.29%) HNC
5 3 (1.59%) AAT
5 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (41.80%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.59%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
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 81 (42.86%) SAP
2 28 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.65%) Databricks
4 4 (2.12%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.59%) Allen-Bradley
5 3 (1.59%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.59%) Oracle
5 3 (1.59%) Siemens
5 3 (1.59%) Talend
6 2 (1.06%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.06%) Cognos
6 2 (1.06%) Google
6 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.06%) Xero
6 2 (1.06%) Zoho
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe
7 1 (0.53%) Foundry
7 1 (0.53%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.53%) Informatica
7 1 (0.53%) JDA