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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 70 75
Rank change year-on-year +28 +5 +14
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 172 114 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.94% 3.52% 3.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.09% 18.72% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 80 59 154
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,313 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £76,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,375 £76,550 £70,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% -0.47%

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 429 609 973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.84% 18.81% 17.94%
Number of salaries quoted 211 372 724
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,875 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £58,813 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.23% +6.93% -

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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 16 February 2026.

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 16 February 2026. 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 +23 87 £60,000 +17.07% 23
Buckinghamshire +7 62 £62,500 -17.76% 10
Oxfordshire +20 23 £42,500 -10.53% 8
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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 3 (1.74%) SAS
2 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.16%) SugarCRM
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 115 (66.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.56%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (5.23%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 172 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 72 (41.86%) Azure
3 28 (16.28%) Azure AI
4 15 (8.72%) Power Automate
5 10 (5.81%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.91%) AWS
7 4 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.33%) dbt
8 3 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.74%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.16%) GCP
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.16%) SaaS
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.58%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.58%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.58%) Fivetran
10 1 (0.58%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.91%) Modbus
1 5 (2.91%) MQTT
2 1 (0.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) DHCP
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.23%) Tableau
2 32 (18.60%) Data Lake
3 31 (18.02%) SAP BW
4 11 (6.40%) Power Query
5 8 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.07%) PowerPivot
7 6 (3.49%) Metadata
7 6 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.33%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (1.74%) Looker
9 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.16%) Airbyte
10 2 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.58%) Data Hub
11 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.58%) MySQL
11 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Git
2 3 (1.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
General
1 119 (69.19%) Social Skills
2 85 (49.42%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (40.70%) Finance
4 17 (9.88%) Manufacturing
4 17 (9.88%) Marketing
5 14 (8.14%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.16%) Back Office
7 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Legal
8 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 108 (62.79%) Analyst
2 64 (37.21%) Data Analyst
3 27 (15.70%) Junior
3 27 (15.70%) Junior Analyst
3 27 (15.70%) Junior Data Analyst
3 27 (15.70%) Report Analyst
4 20 (11.63%) Financial Analyst
5 19 (11.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 19 (11.05%) Developer
6 17 (9.88%) Lead
7 13 (7.56%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 13 (7.56%) Power BI Developer
8 12 (6.98%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (6.98%) Commercial Data Analyst
8 12 (6.98%) Procurement Analyst
8 12 (6.98%) Sustainability Analyst
9 10 (5.81%) Business Developer
10 9 (5.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 9 (5.23%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 9 (5.23%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.23%) SAP CO-PA
2 2 (1.16%) Snowpark
3 1 (0.58%) GeoPandas
3 1 (0.58%) MapLibre
3 1 (0.58%) NetworkX
3 1 (0.58%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.58%) REST
3 1 (0.58%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (6.98%) FMCG
3 7 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.91%) IoT
4 5 (2.91%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 5 (2.91%) SCADA
5 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.58%) Podcast
7 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Replication
7 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.58%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Windows
1 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (97.09%) Business Intelligence
2 77 (44.77%) Analytics
3 76 (44.19%) Decision-Making
4 61 (35.47%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (27.33%) AI
6 41 (23.84%) Data Modelling
7 37 (21.51%) Visualisation
8 36 (20.93%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 34 (19.77%) Actionable Insight
9 34 (19.77%) ETL
10 33 (19.19%) ERP
11 31 (18.02%) Data Visualisation
12 27 (15.70%) Budgeting
13 26 (15.12%) Computer Science
14 24 (13.95%) Data Analytics
15 21 (12.21%) Data Governance
16 20 (11.63%) Data Cleansing
17 19 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
18 18 (10.47%) Agile
19 16 (9.30%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (56.40%) SQL
2 59 (34.30%) Python
3 26 (15.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (12.21%) VBA
5 5 (2.91%) C#
5 5 (2.91%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.74%) R
7 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (39.53%) Degree
2 32 (18.60%) CIMA
3 31 (18.02%) ACCA
4 27 (15.70%) Azure Certification
5 11 (6.40%) AAT
6 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) HNC
8 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (24.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.74%) PMO
3 2 (1.16%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.58%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.58%) Argo
1 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (36.05%) SAP
2 42 (24.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.33%) Databricks
4 3 (1.74%) Oracle
5 2 (1.16%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.16%) IFS
5 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.16%) Xero
6 1 (0.58%) Cognos
6 1 (0.58%) Foundry
6 1 (0.58%) Informatica
6 1 (0.58%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.58%) Marketo
6 1 (0.58%) Palantir
6 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.58%) Talend