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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 60 67
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +23
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 165 113 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.39% 4.18% 3.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.26% 20.18% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 91 73 185
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,609 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% +10.76% +2.48%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,000 £69,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -4.76%

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 455 560 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.36% 20.73% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 258 362 812
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £45,313 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +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 27 March 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 27 March 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
Buckinghamshire -8 68 £62,500 -9.75% 17
Berkshire +18 66 £57,500 +27.78% 27
Oxfordshire +11 31 £42,500 -5.56% 7
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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 5 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.82%) SAS
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
Applications
1 98 (59.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.88%) Spreadsheet
3 11 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (5.45%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 165 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 71 (43.03%) Azure
3 48 (29.09%) Azure AI
4 25 (15.15%) Power Automate
5 10 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.03%) AWS
8 4 (2.42%) dbt
8 4 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.82%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.21%) GCP
11 1 (0.61%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.61%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.61%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.61%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) Modbus
1 5 (3.03%) MQTT
2 2 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.61%) Broadband
3 1 (0.61%) DHCP
3 1 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.61%) Firewall
3 1 (0.61%) NAS
3 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (46.67%) Tableau
2 10 (6.06%) Power Query
3 9 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.85%) PowerPivot
5 6 (3.64%) Metadata
5 6 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.82%) Looker
6 3 (1.82%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (1.82%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.21%) Airbyte
7 2 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (1.21%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.61%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.61%) QGIS
8 1 (0.61%) SAS EBI
8 1 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Git
2 2 (1.21%) JIRA
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
General
1 116 (70.30%) Social Skills
2 68 (41.21%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (38.18%) Finance
4 18 (10.91%) Manufacturing
5 14 (8.48%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (5.45%) Marketing
7 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.21%) Back Office
8 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.61%) Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Law
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 106 (64.24%) Analyst
2 74 (44.85%) Data Analyst
3 48 (29.09%) Junior
3 48 (29.09%) Junior Analyst
3 48 (29.09%) Junior Data Analyst
4 20 (12.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 20 (12.12%) Developer
5 19 (11.52%) Financial Analyst
6 14 (8.48%) Power BI Developer
7 13 (7.88%) Applications Support
7 13 (7.88%) IT Support
7 13 (7.88%) Report Analyst
8 11 (6.67%) Applications Manager
8 11 (6.67%) Applications Support Manager
8 11 (6.67%) IT Manager
8 11 (6.67%) IT Support Manager
8 11 (6.67%) Support Manager
9 10 (6.06%) Business Developer
9 10 (6.06%) Senior
10 8 (4.85%) Power BI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.45%) SAP CO-PA
2 2 (1.21%) Snowpark
3 1 (0.61%) GeoPandas
3 1 (0.61%) MapLibre
3 1 (0.61%) NetworkX
3 1 (0.61%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.61%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (3.03%) IoT
2 5 (3.03%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 5 (3.03%) SCADA
3 3 (1.82%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.21%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.61%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.61%) Podcast
5 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) Replication
5 1 (0.61%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.21%) Windows
1 2 (1.21%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (91.52%) Business Intelligence
2 62 (37.58%) Decision-Making
3 57 (34.55%) AI
4 38 (23.03%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 35 (21.21%) Analytics
6 34 (20.61%) ETL
7 33 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (16.36%) Visualisation
9 25 (15.15%) Budgeting
10 21 (12.73%) Data Visualisation
11 20 (12.12%) Agile
11 20 (12.12%) ERP
12 18 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (10.91%) Data Analysis
13 15 (9.09%) CRM
13 15 (9.09%) Data Integration
13 15 (9.09%) Data Management
14 14 (8.48%) Computer Science
14 14 (8.48%) Project Management
15 13 (7.88%) Financial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 119 (72.12%) SQL
2 80 (48.48%) Python
3 26 (15.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (12.73%) VBA
5 5 (3.03%) C#
5 5 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.82%) R
7 1 (0.61%) Scala
7 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (29.09%) Azure Certification
2 38 (23.03%) CIMA
3 37 (22.42%) ACCA
4 30 (18.18%) Degree
5 15 (9.09%) AAT
6 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.21%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.21%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.42%) PMO
3 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.61%) IFRS
4 1 (0.61%) QA
4 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
1 1 (0.61%) Terminal Services
1 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) Argo
1 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (43.03%) Microsoft
2 33 (20.00%) SAP
3 5 (3.03%) Databricks
4 2 (1.21%) HubSpot
4 2 (1.21%) IFS
4 2 (1.21%) Oracle
4 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.21%) Xero
5 1 (0.61%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (0.61%) Foundry
5 1 (0.61%) Informatica
5 1 (0.61%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.61%) Marketo
5 1 (0.61%) Palantir
5 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.61%) Sophos
5 1 (0.61%) VMware