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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 72 87
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -13
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 157 144 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.10% 3.29% 3.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.98% 21.30% 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 59 43 70
10th Percentile £41,050 £36,700 £39,875
25th Percentile £44,375 £41,263 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +9.45% -9.46%
75th Percentile £68,795 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,022 £67,000 £70,238
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +13.86% -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 582 676 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.20% 15.44% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 250 354 504
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,063 £43,375 £45,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,835 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.30% -0.30% -

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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 24 October 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 24 October 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 -9 103 £69,840 +36.27% 112
Buckinghamshire +14 41 £47,500 -26.92% 27
Oxfordshire +27 13 £62,500 +61.29% 18
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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 (6.37%) SugarCRM
2 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 99 (63.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.64%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 157 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 95 (60.51%) Azure
3 10 (6.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Purview
4 9 (5.73%) Power Automate
5 8 (5.10%) SaaS
6 7 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.55%) AWS
8 4 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.55%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.55%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.91%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.27%) Contentsquare
10 2 (1.27%) dbt
10 2 (1.27%) Fivetran
10 2 (1.27%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Broadband
2 2 (1.27%) DNS
2 2 (1.27%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.27%) VPN
2 2 (1.27%) WAN
3 1 (0.64%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.64%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (45.86%) Data Lake
2 63 (40.13%) SAP BW
3 19 (12.10%) SQL Server
4 13 (8.28%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (7.01%) Tableau
6 10 (6.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (5.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.18%) Metadata
8 5 (3.18%) Power Query
8 5 (3.18%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (2.55%) MySQL
10 3 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.27%) Looker
11 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.27%) PowerPivot
11 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.64%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Git
2 1 (0.64%) JIRA
General
1 79 (50.32%) Social Skills
2 67 (42.68%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (28.66%) Finance
4 27 (17.20%) Marketing
5 17 (10.83%) Retail
6 12 (7.64%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.73%) Games
8 8 (5.10%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.18%) Legal
10 4 (2.55%) Retail Finance
10 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.91%) Law
12 1 (0.64%) Billing
12 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (43.95%) Analyst
2 53 (33.76%) Lead
3 37 (23.57%) Report Analyst
4 30 (19.11%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (17.83%) Sustainability Analyst
6 19 (12.10%) Data Analyst
7 16 (10.19%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (7.64%) Commercial Data Analyst
8 12 (7.64%) Procurement Analyst
9 11 (7.01%) Senior
10 9 (5.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (4.46%) Developer
11 7 (4.46%) Financial Analyst
12 6 (3.82%) Data Manager
13 4 (2.55%) Business Manager
13 4 (2.55%) Project Analyst
13 4 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (2.55%) Senior Business Manager
13 4 (2.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 4 (2.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.91%) .NET
1 3 (1.91%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.27%) Hugging Face
2 2 (1.27%) NumPy
2 2 (1.27%) Pandas
2 2 (1.27%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.64%) Flash
3 1 (0.64%) JSON
3 1 (0.64%) REST
3 1 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (8.28%) FMCG
3 11 (7.01%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.18%) SCADA
5 4 (2.55%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.55%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 3 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
8 1 (0.64%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.64%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.64%) IoT
8 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) Robotics
8 1 (0.64%) SCORM
8 1 (0.64%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (96.82%) Business Intelligence
2 115 (73.25%) Analytics
3 80 (50.96%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (43.95%) Data Modelling
5 56 (35.67%) Actionable Insight
6 54 (34.39%) Decision-Making
7 48 (30.57%) Data Governance
8 37 (23.57%) Data Cleansing
9 33 (21.02%) ERP
10 28 (17.83%) GAP Analysis
10 28 (17.83%) Quality Management
10 28 (17.83%) Source to Pay
11 26 (16.56%) Data Management
12 24 (15.29%) AI
12 24 (15.29%) Visualisation
13 23 (14.65%) Data Analysis
14 21 (13.38%) Data Analytics
14 21 (13.38%) Validation
15 19 (12.10%) Data Visualisation
15 19 (12.10%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 47 (29.94%) SQL
2 22 (14.01%) Python
3 8 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.18%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.55%) C#
5 4 (2.55%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.27%) Bicep
6 2 (1.27%) VBA
7 1 (0.64%) R
7 1 (0.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 103 (65.61%) Degree
2 10 (6.37%) HNC
3 3 (1.91%) ACCA
3 3 (1.91%) CIMA
3 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.91%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.91%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.64%) PhD
5 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (50.32%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.37%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) QA
4 1 (0.64%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (41.40%) SAP
2 13 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.18%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (3.18%) Databricks
3 5 (3.18%) Siemens
4 4 (2.55%) Google
4 4 (2.55%) HubSpot
4 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.91%) Talend
6 2 (1.27%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.27%) Cognos
6 2 (1.27%) Meraki
6 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle
6 2 (1.27%) Zoho
7 1 (0.64%) Adobe
7 1 (0.64%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.64%) JDA
7 1 (0.64%) Sage
7 1 (0.64%) SendGrid