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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 61 96
Rank change year-on-year +22 +35 -15
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 189 154 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.73% 4.35% 2.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.72% 21.57% 12.52%
Number of salaries quoted 72 62 73
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,251 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £76,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,850 - £64,005
South East median annual salary £52,500 £59,125 £50,500
% change year-on-year -11.21% +17.08% -6.48%

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 501 714 703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.54% 20.19% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 226 410 488
10th Percentile £34,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -7.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £90,375
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 25 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 25 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 +12 108 £64,920 +23.66% 75
Buckinghamshire +10 58 £52,500 -30.92% 27
Oxfordshire +32 23 £52,500 +10.53% 10
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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
1 115 (60.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.12%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) 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
2 104 (55.03%) Azure
3 16 (8.47%) Azure AI
4 12 (6.35%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.82%) Power Automate
6 10 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.70%) AWS
8 6 (3.17%) dbt
9 5 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
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%) 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 69 (36.51%) Data Lake
2 63 (33.33%) SAP BW
3 34 (17.99%) Tableau
4 12 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.35%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (5.82%) Power Query
6 7 (3.70%) Metadata
6 7 (3.70%) PowerPivot
6 7 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.65%) Looker
7 5 (2.65%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (1.59%) MySQL
8 3 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.23%) Git
2 3 (1.59%) JIRA
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
General
1 113 (59.79%) Social Skills
2 77 (40.74%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (26.98%) Finance
4 17 (8.99%) Marketing
5 15 (7.94%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.82%) Retail
8 5 (2.65%) 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 95 (50.26%) Analyst
2 48 (25.40%) Lead
3 45 (23.81%) Data Analyst
4 34 (17.99%) Report Analyst
5 30 (15.87%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (14.81%) Sustainability Analyst
7 15 (7.94%) Developer
7 15 (7.94%) Junior
7 15 (7.94%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (7.94%) Junior Data Analyst
8 14 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 14 (7.41%) Senior
9 12 (6.35%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (6.35%) Commercial Data Analyst
9 12 (6.35%) Procurement Analyst
10 11 (5.82%) Financial Analyst
11 10 (5.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 7 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
13 6 (3.17%) Data Manager
13 6 (3.17%) Manufacturing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.59%) 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 8 (4.23%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 8 (4.23%) SCADA
4 4 (2.12%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (2.12%) IoT
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
2 121 (64.02%) Analytics
3 92 (48.68%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (39.68%) Data Modelling
5 64 (33.86%) Decision-Making
6 54 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
7 45 (23.81%) Data Governance
8 42 (22.22%) ERP
9 38 (20.11%) AI
9 38 (20.11%) Data Cleansing
10 33 (17.46%) Visualisation
11 30 (15.87%) Quality Management
12 28 (14.81%) GAP Analysis
12 28 (14.81%) Source to Pay
13 27 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
14 26 (13.76%) ETL
15 25 (13.23%) Data Analysis
16 24 (12.70%) Data Analytics
17 20 (10.58%) Computer Science
17 20 (10.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 81 (42.86%) SQL
2 47 (24.87%) Python
3 22 (11.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.29%) 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
1 102 (53.97%) Degree
2 15 (7.94%) Azure Certification
3 14 (7.41%) CIMA
4 13 (6.88%) ACCA
5 10 (5.29%) HNC
6 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.06%) AAT
8 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
8 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 79 (41.80%) SAP
2 29 (15.34%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.65%) Databricks
4 4 (2.12%) Allen-Bradley
4 4 (2.12%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.12%) Siemens
5 3 (1.59%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.59%) Oracle
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%) Foundry
7 1 (0.53%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.53%) Palantir
7 1 (0.53%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow