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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 66 99
Rank change year-on-year +32 +33 -24
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 194 146 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.80% 4.28% 2.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.11% 21.44% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 78 59 83
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £66,250 £76,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,625 £76,550 £60,020
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +18.25% -9.09%

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 496 681 770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.27% 19.94% 19.71%
Number of salaries quoted 227 390 542
10th Percentile £35,812 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £75,500 £95,000 £88,625
South East median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

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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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +20 109 £60,000 +14.29% 35
Buckinghamshire +17 63 £52,500 -30.92% 12
Oxfordshire +32 22 £47,500 - 6
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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 9 (4.64%) SugarCRM
2 3 (1.55%) SAS
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 122 (62.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.61%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.09%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.03%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 194 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 102 (52.58%) Azure
3 16 (8.25%) Azure AI
4 13 (6.70%) Power Automate
5 12 (6.19%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.61%) AWS
8 6 (3.09%) dbt
9 4 (2.06%) GCP
9 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.06%) SaaS
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.55%) Fivetran
10 3 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.55%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.03%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.03%) GitHub
11 2 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.03%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.06%) Modbus
1 4 (2.06%) MQTT
2 1 (0.52%) DHCP
2 1 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (34.54%) Data Lake
2 63 (32.47%) SAP BW
3 37 (19.07%) Tableau
4 12 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (5.67%) Power Query
5 11 (5.67%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (3.61%) Metadata
7 7 (3.61%) PowerPivot
8 5 (2.58%) Looker
8 5 (2.58%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.55%) MySQL
9 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.03%) Airbyte
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.12%) Git
2 3 (1.55%) JIRA
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
General
1 118 (60.82%) Social Skills
2 87 (44.85%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (30.41%) Finance
4 17 (8.76%) Manufacturing
4 17 (8.76%) Marketing
5 10 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.61%) Retail
8 4 (2.06%) Games
9 2 (1.03%) Back Office
9 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 102 (52.58%) Analyst
2 47 (24.23%) Data Analyst
3 46 (23.71%) Lead
4 37 (19.07%) Report Analyst
5 30 (15.46%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (14.43%) Sustainability Analyst
7 18 (9.28%) Developer
8 17 (8.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 15 (7.73%) Junior
9 15 (7.73%) Junior Analyst
9 15 (7.73%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (7.22%) Financial Analyst
11 13 (6.70%) Senior
12 12 (6.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 12 (6.19%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (6.19%) Commercial Data Analyst
12 12 (6.19%) Procurement Analyst
13 10 (5.15%) Power BI Developer
14 7 (3.61%) Business Developer
15 6 (3.09%) Power BI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.09%) SAP CO-PA
2 2 (1.03%) Hugging Face
2 2 (1.03%) NumPy
2 2 (1.03%) Pandas
2 2 (1.03%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.03%) Snowpark
3 1 (0.52%) GeoPandas
3 1 (0.52%) MapLibre
3 1 (0.52%) NetworkX
3 1 (0.52%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.52%) REST
3 1 (0.52%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (6.19%) FMCG
3 11 (5.67%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 7 (3.61%) SCADA
5 4 (2.06%) IoT
6 3 (1.55%) Industry 4.0
6 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Replication
8 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Windows
1 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (98.97%) Business Intelligence
2 122 (62.89%) Analytics
3 94 (48.45%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (38.66%) Data Modelling
5 70 (36.08%) Decision-Making
6 53 (27.32%) Actionable Insight
7 45 (23.20%) Data Governance
8 43 (22.16%) ERP
9 37 (19.07%) AI
9 37 (19.07%) Data Cleansing
10 36 (18.56%) Visualisation
11 31 (15.98%) ETL
12 30 (15.46%) Data Visualisation
12 30 (15.46%) Quality Management
13 28 (14.43%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 28 (14.43%) GAP Analysis
13 28 (14.43%) Source to Pay
14 26 (13.40%) Data Analytics
15 25 (12.89%) Budgeting
16 24 (12.37%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 86 (44.33%) SQL
2 49 (25.26%) Python
3 25 (12.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (7.73%) VBA
5 5 (2.58%) C#
5 5 (2.58%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.55%) R
7 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 104 (53.61%) Degree
2 19 (9.79%) CIMA
3 18 (9.28%) ACCA
4 15 (7.73%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.64%) HNC
6 5 (2.58%) AAT
7 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (40.72%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) QA
4 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.52%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Argo
1 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 85 (43.81%) SAP
2 27 (13.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.58%) Databricks
4 4 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.55%) Allen-Bradley
5 3 (1.55%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.55%) Oracle
5 3 (1.55%) Siemens
5 3 (1.55%) Talend
6 2 (1.03%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.03%) Cognos
6 2 (1.03%) Google
6 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.03%) Xero
6 2 (1.03%) Zoho
7 1 (0.52%) Foundry
7 1 (0.52%) Informatica
7 1 (0.52%) JDA
7 1 (0.52%) Palantir
7 1 (0.52%) RedPrairie