Hybrid/Remote Power BI Job Trends

Microsoft Power BI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Power BI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 85 78
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 -18
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 750 662 760
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.02% 3.94% 3.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.10% 25.05% 15.81%
Number of salaries quoted 543 489 498
10th Percentile £38,772 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +18.04%
75th Percentile £79,400 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,112 2,643 4,806
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.55% 15.74% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 1,811 3,008
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,854 £38,925
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power BI and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Power BI job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Power BI over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Power BI salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 88 (11.73%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.80%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) MS Project Server
5 4 (0.53%) Apache
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.40%) SAS
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) CMS
7 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 173 (23.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Notion
6 5 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.53%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.53%) ProjectWise
7 4 (0.53%) Revit
8 3 (0.40%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.27%) SPSS
10 1 (0.13%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 23 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (1.47%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.67%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.53%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.40%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.27%) FastStats
9 1 (0.13%) Actimize
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 750 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 236 (31.47%) Azure
3 107 (14.27%) PowerApps
4 103 (13.73%) Power Automate
5 74 (9.87%) Dynamics 365
6 69 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
7 64 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (7.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 49 (6.53%) AWS
10 43 (5.73%) SaaS
11 41 (5.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 34 (4.53%) Google Analytics
13 33 (4.40%) GCP
14 31 (4.13%) Microsoft Purview
15 30 (4.00%) Snowflake
16 27 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
18 19 (2.53%) Entra ID
18 19 (2.53%) OneDrive
19 16 (2.13%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.87%) Broadband
2 6 (0.80%) SMS
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) Intranet
3 1 (0.13%) Modbus
3 1 (0.13%) MQTT
3 1 (0.13%) NAS
3 1 (0.13%) VoIP
3 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (16.53%) Tableau
2 89 (11.87%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (9.73%) SQL Server
4 56 (7.47%) Data Lake
5 51 (6.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 44 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 42 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 37 (4.93%) Power Query
9 36 (4.80%) Metadata
10 29 (3.87%) Looker
10 29 (3.87%) Relational Database
11 27 (3.60%) Star Schema
12 21 (2.80%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.53%) MongoDB
14 17 (2.27%) BigQuery
14 17 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
15 15 (2.00%) DynamoDB
16 14 (1.87%) Big Data
16 14 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 13 (1.73%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 54 (7.20%) Git
2 21 (2.80%) JIRA
3 10 (1.33%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.13%) ERwin
6 1 (0.13%) Flyway
6 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 316 (42.13%) Social Skills
2 252 (33.60%) Analytical Skills
3 242 (32.27%) Finance
4 84 (11.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (9.60%) Public Sector
6 71 (9.47%) Marketing
7 65 (8.67%) Legal
8 57 (7.60%) Law
9 48 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
10 46 (6.13%) Retail
11 26 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (3.47%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.87%) Banking
15 13 (1.73%) Billing
16 11 (1.47%) Advertising
17 10 (1.33%) Legal Technology
18 9 (1.20%) Social Housing
19 7 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 187 (24.93%) Analyst
2 118 (15.73%) Senior
3 109 (14.53%) Developer
4 84 (11.20%) Data Analyst
5 75 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 62 (8.27%) Lead
7 38 (5.07%) Architect
8 37 (4.93%) Consultant
9 36 (4.80%) Data Manager
10 31 (4.13%) Business Analyst
11 27 (3.60%) Data Architect
11 27 (3.60%) Senior Analyst
12 22 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 22 (2.93%) Power Platform Developer
13 21 (2.80%) Applications Support
13 21 (2.80%) Senior Consultant
14 19 (2.53%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 19 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
14 19 (2.53%) Service Manager
15 17 (2.27%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.33%) .NET
2 33 (4.40%) HTML
3 31 (4.13%) PySpark
4 25 (3.33%) CSS
5 19 (2.53%) REST
6 17 (2.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 15 (2.00%) JSON
8 14 (1.87%) Terraform
9 13 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
10 11 (1.47%) .NET Core
10 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (1.20%) React
11 9 (1.20%) SPFx
12 8 (1.07%) Pandas
13 7 (0.93%) Kafka
14 6 (0.80%) ASP.NET
14 6 (0.80%) Middleware
14 6 (0.80%) NumPy
14 6 (0.80%) XML
15 5 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.20%) Management Information System
2 35 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 19 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.00%) Low-Code
6 14 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (1.87%) Cloud Native
6 14 (1.87%) Social Media
7 13 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.33%) Housing Association
10 8 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.93%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.80%) Cyberattack
12 6 (0.80%) NHS
12 6 (0.80%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.67%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.53%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.00%) Windows
2 5 (0.67%) Linux
3 3 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (95.33%) Business Intelligence
2 306 (40.80%) Analytics
3 235 (31.33%) Decision-Making
4 209 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
5 199 (26.53%) Data Modelling
6 194 (25.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 191 (25.47%) AI
8 156 (20.80%) Visualisation
9 152 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 145 (19.33%) Agile
11 135 (18.00%) Actionable Insight
12 114 (15.20%) Data Governance
13 113 (15.07%) ETL
14 109 (14.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 95 (12.67%) DevOps
16 94 (12.53%) Data Engineering
16 94 (12.53%) Data Visualisation
17 93 (12.40%) Dashboard Development
18 87 (11.60%) CRM
18 87 (11.60%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 379 (50.53%) SQL
2 149 (19.87%) Python
3 78 (10.40%) C#
4 62 (8.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 50 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 28 (3.73%) PowerShell
7 24 (3.20%) T-SQL
8 18 (2.40%) R
9 12 (1.60%) VBA
10 11 (1.47%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.80%) Scala
13 5 (0.67%) PHP
14 4 (0.53%) VB
15 3 (0.40%) Bicep
15 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.40%) X++
16 2 (0.27%) Formula Language
17 1 (0.13%) Java
17 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 89 (11.87%) Degree
2 64 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 57 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.80%) ACCA
5 17 (2.27%) CIMA
6 15 (2.00%) DBS Check
6 15 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.67%) PMP
11 4 (0.53%) AAT
11 4 (0.53%) CISM
11 4 (0.53%) CISSP
11 4 (0.53%) CRISC
11 4 (0.53%) ISEB
12 3 (0.40%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.27%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (24.53%) Data Quality
2 89 (11.87%) GDPR
3 46 (6.13%) Accessibility
4 32 (4.27%) QA
5 24 (3.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 22 (2.93%) SLA
7 20 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.73%) PMO
9 12 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.93%) GRC
11 6 (0.80%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.80%) NIST
11 6 (0.80%) PERC
12 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.53%) ISO 19650
13 4 (0.53%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.27%) GAAP
14 2 (0.27%) IFRS
14 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (0.80%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
3 2 (0.27%) Ansible
4 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.13%) Grafana
4 1 (0.13%) MOM
4 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 300 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.53%) Databricks
3 40 (5.33%) Google
4 30 (4.00%) SAP
5 28 (3.73%) Oracle
5 28 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.27%) Informatica
7 16 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.60%) Alteryx
8 12 (1.60%) Talend
8 12 (1.60%) YouTube
9 11 (1.47%) HP
10 9 (1.20%) Adobe
10 9 (1.20%) Intapp
11 6 (0.80%) HighQ
11 6 (0.80%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 5 (0.67%) Criteo
12 5 (0.67%) Nintex
13 4 (0.53%) iManage