Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 26 September 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Power BI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Power BI over the 6 months to 26 September 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft Power BI
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
26 Sep 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 103 81 143
Rank change year-on-year -22 +62 +5
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 849 183 164
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.26% 3.36% 2.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.28% 10.87% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 737 162 158
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,968 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

Power BI is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,529 1,684 2,324
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.89% 30.96% 29.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,772 1,551 2,076
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Power BI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Power BI trend for jobs with a WFH option

Power BI
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Power BI.

Power BI salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Power BI
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Power BI over the 6 months to 26 September 2021.

Power BI salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 26 September 2021, Power BI job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Power BI.

1 849 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 750 (88.34%) Business Intelligence
3 562 (66.20%) SQL
4 385 (45.35%) Azure
5 371 (43.70%) Microsoft
6 304 (35.81%) Analytics
7 290 (34.16%) Data Warehouse
8 272 (32.04%) SQL Server
9 211 (24.85%) Visualisation
10 204 (24.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 204 (24.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 202 (23.79%) Microsoft Excel
12 181 (21.32%) Tableau
13 180 (21.20%) Data Modelling
14 178 (20.97%) Python
15 175 (20.61%) ETL
16 172 (20.26%) Social Skills
17 169 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
18 156 (18.37%) Agile Software Development
19 155 (18.26%) DevOps
20 147 (17.31%) C#
21 130 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
22 126 (14.84%) Finance
23 120 (14.13%) Data Analysis
24 119 (14.02%) PowerApps
25 113 (13.31%) Azure Data Factory
26 112 (13.19%) T-SQL
27 109 (12.84%) Data Visualisation
28 108 (12.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
29 106 (12.49%) .NET

Power BI
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 89 (10.48%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.71%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.06%) Apache
3 9 (1.06%) IIS
4 6 (0.71%) CMS
5 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.59%) GlassFish
5 5 (0.59%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.59%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.47%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.35%) Confluence
7 3 (0.35%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) MS Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Kentico
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 202 (23.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) Weka
7 1 (0.12%) SPSS
7 1 (0.12%) Stata
Business Applications
1 50 (5.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (2.47%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (1.53%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.82%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.71%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.24%) FastStats
7 2 (0.24%) Findur
7 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.24%) WebTrends
8 1 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.12%) Shopify
8 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 849 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 385 (45.35%) Azure
3 119 (14.02%) PowerApps
4 113 (13.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 103 (12.13%) Dynamics 365
6 81 (9.54%) Power Automate
7 80 (9.42%) AWS
8 68 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
9 56 (6.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 47 (5.54%) Snowflake
11 39 (4.59%) Google Analytics
12 35 (4.12%) GCP
13 31 (3.65%) Serverless
14 26 (3.06%) Azure Functions
14 26 (3.06%) Google Data Studio
15 24 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 20 (2.36%) GitHub
17 19 (2.24%) PaaS
17 19 (2.24%) SaaS
18 18 (2.12%) Azure Active Directory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.59%) Intranet
2 14 (1.65%) HTTP
3 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.47%) SSL
4 2 (0.24%) Firewall
4 2 (0.24%) VoIP
5 1 (0.12%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.12%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (34.16%) Data Warehouse
2 272 (32.04%) SQL Server
3 204 (24.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 204 (24.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 181 (21.32%) Tableau
5 108 (12.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 91 (10.72%) Data Lake
7 85 (10.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 73 (8.60%) Big Data
9 59 (6.95%) SQL Server 2016
10 55 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
11 53 (6.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 47 (5.54%) MySQL
12 47 (5.54%) OLAP
13 35 (4.12%) Relational Database
14 31 (3.65%) Looker
15 30 (3.53%) SQL Server 2019
16 29 (3.42%) Oracle OLAP
17 27 (3.18%) QlikView
18 26 (3.06%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 70 (8.24%) Visual Studio
2 59 (6.95%) Git (software)
3 27 (3.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 25 (2.94%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 20 (2.36%) Team Foundation Server
6 15 (1.77%) JIRA
7 10 (1.18%) MorphX
8 4 (0.47%) AppVeyor
8 4 (0.47%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio Team System
10 2 (0.24%) ERwin
10 2 (0.24%) Selenium
11 1 (0.12%) Axure RP
11 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.12%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.12%) GoCD
11 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
11 1 (0.12%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
General
1 172 (20.26%) Social Skills
2 169 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (14.84%) Finance
4 54 (6.36%) Marketing
5 52 (6.12%) Retail
6 38 (4.48%) Publishing
7 32 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 21 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 20 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 19 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.12%) Banking
12 17 (2.00%) Law
13 16 (1.88%) Legal
14 11 (1.30%) Advertising
14 11 (1.30%) Czech Language
15 9 (1.06%) Automotive
16 7 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 284 (33.45%) Developer
2 206 (24.26%) Analyst
3 115 (13.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 106 (12.49%) Data Analyst
5 101 (11.90%) Data Engineer
6 69 (8.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 64 (7.54%) Senior Developer
8 63 (7.42%) Power BI Analyst
9 49 (5.77%) Architect
9 49 (5.77%) Consultant
10 48 (5.65%) Power BI Developer
11 45 (5.30%) Administrator
12 43 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
13 34 (4.00%) SQL Developer
14 32 (3.77%) Data Administrator
14 32 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
15 28 (3.30%) SQL Analyst
16 27 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
17 26 (3.06%) Data Architect
18 25 (2.94%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (12.49%) .NET
2 51 (6.01%) JSON
3 43 (5.06%) Web Services
4 39 (4.59%) REST
5 34 (4.00%) MDX
6 32 (3.77%) ASP.NET
7 31 (3.65%) HTML
7 31 (3.65%) XML
8 19 (2.24%) Node.js
9 17 (2.00%) .NET Framework
10 15 (1.77%) .NET Core
10 15 (1.77%) jQuery
11 14 (1.65%) CSS
12 13 (1.53%) SOAP
13 12 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (1.30%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.30%) React
14 11 (1.30%) XML-RPC
15 10 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
16 9 (1.06%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.54%) User Experience
2 40 (4.71%) Driving Licence
3 30 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 23 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 18 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.18%) FMCG
11 9 (1.06%) Biotechnology
11 9 (1.06%) NHS
11 9 (1.06%) Taxonomies
12 8 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.59%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.59%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.47%) Clustering
14 4 (0.47%) Hedge funds
14 4 (0.47%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.12%) Linux
2 14 (1.65%) Windows
3 10 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.06%) Android
5 7 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.59%) Unix
8 4 (0.47%) zOS
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (88.34%) Business Intelligence
2 304 (35.81%) Analytics
3 211 (24.85%) Visualisation
4 180 (21.20%) Data Modelling
5 175 (20.61%) ETL
6 156 (18.37%) Agile Software Development
7 155 (18.26%) DevOps
8 130 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
9 120 (14.13%) Data Analysis
10 109 (12.84%) Data Visualisation
11 97 (11.43%) Data Management
12 88 (10.37%) CRM
13 87 (10.25%) Data Analytics
14 86 (10.13%) Machine Learning
15 77 (9.07%) Data Architecture
16 71 (8.36%) Migration
17 68 (8.01%) Dashboard Development
18 66 (7.77%) Data Science
19 64 (7.54%) Business Analytics
20 63 (7.42%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 562 (66.20%) SQL
2 178 (20.97%) Python
3 147 (17.31%) C#
4 112 (13.19%) T-SQL
5 85 (10.01%) R
6 66 (7.77%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
7 62 (7.30%) JavaScript
8 47 (5.54%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.48%) VB
10 27 (3.18%) VBA
11 25 (2.94%) Scala
12 24 (2.83%) Java
13 22 (2.59%) VB.NET
14 17 (2.00%) X++
15 11 (1.30%) PHP
16 9 (1.06%) ActionScript
16 9 (1.06%) ActionScript 2.0
16 9 (1.06%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.71%) C
Qualifications
1 70 (8.24%) Degree
2 29 (3.42%) Security Cleared
3 21 (2.47%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.06%) Analytics IQ
7 8 (0.94%) MCSE
8 5 (0.59%) MCSA
9 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.35%) PMP
11 2 (0.24%) APMG
11 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.12%) CISSP
12 1 (0.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.83%) GDPR
3 34 (4.00%) QA
4 10 (1.18%) PMO
5 5 (0.59%) GRC
5 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.35%) SLA
7 2 (0.24%) COREP
7 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) HL7
8 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.30%) Terraform
3 9 (1.06%) Matomo
3 9 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.47%) SCCM
6 3 (0.35%) Grafana
6 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.24%) Oozie
8 1 (0.12%) Control-M
8 1 (0.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 371 (43.70%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.48%) Oracle
3 67 (7.89%) Google
4 58 (6.83%) Databricks
5 44 (5.18%) SAP
6 20 (2.36%) Salesforce.com
7 19 (2.24%) JD Edwards
8 14 (1.65%) Alteryx
9 12 (1.41%) Adobe
9 12 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.30%) Guidewire
11 10 (1.18%) Cognos
12 9 (1.06%) Snowplow
12 9 (1.06%) Talend
13 7 (0.82%) Informatica
13 7 (0.82%) Okta
14 6 (0.71%) Remedy
14 6 (0.71%) Sage
15 5 (0.59%) Epicor
15 5 (0.59%) VMware