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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 84 68
Rank change year-on-year +13 -16 +3
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 518 608 958
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.45% 3.69% 4.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.93% 14.65% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 354 352 800
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,313 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,438 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,975 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -1.79%

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 2,078 4,149 5,366
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 25.15% 24.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 2,488 4,380
10th Percentile £37,250 £39,000 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,875 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 11 January 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 42 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 16 (3.09%) Confluence
4 8 (1.54%) SAS
5 6 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.77%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.39%) CMS
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.39%) Moodle
8 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 194 (37.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.54%) Trello
5 5 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (4.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (3.28%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.54%) NetSuite
3 8 (1.54%) Visualfiles
4 6 (1.16%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.77%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.58%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.39%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.19%) Pegasus Opera
8 1 (0.19%) Primavera
8 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 518 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 232 (44.79%) Azure
3 74 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 63 (12.16%) Power Automate
4 63 (12.16%) PowerApps
5 54 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (10.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 46 (8.88%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (8.11%) Snowflake
10 39 (7.53%) GitHub
11 32 (6.18%) AWS
12 27 (5.21%) GCP
13 24 (4.63%) GitHub Copilot
14 19 (3.67%) dbt
15 18 (3.47%) OCI
16 17 (3.28%) SaaS
17 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
18 12 (2.32%) Azure Machine Learning
19 10 (1.93%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Intranet
1 2 (0.39%) Modbus
1 2 (0.39%) MQTT
2 1 (0.19%) ADSL
2 1 (0.19%) DHCP
2 1 (0.19%) DNS
2 1 (0.19%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) NAS
2 1 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (26.06%) Tableau
2 72 (13.90%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (12.93%) SQL Server
4 49 (9.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 42 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (6.95%) Data Lake
7 26 (5.02%) Power Query
8 24 (4.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (3.47%) Looker
10 16 (3.09%) Metadata
11 15 (2.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 14 (2.70%) BigQuery
12 14 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
13 10 (1.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 8 (1.54%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 7 (1.35%) Big Data
15 7 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (1.35%) Qlik Sense
15 7 (1.35%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 36 (6.95%) JIRA
2 32 (6.18%) Git
3 20 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.28%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (1.16%) ERwin
6 4 (0.77%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.77%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 236 (45.56%) Finance
2 200 (38.61%) Social Skills
3 175 (33.78%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.78%) Marketing
5 41 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.56%) Public Sector
7 31 (5.98%) Retail
8 30 (5.79%) Manufacturing
9 26 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (3.86%) Law
12 18 (3.47%) Billing
13 15 (2.90%) Legal
14 12 (2.32%) Telecoms
15 11 (2.12%) Banking
16 10 (1.93%) Advertising
17 8 (1.54%) Local Government
18 7 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
19 6 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 175 (33.78%) Analyst
2 70 (13.51%) Developer
3 69 (13.32%) Senior
4 58 (11.20%) Data Analyst
5 45 (8.69%) Lead
6 33 (6.37%) Data Engineer
7 28 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
7 28 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 24 (4.63%) Business Analyst
8 24 (4.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 23 (4.44%) Support Analyst
10 22 (4.25%) Consultant
10 22 (4.25%) Power Platform Developer
11 19 (3.67%) Applications Support
11 19 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (3.67%) Insight Analyst
12 18 (3.47%) Commercial Analyst
13 17 (3.28%) Data Scientist
14 15 (2.90%) Senior Developer
15 14 (2.70%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.47%) .NET
2 17 (3.28%) HTML5 Canvas
2 17 (3.28%) OAuth
2 17 (3.28%) OAuth2
2 17 (3.28%) RESTful
2 17 (3.28%) SAML
3 10 (1.93%) JSON
3 10 (1.93%) Middleware
4 8 (1.54%) Pandas
4 8 (1.54%) XML
5 7 (1.35%) EDI
5 7 (1.35%) PySpark
6 6 (1.16%) HTML
6 6 (1.16%) scikit-learn
7 5 (0.97%) CSS
7 5 (0.97%) NumPy
8 4 (0.77%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.77%) Hugging Face
8 4 (0.77%) React
8 4 (0.77%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.53%) Analytical Mindset
2 36 (6.95%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.95%) Management Information System
3 29 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.70%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.35%) FMCG
11 6 (1.16%) Reinsurance
12 5 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.97%) Social Media
13 4 (0.77%) Credit Risk
13 4 (0.77%) Housing Association
14 3 (0.58%) Educational Technology
14 3 (0.58%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.09%) Windows
2 7 (1.35%) Linux
2 7 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (93.05%) Business Intelligence
2 216 (41.70%) Analytics
3 158 (30.50%) Visualisation
4 154 (29.73%) Decision-Making
5 138 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (26.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 122 (23.55%) Agile
8 110 (21.24%) AI
9 104 (20.08%) Data Analysis
10 101 (19.50%) Data Visualisation
11 84 (16.22%) Data Modelling
12 82 (15.83%) Actionable Insight
12 82 (15.83%) DevOps
13 74 (14.29%) ETL
14 70 (13.51%) Data Engineering
15 66 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 63 (12.16%) ERP
17 62 (11.97%) CRM
18 61 (11.78%) Data Management
19 59 (11.39%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 311 (60.04%) SQL
2 165 (31.85%) Python
3 51 (9.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (6.56%) C#
5 28 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 26 (5.02%) R
7 23 (4.44%) Java
8 18 (3.47%) PL/SQL
9 17 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 14 (2.70%) Scala
10 14 (2.70%) T-SQL
11 13 (2.51%) VBA
12 11 (2.12%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.58%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.39%) Ruby
15 1 (0.19%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 100 (19.31%) Degree
2 39 (7.53%) ACCA
2 39 (7.53%) CIMA
3 36 (6.95%) Security Cleared
4 33 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (5.60%) SC Cleared
6 28 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (4.05%) DBS Check
8 13 (2.51%) CISSP
8 13 (2.51%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.32%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.32%) CISA
9 12 (2.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 9 (1.74%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.97%) CISM
12 5 (0.97%) CRISC
13 4 (0.77%) AAT
13 4 (0.77%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (13.71%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.67%) GDPR
4 17 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (2.51%) SLA
7 11 (2.12%) PMO
8 10 (1.93%) QA
9 7 (1.35%) GRC
10 6 (1.16%) NIST
11 5 (0.97%) COBIT
11 5 (0.97%) ITGC
12 2 (0.39%) WCAG
13 1 (0.19%) P3O
13 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (1.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (4.63%) Terraform
2 20 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.39%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 196 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 60 (11.58%) Databricks
3 39 (7.53%) Oracle
4 28 (5.41%) Google
5 24 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 21 (4.05%) SAP
7 12 (2.32%) Informatica
8 10 (1.93%) Alteryx
9 8 (1.54%) Northgate
10 7 (1.35%) Sage
11 6 (1.16%) Concur
11 6 (1.16%) Talend
12 4 (0.77%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.77%) IBM
12 4 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.77%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.77%) Zoho
13 3 (0.58%) Cognos
13 3 (0.58%) Foundry