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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 67 56
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +19
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 566 572 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 4.45% 4.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.63% 16.92% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 408 401 1,296
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £36,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -0.86% +8.41% -2.73%

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 2,298 3,381 7,213
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.35% 26.32% 22.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 2,433 6,168
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,547 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,375 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -10.16%

Power BI
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

Power BI
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

Power BI
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Power BI
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 64 (11.31%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.06%) SAS
5 5 (0.88%) CMS
5 5 (0.88%) Confluence
6 4 (0.71%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.53%) Drupal
8 2 (0.35%) Moodle
9 1 (0.18%) Apache
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
Applications
1 174 (30.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.41%) Trello
6 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.12%) NetSuite
3 8 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (1.06%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.88%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.53%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.35%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 566 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 252 (44.52%) Azure
3 94 (16.61%) Power Automate
4 93 (16.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 72 (12.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 68 (12.01%) PowerApps
7 66 (11.66%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (8.13%) Dynamics 365
9 33 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (4.77%) Snowflake
11 24 (4.24%) GCP
11 24 (4.24%) Google Analytics
12 23 (4.06%) GitHub
12 23 (4.06%) SaaS
13 22 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 20 (3.53%) AWS
15 15 (2.65%) dbt
15 15 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (2.47%) OneDrive
17 13 (2.30%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.53%) Firewall
1 3 (0.53%) Modbus
1 3 (0.53%) MQTT
2 2 (0.35%) Intranet
2 2 (0.35%) NAS
2 2 (0.35%) VoIP
2 2 (0.35%) WAN
2 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.18%) ADSL
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (18.90%) Tableau
2 81 (14.31%) SQL Server
3 54 (9.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (9.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (6.89%) Power Query
6 30 (5.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 29 (5.12%) Big Data
8 25 (4.42%) Data Lake
9 22 (3.89%) Looker
10 16 (2.83%) MySQL
11 13 (2.30%) BigQuery
12 12 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (1.94%) Metadata
14 9 (1.59%) QlikView
14 9 (1.59%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.59%) Star Schema
15 8 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.41%) PowerPivot
15 8 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 21 (3.71%) Git
2 17 (3.00%) JIRA
3 11 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.71%) ERwin
5 4 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.18%) Postman
8 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 243 (42.93%) Social Skills
2 204 (36.04%) Analytical Skills
3 187 (33.04%) Finance
4 54 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.36%) Marketing
7 27 (4.77%) Legal
7 27 (4.77%) Retail
8 25 (4.42%) Law
8 25 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (2.83%) Billing
11 14 (2.47%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.12%) Automotive
12 12 (2.12%) Banking
13 10 (1.77%) Publishing
13 10 (1.77%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.06%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 190 (33.57%) Analyst
2 87 (15.37%) Senior
3 78 (13.78%) Developer
4 68 (12.01%) Data Analyst
5 55 (9.72%) Lead
6 35 (6.18%) Data Engineer
7 31 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 27 (4.77%) Big Data Engineer
8 27 (4.77%) DataOps Engineer
8 27 (4.77%) DataOps Leader
8 27 (4.77%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 25 (4.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 25 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
10 24 (4.24%) Commercial Analyst
10 24 (4.24%) IT Support
10 24 (4.24%) Senior Developer
11 22 (3.89%) Applications Support
11 22 (3.89%) Power Platform Developer
12 21 (3.71%) Consultant
12 21 (3.71%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.77%) .NET
1 27 (4.77%) HTML5 Canvas
2 26 (4.59%) JSON
3 21 (3.71%) HTML
4 20 (3.53%) CSS
5 15 (2.65%) PySpark
5 15 (2.65%) XML
6 13 (2.30%) .NET Core
7 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (1.77%) SPFx
8 9 (1.59%) RESTful
9 8 (1.41%) OAuth
9 8 (1.41%) OAuth2
9 8 (1.41%) SAML
10 7 (1.24%) EDI
11 6 (1.06%) Kafka
12 4 (0.71%) Middleware
12 4 (0.71%) REST
13 3 (0.53%) .NET Framework
13 3 (0.53%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.24%) Management Information System
2 34 (6.01%) Analytical Mindset
3 31 (5.48%) Data Structures
4 29 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (4.24%) Cloud Native
6 18 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.83%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.94%) FMCG
8 11 (1.94%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.06%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.88%) Life Science
13 5 (0.88%) Replication
13 5 (0.88%) Social Media
14 3 (0.53%) Credit Risk
14 3 (0.53%) IoT
14 3 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.59%) Windows
2 8 (1.41%) Linux
2 8 (1.41%) Unix
3 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.35%) VMS
4 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (92.76%) Business Intelligence
2 208 (36.75%) Analytics
3 171 (30.21%) Decision-Making
4 157 (27.74%) Visualisation
5 142 (25.09%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 117 (20.67%) Data Modelling
8 111 (19.61%) Data Analysis
9 97 (17.14%) Data Visualisation
10 88 (15.55%) Agile
11 87 (15.37%) Actionable Insight
12 86 (15.19%) ETL
13 83 (14.66%) AI
14 74 (13.07%) CI/CD
15 72 (12.72%) CRM
16 70 (12.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 64 (11.31%) Data Management
18 63 (11.13%) Data Engineering
19 60 (10.60%) Data Governance
19 60 (10.60%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 294 (51.94%) SQL
2 133 (23.50%) Python
3 57 (10.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 45 (7.95%) C#
5 36 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 30 (5.30%) PowerShell
7 24 (4.24%) R
8 21 (3.71%) T-SQL
9 16 (2.83%) VBA
10 13 (2.30%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.77%) Java
12 9 (1.59%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.41%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.88%) Scala
14 5 (0.88%) VB
14 5 (0.88%) VBScript
15 2 (0.35%) Bicep
15 2 (0.35%) Ruby
16 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 105 (18.55%) Degree
2 42 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.54%) ACCA
3 37 (6.54%) CIMA
4 32 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 26 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (4.42%) DBS Check
7 15 (2.65%) AAT
8 12 (2.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 10 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.06%) PMP
12 5 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.71%) CIPFA
13 4 (0.71%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.53%) CIPD
14 3 (0.53%) CISA
14 3 (0.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (17.31%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.36%) SLA
3 28 (4.95%) GDPR
4 23 (4.06%) Actionable Recommendations
5 20 (3.53%) PMO
6 17 (3.00%) QA
7 13 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.53%) IFRS
10 2 (0.35%) GAAP
10 2 (0.35%) GRC
10 2 (0.35%) WCAG
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.18%) NIST
11 1 (0.18%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.06%) Docker
4 2 (0.35%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 12 (2.12%) Terraform
2 8 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.88%) SCCM
4 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Control-M
6 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 211 (37.28%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.19%) Databricks
3 32 (5.65%) Oracle
4 31 (5.48%) Google
5 22 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.53%) Informatica
7 19 (3.36%) SAP
8 15 (2.65%) Adobe
9 11 (1.94%) Alteryx
10 9 (1.59%) Northgate
11 7 (1.24%) Hotjar
11 7 (1.24%) IBM
11 7 (1.24%) VMware
12 5 (0.88%) ESRI
12 5 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.88%) Snow
13 4 (0.71%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.71%) JD Edwards
13 4 (0.71%) Talend
14 3 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud