Power BI Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Power BI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 56 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,230 1,141 1,225
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.04% 3.69% 3.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.94% 20.61% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 759 880
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.29%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £610
90th Percentile £671 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 36
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.10
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.01 £30.00 £35.16
Median % change year-on-year -16.65% -14.68% +0.46%
75th Percentile £44.94 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £64.73 £79.26
UK median hourly rate £25.01 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -16.63% -7.18% -7.66%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Power BI falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,362 5,535 6,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.60% 17.92% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,725 3,700 4,630
10th Percentile £328 £350 £355
25th Percentile £411 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 78 133
10th Percentile £20.89 £18.00 £18.71
25th Percentile £29.19 £24.69 £24.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £36.25 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -24.31% -4.21%
75th Percentile £66.06 £58.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.30 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +42.65% -33.59% +4.40%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Power BI job vacancy trend in England

Power BI
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in England

Power BI
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power BI

Power BI
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power BI in England

Power BI
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the England region over the 6 months to 25 November 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -1 671 £500 -4.76% 356
North of England -19 164 £415 -13.99% 149
South East -15 111 £475 - 332
Midlands -28 101 £470 +1.40% 174
Yorkshire -6 84 £400 -11.11% 44
North West -22 77 £425 -14.24% 86
South West 0 73 £433 -3.89% 80
West Midlands -26 73 £500 +1.01% 110
East of England +5 50 £580 +54.67% 76
East Midlands -6 28 £413 +8.55% 63
North East -8 3 £433 -3.89% 21
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Power BI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 135 (10.98%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.76%) Confluence
3 27 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.22%) Apache
6 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.81%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.65%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.081%) CMS
12 1 (0.081%) Kentico
12 1 (0.081%) Luigi
12 1 (0.081%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.081%) Smallworld
Applications
1 298 (24.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.20%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.41%) Trello
8 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.16%) Maple
10 1 (0.081%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.081%) Notion
10 1 (0.081%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.41%) Primavera
6 4 (0.33%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.33%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.24%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.16%) Actimize
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.16%) Endur
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,230 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 430 (34.96%) Azure
3 174 (14.15%) Power Automate
4 170 (13.82%) PowerApps
5 141 (11.46%) AWS
6 114 (9.27%) Dynamics 365
7 101 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 90 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
10 85 (6.91%) Snowflake
11 83 (6.75%) GCP
12 80 (6.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 47 (3.82%) Microsoft Copilot
14 36 (2.93%) dbt
15 33 (2.68%) Serverless
16 32 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 31 (2.52%) Entra ID
17 31 (2.52%) SaaS
18 29 (2.36%) GitHub
19 25 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) VoIP
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
3 3 (0.24%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.24%) LAN
3 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.16%) 2G
4 2 (0.16%) 5G
4 2 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.16%) LTE
4 2 (0.16%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.16%) Network Security
4 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.16%) VPN
4 2 (0.16%) Wireless
5 1 (0.081%) NAS
5 1 (0.081%) Skype
5 1 (0.081%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.081%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.081%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (16.67%) Tableau
2 148 (12.03%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (7.56%) Power Query
4 88 (7.15%) Data Lake
5 87 (7.07%) SQL Server
6 48 (3.90%) Metadata
7 47 (3.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 44 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (3.58%) Relational Database
9 39 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 38 (3.09%) BigQuery
11 37 (3.01%) Looker
12 30 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (2.20%) Data Mining
14 25 (2.03%) Big Data
15 21 (1.71%) Hadoop
16 20 (1.63%) Star Schema
17 17 (1.38%) NoSQL
17 17 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
17 17 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (7.89%) JIRA
2 46 (3.74%) Git
3 11 (0.89%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.65%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.57%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.49%) GitLab
7 5 (0.41%) ERwin
7 5 (0.41%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.33%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.16%) MLflow
9 2 (0.16%) Postman
9 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.081%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.081%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.081%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.081%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.081%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.081%) Zephyr
General
1 451 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 410 (33.33%) Finance
3 311 (25.28%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 113 (9.19%) Banking
6 43 (3.50%) Marketing
7 41 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (3.25%) Manufacturing
9 37 (3.01%) Retail
10 35 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (2.52%) Local Government
12 30 (2.44%) Investment Banking
12 30 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.87%) Front Office
13 23 (1.87%) Legal
14 21 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (1.38%) Telecoms
18 14 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 357 (29.02%) Analyst
2 202 (16.42%) Developer
3 167 (13.58%) Data Analyst
4 130 (10.57%) Data Engineer
5 112 (9.11%) Senior
6 101 (8.21%) Lead
7 90 (7.32%) Business Analyst
8 86 (6.99%) Architect
9 78 (6.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 66 (5.37%) Consultant
11 64 (5.20%) Power BI Developer
12 47 (3.82%) Data Architect
13 42 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
14 39 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 38 (3.09%) Power BI Analyst
16 36 (2.93%) Data Scientist
17 35 (2.85%) Power Platform Developer
18 33 (2.68%) Project Manager
19 29 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
20 25 (2.03%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.17%) .NET
1 39 (3.17%) PySpark
2 35 (2.85%) REST
3 28 (2.28%) HTML
4 21 (1.71%) JSON
5 18 (1.46%) scikit-learn
6 17 (1.38%) Pandas
7 16 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
8 15 (1.22%) CSS
8 15 (1.22%) Kafka
9 12 (0.98%) NumPy
10 10 (0.81%) Plotly
10 10 (0.81%) SailPoint
11 9 (0.73%) PyTorch
11 9 (0.73%) TensorFlow
12 8 (0.65%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (0.65%) OAuth
12 8 (0.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 8 (0.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 29 (2.36%) Data Structures
2 29 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (2.28%) Low-Code
3 28 (2.28%) Management Information System
3 28 (2.28%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.03%) Algorithms
5 25 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 16 (1.30%) Cloud Native
7 16 (1.30%) Derivative
7 16 (1.30%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.06%) Reinsurance
9 12 (0.98%) Life Science
9 12 (0.98%) NHS
9 12 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (0.89%) FMCG
11 10 (0.81%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.38%) Windows
2 7 (0.57%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.49%) Linux
4 4 (0.33%) Unix
5 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.16%) Android
6 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,096 (89.11%) Business Intelligence
2 417 (33.90%) Analytics
3 342 (27.80%) Visualisation
4 315 (25.61%) Data Modelling
5 274 (22.28%) Agile
6 249 (20.24%) Decision-Making
7 233 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
8 205 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
9 204 (16.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 200 (16.26%) Data Analysis
11 188 (15.28%) Actionable Insight
12 185 (15.04%) Data Governance
13 180 (14.63%) ETL
14 151 (12.28%) DevOps
15 143 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 129 (10.49%) Data Pipeline
17 128 (10.41%) Migration
18 120 (9.76%) Data Engineering
19 119 (9.67%) Dashboard Development
20 118 (9.59%) AI
Programming Languages
1 559 (45.45%) SQL
2 313 (25.45%) Python
3 99 (8.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 56 (4.55%) C#
4 56 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 49 (3.98%) R
6 45 (3.66%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.36%) VBA
8 28 (2.28%) Java
9 24 (1.95%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.63%) Scala
11 14 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.65%) Bicep
13 8 (0.65%) Korn
14 6 (0.49%) C++
14 6 (0.49%) X++
15 5 (0.41%) Bash
15 5 (0.41%) Formula Language
15 5 (0.41%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 164 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 133 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 108 (8.78%) Degree
4 26 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 23 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.46%) ACCA
9 17 (1.38%) CIMA
10 15 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 12 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.89%) PMP
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.73%) CISSP
14 8 (0.65%) CFA
14 8 (0.65%) CISA
14 8 (0.65%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.57%) CISM
15 7 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 4 (0.33%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (14.96%) Data Quality
2 60 (4.88%) GDPR
3 58 (4.72%) QA
4 55 (4.47%) PMO
5 48 (3.90%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.06%) NIST
8 11 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.81%) GRC
10 8 (0.65%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.57%) COBIT
11 7 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.57%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.57%) SLA
12 6 (0.49%) GxP
12 6 (0.49%) IFRS
13 4 (0.33%) WCAG
14 3 (0.24%) MiFID
14 3 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 29 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.14%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.081%) HDFS
4 1 (0.081%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (2.68%) Terraform
2 19 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.89%) RSA Archer
4 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.49%) SCCM
7 2 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.081%) Grafana
8 1 (0.081%) Istio
8 1 (0.081%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.081%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.081%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.081%) Puppet
8 1 (0.081%) SCOM
8 1 (0.081%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.081%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.081%) WSUS
Vendors
1 408 (33.17%) Microsoft
2 119 (9.67%) Databricks
3 91 (7.40%) Oracle
4 84 (6.83%) SAP
5 55 (4.47%) Google
6 38 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 24 (1.95%) Alteryx
8 17 (1.38%) Informatica
9 13 (1.06%) Foundry
10 12 (0.98%) Splunk
11 10 (0.81%) Adobe
11 10 (0.81%) Lotus
12 9 (0.73%) Planview
12 9 (0.73%) Rapid7
13 8 (0.65%) Dataiku
13 8 (0.65%) IFS
13 8 (0.65%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.65%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.65%) Workday