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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 56 63
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,223 1,147 1,224
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.98% 3.70% 3.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.81% 20.55% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 772 878
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £606
90th Percentile £671 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 38
10th Percentile - £21.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.01
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.18% -7.66%
75th Percentile £40.75 £43.75 £58.31
90th Percentile £63.10 £64.73 £79.06
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year -5.17% -7.67% -10.26%

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 5,361 5,582 6,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.45% 18.02% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,738 3,726 4,621
10th Percentile £327 £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 £533
% change year-on-year -5.57% -0.66% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 78 135
10th Percentile £21.15 £18.35 £18.84
25th Percentile £30.96 £24.88 £24.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -20.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.55 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -5.76%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -1 665 £500 -3.85% 368
North of England -17 163 £415 -12.63% 145
South East -12 114 £475 - 343
Midlands -24 102 £475 -0.42% 155
Yorkshire 0 81 £400 -11.11% 41
North West -21 79 £418 -15.66% 88
South West +8 74 £440 -2.22% 84
West Midlands -25 74 £500 - 93
East of England +6 49 £580 +40.61% 77
East Midlands -6 28 £413 +8.55% 62
North East -8 3 £433 -3.89% 18
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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
1 134 (10.96%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.94%) Confluence
3 30 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.31%) Apache
6 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.82%) 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 (0.082%) Kentico
12 1 (0.082%) Luigi
12 1 (0.082%) Mendix
12 1 (0.082%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.082%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.082%) Smallworld
Applications
1 292 (23.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.21%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.74%) 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 (0.082%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.082%) Notion
10 1 (0.082%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 53 (4.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.82%) 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 (0.25%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.25%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.16%) Endur
8 2 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,223 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 435 (35.57%) Azure
3 177 (14.47%) Power Automate
4 171 (13.98%) PowerApps
5 143 (11.69%) AWS
6 114 (9.32%) Dynamics 365
7 103 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
8 96 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 93 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
10 87 (7.11%) GCP
11 85 (6.95%) Snowflake
12 76 (6.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 47 (3.84%) Microsoft Copilot
14 35 (2.86%) dbt
15 34 (2.78%) Serverless
16 32 (2.62%) SaaS
17 31 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
18 30 (2.45%) Entra ID
19 28 (2.29%) GitHub
20 26 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) HTTP
1 5 (0.41%) VoIP
2 3 (0.25%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.25%) LAN
2 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.16%) 2G
3 2 (0.16%) 5G
3 2 (0.16%) DNS
3 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.16%) LTE
3 2 (0.16%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.16%) Network Security
3 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.16%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.16%) VPN
3 2 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.082%) NAS
4 1 (0.082%) SAN
4 1 (0.082%) Skype
4 1 (0.082%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (17.50%) Tableau
2 145 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (7.52%) Power Query
4 85 (6.95%) Data Lake
5 79 (6.46%) SQL Server
6 48 (3.92%) Metadata
7 44 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 44 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (3.43%) BigQuery
9 41 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (3.27%) Looker
11 36 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
13 26 (2.13%) Big Data
13 26 (2.13%) Data Mining
14 21 (1.72%) Hadoop
14 21 (1.72%) Star Schema
15 18 (1.47%) NoSQL
15 18 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (7.93%) JIRA
2 48 (3.92%) Git
3 10 (0.82%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.65%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.57%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.49%) GitLab
6 6 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.33%) NeoLoad
8 3 (0.25%) ERwin
9 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.16%) MLflow
9 2 (0.16%) Postman
9 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.082%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.082%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.082%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.082%) Selenium
10 1 (0.082%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.082%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.082%) Zephyr
General
1 447 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 406 (33.20%) Finance
3 306 (25.02%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 112 (9.16%) Banking
6 44 (3.60%) Marketing
7 42 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 36 (2.94%) Retail
10 32 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.29%) Investment Banking
11 28 (2.29%) Local Government
12 24 (1.96%) Legal
13 23 (1.88%) Front Office
14 20 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 14 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 350 (28.62%) Analyst
2 199 (16.27%) Developer
3 160 (13.08%) Data Analyst
4 131 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 116 (9.48%) Senior
6 101 (8.26%) Lead
7 90 (7.36%) Business Analyst
8 84 (6.87%) Architect
9 76 (6.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 63 (5.15%) Power BI Developer
11 62 (5.07%) Consultant
12 45 (3.68%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (3.60%) Data Architect
14 37 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 37 (3.03%) Data Scientist
15 36 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
15 36 (2.94%) Project Manager
16 34 (2.78%) Power BI Analyst
17 28 (2.29%) Azure Engineer
18 24 (1.96%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.27%) PySpark
2 37 (3.03%) .NET
3 33 (2.70%) REST
4 24 (1.96%) HTML
5 22 (1.80%) JSON
6 19 (1.55%) scikit-learn
7 18 (1.47%) Pandas
8 17 (1.39%) Kafka
9 16 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (1.06%) NumPy
11 10 (0.82%) CSS
11 10 (0.82%) Plotly
11 10 (0.82%) SailPoint
12 9 (0.74%) OAuth
12 9 (0.74%) PyTorch
12 9 (0.74%) TensorFlow
13 8 (0.65%) AngularJS
13 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 8 (0.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 31 (2.53%) Product Ownership
3 30 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (2.37%) Data Structures
5 28 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.21%) Low-Code
7 25 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 24 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.88%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 17 (1.39%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.31%) Derivative
12 16 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.06%) Reinsurance
13 13 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.98%) Life Science
14 12 (0.98%) NHS
15 11 (0.90%) FMCG
16 10 (0.82%) Mainframe
16 10 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.31%) Windows
2 6 (0.49%) Linux
3 5 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.33%) Unix
5 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.16%) Android
6 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,097 (89.70%) Business Intelligence
2 416 (34.01%) Analytics
3 338 (27.64%) Visualisation
4 310 (25.35%) Data Modelling
5 280 (22.89%) Agile
6 248 (20.28%) Decision-Making
7 232 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
8 204 (16.68%) Data Visualisation
9 203 (16.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 193 (15.78%) Data Analysis
11 190 (15.54%) Data Governance
12 187 (15.29%) Actionable Insight
13 177 (14.47%) ETL
14 155 (12.67%) DevOps
15 146 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 131 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
17 123 (10.06%) Migration
18 121 (9.89%) Dashboard Development
19 118 (9.65%) AI
19 118 (9.65%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 547 (44.73%) SQL
2 316 (25.84%) Python
3 97 (7.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 52 (4.25%) C#
4 52 (4.25%) JavaScript
4 52 (4.25%) R
5 40 (3.27%) PowerShell
6 30 (2.45%) Java
7 27 (2.21%) VBA
8 23 (1.88%) Scala
9 20 (1.64%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.57%) Bicep
12 7 (0.57%) Korn
13 6 (0.49%) C++
13 6 (0.49%) X++
14 5 (0.41%) Formula Language
14 5 (0.41%) LotusScript
15 4 (0.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 164 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 132 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.16%) Degree
4 24 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 22 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.39%) ACCA
9 16 (1.31%) CIMA
9 16 (1.31%) PMI Certification
10 11 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.90%) PMP
11 9 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.74%) CISSP
12 8 (0.65%) CFA
12 8 (0.65%) CISA
13 7 (0.57%) CISM
13 7 (0.57%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.41%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (15.54%) Data Quality
2 64 (5.23%) GDPR
3 62 (5.07%) QA
4 58 (4.74%) PMO
5 48 (3.92%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.06%) NIST
8 12 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.82%) 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
12 6 (0.49%) GxP
12 6 (0.49%) IFRS
12 6 (0.49%) SLA
13 4 (0.33%) P3O
13 4 (0.33%) WCAG
14 3 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 26 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.31%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.082%) HDFS
4 1 (0.082%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.082%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (2.62%) Terraform
2 21 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.90%) RSA Archer
4 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.49%) SCCM
7 2 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.082%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.082%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.082%) Puppet
8 1 (0.082%) SCOM
8 1 (0.082%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.082%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.082%) WSUS
Vendors
1 408 (33.36%) Microsoft
2 123 (10.06%) Databricks
3 92 (7.52%) Oracle
4 82 (6.70%) SAP
5 60 (4.91%) Google
6 40 (3.27%) Salesforce
7 39 (3.19%) ServiceNow
8 22 (1.80%) Alteryx
9 17 (1.39%) Informatica
10 13 (1.06%) Foundry
11 12 (0.98%) Splunk
12 11 (0.90%) Adobe
13 10 (0.82%) Lotus
13 10 (0.82%) Planview
14 9 (0.74%) Rapid7
15 8 (0.65%) Cognos
15 8 (0.65%) IFS
15 8 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.65%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.57%) Dataiku