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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 56 68
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +20
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,138 1,158 1,295
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.03% 3.62% 3.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.22% 20.08% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 777 923
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £578 £600 £603
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 23 42
10th Percentile - £20.15 £19.38
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.43
Median hourly rate £25.01 £30.00 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.65% -23.57% +41.44%
75th Percentile £49.06 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £59.75 £64.73 £77.33
UK median hourly rate £27.51 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -8.32% -21.05% +65.22%

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 5,122 5,768 6,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.14% 18.05% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,519 3,912 4,835
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £663
90th Percentile £750 £810 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £528 £538
% change year-on-year -5.21% -1.86% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 83 144
10th Percentile £18.72 £17.50 £20.33
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.20 £27.02
Median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.15 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £39.48 £33.22 £51.06
% change year-on-year +18.86% -34.94% +2.11%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +1 604 £500 -4.76% 617
North of England -16 152 £419 -6.94% 274
South East 0 108 £463 -3.14% 526
Midlands -24 106 £480 +6.67% 150
West Midlands -22 83 £500 +11.11% 90
South West +8 78 £425 -10.53% 108
North West -19 76 £425 -5.56% 177
Yorkshire -11 73 £388 -19.69% 77
East of England +10 40 £575 +53.33% 82
East Midlands -10 22 £425 +10.39% 59
North East -4 5 £488 +8.33% 24
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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
1 112 (9.84%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.81%) Confluence
3 22 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.88%) Apache
5 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.79%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.70%) Apache Pig
8 7 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
9 5 (0.44%) SAS
10 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) Moodle
12 1 (0.088%) CMS
12 1 (0.088%) Kentico
12 1 (0.088%) Luigi
12 1 (0.088%) Mendix
12 1 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.088%) Smallworld
Applications
1 265 (23.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 41 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (2.20%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.26%) Trello
8 2 (0.18%) Maple
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.088%) Notion
9 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.44%) Primavera
6 4 (0.35%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.26%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.18%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,138 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 382 (33.57%) Azure
3 150 (13.18%) Power Automate
4 147 (12.92%) PowerApps
5 121 (10.63%) AWS
6 103 (9.05%) Dynamics 365
7 96 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (8.17%) Snowflake
9 88 (7.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 78 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 73 (6.41%) GCP
12 66 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (3.60%) dbt
14 39 (3.43%) SaaS
15 33 (2.90%) Microsoft Copilot
16 30 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
17 28 (2.46%) Entra ID
18 26 (2.28%) GitHub
18 26 (2.28%) Serverless
19 22 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.35%) VoIP
2 3 (0.26%) DNS
2 3 (0.26%) Firewall
2 3 (0.26%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
3 2 (0.18%) Internet
3 2 (0.18%) LAN
3 2 (0.18%) Network Security
3 2 (0.18%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.18%) Wireless
4 1 (0.088%) 2G
4 1 (0.088%) 5G
4 1 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.088%) LTE
4 1 (0.088%) Mobile Backhaul
4 1 (0.088%) NAS
4 1 (0.088%) SSH
4 1 (0.088%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.088%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (17.84%) Tableau
2 147 (12.92%) Data Warehouse
3 89 (7.82%) Power Query
4 87 (7.64%) SQL Server
5 75 (6.59%) Data Lake
6 46 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (4.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 38 (3.34%) BigQuery
8 37 (3.25%) Relational Database
9 35 (3.08%) Looker
10 32 (2.81%) Metadata
11 30 (2.64%) Data Mining
11 30 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
13 23 (2.02%) Big Data
14 20 (1.76%) Delta Lake
14 20 (1.76%) Hadoop
15 16 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (1.41%) NoSQL
15 16 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 95 (8.35%) JIRA
2 40 (3.51%) Git
3 9 (0.79%) GitLab
4 8 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.62%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.62%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.53%) ERwin
7 4 (0.35%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.35%) NeoLoad
8 3 (0.26%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.18%) Selenium
9 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.088%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.088%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.088%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.088%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.088%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.088%) WebDriver
General
1 407 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 359 (31.55%) Finance
3 270 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 88 (7.73%) Banking
6 40 (3.51%) Retail
7 38 (3.34%) Marketing
8 35 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (2.81%) Investment Banking
10 32 (2.81%) Local Government
10 32 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
12 26 (2.28%) Legal
13 20 (1.76%) Front Office
14 19 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.23%) Law
17 11 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 328 (28.82%) Analyst
2 177 (15.55%) Developer
3 167 (14.67%) Data Analyst
4 118 (10.37%) Data Engineer
5 97 (8.52%) Senior
6 91 (8.00%) Lead
7 90 (7.91%) Architect
8 78 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 71 (6.24%) Business Analyst
10 65 (5.71%) Power BI Developer
11 62 (5.45%) Consultant
12 53 (4.66%) Data Architect
13 35 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 34 (2.99%) Power Platform Developer
15 33 (2.90%) Data Scientist
16 32 (2.81%) Power BI Analyst
16 32 (2.81%) Project Manager
17 27 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
17 27 (2.37%) Report Analyst
17 27 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.16%) .NET
1 36 (3.16%) PySpark
2 23 (2.02%) HTML
2 23 (2.02%) REST
3 20 (1.76%) JSON
4 17 (1.49%) HTML5 Canvas
5 12 (1.05%) CSS
5 12 (1.05%) Pandas
6 11 (0.97%) Kafka
7 9 (0.79%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.70%) scikit-learn
9 7 (0.62%) ADO
9 7 (0.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 6 (0.53%) .NET Framework
10 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.53%) PostGIS
11 5 (0.44%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.44%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.44%) GeoPandas
Miscellaneous
1 35 (3.08%) Management Information System
2 30 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 30 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (2.46%) Low-Code
4 25 (2.20%) Data Structures
5 22 (1.93%) Algorithms
5 22 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.58%) Product Ownership
7 18 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.41%) Derivative
9 15 (1.32%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.32%) IoT
10 14 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.23%) NHS
11 13 (1.14%) Reinsurance
11 13 (1.14%) SCADA
11 13 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.97%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.14%) Windows
2 7 (0.62%) Linux
3 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.26%) Unix
5 2 (0.18%) Android
5 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (87.87%) Business Intelligence
2 371 (32.60%) Analytics
3 312 (27.42%) Visualisation
4 290 (25.48%) Data Modelling
5 251 (22.06%) Agile
6 217 (19.07%) Decision-Making
6 217 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (16.52%) Data Visualisation
8 180 (15.82%) Data Analysis
9 168 (14.76%) ETL
10 166 (14.59%) Actionable Insight
10 166 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 152 (13.36%) Data Governance
12 142 (12.48%) DevOps
13 126 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 120 (10.54%) Data Pipeline
15 113 (9.93%) Migration
16 110 (9.67%) Data Engineering
17 105 (9.23%) AI
18 104 (9.14%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 530 (46.57%) SQL
2 283 (24.87%) Python
3 97 (8.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 46 (4.04%) C#
5 45 (3.95%) JavaScript
5 45 (3.95%) PowerShell
6 43 (3.78%) R
7 29 (2.55%) Java
8 21 (1.85%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.67%) VBA
10 18 (1.58%) Scala
11 10 (0.88%) Bicep
11 10 (0.88%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.79%) Bash
12 9 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.62%) Korn
14 5 (0.44%) C++
14 5 (0.44%) X++
15 4 (0.35%) LotusScript
15 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 141 (12.39%) Security Cleared
2 111 (9.75%) SC Cleared
3 97 (8.52%) Degree
4 25 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.49%) ACCA
7 17 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 15 (1.32%) CIMA
9 14 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.05%) PMP
11 8 (0.70%) CISA
11 8 (0.70%) CISSP
11 8 (0.70%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.62%) CISM
12 7 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 6 (0.53%) CBAP
13 6 (0.53%) CFA
14 4 (0.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (13.36%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.75%) GDPR
3 45 (3.95%) PMO
3 45 (3.95%) QA
4 39 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.05%) NIST
6 12 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.97%) IFRS
8 8 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.62%) COBIT
9 7 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 7 (0.62%) NIST 800
9 7 (0.62%) SLA
10 6 (0.53%) Basel II
10 6 (0.53%) GxP
11 5 (0.44%) GRC
11 5 (0.44%) MiFID
12 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.26%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 26 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.35%) Docker
3 1 (0.088%) HDFS
3 1 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (2.90%) Terraform
2 9 (0.79%) RSA Archer
3 7 (0.62%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.44%) SCCM
6 4 (0.35%) Grafana
7 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.088%) Ansible
8 1 (0.088%) Istio
8 1 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.088%) Kibana
8 1 (0.088%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.088%) Puppet
8 1 (0.088%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.088%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.088%) WSUS
Vendors
1 360 (31.63%) Microsoft
2 112 (9.84%) Databricks
3 90 (7.91%) Oracle
4 85 (7.47%) SAP
5 47 (4.13%) Google
6 31 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 27 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.11%) Alteryx
9 14 (1.23%) Informatica
10 11 (0.97%) Adobe
10 11 (0.97%) Splunk
11 10 (0.88%) Cognos
11 10 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
12 9 (0.79%) Lotus
12 9 (0.79%) Rapid7
13 8 (0.70%) IFS
13 8 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.62%) Anaplan
14 7 (0.62%) Foundry
14 7 (0.62%) Workday