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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 58 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,264 1,067 1,198
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 3.68% 3.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.41% 20.37% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 720 864
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.68%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £668 £713 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 36
10th Percentile - £23.60 £16.10
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.18% -23.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.25 £50.81
90th Percentile £60.30 £64.73 £79.26
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £27.75 £32.32
% change year-on-year -9.91% -14.14% -19.20%

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 5,400 5,239 6,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.17% 18.08% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,757 3,483 4,463
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £619 £663 £656
90th Percentile £721 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 74 128
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.15 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.72 £24.70
Median hourly rate £46.50 £36.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.28% -21.50% -10.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £64.51
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £30.11 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.48% -34.81% -7.73%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 19 December 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 +1 698 £500 -3.66% 214
North of England -11 162 £425 -5.56% 100
Midlands -25 116 £464 -2.37% 98
South East -24 110 £475 - 220
Yorkshire -3 80 £420 -1.18% 31
West Midlands -28 80 £494 -0.20% 60
North West -26 76 £425 -14.24% 57
South West +1 66 £450 -5.26% 47
East of England +2 48 £590 +31.11% 37
East Midlands -3 36 £407 +7.17% 38
North East -5 6 £475 +5.56% 14
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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
1 142 (11.23%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.16%) Confluence
3 35 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.66%) Apache
6 18 (1.42%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.63%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.47%) Mendix
10 3 (0.24%) CMS
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.079%) Kentico
12 1 (0.079%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.079%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.079%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
Applications
1 291 (23.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (2.29%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.40%) Trello
8 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.32%) Notion
9 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.079%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 55 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.40%) Primavera
6 4 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.32%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.24%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.16%) Endur
8 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,264 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 453 (35.84%) Azure
3 198 (15.66%) Power Automate
4 185 (14.64%) PowerApps
5 146 (11.55%) AWS
6 115 (9.10%) Azure DevOps
7 109 (8.62%) Dynamics 365
8 106 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
9 104 (8.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 92 (7.28%) GCP
11 88 (6.96%) Snowflake
12 82 (6.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 48 (3.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 41 (3.24%) Serverless
15 39 (3.09%) SaaS
16 38 (3.01%) dbt
17 36 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
18 32 (2.53%) GitHub
19 31 (2.45%) Entra ID
20 29 (2.29%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) HTTP
2 4 (0.32%) VoIP
2 4 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.24%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.24%) LAN
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%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.16%) VPN
4 2 (0.16%) Wireless
5 1 (0.079%) Firewall
5 1 (0.079%) NAS
5 1 (0.079%) Skype
5 1 (0.079%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (17.33%) Tableau
2 145 (11.47%) Data Warehouse
3 87 (6.88%) Power Query
4 85 (6.72%) Data Lake
5 83 (6.57%) SQL Server
6 49 (3.88%) Metadata
7 45 (3.56%) Relational Database
7 45 (3.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (3.40%) BigQuery
9 42 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 38 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (2.93%) Looker
12 30 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (1.98%) Data Mining
14 23 (1.82%) Star Schema
15 22 (1.74%) Big Data
16 21 (1.66%) Delta Lake
16 21 (1.66%) Oracle Reports
17 20 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (1.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 105 (8.31%) JIRA
2 53 (4.19%) Git
3 9 (0.71%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.63%) DBeaver
4 8 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.55%) GitLab
5 7 (0.55%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.40%) NeoLoad
7 3 (0.24%) ERwin
7 3 (0.24%) Postman
7 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.16%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.079%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.079%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.079%) Maven
9 1 (0.079%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.079%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.079%) Selenium
General
1 458 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 421 (33.31%) Finance
3 307 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 120 (9.49%) Banking
6 49 (3.88%) Marketing
7 43 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (3.24%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.53%) Retail
11 31 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.98%) Front Office
13 24 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.90%) Investment Banking
13 24 (1.90%) Legal
13 24 (1.90%) Local Government
14 19 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.27%) Financial Institution
17 15 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 354 (28.01%) Analyst
2 196 (15.51%) Developer
3 157 (12.42%) Data Analyst
4 140 (11.08%) Data Engineer
5 120 (9.49%) Senior
6 104 (8.23%) Lead
7 97 (7.67%) Business Analyst
8 84 (6.65%) Architect
9 69 (5.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 68 (5.38%) Consultant
11 54 (4.27%) Power BI Developer
12 49 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
13 45 (3.56%) Data Scientist
14 44 (3.48%) Data Architect
15 41 (3.24%) Power Platform Developer
15 41 (3.24%) Project Manager
16 35 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 33 (2.61%) Power BI Analyst
18 28 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
19 26 (2.06%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (3.72%) PySpark
2 42 (3.32%) .NET
3 37 (2.93%) REST
4 23 (1.82%) JSON
5 22 (1.74%) HTML
5 22 (1.74%) Kafka
6 21 (1.66%) Pandas
6 21 (1.66%) scikit-learn
7 20 (1.58%) HTML5 Canvas
8 14 (1.11%) NumPy
8 14 (1.11%) React
9 10 (0.79%) Plotly
9 10 (0.79%) PyTorch
9 10 (0.79%) SailPoint
9 10 (0.79%) TensorFlow
10 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (0.71%) OAuth
11 8 (0.63%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 8 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.01%) Product Ownership
2 37 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (2.69%) Data Structures
3 34 (2.69%) Low-Code
4 33 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 25 (1.98%) Algorithms
6 25 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (1.90%) Cloud Native
7 24 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.19%) Derivative
10 14 (1.11%) Reinsurance
10 14 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.11%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.03%) PMI
12 12 (0.95%) Life Science
13 11 (0.87%) FMCG
13 11 (0.87%) NHS
14 10 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.11%) Windows
2 4 (0.32%) Linux
2 4 (0.32%) Unix
2 4 (0.32%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.16%) Android
4 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (90.59%) Business Intelligence
2 432 (34.18%) Analytics
3 337 (26.66%) Visualisation
4 327 (25.87%) Data Modelling
5 294 (23.26%) Agile
6 264 (20.89%) Decision-Making
7 229 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
8 209 (16.53%) Data Governance
9 207 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 197 (15.59%) Data Visualisation
11 196 (15.51%) Actionable Insight
12 195 (15.43%) Data Analysis
13 189 (14.95%) ETL
14 177 (14.00%) DevOps
15 156 (12.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 134 (10.60%) Data Engineering
16 134 (10.60%) Data Pipeline
17 132 (10.44%) AI
17 132 (10.44%) Migration
18 128 (10.13%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 571 (45.17%) SQL
2 332 (26.27%) Python
3 93 (7.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (4.83%) C#
5 57 (4.51%) R
6 55 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 34 (2.69%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.45%) VBA
9 28 (2.22%) Java
10 25 (1.98%) Scala
11 23 (1.82%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.19%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.79%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.79%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.71%) Bicep
15 7 (0.55%) Korn
15 7 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.47%) C++
17 5 (0.40%) X++
18 4 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 165 (13.05%) Security Cleared
2 131 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 117 (9.26%) Degree
4 26 (2.06%) Azure Certification
5 24 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.74%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.27%) PMP
9 14 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.03%) ACCA
11 12 (0.95%) CIMA
12 9 (0.71%) CFA
12 9 (0.71%) CISSP
13 8 (0.63%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.63%) CISA
14 7 (0.55%) CBAP
14 7 (0.55%) CISM
14 7 (0.55%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (16.61%) Data Quality
2 69 (5.46%) GDPR
3 67 (5.30%) QA
4 61 (4.83%) PMO
5 51 (4.03%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.95%) NIST
9 11 (0.87%) GRC
10 9 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.63%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.55%) COBIT
12 7 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.55%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.47%) GxP
13 6 (0.47%) IFRS
14 5 (0.40%) Basel III
15 4 (0.32%) SLA
15 4 (0.32%) WCAG
16 3 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 26 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.66%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.079%) HDFS
4 1 (0.079%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (3.09%) Terraform
2 26 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.87%) RSA Archer
4 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.47%) SCCM
6 5 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.079%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.079%) Puppet
8 1 (0.079%) SCOM
8 1 (0.079%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.079%) WSUS
Vendors
1 405 (32.04%) Microsoft
2 138 (10.92%) Databricks
3 102 (8.07%) Oracle
4 81 (6.41%) SAP
5 64 (5.06%) Google
6 43 (3.40%) Salesforce
7 40 (3.16%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.90%) Alteryx
9 20 (1.58%) Informatica
10 18 (1.42%) Lotus
11 12 (0.95%) Foundry
11 12 (0.95%) Splunk
12 11 (0.87%) Adobe
13 10 (0.79%) Planview
14 9 (0.71%) Cognos
14 9 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.71%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.71%) Rapid7
15 8 (0.63%) IFS
16 7 (0.55%) Virgin Media