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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 59 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,211 1,104 1,246
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 3.60% 3.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.80% 20.31% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 738 896
10th Percentile £313 £312 £300
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £603
90th Percentile £675 £707 £680
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 36
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.10
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £30.00 £35.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -14.68% +0.46%
75th Percentile £45.81 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £64.73 £79.26
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year - -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 5,312 5,435 6,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.64% 17.71% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,686 3,640 4,684
10th Percentile £328 £345 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.66% - -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 75 137
10th Percentile £20.75 £17.70 £18.98
25th Percentile £29.25 £22.20 £24.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -29.16% +4.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +47.50% -36.84% +5.56%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -1 652 £500 -4.76% 710
North of England -11 160 £418 -14.80% 220
South East -12 107 £475 - 306
Midlands -27 107 £465 +3.33% 208
Yorkshire -7 79 £383 -22.73% 60
North West -19 78 £425 -10.53% 135
West Midlands -28 78 £500 +4.82% 135
South West 0 74 £425 -5.56% 86
East of England +5 49 £580 +54.67% 75
East Midlands -11 29 £413 +8.55% 73
North East -8 3 £433 -3.89% 26
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UK

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
1 130 (10.73%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.97%) Confluence
3 26 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.16%) Apache
5 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.83%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.66%) Apache Pig
7 8 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.50%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.33%) SAS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Moodle
11 1 (0.083%) CMS
11 1 (0.083%) Kentico
11 1 (0.083%) Luigi
11 1 (0.083%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.083%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.083%) Smallworld
Applications
1 283 (23.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (4.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 42 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (2.81%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.23%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.41%) Trello
8 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.17%) Maple
10 1 (0.083%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.083%) Notion
10 1 (0.083%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.41%) 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%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.17%) Actimize
8 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.17%) Endur
8 2 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,211 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 417 (34.43%) Azure
3 171 (14.12%) Power Automate
4 166 (13.71%) PowerApps
5 139 (11.48%) AWS
6 111 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
7 98 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (7.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 85 (7.02%) Snowflake
10 81 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
11 79 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 79 (6.52%) GCP
12 44 (3.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 37 (3.06%) dbt
14 32 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 32 (2.64%) Serverless
15 31 (2.56%) SaaS
16 30 (2.48%) Entra ID
17 28 (2.31%) GitHub
18 22 (1.82%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) VoIP
2 3 (0.25%) HTTP
2 3 (0.25%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.25%) LAN
3 2 (0.17%) 2G
3 2 (0.17%) 5G
3 2 (0.17%) DNS
3 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.17%) Internet
3 2 (0.17%) LTE
3 2 (0.17%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.17%) Network Security
3 2 (0.17%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.17%) Wireless
4 1 (0.083%) NAS
4 1 (0.083%) Skype
4 1 (0.083%) TETRA
4 1 (0.083%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.083%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (17.59%) Tableau
2 150 (12.39%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (7.60%) Power Query
4 87 (7.18%) Data Lake
5 82 (6.77%) SQL Server
6 49 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 44 (3.63%) Metadata
8 43 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (3.55%) Relational Database
9 39 (3.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 35 (2.89%) BigQuery
11 33 (2.73%) Looker
12 30 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (2.23%) Data Mining
14 26 (2.15%) Big Data
15 22 (1.82%) Hadoop
16 19 (1.57%) Star Schema
17 17 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
18 16 (1.32%) NoSQL
18 16 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (8.01%) JIRA
2 43 (3.55%) Git
3 10 (0.83%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.66%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.58%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.50%) GitLab
7 5 (0.41%) ERwin
8 4 (0.33%) NeoLoad
9 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.17%) MLflow
10 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.083%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.083%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.083%) Postman
11 1 (0.083%) ScriptRunner
11 1 (0.083%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.083%) tSQLt
11 1 (0.083%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.083%) Zephyr
General
1 438 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 400 (33.03%) Finance
3 301 (24.86%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 109 (9.00%) Banking
6 43 (3.55%) Marketing
7 39 (3.22%) Manufacturing
8 38 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
8 38 (3.14%) Retail
9 33 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.64%) Local Government
11 30 (2.48%) Investment Banking
11 30 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.98%) Legal
13 23 (1.90%) Front Office
14 20 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 19 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 350 (28.90%) Analyst
2 202 (16.68%) Developer
3 173 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 128 (10.57%) Data Engineer
5 108 (8.92%) Senior
6 101 (8.34%) Lead
7 86 (7.10%) Architect
8 83 (6.85%) Business Analyst
9 78 (6.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 64 (5.28%) Power BI Developer
11 63 (5.20%) Consultant
12 48 (3.96%) Data Architect
13 40 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (3.06%) Power BI Analyst
15 36 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 36 (2.97%) Data Scientist
15 36 (2.97%) Power Platform Developer
16 32 (2.64%) Project Manager
17 29 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
18 25 (2.06%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.22%) PySpark
2 38 (3.14%) .NET
3 34 (2.81%) REST
4 27 (2.23%) HTML
5 19 (1.57%) JSON
6 17 (1.40%) Pandas
6 17 (1.40%) scikit-learn
7 16 (1.32%) HTML5 Canvas
8 15 (1.24%) CSS
8 15 (1.24%) Kafka
9 12 (0.99%) NumPy
10 10 (0.83%) SailPoint
11 8 (0.66%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (0.66%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 8 (0.66%) Plotly
11 8 (0.66%) PyTorch
11 8 (0.66%) React
11 8 (0.66%) TensorFlow
12 7 (0.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 35 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 31 (2.56%) Low-Code
3 28 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.23%) Data Structures
4 27 (2.23%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 25 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 19 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.32%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.32%) Derivative
8 16 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.16%) NHS
10 13 (1.07%) Reinsurance
11 11 (0.91%) FMCG
11 11 (0.91%) IoT
11 11 (0.91%) Life Science
11 11 (0.91%) PMI
11 11 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.32%) Windows
2 7 (0.58%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.50%) Linux
4 4 (0.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.17%) Android
5 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,074 (88.69%) Business Intelligence
2 414 (34.19%) Analytics
3 341 (28.16%) Visualisation
4 306 (25.27%) Data Modelling
5 265 (21.88%) Agile
6 235 (19.41%) Decision-Making
7 232 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
8 202 (16.68%) Data Visualisation
9 200 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 199 (16.43%) Data Analysis
11 180 (14.86%) Actionable Insight
12 178 (14.70%) Data Governance
13 176 (14.53%) ETL
14 150 (12.39%) DevOps
15 137 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 127 (10.49%) Data Pipeline
17 117 (9.66%) AI
17 117 (9.66%) Data Engineering
17 117 (9.66%) Migration
18 114 (9.41%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 562 (46.41%) SQL
2 311 (25.68%) Python
3 100 (8.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 54 (4.46%) C#
5 53 (4.38%) JavaScript
6 46 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 46 (3.80%) R
7 29 (2.39%) Java
8 27 (2.23%) VBA
9 24 (1.98%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.57%) Scala
11 13 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.66%) Bicep
13 8 (0.66%) Korn
14 6 (0.50%) C++
14 6 (0.50%) X++
15 5 (0.41%) Bash
15 5 (0.41%) Formula Language
15 5 (0.41%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 158 (13.05%) Security Cleared
2 125 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 103 (8.51%) Degree
4 26 (2.15%) Azure Certification
5 23 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.49%) ACCA
9 17 (1.40%) CIMA
9 17 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 14 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.83%) PMP
12 9 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.74%) CISSP
13 8 (0.66%) CFA
13 8 (0.66%) CISA
13 8 (0.66%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.58%) CISM
14 7 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 5 (0.41%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (14.37%) Data Quality
2 58 (4.79%) GDPR
3 53 (4.38%) PMO
4 52 (4.29%) QA
5 45 (3.72%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.07%) NIST
8 11 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.83%) GRC
10 9 (0.74%) IFRS
11 8 (0.66%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.58%) COBIT
12 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.58%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.58%) SLA
13 6 (0.50%) GxP
14 5 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.41%) MiFID
15 4 (0.33%) Basel III
16 3 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 28 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.91%) Docker
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.083%) HDFS
4 1 (0.083%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (2.73%) Terraform
2 16 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.91%) RSA Archer
4 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.50%) SCCM
6 2 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.083%) Ansible
7 1 (0.083%) Grafana
7 1 (0.083%) Istio
7 1 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.083%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.083%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.083%) Puppet
7 1 (0.083%) SCOM
7 1 (0.083%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.083%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.083%) WSUS
Vendors
1 393 (32.45%) Microsoft
2 112 (9.25%) Databricks
3 85 (7.02%) Oracle
4 82 (6.77%) SAP
5 50 (4.13%) Google
6 37 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.15%) Alteryx
8 15 (1.24%) Informatica
9 12 (0.99%) Foundry
9 12 (0.99%) Splunk
10 10 (0.83%) Adobe
10 10 (0.83%) Lotus
11 9 (0.74%) Planview
11 9 (0.74%) Rapid7
12 8 (0.66%) Cognos
12 8 (0.66%) Dataiku
12 8 (0.66%) IFS
12 8 (0.66%) Workday
13 7 (0.58%) OpenAI