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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 57 68
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,236 1,127 1,226
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.06% 3.63% 3.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.96% 20.48% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 755 878
10th Percentile £313 £304 £300
25th Percentile £389 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £603
90th Percentile £671 £704 £685
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 5,383 5,503 6,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.66% 17.72% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,733 3,689 4,603
10th Percentile £328 £340 £351
25th Percentile £413 £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 -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 75 137
10th Percentile £20.74 £17.70 £18.98
25th Percentile £29.19 £22.20 £24.75
Median hourly rate £44.25 £33.93 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +30.42% -29.16% -0.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.10 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +45.00% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -3 669 £500 -4.76% 728
North of England -13 164 £415 -13.99% 215
South East -14 109 £475 - 326
Midlands -21 108 £465 +3.33% 192
Yorkshire -7 81 £375 -23.47% 60
North West -22 80 £425 -10.53% 135
West Midlands -26 78 £500 +4.82% 128
South West -3 74 £425 -5.56% 86
East of England +1 49 £580 +54.67% 75
East Midlands -10 30 £413 +8.55% 64
North East -11 3 £433 -3.89% 22
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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 (10.92%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.91%) Confluence
3 26 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.13%) Apache
5 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.81%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.65%) Apache Pig
7 8 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.49%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.32%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.16%) Moodle
11 1 (0.081%) CMS
11 1 (0.081%) Kentico
11 1 (0.081%) Luigi
11 1 (0.081%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.081%) Smallworld
Applications
1 299 (24.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 45 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.18%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.40%) Trello
8 4 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.32%) 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 (4.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.49%) 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%) 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
8 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,236 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 425 (34.39%) Azure
3 172 (13.92%) Power Automate
4 167 (13.51%) PowerApps
5 139 (11.25%) AWS
6 114 (9.22%) Dynamics 365
7 99 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 85 (6.88%) Snowflake
10 84 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
11 82 (6.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 80 (6.47%) GCP
13 46 (3.72%) Microsoft Copilot
14 36 (2.91%) dbt
15 33 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
15 33 (2.67%) Serverless
16 32 (2.59%) SaaS
17 31 (2.51%) Entra ID
18 29 (2.35%) GitHub
19 23 (1.86%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) VoIP
2 4 (0.32%) 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%) Internet
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%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.081%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (17.31%) Tableau
2 153 (12.38%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (7.69%) Power Query
4 90 (7.28%) Data Lake
5 87 (7.04%) SQL Server
6 50 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 45 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.56%) Metadata
9 43 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (2.91%) BigQuery
12 34 (2.75%) Looker
13 30 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
14 27 (2.18%) Data Mining
15 26 (2.10%) Big Data
16 22 (1.78%) Hadoop
17 20 (1.62%) Star Schema
18 17 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
19 16 (1.29%) NoSQL
19 16 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 98 (7.93%) JIRA
2 45 (3.64%) Git
3 10 (0.81%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.65%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.57%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.49%) GitLab
7 5 (0.40%) ERwin
8 4 (0.32%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.32%) 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%) tSQLt
10 1 (0.081%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 453 (36.65%) Social Skills
2 409 (33.09%) Finance
3 311 (25.16%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 112 (9.06%) Banking
6 44 (3.56%) Marketing
7 41 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 40 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (3.16%) Retail
10 34 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
11 33 (2.67%) Local Government
12 30 (2.43%) Investment Banking
12 30 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.94%) Legal
14 23 (1.86%) Front Office
15 20 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.46%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.21%) Law
Job Titles
1 361 (29.21%) Analyst
2 207 (16.75%) Developer
3 175 (14.16%) Data Analyst
4 130 (10.52%) Data Engineer
5 109 (8.82%) Senior
6 102 (8.25%) Lead
7 86 (6.96%) Architect
7 86 (6.96%) Business Analyst
8 81 (6.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 67 (5.42%) Power BI Developer
10 65 (5.26%) Consultant
11 48 (3.88%) Data Architect
12 40 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (2.99%) Power BI Analyst
14 36 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 36 (2.91%) Data Scientist
14 36 (2.91%) Power Platform Developer
15 34 (2.75%) Project Manager
16 29 (2.35%) Azure Engineer
17 25 (2.02%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.16%) .NET
1 39 (3.16%) PySpark
2 35 (2.83%) REST
3 28 (2.27%) HTML
4 21 (1.70%) JSON
5 17 (1.38%) Pandas
5 17 (1.38%) scikit-learn
6 16 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
7 15 (1.21%) CSS
7 15 (1.21%) Kafka
8 12 (0.97%) NumPy
9 10 (0.81%) Plotly
9 10 (0.81%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.65%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.65%) OAuth
10 8 (0.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 8 (0.65%) PyTorch
10 8 (0.65%) React
10 8 (0.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 31 (2.51%) Low-Code
3 29 (2.35%) Data Structures
4 28 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 28 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 25 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.62%) Data Centre
7 16 (1.29%) Cloud Native
7 16 (1.29%) Derivative
7 16 (1.29%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.13%) NHS
9 13 (1.05%) Reinsurance
10 12 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (0.89%) FMCG
11 11 (0.89%) IoT
11 11 (0.89%) Life Science
11 11 (0.89%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.38%) Windows
2 7 (0.57%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.49%) Linux
4 4 (0.32%) 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 1,100 (89.00%) Business Intelligence
2 421 (34.06%) Analytics
3 348 (28.16%) Visualisation
4 311 (25.16%) Data Modelling
5 272 (22.01%) Agile
6 243 (19.66%) Decision-Making
7 234 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
8 207 (16.75%) Data Visualisation
9 204 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 202 (16.34%) Data Analysis
11 186 (15.05%) Actionable Insight
12 180 (14.56%) Data Governance
13 179 (14.48%) ETL
14 152 (12.30%) DevOps
15 143 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 127 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
17 122 (9.87%) Migration
18 120 (9.71%) Dashboard Development
19 119 (9.63%) Data Engineering
20 118 (9.55%) AI
Programming Languages
1 572 (46.28%) SQL
2 317 (25.65%) Python
3 102 (8.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 55 (4.45%) C#
5 54 (4.37%) JavaScript
6 49 (3.96%) R
7 46 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 29 (2.35%) Java
8 29 (2.35%) VBA
9 25 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.54%) Scala
11 14 (1.13%) 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 (0.40%) Bash
15 5 (0.40%) Formula Language
15 5 (0.40%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 164 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 131 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 105 (8.50%) Degree
4 26 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 23 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.46%) ACCA
9 17 (1.38%) CIMA
9 17 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 14 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.89%) PMP
12 9 (0.73%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.73%) CISSP
13 8 (0.65%) CFA
13 8 (0.65%) CISA
13 8 (0.65%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.57%) CISM
14 7 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 5 (0.40%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (14.56%) Data Quality
2 59 (4.77%) GDPR
3 56 (4.53%) QA
4 55 (4.45%) PMO
5 46 (3.72%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.05%) NIST
8 11 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.81%) GRC
10 9 (0.73%) IFRS
11 8 (0.65%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.57%) COBIT
12 7 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.57%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.57%) SLA
13 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.49%) GxP
14 5 (0.40%) MiFID
15 4 (0.32%) Basel III
16 3 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 29 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.97%) 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 34 (2.75%) Terraform
2 17 (1.38%) 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
1 402 (32.52%) Microsoft
2 114 (9.22%) Databricks
3 88 (7.12%) Oracle
4 85 (6.88%) SAP
5 51 (4.13%) Google
6 39 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 38 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 26 (2.10%) Alteryx
9 15 (1.21%) Informatica
10 12 (0.97%) Foundry
10 12 (0.97%) Splunk
11 10 (0.81%) Adobe
11 10 (0.81%) Lotus
11 10 (0.81%) Planview
12 9 (0.73%) Rapid7
13 8 (0.65%) Cognos
13 8 (0.65%) Dataiku
13 8 (0.65%) IFS
13 8 (0.65%) Workday
14 7 (0.57%) OpenAI