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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 57 67
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,206 1,126 1,264
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.01% 3.62% 3.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.66% 20.37% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 756 907
10th Percentile £313 £309 £300
25th Percentile £394 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 39
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.41
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.03
Median hourly rate £28.33 £30.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -21.05% +8.57%
75th Percentile £45.81 £43.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £62.75 £64.73 £78.96
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £35.16
% change year-on-year - -14.68% +0.46%

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 5,322 5,528 6,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.71% 17.76% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 3,713 4,738
10th Percentile £326 £347 £357
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 £727 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £533
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.13% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 78 141
10th Percentile £20.75 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £29.25 £22.10 £25.18
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.22 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -30.07% +4.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.69 £67.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +47.50% -35.95% +4.09%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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% 758
North of England -12 156 £418 -14.80% 238
Midlands -29 108 £470 +4.44% 212
South East -13 105 £475 - 327
West Midlands -24 78 £500 +4.82% 138
North West -24 77 £425 -10.53% 147
Yorkshire -10 76 £375 -24.24% 64
South West +5 75 £425 -8.11% 89
East of England +8 49 £580 +54.67% 77
East Midlands -3 29 £413 +8.55% 72
North East -12 3 £433 -3.89% 28
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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
1 128 (10.61%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.99%) Confluence
3 27 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.24%) Apache
6 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.83%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.66%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.17%) Moodle
12 1 (0.083%) CMS
12 1 (0.083%) Kentico
12 1 (0.083%) Luigi
12 1 (0.083%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.083%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.083%) Smallworld
Applications
1 283 (23.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 42 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (2.32%) 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 (4.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.75%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
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%) Endur
8 2 (0.17%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,206 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 414 (34.33%) Azure
3 170 (14.10%) Power Automate
4 165 (13.68%) PowerApps
5 138 (11.44%) AWS
6 111 (9.20%) Dynamics 365
7 96 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (7.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 85 (7.05%) Snowflake
10 80 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
11 79 (6.55%) GCP
12 78 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 42 (3.48%) Microsoft Copilot
14 37 (3.07%) dbt
15 32 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
15 32 (2.65%) SaaS
15 32 (2.65%) Serverless
16 30 (2.49%) Entra ID
17 27 (2.24%) 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 (17.66%) Tableau
2 150 (12.44%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (7.55%) Power Query
4 85 (7.05%) Data Lake
5 82 (6.80%) SQL Server
6 49 (4.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 43 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 43 (3.57%) Metadata
7 43 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 39 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 35 (2.90%) BigQuery
10 33 (2.74%) Looker
11 30 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (2.24%) Data Mining
13 25 (2.07%) Big Data
14 21 (1.74%) Hadoop
15 19 (1.58%) Star Schema
16 17 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
17 16 (1.33%) NoSQL
17 16 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (8.04%) JIRA
2 43 (3.57%) 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)
10 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.083%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.083%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.083%) Postman
11 1 (0.083%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.083%) ScriptRunner
11 1 (0.083%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.083%) Terragrunt
General
1 435 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 396 (32.84%) Finance
3 299 (24.79%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 106 (8.79%) Banking
6 44 (3.65%) Marketing
7 39 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 38 (3.15%) Retail
9 37 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.65%) Local Government
11 31 (2.57%) Investment Banking
12 30 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.99%) Legal
14 23 (1.91%) Front Office
15 20 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.49%) Telecoms
18 16 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
19 14 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 345 (28.61%) Analyst
2 200 (16.58%) Developer
3 172 (14.26%) Data Analyst
4 126 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 106 (8.79%) Senior
6 101 (8.37%) Lead
7 86 (7.13%) Architect
8 80 (6.63%) Business Analyst
9 78 (6.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 64 (5.31%) Consultant
10 64 (5.31%) Power BI Developer
11 48 (3.98%) Data Architect
12 37 (3.07%) Data Scientist
12 37 (3.07%) Power BI Analyst
12 37 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 36 (2.99%) Power Platform Developer
14 32 (2.65%) Project Manager
15 28 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
16 25 (2.07%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.23%) PySpark
2 36 (2.99%) .NET
3 34 (2.82%) REST
4 27 (2.24%) HTML
5 19 (1.58%) JSON
6 17 (1.41%) Pandas
6 17 (1.41%) scikit-learn
7 16 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
8 15 (1.24%) CSS
8 15 (1.24%) Kafka
9 12 (1.00%) 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 34 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 31 (2.57%) Low-Code
3 28 (2.32%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.24%) Data Structures
4 27 (2.24%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.07%) Algorithms
7 22 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.33%) Derivative
9 16 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.16%) NHS
12 13 (1.08%) Reinsurance
13 11 (0.91%) FMCG
13 11 (0.91%) IoT
13 11 (0.91%) Life Science
13 11 (0.91%) PMI
13 11 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.33%) 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 1,071 (88.81%) Business Intelligence
2 411 (34.08%) Analytics
3 338 (28.03%) Visualisation
4 304 (25.21%) Data Modelling
5 266 (22.06%) Agile
6 234 (19.40%) Decision-Making
7 230 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
8 201 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
9 197 (16.33%) Data Analysis
9 197 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 178 (14.76%) Actionable Insight
11 176 (14.59%) ETL
12 175 (14.51%) Data Governance
13 148 (12.27%) DevOps
14 135 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 127 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
16 118 (9.78%) Data Engineering
16 118 (9.78%) Migration
17 117 (9.70%) AI
18 113 (9.37%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 558 (46.27%) SQL
2 309 (25.62%) Python
3 100 (8.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 53 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 52 (4.31%) C#
6 46 (3.81%) R
7 45 (3.73%) PowerShell
8 29 (2.40%) Java
9 26 (2.16%) VBA
10 24 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.58%) Scala
12 13 (1.08%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.66%) Korn
15 7 (0.58%) Bicep
16 6 (0.50%) C++
16 6 (0.50%) X++
17 5 (0.41%) Bash
17 5 (0.41%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.41%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 159 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 125 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 104 (8.62%) Degree
4 26 (2.16%) Azure Certification
5 24 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.49%) ACCA
8 18 (1.49%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.41%) CIMA
10 13 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.91%) PMP
12 9 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.75%) 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
1 173 (14.34%) Data Quality
2 58 (4.81%) GDPR
3 52 (4.31%) QA
4 51 (4.23%) PMO
5 45 (3.73%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.08%) NIST
8 11 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.83%) GRC
10 9 (0.75%) IFRS
11 8 (0.66%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.66%) SLA
12 7 (0.58%) COBIT
12 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.58%) NIST 800
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 (2.32%) 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 (2.74%) Terraform
2 16 (1.33%) 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
1 392 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 113 (9.37%) Databricks
3 85 (7.05%) Oracle
4 82 (6.80%) SAP
5 50 (4.15%) Google
6 37 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.16%) Alteryx
8 15 (1.24%) Informatica
9 12 (1.00%) Foundry
9 12 (1.00%) Splunk
10 10 (0.83%) Adobe
10 10 (0.83%) Lotus
11 9 (0.75%) Planview
11 9 (0.75%) 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