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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 62 69
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,071 1,136 1,365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.86% 3.47% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.39% 19.05% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 783 983
10th Percentile £310 £300 £338
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 43
10th Percentile £20.70 £19.97 £19.50
25th Percentile £27.04 £25.38 £21.87
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £34.80
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% -13.78% +54.64%
75th Percentile £41.75 £59.86 £55.75
90th Percentile £54.50 £79.00 £64.20
UK median hourly rate £33.03 £30.00 £34.80
% change year-on-year +10.08% -13.78% +54.64%

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 5,007 5,962 7,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.03% 18.24% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,442 4,132 4,995
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £543
% change year-on-year -6.54% -1.43% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 80 143
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £30.55 £21.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £42.00 £36.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -34.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.85 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +22.66%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI 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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +8 585 £500 -4.08% 584
North of England -6 146 £425 -5.56% 217
South East -4 98 £438 -8.38% 465
Midlands -21 97 £465 +3.33% 149
West Midlands -18 77 £494 +9.78% 92
Yorkshire +2 75 £420 -14.29% 55
North West -21 67 £425 -2.86% 153
South West -3 65 £413 -17.50% 101
East of England +18 34 £575 +43.75% 91
East Midlands -5 19 £419 +8.77% 53
North East -2 6 £475 +5.56% 10
Power BI
UK

Power BI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 105 (9.80%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.99%) Confluence
3 28 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.93%) Apache
6 9 (0.84%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.75%) Apache Pig
8 6 (0.56%) SAS
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.37%) CMS
10 4 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.19%) Moodle
12 1 (0.093%) Luigi
12 1 (0.093%) Mendix
12 1 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.093%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.093%) Smallworld
Applications
1 263 (24.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 45 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (2.61%) MS Visio
5 23 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.19%) Maple
8 2 (0.19%) Trello
9 1 (0.093%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.093%) Notion
Business Applications
1 44 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.37%) Primavera
5 4 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.28%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,071 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 347 (32.40%) Azure
3 131 (12.23%) Power Automate
4 126 (11.76%) PowerApps
5 104 (9.71%) AWS
6 93 (8.68%) Dynamics 365
7 88 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 84 (7.84%) Snowflake
9 81 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
11 57 (5.32%) GCP
12 43 (4.01%) SaaS
13 39 (3.64%) dbt
14 25 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
15 22 (2.05%) GitHub
15 22 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
16 21 (1.96%) Serverless
17 20 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
18 17 (1.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.56%) DNS
2 4 (0.37%) HTTP
2 4 (0.37%) SSH
3 3 (0.28%) Firewall
3 3 (0.28%) FTP
3 3 (0.28%) SMTP
3 3 (0.28%) SSL
3 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.28%) VoIP
4 2 (0.19%) Internet
4 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.19%) LAN
4 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.093%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.093%) NAS
5 1 (0.093%) TETRA
5 1 (0.093%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (18.02%) Tableau
2 145 (13.54%) Data Warehouse
3 89 (8.31%) SQL Server
4 86 (8.03%) Power Query
5 77 (7.19%) Data Lake
6 48 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (4.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 40 (3.73%) Relational Database
10 33 (3.08%) Looker
11 31 (2.89%) Data Mining
12 28 (2.61%) BigQuery
13 27 (2.52%) Metadata
14 21 (1.96%) Delta Lake
14 21 (1.96%) Hadoop
14 21 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
15 20 (1.87%) Apache Hive
16 19 (1.77%) Big Data
17 17 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
18 16 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 87 (8.12%) JIRA
2 34 (3.17%) Git
3 7 (0.65%) ERwin
3 7 (0.65%) GitLab
3 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.56%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.47%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.37%) DBeaver
6 4 (0.37%) Liquibase
6 4 (0.37%) RStudio
7 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.093%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.093%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.093%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.093%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.093%) WebDriver
General
1 381 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 335 (31.28%) Finance
3 259 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.75%) Banking
5 81 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.01%) Marketing
7 38 (3.55%) Investment Banking
8 37 (3.45%) Retail
9 31 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 30 (2.80%) Local Government
11 29 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (2.43%) Legal
15 23 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.77%) Front Office
17 18 (1.68%) Telecoms
18 16 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (1.12%) Law
20 8 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 329 (30.72%) Analyst
2 170 (15.87%) Data Analyst
3 164 (15.31%) Developer
4 116 (10.83%) Data Engineer
5 90 (8.40%) Senior
6 74 (6.91%) Architect
6 74 (6.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 69 (6.44%) Business Analyst
8 66 (6.16%) Lead
9 62 (5.79%) Power BI Developer
10 53 (4.95%) Consultant
11 41 (3.83%) Data Architect
12 38 (3.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 37 (3.45%) Power BI Analyst
14 34 (3.17%) Data Scientist
15 32 (2.99%) Project Manager
16 28 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
17 27 (2.52%) Power Platform Developer
18 25 (2.33%) Report Analyst
19 24 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.92%) PySpark
2 41 (3.83%) .NET
3 24 (2.24%) JSON
4 21 (1.96%) HTML
5 17 (1.59%) REST
6 13 (1.21%) CSS
6 13 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
7 11 (1.03%) Kafka
7 11 (1.03%) Pandas
7 11 (1.03%) YAML
8 10 (0.93%) ADO
9 9 (0.84%) scikit-learn
10 7 (0.65%) .NET Core
10 7 (0.65%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.56%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.56%) PostGIS
11 6 (0.56%) pydantic
11 6 (0.56%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 34 (3.17%) Management Information System
2 28 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (2.52%) Data Structures
4 23 (2.15%) Low-Code
5 22 (2.05%) Algorithms
5 22 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.49%) Derivative
8 16 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 16 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.40%) Reference Data
10 14 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.31%) NHS
11 12 (1.12%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.12%) IoT
11 12 (1.12%) Life Science
12 11 (1.03%) Market Risk
12 11 (1.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.21%) Windows
2 9 (0.84%) Linux
3 6 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.28%) Unix
5 2 (0.19%) Android
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (86.18%) Business Intelligence
2 347 (32.40%) Analytics
3 290 (27.08%) Visualisation
4 268 (25.02%) Data Modelling
5 236 (22.04%) Agile
6 199 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
7 198 (18.49%) Decision-Making
8 183 (17.09%) Data Analysis
9 181 (16.90%) Data Visualisation
10 155 (14.47%) Actionable Insight
11 147 (13.73%) ETL
12 144 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 140 (13.07%) Data Governance
14 128 (11.95%) DevOps
15 115 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
16 106 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 102 (9.52%) Migration
18 99 (9.24%) Data Engineering
19 90 (8.40%) Dashboard Development
19 90 (8.40%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 533 (49.77%) SQL
2 269 (25.12%) Python
3 91 (8.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (4.76%) C#
5 45 (4.20%) R
6 42 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 42 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.61%) Java
8 24 (2.24%) Scala
9 23 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.87%) VBA
11 13 (1.21%) Bicep
12 12 (1.12%) Bash
13 10 (0.93%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.47%) C++
17 4 (0.37%) Formula Language
17 4 (0.37%) LotusScript
17 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 100 (9.34%) Degree
3 79 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 18 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.21%) ACCA
10 12 (1.12%) PMP
11 11 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.03%) CIMA
12 6 (0.56%) CISA
12 6 (0.56%) CISSP
13 5 (0.47%) CBAP
13 5 (0.47%) CFA
13 5 (0.47%) CISM
13 5 (0.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (0.37%) CCAB
15 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (11.95%) Data Quality
2 55 (5.14%) GDPR
3 41 (3.83%) QA
4 37 (3.45%) PMO
5 26 (2.43%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.21%) IFRS
7 13 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.75%) Basel II
8 8 (0.75%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) GxP
11 5 (0.47%) COBIT
11 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.47%) MiFID
11 5 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.37%) Basel III
12 4 (0.37%) GRC
13 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.28%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 22 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.28%) Docker
3 1 (0.093%) HDFS
3 1 (0.093%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (3.36%) Terraform
2 10 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.75%) Grafana
4 6 (0.56%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.37%) SCCM
7 2 (0.19%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (0.19%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.093%) Istio
8 1 (0.093%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.093%) Puppet
8 1 (0.093%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.093%) WSUS
Vendors
1 330 (30.81%) Microsoft
2 101 (9.43%) Databricks
3 81 (7.56%) SAP
4 71 (6.63%) Oracle
5 43 (4.01%) Google
6 28 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.15%) Alteryx
9 12 (1.12%) Adobe
10 11 (1.03%) Splunk
11 10 (0.93%) Informatica
12 9 (0.84%) Cognos
12 9 (0.84%) Lotus
13 8 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
13 8 (0.75%) Workday
14 7 (0.65%) IFS
14 7 (0.65%) Rapid7
14 7 (0.65%) Talend
15 6 (0.56%) Anaplan
15 6 (0.56%) MuleSoft