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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 56 66
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,209 1,147 1,227
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.96% 3.72% 3.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.79% 20.59% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 774 878
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £398 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.29%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £610
90th Percentile £671 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 38
10th Percentile - £21.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.01
Median hourly rate £28.33 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -7.18% -7.66%
75th Percentile £44.94 £43.75 £52.44
90th Percentile £63.80 £64.73 £79.06
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year +3.45% -7.67% -10.26%

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 5,305 5,572 6,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.37% 18.07% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,697 3,725 4,614
10th Percentile £328 £350 £355
25th Percentile £412 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £668 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 78 132
10th Percentile £22.68 £18.35 £18.64
25th Percentile £31.18 £24.88 £23.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -17.71% -7.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.55 £64.65
90th Percentile £86.45 £66.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -2.78%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -1 659 £500 -3.85% 348
North of England -15 161 £415 -12.63% 138
South East -15 112 £475 - 324
Midlands -23 99 £475 -0.42% 145
Yorkshire -6 80 £400 -11.11% 38
North West -22 78 £421 -14.90% 84
South West +5 73 £440 -4.86% 84
West Midlands -25 72 £500 - 87
East of England +9 49 £580 +32.57% 76
East Midlands -12 27 £411 +8.22% 58
North East -9 3 £433 -3.89% 18
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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
1 131 (10.84%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.98%) Confluence
3 30 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.32%) 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 3 (0.25%) SAS
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%) Mendix
12 1 (0.083%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.083%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.083%) Smallworld
Applications
1 290 (23.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (4.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 48 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (2.07%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.66%) 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 53 (4.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.50%) 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%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.25%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.17%) Endur
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,209 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 430 (35.57%) Azure
3 174 (14.39%) Power Automate
4 169 (13.98%) PowerApps
5 140 (11.58%) AWS
6 112 (9.26%) Dynamics 365
7 100 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
8 96 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 92 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
10 86 (7.11%) GCP
11 85 (7.03%) Snowflake
12 76 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 46 (3.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 35 (2.89%) dbt
15 34 (2.81%) Serverless
16 31 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
16 31 (2.56%) SaaS
17 30 (2.48%) Entra ID
18 27 (2.23%) GitHub
19 26 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) HTTP
1 5 (0.41%) VoIP
2 3 (0.25%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.25%) LAN
2 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.17%) 2G
3 2 (0.17%) 5G
3 2 (0.17%) DNS
3 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
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%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.17%) VPN
3 2 (0.17%) Wireless
4 1 (0.083%) NAS
4 1 (0.083%) SAN
4 1 (0.083%) Skype
4 1 (0.083%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (17.54%) Tableau
2 141 (11.66%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (7.44%) Power Query
4 81 (6.70%) Data Lake
5 78 (6.45%) SQL Server
6 47 (3.89%) Metadata
7 44 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 42 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 41 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (3.39%) BigQuery
10 39 (3.23%) Looker
11 34 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
13 26 (2.15%) Big Data
13 26 (2.15%) Data Mining
14 21 (1.74%) Star Schema
15 20 (1.65%) Hadoop
16 18 (1.49%) NoSQL
16 18 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 96 (7.94%) JIRA
2 46 (3.80%) Git
3 9 (0.74%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.66%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.58%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.41%) GitLab
8 4 (0.33%) NeoLoad
9 3 (0.25%) ERwin
10 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.17%) MLflow
10 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.083%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.083%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.083%) ScriptRunner
11 1 (0.083%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.083%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.083%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.083%) Zephyr
General
1 444 (36.72%) Social Skills
2 403 (33.33%) Finance
3 304 (25.14%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 112 (9.26%) Banking
6 44 (3.64%) Marketing
7 42 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (3.31%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (2.65%) Retail
10 31 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.32%) Investment Banking
11 28 (2.32%) Local Government
12 24 (1.99%) Legal
13 23 (1.90%) Front Office
14 20 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 14 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 346 (28.62%) Analyst
2 192 (15.88%) Developer
3 158 (13.07%) Data Analyst
4 129 (10.67%) Data Engineer
5 114 (9.43%) Senior
6 100 (8.27%) Lead
7 90 (7.44%) Business Analyst
8 82 (6.78%) Architect
9 72 (5.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 63 (5.21%) Consultant
11 59 (4.88%) Power BI Developer
12 45 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (3.64%) Data Architect
14 37 (3.06%) Data Scientist
15 36 (2.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 36 (2.98%) Power Platform Developer
15 36 (2.98%) Project Manager
16 33 (2.73%) Power BI Analyst
17 28 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
18 24 (1.99%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.23%) PySpark
2 36 (2.98%) .NET
3 31 (2.56%) REST
4 22 (1.82%) HTML
4 22 (1.82%) JSON
5 19 (1.57%) scikit-learn
6 18 (1.49%) Pandas
7 16 (1.32%) HTML5 Canvas
8 15 (1.24%) Kafka
9 13 (1.08%) NumPy
10 10 (0.83%) Plotly
10 10 (0.83%) SailPoint
11 9 (0.74%) OAuth
11 9 (0.74%) PyTorch
11 9 (0.74%) TensorFlow
12 8 (0.66%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.66%) CSS
12 8 (0.66%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 8 (0.66%) React
13 7 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 31 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 29 (2.40%) Data Structures
3 29 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (2.32%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.23%) Low-Code
6 25 (2.07%) Algorithms
7 24 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.41%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.32%) Derivative
10 16 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.08%) Reinsurance
11 13 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.99%) Life Science
12 12 (0.99%) NHS
13 11 (0.91%) FMCG
14 10 (0.83%) Mainframe
14 10 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.32%) Windows
2 6 (0.50%) Linux
3 4 (0.33%) Unix
3 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.17%) Android
5 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,083 (89.58%) Business Intelligence
2 412 (34.08%) Analytics
3 336 (27.79%) Visualisation
4 307 (25.39%) Data Modelling
5 276 (22.83%) Agile
6 248 (20.51%) Decision-Making
7 229 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
8 202 (16.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 201 (16.63%) Data Visualisation
10 192 (15.88%) Data Analysis
11 188 (15.55%) Actionable Insight
11 188 (15.55%) Data Governance
12 171 (14.14%) ETL
13 151 (12.49%) DevOps
14 146 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 127 (10.50%) Data Pipeline
16 121 (10.01%) Dashboard Development
17 120 (9.93%) Migration
18 117 (9.68%) Data Engineering
19 116 (9.59%) AI
Programming Languages
1 542 (44.83%) SQL
2 311 (25.72%) Python
3 94 (7.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (4.22%) R
5 50 (4.14%) C#
5 50 (4.14%) JavaScript
6 39 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.40%) Java
8 27 (2.23%) VBA
9 23 (1.90%) Scala
10 20 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.24%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.58%) Bicep
13 7 (0.58%) Korn
14 6 (0.50%) C++
14 6 (0.50%) X++
15 5 (0.41%) Formula Language
15 5 (0.41%) LotusScript
16 4 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 161 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 131 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 110 (9.10%) Degree
4 23 (1.90%) Azure Certification
5 22 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.41%) ACCA
9 16 (1.32%) CIMA
9 16 (1.32%) PMI Certification
10 11 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.91%) PMP
11 9 (0.74%) CISSP
12 8 (0.66%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.66%) CFA
12 8 (0.66%) CISA
13 7 (0.58%) CISM
13 7 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (0.50%) DV Cleared
15 5 (0.41%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (15.80%) Data Quality
2 63 (5.21%) GDPR
3 61 (5.05%) QA
4 57 (4.71%) PMO
5 48 (3.97%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.08%) NIST
8 12 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.83%) GRC
10 8 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.66%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.58%) COBIT
11 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.58%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.50%) GxP
12 6 (0.50%) IFRS
12 6 (0.50%) SLA
13 4 (0.33%) WCAG
14 3 (0.25%) MiFID
14 3 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 25 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.32%) 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 31 (2.56%) Terraform
2 20 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.91%) RSA Archer
4 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.50%) SCCM
5 6 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.17%) Ansible
6 2 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.083%) Opsgenie
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
1 403 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 124 (10.26%) Databricks
3 90 (7.44%) Oracle
4 79 (6.53%) SAP
5 59 (4.88%) Google
6 39 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 22 (1.82%) Alteryx
8 17 (1.41%) Informatica
9 12 (0.99%) Foundry
9 12 (0.99%) Splunk
10 11 (0.91%) Adobe
11 10 (0.83%) Lotus
11 10 (0.83%) Planview
12 9 (0.74%) Rapid7
13 8 (0.66%) IFS
13 8 (0.66%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.58%) Anaplan
14 7 (0.58%) Dataiku
14 7 (0.58%) Virgin Media