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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 56 67
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,214 1,129 1,246
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 3.64% 3.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.57% 20.42% 19.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 755 892
10th Percentile £313 £307 £300
25th Percentile £394 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.67%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £672 £704 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 39
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.41
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.03
Median hourly rate £25.01 £30.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.63% -21.05% +8.57%
75th Percentile £40.75 £43.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £59.30 £64.73 £78.96
UK median hourly rate £27.51 £30.00 £35.16
% change year-on-year -8.32% -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 5,378 5,530 6,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.81% 17.82% 16.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,721 3,716 4,654
10th Percentile £328 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £727 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £533
% change year-on-year -5.17% -1.08% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 79 139
10th Percentile £20.66 £17.90 £19.11
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.45 £24.97
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -24.21% -3.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.38 £67.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.11 £46.18
% change year-on-year +44.49% -34.81% +2.62%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -1 661 £500 -4.76% 740
North of England -15 153 £418 -12.11% 247
Midlands -29 108 £465 +3.33% 217
South East -16 105 £475 - 333
West Midlands -27 80 £500 +4.82% 140
South West +4 76 £425 -5.56% 95
Yorkshire -7 75 £375 -24.24% 68
North West -28 75 £425 -10.53% 149
East of England +7 49 £580 +54.67% 66
East Midlands -7 27 £413 +8.55% 77
North East -10 3 £433 -3.89% 31
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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
1 126 (10.38%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.80%) Confluence
3 29 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.24%) Apache
6 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.82%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.66%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.082%) CMS
12 1 (0.082%) Kentico
12 1 (0.082%) Luigi
12 1 (0.082%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.082%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.082%) Smallworld
Applications
1 288 (23.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.22%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.33%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) Maple
9 1 (0.082%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.082%) Notion
9 1 (0.082%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (4.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.49%) 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 (0.16%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.16%) iTrent
8 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 417 (34.35%) Azure
3 164 (13.51%) Power Automate
4 161 (13.26%) PowerApps
5 144 (11.86%) AWS
6 109 (8.98%) Dynamics 365
7 98 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 91 (7.50%) Snowflake
10 82 (6.75%) GCP
11 78 (6.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 78 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
12 42 (3.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 40 (3.29%) dbt
14 36 (2.97%) SaaS
15 32 (2.64%) Serverless
16 31 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
17 30 (2.47%) Entra ID
18 28 (2.31%) GitHub
19 22 (1.81%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) VoIP
2 3 (0.25%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.25%) LAN
3 2 (0.16%) 2G
3 2 (0.16%) 5G
3 2 (0.16%) DNS
3 2 (0.16%) HTTP
3 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.16%) Internet
3 2 (0.16%) LTE
3 2 (0.16%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.16%) Network Security
3 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.082%) Firewall
4 1 (0.082%) NAS
4 1 (0.082%) Skype
4 1 (0.082%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.082%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (18.04%) Tableau
2 155 (12.77%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (7.50%) Power Query
4 84 (6.92%) Data Lake
4 84 (6.92%) SQL Server
5 50 (4.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 46 (3.79%) Relational Database
7 42 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 40 (3.29%) Metadata
9 39 (3.21%) BigQuery
9 39 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 37 (3.05%) Looker
11 30 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (2.22%) Data Mining
13 25 (2.06%) Big Data
14 21 (1.73%) Hadoop
15 20 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.57%) Star Schema
17 17 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
17 17 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (7.99%) JIRA
2 45 (3.71%) Git
3 10 (0.82%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.66%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.58%) GitLab
5 7 (0.58%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.41%) ERwin
7 4 (0.33%) NeoLoad
8 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.16%) MLflow
9 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.082%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.082%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.082%) Selenium
10 1 (0.082%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.082%) tSQLt
10 1 (0.082%) Zephyr
General
1 436 (35.91%) Social Skills
2 398 (32.78%) Finance
3 308 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 102 (8.40%) Banking
6 43 (3.54%) Marketing
7 38 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 38 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 38 (3.13%) Retail
8 32 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (2.64%) Local Government
9 31 (2.55%) Investment Banking
10 30 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.31%) Legal
12 23 (1.89%) Front Office
13 21 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
14 20 (1.65%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 352 (29.00%) Analyst
2 197 (16.23%) Developer
3 178 (14.66%) Data Analyst
4 129 (10.63%) Data Engineer
5 104 (8.57%) Senior
6 102 (8.40%) Lead
7 85 (7.00%) Architect
8 81 (6.67%) Business Analyst
9 77 (6.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 64 (5.27%) Consultant
11 63 (5.19%) Power BI Developer
12 47 (3.87%) Data Architect
13 37 (3.05%) Power BI Analyst
14 36 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 36 (2.97%) Power Platform Developer
14 36 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
15 34 (2.80%) Data Scientist
16 30 (2.47%) Project Manager
17 28 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
18 24 (1.98%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.21%) PySpark
2 35 (2.88%) .NET
3 34 (2.80%) REST
4 26 (2.14%) HTML
5 18 (1.48%) JSON
6 17 (1.40%) Pandas
7 16 (1.32%) HTML5 Canvas
8 15 (1.24%) CSS
8 15 (1.24%) Kafka
9 14 (1.15%) scikit-learn
10 12 (0.99%) NumPy
11 10 (0.82%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.66%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.66%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 8 (0.66%) Plotly
12 8 (0.66%) React
13 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (0.49%) Node.js
13 6 (0.49%) OAuth
13 6 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 34 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
2 31 (2.55%) Low-Code
3 28 (2.31%) Management Information System
3 28 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 25 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 24 (1.98%) Algorithms
8 22 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.32%) Derivative
12 15 (1.24%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.24%) NHS
13 13 (1.07%) Reinsurance
13 13 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.91%) IoT
14 11 (0.91%) Life Science
15 10 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.32%) Windows
2 7 (0.58%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.49%) Linux
4 4 (0.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.16%) Android
5 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,080 (88.96%) Business Intelligence
2 407 (33.53%) Analytics
3 341 (28.09%) Visualisation
4 309 (25.45%) Data Modelling
5 269 (22.16%) Agile
6 241 (19.85%) Decision-Making
7 237 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
8 204 (16.80%) Data Visualisation
9 203 (16.72%) Data Analysis
10 198 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 180 (14.83%) Actionable Insight
11 180 (14.83%) ETL
12 169 (13.92%) Data Governance
13 149 (12.27%) DevOps
14 134 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 126 (10.38%) Data Pipeline
16 121 (9.97%) Migration
17 117 (9.64%) Data Engineering
18 116 (9.56%) AI
18 116 (9.56%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 568 (46.79%) SQL
2 309 (25.45%) Python
3 98 (8.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (4.20%) C#
4 51 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 46 (3.79%) R
6 45 (3.71%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.39%) Java
8 25 (2.06%) VBA
9 23 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.57%) Scala
11 12 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.66%) Korn
14 7 (0.58%) Bicep
15 6 (0.49%) C++
15 6 (0.49%) X++
16 5 (0.41%) Bash
16 5 (0.41%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.41%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 159 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 125 (10.30%) SC Cleared
3 102 (8.40%) Degree
4 27 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 23 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.48%) ACCA
9 17 (1.40%) CIMA
9 17 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 14 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.82%) 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
1 175 (14.42%) Data Quality
2 58 (4.78%) GDPR
3 52 (4.28%) PMO
3 52 (4.28%) QA
4 45 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.07%) NIST
7 11 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.74%) GRC
8 9 (0.74%) IFRS
9 8 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.66%) SLA
10 7 (0.58%) COBIT
10 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.58%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.49%) GxP
12 5 (0.41%) MiFID
13 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.25%) Basel III
14 3 (0.25%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 28 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.91%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.082%) HDFS
4 1 (0.082%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.082%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (2.72%) Terraform
2 15 (1.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.82%) RSA Archer
4 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.49%) SCCM
6 2 (0.16%) Kibana
7 1 (0.082%) Ansible
7 1 (0.082%) Grafana
7 1 (0.082%) Istio
7 1 (0.082%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.082%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.082%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.082%) Puppet
7 1 (0.082%) SCOM
7 1 (0.082%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.082%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.082%) WSUS
Vendors
1 388 (31.96%) Microsoft
2 114 (9.39%) Databricks
3 85 (7.00%) Oracle
4 82 (6.75%) SAP
5 53 (4.37%) Google
6 36 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.14%) Alteryx
8 15 (1.24%) Informatica
9 12 (0.99%) Foundry
9 12 (0.99%) Splunk
10 10 (0.82%) Adobe
10 10 (0.82%) 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