Power BI Contracts in England

Microsoft Power BI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Power BI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power BI over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 60 68
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing Power BI 970 1,256 1,523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.72% 3.36% 3.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.19% 19.15% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 908 1,094
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £382 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £552 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 26 37
10th Percentile £18.50 £14.00 £21.05
25th Percentile £24.00 £15.91 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £22.86 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.18% -38.22% +64.44%
75th Percentile £34.57 £41.30 £56.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £49.38 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £23.82 £36.50
% change year-on-year +32.82% -34.73% +62.22%

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 4,804 6,558 8,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.40% 17.55% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 4,727 5,816
10th Percentile £357 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 139 151
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.62 £32.30
Median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -30.43% +52.12%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £71.70 £83.00
UK median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £56.95
% change year-on-year -10.85% -31.08% +50.66%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in England.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in England

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in England

Power BI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in England.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in England

Power BI
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 0 529 £500 - 2,386
North of England -13 127 £447 -3.61% 658
South East +13 97 £450 - 757
Midlands -5 91 £465 +9.41% 424
West Midlands -1 73 £485 +14.12% 262
North West -25 62 £475 +5.56% 386
Yorkshire +7 59 £425 -15.00% 206
South West -10 57 £409 -10.36% 275
East of England +23 32 £500 +21.95% 222
East Midlands -5 17 £463 +27.59% 161
North East +4 8 £450 -47.06% 67
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 94 (9.69%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 25 (2.58%) Confluence
4 20 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.24%) Apache
6 8 (0.82%) IBM Domino
7 6 (0.62%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.10%) JBoss
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.10%) Smallworld
Applications
1 220 (22.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 34 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.24%) Oracle Smart View
7 8 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.21%) Maple
9 1 (0.10%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.10%) SPSS
9 1 (0.10%) Stata
9 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.31%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.31%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.31%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.21%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.21%) Endur
6 2 (0.21%) Maximo
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.21%) Primavera
6 2 (0.21%) Shopify
7 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 970 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 321 (33.09%) Azure
3 102 (10.52%) Power Automate
3 102 (10.52%) PowerApps
4 101 (10.41%) AWS
5 84 (8.66%) Snowflake
6 83 (8.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 76 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
8 68 (7.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 64 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
10 55 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (5.36%) GCP
12 33 (3.40%) dbt
13 32 (3.30%) SaaS
14 25 (2.58%) GitHub
14 25 (2.58%) Serverless
15 23 (2.37%) Azure Machine Learning
16 19 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.13%) Firewall
2 9 (0.93%) Internet
3 8 (0.82%) Network Security
4 7 (0.72%) VPN
5 4 (0.41%) DNS
5 4 (0.41%) HTTP
5 4 (0.41%) SSH
6 3 (0.31%) FTP
6 3 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (0.31%) SMTP
6 3 (0.31%) SSL
6 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.10%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.10%) Intranet
7 1 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.10%) TETRA
7 1 (0.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (22.16%) Tableau
2 159 (16.39%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (8.87%) SQL Server
4 78 (8.04%) Data Lake
5 68 (7.01%) Power Query
6 46 (4.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 41 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 36 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 31 (3.20%) Looker
10 28 (2.89%) BigQuery
11 26 (2.68%) Metadata
12 22 (2.27%) BusinessObjects
13 20 (2.06%) Qlik Sense
14 19 (1.96%) Big Data
14 19 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (1.86%) Delta Lake
16 17 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.75%) NoSQL
16 17 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 66 (6.80%) JIRA
2 30 (3.09%) Git
3 13 (1.34%) ERwin
4 9 (0.93%) GitLab
4 9 (0.93%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.52%) Liquibase
7 5 (0.52%) Terragrunt
8 4 (0.41%) RStudio
8 4 (0.41%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.31%) MLflow
9 3 (0.31%) Selenium
10 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.21%) DBeaver
10 2 (0.21%) Hudson
10 2 (0.21%) Postman
10 2 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 350 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 253 (26.08%) Finance
3 242 (24.95%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.64%) Banking
6 37 (3.81%) Marketing
7 34 (3.51%) Retail
8 31 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
9 30 (3.09%) Local Government
10 29 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.27%) Investment Banking
13 21 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 20 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.96%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.34%) Law
17 12 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (1.24%) Legal
18 11 (1.13%) Military
19 10 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 322 (33.20%) Analyst
2 180 (18.56%) Data Analyst
3 143 (14.74%) Developer
4 100 (10.31%) Data Engineer
5 93 (9.59%) Senior
6 73 (7.53%) Architect
7 67 (6.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 63 (6.49%) Business Analyst
9 61 (6.29%) Power BI Developer
10 59 (6.08%) Lead
11 51 (5.26%) Consultant
12 42 (4.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 38 (3.92%) Data Architect
14 32 (3.30%) Power BI Analyst
15 26 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (2.47%) Data Business Analyst
17 22 (2.27%) Project Manager
18 21 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
19 20 (2.06%) Report Analyst
20 19 (1.96%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.40%) PySpark
2 32 (3.30%) .NET
3 21 (2.16%) React
4 16 (1.65%) REST
5 15 (1.55%) Kafka
6 14 (1.44%) HTML
6 14 (1.44%) JSON
7 13 (1.34%) CSS
7 13 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (1.34%) Plotly
8 11 (1.13%) Pandas
8 11 (1.13%) YAML
9 9 (0.93%) ADO
9 9 (0.93%) Web Services
10 8 (0.82%) .NET Core
10 8 (0.82%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.72%) scikit-learn
11 7 (0.72%) TensorFlow
12 6 (0.62%) ASP.NET
12 6 (0.62%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (3.09%) Management Information System
2 23 (2.37%) Data Structures
3 20 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (1.86%) Low-Code
4 18 (1.86%) Onboarding
4 18 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (1.34%) NHS
7 12 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.24%) IoT
8 11 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 9 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 9 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 9 (0.93%) Reference Data
11 8 (0.82%) Life Science
11 8 (0.82%) Market Risk
11 8 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.72%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.03%) Windows
2 7 (0.72%) Linux
3 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (85.57%) Business Intelligence
2 337 (34.74%) Analytics
3 290 (29.90%) Visualisation
4 262 (27.01%) Data Modelling
5 223 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
6 207 (21.34%) Data Analysis
7 193 (19.90%) Data Visualisation
8 191 (19.69%) Agile
9 168 (17.32%) Decision-Making
10 153 (15.77%) ETL
11 120 (12.37%) Data Governance
12 119 (12.27%) Actionable Insight
13 111 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 107 (11.03%) DevOps
15 104 (10.72%) Migration
16 99 (10.21%) Data Engineering
17 98 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
18 84 (8.66%) Dashboard Development
19 83 (8.56%) Data Management
20 78 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 503 (51.86%) SQL
2 229 (23.61%) Python
3 84 (8.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 45 (4.64%) C#
4 45 (4.64%) JavaScript
5 42 (4.33%) PowerShell
6 41 (4.23%) R
7 22 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 20 (2.06%) Java
9 18 (1.86%) VBA
10 14 (1.44%) Bicep
11 13 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.24%) Scala
13 11 (1.13%) Bash
14 6 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.62%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.41%) Groovy
16 2 (0.21%) Ruby
16 2 (0.21%) VB
16 2 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 125 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 114 (11.75%) Degree
3 104 (10.72%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.13%) PMP
9 8 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.72%) ACCA
10 7 (0.72%) CBAP
10 7 (0.72%) CIMA
11 5 (0.52%) CISA
11 5 (0.52%) CISM
11 5 (0.52%) CISSP
11 5 (0.52%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.75%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.95%) GDPR
3 31 (3.20%) QA
4 27 (2.78%) PMO
5 22 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.82%) Basel II
7 8 (0.82%) IFRS
8 7 (0.72%) SLA
9 6 (0.62%) NIST
10 5 (0.52%) Basel III
10 5 (0.52%) COBIT
10 5 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.41%) MiFID
11 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.31%) GRC
13 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.21%) HL7
13 2 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 12 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.31%) Docker
3 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (4.33%) Terraform
2 11 (1.13%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.82%) Grafana
5 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.52%) RSA Archer
7 4 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.21%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (0.21%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.21%) SCCM
9 1 (0.10%) Ansible
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.10%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.10%) vRealize
9 1 (0.10%) VxRail
9 1 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 276 (28.45%) Microsoft
2 103 (10.62%) Databricks
3 69 (7.11%) SAP
4 58 (5.98%) Oracle
5 43 (4.43%) Google
6 41 (4.23%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.16%) Alteryx
8 14 (1.44%) Ariba
8 14 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.24%) Informatica
10 8 (0.82%) Cognos
10 8 (0.82%) MicroStrategy
10 8 (0.82%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.82%) Workday
11 7 (0.72%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.72%) Talend
12 6 (0.62%) Foundry
12 6 (0.62%) Palantir
13 5 (0.52%) Anaplan
13 5 (0.52%) Rapid7