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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 56 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,236 1,157 1,212
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 3.71% 3.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.89% 20.63% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 773 871
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £608
90th Percentile £669 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 37
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.20
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.01 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.65% -7.18% -7.66%
75th Percentile £44.94 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £64.73 £79.16
UK median hourly rate £25.01 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -16.63% -7.18% -7.66%

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 5,400 5,608 6,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.56% 17.97% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,749 3,748 4,570
10th Percentile £327 £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 £663 £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 77 79 134
10th Percentile £20.91 £18.00 £18.77
25th Percentile £29.25 £25.26 £24.86
Median hourly rate £46.50 £37.50 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -21.38% -4.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £33.93 £46.84
% change year-on-year +37.05% -27.56% -2.30%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -1 676 £500 -4.76% 374
North of England -14 166 £418 -12.11% 142
South East -19 112 £475 - 343
Midlands -25 101 £470 +1.40% 173
Yorkshire -11 83 £400 -11.11% 41
North West -22 80 £425 -14.24% 86
South West +2 73 £433 -3.89% 80
West Midlands -31 73 £500 +1.01% 101
East of England +6 49 £580 +40.61% 77
East Midlands -5 28 £413 +8.55% 72
North East -9 3 £433 -3.89% 17
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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
1 136 (11.00%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.91%) Confluence
3 28 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.29%) Apache
6 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.81%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.65%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.32%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.081%) CMS
12 1 (0.081%) Kentico
12 1 (0.081%) Luigi
12 1 (0.081%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.081%) Smallworld
Applications
1 299 (24.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 48 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.18%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.40%) Trello
8 4 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.32%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.16%) Maple
10 1 (0.081%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.081%) Notion
10 1 (0.081%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 55 (4.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.40%) Primavera
6 4 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.32%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.24%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.16%) Actimize
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.16%) Endur
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,236 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 437 (35.36%) Azure
3 177 (14.32%) Power Automate
4 169 (13.67%) PowerApps
5 143 (11.57%) AWS
6 116 (9.39%) Dynamics 365
7 102 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (8.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 92 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
10 85 (6.88%) GCP
10 85 (6.88%) Snowflake
11 79 (6.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 47 (3.80%) Microsoft Copilot
13 36 (2.91%) dbt
14 34 (2.75%) Serverless
15 33 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
16 31 (2.51%) Entra ID
16 31 (2.51%) SaaS
17 29 (2.35%) GitHub
18 25 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) HTTP
1 5 (0.40%) VoIP
2 3 (0.24%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.24%) LAN
2 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.16%) 2G
3 2 (0.16%) 5G
3 2 (0.16%) DNS
3 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
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%) VPN
3 2 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.081%) NAS
4 1 (0.081%) Skype
4 1 (0.081%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.081%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.081%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (16.91%) Tableau
2 149 (12.06%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (7.61%) Power Query
4 89 (7.20%) Data Lake
5 84 (6.80%) SQL Server
6 49 (3.96%) Metadata
7 47 (3.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 44 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (3.56%) Relational Database
9 40 (3.24%) BigQuery
9 40 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 38 (3.07%) Looker
11 30 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (2.10%) Data Mining
13 25 (2.02%) Big Data
14 21 (1.70%) Hadoop
15 20 (1.62%) Star Schema
16 18 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
17 17 (1.38%) NoSQL
17 17 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 98 (7.93%) JIRA
2 47 (3.80%) Git
3 11 (0.89%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.65%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.57%) GitLab
5 7 (0.57%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.40%) ERwin
6 5 (0.40%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.32%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.16%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) Postman
8 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.081%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.081%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.081%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.081%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.081%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.081%) Zephyr
General
1 456 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 417 (33.74%) Finance
3 312 (25.24%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 114 (9.22%) Banking
6 44 (3.56%) Marketing
7 40 (3.24%) Manufacturing
7 40 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
8 37 (2.99%) Retail
9 34 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (2.51%) Local Government
12 29 (2.35%) Investment Banking
13 23 (1.86%) Front Office
13 23 (1.86%) Legal
14 21 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (1.38%) Telecoms
18 14 (1.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 359 (29.05%) Analyst
2 203 (16.42%) Developer
3 166 (13.43%) Data Analyst
4 129 (10.44%) Data Engineer
5 113 (9.14%) Senior
6 102 (8.25%) Lead
7 92 (7.44%) Business Analyst
8 88 (7.12%) Architect
9 77 (6.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 64 (5.18%) Power BI Developer
11 62 (5.02%) Consultant
12 47 (3.80%) Data Architect
13 43 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
14 40 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 37 (2.99%) Power BI Analyst
16 36 (2.91%) Data Scientist
17 35 (2.83%) Power Platform Developer
18 34 (2.75%) Project Manager
19 28 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
20 25 (2.02%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.24%) .NET
2 39 (3.16%) PySpark
3 35 (2.83%) REST
4 26 (2.10%) HTML
5 22 (1.78%) JSON
6 18 (1.46%) scikit-learn
7 17 (1.38%) Pandas
8 16 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
8 16 (1.29%) Kafka
9 12 (0.97%) CSS
9 12 (0.97%) NumPy
10 10 (0.81%) Plotly
10 10 (0.81%) SailPoint
11 9 (0.73%) OAuth
11 9 (0.73%) PyTorch
11 9 (0.73%) TensorFlow
12 8 (0.65%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (0.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 8 (0.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 35 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 30 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
3 29 (2.35%) Data Structures
4 28 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 28 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 28 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 25 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.62%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.29%) Derivative
8 16 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.05%) Reinsurance
10 12 (0.97%) Life Science
10 12 (0.97%) NHS
10 12 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (0.89%) FMCG
12 10 (0.81%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.38%) Windows
2 7 (0.57%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.49%) Linux
4 4 (0.32%) Unix
5 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.16%) Android
6 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,105 (89.40%) Business Intelligence
2 420 (33.98%) Analytics
3 339 (27.43%) Visualisation
4 315 (25.49%) Data Modelling
5 278 (22.49%) Agile
6 252 (20.39%) Decision-Making
7 234 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
8 204 (16.50%) Data Visualisation
8 204 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 198 (16.02%) Data Analysis
10 189 (15.29%) Actionable Insight
10 189 (15.29%) Data Governance
11 182 (14.72%) ETL
12 155 (12.54%) DevOps
13 144 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 130 (10.52%) Data Pipeline
14 130 (10.52%) Migration
15 121 (9.79%) Dashboard Development
15 121 (9.79%) Data Engineering
16 118 (9.55%) AI
Programming Languages
1 559 (45.23%) SQL
2 316 (25.57%) Python
3 96 (7.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 55 (4.45%) C#
5 54 (4.37%) JavaScript
6 49 (3.96%) R
7 45 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 30 (2.43%) VBA
9 29 (2.35%) Java
10 24 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.62%) Scala
12 15 (1.21%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.73%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.65%) Bicep
14 8 (0.65%) Korn
15 6 (0.49%) C++
15 6 (0.49%) X++
16 5 (0.40%) Bash
16 5 (0.40%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.40%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 164 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 132 (10.68%) SC Cleared
3 114 (9.22%) Degree
4 26 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 23 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.46%) ACCA
9 17 (1.38%) CIMA
10 15 (1.21%) PMI Certification
11 12 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.89%) PMP
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.73%) CISSP
14 8 (0.65%) CFA
14 8 (0.65%) CISA
14 8 (0.65%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.57%) CISM
15 7 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 5 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (15.21%) Data Quality
2 62 (5.02%) GDPR
3 59 (4.77%) QA
4 57 (4.61%) PMO
5 48 (3.88%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.05%) NIST
8 12 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.81%) GRC
10 8 (0.65%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.57%) COBIT
11 7 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.57%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.49%) GxP
12 6 (0.49%) IFRS
12 6 (0.49%) SLA
13 4 (0.32%) WCAG
14 3 (0.24%) MiFID
14 3 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 29 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.21%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.081%) HDFS
4 1 (0.081%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (2.67%) Terraform
2 20 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.89%) RSA Archer
4 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.49%) SCCM
7 2 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.081%) Grafana
8 1 (0.081%) Istio
8 1 (0.081%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.081%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.081%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.081%) Puppet
8 1 (0.081%) SCOM
8 1 (0.081%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.081%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.081%) WSUS
Vendors
1 412 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 119 (9.63%) Databricks
3 92 (7.44%) Oracle
4 85 (6.88%) SAP
5 58 (4.69%) Google
6 39 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 38 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 22 (1.78%) Alteryx
9 17 (1.38%) Informatica
10 13 (1.05%) Foundry
11 12 (0.97%) Splunk
12 10 (0.81%) Adobe
12 10 (0.81%) Lotus
13 9 (0.73%) Planview
13 9 (0.73%) Rapid7
14 8 (0.65%) Cognos
14 8 (0.65%) IFS
14 8 (0.65%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.65%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.57%) Dataiku