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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 58 67
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +13
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,252 1,089 1,188
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.99% 3.73% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.24% 20.56% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 735 858
10th Percentile £313 £313 £301
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £669 £709 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 36
10th Percentile - £24.05 £16.10
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.18% -23.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £48.00 £50.81
90th Percentile £60.30 £64.73 £79.26
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £28.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -10.71% -13.37% -19.20%

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 5,387 5,297 6,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.15% 18.15% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,753 3,531 4,440
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £411 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £619 £663 £656
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.08% -1.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 75 128
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.20 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.48 £24.70
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -10.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £64.51
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +42.20% -33.76% -7.69%

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 17 December 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 December 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 December 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 -1 691 £500 -3.52% 230
North of England -19 159 £416 -7.50% 133
Midlands -20 115 £464 -2.37% 130
South East -22 110 £475 - 236
West Midlands -31 80 £494 +2.17% 72
Yorkshire -5 79 £410 -3.53% 47
North West -25 75 £413 -16.76% 76
South West +3 66 £450 -5.26% 58
East of England +7 48 £590 +32.96% 53
East Midlands -9 35 £407 +7.17% 57
North East -7 5 £475 +5.56% 12
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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
1 141 (11.26%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.12%) Confluence
3 33 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.60%) Apache
6 17 (1.36%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.64%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.48%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.40%) Mendix
11 3 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.16%) Moodle
13 1 (0.080%) Kentico
13 1 (0.080%) Luigi
13 1 (0.080%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.080%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.080%) Smallworld
Applications
1 289 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (2.32%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.40%) Trello
8 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.32%) Notion
9 1 (0.080%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.080%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 55 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.40%) NetSuite
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%) Oracle EBS
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
Cloud Services
1 1,252 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 449 (35.86%) Azure
3 198 (15.81%) Power Automate
4 185 (14.78%) PowerApps
5 146 (11.66%) AWS
6 110 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (8.79%) Dynamics 365
7 105 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
8 98 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 93 (7.43%) GCP
10 89 (7.11%) Snowflake
11 77 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 49 (3.91%) Microsoft Copilot
13 39 (3.12%) SaaS
13 39 (3.12%) Serverless
14 36 (2.88%) dbt
15 35 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
16 31 (2.48%) Entra ID
17 30 (2.40%) GitHub
18 28 (2.24%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) HTTP
2 4 (0.32%) VoIP
2 4 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.24%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.24%) LAN
4 2 (0.16%) 2G
4 2 (0.16%) 5G
4 2 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.16%) LTE
4 2 (0.16%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.16%) Network Security
4 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.16%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.16%) VPN
4 2 (0.16%) Wireless
5 1 (0.080%) NAS
5 1 (0.080%) SAN
5 1 (0.080%) Skype
5 1 (0.080%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (17.57%) Tableau
2 143 (11.42%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (6.87%) Power Query
4 81 (6.47%) SQL Server
5 80 (6.39%) Data Lake
6 49 (3.91%) Metadata
7 47 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 45 (3.59%) Relational Database
9 43 (3.43%) BigQuery
10 41 (3.27%) Looker
11 40 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
14 25 (2.00%) Data Mining
15 23 (1.84%) Big Data
15 23 (1.84%) Star Schema
16 21 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
17 20 (1.60%) Hadoop
17 20 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (1.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 104 (8.31%) JIRA
2 51 (4.07%) Git
3 9 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.64%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.56%) GitLab
5 7 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.56%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.40%) NeoLoad
7 3 (0.24%) ERwin
7 3 (0.24%) Postman
7 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.16%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.080%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.080%) Maven
9 1 (0.080%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.080%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 456 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 421 (33.63%) Finance
3 303 (24.20%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 118 (9.42%) Banking
6 49 (3.91%) Marketing
7 43 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 33 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (2.64%) Retail
10 30 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (1.92%) Legal
11 24 (1.92%) Local Government
12 23 (1.84%) Front Office
12 23 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.84%) Investment Banking
13 19 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 18 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 351 (28.04%) Analyst
2 194 (15.50%) Developer
3 160 (12.78%) Data Analyst
4 133 (10.62%) Data Engineer
5 120 (9.58%) Senior
6 101 (8.07%) Lead
7 95 (7.59%) Business Analyst
8 82 (6.55%) Architect
9 68 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 67 (5.35%) Consultant
11 53 (4.23%) Power BI Developer
12 49 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (3.51%) Data Scientist
14 41 (3.27%) Data Architect
14 41 (3.27%) Project Manager
15 40 (3.19%) Power Platform Developer
16 32 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 30 (2.40%) Power BI Analyst
18 27 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
19 24 (1.92%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.43%) PySpark
2 42 (3.35%) .NET
3 35 (2.80%) REST
4 22 (1.76%) HTML
4 22 (1.76%) JSON
5 21 (1.68%) scikit-learn
6 20 (1.60%) HTML5 Canvas
6 20 (1.60%) Pandas
7 19 (1.52%) Kafka
8 14 (1.12%) NumPy
9 13 (1.04%) React
10 10 (0.80%) Plotly
10 10 (0.80%) PyTorch
10 10 (0.80%) SailPoint
10 10 (0.80%) TensorFlow
11 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (0.72%) OAuth
12 8 (0.64%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.64%) CSS
12 8 (0.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.04%) Product Ownership
2 37 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 33 (2.64%) Low-Code
5 32 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.00%) Algorithms
9 24 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.84%) Cloud Native
11 20 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.20%) Derivative
13 14 (1.12%) Reinsurance
13 14 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.04%) PMI
15 12 (0.96%) Life Science
16 11 (0.88%) FMCG
17 10 (0.80%) IoT
17 10 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.12%) Windows
2 4 (0.32%) Linux
2 4 (0.32%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.24%) Unix
3 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.16%) Android
4 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,133 (90.50%) Business Intelligence
2 430 (34.35%) Analytics
3 335 (26.76%) Visualisation
4 322 (25.72%) Data Modelling
5 291 (23.24%) Agile
6 261 (20.85%) Decision-Making
7 228 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
8 206 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 203 (16.21%) Data Governance
10 198 (15.81%) Data Visualisation
11 196 (15.65%) Actionable Insight
11 196 (15.65%) Data Analysis
12 187 (14.94%) ETL
13 171 (13.66%) DevOps
14 155 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 131 (10.46%) Data Pipeline
15 131 (10.46%) Migration
16 129 (10.30%) AI
17 128 (10.22%) Dashboard Development
18 125 (9.98%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 564 (45.05%) SQL
2 329 (26.28%) Python
3 95 (7.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (4.87%) C#
5 58 (4.63%) R
6 55 (4.39%) JavaScript
7 32 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.48%) VBA
9 28 (2.24%) Java
10 24 (1.92%) Scala
11 21 (1.68%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.20%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.72%) Formula Language
13 9 (0.72%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.56%) Bicep
14 7 (0.56%) Korn
14 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.48%) C++
15 6 (0.48%) X++
16 4 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 161 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 127 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 117 (9.35%) Degree
4 24 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 22 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 19 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.20%) PMP
9 14 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.04%) ACCA
11 12 (0.96%) CIMA
12 9 (0.72%) CISSP
13 8 (0.64%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.64%) CFA
13 8 (0.64%) CISA
14 7 (0.56%) CBAP
14 7 (0.56%) CISM
14 7 (0.56%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (16.53%) Data Quality
2 67 (5.35%) GDPR
3 65 (5.19%) QA
4 60 (4.79%) PMO
5 51 (4.07%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.96%) NIST
9 11 (0.88%) GRC
10 8 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.64%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.56%) COBIT
11 7 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.56%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.48%) GxP
12 6 (0.48%) IFRS
13 4 (0.32%) Basel III
13 4 (0.32%) SLA
13 4 (0.32%) WCAG
14 3 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 26 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.60%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.080%) HDFS
4 1 (0.080%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (2.80%) Terraform
2 25 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.88%) RSA Archer
4 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.48%) SCCM
6 5 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.080%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.080%) Puppet
8 1 (0.080%) SCOM
8 1 (0.080%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.080%) WSUS
Vendors
1 403 (32.19%) Microsoft
2 132 (10.54%) Databricks
3 100 (7.99%) Oracle
4 81 (6.47%) SAP
5 64 (5.11%) Google
6 43 (3.43%) Salesforce
7 40 (3.19%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.92%) Alteryx
9 20 (1.60%) Informatica
10 17 (1.36%) Lotus
11 12 (0.96%) Foundry
11 12 (0.96%) Splunk
12 11 (0.88%) Adobe
13 10 (0.80%) Planview
14 9 (0.72%) Cognos
14 9 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.72%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.72%) Rapid7
15 8 (0.64%) IFS
16 7 (0.56%) Virgin Media