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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 61 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +24
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,077 1,145 1,349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.88% 3.48% 3.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.42% 19.07% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 790 971
10th Percentile £310 £300 £338
25th Percentile £388 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 41
10th Percentile £19.88 £19.97 £19.25
25th Percentile £24.88 £25.38 £21.36
Median hourly rate £33.03 £30.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -21.05% +67.03%
75th Percentile £49.06 £59.86 £56.50
90th Percentile £55.63 £79.00 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £34.65 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +15.50% -21.05% +68.89%

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 5,029 6,003 7,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.10% 18.23% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,465 4,163 4,959
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.20% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 140
10th Percentile £21.23 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.33 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.22%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +5 587 £500 -4.31% 580
North of England -6 146 £425 -5.56% 234
Midlands -20 101 £470 +4.44% 165
South East -3 98 £438 -7.89% 464
West Midlands -18 80 £500 +11.11% 99
Yorkshire -5 75 £420 -14.29% 56
South West +2 68 £413 -17.50% 105
North West -24 67 £425 -1.45% 168
East of England +15 31 £575 +43.75% 97
East Midlands -1 20 £419 +8.77% 60
North East 0 6 £475 +5.56% 11
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
1 106 (9.84%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.97%) Confluence
3 28 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.02%) Apache
6 9 (0.84%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.74%) Apache Pig
8 6 (0.56%) SAS
9 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.37%) CMS
10 4 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.19%) Moodle
13 1 (0.093%) Luigi
13 1 (0.093%) Mendix
13 1 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.093%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.093%) Smallworld
Applications
1 258 (23.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (5.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 45 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (2.69%) MS Visio
5 23 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.19%) Maple
8 2 (0.19%) Trello
9 1 (0.093%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.093%) Notion
Business Applications
1 44 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.37%) Primavera
5 4 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.28%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,077 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 350 (32.50%) Azure
3 133 (12.35%) Power Automate
4 128 (11.88%) PowerApps
5 104 (9.66%) AWS
6 94 (8.73%) Dynamics 365
7 90 (8.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 86 (7.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 84 (7.80%) Snowflake
10 82 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
12 58 (5.39%) GCP
13 43 (3.99%) SaaS
14 40 (3.71%) dbt
15 25 (2.32%) Azure Logic Apps
16 23 (2.14%) GitHub
17 22 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
18 21 (1.95%) Serverless
19 20 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
20 19 (1.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.56%) DNS
2 5 (0.46%) HTTP
3 4 (0.37%) SSH
4 3 (0.28%) Firewall
4 3 (0.28%) FTP
4 3 (0.28%) SMTP
4 3 (0.28%) SSL
4 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.28%) VoIP
5 2 (0.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.19%) LAN
5 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.093%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.093%) NAS
6 1 (0.093%) TETRA
6 1 (0.093%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (18.38%) Tableau
2 145 (13.46%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (8.45%) SQL Server
4 88 (8.17%) Power Query
5 77 (7.15%) Data Lake
6 48 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (4.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 41 (3.81%) Relational Database
10 35 (3.25%) Looker
11 31 (2.88%) Data Mining
12 29 (2.69%) BigQuery
13 28 (2.60%) Metadata
14 22 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
15 21 (1.95%) Delta Lake
15 21 (1.95%) Hadoop
16 20 (1.86%) Apache Hive
17 19 (1.76%) Big Data
18 17 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
19 16 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 87 (8.08%) JIRA
2 36 (3.34%) Git
3 7 (0.65%) ERwin
3 7 (0.65%) GitLab
3 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.56%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.46%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.37%) DBeaver
6 4 (0.37%) Liquibase
6 4 (0.37%) RStudio
7 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.093%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.093%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.093%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.093%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.093%) WebDriver
General
1 379 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 340 (31.57%) Finance
3 260 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.71%) Banking
5 81 (7.52%) Public Sector
6 43 (3.99%) Marketing
7 38 (3.53%) Investment Banking
8 37 (3.44%) Retail
9 32 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 31 (2.88%) Local Government
11 29 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.51%) Legal
14 23 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.76%) Front Office
16 18 (1.67%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (1.21%) Law
19 8 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 331 (30.73%) Analyst
2 169 (15.69%) Data Analyst
3 165 (15.32%) Developer
4 119 (11.05%) Data Engineer
5 86 (7.99%) Senior
6 75 (6.96%) Architect
6 75 (6.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 72 (6.69%) Business Analyst
8 66 (6.13%) Lead
9 63 (5.85%) Power BI Developer
10 54 (5.01%) Consultant
11 41 (3.81%) Data Architect
12 39 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 37 (3.44%) Power BI Analyst
14 34 (3.16%) Data Scientist
15 32 (2.97%) Project Manager
16 28 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
17 27 (2.51%) Power Platform Developer
18 25 (2.32%) Report Analyst
19 24 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.99%) PySpark
2 41 (3.81%) .NET
3 25 (2.32%) JSON
4 21 (1.95%) HTML
5 19 (1.76%) REST
6 13 (1.21%) CSS
6 13 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
7 11 (1.02%) Kafka
7 11 (1.02%) Pandas
7 11 (1.02%) YAML
8 10 (0.93%) ADO
9 9 (0.84%) scikit-learn
10 7 (0.65%) .NET Core
10 7 (0.65%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.65%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.56%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.56%) PostGIS
11 6 (0.56%) pydantic
11 6 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (3.16%) Management Information System
2 29 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 23 (2.14%) Low-Code
5 22 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 22 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.49%) Derivative
8 16 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 16 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.39%) Reference Data
10 14 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.30%) NHS
11 13 (1.21%) IoT
11 13 (1.21%) Reinsurance
12 12 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.11%) Life Science
13 11 (1.02%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.30%) Windows
2 9 (0.84%) Linux
3 6 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.28%) Unix
5 2 (0.19%) Android
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (86.17%) Business Intelligence
2 345 (32.03%) Analytics
3 291 (27.02%) Visualisation
4 269 (24.98%) Data Modelling
5 240 (22.28%) Agile
6 201 (18.66%) Decision-Making
6 201 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
7 183 (16.99%) Data Visualisation
8 182 (16.90%) Data Analysis
9 155 (14.39%) Actionable Insight
10 148 (13.74%) ETL
11 144 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 142 (13.18%) Data Governance
13 129 (11.98%) DevOps
14 118 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
15 107 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 102 (9.47%) Migration
17 100 (9.29%) Data Engineering
18 91 (8.45%) Data Science
19 89 (8.26%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 536 (49.77%) SQL
2 273 (25.35%) Python
3 93 (8.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 51 (4.74%) C#
5 45 (4.18%) R
6 44 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 43 (3.99%) PowerShell
8 28 (2.60%) Java
9 24 (2.23%) Scala
10 23 (2.14%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.86%) VBA
12 13 (1.21%) Bicep
13 12 (1.11%) Bash
14 10 (0.93%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.46%) C++
18 4 (0.37%) Formula Language
18 4 (0.37%) LotusScript
18 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 96 (8.91%) Degree
3 81 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 18 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.21%) ACCA
10 12 (1.11%) PMP
11 11 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.02%) CIMA
12 6 (0.56%) CISA
12 6 (0.56%) CISSP
13 5 (0.46%) CBAP
13 5 (0.46%) CFA
13 5 (0.46%) CISM
13 5 (0.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (0.37%) CCAB
14 4 (0.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (11.88%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.20%) GDPR
3 42 (3.90%) QA
4 37 (3.44%) PMO
5 28 (2.60%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.21%) IFRS
7 13 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.74%) Basel II
8 8 (0.74%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) GxP
11 5 (0.46%) COBIT
11 5 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.46%) MiFID
11 5 (0.46%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.37%) Basel III
12 4 (0.37%) GRC
13 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.28%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 24 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.28%) Docker
3 1 (0.093%) HDFS
3 1 (0.093%) Xen
Systems Management
1 37 (3.44%) Terraform
2 10 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.74%) Grafana
4 6 (0.56%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.37%) SCCM
7 2 (0.19%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (0.19%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.093%) Istio
8 1 (0.093%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.093%) Puppet
8 1 (0.093%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.093%) WSUS
Vendors
1 336 (31.20%) Microsoft
2 103 (9.56%) Databricks
3 81 (7.52%) SAP
4 73 (6.78%) Oracle
5 43 (3.99%) Google
6 25 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.14%) Alteryx
9 12 (1.11%) Adobe
10 11 (1.02%) Splunk
11 10 (0.93%) Informatica
12 9 (0.84%) Cognos
12 9 (0.84%) Lotus
13 8 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
13 8 (0.74%) Workday
14 7 (0.65%) IFS
14 7 (0.65%) Rapid7
14 7 (0.65%) Talend
15 6 (0.56%) Anaplan
15 6 (0.56%) MuleSoft