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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 56 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,243 1,138 1,215
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.99% 3.72% 3.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.04% 20.53% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 767 875
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.10%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £610
90th Percentile £671 £701 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 37
10th Percentile - £21.13 £16.20
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.42 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% -7.18% -14.95%
75th Percentile £38.38 £43.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £61.70 £64.73 £79.16
UK median hourly rate £26.46 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -5.51% -8.20% -14.08%

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 5,396 5,542 6,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 18.13% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,756 3,707 4,513
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £665 £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 73 78 130
10th Percentile £21.30 £18.35 £18.38
25th Percentile £29.88 £24.31 £22.69
Median hourly rate £46.50 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.37% -17.71% -7.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.55 £64.52
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £47.61 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +50.93% -31.69% -7.64%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -2 682 £500 -3.85% 308
North of England -18 159 £418 -12.11% 180
South East -17 114 £475 - 305
Midlands -18 108 £463 -3.04% 143
North West -19 80 £418 -13.92% 113
West Midlands -27 78 £494 -1.20% 86
Yorkshire -7 76 £400 -11.11% 53
South West -5 73 £445 -3.78% 68
East of England +7 49 £580 +30.70% 84
East Midlands -5 30 £410 +7.89% 55
North East -10 3 £433 -3.89% 15
Power BI
UK

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
1 142 (11.42%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.14%) Confluence
3 33 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.45%) Apache
6 14 (1.13%) 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 3 (0.24%) Mendix
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.080%) CMS
12 1 (0.080%) Kentico
12 1 (0.080%) Luigi
12 1 (0.080%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.080%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.080%) Smallworld
Applications
1 294 (23.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.17%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.40%) Trello
8 4 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.32%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.24%) Notion
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.080%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 55 (4.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (2.33%) 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%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.16%) Endur
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 446 (35.88%) Azure
3 188 (15.12%) Power Automate
4 183 (14.72%) PowerApps
5 144 (11.58%) AWS
6 115 (9.25%) Dynamics 365
7 105 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
9 96 (7.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 86 (6.92%) Snowflake
11 85 (6.84%) GCP
12 77 (6.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 47 (3.78%) Microsoft Copilot
14 36 (2.90%) Serverless
15 35 (2.82%) dbt
16 34 (2.74%) SaaS
17 33 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
18 30 (2.41%) Entra ID
19 27 (2.17%) GitHub
20 26 (2.09%) Copilot Studio
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%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.16%) VPN
3 2 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.080%) NAS
4 1 (0.080%) SAN
4 1 (0.080%) Skype
4 1 (0.080%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (17.78%) Tableau
2 146 (11.75%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (7.48%) Power Query
4 83 (6.68%) Data Lake
5 82 (6.60%) SQL Server
6 47 (3.78%) Metadata
6 47 (3.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 46 (3.70%) Relational Database
8 41 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (3.22%) BigQuery
10 39 (3.14%) Looker
11 34 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
13 26 (2.09%) Big Data
13 26 (2.09%) Data Mining
14 22 (1.77%) Star Schema
15 20 (1.61%) Hadoop
16 19 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
16 19 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (1.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 99 (7.96%) JIRA
2 48 (3.86%) Git
3 9 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.64%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.56%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.48%) GitLab
7 4 (0.32%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.16%) ERwin
8 2 (0.16%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) Postman
8 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.080%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.080%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.080%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.080%) Selenium
9 1 (0.080%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.080%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 462 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 419 (33.71%) Finance
3 313 (25.18%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 118 (9.49%) Banking
6 45 (3.62%) Marketing
7 44 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (3.30%) Manufacturing
9 33 (2.65%) Retail
10 32 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.25%) Investment Banking
12 28 (2.25%) Local Government
13 24 (1.93%) Legal
14 23 (1.85%) Front Office
15 22 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.45%) Telecoms
18 16 (1.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 355 (28.56%) Analyst
2 204 (16.41%) Developer
3 164 (13.19%) Data Analyst
4 130 (10.46%) Data Engineer
5 120 (9.65%) Senior
6 100 (8.05%) Lead
7 95 (7.64%) Business Analyst
8 82 (6.60%) Architect
9 76 (6.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 64 (5.15%) Consultant
11 60 (4.83%) Power BI Developer
12 46 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
13 43 (3.46%) Data Architect
14 42 (3.38%) Data Scientist
15 40 (3.22%) Power Platform Developer
16 38 (3.06%) Project Manager
17 36 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 33 (2.65%) Power BI Analyst
19 27 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
20 24 (1.93%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.22%) PySpark
2 38 (3.06%) .NET
3 32 (2.57%) REST
4 22 (1.77%) HTML
4 22 (1.77%) JSON
5 20 (1.61%) scikit-learn
6 19 (1.53%) Pandas
7 18 (1.45%) HTML5 Canvas
7 18 (1.45%) Kafka
8 14 (1.13%) NumPy
9 10 (0.80%) Plotly
9 10 (0.80%) React
9 10 (0.80%) SailPoint
10 9 (0.72%) OAuth
10 9 (0.72%) PyTorch
10 9 (0.72%) TensorFlow
11 8 (0.64%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.64%) CSS
11 8 (0.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 34 (2.74%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.49%) Data Structures
3 31 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (2.49%) Low-Code
4 28 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.09%) Algorithms
6 24 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.61%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.29%) Derivative
9 16 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.05%) Reinsurance
12 12 (0.97%) Life Science
12 12 (0.97%) NHS
12 12 (0.97%) PMI
13 11 (0.88%) FMCG
14 10 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.21%) Windows
2 5 (0.40%) Linux
3 4 (0.32%) Unix
3 4 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.16%) Android
5 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,117 (89.86%) Business Intelligence
2 431 (34.67%) Analytics
3 344 (27.67%) Visualisation
4 320 (25.74%) Data Modelling
5 287 (23.09%) Agile
6 258 (20.76%) Decision-Making
7 235 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
8 206 (16.57%) Data Visualisation
8 206 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 198 (15.93%) Data Analysis
10 196 (15.77%) Actionable Insight
11 195 (15.69%) Data Governance
12 178 (14.32%) ETL
13 160 (12.87%) DevOps
14 153 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 130 (10.46%) Data Pipeline
16 125 (10.06%) Migration
17 124 (9.98%) Dashboard Development
18 120 (9.65%) AI
19 118 (9.49%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 560 (45.05%) SQL
2 323 (25.99%) Python
3 99 (7.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 57 (4.59%) C#
4 57 (4.59%) R
5 55 (4.42%) JavaScript
6 39 (3.14%) PowerShell
7 30 (2.41%) Java
7 30 (2.41%) VBA
8 24 (1.93%) Scala
9 20 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.29%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.56%) Bicep
12 7 (0.56%) Formula Language
12 7 (0.56%) Korn
12 7 (0.56%) LotusScript
13 6 (0.48%) C++
13 6 (0.48%) X++
14 4 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 160 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 129 (10.38%) SC Cleared
3 113 (9.09%) Degree
4 24 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.45%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.29%) ACCA
10 15 (1.21%) CIMA
11 12 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.97%) PMP
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%) CISM
14 7 (0.56%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 6 (0.48%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (15.93%) Data Quality
2 67 (5.39%) GDPR
3 63 (5.07%) QA
4 59 (4.75%) PMO
5 50 (4.02%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.05%) NIST
7 13 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.80%) GRC
9 8 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.64%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.56%) COBIT
10 7 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.56%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.48%) GxP
11 6 (0.48%) IFRS
11 6 (0.48%) SLA
12 4 (0.32%) WCAG
13 3 (0.24%) Basel III
13 3 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.45%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.080%) HDFS
4 1 (0.080%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (2.57%) Terraform
2 22 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.88%) RSA Archer
4 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.48%) SCCM
5 6 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.16%) Ansible
6 2 (0.16%) Kibana
7 1 (0.080%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.080%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.080%) Puppet
7 1 (0.080%) SCOM
7 1 (0.080%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.080%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.080%) WSUS
Vendors
1 416 (33.47%) Microsoft
2 129 (10.38%) Databricks
3 95 (7.64%) Oracle
4 81 (6.52%) SAP
5 61 (4.91%) Google
6 39 (3.14%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.01%) Alteryx
8 19 (1.53%) Informatica
9 14 (1.13%) Lotus
10 12 (0.97%) Foundry
10 12 (0.97%) Splunk
11 11 (0.88%) Adobe
12 10 (0.80%) Planview
13 9 (0.72%) Cognos
13 9 (0.72%) Rapid7
14 8 (0.64%) IFS
14 8 (0.64%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.64%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.56%) Dataiku