Power BI Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Power BI
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 162 113 139
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.40% 3.19% 3.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.46% 22.42% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 83 103
10th Percentile £300 £313 £263
25th Percentile £343 £375 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £567 £500
90th Percentile £579 £678 £588
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - -35.29% -34.62%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.18% -25.70%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 755 504 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.84% 14.25% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 314 463
10th Percentile £316 £325 £305
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £579 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 18
10th Percentile £50.20 £22.72 £18.21
25th Percentile £59.75 £23.87 £22.68
Median hourly rate £64.50 £26.47 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +143.72% -42.69% -28.95%
75th Percentile £81.50 £41.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.20 £65.00 £58.00
England median hourly rate £54.35 £38.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +43.03% -18.87% -14.84%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Power BI job vacancy trend in the North of England

Power BI
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Power BI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Power BI

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the North of England

Power BI
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Power BI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Power BI

Power BI
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
Yorkshire -1 80 £420 -1.18% 77
North West -23 76 £425 -14.34% 119
North East -8 6 £475 +5.56% 18
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England

Power BI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 17 (10.49%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.09%) Apache Pig
2 5 (3.09%) Confluence
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.62%) CMS
Applications
1 52 (32.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.85%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 162 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 48 (29.63%) Azure
3 24 (14.81%) Power Automate
4 20 (12.35%) GCP
4 20 (12.35%) PowerApps
5 14 (8.64%) AWS
6 12 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.41%) Google Analytics
6 12 (7.41%) Google Tag Manager
7 11 (6.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (4.32%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.47%) Serverless
12 3 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.85%) Collibra
12 3 (1.85%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) VPN
1 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.43%) Tableau
2 24 (14.81%) Power Query
3 16 (9.88%) BigQuery
4 15 (9.26%) Looker
5 14 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (5.56%) Data Mining
6 9 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.94%) Data Lake
7 8 (4.94%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.32%) PowerPivot
9 6 (3.70%) Metadata
9 6 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.09%) Apache Hive
10 5 (3.09%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.47%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.47%) Redis
11 4 (2.47%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (4.94%) JIRA
2 3 (1.85%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.62%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) Postman
3 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 51 (31.48%) Finance
3 48 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (18.52%) Banking
5 27 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.17%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.47%) Billing
9 4 (2.47%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.47%) Law
9 4 (2.47%) Local Government
9 4 (2.47%) Marketing
9 4 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.23%) Military
10 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Legal
11 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (41.36%) Analyst
2 33 (20.37%) Data Analyst
3 31 (19.14%) Developer
4 21 (12.96%) Senior
5 20 (12.35%) Data Engineer
6 15 (9.26%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (8.02%) Business Analyst
8 12 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 11 (6.79%) Performance Analyst
10 10 (6.17%) Power BI Developer
11 7 (4.32%) Architect
11 7 (4.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (4.32%) Lead
11 7 (4.32%) Report Analyst
12 6 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
12 6 (3.70%) Strategy Analyst
13 5 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (3.09%) Data Scientist
13 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.70%) .NET
1 6 (3.70%) JSON
2 5 (3.09%) HTML
2 5 (3.09%) PySpark
2 5 (3.09%) REST
3 4 (2.47%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.23%) Kafka
4 2 (1.23%) Node.js
4 2 (1.23%) React
5 1 (0.62%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.62%) D3.js
5 1 (0.62%) Flask
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.62%) Middleware
5 1 (0.62%) Next.js
5 1 (0.62%) OAuth
5 1 (0.62%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.62%) React Native
5 1 (0.62%) RESTful
5 1 (0.62%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.02%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 8 (4.94%) Mainframe
4 7 (4.32%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.09%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.85%) IVR
8 2 (1.23%) Clustering
8 2 (1.23%) FMCG
8 2 (1.23%) NHS
8 2 (1.23%) PMI
8 2 (1.23%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.23%) Windows
2 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (89.51%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (37.65%) Analytics
3 53 (32.72%) Visualisation
4 43 (26.54%) Actionable Insight
4 43 (26.54%) Data Modelling
4 43 (26.54%) Decision-Making
5 39 (24.07%) Agile
6 37 (22.84%) Data Analysis
6 37 (22.84%) Data Visualisation
7 35 (21.60%) Data Governance
8 29 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (16.05%) Dashboard Development
10 24 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (14.20%) ETL
12 20 (12.35%) Migration
13 17 (10.49%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (9.88%) DevOps
15 15 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 14 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (8.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 77 (47.53%) SQL
2 43 (26.54%) Python
3 13 (8.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (6.79%) VBA
5 8 (4.94%) Java
6 6 (3.70%) C#
6 6 (3.70%) Scala
7 5 (3.09%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.47%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.85%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.23%) Bicep
10 2 (1.23%) Groovy
10 2 (1.23%) R
11 1 (0.62%) LookML
11 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.26%) Degree
3 11 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.85%) MBA
5 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.23%) PMP
6 2 (1.23%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 20 (12.35%) Accessibility
3 16 (9.88%) QA
4 4 (2.47%) PMO
5 3 (1.85%) GDPR
6 2 (1.23%) Basel III
7 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.62%) PERC
7 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.47%) Terraform
2 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Ansible
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.49%) Google
3 10 (6.17%) Databricks
4 7 (4.32%) Oracle
4 7 (4.32%) SAP
5 6 (3.70%) Informatica
5 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.70%) Splunk
6 5 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.47%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.47%) Pega
8 3 (1.85%) Genesys
8 3 (1.85%) UiPath
9 2 (1.23%) Capita
9 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.23%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.62%) Facebook
10 1 (0.62%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.62%) Sage
10 1 (0.62%) Zoho