Power BI Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Power BI
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 69 89
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -28
Contract jobs citing Power BI 65 58 59
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.79% 2.75% 2.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.66% 21.32% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 46
10th Percentile £242 £278 £394
25th Percentile £350 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £613 £580
90th Percentile £588 £768 £675
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £22.00 -
25th Percentile £61.50 £25.26 £14.36
Median hourly rate £63.00 £27.13 £15.59
Median % change year-on-year +132.26% +73.99% -76.02%
75th Percentile £64.50 £28.99 £52.07
90th Percentile - £29.60 £85.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.18% -23.05%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 235 272 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.07% 12.89% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 182 266
10th Percentile £335 £378 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £676 £678
90th Percentile £695 £759 £729
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 18
10th Percentile £34.47 £22.54 £14.36
25th Percentile £62.38 £25.26 £17.10
Median hourly rate £65.00 £27.13 £57.28
Median % change year-on-year +139.63% -52.64% +0.73%
75th Percentile - £29.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £47.25 £83.14
England median hourly rate £48.72 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.21% -17.71% -9.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Power BI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Power BI

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the South West over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Power BI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Power BI

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Bristol -8 29 £500 - 13
Somerset +5 10 £475 +5.56% 10
Devon +5 8 £235 -27.69% 8
Gloucestershire -9 6 £350 -34.12% 1
Wiltshire -10 6 £440 +13.55% 5
Dorset +11 3 £475 -2.56% 6
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 15 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 6 (9.23%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.08%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.54%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 13 (20.00%) Azure
3 10 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 9 (13.85%) AWS
5 8 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (10.77%) PowerApps
7 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
7 6 (9.23%) GCP
7 6 (9.23%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.15%) SaaS
9 3 (4.62%) ShareGate
10 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.54%) Collibra
11 1 (1.54%) GitHub
11 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.54%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Kerberos
2 2 (3.08%) DNS
2 2 (3.08%) LAN
2 2 (3.08%) VoIP
2 2 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.54%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (10.77%) Metadata
2 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.23%) Big Data
3 6 (9.23%) BigQuery
3 6 (9.23%) Oracle ODI
3 6 (9.23%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (9.23%) Star Schema
3 6 (9.23%) Tableau
4 3 (4.62%) Looker
4 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.08%) SAP BW
5 2 (3.08%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.54%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.54%) Impala
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) DBeaver
2 3 (4.62%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Maven
3 1 (1.54%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.77%) Banking
4 7 (10.77%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Legal
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Publishing
7 1 (1.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Analyst
2 10 (15.38%) Developer
3 9 (13.85%) Data Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) Data Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Business Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 6 (9.23%) Quality Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Analytics Manager
6 5 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Analytics Manager
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Manager
7 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Technical Support
7 4 (6.15%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Test Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (6.15%) CSS
2 4 (6.15%) HTML
2 4 (6.15%) JDO
3 3 (4.62%) LDAP
3 3 (4.62%) OAuth
3 3 (4.62%) OpenID
3 3 (4.62%) SAML
4 2 (3.08%) REST
4 2 (3.08%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.54%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.54%) CSS3
5 1 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.54%) JAX-RS
5 1 (1.54%) LESS
5 1 (1.54%) NLTK
5 1 (1.54%) Sass
5 1 (1.54%) SpaCy
5 1 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Low-Code
1 6 (9.23%) Replication
2 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.08%) FMCG
4 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.08%) SCADA
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.54%) DataPower
5 1 (1.54%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.54%) IoT
5 1 (1.54%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
2 2 (3.08%) Android
2 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.08%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (90.77%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (30.77%) Analytics
3 18 (27.69%) Agile
4 16 (24.62%) Decision-Making
5 15 (23.08%) Data Analysis
6 12 (18.46%) Actionable Insight
6 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (15.38%) AI
7 10 (15.38%) ETL
8 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (12.31%) Change Management
9 8 (12.31%) Visualisation
10 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
10 7 (10.77%) Data Modelling
10 7 (10.77%) Data Science
10 7 (10.77%) Data Transformation
10 7 (10.77%) Migration
11 6 (9.23%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) SQL
2 19 (29.23%) Python
3 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.08%) ABAP
5 2 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) C#
6 1 (1.54%) Java
6 1 (1.54%) SAPscript
6 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Degree
2 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) Data Quality
2 9 (13.85%) GDPR
3 6 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (9.23%) PMO
4 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.54%) PERC
6 1 (1.54%) QA
6 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (6.15%) SCCM
2 1 (1.54%) Kibana
2 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (49.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) SAP
3 6 (9.23%) Google
3 6 (9.23%) Oracle
4 3 (4.62%) Blue Prism
4 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.08%) Databricks
5 2 (3.08%) ForgeRock
5 2 (3.08%) Micro Focus
5 2 (3.08%) NetIQ
5 2 (3.08%) Okta
6 1 (1.54%) Cognos
6 1 (1.54%) Facebook
6 1 (1.54%) IBM
6 1 (1.54%) Informatica