Power BI Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Power BI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 58 66
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,416 1,249 1,415
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.86% 3.65% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.25% 20.27% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 836 1,030
10th Percentile £313 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £392 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £576 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £465
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 39
10th Percentile - £24.55 £15.92
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -13.37% -19.20%
75th Percentile £33.75 £43.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £64.73 £78.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.22 £27.50 £31.41
% change year-on-year -11.92% -12.45% -12.75%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,363 6,162 7,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.33% 18.00% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,394 4,076 5,221
10th Percentile £329 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £710 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 84 140
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.15 £16.11
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.46 £21.56
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.64%
75th Percentile £68.19 £60.15 £64.65
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.57% -41.02% +2.62%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in the UK

Power BI
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Power BI
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Top 18 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England -2 1,252 £475 -5.00% 664
London -3 691 £500 -3.52% 245
UK excluding London -24 562 £450 - 585
Work from Home -7 400 £484 -3.20% 318
North of England -16 159 £416 -7.50% 116
Midlands -20 115 £463 - 112
South East -22 110 £475 - 233
West Midlands -29 80 £488 +2.31% 62
Yorkshire -4 79 £410 -3.53% 37
North West -31 76 £419 -15.50% 70
South West -5 66 £450 -5.26% 54
Scotland +2 52 £500 +25.00% 27
East of England -1 48 £590 +34.86% 40
East Midlands -1 35 £407 +7.17% 50
Wales -7 13 £325 +18.18% 15
North East -10 4 £433 -3.89% 11
Northern Ireland -8 2 £525 - 1
Channel Islands 0 1 - -

Power BI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 160 (11.30%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 41 (2.90%) Confluence
4 34 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.91%) Apache
6 17 (1.20%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.56%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.35%) Mendix
11 4 (0.28%) CMS
12 3 (0.21%) SAS
13 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.14%) Moodle
13 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
14 1 (0.071%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.071%) Kentico
14 1 (0.071%) Luigi
14 1 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 329 (23.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (2.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.35%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.35%) Trello
8 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.28%) Notion
9 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (4.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.49%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.35%) Primavera
7 4 (0.28%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
8 3 (0.21%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.21%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.21%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,416 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 516 (36.44%) Azure
3 228 (16.10%) Power Automate
4 209 (14.76%) PowerApps
5 159 (11.23%) AWS
6 127 (8.97%) Dynamics 365
7 123 (8.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 118 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 110 (7.77%) Snowflake
10 108 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
11 101 (7.13%) GCP
12 97 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 54 (3.81%) Microsoft Copilot
14 49 (3.46%) Serverless
15 43 (3.04%) dbt
16 41 (2.90%) SaaS
17 39 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
18 34 (2.40%) Azure Functions
19 32 (2.26%) Entra ID
19 32 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.35%) HTTP
1 5 (0.35%) WebEx
2 4 (0.28%) VoIP
2 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.21%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.21%) LAN
4 2 (0.14%) 2G
4 2 (0.14%) 5G
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) LTE
4 2 (0.14%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.14%) Network Security
4 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.14%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.14%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Wireless
5 1 (0.071%) Internet
5 1 (0.071%) NAS
5 1 (0.071%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (17.44%) Tableau
2 172 (12.15%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (7.20%) Power Query
4 99 (6.99%) SQL Server
5 98 (6.92%) Data Lake
6 59 (4.17%) Metadata
7 52 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 52 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 48 (3.39%) BigQuery
10 45 (3.18%) Looker
11 36 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 32 (2.26%) Big Data
13 28 (1.98%) Hadoop
14 26 (1.84%) Star Schema
15 25 (1.77%) Data Mining
16 24 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
17 21 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (1.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 107 (7.56%) JIRA
2 63 (4.45%) Git
3 9 (0.64%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.56%) DBeaver
5 7 (0.49%) GitLab
5 7 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.49%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.35%) ERwin
6 5 (0.35%) NeoLoad
7 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.21%) Postman
7 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.14%) MLflow
8 2 (0.14%) Selenium
8 2 (0.14%) Subversion
9 1 (0.071%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.071%) JMeter
9 1 (0.071%) Maven
General
1 524 (37.01%) Social Skills
2 477 (33.69%) Finance
3 336 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 129 (9.11%) Banking
6 51 (3.60%) Marketing
7 48 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 47 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
9 41 (2.90%) Retail
10 35 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
10 35 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (2.05%) Front Office
12 29 (2.05%) Investment Banking
13 28 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
14 26 (1.84%) Local Government
15 25 (1.77%) Legal
16 20 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.13%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 389 (27.47%) Analyst
2 229 (16.17%) Developer
3 185 (13.06%) Data Analyst
4 150 (10.59%) Data Engineer
5 134 (9.46%) Senior
6 109 (7.70%) Lead
7 106 (7.49%) Business Analyst
8 93 (6.57%) Architect
9 86 (6.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 79 (5.58%) Consultant
11 66 (4.66%) Power BI Developer
12 55 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
13 49 (3.46%) Data Architect
14 47 (3.32%) Data Scientist
14 47 (3.32%) Power Platform Developer
15 43 (3.04%) Project Manager
16 36 (2.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 33 (2.33%) Power BI Analyst
18 31 (2.19%) Azure Engineer
19 25 (1.77%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.60%) .NET
2 49 (3.46%) PySpark
2 49 (3.46%) REST
3 28 (1.98%) JSON
4 27 (1.91%) HTML
5 23 (1.62%) Pandas
6 22 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
7 21 (1.48%) Kafka
7 21 (1.48%) scikit-learn
8 16 (1.13%) NumPy
9 14 (0.99%) React
10 10 (0.71%) CSS
10 10 (0.71%) OAuth
10 10 (0.71%) Plotly
10 10 (0.71%) PyTorch
10 10 (0.71%) RESTful
10 10 (0.71%) SailPoint
10 10 (0.71%) TensorFlow
10 10 (0.71%) XML
11 9 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 42 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
1 42 (2.97%) Data Structures
2 38 (2.68%) Product Ownership
3 37 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (2.61%) Onboarding
4 35 (2.47%) Low-Code
5 31 (2.19%) Algorithms
6 27 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.20%) Derivative
11 16 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 14 (0.99%) FMCG
12 14 (0.99%) Reinsurance
12 14 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.92%) PMI
14 12 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.13%) Windows
2 13 (0.92%) Linux
3 6 (0.42%) Unix
4 4 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,268 (89.55%) Business Intelligence
2 488 (34.46%) Analytics
3 381 (26.91%) Visualisation
4 379 (26.77%) Data Modelling
5 320 (22.60%) Agile
6 285 (20.13%) Decision-Making
7 257 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (16.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 226 (15.96%) Data Governance
10 225 (15.89%) Data Analysis
10 225 (15.89%) Data Visualisation
11 219 (15.47%) Actionable Insight
12 212 (14.97%) ETL
13 190 (13.42%) DevOps
14 172 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 154 (10.88%) Migration
16 150 (10.59%) Data Pipeline
17 141 (9.96%) Dashboard Development
18 139 (9.82%) CI/CD
19 137 (9.68%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 624 (44.07%) SQL
2 370 (26.13%) Python
3 114 (8.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 74 (5.23%) C#
5 70 (4.94%) R
6 65 (4.59%) JavaScript
7 40 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 33 (2.33%) VBA
9 30 (2.12%) Java
10 24 (1.69%) Scala
11 21 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 19 (1.34%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.64%) Formula Language
13 9 (0.64%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.49%) Bicep
14 7 (0.49%) Korn
14 7 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.49%) X++
15 6 (0.42%) C++
16 4 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 178 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 146 (10.31%) Degree
3 142 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.68%) Master's Degree
5 32 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.48%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.13%) PMP
10 14 (0.99%) ACCA
11 13 (0.92%) CIMA
12 9 (0.64%) CISSP
13 8 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.56%) CFA
13 8 (0.56%) CISA
14 7 (0.49%) CISM
14 7 (0.49%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 7 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (16.38%) Data Quality
2 87 (6.14%) GDPR
3 75 (5.30%) QA
4 71 (5.01%) PMO
5 53 (3.74%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.85%) NIST
9 11 (0.78%) GRC
10 9 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.49%) COBIT
12 7 (0.49%) IFRS
12 7 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.49%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.42%) GxP
13 6 (0.42%) WCAG
14 5 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.35%) SLA
15 4 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 33 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.48%) Docker
3 6 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.071%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (2.75%) Terraform
2 27 (1.91%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.78%) RSA Archer
3 11 (0.78%) SCCM
4 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.35%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.14%) Ansible
6 2 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.071%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.071%) Puppet
7 1 (0.071%) SCOM
7 1 (0.071%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.071%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.071%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.071%) WSUS
Vendors
1 467 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 151 (10.66%) Databricks
3 115 (8.12%) Oracle
4 96 (6.78%) SAP
5 68 (4.80%) Google
6 51 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 48 (3.39%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.69%) Alteryx
8 24 (1.69%) Informatica
9 17 (1.20%) Lotus
10 13 (0.92%) Foundry
11 12 (0.85%) Splunk
12 11 (0.78%) Adobe
12 11 (0.78%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.71%) Planview
14 9 (0.64%) Cognos
14 9 (0.64%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.64%) Rapid7
15 8 (0.56%) IFS
16 7 (0.49%) Virgin Media