A day of Power BI training from me costs from £750 for a 1-2-1 day online, from £950 for a small group of up to four, and from £1,250 for a team day of up to ten people, with in-person versions a little higher. Every one of those prices includes a half-day of preparation before anyone sits down to learn, and the day itself runs on your own data in your own tenant rather than a demo file. For developers and consultants who are stuck on one specific problem right now, there is a separate £100 unblocking session.
Those are my published prices, and the rest of this post is what they actually buy, how to choose between the formats, and the honest answer to when you should buy training instead of consultancy.
How much does a Power BI training day cost in the UK?
These are the rates from my training page, current as I write this. Each figure is per training day, not per person, and includes the half-day prep.
| Format | Online | In person |
|---|---|---|
| 1-2-1 day | from £750 | from £850 |
| Small group (up to 4) | from £950 | from £1,100 |
| Team day (up to 10) | from £1,250 | from £1,500 |
| Unblocking session (developers and consultants) | £100 per session | n/a |
The "from" is doing honest work: level and scope shape the final figure, and it gets confirmed before anything is booked. In person covers Norfolk and East Anglia at those rates, and the wider UK with travel on top.
Because the price is per day rather than per person, the per-head arithmetic moves fast. An online team day at £1,250 with ten people in the room is £125 a head. The same day for four people is a little over £310 a head. A 1-2-1 day is £750 for one person, which sounds expensive next to £125 until you notice it is the only format where the entire day bends around one person's actual work.
What does the price actually include?
Three things that generic course listings usually don't.
A half-day of prep before the training day. Licences sorted, Power BI installed for everyone attending, access to your data agreed, and the material shaped around your systems and the questions your business genuinely asks. Training days fail in the first hour or not at all, and they usually fail because half the room can't log in to anything. The prep exists to delete that hour.
Your data, your tenant. Nobody learns on an imaginary bike shop's sales file. The team builds against the numbers they already argue about, which means the "why would we use this?" question answers itself, and what gets built during the day is still there, in your tenant, the next morning.
The materials stay with you. The goal is not a certificate. It is a team that can carry on without me in the room.
A day is not one fixed course, either. It takes a focus, or blends a couple: a first look at Power BI for a team starting from zero, report design and accessibility, wireframing and report planning, semantic models properly, getting and transforming data, or DAX and measures. The level runs from "what is Power BI and why would we use it?" to advanced modelling and performance.
Group, 1-2-1 or team day: which should you buy?
Pick by who needs to change, not by price per head.
Buy the team day when the problem is shared literacy: a department that receives reports but doesn't trust or use them, or a team about to take ownership of reporting and needing a common floor. Ten people at £125 a head online is the cheapest way I know to move a whole room from "we export it to Excel" to actually reading the report.
Buy the small group day when you have two to four people who will genuinely build things. Small enough that everyone drives, big enough that they learn each other's questions. This is the format I'd point most SMEs at first.
Buy the 1-2-1 day when one person carries the estate. The analyst who inherited every report, the finance manager who became the Power BI person by accident. A day shaped entirely around their model and their backlog moves them further than any group format can.
Buy the £100 unblocking session when the need is not learning but a specific stuck problem: a DAX measure that won't behave, a model that won't perform, a report that won't land with users. Screen share, work it live, leave unblocked, with a written summary of what changed and why. It is priced so that the decision takes less time than the problem.
When does training beat hiring a consultant?
There is a real trade here, and I sell both sides of it, so here is the honest version.
For context, the UK median contract day rate for roles citing Power BI is £490, with the middle half of the market between £406 and £588 (ITJobsWatch, six months to 26 August 2026). My team training day at £1,250 to £1,500 is two to three consultant days' worth of money. So which should you buy?
Buy consultancy when the output matters more than the capability. A board needs a reporting system in six weeks; whether your team can build the next one is a later problem. Paying day rates, or better a fixed-price build, gets you an artefact. The full picture of what that work costs in the UK is in the cost guide.
Buy training when the queue is the problem. If every report change waits on one overloaded person or an external supplier, the constraint is capability, not output. A day that moves four people from nervous to competent keeps paying every week afterwards, which no single consultancy deliverable does.
Buy both, in that order, more often than you'd think. The pattern that works: a build done properly with your team watching, then training on the thing that was built, then the team runs it with support behind them instead of a dependency on whoever built it. Training on a well-built model teaches good habits. Training on a mess teaches people to live with the mess.
The wrong reason to buy training is as a cheaper substitute for work that needs doing anyway. A day of training does not fix a broken model; it produces four people who can now see that the model is broken.
What should you check before booking any Power BI training?
Whoever you buy from, me included, four questions sort the useful from the generic.
Ask whether the day runs on your data or a demo file. Ask what happens before the day: if the answer doesn't include licences, installs and access being sorted in advance, the first hour of your paid day will be IT support. Ask whether the material flexes to your level or is a fixed curriculum. And ask what the room keeps afterwards: materials, recordings where agreed, and something real left built in your own tenant.
None of those questions are about price, which is the point. The gap between useful and wasted training money is almost never the day rate. It is whether the day was built for your team or for everyone's team.
Common questions
How much does Power BI training cost per person?
My pricing is per day, not per person, so the per-head cost depends on how many attend. An online team day at £1,250 with ten people works out at £125 a head; a small group day at £950 with four people is about £237 a head; a 1-2-1 day is £750 for one person. All formats include a half-day of prep, and final figures are confirmed before booking.
Is online Power BI training cheaper than in person?
Yes, by £100 to £250 a day on my rates: a 1-2-1 day is from £750 online against £850 in person, and a team day from £1,250 against £1,500. In-person rates cover Norfolk and East Anglia, with travel added for the wider UK. The content and the prep are the same either way; what you are paying for in person is the room.
What level does the training cover?
Anything from "what is Power BI and why would we use it?" through to advanced modelling, DAX and performance. A day takes one focus or blends a couple: first look, report design, wireframing and planning, semantic models, getting and transforming data, or DAX and measures. The half-day prep is where the level gets pitched, so nobody sits through a day aimed at somebody else.
Do we need Power BI licences before the training?
You need them by the training day, but not before booking, because sorting licences, installs and access is exactly what the included half-day prep is for. If your organisation has nothing set up yet, that gets resolved in prep rather than eating the morning of the day you paid for.
Do attendees get a certificate?
No, and that is deliberate. The goal is a team that leaves able to build and read reports in your own tenant, on your own data, with the materials kept for reference. If your organisation needs formal certification, Microsoft's official exams are the honest route for that, and training like mine is preparation for real work rather than for an exam.
What is a £100 unblocking session?
A single session for developers and consultants who are stuck on one specific problem right now: a DAX measure that won't behave, a model that won't perform, a report users won't adopt. You bring the problem, we work it live on a screen share, and you leave unblocked with a written summary of what we changed and why. Booking and payment happen online in one step.
When is training the wrong purchase?
When what you actually need is work done. Training does not fix a broken model or clear a build backlog; it multiplies the people who can. If the reports themselves are the problem, start with a health check or a scoped build, then train the team on something worth learning.