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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 57 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,489 920 1,186
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.79% 3.77% 3.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.84% 19.70% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 627 849
10th Percentile £313 £313 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £573 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £486 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.37% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 25 33
10th Percentile £16.07 £18.94 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.48 £25.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £31.13 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% +25.22% -58.32%
75th Percentile £43.94 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.12 £60.20
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -57.79%

All Database & BI 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 6,245 4,669 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.91% 19.13% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 3,270 4,423
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £659 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 94 137
10th Percentile £17.55 £20.96 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.28 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.46 £52.50
90th Percentile £83.55 £70.00 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.56% -17.23% -33.33%

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 16 April 2026.

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 16 April 2026.

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 16 April 2026. 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 +7 785 £500 +2.56% 298
South East +4 189 £500 +5.26% 202
Midlands -15 167 £450 -7.22% 139
North of England -36 147 £450 -2.70% 188
West Midlands -32 102 £459 -5.85% 86
South West +4 84 £450 - 62
North West -22 78 £463 -11.90% 100
East Midlands +10 64 £414 -15.18% 53
Yorkshire -42 57 £440 +3.53% 63
East of England -22 47 £463 -7.50% 67
North East -11 12 £475 +5.56% 29
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
1 138 (9.27%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.90%) Confluence
3 53 (3.56%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.22%) Apache
5 28 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.01%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.67%) Mendix
8 8 (0.54%) Apache Superset
8 8 (0.54%) SAS
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.067%) IIS
14 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.067%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 305 (20.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.96%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (2.28%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.20%) Notion
7 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.13%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.13%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.067%) CATIA
9 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.067%) InDesign
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 38 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.87%) iTrent
3 13 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.27%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.13%) Actimize
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.13%) Loan IQ
9 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 1,489 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 554 (37.21%) Azure
3 201 (13.50%) AWS
4 181 (12.16%) Power Automate
5 156 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 150 (10.07%) PowerApps
7 140 (9.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
9 125 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
10 110 (7.39%) Dynamics 365
11 96 (6.45%) GCP
12 92 (6.18%) Snowflake
13 74 (4.97%) Serverless
14 70 (4.70%) Microsoft Copilot
15 60 (4.03%) GitHub
16 51 (3.43%) Amazon S3
17 48 (3.22%) Copilot Studio
18 43 (2.89%) dbt
19 39 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
20 38 (2.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.60%) Firewall
1 9 (0.60%) VPN
2 4 (0.27%) DNS
2 4 (0.27%) HTTP
3 3 (0.20%) 5G
3 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.20%) LTE
3 3 (0.20%) Network Security
3 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.13%) Intranet
4 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (0.13%) MPLS
4 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.13%) SMTP
4 2 (0.13%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (17.46%) Tableau
2 220 (14.78%) Data Warehouse
3 138 (9.27%) Data Lake
4 113 (7.59%) SQL Server
5 92 (6.18%) Power Query
6 77 (5.17%) Metadata
7 59 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 55 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (3.36%) Looker
10 48 (3.22%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.82%) Star Schema
12 41 (2.75%) Relational Database
12 41 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (2.42%) Delta Lake
14 35 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (2.15%) NoSQL
16 30 (2.01%) Spark SQL
16 30 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 29 (1.95%) Mixpanel
18 26 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 122 (8.19%) JIRA
2 77 (5.17%) Git
3 17 (1.14%) GitLab
4 13 (0.87%) ERwin
4 13 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.40%) MLflow
6 5 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.27%) Postman
7 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.067%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.067%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.067%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.067%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 479 (32.17%) Finance
2 473 (31.77%) Social Skills
3 368 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 103 (6.92%) Banking
6 51 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.22%) Law
8 47 (3.16%) Retail
9 43 (2.89%) Marketing
9 43 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.34%) Legal
13 20 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.01%) Front Office
16 14 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.94%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 400 (26.86%) Analyst
2 239 (16.05%) Data Engineer
3 204 (13.70%) Developer
4 177 (11.89%) Senior
5 176 (11.82%) Data Analyst
6 152 (10.21%) Lead
7 140 (9.40%) Architect
8 101 (6.78%) Business Analyst
9 86 (5.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 73 (4.90%) Consultant
11 65 (4.37%) Power BI Developer
12 49 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
13 47 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
14 43 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 41 (2.75%) Data Architect
15 41 (2.75%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.62%) PMO Analyst
17 36 (2.42%) Lead Architect
18 34 (2.28%) Power Platform Developer
19 33 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.71%) PySpark
2 44 (2.96%) Kafka
3 43 (2.89%) REST
4 33 (2.22%) .NET
5 31 (2.08%) Pandas
6 22 (1.48%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.41%) JSON
8 20 (1.34%) Great Expectations
8 20 (1.34%) HTML
9 18 (1.21%) React
10 15 (1.01%) ADO
10 15 (1.01%) NumPy
10 15 (1.01%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.01%) TensorFlow
10 15 (1.01%) XML
11 14 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (0.94%) YAML
12 13 (0.87%) CSS
12 13 (0.87%) Spark Streaming
13 12 (0.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 56 (3.76%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.56%) Data Structures
3 51 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 34 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.88%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.75%) Low-Code
9 23 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.21%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.14%) CMDB
12 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.07%) PMI
13 14 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.81%) Clustering
15 11 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (0.67%) NHS
17 9 (0.60%) IoT
18 8 (0.54%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.28%) Windows
2 10 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.34%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.067%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,388 (93.22%) Business Intelligence
2 601 (40.36%) Analytics
3 478 (32.10%) Data Modelling
4 326 (21.89%) Agile
5 322 (21.63%) ETL
5 322 (21.63%) Visualisation
6 310 (20.82%) Decision-Making
7 277 (18.60%) Data Governance
8 276 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
9 241 (16.19%) Data Engineering
10 231 (15.51%) DevOps
11 227 (15.25%) Data Pipeline
12 223 (14.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 219 (14.71%) AI
14 211 (14.17%) CI/CD
15 209 (14.04%) Migration
16 205 (13.77%) Actionable Insight
17 202 (13.57%) Data Visualisation
17 202 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
18 201 (13.50%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 711 (47.75%) SQL
2 395 (26.53%) Python
3 151 (10.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (4.57%) C#
5 59 (3.96%) R
6 54 (3.63%) JavaScript
7 51 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.62%) T-SQL
8 39 (2.62%) VBA
9 34 (2.28%) Java
10 24 (1.61%) Bicep
11 21 (1.41%) Scala
12 12 (0.81%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.74%) Formula Language
13 11 (0.74%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.27%) C
17 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
17 3 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 248 (16.66%) Security Cleared
2 194 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 143 (9.60%) Degree
4 33 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 31 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.68%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.54%) PMP
9 12 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.74%) MBA
11 10 (0.67%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.40%) ACCA
13 6 (0.40%) CBAP
13 6 (0.40%) IIBA
13 6 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.34%) CIMA
15 4 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (23.51%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.86%) GDPR
3 96 (6.45%) PMO
4 83 (5.57%) QA
5 35 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.07%) SLA
7 15 (1.01%) GRC
7 15 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.74%) Basel III
10 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.27%) NCSC
11 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.20%) P3O
12 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (2.15%) Docker
2 31 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.067%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (5.04%) Terraform
2 39 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.54%) Grafana
5 6 (0.40%) SCCM
6 5 (0.34%) Ansible
6 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Kibana
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
8 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.067%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.067%) SCOM
9 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.067%) WSUS
Vendors
1 503 (33.78%) Microsoft
2 205 (13.77%) Databricks
3 80 (5.37%) SAP
4 78 (5.24%) Oracle
5 76 (5.10%) ServiceNow
6 62 (4.16%) Google
7 40 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 33 (2.22%) Informatica
9 23 (1.54%) Workday
10 19 (1.28%) Foundry
11 15 (1.01%) Lotus
12 14 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.94%) Sage
13 13 (0.87%) Remedy
14 11 (0.74%) Alteryx
14 11 (0.74%) IFS
14 11 (0.74%) Talend
15 10 (0.67%) Adobe
15 10 (0.67%) Kofax
16 9 (0.60%) Planview
849 Power BI jobs in England