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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 64 58
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,564 920 1,240
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 3.75% 3.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.07% 19.87% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 599 885
10th Percentile £331 £310 £300
25th Percentile £406 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £575
90th Percentile £650 £651 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 30 28
10th Percentile £16.42 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.50 £15.96
Median hourly rate £30.75 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +25.22% -37.26%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.02 £53.75 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -8.34% +32.82% -35.61%

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 6,498 4,631 6,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.89% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,418 3,206 4,613
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 90 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.69 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.00 £33.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% -16.26% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £65.62 £53.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.62 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £34.99 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.21% -12.53% -31.73%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +8 803 £500 - 314
South East +12 220 £500 +8.11% 188
Midlands 0 186 £463 -7.50% 117
North of England -30 168 £463 +2.78% 141
West Midlands -16 129 £459 -8.20% 75
South West +11 95 £450 +10.02% 70
North West -4 92 £475 - 91
Yorkshire -46 60 £439 +3.29% 40
East Midlands +14 56 £464 +6.00% 42
East of England -11 40 £400 -20.00% 41
North East -25 17 £450 - 11
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
1 120 (7.67%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.48%) Confluence
3 45 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.85%) Apache
5 27 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (1.15%) SAS
7 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.58%) HCL Notes
9 8 (0.51%) Apache Superset
9 8 (0.51%) Mendix
10 7 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.26%) CMS
11 4 (0.26%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.19%) Kentico
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.064%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 297 (18.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.96%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.064%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.064%) CATIA
9 1 (0.064%) InDesign
9 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.064%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.96%) iTrent
5 6 (0.38%) Primavera
5 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.38%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
10 1 (0.064%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,564 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 577 (36.89%) Azure
3 198 (12.66%) AWS
4 152 (9.72%) Power Automate
5 150 (9.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 141 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
7 132 (8.44%) PowerApps
8 126 (8.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 108 (6.91%) Snowflake
10 107 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
11 93 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
12 77 (4.92%) Serverless
13 76 (4.86%) GCP
14 74 (4.73%) Microsoft Copilot
15 63 (4.03%) GitHub
16 57 (3.64%) dbt
17 54 (3.45%) Amazon S3
18 45 (2.88%) Copilot Studio
19 42 (2.69%) Entra ID
19 42 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.96%) Firewall
2 12 (0.77%) VPN
3 9 (0.58%) DNS
4 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.19%) Network Security
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) LTE
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) NAS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SAN
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (16.50%) Data Warehouse
2 248 (15.86%) Tableau
3 158 (10.10%) Data Lake
4 124 (7.93%) SQL Server
5 112 (7.16%) Power Query
6 71 (4.54%) Metadata
7 56 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.26%) Relational Database
10 50 (3.20%) Star Schema
11 46 (2.94%) Looker
12 44 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (2.30%) Spark SQL
14 34 (2.17%) BigQuery
15 33 (2.11%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
17 30 (1.92%) NoSQL
18 24 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
18 24 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 136 (8.70%) JIRA
2 74 (4.73%) Git
3 28 (1.79%) GitLab
4 13 (0.83%) ERwin
5 10 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.32%) MLflow
6 5 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.26%) JUnit
8 3 (0.19%) Postman
8 3 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.064%) Hudson
General
1 478 (30.56%) Finance
2 468 (29.92%) Social Skills
3 352 (22.51%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (8.31%) Public Sector
5 107 (6.84%) Banking
6 55 (3.52%) Retail
7 53 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.07%) Law
9 44 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (2.62%) Marketing
11 28 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.28%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.28%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.21%) Local Government
16 18 (1.15%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.15%) Legal
17 14 (0.90%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 410 (26.21%) Analyst
2 265 (16.94%) Data Engineer
3 212 (13.55%) Developer
4 192 (12.28%) Senior
5 188 (12.02%) Data Analyst
6 168 (10.74%) Architect
7 149 (9.53%) Lead
8 110 (7.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 85 (5.43%) Business Analyst
10 84 (5.37%) Power BI Developer
11 71 (4.54%) Senior Data Engineer
12 67 (4.28%) Consultant
13 61 (3.90%) Data Architect
14 49 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 46 (2.94%) Project Manager
16 40 (2.56%) Lead Architect
17 37 (2.37%) Power Platform Developer
18 36 (2.30%) Senior Developer
19 34 (2.17%) Power BI Analyst
19 34 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.07%) PySpark
2 51 (3.26%) REST
3 39 (2.49%) .NET
4 38 (2.43%) Kafka
5 24 (1.53%) Pandas
6 21 (1.34%) JSON
6 21 (1.34%) React
7 20 (1.28%) HTML
8 19 (1.21%) Middleware
9 15 (0.96%) CSS
10 14 (0.90%) Great Expectations
10 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (0.83%) YAML
12 12 (0.77%) ADO
12 12 (0.77%) XML
13 11 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (0.51%) JDO
15 7 (0.45%) RESTful
15 7 (0.45%) Spark Streaming
15 7 (0.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.73%) Cloud Native
2 62 (3.96%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
4 37 (2.37%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.47%) CMDB
8 22 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 18 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.90%) Clustering
12 14 (0.90%) NHS
13 13 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.77%) IoT
14 12 (0.77%) PKI
15 11 (0.70%) Reference Data
16 10 (0.64%) FMCG
16 10 (0.64%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.98%) Windows
2 17 (1.09%) Windows Server
3 10 (0.64%) Unix
4 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.51%) Linux
6 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.26%) Android
7 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,453 (92.90%) Business Intelligence
2 651 (41.62%) Analytics
3 514 (32.86%) Data Modelling
4 364 (23.27%) Agile
5 350 (22.38%) ETL
6 320 (20.46%) Decision-Making
6 320 (20.46%) Visualisation
7 284 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
8 276 (17.65%) AI
9 263 (16.82%) Data Engineering
10 262 (16.75%) Data Pipeline
11 256 (16.37%) Data Governance
12 255 (16.30%) DevOps
13 253 (16.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 233 (14.90%) CI/CD
15 229 (14.64%) Migration
16 225 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
17 214 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
18 199 (12.72%) Data Visualisation
19 194 (12.40%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 741 (47.38%) SQL
2 381 (24.36%) Python
3 182 (11.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 71 (4.54%) PowerShell
5 65 (4.16%) C#
6 64 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 57 (3.64%) T-SQL
8 49 (3.13%) R
9 41 (2.62%) Java
10 25 (1.60%) VBA
11 20 (1.28%) Bicep
12 14 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 13 (0.83%) Scala
14 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.38%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.38%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.38%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.32%) C
17 4 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 267 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 209 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 139 (8.89%) Degree
4 39 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.28%) PMI Certification
10 19 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.15%) PMP
12 17 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.02%) DV Cleared
14 11 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.38%) ACCA
15 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.38%) CISSP
16 5 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
16 5 (0.32%) SnowPro
16 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (23.66%) Data Quality
2 109 (6.97%) GDPR
3 87 (5.56%) PMO
4 73 (4.67%) QA
5 29 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.02%) SLA
7 15 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.70%) GRC
10 8 (0.51%) Basel III
10 8 (0.51%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.32%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.26%) P3O
14 3 (0.19%) GAAP
14 3 (0.19%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) NCSC
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 47 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.41%) Docker
3 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.064%) RACF
5 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.92%) Terraform
2 26 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.15%) Grafana
4 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 7 (0.45%) Ansible
7 5 (0.32%) Control-M
7 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.064%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.064%) Kibana
10 1 (0.064%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.064%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.064%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.064%) WSUS
Vendors
1 531 (33.95%) Microsoft
2 205 (13.11%) Databricks
3 96 (6.14%) SAP
4 81 (5.18%) ServiceNow
5 78 (4.99%) Oracle
6 49 (3.13%) Google
7 40 (2.56%) Informatica
8 28 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.53%) Workday
10 22 (1.41%) Remedy
11 20 (1.28%) Splunk
12 17 (1.09%) Alteryx
13 15 (0.96%) Foundry
14 14 (0.90%) Adobe
14 14 (0.90%) IFS
15 13 (0.83%) Talend
16 12 (0.77%) Dynatrace
17 11 (0.70%) Denodo
18 10 (0.64%) BMC
18 10 (0.64%) Sage