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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 56 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,510 913 1,171
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.75% 3.76% 3.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.15% 19.75% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 621 838
10th Percentile £313 £313 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £492
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -3.36% -1.70%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £588
90th Percentile £645 £660 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 27 28
10th Percentile £16.28 £18.64 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £24.88 £15.51
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -57.79%
75th Percentile £46.25 £33.10 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £23.82
% change year-on-year -5.40% +22.03% -56.69%

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 6,253 4,622 6,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.54% 19.02% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,327 3,247 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £359 £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% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 92 131
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.78 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.59% -18.93% -31.09%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £56.74
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.01% -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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +1 784 £500 +2.04% 199
South East +2 197 £475 +2.70% 191
Midlands -7 175 £450 -8.63% 113
North of England -34 155 £450 - 135
West Midlands -24 109 £455 -9.10% 80
South West +5 86 £450 +5.88% 49
North West -14 81 £463 -11.90% 83
East Midlands +6 65 £425 -12.82% 33
Yorkshire -45 61 £438 +3.06% 37
East of England -24 45 £425 -15.00% 40
North East -8 13 £475 +5.56% 18
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
1 131 (8.68%) SharePoint
2 65 (4.30%) Confluence
3 51 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.05%) Apache
5 27 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.13%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.86%) SAS
8 12 (0.79%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.20%) IIS
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.066%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 316 (20.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.84%) Microsoft Project
3 53 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.19%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.26%) Revit
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.13%) Trello
10 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.066%) CATIA
10 1 (0.066%) InDesign
10 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 37 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.86%) iTrent
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
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
Cloud Services
1 1,510 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 558 (36.95%) Azure
3 195 (12.91%) AWS
4 181 (11.99%) Power Automate
5 160 (10.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 149 (9.87%) PowerApps
7 142 (9.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 130 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
9 126 (8.34%) Microsoft 365
10 103 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
11 95 (6.29%) GCP
12 92 (6.09%) Snowflake
13 77 (5.10%) Serverless
14 71 (4.70%) Microsoft Copilot
15 62 (4.11%) GitHub
16 52 (3.44%) Amazon S3
17 46 (3.05%) Copilot Studio
18 44 (2.91%) dbt
19 38 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
20 36 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.79%) Firewall
1 12 (0.79%) VPN
2 7 (0.46%) DNS
3 4 (0.26%) HTTP
4 3 (0.20%) 5G
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) LTE
4 3 (0.20%) Network Security
4 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (17.35%) Tableau
2 231 (15.30%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (9.74%) Data Lake
4 112 (7.42%) SQL Server
5 94 (6.23%) Power Query
6 77 (5.10%) Metadata
7 61 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 58 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 49 (3.25%) Looker
10 47 (3.11%) BigQuery
11 45 (2.98%) Star Schema
12 40 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
13 39 (2.58%) Relational Database
14 38 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (2.25%) Delta Lake
16 32 (2.12%) NoSQL
17 31 (2.05%) Spark SQL
18 30 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
19 29 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 27 (1.79%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 132 (8.74%) JIRA
2 73 (4.83%) Git
3 22 (1.46%) GitLab
4 13 (0.86%) ERwin
5 11 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.40%) MLflow
7 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.26%) Postman
9 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.20%) Selenium
9 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.13%) JMeter
10 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.066%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.066%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 485 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 484 (32.05%) Finance
3 364 (24.11%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.29%) Banking
6 52 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
6 52 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (3.18%) Law
8 45 (2.98%) Retail
9 42 (2.78%) Marketing
10 28 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.32%) Legal
14 19 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.19%) Local Government
16 16 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.86%) Front Office
17 13 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 403 (26.69%) Analyst
2 246 (16.29%) Data Engineer
3 201 (13.31%) Developer
4 184 (12.19%) Senior
5 178 (11.79%) Data Analyst
6 144 (9.54%) Architect
7 143 (9.47%) Lead
8 92 (6.09%) Business Analyst
8 92 (6.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 71 (4.70%) Consultant
10 69 (4.57%) Power BI Developer
11 56 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
12 46 (3.05%) Project Manager
12 46 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (2.91%) Data Architect
14 43 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 39 (2.58%) Power Platform Developer
16 37 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
16 37 (2.45%) PMO Analyst
17 36 (2.38%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.70%) PySpark
2 42 (2.78%) Kafka
3 40 (2.65%) REST
4 34 (2.25%) .NET
5 26 (1.72%) Pandas
6 22 (1.46%) JSON
7 18 (1.19%) Great Expectations
7 18 (1.19%) React
7 18 (1.19%) scikit-learn
8 16 (1.06%) HTML
9 15 (0.99%) ADO
9 15 (0.99%) XML
10 14 (0.93%) PyTorch
10 14 (0.93%) TensorFlow
10 14 (0.93%) YAML
11 13 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (0.86%) Spark Streaming
12 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.79%) Middleware
13 10 (0.66%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 58 (3.84%) Cloud Native
1 58 (3.84%) Data Structures
2 52 (3.44%) Product Ownership
3 38 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 30 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 27 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.66%) Low-Code
8 24 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.19%) CMDB
10 16 (1.06%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 15 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.93%) PMI
13 13 (0.86%) Clustering
14 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.66%) NHS
16 9 (0.60%) Data Fabric
16 9 (0.60%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.32%) Windows
2 12 (0.79%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.33%) Unix
3 5 (0.33%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.13%) Android
5 2 (0.13%) Linux
5 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.066%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,405 (93.05%) Business Intelligence
2 613 (40.60%) Analytics
3 491 (32.52%) Data Modelling
4 343 (22.72%) Agile
5 320 (21.19%) ETL
6 318 (21.06%) Visualisation
7 315 (20.86%) Decision-Making
8 283 (18.74%) Data Governance
9 276 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
10 243 (16.09%) Data Engineering
10 243 (16.09%) DevOps
11 236 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
12 233 (15.43%) AI
13 222 (14.70%) CI/CD
14 220 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 217 (14.37%) Migration
16 211 (13.97%) Actionable Insight
17 202 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 199 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
19 195 (12.91%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 716 (47.42%) SQL
2 403 (26.69%) Python
3 158 (10.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 66 (4.37%) C#
4 66 (4.37%) R
5 55 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 51 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 39 (2.58%) T-SQL
8 38 (2.52%) Java
9 36 (2.38%) VBA
10 24 (1.59%) Bicep
11 20 (1.32%) Scala
12 12 (0.79%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.73%) Formula Language
13 11 (0.73%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.26%) C
17 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
17 3 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 259 (17.15%) Security Cleared
2 201 (13.31%) SC Cleared
3 148 (9.80%) Degree
4 33 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.52%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.52%) PMP
10 12 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.73%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.66%) MBA
13 9 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.46%) ACCA
16 6 (0.40%) CBAP
16 6 (0.40%) CIMA
17 5 (0.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (23.51%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.75%) GDPR
3 95 (6.29%) PMO
4 86 (5.70%) QA
5 32 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.06%) SLA
7 15 (0.99%) GRC
7 15 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.73%) Basel III
10 9 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
13 4 (0.26%) P3O
13 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
14 3 (0.20%) IFRS
14 3 (0.20%) NCSC
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 33 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.12%) Docker
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) HDFS
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.066%) RACF
Systems Management
1 83 (5.50%) Terraform
2 39 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.06%) Grafana
4 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.46%) SCCM
6 5 (0.33%) Ansible
6 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.20%) Control-M
7 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
8 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.066%) Kibana
9 1 (0.066%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.066%) SCOM
9 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.066%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 511 (33.84%) Microsoft
2 202 (13.38%) Databricks
3 88 (5.83%) SAP
4 83 (5.50%) Oracle
5 77 (5.10%) ServiceNow
6 59 (3.91%) Google
7 38 (2.52%) Informatica
8 35 (2.32%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.46%) Workday
10 18 (1.19%) Foundry
11 17 (1.13%) Lotus
12 15 (0.99%) Remedy
13 14 (0.93%) Sage
14 13 (0.86%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.86%) Splunk
15 12 (0.79%) IFS
15 12 (0.79%) Kofax
16 11 (0.73%) Denodo
16 11 (0.73%) Talend
17 10 (0.66%) Alteryx