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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 62 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,605 949 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 3.78% 3.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.23% 20.23% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 616 899
10th Percentile £331 £308 £300
25th Percentile £405 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £581
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.58% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 30 28
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.50 £15.96
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +25.22% -40.09%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.40 £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 6,625 4,690 6,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.26% 18.68% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,490 3,258 4,685
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £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 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 84 142
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.63 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £33.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% -16.26% -30.43%
75th Percentile £71.13 £62.44 £51.87
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.25 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £34.99 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.89% -12.53% -30.43%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +2 812 £500 - 199
South East +15 231 £475 +5.56% 165
Midlands +2 191 £461 -3.00% 94
North of England -31 182 £455 +1.46% 123
West Midlands -11 135 £450 -8.63% 52
North West -6 105 £463 -2.63% 70
South West -6 98 £450 +10.02% 55
Yorkshire -47 62 £438 +3.06% 41
East Midlands +22 55 £475 +8.57% 42
East of England -18 40 £413 -17.50% 38
North East -27 16 £438 -2.78% 15
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
1 134 (8.35%) SharePoint
2 72 (4.49%) Confluence
3 40 (2.49%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.74%) Apache
6 19 (1.18%) SAS
7 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Superset
8 8 (0.50%) HCL Notes
9 7 (0.44%) Mendix
9 7 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.31%) CMS
11 4 (0.25%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.19%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.062%) Appian
14 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 318 (19.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Notion
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.062%) CATIA
9 1 (0.062%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.062%) InDesign
9 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 17 (1.06%) iTrent
5 9 (0.56%) Primavera
6 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.12%) Maximo
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
10 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,605 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 592 (36.88%) Azure
3 215 (13.40%) AWS
4 168 (10.47%) Power Automate
5 147 (9.16%) PowerApps
6 143 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (8.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 122 (7.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 115 (7.17%) Snowflake
10 110 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
11 95 (5.92%) Dynamics 365
12 82 (5.11%) Serverless
13 78 (4.86%) GCP
14 76 (4.74%) Microsoft Copilot
15 62 (3.86%) dbt
16 60 (3.74%) GitHub
17 59 (3.68%) Amazon S3
18 47 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
19 45 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
20 43 (2.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.00%) Firewall
2 13 (0.81%) VPN
3 10 (0.62%) DNS
4 4 (0.25%) Network Security
5 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.12%) 4G
6 2 (0.12%) 5G
6 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
6 2 (0.12%) Intranet
6 2 (0.12%) LTE
6 2 (0.12%) Microwave Backhaul
6 2 (0.12%) MPLS
6 2 (0.12%) NAS
6 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.12%) SAN
6 2 (0.12%) SMTP
6 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (16.20%) Data Warehouse
2 259 (16.14%) Tableau
3 146 (9.10%) Data Lake
4 120 (7.48%) Power Query
5 115 (7.17%) SQL Server
6 73 (4.55%) Metadata
7 54 (3.36%) Star Schema
8 52 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 52 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.18%) Looker
9 51 (3.18%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
11 39 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
12 36 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (2.18%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.99%) Spark SQL
15 30 (1.87%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.81%) NoSQL
16 29 (1.81%) Semantic Layer
17 27 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 142 (8.85%) JIRA
2 71 (4.42%) Git
3 29 (1.81%) GitLab
4 14 (0.87%) ERwin
5 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.31%) MLflow
6 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.25%) JUnit
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) JMeter
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.062%) RStudio
General
1 503 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 489 (30.47%) Finance
3 368 (22.93%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.04%) Banking
6 64 (3.99%) Retail
7 51 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.12%) Law
9 48 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 41 (2.55%) Marketing
12 33 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.37%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.25%) Local Government
17 19 (1.18%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.18%) Legal
18 18 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 15 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 417 (25.98%) Analyst
2 255 (15.89%) Data Engineer
3 223 (13.89%) Developer
4 200 (12.46%) Data Analyst
5 191 (11.90%) Senior
6 178 (11.09%) Architect
7 150 (9.35%) Lead
8 111 (6.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 90 (5.61%) Power BI Developer
10 86 (5.36%) Business Analyst
11 67 (4.17%) Consultant
12 66 (4.11%) Data Architect
12 66 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
13 47 (2.93%) Project Manager
14 46 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 44 (2.74%) Power Platform Developer
16 39 (2.43%) Lead Architect
17 36 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
18 34 (2.12%) Senior Developer
18 34 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (6.23%) PySpark
2 55 (3.43%) REST
3 41 (2.55%) .NET
4 33 (2.06%) Kafka
5 23 (1.43%) JSON
6 22 (1.37%) Pandas
7 20 (1.25%) React
8 19 (1.18%) Middleware
9 18 (1.12%) HTML
10 14 (0.87%) CSS
10 14 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (0.81%) XML
11 13 (0.81%) YAML
12 12 (0.75%) ADO
12 12 (0.75%) Great Expectations
13 8 (0.50%) JDO
13 8 (0.50%) RESTful
14 7 (0.44%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.42%) Cloud Native
1 71 (4.42%) Data Structures
2 45 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
2 45 (2.80%) Product Ownership
3 44 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 36 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 34 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 24 (1.50%) CMDB
6 24 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (1.37%) Low-Code
8 18 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 15 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (0.87%) Clustering
10 14 (0.87%) FMCG
11 13 (0.81%) NHS
12 12 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (0.75%) IoT
12 12 (0.75%) PKI
12 12 (0.75%) Reference Data
13 10 (0.62%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.99%) Windows
2 17 (1.06%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.56%) Unix
4 8 (0.50%) Linux
5 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.25%) Android
6 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,495 (93.15%) Business Intelligence
2 675 (42.06%) Analytics
3 526 (32.77%) Data Modelling
4 380 (23.68%) Agile
5 348 (21.68%) ETL
6 340 (21.18%) Decision-Making
7 335 (20.87%) Visualisation
8 292 (18.19%) AI
9 291 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (16.76%) Data Engineering
10 269 (16.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 267 (16.64%) Data Pipeline
12 261 (16.26%) DevOps
13 259 (16.14%) Data Governance
14 246 (15.33%) Migration
14 246 (15.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 241 (15.02%) CI/CD
16 228 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 210 (13.08%) Validation
18 207 (12.90%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 755 (47.04%) SQL
2 395 (24.61%) Python
3 189 (11.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (4.30%) JavaScript
4 69 (4.30%) PowerShell
5 66 (4.11%) C#
6 58 (3.61%) T-SQL
7 49 (3.05%) R
8 42 (2.62%) Java
9 26 (1.62%) VBA
10 20 (1.25%) Bicep
11 16 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.75%) Scala
14 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.31%) C
16 5 (0.31%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.31%) LotusScript
17 4 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 275 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 214 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 150 (9.35%) Degree
4 40 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.68%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.18%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.00%) PMP
12 12 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) CISSP
14 6 (0.37%) ACCA
14 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.25%) CBAP
15 4 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (23.86%) Data Quality
2 110 (6.85%) GDPR
3 93 (5.79%) PMO
4 73 (4.55%) QA
5 31 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (0.87%) SLA
8 12 (0.75%) GRC
9 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.37%) Basel III
10 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.37%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.25%) P3O
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) NCSC
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 48 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.25%) Docker
3 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.062%) RACF
5 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (4.86%) Terraform
2 25 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.18%) Grafana
4 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.56%) SCCM
6 7 (0.44%) Ansible
7 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) Control-M
9 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.062%) Kibana
11 1 (0.062%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.062%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.062%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.062%) WSUS
Vendors
1 560 (34.89%) Microsoft
2 203 (12.65%) Databricks
3 105 (6.54%) SAP
4 83 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.74%) Oracle
6 48 (2.99%) Google
7 43 (2.68%) Informatica
8 31 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.43%) Workday
10 22 (1.37%) Remedy
11 21 (1.31%) Splunk
12 20 (1.25%) Alteryx
13 15 (0.93%) Adobe
13 15 (0.93%) Foundry
14 14 (0.87%) IFS
14 14 (0.87%) Talend
15 13 (0.81%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.69%) BMC
16 11 (0.69%) Denodo
17 10 (0.62%) Palantir