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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 62 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,507 887 1,212
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.70% 3.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.10% 19.47% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 588 870
10th Percentile £319 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £583
90th Percentile £650 £657 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 26 27
10th Percentile £15.75 £18.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £24.81 £18.33
Median hourly rate £28.03 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +25.22% -48.45%
75th Percentile £38.06 £33.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £44.38 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £23.21 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -26.64% +29.51% -39.68%

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 4,555 6,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.14% 18.99% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,283 3,174 4,497
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 £653 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 86 134
10th Percentile £14.77 £21.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.45 £23.69 £20.82
Median hourly rate £43.75 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.91% -18.93% -28.19%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.46 £58.44
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.88 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £45.90 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +32.75% -13.56% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +4 761 £500 - 263
South East +16 209 £500 +6.67% 197
Midlands -6 192 £450 -10.00% 86
North of England -31 154 £461 +2.36% 130
West Midlands -15 130 £450 -10.00% 60
South West +10 93 £450 +5.88% 49
North West -11 85 £480 -0.26% 70
East Midlands +16 61 £450 -7.69% 26
Yorkshire -43 55 £440 +3.53% 46
East of England -16 40 £400 -20.00% 44
North East -21 15 £463 +2.78% 17
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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
1 125 (8.29%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.58%) Confluence
3 50 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.06%) Apache
5 25 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.06%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.86%) SAS
8 12 (0.80%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.27%) CMS
12 4 (0.27%) IIS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.066%) Appian
14 1 (0.066%) Camunda
14 1 (0.066%) Kentico
14 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
Applications
1 297 (19.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.27%) Revit
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.066%) CATIA
10 1 (0.066%) InDesign
10 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 30 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 18 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (1.00%) iTrent
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.27%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
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%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
10 1 (0.066%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1,507 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 544 (36.10%) Azure
3 190 (12.61%) AWS
4 164 (10.88%) Power Automate
5 151 (10.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 137 (9.09%) PowerApps
7 136 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 134 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
9 116 (7.70%) Microsoft 365
10 95 (6.30%) Snowflake
11 90 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
12 86 (5.71%) GCP
13 68 (4.51%) Serverless
14 64 (4.25%) Microsoft Copilot
15 61 (4.05%) GitHub
16 51 (3.38%) Amazon S3
17 44 (2.92%) Copilot Studio
17 44 (2.92%) dbt
18 39 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
19 38 (2.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.86%) Firewall
2 11 (0.73%) VPN
3 8 (0.53%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) 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%) Internet
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%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.066%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (17.39%) Tableau
2 233 (15.46%) Data Warehouse
3 145 (9.62%) Data Lake
4 118 (7.83%) SQL Server
5 100 (6.64%) Power Query
6 70 (4.64%) Metadata
7 55 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 50 (3.32%) Looker
10 47 (3.12%) BigQuery
11 45 (2.99%) Star Schema
12 44 (2.92%) Relational Database
13 39 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 35 (2.32%) Spark SQL
16 33 (2.19%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.92%) Mixpanel
18 28 (1.86%) NoSQL
19 26 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
20 24 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 133 (8.83%) JIRA
2 68 (4.51%) Git
3 24 (1.59%) GitLab
4 14 (0.93%) ERwin
5 8 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
6 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.066%) GCC
10 1 (0.066%) Hudson
10 1 (0.066%) NeoLoad
General
1 458 (30.39%) Finance
2 456 (30.26%) Social Skills
3 355 (23.56%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 91 (6.04%) Banking
6 50 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.19%) Law
8 45 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 45 (2.99%) Retail
9 43 (2.85%) Marketing
10 26 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.26%) Legal
13 19 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.13%) Local Government
16 15 (1.00%) Investment Banking
17 14 (0.93%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 406 (26.94%) Analyst
2 248 (16.46%) Data Engineer
3 198 (13.14%) Developer
4 189 (12.54%) Data Analyst
5 184 (12.21%) Senior
6 156 (10.35%) Architect
7 142 (9.42%) Lead
8 96 (6.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 95 (6.30%) Business Analyst
10 74 (4.91%) Power BI Developer
11 68 (4.51%) Consultant
12 61 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
13 55 (3.65%) Data Architect
14 45 (2.99%) Project Manager
15 41 (2.72%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 41 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
16 39 (2.59%) Power Platform Developer
17 36 (2.39%) Lead Architect
18 35 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
19 34 (2.26%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.97%) PySpark
2 48 (3.19%) REST
3 42 (2.79%) Kafka
4 32 (2.12%) .NET
5 25 (1.66%) Pandas
6 20 (1.33%) React
7 19 (1.26%) JSON
8 18 (1.19%) Great Expectations
9 17 (1.13%) HTML
10 14 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (0.86%) ADO
11 13 (0.86%) Middleware
12 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.80%) YAML
13 11 (0.73%) CSS
13 11 (0.73%) XML
14 10 (0.66%) Spark Streaming
15 9 (0.60%) scikit-learn
16 8 (0.53%) PyTorch
16 8 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 68 (4.51%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 50 (3.32%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 29 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.73%) Low-Code
9 21 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.26%) CMDB
11 16 (1.06%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.93%) PMI
14 13 (0.86%) Clustering
15 12 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (0.73%) NHS
17 10 (0.66%) Algorithms
17 10 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
18 9 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.66%) Windows
2 15 (1.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.33%) Linux
4 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.33%) Unix
5 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.13%) Android
6 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,406 (93.30%) Business Intelligence
2 607 (40.28%) Analytics
3 496 (32.91%) Data Modelling
4 348 (23.09%) Agile
5 332 (22.03%) ETL
6 321 (21.30%) Decision-Making
7 308 (20.44%) Visualisation
8 273 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
9 264 (17.52%) Data Governance
10 248 (16.46%) Data Engineering
11 244 (16.19%) DevOps
12 241 (15.99%) Data Pipeline
13 238 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 232 (15.39%) AI
15 223 (14.80%) Migration
16 216 (14.33%) CI/CD
17 208 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 195 (12.94%) Actionable Insight
18 195 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
19 193 (12.81%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 707 (46.91%) SQL
2 382 (25.35%) Python
3 171 (11.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 63 (4.18%) PowerShell
5 62 (4.11%) C#
6 59 (3.92%) R
7 54 (3.58%) JavaScript
8 48 (3.19%) T-SQL
9 38 (2.52%) Java
10 29 (1.92%) VBA
11 20 (1.33%) Bicep
12 18 (1.19%) Scala
13 12 (0.80%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.66%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.66%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.27%) C
17 4 (0.27%) Korn
18 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 252 (16.72%) Security Cleared
2 193 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 140 (9.29%) Degree
4 36 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (1.73%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.53%) PMP
8 22 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 9 (0.60%) MBA
13 7 (0.46%) CBAP
13 7 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.40%) ACCA
15 5 (0.33%) CISSP
15 5 (0.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (24.29%) Data Quality
2 111 (7.37%) GDPR
3 90 (5.97%) PMO
4 80 (5.31%) QA
5 34 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.06%) SLA
7 14 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.73%) GRC
9 10 (0.66%) Basel III
10 6 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.27%) P3O
12 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS
13 3 (0.20%) NCSC
14 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.73%) Docker
3 6 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) HDFS
6 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.066%) RACF
6 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.91%) Terraform
2 32 (2.12%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.13%) Grafana
4 8 (0.53%) SCCM
5 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.33%) Ansible
7 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.066%) Kibana
10 1 (0.066%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.066%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 494 (32.78%) Microsoft
2 203 (13.47%) Databricks
3 88 (5.84%) SAP
4 82 (5.44%) Oracle
5 77 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 55 (3.65%) Google
7 37 (2.46%) Informatica
8 25 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.59%) Workday
10 21 (1.39%) Remedy
11 18 (1.19%) Splunk
12 16 (1.06%) Lotus
13 14 (0.93%) Foundry
13 14 (0.93%) IFS
13 14 (0.93%) Talend
14 13 (0.86%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.80%) Kofax
16 11 (0.73%) Adobe
16 11 (0.73%) Denodo
16 11 (0.73%) Dynatrace
671 Power BI jobs in England