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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,393 947 1,213
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.84% 3.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.92% 20.02% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 660 854
10th Percentile £325 £313 £291
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% - -
75th Percentile £582 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.02% +3.68% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 37
10th Percentile £14.03 £18.79 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.81 £15.59
Median hourly rate £23.03 £27.31 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% +17.65% -61.31%
75th Percentile £40.75 £32.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £68.90 £59.05 £62.70
UK median hourly rate £22.52 £27.24 £23.22
% change year-on-year -17.34% +17.33% -60.49%

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 5,823 4,730 6,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.04% 19.16% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,042 3,296 4,409
10th Percentile £345 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £751
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 87 161
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.21 £14.36
25th Percentile £26.31 £24.25 £20.82
Median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -13.58% -32.50%
75th Percentile £74.92 £64.86 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.18 £70.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.93% -29.57%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +3 761 £500 - 217
Midlands -18 154 £450 -8.16% 115
South East -9 153 £500 +8.11% 213
North of England -43 143 £438 -11.72% 152
West Midlands -26 100 £475 -5.00% 82
North West -28 80 £425 -19.05% 84
South West +8 69 £488 +8.33% 65
East Midlands +1 53 £393 -15.14% 33
Yorkshire -51 52 £450 +9.76% 50
East of England -9 49 £500 +8.11% 41
North East -6 11 £500 +11.11% 22
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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
1 123 (8.83%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.66%) Confluence
3 48 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.15%) Apache
5 26 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.08%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.72%) Mendix
7 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.36%) SAS
10 4 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.22%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.072%) IIS
13 1 (0.072%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 276 (19.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.22%) Notion
7 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.072%) CATIA
9 1 (0.072%) InDesign
9 1 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.36%) Primavera
6 3 (0.22%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.22%) iTrent
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.14%) SAP FS
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,393 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 539 (38.69%) Azure
3 189 (13.57%) Power Automate
4 174 (12.49%) AWS
5 168 (12.06%) PowerApps
6 150 (10.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 123 (8.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 121 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
8 121 (8.69%) Microsoft 365
9 102 (7.32%) GCP
10 98 (7.04%) Snowflake
11 92 (6.60%) Dynamics 365
12 69 (4.95%) Microsoft Copilot
13 62 (4.45%) Serverless
14 53 (3.80%) GitHub
15 46 (3.30%) Copilot Studio
16 41 (2.94%) dbt
17 40 (2.87%) Amazon S3
17 40 (2.87%) SaaS
18 38 (2.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.57%) VPN
2 6 (0.43%) Firewall
3 5 (0.36%) HTTP
4 4 (0.29%) 5G
4 4 (0.29%) LTE
4 4 (0.29%) Network Security
5 3 (0.22%) DNS
5 3 (0.22%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.14%) 2G
6 2 (0.14%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.14%) 4G
6 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.14%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.14%) MPLS
6 2 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.14%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.14%) VoIP
6 2 (0.14%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (16.73%) Tableau
2 188 (13.50%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (8.61%) Data Lake
4 104 (7.47%) SQL Server
5 80 (5.74%) Power Query
6 66 (4.74%) Metadata
7 57 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 55 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (3.88%) BigQuery
10 52 (3.73%) Looker
11 41 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 40 (2.87%) Relational Database
13 37 (2.66%) Delta Lake
14 34 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
15 32 (2.30%) Star Schema
16 28 (2.01%) Mixpanel
16 28 (2.01%) NoSQL
17 26 (1.87%) Spark SQL
18 23 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
19 22 (1.58%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 112 (8.04%) JIRA
2 73 (5.24%) Git
3 16 (1.15%) GitLab
4 13 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.65%) ERwin
6 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.36%) NeoLoad
8 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.29%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.29%) MLflow
8 4 (0.29%) Postman
8 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.072%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.072%) Maven
11 1 (0.072%) Selenium
General
1 460 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 440 (31.59%) Finance
3 326 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 112 (8.04%) Banking
6 41 (2.94%) Marketing
6 41 (2.94%) Retail
7 37 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.22%) Law
13 17 (1.22%) Legal
13 17 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.08%) Front Office
15 15 (1.08%) Local Government
15 15 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 376 (26.99%) Analyst
2 213 (15.29%) Data Engineer
2 213 (15.29%) Developer
3 165 (11.84%) Senior
4 162 (11.63%) Data Analyst
5 134 (9.62%) Lead
6 110 (7.90%) Architect
7 99 (7.11%) Business Analyst
8 88 (6.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 67 (4.81%) Consultant
10 64 (4.59%) Power BI Developer
11 47 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
12 44 (3.16%) Data Architect
13 42 (3.02%) Senior Data Engineer
14 41 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 41 (2.94%) PMO Analyst
15 40 (2.87%) Power Platform Developer
16 39 (2.80%) Project Manager
17 35 (2.51%) Data Scientist
18 29 (2.08%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (5.31%) PySpark
2 43 (3.09%) REST
3 38 (2.73%) Kafka
4 32 (2.30%) .NET
5 28 (2.01%) Pandas
6 24 (1.72%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.51%) JSON
8 20 (1.44%) HTML
9 19 (1.36%) Great Expectations
10 18 (1.29%) React
11 17 (1.22%) HTML5 Canvas
12 15 (1.08%) NumPy
12 15 (1.08%) PyTorch
12 15 (1.08%) TensorFlow
12 15 (1.08%) XML
13 14 (1.01%) YAML
14 13 (0.93%) Spark Streaming
15 10 (0.72%) Plotly
16 9 (0.65%) Matplotlib
16 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 51 (3.66%) Cloud Native
2 48 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 37 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 36 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.08%) Low-Code
8 24 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.15%) PMI
11 15 (1.08%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.86%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.79%) CMDB
15 10 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.72%) IoT
15 10 (0.72%) SCADA
16 9 (0.65%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.01%) Windows
2 6 (0.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.36%) Unix
3 5 (0.36%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,301 (93.40%) Business Intelligence
2 560 (40.20%) Analytics
3 436 (31.30%) Data Modelling
4 334 (23.98%) Visualisation
5 309 (22.18%) Agile
6 294 (21.11%) ETL
7 292 (20.96%) Decision-Making
8 266 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
9 257 (18.45%) Data Governance
10 220 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 214 (15.36%) Data Engineering
11 214 (15.36%) DevOps
12 205 (14.72%) Actionable Insight
13 201 (14.43%) AI
14 200 (14.36%) Data Visualisation
15 199 (14.29%) Data Analysis
16 190 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 185 (13.28%) CI/CD
17 185 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
18 153 (10.98%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 659 (47.31%) SQL
2 370 (26.56%) Python
3 137 (9.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (4.95%) C#
5 52 (3.73%) JavaScript
5 52 (3.73%) R
6 50 (3.59%) PowerShell
7 36 (2.58%) VBA
8 32 (2.30%) T-SQL
9 28 (2.01%) Java
10 22 (1.58%) Bicep
11 18 (1.29%) Scala
12 12 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.79%) Formula Language
13 11 (0.79%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.43%) Korn
16 5 (0.36%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.36%) X++
17 3 (0.22%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 231 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 178 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 130 (9.33%) Degree
4 33 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 25 (1.79%) PMP
9 23 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.86%) MBA
11 11 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.79%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.50%) CBAP
13 7 (0.50%) CIMA
14 6 (0.43%) ACCA
15 4 (0.29%) CFA
15 4 (0.29%) IIBA
16 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 316 (22.68%) Data Quality
2 100 (7.18%) GDPR
3 86 (6.17%) PMO
4 76 (5.46%) QA
5 51 (3.66%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.08%) SLA
7 13 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.79%) Basel III
8 11 (0.79%) GRC
9 9 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.36%) NIST
11 5 (0.36%) P3O
12 4 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.29%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) GAAP
13 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.22%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (2.30%) Docker
2 31 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.29%) HDFS
5 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.072%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.072%) RACF
Systems Management
1 72 (5.17%) Terraform
2 38 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.50%) SCCM
5 6 (0.43%) Ansible
6 5 (0.36%) Grafana
6 5 (0.36%) RSA Archer
7 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.22%) Kibana
9 2 (0.14%) Control-M
9 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 1 (0.072%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.072%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.072%) SCOM
10 1 (0.072%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.072%) WSUS
Vendors
1 451 (32.38%) Microsoft
2 198 (14.21%) Databricks
3 86 (6.17%) Oracle
4 69 (4.95%) Google
5 62 (4.45%) SAP
6 58 (4.16%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.66%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.30%) Informatica
9 20 (1.44%) Foundry
10 15 (1.08%) Lotus
11 14 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.93%) Sage
12 13 (0.93%) Workday
13 12 (0.86%) Alteryx
13 12 (0.86%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.79%) Talend
15 10 (0.72%) Kofax
16 9 (0.65%) Cognos
16 9 (0.65%) Planview
17 8 (0.57%) MicroStrategy