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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 55 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,296 999 1,181
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.01% 3.75% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.27% 20.36% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 903 675 838
10th Percentile £315 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 43
10th Percentile £13.90 £24.73 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £22.52 £29.00 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% +14.26% -57.70%
75th Percentile £36.11 £48.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £55.83 £64.73 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £22.94 £27.75 £24.91
% change year-on-year -17.35% +11.42% -51.17%

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 5,340 4,907 6,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.54% 18.41% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,733 3,259 4,309
10th Percentile £331 £355 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £708 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 75 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £16.18
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.38 £22.61
Median hourly rate £43.50 £38.50 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% -11.74% -23.29%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £32.80 £43.62
% change year-on-year +32.64% -24.82% -23.29%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +2 739 £500 -2.44% 194
North of England -14 155 £425 -5.56% 129
South East -16 121 £475 - 234
Midlands -28 115 £463 -5.61% 111
North West -23 78 £419 -16.25% 71
West Midlands -40 73 £500 - 64
Yorkshire -15 71 £423 +3.05% 42
South West -7 61 £475 +5.56% 50
East of England -1 44 £625 +40.85% 48
East Midlands -6 42 £356 -7.53% 45
North East -13 6 £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
1 133 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.55%) Confluence
3 39 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.77%) Apache
5 22 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.31%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.69%) Mendix
9 8 (0.62%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 3 (0.23%) SAS
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
13 1 (0.077%) Kentico
13 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.077%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 279 (21.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (3.63%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (2.31%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.31%) Trello
7 3 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.23%) Notion
7 3 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.077%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (4.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.31%) iTrent
5 4 (0.31%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.31%) Primavera
5 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.23%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.23%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,296 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 497 (38.35%) Azure
3 198 (15.28%) Power Automate
4 179 (13.81%) PowerApps
5 146 (11.27%) AWS
6 132 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (9.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 114 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
9 107 (8.26%) Dynamics 365
10 101 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 87 (6.71%) GCP
12 82 (6.33%) Snowflake
13 56 (4.32%) Microsoft Copilot
14 50 (3.86%) GitHub
14 50 (3.86%) Serverless
15 41 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
15 41 (3.16%) SaaS
16 38 (2.93%) Copilot Studio
17 36 (2.78%) Azure Functions
17 36 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) HTTP
2 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.23%) VoIP
2 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.15%) 2G
3 2 (0.15%) 5G
3 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.15%) LAN
3 2 (0.15%) LTE
3 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.15%) Network Security
3 2 (0.15%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.15%) VPN
3 2 (0.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.077%) DNS
4 1 (0.077%) Internet
4 1 (0.077%) SAN
4 1 (0.077%) Skype
4 1 (0.077%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (15.12%) Tableau
2 148 (11.42%) Data Warehouse
3 106 (8.18%) Data Lake
3 106 (8.18%) SQL Server
4 81 (6.25%) Power Query
5 54 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 54 (4.17%) Metadata
6 47 (3.63%) Relational Database
6 47 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 44 (3.40%) BigQuery
8 39 (3.01%) Looker
8 39 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 30 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (1.93%) Delta Lake
11 24 (1.85%) Data Mining
11 24 (1.85%) Star Schema
12 23 (1.77%) NoSQL
13 21 (1.62%) Big Data
13 21 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
13 21 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 111 (8.56%) JIRA
2 57 (4.40%) Git
3 11 (0.85%) GitLab
4 9 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.54%) ERwin
5 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.46%) DBeaver
7 5 (0.39%) NeoLoad
8 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.15%) MLflow
9 2 (0.15%) Postman
9 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.077%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.077%) Maven
10 1 (0.077%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.077%) Selenium
10 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 447 (34.49%) Social Skills
2 427 (32.95%) Finance
3 300 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 120 (9.26%) Banking
6 47 (3.63%) Marketing
7 39 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
8 37 (2.85%) Manufacturing
9 35 (2.70%) Retail
10 34 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.70%) Front Office
13 22 (1.70%) Legal
14 20 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (1.54%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.47%) Local Government
16 17 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 356 (27.47%) Analyst
2 207 (15.97%) Developer
3 173 (13.35%) Data Engineer
4 151 (11.65%) Data Analyst
5 129 (9.95%) Senior
6 104 (8.02%) Lead
7 99 (7.64%) Business Analyst
8 84 (6.48%) Architect
9 76 (5.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 65 (5.02%) Consultant
11 56 (4.32%) Power BI Developer
12 48 (3.70%) Data Scientist
13 45 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
14 42 (3.24%) Project Manager
15 39 (3.01%) Power Platform Developer
16 37 (2.85%) Data Architect
17 34 (2.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 34 (2.62%) Power BI Analyst
18 33 (2.55%) PMO Analyst
19 31 (2.39%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.02%) PySpark
2 43 (3.32%) .NET
3 40 (3.09%) REST
4 27 (2.08%) Kafka
5 25 (1.93%) HTML
5 25 (1.93%) scikit-learn
6 24 (1.85%) Pandas
7 20 (1.54%) JSON
8 19 (1.47%) React
9 17 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (1.08%) NumPy
10 14 (1.08%) PyTorch
10 14 (1.08%) TensorFlow
11 11 (0.85%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (0.77%) CSS
12 10 (0.77%) Great Expectations
12 10 (0.77%) Plotly
13 9 (0.69%) OAuth
13 9 (0.69%) XML
13 9 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (3.55%) Product Ownership
2 35 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 33 (2.55%) Data Structures
4 32 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.39%) Cloud Native
6 28 (2.16%) Low-Code
6 28 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 25 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 17 (1.31%) PMI
12 13 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.93%) Derivative
13 12 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.85%) FMCG
14 11 (0.85%) Life Science
14 11 (0.85%) Reinsurance
15 10 (0.77%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.85%) Windows
2 4 (0.31%) Linux
2 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.23%) Unix
3 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.077%) Android
4 1 (0.077%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.077%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,181 (91.13%) Business Intelligence
2 473 (36.50%) Analytics
3 351 (27.08%) Data Modelling
4 336 (25.93%) Visualisation
5 299 (23.07%) Agile
6 264 (20.37%) Decision-Making
7 248 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 215 (16.59%) ETL
10 208 (16.05%) Data Governance
11 203 (15.66%) DevOps
12 199 (15.35%) Actionable Insight
13 197 (15.20%) Data Visualisation
14 194 (14.97%) Data Analysis
15 163 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 159 (12.27%) Data Engineering
17 158 (12.19%) AI
18 149 (11.50%) CI/CD
19 143 (11.03%) Data Pipeline
20 135 (10.42%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 586 (45.22%) SQL
2 337 (26.00%) Python
3 105 (8.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 64 (4.94%) C#
5 58 (4.48%) JavaScript
6 57 (4.40%) R
7 41 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.62%) VBA
9 29 (2.24%) Java
10 27 (2.08%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.93%) Scala
12 16 (1.23%) Bicep
12 16 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.77%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.77%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.54%) Korn
16 5 (0.39%) C++
16 5 (0.39%) X++
17 4 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 181 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 141 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.34%) Degree
4 31 (2.39%) Azure Certification
5 28 (2.16%) PMI Certification
6 27 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.70%) PMP
9 19 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.85%) ACCA
10 11 (0.85%) CIMA
10 11 (0.85%) MBA
11 8 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.62%) CBAP
11 8 (0.62%) CFA
12 7 (0.54%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
13 5 (0.39%) IIBA
14 3 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (17.67%) Data Quality
2 76 (5.86%) GDPR
3 72 (5.56%) PMO
4 66 (5.09%) QA
5 53 (4.09%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.93%) GRC
8 10 (0.77%) Basel III
8 10 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.46%) GxP
11 6 (0.46%) NIST
11 6 (0.46%) SLA
12 5 (0.39%) P3O
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.31%) IFRS
13 4 (0.31%) WCAG
14 3 (0.23%) GAAP
14 3 (0.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 31 (2.39%) Docker
2 28 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.077%) HDFS
4 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.077%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (4.24%) Terraform
2 36 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.46%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.46%) SCCM
5 2 (0.15%) Ansible
5 2 (0.15%) Control-M
5 2 (0.15%) Kibana
5 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.077%) Puppet
6 1 (0.077%) SCOM
6 1 (0.077%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.077%) WSUS
Vendors
1 427 (32.95%) Microsoft
2 160 (12.35%) Databricks
3 100 (7.72%) Oracle
4 74 (5.71%) SAP
5 68 (5.25%) Google
6 44 (3.40%) ServiceNow
7 43 (3.32%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.85%) Informatica
9 17 (1.31%) Lotus
10 16 (1.23%) Alteryx
11 15 (1.16%) Foundry
12 14 (1.08%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.93%) Cognos
13 12 (0.93%) Planview
13 12 (0.93%) Splunk
14 10 (0.77%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.69%) Kofax
16 8 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
16 8 (0.62%) Workday
17 7 (0.54%) Virgin Media