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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,659 1,043 1,148
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 3.78% 3.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.81% 20.74% 18.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 675 832
10th Percentile £331 £301 £300
25th Percentile £413 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £588
90th Percentile £650 £673 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.63% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 26 12
10th Percentile £17.82 £18.15 £20.08
25th Percentile £21.44 £21.69 £25.81
Median hourly rate £29.98 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +5.47% -18.92%
75th Percentile £46.13 £34.92 £46.56
90th Percentile £72.63 £53.75 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £31.97
% change year-on-year -5.31% -1.02% -12.42%

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 6,967 5,030 6,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.41% 18.24% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,668 3,482 4,497
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 80 96
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.72 £13.97
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £34.82 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% -8.38% -30.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.06 £58.11
90th Percentile £77.35 £77.62 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +16.15% -3.33% -31.82%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +9 849 £500 - 255
South East 0 219 £500 +12.04% 175
Midlands +8 208 £463 +8.82% 101
North of England -18 201 £450 +1.12% 133
West Midlands -1 148 £451 +6.00% 57
North West -8 112 £475 - 62
South West -10 93 £450 +11.25% 70
Yorkshire -40 73 £445 +6.59% 50
East Midlands +20 59 £470 +10.59% 44
East of England -15 42 £400 -28.89% 28
North East -30 20 £390 -13.33% 24
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
1 151 (9.10%) SharePoint
2 65 (3.92%) Confluence
3 38 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.75%) Apache
5 27 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (1.27%) SAS
7 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.48%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 4 (0.24%) IIS
11 4 (0.24%) Mendix
12 3 (0.18%) HCL Notes
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.060%) Appian
14 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 315 (18.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (1.63%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.36%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.36%) Revit
8 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.060%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.060%) CATIA
10 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.060%) InDesign
10 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.060%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 38 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 25 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.96%) iTrent
5 13 (0.78%) Primavera
6 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.36%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,659 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 627 (37.79%) Azure
3 209 (12.60%) AWS
4 186 (11.21%) Power Automate
5 163 (9.83%) PowerApps
6 147 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
7 137 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 129 (7.78%) Snowflake
9 120 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
10 115 (6.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 111 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
12 83 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 78 (4.70%) Serverless
14 72 (4.34%) GCP
15 67 (4.04%) dbt
16 58 (3.50%) Amazon S3
16 58 (3.50%) GitHub
17 48 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
17 48 (2.89%) Entra ID
18 45 (2.71%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.08%) Firewall
2 14 (0.84%) VPN
3 11 (0.66%) DNS
4 6 (0.36%) SSL
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
7 2 (0.12%) MPLS
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) SMTP
7 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
7 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (16.27%) Data Warehouse
2 266 (16.03%) Tableau
3 142 (8.56%) Data Lake
4 119 (7.17%) Power Query
4 119 (7.17%) SQL Server
5 76 (4.58%) Metadata
6 63 (3.80%) Star Schema
7 59 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (3.25%) Looker
9 49 (2.95%) Relational Database
10 45 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
12 37 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 36 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
14 34 (2.05%) Semantic Layer
15 30 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 29 (1.75%) NoSQL
17 26 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
18 25 (1.51%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 141 (8.50%) JIRA
2 69 (4.16%) Git
3 27 (1.63%) GitLab
4 10 (0.60%) ERwin
4 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.30%) MLflow
6 5 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.24%) JUnit
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.060%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.060%) TestRail
General
1 518 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 495 (29.84%) Finance
3 403 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 108 (6.51%) Banking
6 64 (3.86%) Retail
7 56 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (3.19%) Law
9 52 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 50 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.77%) Marketing
12 37 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.45%) Local Government
15 22 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.27%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.27%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.08%) Legal
19 15 (0.90%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 435 (26.22%) Analyst
2 246 (14.83%) Developer
3 236 (14.23%) Data Engineer
4 214 (12.90%) Data Analyst
5 197 (11.87%) Senior
6 185 (11.15%) Architect
7 158 (9.52%) Lead
8 117 (7.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 94 (5.67%) Business Analyst
10 93 (5.61%) Power BI Developer
11 73 (4.40%) Data Architect
12 67 (4.04%) Consultant
13 57 (3.44%) Senior Data Engineer
14 52 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
15 51 (3.07%) Project Manager
16 45 (2.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 41 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
18 39 (2.35%) Lead Architect
18 39 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
19 36 (2.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (5.36%) PySpark
2 58 (3.50%) REST
3 56 (3.38%) .NET
4 31 (1.87%) Kafka
5 25 (1.51%) JSON
6 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
7 20 (1.21%) Middleware
8 18 (1.08%) React
9 17 (1.02%) Pandas
10 16 (0.96%) HTML
11 14 (0.84%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.78%) CSS
13 11 (0.66%) ADO
13 11 (0.66%) Great Expectations
13 11 (0.66%) XML
14 10 (0.60%) YAML
15 8 (0.48%) JDO
16 7 (0.42%) EDI
16 7 (0.42%) RESTful
16 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 72 (4.34%) Cloud Native
3 52 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 47 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 36 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 25 (1.51%) CMDB
9 23 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.33%) Clustering
11 18 (1.08%) FMCG
11 18 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 16 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (0.90%) PKI
13 15 (0.90%) Reference Data
14 14 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.84%) NHS
15 13 (0.78%) IoT
16 11 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.59%) Windows
2 24 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.54%) Linux
3 9 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.24%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.060%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,544 (93.07%) Business Intelligence
2 680 (40.99%) Analytics
3 535 (32.25%) Data Modelling
4 412 (24.83%) Agile
5 346 (20.86%) Decision-Making
6 343 (20.68%) ETL
7 342 (20.61%) Visualisation
8 301 (18.14%) AI
9 298 (17.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 296 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
11 288 (17.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 278 (16.76%) Migration
13 277 (16.70%) Data Pipeline
14 276 (16.64%) DevOps
15 272 (16.40%) Data Governance
16 263 (15.85%) Data Engineering
17 256 (15.43%) CI/CD
18 244 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
19 234 (14.10%) Validation
20 207 (12.48%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 781 (47.08%) SQL
2 399 (24.05%) Python
3 190 (11.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 80 (4.82%) PowerShell
5 78 (4.70%) JavaScript
6 71 (4.28%) C#
7 61 (3.68%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.01%) R
9 43 (2.59%) Java
10 23 (1.39%) VBA
11 16 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 16 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.90%) Bicep
13 10 (0.60%) Scala
14 6 (0.36%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.30%) C
15 5 (0.30%) X++
16 4 (0.24%) Korn
17 3 (0.18%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 313 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 239 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 167 (10.07%) Degree
4 43 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (1.69%) DBS Check
9 24 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 16 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 15 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 14 (0.84%) PMP
15 7 (0.42%) ACCA
15 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.42%) CISSP
16 5 (0.30%) CIMA
16 5 (0.30%) SnowPro
16 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (23.75%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.33%) GDPR
3 90 (5.42%) PMO
4 79 (4.76%) QA
5 33 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.08%) SLA
7 15 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.66%) GRC
9 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.42%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.18%) Basel III
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) P3O
12 3 (0.18%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.12%) COBIT
13 2 (0.12%) NIST
14 1 (0.060%) IFRS
System Software
1 53 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.66%) Docker
3 10 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (4.16%) Terraform
2 20 (1.21%) Grafana
3 16 (0.96%) Kubernetes
4 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.60%) SCCM
6 8 (0.48%) Ansible
7 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) SCOM
8 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
9 3 (0.18%) Control-M
10 2 (0.12%) Kibana
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 598 (36.05%) Microsoft
2 204 (12.30%) Databricks
3 115 (6.93%) SAP
4 95 (5.73%) ServiceNow
5 73 (4.40%) Oracle
6 44 (2.65%) Google
6 44 (2.65%) Informatica
7 33 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.75%) Remedy
9 25 (1.51%) Alteryx
10 23 (1.39%) Splunk
11 22 (1.33%) Workday
12 16 (0.96%) BMC
13 15 (0.90%) Adobe
14 14 (0.84%) Denodo
14 14 (0.84%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.84%) IFS
15 13 (0.78%) Talend
16 11 (0.66%) Foundry
17 10 (0.60%) Sage