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

 6 months to
1 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 58 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,516 906 1,194
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.76% 3.72% 3.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.22% 19.59% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 617 857
10th Percentile £313 £313 £310
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £588
90th Percentile £646 £653 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 27
10th Percentile £16.28 £18.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £24.81 £15.13
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -57.79%
75th Percentile £46.25 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £44.21 £48.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -5.40% +25.22% -57.79%

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 6,260 4,624 6,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.51% 18.99% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,336 3,252 4,477
10th Percentile £350 £360 £352
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £659 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 91 130
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.09 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% -20.12% -30.87%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £57.61
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -33.33%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +5 777 £500 +2.04% 267
South East +18 202 £475 +2.70% 208
Midlands -10 182 £450 -8.63% 130
North of England -26 157 £455 +1.18% 162
West Midlands -20 116 £450 -10.00% 86
South West +2 86 £450 +5.88% 55
North West -10 85 £463 -7.50% 99
East Midlands +11 65 £425 -12.82% 44
Yorkshire -40 60 £439 +3.29% 47
East of England -16 44 £425 -15.00% 55
North East -12 12 £475 +8.57% 18
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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
1 131 (8.64%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.42%) Confluence
3 53 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.04%) Apache
5 25 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.12%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.86%) SAS
8 12 (0.79%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.20%) IIS
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) Appian
14 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 312 (20.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.96%) Microsoft Project
3 53 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
4 45 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.18%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.26%) 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
10 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.86%) iTrent
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
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
Cloud Services
1 1,516 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 561 (37.01%) Azure
3 195 (12.86%) AWS
4 178 (11.74%) Power Automate
5 159 (10.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 146 (9.63%) PowerApps
7 141 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 132 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
10 100 (6.60%) Dynamics 365
11 95 (6.27%) GCP
12 93 (6.13%) Snowflake
13 75 (4.95%) Serverless
14 69 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
15 63 (4.16%) GitHub
16 52 (3.43%) Amazon S3
17 45 (2.97%) Copilot Studio
18 41 (2.70%) dbt
19 39 (2.57%) Microsoft Purview
20 37 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.79%) Firewall
2 11 (0.73%) VPN
3 7 (0.46%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) 5G
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) HTTP
4 3 (0.20%) LTE
4 3 (0.20%) Network Security
4 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
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%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (17.35%) Tableau
2 232 (15.30%) Data Warehouse
3 152 (10.03%) Data Lake
4 114 (7.52%) SQL Server
5 93 (6.13%) Power Query
6 77 (5.08%) Metadata
7 59 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 57 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 48 (3.17%) Looker
10 47 (3.10%) BigQuery
11 43 (2.84%) Star Schema
12 40 (2.64%) Relational Database
13 38 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (2.51%) Snowflake Schema
14 34 (2.24%) Delta Lake
15 33 (2.18%) Spark SQL
16 32 (2.11%) NoSQL
17 30 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
18 28 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 27 (1.78%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 133 (8.77%) JIRA
2 72 (4.75%) Git
3 24 (1.58%) GitLab
4 13 (0.86%) ERwin
5 11 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
6 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) Postman
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
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%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.066%) GCC
10 1 (0.066%) Hudson
General
1 487 (32.12%) Finance
2 479 (31.60%) Social Skills
3 366 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 94 (6.20%) Banking
6 53 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
6 53 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (3.17%) Law
8 44 (2.90%) Marketing
8 44 (2.90%) Retail
9 28 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.32%) Legal
12 20 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.19%) Local Government
15 17 (1.12%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.86%) Military
17 12 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 404 (26.65%) Analyst
2 248 (16.36%) Data Engineer
3 201 (13.26%) Developer
4 189 (12.47%) Senior
5 179 (11.81%) Data Analyst
6 149 (9.83%) Architect
7 141 (9.30%) Lead
8 93 (6.13%) Business Analyst
8 93 (6.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 70 (4.62%) Consultant
9 70 (4.62%) Power BI Developer
10 58 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
11 48 (3.17%) Data Architect
12 47 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
13 46 (3.03%) Project Manager
14 42 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 39 (2.57%) Power Platform Developer
16 37 (2.44%) PMO Analyst
17 36 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
17 36 (2.37%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.74%) PySpark
2 44 (2.90%) Kafka
3 43 (2.84%) REST
4 36 (2.37%) .NET
5 26 (1.72%) Pandas
6 22 (1.45%) JSON
7 20 (1.32%) React
8 18 (1.19%) Great Expectations
8 18 (1.19%) scikit-learn
9 15 (0.99%) ADO
9 15 (0.99%) HTML
9 15 (0.99%) XML
10 14 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (0.92%) PyTorch
10 14 (0.92%) TensorFlow
10 14 (0.92%) YAML
11 13 (0.86%) Spark Streaming
12 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.79%) Middleware
13 10 (0.66%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 64 (4.22%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.76%) Data Structures
3 53 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 39 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 31 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 28 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.65%) Low-Code
9 23 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.19%) CMDB
11 15 (0.99%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 14 (0.92%) PMI
12 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.86%) Clustering
13 13 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.66%) NHS
16 9 (0.59%) FMCG
16 9 (0.59%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.32%) Windows
2 12 (0.79%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.13%) Android
6 2 (0.13%) Linux
7 1 (0.066%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,410 (93.01%) Business Intelligence
2 613 (40.44%) Analytics
3 492 (32.45%) Data Modelling
4 345 (22.76%) Agile
5 327 (21.57%) ETL
6 316 (20.84%) Visualisation
7 313 (20.65%) Decision-Making
8 280 (18.47%) Data Governance
9 279 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
10 245 (16.16%) Data Engineering
11 243 (16.03%) DevOps
12 241 (15.90%) Data Pipeline
13 233 (15.37%) AI
14 228 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 222 (14.64%) CI/CD
16 219 (14.45%) Migration
17 207 (13.65%) Actionable Insight
18 206 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
19 201 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
20 194 (12.80%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 716 (47.23%) SQL
2 403 (26.58%) Python
3 159 (10.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (4.42%) C#
5 66 (4.35%) R
6 54 (3.56%) PowerShell
7 52 (3.43%) JavaScript
8 39 (2.57%) T-SQL
9 38 (2.51%) Java
10 35 (2.31%) VBA
11 22 (1.45%) Bicep
12 20 (1.32%) Scala
13 13 (0.86%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.73%) Formula Language
14 11 (0.73%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.26%) C
18 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
18 3 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 260 (17.15%) Security Cleared
2 203 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 145 (9.56%) Degree
4 33 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.98%) Azure Certification
5 30 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.58%) PMP
8 12 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.73%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.66%) MBA
11 9 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 8 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.40%) ACCA
13 6 (0.40%) CBAP
14 5 (0.33%) IIBA
14 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (23.68%) Data Quality
2 116 (7.65%) GDPR
3 96 (6.33%) PMO
4 86 (5.67%) QA
5 36 (2.37%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.06%) SLA
7 15 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.92%) GRC
8 14 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.73%) Basel III
10 9 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
13 4 (0.26%) P3O
13 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
14 3 (0.20%) IFRS
14 3 (0.20%) NCSC
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 34 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.04%) Docker
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
4 3 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.066%) RACF
5 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 81 (5.34%) Terraform
2 38 (2.51%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.06%) Grafana
4 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.40%) SCCM
6 5 (0.33%) Ansible
7 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
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%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.066%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 506 (33.38%) Microsoft
2 205 (13.52%) Databricks
3 88 (5.80%) SAP
4 83 (5.47%) Oracle
5 76 (5.01%) ServiceNow
6 59 (3.89%) Google
7 39 (2.57%) Informatica
8 35 (2.31%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.45%) Workday
10 18 (1.19%) Foundry
11 17 (1.12%) Lotus
12 16 (1.06%) Remedy
13 14 (0.92%) Sage
13 14 (0.92%) Splunk
13 14 (0.92%) Talend
14 13 (0.86%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.79%) IFS
15 12 (0.79%) Kofax
16 11 (0.73%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.73%) Denodo
781 Power BI jobs in England