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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 55 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,436 931 1,204
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 3.84% 3.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.96% 20.13% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 651 854
10th Percentile £322 £313 £309
25th Percentile £405 £399 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 34
10th Percentile £14.52 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £25.13 £14.67
Median hourly rate £25.42 £29.07 £22.86
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +27.18% -59.86%
75th Percentile £39.50 £34.57 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.12 £56.55 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £23.03 £29.07 £22.86
% change year-on-year -20.78% +27.18% -59.47%

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 5,994 4,624 6,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.92% 19.08% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,157 3,261 4,425
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £663 £670
90th Percentile £700 £775 £772
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 92 147
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.79 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.01% -15.49% -29.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.79 £53.94
90th Percentile £85.03 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £32.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.26% -19.44% -29.08%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +3 783 £500 - 258
South East -6 168 £500 +8.11% 212
Midlands -15 150 £450 -7.22% 126
North of England -32 146 £450 -5.26% 176
West Midlands -30 97 £455 -7.24% 72
North West -17 80 £434 -17.38% 90
South West +5 69 £475 +5.56% 70
Yorkshire -38 55 £450 +9.76% 63
East Midlands +3 52 £398 -16.32% 54
East of England -15 50 £500 - 57
North East -6 11 £500 +11.11% 29
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
1 122 (8.50%) SharePoint
2 57 (3.97%) Confluence
3 53 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.30%) Apache
5 27 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.04%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.70%) Mendix
8 6 (0.42%) Apache Superset
8 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.42%) SAS
9 5 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.28%) CMS
10 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.070%) IIS
13 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 288 (20.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (4.18%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.95%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.21%) Notion
7 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.070%) CATIA
8 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.070%) InDesign
8 1 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 40 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.35%) iTrent
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.28%) Primavera
8 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.21%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.21%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,436 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 555 (38.65%) Azure
3 187 (13.02%) AWS
4 185 (12.88%) Power Automate
5 158 (11.00%) PowerApps
6 155 (10.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 130 (9.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 126 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
9 119 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
10 109 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
11 103 (7.17%) GCP
12 100 (6.96%) Snowflake
13 69 (4.81%) Microsoft Copilot
13 69 (4.81%) Serverless
14 56 (3.90%) GitHub
15 46 (3.20%) Copilot Studio
16 44 (3.06%) Amazon S3
17 42 (2.92%) dbt
18 40 (2.79%) Microsoft Purview
19 38 (2.65%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.63%) Firewall
2 8 (0.56%) VPN
3 4 (0.28%) 5G
3 4 (0.28%) DNS
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
3 4 (0.28%) LTE
3 4 (0.28%) Network Security
4 3 (0.21%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.14%) 2G
5 2 (0.14%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.14%) 4G
5 2 (0.14%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) MPLS
5 2 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.14%) SMTP
5 2 (0.14%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 2 (0.14%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (17.13%) Tableau
2 202 (14.07%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (9.12%) Data Lake
4 108 (7.52%) SQL Server
5 84 (5.85%) Power Query
6 71 (4.94%) Metadata
7 58 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 57 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 54 (3.76%) BigQuery
10 49 (3.41%) Looker
11 40 (2.79%) Snowflake Schema
12 38 (2.65%) Delta Lake
12 38 (2.65%) Relational Database
13 36 (2.51%) Star Schema
14 34 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 29 (2.02%) Mixpanel
15 29 (2.02%) NoSQL
16 27 (1.88%) Spark SQL
17 25 (1.74%) OLAP
18 23 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 123 (8.57%) JIRA
2 72 (5.01%) Git
3 17 (1.18%) GitLab
4 13 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.77%) ERwin
6 7 (0.49%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.35%) MLflow
8 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.28%) Postman
9 3 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.14%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.14%) DBeaver
10 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.070%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.070%) GCC
11 1 (0.070%) Hudson
General
1 468 (32.59%) Finance
2 461 (32.10%) Social Skills
3 345 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.87%) Banking
6 44 (3.06%) Marketing
7 43 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (2.99%) Retail
8 40 (2.79%) Law
9 34 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.11%) Legal
15 14 (0.97%) Front Office
16 13 (0.91%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.91%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 384 (26.74%) Analyst
2 224 (15.60%) Data Engineer
3 210 (14.62%) Developer
4 174 (12.12%) Senior
5 164 (11.42%) Data Analyst
6 154 (10.72%) Lead
7 131 (9.12%) Architect
8 96 (6.69%) Business Analyst
9 87 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 70 (4.87%) Consultant
11 61 (4.25%) Power BI Developer
12 51 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
13 45 (3.13%) Data Architect
14 44 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 42 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
16 41 (2.86%) Project Manager
17 39 (2.72%) PMO Analyst
18 38 (2.65%) Power Platform Developer
19 31 (2.16%) Data Scientist
20 30 (2.09%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.36%) PySpark
2 44 (3.06%) Kafka
3 42 (2.92%) REST
4 32 (2.23%) .NET
5 31 (2.16%) Pandas
6 23 (1.60%) JSON
6 23 (1.60%) scikit-learn
7 20 (1.39%) Great Expectations
7 20 (1.39%) HTML
8 18 (1.25%) React
9 17 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
10 16 (1.11%) NumPy
10 16 (1.11%) PyTorch
10 16 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 15 (1.04%) XML
12 14 (0.97%) YAML
13 13 (0.91%) Spark Streaming
14 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.77%) ADO
15 11 (0.77%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 56 (3.90%) Cloud Native
2 54 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 49 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 38 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 37 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.02%) Low-Code
8 26 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.25%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.18%) PMI
12 15 (1.04%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.04%) CMDB
13 13 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.77%) Clustering
14 11 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.77%) FMCG
15 10 (0.70%) IoT
16 8 (0.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.11%) Windows
2 9 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.070%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,342 (93.45%) Business Intelligence
2 580 (40.39%) Analytics
3 455 (31.69%) Data Modelling
4 329 (22.91%) Visualisation
5 315 (21.94%) ETL
6 310 (21.59%) Agile
7 304 (21.17%) Decision-Making
8 269 (18.73%) Data Governance
9 268 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
10 234 (16.30%) Data Engineering
11 223 (15.53%) DevOps
12 217 (15.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 215 (14.97%) AI
14 211 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 207 (14.42%) Data Pipeline
16 206 (14.35%) Actionable Insight
17 202 (14.07%) CI/CD
18 197 (13.72%) Data Analysis
18 197 (13.72%) Data Visualisation
19 182 (12.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 684 (47.63%) SQL
2 373 (25.97%) Python
3 145 (10.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 71 (4.94%) C#
5 57 (3.97%) R
6 50 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 45 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 38 (2.65%) VBA
9 33 (2.30%) T-SQL
10 28 (1.95%) Java
11 24 (1.67%) Bicep
12 17 (1.18%) Scala
13 11 (0.77%) Formula Language
13 11 (0.77%) LotusScript
14 10 (0.70%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.35%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.35%) X++
17 4 (0.28%) C
17 4 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 223 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 169 (11.77%) SC Cleared
3 130 (9.05%) Degree
4 32 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.88%) PMI Certification
7 26 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.67%) PMP
9 11 (0.77%) MBA
10 10 (0.70%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.49%) CBAP
14 5 (0.35%) ACCA
14 5 (0.35%) CIMA
15 4 (0.28%) CFA
15 4 (0.28%) IIBA
15 4 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 109 (7.59%) GDPR
3 96 (6.69%) PMO
4 82 (5.71%) QA
5 42 (2.92%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.04%) GRC
6 15 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.04%) SLA
7 12 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.77%) Basel III
9 10 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.35%) P3O
12 4 (0.28%) NCSC
12 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.21%) GAAP
13 3 (0.21%) IFRS
13 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (2.30%) Docker
2 29 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.21%) HDFS
5 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.070%) RACF
Systems Management
1 73 (5.08%) Terraform
2 40 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.49%) Grafana
5 6 (0.42%) SCCM
6 5 (0.35%) Ansible
6 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.28%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.21%) Control-M
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.14%) Kibana
9 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 1 (0.070%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.070%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.070%) SCOM
10 1 (0.070%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.070%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.070%) WSUS
Vendors
1 475 (33.08%) Microsoft
2 204 (14.21%) Databricks
3 75 (5.22%) Oracle
4 70 (4.87%) Google
4 70 (4.87%) ServiceNow
5 67 (4.67%) SAP
6 36 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.44%) Informatica
8 19 (1.32%) Foundry
9 15 (1.04%) Lotus
9 15 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 14 (0.97%) Sage
11 13 (0.91%) Workday
12 12 (0.84%) MuleSoft
12 12 (0.84%) Talend
13 11 (0.77%) Alteryx
14 10 (0.70%) Kofax
14 10 (0.70%) Planview
14 10 (0.70%) Remedy
15 8 (0.56%) MicroStrategy