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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 63 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,696 1,078 1,091
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.69% 3.89% 3.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.17% 21.50% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 706 791
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £588
90th Percentile £668 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 24 13
10th Percentile £17.86 £18.01 £20.15
25th Percentile £22.15 £22.56 £27.50
Median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -10.60%
75th Percentile £38.25 £35.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £53.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £32.05 £30.30
% change year-on-year -6.52% +5.79% -9.72%

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 7,016 5,015 6,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 18.08% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,698 3,454 4,331
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 82 90
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.87 £14.19
25th Percentile £23.62 £25.34 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.94 £63.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.58 £69.93
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £35.50 £33.93
% change year-on-year +7.75% +4.63% -38.31%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +2 879 £500 - 313
North of England -7 228 £450 +1.12% 155
South East -5 210 £475 +5.56% 217
Midlands +11 209 £473 +5.00% 129
West Midlands -4 146 £470 +1.62% 77
North West +1 123 £475 - 84
South West -10 93 £444 +12.70% 68
Yorkshire -19 89 £431 +7.81% 51
East Midlands +17 61 £475 +11.76% 52
East of England -16 37 £550 -5.17% 58
North East -30 20 £383 -15.00% 23
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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
1 168 (9.91%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.13%) Confluence
3 34 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.53%) SAS
6 23 (1.36%) Apache
7 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.71%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.35%) Mendix
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.29%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 4 (0.24%) IIS
12 3 (0.18%) HCL Notes
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.059%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.059%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 321 (18.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 53 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.53%) Navisworks
7 9 (0.53%) Revit
8 6 (0.35%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.29%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.29%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.12%) Notion
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.059%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.059%) InDesign
11 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 24 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.94%) iTrent
5 13 (0.77%) Primavera
6 9 (0.53%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 6 (0.35%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.29%) Maximo
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,696 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 641 (37.79%) Azure
3 210 (12.38%) AWS
4 194 (11.44%) Power Automate
5 169 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
6 168 (9.91%) PowerApps
7 140 (8.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 139 (8.20%) Snowflake
9 123 (7.25%) Dynamics 365
10 120 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
11 117 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 96 (5.66%) Microsoft Copilot
13 78 (4.60%) Serverless
14 70 (4.13%) dbt
15 69 (4.07%) GCP
16 65 (3.83%) GitHub
17 55 (3.24%) Amazon S3
18 51 (3.01%) Entra ID
19 49 (2.89%) Microsoft Purview
20 48 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.88%) Firewall
2 13 (0.77%) VPN
3 10 (0.59%) DNS
4 7 (0.41%) SSL
5 5 (0.29%) Broadband
6 4 (0.24%) Network Security
7 3 (0.18%) Internet
8 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.12%) 4G
8 2 (0.12%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.12%) Intranet
8 2 (0.12%) LTE
8 2 (0.12%) Microwave Backhaul
8 2 (0.12%) MPLS
8 2 (0.12%) NAS
8 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.12%) SAN
8 2 (0.12%) SMTP
8 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
8 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (16.39%) Data Warehouse
2 247 (14.56%) Tableau
3 146 (8.61%) Data Lake
4 132 (7.78%) SQL Server
5 127 (7.49%) Power Query
6 82 (4.83%) Metadata
7 68 (4.01%) Star Schema
8 63 (3.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.01%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.95%) Looker
11 47 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 42 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (2.12%) BigQuery
15 35 (2.06%) Semantic Layer
16 33 (1.95%) Snowflake Schema
16 33 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 32 (1.89%) NoSQL
18 23 (1.36%) BusinessObjects
18 23 (1.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 150 (8.84%) JIRA
2 62 (3.66%) Git
3 31 (1.83%) GitLab
4 12 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.47%) MLflow
6 7 (0.41%) ERwin
7 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.24%) JUnit
9 4 (0.24%) Terragrunt
9 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.18%) JMeter
10 3 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.18%) Selenium
11 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.059%) REST Assured
General
1 548 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 500 (29.48%) Finance
3 410 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 120 (7.08%) Banking
6 76 (4.48%) Retail
7 62 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (3.30%) Law
9 55 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (3.07%) Manufacturing
11 48 (2.83%) Marketing
12 45 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 33 (1.95%) Local Government
14 32 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.36%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.12%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.12%) Legal
18 15 (0.88%) Front Office
18 15 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 429 (25.29%) Analyst
2 251 (14.80%) Developer
3 223 (13.15%) Data Engineer
4 211 (12.44%) Data Analyst
5 202 (11.91%) Senior
6 197 (11.62%) Architect
7 161 (9.49%) Lead
8 123 (7.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 96 (5.66%) Power BI Developer
10 95 (5.60%) Business Analyst
11 85 (5.01%) Data Architect
12 73 (4.30%) Consultant
13 54 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
14 51 (3.01%) Project Manager
15 50 (2.95%) Power Platform Developer
16 46 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
17 41 (2.42%) Lead Architect
18 40 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
19 39 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
20 38 (2.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (5.48%) PySpark
2 69 (4.07%) Terraform
3 66 (3.89%) REST
4 65 (3.83%) .NET
5 32 (1.89%) Kafka
6 22 (1.30%) JSON
6 22 (1.30%) React
7 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Graph
8 20 (1.18%) HTML
9 19 (1.12%) Middleware
10 17 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (0.83%) CSS
12 13 (0.77%) Pandas
13 11 (0.65%) ADO
14 8 (0.47%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.47%) EDI
15 7 (0.41%) Great Expectations
15 7 (0.41%) JDO
15 7 (0.41%) RESTful
15 7 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.36%) Data Structures
2 70 (4.13%) Cloud Native
3 63 (3.71%) Management Information System
4 58 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 49 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (1.65%) Clustering
9 23 (1.36%) CMDB
9 23 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.12%) FMCG
12 18 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.88%) Data Centre
14 14 (0.83%) PKI
14 14 (0.83%) Reference Data
15 12 (0.71%) NHS
16 11 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.07%) Windows
2 25 (1.47%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.77%) Linux
4 12 (0.71%) Unix
5 10 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.12%) VMS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,581 (93.22%) Business Intelligence
2 676 (39.86%) Analytics
3 538 (31.72%) Data Modelling
4 419 (24.71%) Agile
5 359 (21.17%) Decision-Making
5 359 (21.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 351 (20.70%) ETL
7 327 (19.28%) AI
8 326 (19.22%) Visualisation
9 321 (18.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 303 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
11 302 (17.81%) Migration
12 295 (17.39%) DevOps
13 283 (16.69%) CI/CD
14 273 (16.10%) Data Governance
15 271 (15.98%) Data Pipeline
16 257 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 256 (15.09%) Data Engineering
18 244 (14.39%) Validation
19 208 (12.26%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 790 (46.58%) SQL
2 396 (23.35%) Python
3 200 (11.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 91 (5.37%) JavaScript
5 88 (5.19%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.25%) C#
7 59 (3.48%) T-SQL
8 46 (2.71%) Java
9 43 (2.54%) R
10 25 (1.47%) VBA
11 20 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.59%) Bicep
14 9 (0.53%) Scala
15 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.35%) Bash
16 6 (0.35%) Korn
16 6 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.29%) X++
18 4 (0.24%) C
Qualifications
1 317 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 239 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 166 (9.79%) Degree
4 45 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 39 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (1.65%) DBS Check
9 24 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.00%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (0.65%) PMP
14 10 (0.59%) ACCA
15 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.47%) CIMA
17 7 (0.41%) CISSP
18 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
19 5 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (23.47%) Data Quality
2 95 (5.60%) GDPR
3 80 (4.72%) PMO
4 79 (4.66%) QA
5 34 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.83%) GRC
7 13 (0.77%) SLA
8 12 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.59%) ISO 19650
10 7 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.41%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
14 2 (0.12%) Basel III
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
14 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.12%) NIST
14 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.88%) Docker
3 14 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.059%) RACF
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.24%) Grafana
3 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.71%) Ansible
5 11 (0.65%) SCOM
6 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.41%) SCCM
8 5 (0.29%) Control-M
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.059%) Kibana
11 1 (0.059%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.059%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.059%) WSUS
Vendors
1 662 (39.03%) Microsoft
2 220 (12.97%) Databricks
3 114 (6.72%) SAP
4 104 (6.13%) ServiceNow
5 85 (5.01%) Oracle
6 47 (2.77%) Google
7 46 (2.71%) Informatica
8 34 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 32 (1.89%) Remedy
10 27 (1.59%) Alteryx
10 27 (1.59%) Splunk
11 23 (1.36%) Workday
12 21 (1.24%) BMC
13 16 (0.94%) Adobe
13 16 (0.94%) Denodo
14 15 (0.88%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.83%) VMware
16 13 (0.77%) IFS
17 10 (0.59%) Foundry
17 10 (0.59%) Teradata