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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 56 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,316 1,017 1,166
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.16% 3.68% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.38% 20.16% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 684 832
10th Percentile £313 £313 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £614
90th Percentile £668 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 38
10th Percentile - £24.68 £16.32
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.16
Median hourly rate £24.02 £30.30 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% -6.27% -41.77%
75th Percentile £35.26 £56.50 £52.44
90th Percentile £61.00 £64.73 £79.06
UK median hourly rate £24.02 £28.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -14.23% -13.37% -35.36%

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 5,397 5,045 6,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.06% 18.25% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,770 3,348 4,316
10th Percentile £325 £350 £357
25th Percentile £410 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 72 131
10th Percentile £20.90 £19.35 £19.25
25th Percentile £29.72 £24.25 £25.32
Median hourly rate £54.85 £40.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.43% -14.74% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70.50 £64.79 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.90 £73.35 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £32.50 £46.84
% change year-on-year +66.15% -30.61% -14.84%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +6 738 £500 -2.91% 281
North of England -19 157 £423 -8.65% 115
South East -12 120 £475 - 211
Midlands -22 118 £456 -5.64% 120
West Midlands -37 79 £500 - 78
Yorkshire -7 76 £420 -1.18% 47
North West -21 75 £413 -17.18% 52
South West +2 72 £475 +5.56% 54
East of England +5 47 £625 +38.89% 50
East Midlands -4 39 £354 -8.05% 40
North East -6 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
1 144 (10.94%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.50%) Confluence
3 38 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (1.67%) Apache
6 18 (1.37%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.61%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.61%) Mendix
9 6 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) Moodle
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
12 1 (0.076%) Kentico
12 1 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.076%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 296 (22.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (2.13%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.38%) Trello
8 4 (0.30%) Notion
9 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.076%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 61 (4.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.30%) Primavera
6 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.23%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) Actimize
8 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.15%) Endur
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,316 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 494 (37.54%) Azure
3 202 (15.35%) Power Automate
4 188 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 143 (10.87%) AWS
6 131 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (9.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 114 (8.66%) Dynamics 365
9 110 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
10 100 (7.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 88 (6.69%) GCP
12 83 (6.31%) Snowflake
13 53 (4.03%) Microsoft Copilot
14 47 (3.57%) Serverless
15 43 (3.27%) GitHub
16 42 (3.19%) SaaS
17 40 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
18 34 (2.58%) Entra ID
19 33 (2.51%) Azure Functions
19 33 (2.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) HTTP
2 4 (0.30%) VoIP
2 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.23%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) 2G
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) DNS
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.15%) LTE
4 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.15%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.15%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.076%) Firewall
5 1 (0.076%) NAS
5 1 (0.076%) Skype
5 1 (0.076%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (15.05%) Tableau
2 153 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
3 105 (7.98%) Data Lake
4 100 (7.60%) SQL Server
5 89 (6.76%) Power Query
6 56 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 51 (3.88%) Metadata
8 50 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 47 (3.57%) Relational Database
10 44 (3.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 43 (3.27%) BigQuery
12 37 (2.81%) Looker
13 28 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
14 25 (1.90%) Data Mining
14 25 (1.90%) Delta Lake
15 22 (1.67%) Big Data
15 22 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
16 21 (1.60%) Star Schema
17 20 (1.52%) NoSQL
17 20 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 116 (8.81%) JIRA
2 57 (4.33%) Git
3 11 (0.84%) GitLab
4 9 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.46%) DBeaver
8 5 (0.38%) NeoLoad
9 3 (0.23%) ERwin
9 3 (0.23%) Postman
9 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.076%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.076%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.076%) Maven
11 1 (0.076%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.076%) Selenium
General
1 464 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 447 (33.97%) Finance
3 307 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 129 (9.80%) Banking
6 48 (3.65%) Marketing
7 40 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
8 39 (2.96%) Manufacturing
9 35 (2.66%) Retail
10 33 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.82%) Front Office
13 24 (1.82%) Local Government
14 23 (1.75%) Legal
15 22 (1.67%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (1.37%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 368 (27.96%) Analyst
2 208 (15.81%) Developer
3 160 (12.16%) Data Engineer
4 156 (11.85%) Data Analyst
5 128 (9.73%) Senior
6 102 (7.75%) Lead
7 98 (7.45%) Business Analyst
8 88 (6.69%) Architect
9 75 (5.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 70 (5.32%) Consultant
11 56 (4.26%) Power BI Developer
12 46 (3.50%) Data Scientist
13 45 (3.42%) Project Manager
13 45 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
14 43 (3.27%) Data Architect
15 39 (2.96%) Power Platform Developer
16 35 (2.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 34 (2.58%) Power BI Analyst
18 32 (2.43%) PMO Analyst
19 29 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (4.48%) PySpark
2 43 (3.27%) .NET
3 39 (2.96%) REST
4 27 (2.05%) HTML
5 25 (1.90%) Kafka
6 23 (1.75%) Pandas
6 23 (1.75%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.67%) JSON
8 19 (1.44%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (1.14%) React
10 14 (1.06%) NumPy
11 12 (0.91%) PyTorch
11 12 (0.91%) TensorFlow
12 11 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (0.76%) CSS
13 10 (0.76%) Plotly
14 9 (0.68%) OAuth
14 9 (0.68%) XML
15 8 (0.61%) ADO
15 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 48 (3.65%) Product Ownership
2 36 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (2.66%) Data Structures
4 31 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.20%) Low-Code
5 29 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 26 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.90%) Algorithms
7 25 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 22 (1.67%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.22%) PMI
9 16 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.14%) Derivative
11 14 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 13 (0.99%) Reinsurance
13 12 (0.91%) Life Science
14 11 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.84%) FMCG
15 10 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.99%) Windows
2 5 (0.38%) Linux
3 4 (0.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (91.26%) Business Intelligence
2 471 (35.79%) Analytics
3 352 (26.75%) Data Modelling
4 328 (24.92%) Visualisation
5 305 (23.18%) Agile
6 267 (20.29%) Decision-Making
7 242 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 213 (16.19%) Data Governance
10 212 (16.11%) ETL
11 203 (15.43%) Actionable Insight
12 198 (15.05%) DevOps
13 195 (14.82%) Data Analysis
14 190 (14.44%) Data Visualisation
15 159 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 144 (10.94%) Data Engineering
17 143 (10.87%) CI/CD
18 139 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
19 137 (10.41%) AI
20 136 (10.33%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 595 (45.21%) SQL
2 339 (25.76%) Python
3 102 (7.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 64 (4.86%) C#
5 60 (4.56%) R
6 59 (4.48%) JavaScript
7 39 (2.96%) PowerShell
8 33 (2.51%) VBA
9 31 (2.36%) Java
10 29 (2.20%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.90%) Scala
12 14 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 13 (0.99%) Bicep
14 10 (0.76%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.76%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.53%) Korn
17 5 (0.38%) C++
17 5 (0.38%) X++
18 4 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 183 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 143 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 118 (8.97%) Degree
4 29 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (1.98%) PMI Certification
6 23 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.60%) PMP
8 17 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.84%) ACCA
9 11 (0.84%) CIMA
9 11 (0.84%) MBA
10 8 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.61%) CFA
11 7 (0.53%) CBAP
11 7 (0.53%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
12 5 (0.38%) IIBA
13 4 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (16.72%) Data Quality
2 76 (5.78%) GDPR
3 73 (5.55%) PMO
4 66 (5.02%) QA
5 53 (4.03%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.84%) GRC
9 10 (0.76%) Basel III
10 9 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.53%) IFRS
11 7 (0.53%) NIST
11 7 (0.53%) SLA
12 6 (0.46%) GxP
13 5 (0.38%) P3O
14 4 (0.30%) WCAG
15 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 28 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.05%) Docker
3 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.076%) HDFS
4 1 (0.076%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (3.42%) Terraform
2 32 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.46%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.46%) SCCM
5 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.15%) Ansible
6 2 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.076%) Control-M
7 1 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.076%) Puppet
7 1 (0.076%) SCOM
7 1 (0.076%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.076%) WSUS
Vendors
1 438 (33.28%) Microsoft
2 150 (11.40%) Databricks
3 99 (7.52%) Oracle
4 78 (5.93%) SAP
5 64 (4.86%) Google
6 44 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.82%) Informatica
9 18 (1.37%) Alteryx
9 18 (1.37%) Lotus
10 12 (0.91%) Foundry
10 12 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 12 (0.91%) Planview
10 12 (0.91%) Splunk
11 11 (0.84%) Adobe
11 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.68%) Cognos
13 8 (0.61%) Kofax
13 8 (0.61%) Workday
14 7 (0.53%) IFS