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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 56 65
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,490 938 1,182
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 3.85% 3.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.93% 20.18% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 641 841
10th Percentile £315 £313 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 33
10th Percentile £15.75 £18.94 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £31.13 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% +25.22% -58.32%
75th Percentile £41.81 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.12 £60.20
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.24% +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 6,226 4,648 6,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.88% 19.07% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,335 3,261 4,424
10th Percentile £350 £358 £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 £673
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 94 138
10th Percentile £17.85 £20.96 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.83 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -29.08%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.46 £52.35
90th Percentile £83.35 £70.00 £69.88
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -31.73%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +5 792 £500 +2.04% 237
South East +5 185 £500 +5.26% 169
Midlands -15 165 £450 -6.44% 129
North of England -40 147 £450 -1.37% 147
West Midlands -33 101 £450 -7.22% 78
South West +8 84 £450 - 63
North West -22 78 £449 -14.46% 82
East Midlands +10 63 £414 -15.18% 51
Yorkshire -42 57 £440 +3.53% 47
East of England -28 45 £475 -5.00% 56
North East -13 12 £475 +5.56% 22
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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
1 137 (9.19%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.89%) Confluence
3 54 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.21%) Apache
5 29 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.01%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.67%) Mendix
8 8 (0.54%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.34%) SAS
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.067%) Appian
14 1 (0.067%) Camunda
14 1 (0.067%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 303 (20.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (4.09%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.21%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.20%) Notion
7 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.13%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.13%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.067%) CATIA
9 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.067%) InDesign
9 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 39 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.67%) iTrent
5 9 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.27%) Primavera
8 4 (0.27%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
9 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.13%) Actimize
10 2 (0.13%) Loan IQ
10 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,490 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 560 (37.58%) Azure
3 206 (13.83%) AWS
4 182 (12.21%) Power Automate
5 155 (10.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 153 (10.27%) PowerApps
7 136 (9.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 128 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
9 126 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (7.25%) Dynamics 365
11 101 (6.78%) GCP
12 99 (6.64%) Snowflake
13 73 (4.90%) Serverless
14 69 (4.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 60 (4.03%) GitHub
16 49 (3.29%) Amazon S3
17 46 (3.09%) Copilot Studio
18 45 (3.02%) dbt
19 39 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
20 38 (2.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.60%) Firewall
1 9 (0.60%) VPN
2 4 (0.27%) 5G
2 4 (0.27%) DNS
2 4 (0.27%) HTTP
2 4 (0.27%) LTE
3 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.20%) Network Security
3 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.13%) 2G
4 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.13%) Intranet
4 2 (0.13%) MPLS
4 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.13%) SMTP
4 2 (0.13%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.13%) VoIP
4 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (17.25%) Tableau
2 222 (14.90%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (8.93%) Data Lake
4 114 (7.65%) SQL Server
5 89 (5.97%) Power Query
6 74 (4.97%) Metadata
7 58 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 57 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (3.36%) BigQuery
9 50 (3.36%) Looker
10 42 (2.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 41 (2.75%) Relational Database
12 38 (2.55%) Delta Lake
12 38 (2.55%) Star Schema
13 34 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 29 (1.95%) Mixpanel
15 29 (1.95%) NoSQL
15 29 (1.95%) Spark SQL
16 26 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 122 (8.19%) JIRA
2 73 (4.90%) Git
3 17 (1.14%) GitLab
4 13 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.81%) ERwin
6 6 (0.40%) MLflow
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.27%) Postman
7 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.067%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.067%) GCC
10 1 (0.067%) Hudson
10 1 (0.067%) NeoLoad
General
1 476 (31.95%) Finance
2 470 (31.54%) Social Skills
3 363 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 104 (6.98%) Banking
6 49 (3.29%) Law
7 48 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.15%) Retail
9 44 (2.95%) Marketing
10 43 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.54%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.34%) Legal
16 19 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (1.01%) Front Office
18 14 (0.94%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.94%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 395 (26.51%) Analyst
2 241 (16.17%) Data Engineer
3 206 (13.83%) Developer
4 180 (12.08%) Senior
5 176 (11.81%) Data Analyst
6 153 (10.27%) Lead
7 142 (9.53%) Architect
8 99 (6.64%) Business Analyst
9 87 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 72 (4.83%) Consultant
11 65 (4.36%) Power BI Developer
12 49 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
13 48 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
14 42 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 41 (2.75%) Data Architect
15 41 (2.75%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.62%) PMO Analyst
17 36 (2.42%) Lead Architect
18 34 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
18 34 (2.28%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.57%) PySpark
2 44 (2.95%) Kafka
2 44 (2.95%) REST
3 34 (2.28%) .NET
4 33 (2.21%) Pandas
5 22 (1.48%) scikit-learn
6 21 (1.41%) HTML
6 21 (1.41%) JSON
7 20 (1.34%) Great Expectations
8 18 (1.21%) React
9 17 (1.14%) NumPy
10 16 (1.07%) HTML5 Canvas
11 15 (1.01%) ADO
11 15 (1.01%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.01%) TensorFlow
11 15 (1.01%) XML
12 14 (0.94%) YAML
13 13 (0.87%) CSS
13 13 (0.87%) Spark Streaming
14 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 55 (3.69%) Cloud Native
2 54 (3.62%) Data Structures
2 54 (3.62%) Product Ownership
3 35 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 34 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 27 (1.81%) Low-Code
6 27 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 23 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.14%) CMDB
10 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.07%) PMI
11 14 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.81%) Clustering
14 11 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.67%) IoT
15 10 (0.67%) NHS
16 8 (0.54%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.28%) Windows
2 10 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.34%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.067%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,390 (93.29%) Business Intelligence
2 605 (40.60%) Analytics
3 477 (32.01%) Data Modelling
4 330 (22.15%) Visualisation
5 324 (21.74%) Agile
5 324 (21.74%) ETL
6 308 (20.67%) Decision-Making
7 273 (18.32%) Data Governance
8 272 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
9 241 (16.17%) Data Engineering
10 228 (15.30%) DevOps
11 226 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 224 (15.03%) Data Pipeline
13 221 (14.83%) AI
14 210 (14.09%) Actionable Insight
14 210 (14.09%) Data Visualisation
15 207 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 206 (13.83%) CI/CD
17 203 (13.62%) Data Analysis
17 203 (13.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 711 (47.72%) SQL
2 393 (26.38%) Python
3 152 (10.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (4.63%) C#
5 59 (3.96%) R
6 55 (3.69%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.62%) VBA
9 35 (2.35%) T-SQL
10 30 (2.01%) Java
11 24 (1.61%) Bicep
12 21 (1.41%) Scala
13 13 (0.87%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.74%) Formula Language
14 11 (0.74%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.27%) C
18 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
18 3 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 247 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 192 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 141 (9.46%) Degree
4 34 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.68%) PMI Certification
9 24 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.54%) PMP
11 12 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.81%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.74%) MBA
13 8 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.40%) CBAP
14 6 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.34%) ACCA
15 5 (0.34%) IIBA
16 4 (0.27%) CISSP
16 4 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (23.49%) Data Quality
2 114 (7.65%) GDPR
3 96 (6.44%) PMO
4 81 (5.44%) QA
5 35 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.07%) SLA
7 15 (1.01%) GRC
7 15 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.74%) Basel III
9 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.27%) NCSC
10 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.20%) GAAP
11 3 (0.20%) IFRS
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.20%) P3O
11 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (2.15%) Docker
2 31 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.067%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (5.03%) Terraform
2 39 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.54%) Grafana
5 6 (0.40%) SCCM
6 5 (0.34%) Ansible
6 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.20%) Control-M
7 3 (0.20%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Kibana
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
9 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.067%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.067%) SCOM
9 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.067%) WSUS
Vendors
1 501 (33.62%) Microsoft
2 208 (13.96%) Databricks
3 78 (5.23%) ServiceNow
4 77 (5.17%) Oracle
4 77 (5.17%) SAP
5 63 (4.23%) Google
6 41 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.21%) Informatica
8 20 (1.34%) Workday
9 19 (1.28%) Foundry
10 15 (1.01%) Lotus
11 14 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 14 (0.94%) Sage
12 13 (0.87%) Remedy
13 12 (0.81%) Alteryx
14 11 (0.74%) Talend
15 10 (0.67%) Adobe
15 10 (0.67%) IFS
15 10 (0.67%) Kofax
16 9 (0.60%) MuleSoft
720 Power BI jobs in England