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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 62 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,682 1,061 1,097
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.68% 3.84% 3.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.18% 21.44% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 699 789
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £668 £682 £675
UK median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 24 15
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.01 £19.90
25th Percentile £22.86 £22.56 £22.63
Median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -10.60%
75th Percentile £42.00 £35.25 £34.47
90th Percentile £71.60 £53.75 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.52% +6.83% -10.60%

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 6,957 4,948 6,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.22% 17.93% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,644 3,415 4,320
10th Percentile £359 £338 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £675
90th Percentile £708 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 81 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.85 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.00 £19.92
Median hourly rate £38.25 £35.00 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +3.15% -38.31%
75th Percentile £61.88 £63.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £75.50 £78.70 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.00% +15.38% -40.91%

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 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 27 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 27 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 +5 882 £500 - 802
North of England -6 231 £450 +1.12% 264
South East 0 206 £475 +4.11% 297
Midlands +10 200 £475 +10.47% 196
West Midlands -3 139 £475 +4.11% 129
North West -3 123 £485 +2.11% 153
Yorkshire -23 92 £426 +6.38% 79
South West -15 90 £438 +9.38% 115
East Midlands +19 59 £465 +11.04% 67
East of England -21 35 £550 -5.17% 80
North East -28 20 £383 -15.00% 34
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 (9.99%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.10%) Confluence
3 34 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.49%) Apache
6 23 (1.37%) SAS
7 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.71%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.42%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.36%) Mendix
10 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.24%) CMS
12 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.18%) IIS
13 3 (0.18%) Kentico
14 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.059%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.059%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 321 (19.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 52 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
4 47 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.59%) Navisworks
7 10 (0.59%) Revit
8 6 (0.36%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.36%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 39 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 24 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.95%) iTrent
5 12 (0.71%) Primavera
6 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.42%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.30%) Maximo
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
12 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
12 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
12 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,682 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 640 (38.05%) Azure
3 213 (12.66%) AWS
4 194 (11.53%) Power Automate
5 171 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
6 166 (9.87%) PowerApps
7 141 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 140 (8.32%) Snowflake
9 123 (7.31%) Dynamics 365
10 119 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
11 114 (6.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 97 (5.77%) Microsoft Copilot
13 80 (4.76%) Serverless
14 72 (4.28%) dbt
15 69 (4.10%) GCP
16 66 (3.92%) GitHub
17 55 (3.27%) Amazon S3
18 51 (3.03%) Entra ID
19 48 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
20 46 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.89%) Firewall
2 13 (0.77%) VPN
3 10 (0.59%) DNS
4 7 (0.42%) SSL
5 5 (0.30%) Broadband
6 4 (0.24%) Network Security
7 3 (0.18%) Internet
8 2 (0.12%) Intranet
8 2 (0.12%) NAS
8 2 (0.12%) SAN
8 2 (0.12%) SMTP
9 1 (0.059%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.059%) 4G
9 1 (0.059%) LAN
9 1 (0.059%) LTE
9 1 (0.059%) OpenFlow
9 1 (0.059%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.059%) VoIP
9 1 (0.059%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.059%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
2 251 (14.92%) Tableau
3 144 (8.56%) Data Lake
4 127 (7.55%) SQL Server
5 124 (7.37%) Power Query
6 82 (4.88%) Metadata
7 68 (4.04%) Star Schema
8 54 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.03%) Looker
10 50 (2.97%) Relational Database
11 47 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 42 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
12 42 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.14%) BigQuery
14 35 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
14 35 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
15 31 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 30 (1.78%) NoSQL
17 24 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 21 (1.25%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 146 (8.68%) JIRA
2 60 (3.57%) Git
3 28 (1.66%) GitLab
4 9 (0.54%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.48%) MLflow
6 7 (0.42%) ERwin
7 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
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
12 1 (0.059%) TestRail
General
1 541 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 496 (29.49%) Finance
3 412 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.37%) Banking
6 76 (4.52%) Retail
7 59 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 55 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (3.27%) Law
9 51 (3.03%) Manufacturing
10 50 (2.97%) Marketing
11 46 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (2.02%) Local Government
13 33 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.13%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.13%) Legal
16 16 (0.95%) Military
16 16 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 437 (25.98%) Analyst
2 241 (14.33%) Developer
3 217 (12.90%) Data Engineer
4 214 (12.72%) Data Analyst
5 196 (11.65%) Senior
6 194 (11.53%) Architect
7 161 (9.57%) Lead
8 113 (6.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 96 (5.71%) Business Analyst
10 90 (5.35%) Power BI Developer
11 81 (4.82%) Data Architect
12 75 (4.46%) Consultant
13 53 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
14 50 (2.97%) Project Manager
15 49 (2.91%) Power Platform Developer
16 47 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
17 41 (2.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 41 (2.44%) Lead Architect
18 40 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
19 35 (2.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.41%) PySpark
2 70 (4.16%) Terraform
3 67 (3.98%) .NET
4 63 (3.75%) REST
5 33 (1.96%) Kafka
6 24 (1.43%) React
7 22 (1.31%) Microsoft Graph
8 21 (1.25%) JSON
9 20 (1.19%) HTML
10 19 (1.13%) Middleware
11 16 (0.95%) HTML5 Canvas
12 14 (0.83%) CSS
13 12 (0.71%) Pandas
14 10 (0.59%) ADO
15 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.48%) EDI
16 7 (0.42%) Great Expectations
16 7 (0.42%) JDO
16 7 (0.42%) OAuth
16 7 (0.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.52%) Data Structures
2 68 (4.04%) Cloud Native
3 65 (3.86%) Management Information System
4 58 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 55 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 44 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (1.66%) Clustering
9 23 (1.37%) CMDB
9 23 (1.37%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.19%) AI Agents
10 20 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.13%) FMCG
12 18 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.89%) Data Centre
14 14 (0.83%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.77%) NHS
16 12 (0.71%) PKI
17 11 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
17 11 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.91%) Windows
2 22 (1.31%) Windows Server
3 14 (0.83%) Linux
4 10 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.54%) Unix
6 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.30%) 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 1,569 (93.28%) Business Intelligence
2 671 (39.89%) Analytics
3 526 (31.27%) Data Modelling
4 412 (24.49%) Agile
5 366 (21.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 359 (21.34%) Decision-Making
7 341 (20.27%) ETL
8 328 (19.50%) Visualisation
9 324 (19.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 323 (19.20%) AI
11 304 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
12 299 (17.78%) Migration
13 295 (17.54%) DevOps
14 281 (16.71%) CI/CD
15 269 (15.99%) Data Governance
16 264 (15.70%) Data Pipeline
17 262 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 259 (15.40%) Data Engineering
19 236 (14.03%) Validation
20 209 (12.43%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 779 (46.31%) SQL
2 391 (23.25%) Python
3 196 (11.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 91 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 88 (5.23%) PowerShell
6 73 (4.34%) C#
7 59 (3.51%) T-SQL
8 46 (2.73%) R
9 43 (2.56%) Java
10 24 (1.43%) VBA
11 21 (1.25%) TypeScript
12 13 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.59%) Bicep
14 9 (0.54%) Scala
15 7 (0.42%) Bash
15 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.36%) Korn
16 6 (0.36%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.30%) X++
18 4 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 317 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 241 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 163 (9.69%) Degree
4 47 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.37%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 18 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 12 (0.71%) PMP
14 10 (0.59%) ACCA
15 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.48%) CIMA
17 7 (0.42%) CISSP
17 7 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 393 (23.37%) Data Quality
2 93 (5.53%) GDPR
3 80 (4.76%) QA
4 76 (4.52%) PMO
5 35 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.89%) GRC
7 12 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.71%) SLA
8 11 (0.65%) ISO 19650
9 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.18%) P3O
13 2 (0.12%) Basel III
13 2 (0.12%) COBIT
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.12%) NCSC
13 2 (0.12%) NIST
13 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.89%) Docker
3 13 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.059%) RACF
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.19%) Grafana
3 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.71%) Ansible
5 11 (0.65%) SCOM
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) SCCM
8 6 (0.36%) 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%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.059%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.059%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.059%) WSUS
Vendors
1 659 (39.18%) Microsoft
2 215 (12.78%) Databricks
3 112 (6.66%) SAP
4 102 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 84 (4.99%) Oracle
6 49 (2.91%) Google
7 41 (2.44%) Informatica
8 34 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 30 (1.78%) Remedy
10 27 (1.61%) Alteryx
10 27 (1.61%) Splunk
11 24 (1.43%) Workday
12 20 (1.19%) BMC
13 14 (0.83%) Adobe
13 14 (0.83%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.77%) Denodo
14 13 (0.77%) VMware
15 12 (0.71%) IFS
16 10 (0.59%) Autodesk
16 10 (0.59%) Teradata