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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,550 918 1,226
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.77% 3.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.07% 19.84% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 595 874
10th Percentile £331 £311 £300
25th Percentile £405 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £575
90th Percentile £650 £654 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 30 27
10th Percentile £16.21 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.20 £23.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -48.45%
75th Percentile £38.06 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.64 £53.75 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £31.64 £23.22
% change year-on-year -9.77% +36.29% -48.45%

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 6,439 4,626 6,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 18.98% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,379 3,196 4,561
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 91 140
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -32.54%
75th Percentile £73.88 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.77% -14.53% -33.33%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +7 795 £500 - 277
South East +14 216 £488 +5.41% 182
Midlands -4 188 £463 -6.09% 102
North of England -30 166 £461 +2.36% 155
West Midlands -22 129 £459 -8.20% 64
South West +9 94 £450 +5.88% 62
North West -8 90 £475 -1.30% 98
Yorkshire -49 60 £438 +3.06% 47
East Midlands +13 58 £464 +6.00% 38
East of England -19 40 £413 -17.50% 39
North East -16 17 £438 -2.78% 13
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
1 120 (7.74%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.32%) Confluence
3 46 (2.97%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.94%) Apache
5 27 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (1.16%) SAS
7 12 (0.77%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.65%) Mendix
9 8 (0.52%) Apache Superset
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.32%) CMS
12 4 (0.26%) IIS
13 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.19%) Kentico
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.065%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 296 (19.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.94%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (1.68%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.065%) CATIA
9 1 (0.065%) InDesign
9 1 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.97%) iTrent
5 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.39%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.32%) Primavera
7 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
10 1 (0.065%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1,550 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 566 (36.52%) Azure
3 197 (12.71%) AWS
4 151 (9.74%) Power Automate
5 149 (9.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 142 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
7 131 (8.45%) PowerApps
8 128 (8.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 108 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
10 106 (6.84%) Snowflake
11 88 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
12 81 (5.23%) GCP
13 74 (4.77%) Serverless
14 73 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
15 63 (4.06%) GitHub
16 54 (3.48%) dbt
17 52 (3.35%) Amazon S3
18 46 (2.97%) Copilot Studio
19 40 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
20 39 (2.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.97%) Firewall
2 12 (0.77%) VPN
3 9 (0.58%) DNS
4 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.19%) Network Security
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) LTE
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) NAS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SAN
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (16.26%) Data Warehouse
2 248 (16.00%) Tableau
3 156 (10.06%) Data Lake
4 123 (7.94%) SQL Server
5 109 (7.03%) Power Query
6 69 (4.45%) Metadata
7 56 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 50 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 50 (3.23%) Star Schema
10 49 (3.16%) Looker
11 42 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
12 37 (2.39%) Spark SQL
13 36 (2.32%) BigQuery
14 35 (2.26%) Snowflake Schema
15 33 (2.13%) Delta Lake
16 30 (1.94%) NoSQL
17 29 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
18 25 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 24 (1.55%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 134 (8.65%) JIRA
2 72 (4.65%) Git
3 26 (1.68%) GitLab
4 14 (0.90%) ERwin
5 10 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.32%) MLflow
6 5 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) JUnit
7 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.19%) Postman
8 3 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.065%) Hudson
General
1 474 (30.58%) Finance
2 466 (30.06%) Social Skills
3 352 (22.71%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 108 (6.97%) Banking
6 56 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 54 (3.48%) Retail
8 48 (3.10%) Law
9 43 (2.77%) Marketing
9 43 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.29%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.29%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.16%) Legal
15 18 (1.16%) Local Government
16 15 (0.97%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 410 (26.45%) Analyst
2 258 (16.65%) Data Engineer
3 209 (13.48%) Developer
4 190 (12.26%) Senior
5 184 (11.87%) Data Analyst
6 163 (10.52%) Architect
7 149 (9.61%) Lead
8 106 (6.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 87 (5.61%) Business Analyst
10 81 (5.23%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.45%) Consultant
12 67 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
13 58 (3.74%) Data Architect
14 48 (3.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 46 (2.97%) Project Manager
16 40 (2.58%) Lead Architect
16 40 (2.58%) Power Platform Developer
17 37 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
18 35 (2.26%) Senior Developer
19 33 (2.13%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (6.00%) PySpark
2 52 (3.35%) REST
3 39 (2.52%) Kafka
4 37 (2.39%) .NET
5 24 (1.55%) Pandas
6 21 (1.35%) JSON
6 21 (1.35%) React
7 20 (1.29%) HTML
8 17 (1.10%) Middleware
9 15 (0.97%) CSS
9 15 (0.97%) Great Expectations
9 15 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
10 13 (0.84%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (0.84%) YAML
11 12 (0.77%) ADO
11 12 (0.77%) XML
12 8 (0.52%) JDO
12 8 (0.52%) PyTorch
12 8 (0.52%) Spark Streaming
12 8 (0.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 56 (3.61%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (1.48%) Low-Code
9 22 (1.42%) CMDB
9 22 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.16%) AI Agents
11 14 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (0.90%) NHS
11 14 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.84%) Clustering
13 12 (0.77%) IoT
13 12 (0.77%) PKI
14 10 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.65%) PMI
14 10 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.94%) Windows
2 17 (1.10%) Windows Server
3 10 (0.65%) Unix
4 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.52%) Linux
6 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.26%) Android
7 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,439 (92.84%) Business Intelligence
2 645 (41.61%) Analytics
3 509 (32.84%) Data Modelling
4 361 (23.29%) Agile
5 345 (22.26%) ETL
6 319 (20.58%) Decision-Making
7 317 (20.45%) Visualisation
8 277 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
9 264 (17.03%) AI
10 261 (16.84%) Data Engineering
11 257 (16.58%) Data Pipeline
12 256 (16.52%) DevOps
13 253 (16.32%) Data Governance
14 249 (16.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 232 (14.97%) CI/CD
16 223 (14.39%) Migration
17 221 (14.26%) Stakeholder Management
18 213 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
19 197 (12.71%) Data Visualisation
20 194 (12.52%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 738 (47.61%) SQL
2 382 (24.65%) Python
3 174 (11.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (4.45%) PowerShell
5 64 (4.13%) C#
6 62 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 55 (3.55%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.23%) R
9 42 (2.71%) Java
10 25 (1.61%) VBA
11 20 (1.29%) Bicep
12 14 (0.90%) Scala
13 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.52%) Formula Language
14 8 (0.52%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.32%) C
18 4 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 262 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 203 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 138 (8.90%) Degree
4 38 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 20 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 19 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.23%) PMP
10 16 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 14 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.39%) ACCA
13 6 (0.39%) CISSP
14 5 (0.32%) MBA
14 5 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
14 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (23.61%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.84%) GDPR
3 87 (5.61%) PMO
4 74 (4.77%) QA
5 31 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.03%) SLA
7 14 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.77%) GRC
9 8 (0.52%) Basel III
10 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.39%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.32%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.26%) P3O
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) NCSC
14 2 (0.13%) COBIT
System Software
1 44 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.55%) Docker
3 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.065%) RACF
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (4.90%) Terraform
2 28 (1.81%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.16%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 7 (0.45%) Ansible
7 5 (0.32%) Control-M
7 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.065%) Kibana
10 1 (0.065%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.065%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.065%) WSUS
Vendors
1 522 (33.68%) Microsoft
2 205 (13.23%) Databricks
3 92 (5.94%) SAP
4 80 (5.16%) Oracle
5 78 (5.03%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.35%) Google
7 38 (2.45%) Informatica
8 27 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.55%) Workday
10 22 (1.42%) Remedy
11 20 (1.29%) Splunk
12 16 (1.03%) Foundry
13 14 (0.90%) Adobe
13 14 (0.90%) Alteryx
13 14 (0.90%) IFS
14 13 (0.84%) Talend
15 12 (0.77%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.77%) Lotus
16 11 (0.71%) Denodo
17 10 (0.65%) BMC