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

 6 months to
21 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 62 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,683 1,077 1,094
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.69% 3.91% 3.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.12% 21.57% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 707 793
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £666 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 25 13
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.08 £20.15
25th Percentile £21.79 £23.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -7.18%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.68 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £51.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.30
% change year-on-year -5.31% +4.44% -6.27%

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 6,977 4,993 6,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 18.12% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,669 3,438 4,352
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £423 £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 226 82 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.35 £25.34 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.58 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -1.21% -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.31 £61.25 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.58 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £34.47
% change year-on-year +9.32% +1.52% -37.34%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +4 874 £500 - 313
North of England -12 225 £450 +1.12% 155
Midlands +7 208 £473 +5.00% 128
South East -12 208 £475 +2.70% 218
West Midlands -4 145 £470 +1.62% 79
North West +1 121 £475 - 85
South West -18 92 £438 +12.90% 63
Yorkshire -21 88 £437 +9.25% 49
East Midlands +17 61 £475 +11.76% 49
East of England -14 35 £565 -2.59% 58
North East -23 20 £383 -15.00% 24
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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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
1 165 (9.80%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.10%) Confluence
3 34 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.49%) SAS
6 23 (1.37%) Apache
7 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.71%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.36%) Mendix
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.30%) 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
1 317 (18.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 53 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.53%) Navisworks
7 9 (0.53%) Revit
8 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.30%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.30%) 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 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.95%) iTrent
5 13 (0.77%) Primavera
6 9 (0.53%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.36%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) 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 1,683 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 637 (37.85%) Azure
3 209 (12.42%) AWS
4 194 (11.53%) Power Automate
5 168 (9.98%) PowerApps
6 167 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
7 138 (8.20%) Snowflake
8 137 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 123 (7.31%) Dynamics 365
10 119 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
11 115 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 95 (5.64%) Microsoft Copilot
13 78 (4.63%) Serverless
14 70 (4.16%) dbt
15 68 (4.04%) GCP
16 65 (3.86%) GitHub
17 55 (3.27%) Amazon S3
18 50 (2.97%) Entra ID
19 49 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
20 48 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
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%) 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
1 274 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
2 245 (14.56%) Tableau
3 145 (8.62%) Data Lake
4 131 (7.78%) SQL Server
5 127 (7.55%) Power Query
6 79 (4.69%) Metadata
7 67 (3.98%) Star Schema
8 63 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.03%) Looker
9 51 (3.03%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (2.14%) BigQuery
14 34 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
15 33 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
16 32 (1.90%) NoSQL
16 32 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 23 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
17 23 (1.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 148 (8.79%) JIRA
2 62 (3.68%) Git
3 31 (1.84%) GitLab
4 12 (0.71%) 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%) 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
1 543 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 498 (29.59%) Finance
3 407 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 116 (6.89%) Banking
6 73 (4.34%) Retail
7 60 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (3.33%) Law
9 55 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (3.09%) Manufacturing
11 48 (2.85%) Marketing
12 45 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (1.90%) Local Government
14 29 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.37%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.13%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.13%) Legal
18 16 (0.95%) Front Office
19 15 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 427 (25.37%) Analyst
2 248 (14.74%) Developer
3 223 (13.25%) Data Engineer
4 210 (12.48%) Data Analyst
5 202 (12.00%) Senior
6 194 (11.53%) Architect
7 159 (9.45%) Lead
8 120 (7.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 95 (5.64%) Business Analyst
9 95 (5.64%) Power BI Developer
10 83 (4.93%) Data Architect
11 74 (4.40%) Consultant
12 54 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
13 52 (3.09%) Project Manager
14 50 (2.97%) Power Platform Developer
15 46 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.44%) Lead Architect
17 40 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 38 (2.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (5.47%) PySpark
2 69 (4.10%) Terraform
3 65 (3.86%) .NET
3 65 (3.86%) REST
4 32 (1.90%) Kafka
5 22 (1.31%) JSON
5 22 (1.31%) React
6 20 (1.19%) HTML
6 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (1.13%) Middleware
8 17 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
9 14 (0.83%) CSS
9 14 (0.83%) Pandas
10 11 (0.65%) ADO
11 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
11 8 (0.48%) EDI
12 7 (0.42%) Great Expectations
12 7 (0.42%) JDO
12 7 (0.42%) OAuth
12 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (4.34%) Data Structures
2 70 (4.16%) Cloud Native
3 62 (3.68%) Management Information System
4 57 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 52 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 49 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (1.66%) Clustering
9 24 (1.43%) CMDB
10 23 (1.37%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.19%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.13%) FMCG
13 18 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.89%) Data Centre
15 14 (0.83%) PKI
15 14 (0.83%) Reference Data
16 11 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (0.65%) IoT
16 11 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.09%) Windows
2 25 (1.49%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.77%) Linux
4 12 (0.71%) Unix
5 10 (0.59%) Apple iOS
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 1,568 (93.17%) Business Intelligence
2 670 (39.81%) Analytics
3 533 (31.67%) Data Modelling
4 417 (24.78%) Agile
5 358 (21.27%) Decision-Making
6 353 (20.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 350 (20.80%) ETL
8 326 (19.37%) Visualisation
9 325 (19.31%) AI
10 317 (18.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 304 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
12 299 (17.77%) Migration
13 293 (17.41%) DevOps
14 280 (16.64%) CI/CD
15 271 (16.10%) Data Governance
16 269 (15.98%) Data Pipeline
17 256 (15.21%) Data Engineering
18 254 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
19 244 (14.50%) Validation
20 207 (12.30%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 785 (46.64%) SQL
2 394 (23.41%) Python
3 196 (11.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 91 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 86 (5.11%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.28%) C#
7 59 (3.51%) T-SQL
8 46 (2.73%) Java
9 42 (2.50%) R
10 26 (1.54%) VBA
11 20 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.59%) Bicep
14 9 (0.53%) Scala
15 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.36%) Bash
16 6 (0.36%) Korn
16 6 (0.36%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.30%) X++
18 4 (0.24%) C
Qualifications
1 315 (18.72%) Security Cleared
2 238 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 163 (9.69%) Degree
4 45 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 39 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (1.66%) DBS Check
9 24 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (0.65%) PMP
14 9 (0.53%) ACCA
14 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.42%) CIMA
15 7 (0.42%) CISSP
16 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (23.41%) Data Quality
2 95 (5.64%) GDPR
3 78 (4.63%) PMO
3 78 (4.63%) QA
4 34 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.83%) GRC
6 13 (0.77%) SLA
7 12 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.59%) ISO 19650
9 7 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.42%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
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%) NIST
13 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.89%) 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 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.25%) Grafana
3 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.71%) Ansible
5 11 (0.65%) SCOM
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) SCCM
8 5 (0.30%) 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
1 656 (38.98%) Microsoft
2 216 (12.83%) Databricks
3 113 (6.71%) SAP
4 104 (6.18%) ServiceNow
5 85 (5.05%) Oracle
6 48 (2.85%) Google
7 46 (2.73%) Informatica
8 34 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 32 (1.90%) Remedy
10 27 (1.60%) Alteryx
11 26 (1.54%) Splunk
12 23 (1.37%) Workday
13 21 (1.25%) BMC
14 17 (1.01%) Adobe
15 16 (0.95%) Denodo
16 15 (0.89%) Dynatrace
17 14 (0.83%) VMware
18 13 (0.77%) IFS
19 10 (0.59%) Foundry
19 10 (0.59%) Talend
829 Power BI jobs in England