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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,637 1,035 1,185
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.78% 3.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.80% 20.68% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 666 860
10th Percentile £331 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £562 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.11% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 27 13
10th Percentile £16.73 £18.22 £14.40
25th Percentile £20.63 £22.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -18.92%
75th Percentile £42.00 £34.84 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £53.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £29.48 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -8.02% +6.83% -17.81%

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 6,879 5,006 6,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 18.31% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,595 3,459 4,565
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £765 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 84 102
10th Percentile £15.99 £18.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.20 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.99 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -10.85% -28.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £71.33
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £38.48 £38.00
% change year-on-year +7.48% +1.26% -30.91%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +9 839 £500 - 255
South East -3 217 £475 +5.56% 163
Midlands +9 205 £459 +8.00% 95
North of England -20 197 £450 +0.67% 122
West Midlands -10 145 £450 +5.88% 50
North West -9 111 £475 - 58
South West -15 90 £450 +11.25% 72
Yorkshire -39 71 £450 +4.65% 42
East Midlands +21 59 £470 +5.92% 45
East of England -12 42 £400 -21.57% 27
North East -26 19 £395 -12.22% 24
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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
1 150 (9.16%) SharePoint
2 64 (3.91%) Confluence
3 38 (2.32%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.77%) Apache
5 28 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (1.10%) SAS
7 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.55%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.49%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.31%) CMS
12 4 (0.24%) IIS
13 3 (0.18%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 3 (0.18%) Mendix
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.061%) Appian
15 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 313 (19.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.37%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.37%) Revit
8 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.061%) CATIA
10 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.061%) InDesign
10 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 37 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 24 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.98%) iTrent
5 12 (0.73%) Primavera
6 8 (0.49%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,637 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 618 (37.75%) Azure
3 205 (12.52%) AWS
4 182 (11.12%) Power Automate
5 161 (9.84%) PowerApps
6 145 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
7 136 (8.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 128 (7.82%) Snowflake
9 117 (7.15%) Dynamics 365
10 113 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 110 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
12 83 (5.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 77 (4.70%) Serverless
14 71 (4.34%) GCP
15 68 (4.15%) dbt
16 58 (3.54%) Amazon S3
17 56 (3.42%) GitHub
18 48 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
19 46 (2.81%) Entra ID
20 45 (2.75%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.10%) Firewall
2 14 (0.86%) VPN
3 11 (0.67%) DNS
4 6 (0.37%) SSL
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
7 2 (0.12%) MPLS
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) SMTP
7 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
7 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (16.25%) Data Warehouse
2 264 (16.13%) Tableau
3 137 (8.37%) Data Lake
4 116 (7.09%) SQL Server
5 115 (7.03%) Power Query
6 71 (4.34%) Metadata
7 59 (3.60%) Star Schema
8 57 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.24%) Looker
10 49 (2.99%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 42 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
13 37 (2.26%) BigQuery
13 37 (2.26%) Snowflake Schema
14 36 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 33 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
16 28 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 26 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
18 25 (1.53%) Delta Lake
18 25 (1.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 139 (8.49%) JIRA
2 68 (4.15%) Git
3 26 (1.59%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) ERwin
4 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.31%) MLflow
6 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.24%) JUnit
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.061%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.061%) TestRail
General
1 512 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 489 (29.87%) Finance
3 399 (24.37%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 107 (6.54%) Banking
6 63 (3.85%) Retail
7 56 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (3.18%) Law
8 52 (3.18%) Manufacturing
9 50 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (2.69%) Marketing
11 36 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.47%) Local Government
13 22 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.16%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.10%) Legal
18 15 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 431 (26.33%) Analyst
2 244 (14.91%) Developer
3 234 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 210 (12.83%) Data Analyst
5 193 (11.79%) Senior
6 179 (10.93%) Architect
7 156 (9.53%) Lead
8 117 (7.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 93 (5.68%) Business Analyst
9 93 (5.68%) Power BI Developer
10 69 (4.22%) Data Architect
11 68 (4.15%) Consultant
12 57 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
13 52 (3.18%) Power Platform Developer
14 50 (3.05%) Project Manager
15 46 (2.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 41 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
17 39 (2.38%) Lead Architect
18 37 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
19 36 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.38%) PySpark
2 57 (3.48%) REST
3 53 (3.24%) .NET
4 31 (1.89%) Kafka
5 25 (1.53%) JSON
6 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (1.10%) Middleware
7 18 (1.10%) React
8 17 (1.04%) Pandas
9 16 (0.98%) HTML
10 13 (0.79%) CSS
10 13 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (0.73%) Great Expectations
12 11 (0.67%) ADO
12 11 (0.67%) XML
13 10 (0.61%) YAML
14 8 (0.49%) JDO
15 7 (0.43%) EDI
15 7 (0.43%) RESTful
15 7 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.70%) Data Structures
2 70 (4.28%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 47 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 46 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 35 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 25 (1.53%) CMDB
9 23 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 21 (1.28%) Clustering
12 17 (1.04%) FMCG
12 17 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (0.92%) PKI
15 14 (0.86%) NHS
16 13 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.79%) IoT
16 13 (0.79%) Reference Data
17 11 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.50%) Windows
2 24 (1.47%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.55%) Linux
3 9 (0.55%) Unix
4 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.24%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,523 (93.04%) Business Intelligence
2 672 (41.05%) Analytics
3 526 (32.13%) Data Modelling
4 401 (24.50%) Agile
5 340 (20.77%) Decision-Making
6 338 (20.65%) Visualisation
7 337 (20.59%) ETL
8 296 (18.08%) AI
9 293 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
10 291 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 279 (17.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 273 (16.68%) Data Pipeline
13 270 (16.49%) DevOps
13 270 (16.49%) Migration
14 263 (16.07%) Data Governance
15 261 (15.94%) Data Engineering
16 246 (15.03%) CI/CD
17 236 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 232 (14.17%) Validation
19 203 (12.40%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 770 (47.04%) SQL
2 393 (24.01%) Python
3 187 (11.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 78 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 75 (4.58%) JavaScript
6 68 (4.15%) C#
7 61 (3.73%) T-SQL
8 49 (2.99%) R
9 41 (2.50%) Java
10 23 (1.41%) VBA
11 15 (0.92%) Bicep
11 15 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.92%) TypeScript
12 10 (0.61%) Scala
13 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.31%) C
15 4 (0.24%) Korn
15 4 (0.24%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 298 (18.20%) Security Cleared
2 226 (13.81%) SC Cleared
3 166 (10.14%) Degree
4 43 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (1.71%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.86%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 12 (0.73%) PMP
14 8 (0.49%) ACCA
15 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.43%) CISSP
16 6 (0.37%) CIMA
16 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
17 5 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (23.52%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.41%) GDPR
3 86 (5.25%) PMO
4 76 (4.64%) QA
5 33 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.10%) SLA
7 15 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.67%) GRC
9 9 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
11 7 (0.43%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) Basel III
13 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
13 3 (0.18%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
14 2 (0.12%) NIST
15 1 (0.061%) IFRS
System Software
1 52 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.67%) Docker
3 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) RACF
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (4.22%) Terraform
2 20 (1.22%) Grafana
3 16 (0.98%) Kubernetes
4 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.49%) Ansible
7 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.37%) SCOM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Kibana
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 1 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.061%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 592 (36.16%) Microsoft
2 203 (12.40%) Databricks
3 113 (6.90%) SAP
4 94 (5.74%) ServiceNow
5 72 (4.40%) Oracle
6 43 (2.63%) Informatica
7 42 (2.57%) Google
8 31 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 27 (1.65%) Remedy
10 25 (1.53%) Alteryx
11 23 (1.41%) Splunk
12 22 (1.34%) Workday
13 15 (0.92%) Adobe
14 14 (0.86%) BMC
14 14 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.86%) IFS
15 13 (0.79%) Talend
16 11 (0.67%) Denodo
16 11 (0.67%) Foundry
17 10 (0.61%) Sage