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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,669 1,075 1,117
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.59% 3.89% 3.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.07% 21.42% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,072 718 761
10th Percentile £319 £311 £300
25th Percentile £400 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £590
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 14 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £19.33 £19.97
25th Percentile £24.23 £24.63 £24.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -21.05%
75th Percentile £53.87 £44.63 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.13 £56.38 £67.53
UK median hourly rate £30.38 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -10.66% +13.33% -21.05%

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 6,933 5,018 5,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.90% 18.18% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,628 3,452 4,033
10th Percentile £356 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £712 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 73 82
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.06 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.11 £29.07 £21.44
Median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £74.94 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.16% +14.99% -36.36%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +2 869 £500 - 1,047
North of England -14 241 £440 +3.53% 397
South East +6 212 £475 +11.76% 422
Midlands +7 188 £475 +1.06% 286
West Midlands +3 131 £475 -5.00% 195
North West +1 127 £505 +18.82% 227
Yorkshire -24 94 £425 +6.31% 133
South West -23 85 £425 +6.25% 147
East Midlands +8 56 £475 +11.76% 91
East of England -25 37 £576 +4.73% 142
North East -20 24 £356 -25.00% 38
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
1 169 (10.13%) SharePoint
2 72 (4.31%) Confluence
3 30 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.56%) SAS
5 25 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.20%) Apache
7 13 (0.78%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.36%) Mendix
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.24%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 324 (19.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
5 20 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.72%) Navisworks
6 12 (0.72%) Revit
7 8 (0.48%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.48%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.12%) Notion
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.96%) iTrent
5 12 (0.72%) Primavera
6 9 (0.54%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.48%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.36%) Maximo
8 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 6 (0.36%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.12%) BambooHR
11 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.12%) ContrOCC
11 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,669 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 622 (37.27%) Azure
3 199 (11.92%) Power Automate
4 193 (11.56%) AWS
5 175 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
6 169 (10.13%) PowerApps
7 137 (8.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 135 (8.09%) Snowflake
9 118 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
10 107 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
11 105 (6.29%) Microsoft Copilot
12 103 (6.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 73 (4.37%) dbt
14 72 (4.31%) Serverless
15 64 (3.83%) GCP
16 61 (3.65%) GitHub
17 56 (3.36%) Amazon S3
18 52 (3.12%) Entra ID
19 48 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
20 46 (2.76%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) Firewall
1 11 (0.66%) SSL
2 8 (0.48%) DNS
2 8 (0.48%) VPN
3 7 (0.42%) Broadband
4 2 (0.12%) Internet
4 2 (0.12%) NAS
4 2 (0.12%) Network Security
4 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.12%) SAN
5 1 (0.060%) 4G
5 1 (0.060%) 5G
5 1 (0.060%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.060%) LAN
5 1 (0.060%) Mobile Backhaul
5 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.060%) SSH
5 1 (0.060%) VoIP
5 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (15.76%) Data Warehouse
2 239 (14.32%) Tableau
3 144 (8.63%) Data Lake
4 136 (8.15%) Power Query
5 126 (7.55%) SQL Server
6 81 (4.85%) Metadata
7 67 (4.01%) Star Schema
8 55 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.18%) Looker
10 50 (3.00%) Relational Database
11 49 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
12 44 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 37 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
14 35 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 33 (1.98%) BigQuery
16 32 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 27 (1.62%) NoSQL
18 25 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
19 23 (1.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
20 22 (1.32%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 149 (8.93%) JIRA
2 64 (3.83%) Git
3 28 (1.68%) GitLab
4 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.30%) ERwin
5 5 (0.30%) MLflow
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.24%) JMeter
6 4 (0.24%) JUnit
6 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) Postman
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 577 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 480 (28.76%) Finance
3 436 (26.12%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 120 (7.19%) Banking
6 77 (4.61%) Retail
7 65 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.24%) Manufacturing
9 52 (3.12%) Marketing
10 48 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 44 (2.64%) Local Government
13 42 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (2.04%) Law
15 24 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.44%) Legal
16 21 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (1.14%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.02%) Investment Banking
18 17 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 430 (25.76%) Analyst
2 253 (15.16%) Developer
3 205 (12.28%) Data Analyst
3 205 (12.28%) Data Engineer
4 191 (11.44%) Senior
5 171 (10.25%) Architect
6 129 (7.73%) Lead
7 120 (7.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 97 (5.81%) Power BI Developer
9 94 (5.63%) Business Analyst
10 78 (4.67%) Data Architect
11 77 (4.61%) Consultant
12 55 (3.30%) Senior Data Engineer
13 52 (3.12%) Project Manager
14 49 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
15 47 (2.82%) Power Platform Developer
16 41 (2.46%) Performance Analyst
17 37 (2.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 35 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
19 32 (1.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.27%) PySpark
2 67 (4.01%) Terraform
3 66 (3.95%) .NET
4 64 (3.83%) REST
5 23 (1.38%) Kafka
5 23 (1.38%) React
6 20 (1.20%) HTML
7 19 (1.14%) JSON
7 19 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
8 18 (1.08%) Middleware
9 15 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (0.84%) CSS
11 10 (0.60%) ADO
12 9 (0.54%) Pandas
12 9 (0.54%) SOAP
13 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.48%) EDI
14 7 (0.42%) jQuery
14 7 (0.42%) RESTful
14 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.85%) Data Structures
2 78 (4.67%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 57 (3.42%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 31 (1.86%) Clustering
9 26 (1.56%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.44%) Low-Code
11 21 (1.26%) CMDB
12 20 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.14%) FMCG
14 17 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.96%) NHS
16 15 (0.90%) Data Centre
17 13 (0.78%) Life Science
17 13 (0.78%) Reference Data
17 13 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
18 12 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.06%) Windows
2 24 (1.44%) Windows Server
3 16 (0.96%) Linux
4 10 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.60%) Unix
5 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.12%) VMS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,570 (94.07%) Business Intelligence
2 679 (40.68%) Analytics
3 517 (30.98%) Data Modelling
4 423 (25.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 417 (24.99%) Agile
6 379 (22.71%) Decision-Making
7 335 (20.07%) Visualisation
8 334 (20.01%) AI
9 318 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 309 (18.51%) ETL
11 293 (17.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 292 (17.50%) DevOps
13 273 (16.36%) CI/CD
14 270 (16.18%) Migration
15 263 (15.76%) Data Governance
16 258 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 246 (14.74%) Data Engineering
17 246 (14.74%) Validation
18 244 (14.62%) Data Pipeline
19 224 (13.42%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 791 (47.39%) SQL
2 374 (22.41%) Python
3 189 (11.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 97 (5.81%) JavaScript
5 85 (5.09%) PowerShell
6 73 (4.37%) C#
7 64 (3.83%) T-SQL
8 43 (2.58%) R
9 37 (2.22%) Java
10 23 (1.38%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.20%) VBA
12 13 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.54%) Bash
14 8 (0.48%) Bicep
14 8 (0.48%) Scala
14 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.30%) Korn
15 5 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.30%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 308 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 237 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 154 (9.23%) Degree
4 52 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 25 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 16 (0.96%) PMP
12 15 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.60%) ACCA
14 10 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.54%) CIMA
15 9 (0.54%) CISSP
16 8 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (24.51%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.73%) QA
3 78 (4.67%) PMO
4 75 (4.49%) GDPR
5 34 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.90%) GRC
6 15 (0.90%) ISO 19650
7 12 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.66%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.30%) GMP
11 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.18%) NIST
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
13 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.90%) Docker
3 13 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.060%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (1.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.14%) Grafana
3 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.90%) SCOM
5 12 (0.72%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) Control-M
8 6 (0.36%) SCCM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 675 (40.44%) Microsoft
2 212 (12.70%) Databricks
3 110 (6.59%) SAP
4 100 (5.99%) ServiceNow
5 78 (4.67%) Oracle
6 51 (3.06%) Google
7 41 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 34 (2.04%) Informatica
8 34 (2.04%) Splunk
9 29 (1.74%) Remedy
10 27 (1.62%) Alteryx
11 23 (1.38%) Workday
12 20 (1.20%) BMC
13 18 (1.08%) Adobe
14 16 (0.96%) Denodo
15 15 (0.90%) Dynatrace
16 14 (0.84%) Autodesk
17 13 (0.78%) VMware
18 11 (0.66%) MicroStrategy
18 11 (0.66%) Teradata