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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 64 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,650 1,017 1,260
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 3.75% 3.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.92% 20.56% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,089 660 916
10th Percentile £331 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £484
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -1.76% -3.30%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £681
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 31 22
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.00 £15.91
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.47
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +23.89% -39.45%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.57 £41.30
90th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £53.88
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £27.22
% change year-on-year -8.34% +16.26% -26.45%

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 6,897 4,946 6,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.32% 18.25% 17.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,637 3,431 4,719
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £640 £675
90th Percentile £705 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 91 129
10th Percentile £15.07 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -31.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £62.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £70.10
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% -9.09% -33.67%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +7 846 £500 - 259
South East +3 221 £488 +8.33% 170
North of England -17 202 £460 +3.44% 134
Midlands +2 201 £451 -2.86% 113
West Midlands -12 142 £450 -2.70% 63
North West -9 116 £469 -1.32% 66
South West -7 92 £450 +11.25% 54
Yorkshire -39 70 £450 +5.88% 46
East Midlands +19 58 £465 +0.54% 50
East of England -21 39 £400 -20.00% 43
North East -20 20 £425 -5.56% 23
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
1 144 (8.73%) SharePoint
2 66 (4.00%) Confluence
3 39 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.70%) Apache
6 19 (1.15%) SAS
7 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.48%) Apache Superset
9 7 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 5 (0.30%) HCL Notes
11 4 (0.24%) IIS
11 4 (0.24%) Mendix
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 1 (0.061%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.061%) Appian
13 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 318 (19.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.94%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.30%) Navisworks
7 5 (0.30%) Revit
8 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.061%) CATIA
10 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.061%) InDesign
10 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.061%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 22 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (1.03%) iTrent
4 9 (0.55%) Primavera
5 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.36%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.18%) Maximo
8 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
9 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,650 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 616 (37.33%) Azure
3 214 (12.97%) AWS
4 179 (10.85%) Power Automate
5 159 (9.64%) PowerApps
6 141 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (8.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 124 (7.52%) Snowflake
9 116 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 113 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
11 108 (6.55%) Dynamics 365
12 83 (5.03%) Microsoft Copilot
13 78 (4.73%) Serverless
14 77 (4.67%) GCP
15 66 (4.00%) dbt
16 59 (3.58%) Amazon S3
17 56 (3.39%) GitHub
18 48 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
19 47 (2.85%) Copilot Studio
19 47 (2.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.09%) Firewall
2 14 (0.85%) VPN
3 11 (0.67%) DNS
4 5 (0.30%) SSL
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) Broadband
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
7 2 (0.12%) Microwave Backhaul
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
1 270 (16.36%) Tableau
2 266 (16.12%) Data Warehouse
3 137 (8.30%) Data Lake
4 119 (7.21%) Power Query
5 116 (7.03%) SQL Server
6 75 (4.55%) Metadata
7 62 (3.76%) Star Schema
8 54 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.21%) Looker
10 48 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 48 (2.91%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
12 39 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
13 37 (2.24%) BigQuery
14 36 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 31 (1.88%) Semantic Layer
16 28 (1.70%) BusinessObjects
17 27 (1.64%) NoSQL
18 26 (1.58%) Delta Lake
18 26 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 139 (8.42%) JIRA
2 70 (4.24%) Git
3 26 (1.58%) GitLab
4 13 (0.79%) ERwin
5 9 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.30%) MLflow
7 5 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.24%) JUnit
8 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) JMeter
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.061%) TestRail
General
1 514 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 494 (29.94%) Finance
3 390 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 109 (6.61%) Banking
6 63 (3.82%) Retail
7 58 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (3.09%) Law
9 49 (2.97%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
10 43 (2.61%) Marketing
11 37 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 23 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.33%) Local Government
14 21 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.21%) Legal
16 18 (1.09%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 432 (26.18%) Analyst
2 252 (15.27%) Data Engineer
3 240 (14.55%) Developer
4 210 (12.73%) Data Analyst
5 191 (11.58%) Senior
6 181 (10.97%) Architect
7 155 (9.39%) Lead
8 118 (7.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 96 (5.82%) Business Analyst
10 94 (5.70%) Power BI Developer
11 70 (4.24%) Data Architect
12 66 (4.00%) Consultant
13 60 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
14 50 (3.03%) Power Platform Developer
15 49 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 45 (2.73%) Project Manager
17 39 (2.36%) Lead Architect
18 38 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
20 34 (2.06%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (5.64%) PySpark
2 52 (3.15%) REST
3 50 (3.03%) .NET
4 33 (2.00%) Kafka
5 26 (1.58%) JSON
6 19 (1.15%) Pandas
7 18 (1.09%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (1.09%) Middleware
7 18 (1.09%) React
8 14 (0.85%) HTML
9 12 (0.73%) CSS
9 12 (0.73%) Great Expectations
9 12 (0.73%) HTML5 Canvas
9 12 (0.73%) YAML
10 11 (0.67%) ADO
10 11 (0.67%) XML
11 8 (0.48%) JDO
11 8 (0.48%) RESTful
12 7 (0.42%) jQuery
12 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.61%) Cloud Native
2 75 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 50 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 44 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 37 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (1.45%) CMDB
8 22 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 20 (1.21%) Low-Code
11 19 (1.15%) Clustering
12 16 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (0.91%) FMCG
14 13 (0.79%) IoT
14 13 (0.79%) NHS
14 13 (0.79%) PKI
15 12 (0.73%) Reference Data
16 11 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.24%) Windows
2 21 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.55%) Unix
4 7 (0.42%) Linux
5 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.24%) Android
6 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,532 (92.85%) Business Intelligence
2 677 (41.03%) Analytics
3 538 (32.61%) Data Modelling
4 391 (23.70%) Agile
5 350 (21.21%) Visualisation
6 348 (21.09%) Decision-Making
7 343 (20.79%) ETL
8 302 (18.30%) AI
9 297 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
10 288 (17.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 272 (16.48%) Data Pipeline
11 272 (16.48%) DevOps
12 265 (16.06%) Migration
12 265 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 264 (16.00%) Data Engineering
13 264 (16.00%) Data Governance
14 248 (15.03%) CI/CD
15 234 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 226 (13.70%) Validation
17 213 (12.91%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 771 (46.73%) SQL
2 396 (24.00%) Python
3 194 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 73 (4.42%) PowerShell
5 68 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 65 (3.94%) C#
7 60 (3.64%) T-SQL
8 52 (3.15%) R
9 40 (2.42%) Java
10 25 (1.52%) VBA
11 16 (0.97%) Bicep
11 16 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.73%) Scala
14 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.36%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.30%) C
17 4 (0.24%) Korn
17 4 (0.24%) X++
18 3 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 299 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 231 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 164 (9.94%) Degree
4 44 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 33 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.64%) DBS Check
9 21 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 10 (0.61%) PMP
15 8 (0.48%) ACCA
16 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.42%) CISSP
17 6 (0.36%) CIMA
17 6 (0.36%) SnowPro
18 5 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (23.94%) Data Quality
2 112 (6.79%) GDPR
3 84 (5.09%) PMO
4 74 (4.48%) QA
5 33 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.03%) SLA
7 16 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.67%) GRC
9 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
11 7 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.36%) ISO 19650
13 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.18%) NCSC
14 3 (0.18%) P3O
15 2 (0.12%) Basel III
15 2 (0.12%) COBIT
15 2 (0.12%) NIST
15 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 50 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.85%) Docker
3 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.36%) 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 76 (4.61%) Terraform
2 20 (1.21%) Grafana
2 20 (1.21%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.61%) SCCM
5 7 (0.42%) Ansible
5 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) SCOM
7 4 (0.24%) Control-M
7 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.12%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) Nessus
9 1 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.061%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.061%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 587 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 205 (12.42%) Databricks
3 106 (6.42%) SAP
4 93 (5.64%) ServiceNow
5 73 (4.42%) Oracle
6 48 (2.91%) Google
7 42 (2.55%) Informatica
8 31 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.52%) Alteryx
9 25 (1.52%) Remedy
10 24 (1.45%) Splunk
11 21 (1.27%) Workday
12 15 (0.91%) Adobe
13 14 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.85%) IFS
13 14 (0.85%) Talend
14 13 (0.79%) Foundry
15 12 (0.73%) BMC
16 11 (0.67%) Denodo
17 10 (0.61%) Sage