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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 63 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,541 913 1,207
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.78% 3.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.06% 19.83% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 594 859
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £404 £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 53 30 27
10th Percentile £16.14 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £23.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -54.51%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.84 £53.75 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £27.65 £31.64 £23.22
% change year-on-year -12.61% +36.29% -53.37%

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 6,404 4,603 6,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 19.04% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,359 3,186 4,522
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £421 £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 £793
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.48% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 91 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £22.99 £20.76
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.94 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.04% -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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +1 786 £500 - 337
South East +18 216 £488 +5.41% 184
Midlands -2 188 £463 -6.09% 103
North of England -33 162 £461 +2.36% 165
West Midlands -22 128 £459 -8.20% 67
South West +12 94 £450 +5.88% 65
North West -8 88 £469 -2.60% 102
East Midlands +17 59 £463 +5.71% 36
Yorkshire -55 58 £439 +3.29% 49
East of England -14 40 £413 -17.50% 37
North East -17 17 £438 -2.78% 17
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
1 119 (7.72%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.35%) Confluence
3 46 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.95%) Apache
5 27 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (1.17%) SAS
7 12 (0.78%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.65%) Mendix
9 8 (0.52%) Apache Superset
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.39%) CMS
11 5 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
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 (19.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.96%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.91%) 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 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.36%) 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%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,541 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 559 (36.28%) Azure
3 197 (12.78%) AWS
4 152 (9.86%) Power Automate
5 147 (9.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 139 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (8.37%) PowerApps
8 128 (8.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 107 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
9 107 (6.94%) Snowflake
10 85 (5.52%) Dynamics 365
11 82 (5.32%) GCP
12 73 (4.74%) Serverless
13 71 (4.61%) Microsoft Copilot
14 63 (4.09%) GitHub
15 53 (3.44%) dbt
16 52 (3.37%) Amazon S3
17 44 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
18 39 (2.53%) Entra ID
18 39 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.97%) Firewall
2 12 (0.78%) 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 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%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
2 248 (16.09%) Tableau
3 152 (9.86%) Data Lake
4 121 (7.85%) SQL Server
5 107 (6.94%) Power Query
6 69 (4.48%) Metadata
7 56 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (3.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 49 (3.18%) Star Schema
10 48 (3.11%) Looker
11 47 (3.05%) Relational Database
12 42 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
13 37 (2.40%) BigQuery
13 37 (2.40%) Spark SQL
14 35 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 33 (2.14%) Delta Lake
16 30 (1.95%) NoSQL
17 29 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (1.56%) Mixpanel
19 22 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 134 (8.70%) JIRA
2 69 (4.48%) Git
3 26 (1.69%) GitLab
4 14 (0.91%) 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%) Selenium
8 3 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.065%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.065%) SoapUI
General
1 472 (30.63%) Finance
2 460 (29.85%) Social Skills
3 351 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 104 (6.75%) Banking
6 56 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (3.31%) Retail
8 48 (3.11%) Law
9 44 (2.86%) Marketing
10 43 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.17%) Investment Banking
16 18 (1.17%) Legal
16 18 (1.17%) Local Government
17 15 (0.97%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 409 (26.54%) Analyst
2 256 (16.61%) Data Engineer
3 204 (13.24%) Developer
4 188 (12.20%) Data Analyst
4 188 (12.20%) Senior
5 162 (10.51%) Architect
6 149 (9.67%) Lead
7 103 (6.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 86 (5.58%) Business Analyst
9 78 (5.06%) Power BI Developer
10 69 (4.48%) Consultant
11 67 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
12 57 (3.70%) Data Architect
13 47 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 46 (2.99%) Project Manager
15 40 (2.60%) Lead Architect
16 38 (2.47%) Power Platform Developer
17 36 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
18 35 (2.27%) Senior Developer
19 33 (2.14%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (5.97%) PySpark
2 51 (3.31%) REST
3 39 (2.53%) Kafka
4 36 (2.34%) .NET
5 24 (1.56%) Pandas
6 21 (1.36%) React
7 20 (1.30%) HTML
7 20 (1.30%) JSON
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 (0.78%) ADO
11 12 (0.78%) 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 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.44%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 31 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.49%) Low-Code
8 22 (1.43%) CMDB
9 18 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 14 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (0.84%) Clustering
11 13 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (0.78%) IoT
12 12 (0.78%) NHS
12 12 (0.78%) PKI
13 11 (0.71%) PMI
13 11 (0.71%) Reference Data
14 10 (0.65%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.95%) 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 1,430 (92.80%) Business Intelligence
2 631 (40.95%) Analytics
3 505 (32.77%) Data Modelling
4 354 (22.97%) Agile
5 343 (22.26%) ETL
6 316 (20.51%) Decision-Making
7 313 (20.31%) Visualisation
8 275 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
9 257 (16.68%) Data Pipeline
10 255 (16.55%) AI
10 255 (16.55%) Data Engineering
11 253 (16.42%) DevOps
12 250 (16.22%) Data Governance
13 247 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 230 (14.93%) CI/CD
15 221 (14.34%) Migration
16 217 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 213 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
18 196 (12.72%) Data Visualisation
19 195 (12.65%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 728 (47.24%) SQL
2 378 (24.53%) Python
3 171 (11.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 60 (3.89%) C#
6 59 (3.83%) JavaScript
7 52 (3.37%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.24%) R
9 41 (2.66%) Java
10 25 (1.62%) VBA
11 20 (1.30%) Bicep
12 14 (0.91%) 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
1 261 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 136 (8.83%) Degree
4 38 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.56%) DBS Check
9 21 (1.36%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.30%) PMP
11 19 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.04%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.39%) ACCA
15 6 (0.39%) CISSP
15 6 (0.39%) MBA
15 6 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
16 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (23.43%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.81%) GDPR
3 87 (5.65%) PMO
4 75 (4.87%) QA
5 31 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.04%) SLA
7 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.71%) GRC
9 9 (0.58%) Basel III
10 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.32%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.32%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.26%) P3O
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) NCSC
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 43 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.56%) 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 75 (4.87%) Terraform
2 28 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.17%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 6 (0.39%) 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
1 513 (33.29%) Microsoft
2 200 (12.98%) Databricks
3 92 (5.97%) SAP
4 80 (5.19%) Oracle
5 77 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 53 (3.44%) Google
7 38 (2.47%) Informatica
8 27 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.56%) Workday
10 22 (1.43%) Remedy
11 20 (1.30%) Splunk
12 14 (0.91%) Alteryx
12 14 (0.91%) Foundry
12 14 (0.91%) IFS
13 13 (0.84%) Talend
14 12 (0.78%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.78%) Lotus
15 11 (0.71%) Adobe
15 11 (0.71%) Denodo
16 10 (0.65%) BMC