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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 59 59
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,630 1,099 1,151
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 3.93% 3.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.23% 21.70% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 748 775
10th Percentile £321 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £580 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £691
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 16 22
10th Percentile £17.97 £18.25 £20.08
25th Percentile £23.03 £20.56 £25.26
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -25.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £49.06 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £59.75 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.40% +6.83% -25.93%

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 6,728 5,064 5,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.59% 18.13% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,464 3,465 4,019
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £669
90th Percentile £719 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 76 84
10th Percentile £16.21 £20.89 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £40.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +11.02% -33.49%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £38.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.38% +10.99% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -6 854 £500 - 1,164
North of England -5 236 £440 +3.53% 429
South East -7 201 £475 +5.56% 482
Midlands +7 182 £475 -0.52% 325
West Midlands -2 131 £475 -5.00% 211
North West -1 128 £500 +14.29% 251
Yorkshire -17 87 £425 +6.25% 134
South West -30 79 £425 - 164
East Midlands +19 50 £475 +11.76% 114
East of England -16 45 £588 +2.26% 170
North East -19 25 £350 -26.32% 45
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
1 160 (9.82%) SharePoint
2 71 (4.36%) Confluence
3 30 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.60%) SAS
5 24 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.23%) Apache
7 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.37%) Mendix
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.25%) CMS
12 3 (0.18%) IIS
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.12%) nginx
13 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 307 (18.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (1.10%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.67%) Navisworks
7 11 (0.67%) Revit
8 8 (0.49%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.49%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Productboard
10 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 37 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 20 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.92%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 12 (0.74%) Primavera
6 10 (0.61%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.55%) iTrent
8 6 (0.37%) Maximo
8 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.12%) Actimize
11 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.12%) SAP EWM
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,630 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 603 (36.99%) Azure
3 192 (11.78%) Power Automate
4 176 (10.80%) AWS
5 170 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
6 168 (10.31%) PowerApps
7 140 (8.59%) Snowflake
8 136 (8.34%) Azure Data Factory
9 110 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
10 103 (6.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 103 (6.32%) Microsoft Copilot
11 90 (5.52%) Dynamics 365
12 76 (4.66%) dbt
13 66 (4.05%) GCP
14 64 (3.93%) Serverless
15 61 (3.74%) GitHub
16 56 (3.44%) Amazon S3
17 52 (3.19%) Entra ID
18 50 (3.07%) Microsoft Purview
19 46 (2.82%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.74%) Firewall
2 11 (0.67%) SSL
3 9 (0.55%) DNS
4 7 (0.43%) Broadband
4 7 (0.43%) VPN
5 4 (0.25%) Network Security
6 2 (0.12%) Internet
6 2 (0.12%) NAS
6 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.12%) SAN
6 2 (0.12%) VoIP
7 1 (0.061%) 4G
7 1 (0.061%) 5G
7 1 (0.061%) CTI
7 1 (0.061%) Mobile Backhaul
7 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.061%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.061%) SSH
7 1 (0.061%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.061%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (15.52%) Data Warehouse
2 231 (14.17%) Tableau
3 142 (8.71%) Data Lake
4 129 (7.91%) Power Query
5 128 (7.85%) SQL Server
6 86 (5.28%) Metadata
7 63 (3.87%) Star Schema
8 57 (3.50%) Looker
9 54 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 48 (2.94%) Relational Database
11 45 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 42 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (2.21%) BigQuery
14 35 (2.15%) Semantic Layer
15 34 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 33 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.53%) NoSQL
18 22 (1.35%) Delta Lake
18 22 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
19 21 (1.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 145 (8.90%) JIRA
2 65 (3.99%) Git
3 28 (1.72%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.31%) JMeter
5 5 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.31%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.25%) ERwin
6 4 (0.25%) JUnit
6 4 (0.25%) MLflow
6 4 (0.25%) Postman
6 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.18%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Newman
8 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 565 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 468 (28.71%) Finance
3 412 (25.28%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (9.51%) Public Sector
5 122 (7.48%) Banking
6 75 (4.60%) Retail
7 57 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 56 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
9 50 (3.07%) Marketing
10 44 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 43 (2.64%) Local Government
12 41 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (1.84%) Legal
14 24 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.29%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.29%) Law
16 20 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.10%) Publishing
18 17 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 418 (25.64%) Analyst
2 258 (15.83%) Developer
3 195 (11.96%) Data Analyst
4 193 (11.84%) Data Engineer
5 182 (11.17%) Senior
6 151 (9.26%) Architect
7 123 (7.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 123 (7.55%) Lead
8 97 (5.95%) Power BI Developer
9 93 (5.71%) Business Analyst
10 77 (4.72%) Data Architect
11 73 (4.48%) Consultant
12 54 (3.31%) Project Manager
13 52 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
14 51 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
15 48 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
16 40 (2.45%) Performance Analyst
17 36 (2.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 33 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
19 30 (1.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.09%) PySpark
2 66 (4.05%) Terraform
3 65 (3.99%) REST
4 61 (3.74%) .NET
5 23 (1.41%) React
6 22 (1.35%) JSON
6 22 (1.35%) Kafka
7 20 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
8 16 (0.98%) HTML
9 15 (0.92%) Middleware
10 14 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (0.61%) CSS
12 9 (0.55%) SOAP
12 9 (0.55%) YAML
13 8 (0.49%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.49%) EDI
14 7 (0.43%) ADO
14 7 (0.43%) jQuery
14 7 (0.43%) OAuth
14 7 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.03%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.60%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.37%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.84%) Clustering
8 29 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.41%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.23%) CMDB
11 20 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.10%) FMCG
13 16 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.92%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.80%) Life Science
15 13 (0.80%) NHS
15 13 (0.80%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (3.01%) Windows
2 22 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.04%) Linux
4 10 (0.61%) Unix
5 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.31%) 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 1,537 (94.29%) Business Intelligence
2 672 (41.23%) Analytics
3 512 (31.41%) Data Modelling
4 444 (27.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 409 (25.09%) Agile
6 388 (23.80%) Decision-Making
7 342 (20.98%) AI
8 326 (20.00%) Visualisation
9 305 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
10 293 (17.98%) ETL
11 285 (17.48%) DevOps
11 285 (17.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 266 (16.32%) Data Governance
13 264 (16.20%) CI/CD
14 251 (15.40%) Migration
15 248 (15.21%) Validation
16 247 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 247 (15.15%) Data Engineering
17 230 (14.11%) Data Pipeline
18 218 (13.37%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 775 (47.55%) SQL
2 359 (22.02%) Python
3 183 (11.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 93 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 83 (5.09%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.42%) C#
7 60 (3.68%) T-SQL
8 41 (2.52%) R
9 35 (2.15%) Java
10 21 (1.29%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.98%) VBA
12 13 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.61%) Bash
14 8 (0.49%) Bicep
14 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.31%) Korn
16 5 (0.31%) Scala
17 4 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 298 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 229 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 143 (8.77%) Degree
4 50 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (2.64%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.60%) DBS Check
8 24 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.47%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.04%) PMP
12 12 (0.74%) CISSP
12 12 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.61%) ACCA
14 10 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.55%) CIMA
16 7 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 417 (25.58%) Data Quality
2 77 (4.72%) QA
3 72 (4.42%) PMO
4 67 (4.11%) GDPR
5 32 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (0.92%) ISO 19650
7 15 (0.92%) SLA
8 14 (0.86%) GRC
9 8 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.49%) NIST
10 6 (0.37%) COBIT
10 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.31%) GMP
11 5 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.18%) P3O
12 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.92%) Docker
3 13 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.061%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.10%) Grafana
3 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.92%) SCOM
5 13 (0.80%) Ansible
6 9 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.37%) Control-M
8 6 (0.37%) SCCM
9 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.061%) Kibana
11 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 664 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 210 (12.88%) Databricks
3 95 (5.83%) SAP
4 92 (5.64%) ServiceNow
5 74 (4.54%) Oracle
6 54 (3.31%) Google
7 39 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.15%) Informatica
9 30 (1.84%) Remedy
9 30 (1.84%) Splunk
10 27 (1.66%) Alteryx
11 20 (1.23%) Workday
12 18 (1.10%) BMC
13 16 (0.98%) Denodo
14 14 (0.86%) Adobe
14 14 (0.86%) Autodesk
14 14 (0.86%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.80%) VMware
16 11 (0.67%) MicroStrategy
16 11 (0.67%) Teradata