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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 54 65
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,460 934 1,197
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.85% 3.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.11% 20.30% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 654 849
10th Percentile £320 £313 £311
25th Percentile £404 £394 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 25 34
10th Percentile £14.52 £18.94 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £25.00 £14.67
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £22.86
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +27.18% -59.86%
75th Percentile £39.50 £34.15 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.12 £49.75 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £24.22 £28.84 £23.22
% change year-on-year -16.00% +24.21% -58.84%

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 6,056 4,601 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.92% 18.95% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,222 3,249 4,421
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £665
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 90 146
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.69 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.83 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.88 £53.44
90th Percentile £85.05 £70.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +5 793 £500 - 258
South East -2 172 £500 +9.59% 212
Midlands -13 154 £450 -5.66% 126
North of England -34 147 £450 -4.00% 176
West Midlands -27 99 £450 -7.22% 72
North West -19 81 £434 -17.38% 90
South West +3 73 £475 +5.56% 70
Yorkshire -36 55 £450 +9.76% 63
East Midlands 0 54 £393 -17.32% 54
East of England -18 49 £488 -2.50% 57
North East -6 11 £500 +11.11% 29
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
1 124 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.97%) Confluence
3 53 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 34 (2.33%) Apache
5 27 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.03%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.68%) Mendix
8 8 (0.55%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.34%) SAS
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.21%) CMS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.068%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.068%) SharePoint Server
14 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 291 (19.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (4.04%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (2.05%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.21%) Notion
7 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.068%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.068%) CATIA
8 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.068%) InDesign
8 1 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 40 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.48%) iTrent
6 6 (0.41%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.27%) Primavera
8 4 (0.27%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
9 3 (0.21%) Cloudability
9 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,460 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 556 (38.08%) Azure
3 197 (13.49%) AWS
4 183 (12.53%) Power Automate
5 157 (10.75%) PowerApps
6 155 (10.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 130 (8.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 123 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
9 119 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
10 115 (7.88%) Dynamics 365
11 103 (7.05%) GCP
12 101 (6.92%) Snowflake
13 73 (5.00%) Serverless
14 69 (4.73%) Microsoft Copilot
15 57 (3.90%) GitHub
16 47 (3.22%) Copilot Studio
17 46 (3.15%) Amazon S3
18 42 (2.88%) dbt
19 40 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
20 38 (2.60%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.62%) Firewall
2 8 (0.55%) VPN
3 4 (0.27%) 5G
3 4 (0.27%) DNS
3 4 (0.27%) HTTP
3 4 (0.27%) LTE
4 3 (0.21%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.21%) Network Security
4 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.14%) 2G
5 2 (0.14%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.14%) 4G
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.14%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.14%) SMTP
5 2 (0.14%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 2 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (17.40%) Tableau
2 208 (14.25%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (8.97%) Data Lake
4 110 (7.53%) SQL Server
5 87 (5.96%) Power Query
6 72 (4.93%) Metadata
7 58 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 57 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.63%) BigQuery
10 50 (3.42%) Looker
11 40 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
12 39 (2.67%) Delta Lake
13 38 (2.60%) Relational Database
13 38 (2.60%) Star Schema
14 34 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 29 (1.99%) Mixpanel
15 29 (1.99%) NoSQL
16 27 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
16 27 (1.85%) Spark SQL
17 25 (1.71%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 123 (8.42%) JIRA
2 74 (5.07%) Git
3 17 (1.16%) GitLab
4 13 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.75%) ERwin
6 6 (0.41%) MLflow
6 6 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.27%) Postman
8 3 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.14%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.14%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.068%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.068%) GCC
10 1 (0.068%) Hudson
General
1 472 (32.33%) Finance
2 464 (31.78%) Social Skills
3 355 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 110 (7.53%) Banking
6 46 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
6 46 (3.15%) Law
7 45 (3.08%) Retail
8 44 (3.01%) Marketing
9 35 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.10%) Legal
15 14 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.96%) Front Office
16 13 (0.89%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 387 (26.51%) Analyst
2 228 (15.62%) Data Engineer
3 210 (14.38%) Developer
4 176 (12.05%) Senior
5 167 (11.44%) Data Analyst
6 159 (10.89%) Lead
7 141 (9.66%) Architect
8 98 (6.71%) Business Analyst
9 88 (6.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 72 (4.93%) Consultant
11 64 (4.38%) Power BI Developer
12 51 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
13 45 (3.08%) Data Architect
14 44 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 43 (2.95%) Senior Data Engineer
16 41 (2.81%) Project Manager
17 39 (2.67%) PMO Analyst
18 36 (2.47%) Lead Architect
18 36 (2.47%) Power Platform Developer
19 32 (2.19%) Functional Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.27%) PySpark
2 44 (3.01%) Kafka
3 42 (2.88%) REST
4 33 (2.26%) .NET
5 31 (2.12%) Pandas
6 23 (1.58%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.51%) JSON
8 21 (1.44%) HTML
9 20 (1.37%) Great Expectations
10 18 (1.23%) React
11 16 (1.10%) HTML5 Canvas
11 16 (1.10%) NumPy
11 16 (1.10%) PyTorch
11 16 (1.10%) TensorFlow
12 15 (1.03%) XML
13 14 (0.96%) YAML
14 13 (0.89%) Spark Streaming
15 12 (0.82%) CSS
15 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
15 12 (0.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (4.04%) Cloud Native
2 54 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.63%) Data Structures
4 38 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 36 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.92%) Low-Code
8 26 (1.78%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.23%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.16%) CMDB
11 17 (1.16%) PMI
12 16 (1.10%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.75%) Clustering
14 11 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.75%) FMCG
15 10 (0.68%) IoT
16 8 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.16%) Windows
2 9 (0.62%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.068%) Linux
5 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,364 (93.42%) Business Intelligence
2 589 (40.34%) Analytics
3 466 (31.92%) Data Modelling
4 332 (22.74%) Visualisation
5 318 (21.78%) ETL
6 309 (21.16%) Agile
7 306 (20.96%) Decision-Making
8 276 (18.90%) Data Governance
9 271 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
10 237 (16.23%) Data Engineering
11 225 (15.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 221 (15.14%) DevOps
13 216 (14.79%) AI
14 211 (14.45%) Data Pipeline
15 210 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 206 (14.11%) Actionable Insight
17 204 (13.97%) CI/CD
18 201 (13.77%) Data Visualisation
19 198 (13.56%) Data Analysis
20 190 (13.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 693 (47.47%) SQL
2 383 (26.23%) Python
3 149 (10.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (4.79%) C#
5 59 (4.04%) R
6 52 (3.56%) JavaScript
7 46 (3.15%) PowerShell
8 38 (2.60%) VBA
9 33 (2.26%) T-SQL
10 28 (1.92%) Java
11 24 (1.64%) Bicep
12 17 (1.16%) Scala
13 12 (0.82%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.75%) Formula Language
14 11 (0.75%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.27%) C
17 4 (0.27%) X++
18 3 (0.21%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 224 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 172 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 130 (8.90%) Degree
4 32 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.71%) PMI Certification
9 24 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.51%) PMP
11 11 (0.75%) MBA
12 10 (0.68%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.68%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.48%) CBAP
15 5 (0.34%) ACCA
15 5 (0.34%) CIMA
15 5 (0.34%) IIBA
16 4 (0.27%) CFA
16 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 343 (23.49%) Data Quality
2 112 (7.67%) GDPR
3 96 (6.58%) PMO
4 84 (5.75%) QA
5 41 (2.81%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.10%) GRC
7 15 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.03%) SLA
8 14 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.75%) Basel III
10 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.27%) NCSC
12 4 (0.27%) P3O
12 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.21%) GAAP
13 3 (0.21%) IFRS
13 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (2.26%) Docker
2 29 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.21%) HDFS
5 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.068%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (5.14%) Terraform
2 40 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.48%) Grafana
5 6 (0.41%) SCCM
6 5 (0.34%) Ansible
6 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.27%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.21%) Control-M
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.14%) Kibana
9 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 1 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.068%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.068%) SCOM
10 1 (0.068%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.068%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.068%) WSUS
Vendors
1 483 (33.08%) Microsoft
2 209 (14.32%) Databricks
3 77 (5.27%) Oracle
4 72 (4.93%) SAP
4 72 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 69 (4.73%) Google
6 38 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.40%) Informatica
8 20 (1.37%) Foundry
9 15 (1.03%) Lotus
9 15 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 14 (0.96%) Sage
10 14 (0.96%) Workday
11 12 (0.82%) Alteryx
11 12 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.82%) Talend
12 11 (0.75%) Remedy
13 10 (0.68%) Kofax
14 9 (0.62%) Planview
15 8 (0.55%) Palantir