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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,598 948 1,254
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.68% 3.75% 3.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.03% 20.24% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 612 900
10th Percentile £335 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £578
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 30 26
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.50 £15.91
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +22.03% -35.61%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.40 £53.75 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £27.22
% change year-on-year -8.34% +16.26% -25.44%

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 6,649 4,683 6,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.30% 18.53% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,490 3,243 4,684
10th Percentile £355 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 86 140
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -14.53% -29.76%
75th Percentile £71.13 £63.31 £52.37
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £71.60
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -29.08%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +12 816 £500 - 193
South East +12 224 £500 +11.11% 157
Midlands +2 189 £463 -0.54% 87
North of England -22 185 £462 +3.20% 119
West Midlands -14 134 £450 -7.22% 48
North West -12 108 £463 -2.63% 69
South West -4 95 £450 +10.02% 52
Yorkshire -35 62 £439 +3.29% 38
East Midlands +20 54 £481 +4.05% 39
East of England -20 39 £400 -20.00% 37
North East -28 16 £438 -2.78% 14
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
1 135 (8.45%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.32%) Confluence
3 40 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.75%) Apache
6 19 (1.19%) SAS
7 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Superset
9 7 (0.44%) HCL Notes
9 7 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.38%) Mendix
11 5 (0.31%) CMS
12 4 (0.25%) IIS
13 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.19%) Kentico
14 1 (0.063%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.063%) Appian
14 1 (0.063%) Camunda
14 1 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 312 (19.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.88%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.94%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.063%) CATIA
9 1 (0.063%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.063%) InDesign
9 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 17 (1.06%) iTrent
5 9 (0.56%) Primavera
6 6 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.38%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.13%) Maximo
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,598 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 588 (36.80%) Azure
3 216 (13.52%) AWS
4 166 (10.39%) Power Automate
5 145 (9.07%) PowerApps
6 141 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
7 139 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 118 (7.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 118 (7.38%) Snowflake
9 110 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
10 98 (6.13%) Dynamics 365
11 81 (5.07%) Serverless
12 77 (4.82%) GCP
13 76 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
14 63 (3.94%) dbt
15 59 (3.69%) Amazon S3
16 58 (3.63%) GitHub
17 47 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
18 44 (2.75%) Copilot Studio
18 44 (2.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.00%) Firewall
2 13 (0.81%) VPN
3 10 (0.63%) DNS
4 4 (0.25%) Network Security
5 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.13%) 4G
6 2 (0.13%) 5G
6 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 2 (0.13%) Intranet
6 2 (0.13%) LTE
6 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
6 2 (0.13%) MPLS
6 2 (0.13%) NAS
6 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.13%) SAN
6 2 (0.13%) SSL
6 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (16.21%) Data Warehouse
1 259 (16.21%) Tableau
2 143 (8.95%) Data Lake
3 117 (7.32%) Power Query
3 117 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 73 (4.57%) Metadata
5 55 (3.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 55 (3.44%) Star Schema
6 51 (3.19%) Looker
7 50 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 46 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
9 41 (2.57%) Snowflake Schema
10 36 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 35 (2.19%) BigQuery
12 30 (1.88%) Spark SQL
13 29 (1.81%) Semantic Layer
14 28 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
14 28 (1.75%) Delta Lake
14 28 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 135 (8.45%) JIRA
2 71 (4.44%) Git
3 28 (1.75%) GitLab
4 14 (0.88%) ERwin
5 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.31%) MLflow
7 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.25%) JUnit
8 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.13%) JMeter
10 2 (0.13%) Postman
10 2 (0.13%) Selenium
10 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.063%) Hudson
General
1 495 (30.98%) Social Skills
2 483 (30.23%) Finance
3 368 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 110 (6.88%) Banking
6 61 (3.82%) Retail
7 51 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.13%) Law
9 49 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 41 (2.57%) Marketing
12 33 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.44%) Investment Banking
14 22 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.25%) Local Government
16 19 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.19%) Legal
17 18 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 413 (25.84%) Analyst
2 253 (15.83%) Data Engineer
3 228 (14.27%) Developer
4 200 (12.52%) Data Analyst
5 191 (11.95%) Senior
6 176 (11.01%) Architect
7 149 (9.32%) Lead
8 112 (7.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 92 (5.76%) Power BI Developer
10 88 (5.51%) Business Analyst
11 66 (4.13%) Consultant
12 65 (4.07%) Data Architect
12 65 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
13 47 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 47 (2.94%) Project Manager
14 44 (2.75%) Power Platform Developer
15 39 (2.44%) Lead Architect
16 37 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
17 34 (2.13%) Senior Developer
17 34 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.01%) PySpark
2 53 (3.32%) REST
3 44 (2.75%) .NET
4 33 (2.07%) Kafka
5 23 (1.44%) JSON
6 21 (1.31%) Pandas
7 20 (1.25%) React
8 18 (1.13%) Middleware
9 17 (1.06%) HTML
10 15 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
11 14 (0.88%) CSS
12 13 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.81%) YAML
13 12 (0.75%) ADO
13 12 (0.75%) Great Expectations
13 12 (0.75%) XML
14 8 (0.50%) JDO
14 8 (0.50%) RESTful
15 7 (0.44%) jQuery
15 7 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.44%) Cloud Native
1 71 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 45 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
2 45 (2.82%) Management Information System
2 45 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 36 (2.25%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 24 (1.50%) CMDB
6 23 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (1.31%) Low-Code
8 18 (1.13%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.00%) Clustering
10 15 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (0.88%) FMCG
12 13 (0.81%) NHS
13 12 (0.75%) IoT
13 12 (0.75%) PKI
13 12 (0.75%) Reference Data
14 10 (0.63%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.07%) Windows
2 18 (1.13%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.56%) Unix
4 7 (0.44%) Linux
5 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.25%) Android
6 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,485 (92.93%) Business Intelligence
2 665 (41.61%) Analytics
3 523 (32.73%) Data Modelling
4 377 (23.59%) Agile
5 345 (21.59%) ETL
6 334 (20.90%) Decision-Making
7 332 (20.78%) Visualisation
8 294 (18.40%) AI
9 291 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
10 268 (16.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 265 (16.58%) Data Engineering
12 263 (16.46%) Data Pipeline
13 260 (16.27%) DevOps
14 257 (16.08%) Data Governance
15 249 (15.58%) Migration
16 241 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 239 (14.96%) CI/CD
18 224 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
19 209 (13.08%) Validation
20 208 (13.02%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 751 (47.00%) SQL
2 390 (24.41%) Python
3 187 (11.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 71 (4.44%) PowerShell
5 70 (4.38%) JavaScript
6 67 (4.19%) C#
7 59 (3.69%) T-SQL
8 49 (3.07%) R
9 41 (2.57%) Java
10 25 (1.56%) VBA
11 19 (1.19%) Bicep
12 16 (1.00%) TypeScript
13 15 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.75%) Scala
15 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.38%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.31%) C
18 4 (0.25%) Formula Language
18 4 (0.25%) Korn
18 4 (0.25%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 277 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 217 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 151 (9.45%) Degree
4 38 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.69%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.19%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.00%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.75%) PMP
12 12 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) ACCA
13 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) CISSP
14 6 (0.38%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.31%) CIMA
16 4 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (23.78%) Data Quality
2 109 (6.82%) GDPR
3 87 (5.44%) PMO
4 73 (4.57%) QA
5 32 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.88%) SLA
8 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.69%) GRC
10 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.31%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.19%) Basel III
13 3 (0.19%) NCSC
13 3 (0.19%) P3O
14 2 (0.13%) COBIT
14 2 (0.13%) NIST
14 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.13%) Docker
3 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.063%) RACF
6 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.82%) Terraform
2 23 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.19%) Grafana
4 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.56%) SCCM
6 7 (0.44%) Ansible
7 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.25%) Control-M
8 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
9 2 (0.13%) SCOM
10 1 (0.063%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.063%) Kibana
10 1 (0.063%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.063%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.063%) WSUS
Vendors
1 559 (34.98%) Microsoft
2 199 (12.45%) Databricks
3 104 (6.51%) SAP
4 86 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 73 (4.57%) Oracle
6 47 (2.94%) Google
7 42 (2.63%) Informatica
8 30 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.44%) Remedy
10 22 (1.38%) Splunk
11 21 (1.31%) Alteryx
11 21 (1.31%) Workday
12 15 (0.94%) Adobe
13 14 (0.88%) Foundry
13 14 (0.88%) IFS
13 14 (0.88%) Talend
14 13 (0.81%) Dynatrace
15 11 (0.69%) BMC
15 11 (0.69%) Denodo
16 10 (0.63%) Palantir