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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 64
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,307 1,009 1,224
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.98% 3.81% 3.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.25% 20.67% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 676 876
10th Percentile £313 £313 £304
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £580 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £693 £692
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 46
10th Percentile £12.79 £24.78 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £19.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £28.60 £23.84
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +19.99% -61.86%
75th Percentile £37.00 £43.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £52.50 £64.73 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £22.52 £28.30 £23.23
% change year-on-year -20.44% +21.84% -61.29%

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 5,389 4,882 6,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.43% 18.45% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,753 3,231 4,371
10th Percentile £328 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £606 £663 £650
90th Percentile £710 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 77 168
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.86 £15.57
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.75 £21.64
Median hourly rate £47.61 £38.11 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +24.93% -10.00% -29.43%
75th Percentile £74.58 £64.73 £61.75
90th Percentile £85.30 £69.10 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +39.20% -17.35% -29.43%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +8 739 £500 -2.91% 218
North of England -25 151 £425 -8.11% 130
South East -16 128 £475 - 246
Midlands -20 117 £475 -3.06% 124
North West -18 83 £425 -15.00% 74
West Midlands -32 77 £500 - 77
South West -8 66 £488 +8.33% 48
Yorkshire -28 60 £438 +6.83% 41
East of England 0 41 £613 +36.11% 52
East Midlands -9 40 £354 -8.05% 47
North East -10 8 £475 -8.43% 18
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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
1 128 (9.79%) SharePoint
2 47 (3.60%) Confluence
3 41 (3.14%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.91%) Apache
5 24 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.22%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.69%) Mendix
9 8 (0.61%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.31%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.077%) Kentico
13 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.077%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.077%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 275 (21.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (1.99%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 3 (0.23%) Notion
9 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.077%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.31%) iTrent
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.31%) Primavera
6 3 (0.23%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.23%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.23%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,307 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 506 (38.71%) Azure
3 198 (15.15%) Power Automate
4 174 (13.31%) PowerApps
5 153 (11.71%) AWS
6 131 (10.02%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (9.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 119 (9.10%) Microsoft 365
9 106 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
10 104 (7.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 92 (7.04%) GCP
12 87 (6.66%) Snowflake
13 58 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
14 50 (3.83%) Serverless
15 49 (3.75%) GitHub
16 42 (3.21%) SaaS
17 40 (3.06%) Copilot Studio
18 39 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
19 37 (2.83%) Entra ID
20 36 (2.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) HTTP
2 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.23%) VoIP
2 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.15%) 2G
3 2 (0.15%) 5G
3 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.15%) LAN
3 2 (0.15%) LTE
3 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.15%) Network Security
3 2 (0.15%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.15%) VPN
3 2 (0.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.077%) DNS
4 1 (0.077%) Firewall
4 1 (0.077%) Internet
4 1 (0.077%) SAN
4 1 (0.077%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (15.53%) Tableau
2 152 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (8.34%) Data Lake
4 104 (7.96%) SQL Server
5 81 (6.20%) Power Query
6 55 (4.21%) Metadata
7 53 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 48 (3.67%) BigQuery
9 47 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 42 (3.21%) Relational Database
11 41 (3.14%) Looker
12 39 (2.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 29 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
14 25 (1.91%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.91%) Star Schema
15 24 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (1.76%) NoSQL
17 22 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (1.68%) Data Mining
18 21 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 112 (8.57%) JIRA
2 55 (4.21%) Git
3 11 (0.84%) GitLab
4 9 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.54%) ERwin
5 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.46%) DBeaver
7 5 (0.38%) NeoLoad
8 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.15%) MLflow
9 2 (0.15%) Postman
9 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.077%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.077%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.077%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.077%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.077%) Selenium
General
1 459 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 422 (32.29%) Finance
3 298 (22.80%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 116 (8.88%) Banking
6 46 (3.52%) Marketing
7 36 (2.75%) Retail
8 35 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 27 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (1.61%) Front Office
12 21 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.45%) Legal
14 18 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.38%) Local Government
15 15 (1.15%) Publishing
16 14 (1.07%) Law
Job Titles
1 359 (27.47%) Analyst
2 208 (15.91%) Developer
3 186 (14.23%) Data Engineer
4 151 (11.55%) Data Analyst
5 133 (10.18%) Senior
6 108 (8.26%) Lead
7 98 (7.50%) Business Analyst
8 88 (6.73%) Architect
9 78 (5.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 66 (5.05%) Consultant
11 59 (4.51%) Power BI Developer
12 45 (3.44%) Data Scientist
13 44 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
14 41 (3.14%) Project Manager
15 39 (2.98%) Power Platform Developer
16 38 (2.91%) PMO Analyst
17 37 (2.83%) Data Architect
18 34 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 33 (2.52%) Power BI Analyst
20 31 (2.37%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (4.82%) PySpark
2 40 (3.06%) .NET
2 40 (3.06%) REST
3 30 (2.30%) Kafka
4 27 (2.07%) Pandas
5 25 (1.91%) scikit-learn
6 24 (1.84%) HTML
7 18 (1.38%) JSON
8 17 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
8 17 (1.30%) React
9 14 (1.07%) NumPy
9 14 (1.07%) PyTorch
9 14 (1.07%) TensorFlow
10 13 (0.99%) Great Expectations
11 11 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (0.77%) CSS
12 10 (0.77%) Plotly
13 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (0.69%) OAuth
13 9 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.60%) Product Ownership
2 36 (2.75%) Data Structures
3 33 (2.52%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 32 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.22%) Low-Code
6 27 (2.07%) Algorithms
7 26 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.30%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.30%) PMI
11 12 (0.92%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.84%) Derivative
12 11 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
12 11 (0.84%) FMCG
12 11 (0.84%) Public Cloud
12 11 (0.84%) Reinsurance
12 11 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.77%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.84%) Windows
2 4 (0.31%) Linux
2 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.23%) Unix
3 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.077%) Android
4 1 (0.077%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.077%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (91.51%) Business Intelligence
2 475 (36.34%) Analytics
3 364 (27.85%) Data Modelling
4 335 (25.63%) Visualisation
5 304 (23.26%) Agile
6 267 (20.43%) Decision-Making
7 251 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (17.60%) ETL
9 223 (17.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 216 (16.53%) Data Governance
11 203 (15.53%) DevOps
12 201 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
13 199 (15.23%) Data Visualisation
14 197 (15.07%) Data Analysis
15 170 (13.01%) AI
16 164 (12.55%) Data Engineering
16 164 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 150 (11.48%) CI/CD
18 148 (11.32%) Data Pipeline
19 141 (10.79%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 588 (44.99%) SQL
2 333 (25.48%) Python
3 108 (8.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 62 (4.74%) C#
5 54 (4.13%) JavaScript
6 51 (3.90%) R
7 39 (2.98%) PowerShell
8 32 (2.45%) VBA
9 28 (2.14%) Java
10 27 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.99%) Scala
12 15 (1.15%) Bicep
13 14 (1.07%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.77%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.77%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.46%) Korn
15 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.38%) X++
17 3 (0.23%) Bash
17 3 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 189 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 149 (11.40%) SC Cleared
3 124 (9.49%) Degree
4 32 (2.45%) Azure Certification
5 29 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.99%) PMP
9 21 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.92%) CIMA
12 11 (0.84%) ACCA
12 11 (0.84%) MBA
13 9 (0.69%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.61%) CBAP
15 7 (0.54%) CFA
15 7 (0.54%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
16 4 (0.31%) IIBA
17 3 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (17.83%) Data Quality
2 81 (6.20%) GDPR
3 76 (5.81%) PMO
4 69 (5.28%) QA
5 53 (4.06%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.92%) GRC
8 10 (0.77%) Basel III
8 10 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.46%) NIST
11 6 (0.46%) SLA
12 5 (0.38%) P3O
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.31%) WCAG
14 3 (0.23%) GAAP
14 3 (0.23%) IFRS
15 2 (0.15%) IFRS 9
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 32 (2.45%) Docker
2 29 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.077%) HDFS
4 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.077%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (4.51%) Terraform
2 37 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.46%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.46%) SCCM
5 3 (0.23%) Ansible
6 2 (0.15%) Control-M
6 2 (0.15%) Kibana
6 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.077%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.077%) Puppet
7 1 (0.077%) SCOM
7 1 (0.077%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.077%) WSUS
Vendors
1 430 (32.90%) Microsoft
2 161 (12.32%) Databricks
3 96 (7.35%) Oracle
4 70 (5.36%) SAP
5 69 (5.28%) Google
6 45 (3.44%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.44%) ServiceNow
7 25 (1.91%) Informatica
8 16 (1.22%) Lotus
9 15 (1.15%) Foundry
10 14 (1.07%) Alteryx
10 14 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.92%) Planview
11 12 (0.92%) Splunk
12 11 (0.84%) Cognos
12 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.69%) Kofax
14 8 (0.61%) MicroStrategy
14 8 (0.61%) Workday
15 7 (0.54%) Virgin Media
693 Power BI jobs in England