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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 60 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,644 1,109 1,143
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.95% 3.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.23% 21.75% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 754 769
10th Percentile £324 £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 £579 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 16 23
10th Percentile £17.97 £18.25 £20.15
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.56 £25.26
Median hourly rate £30.75 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +6.83% -25.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £49.06 £49.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £59.75 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -1.72% +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 6,784 5,100 5,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.64% 18.16% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,505 3,490 4,029
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £669
90th Percentile £716 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 79 85
10th Percentile £16.35 £20.97 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -29.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £81.20 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £39.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.65% +12.80% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -4 859 £500 - 1,182
North of England -7 239 £439 +3.29% 442
South East +3 205 £475 +8.57% 480
Midlands +10 184 £475 -0.52% 325
West Midlands -6 131 £475 -5.00% 216
North West +2 128 £500 +14.29% 252
Yorkshire -21 90 £425 +6.25% 142
South West -27 79 £425 - 168
East Midlands +20 52 £500 +17.65% 109
East of England -13 45 £588 +2.26% 169
North East -20 25 £350 -26.32% 49
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
1 161 (9.79%) SharePoint
2 71 (4.32%) Confluence
3 30 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.58%) SAS
5 24 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.22%) Apache
7 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.73%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.36%) Mendix
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.24%) 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
1 312 (18.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 45 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (1.09%) 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 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 20 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.91%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 12 (0.73%) iTrent
5 12 (0.73%) Primavera
6 10 (0.61%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.36%) Maximo
7 6 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.12%) Actimize
10 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.12%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,644 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 609 (37.04%) Azure
3 193 (11.74%) Power Automate
4 181 (11.01%) AWS
5 171 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
6 169 (10.28%) PowerApps
7 140 (8.52%) Snowflake
8 136 (8.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 111 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
10 103 (6.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 103 (6.27%) Microsoft Copilot
11 90 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
12 76 (4.62%) dbt
13 68 (4.14%) GCP
14 64 (3.89%) Serverless
15 62 (3.77%) GitHub
16 56 (3.41%) Amazon S3
17 53 (3.22%) Entra ID
18 50 (3.04%) Microsoft Purview
19 46 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.73%) Firewall
2 11 (0.67%) SSL
3 9 (0.55%) DNS
4 7 (0.43%) Broadband
4 7 (0.43%) VPN
5 4 (0.24%) 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%) CTI
7 1 (0.061%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.061%) LAN
7 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.061%) PBX
7 1 (0.061%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.061%) SSH
7 1 (0.061%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (15.45%) Data Warehouse
2 233 (14.17%) Tableau
3 143 (8.70%) Data Lake
4 129 (7.85%) Power Query
5 128 (7.79%) SQL Server
6 86 (5.23%) Metadata
7 63 (3.83%) Star Schema
8 57 (3.47%) Looker
9 54 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 48 (2.92%) Relational Database
11 45 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
11 45 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (2.19%) BigQuery
13 35 (2.13%) Semantic Layer
14 34 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 33 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.52%) NoSQL
17 22 (1.34%) Delta Lake
17 22 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (1.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 146 (8.88%) JIRA
2 65 (3.95%) Git
3 28 (1.70%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.30%) JMeter
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.24%) ERwin
6 4 (0.24%) JUnit
6 4 (0.24%) MLflow
6 4 (0.24%) Postman
6 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.18%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Applitools
8 2 (0.12%) Newman
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 571 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 470 (28.59%) Finance
3 419 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 123 (7.48%) Banking
6 75 (4.56%) Retail
7 57 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 57 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (3.04%) Marketing
9 44 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (2.68%) Local Government
10 42 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 30 (1.82%) Legal
12 24 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 21 (1.28%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.28%) Law
13 21 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.09%) Publishing
15 17 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 427 (25.97%) Analyst
2 257 (15.63%) Developer
3 201 (12.23%) Data Analyst
4 195 (11.86%) Data Engineer
5 182 (11.07%) Senior
6 152 (9.25%) Architect
7 123 (7.48%) Lead
8 122 (7.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 97 (5.90%) Power BI Developer
10 94 (5.72%) Business Analyst
11 78 (4.74%) Data Architect
12 73 (4.44%) Consultant
13 54 (3.28%) Project Manager
14 52 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
15 51 (3.10%) Power Platform Developer
16 48 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
17 42 (2.55%) Performance Analyst
18 36 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 33 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
20 30 (1.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.05%) PySpark
2 66 (4.01%) REST
2 66 (4.01%) Terraform
3 61 (3.71%) .NET
4 23 (1.40%) React
5 22 (1.34%) JSON
5 22 (1.34%) Kafka
6 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (0.97%) HTML
8 15 (0.91%) Middleware
9 14 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (0.61%) CSS
11 9 (0.55%) SOAP
11 9 (0.55%) YAML
12 8 (0.49%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.49%) EDI
13 7 (0.43%) ADO
13 7 (0.43%) jQuery
13 7 (0.43%) OAuth
13 7 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 77 (4.68%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.35%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.82%) Clustering
8 29 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.70%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.40%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.22%) CMDB
11 20 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.09%) FMCG
13 16 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.97%) NHS
14 15 (0.91%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.79%) Life Science
15 13 (0.79%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.98%) Windows
2 22 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.03%) Linux
4 10 (0.61%) Unix
5 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.30%) 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 1,551 (94.34%) Business Intelligence
2 677 (41.18%) Analytics
3 515 (31.33%) Data Modelling
4 445 (27.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 415 (25.24%) Agile
6 392 (23.84%) Decision-Making
7 343 (20.86%) AI
8 328 (19.95%) Visualisation
9 308 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
10 294 (17.88%) ETL
11 288 (17.52%) DevOps
12 287 (17.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 267 (16.24%) Data Governance
14 266 (16.18%) CI/CD
15 252 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 252 (15.33%) Migration
16 250 (15.21%) Validation
17 248 (15.09%) Data Engineering
18 233 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
19 223 (13.56%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 784 (47.69%) SQL
2 361 (21.96%) Python
3 183 (11.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 93 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 83 (5.05%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.38%) C#
7 61 (3.71%) T-SQL
8 41 (2.49%) R
9 35 (2.13%) Java
10 21 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.97%) VBA
12 13 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.61%) Bash
14 8 (0.49%) Bicep
14 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.43%) Scala
16 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.30%) Korn
18 4 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 304 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 234 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 144 (8.76%) Degree
4 50 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (2.62%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 24 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.46%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.03%) PMP
11 12 (0.73%) CISSP
11 12 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.61%) ACCA
13 10 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.55%) CIMA
15 7 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 421 (25.61%) Data Quality
2 77 (4.68%) QA
3 73 (4.44%) PMO
4 67 (4.08%) GDPR
5 32 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (0.91%) ISO 19650
7 15 (0.91%) SLA
8 14 (0.85%) GRC
9 8 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.49%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) COBIT
10 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.30%) GMP
11 5 (0.30%) 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%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.91%) Docker
3 13 (0.79%) 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 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.09%) Grafana
3 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.91%) SCOM
5 13 (0.79%) Ansible
6 9 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.36%) Control-M
8 6 (0.36%) SCCM
9 4 (0.24%) 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
1 668 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 210 (12.77%) Databricks
3 100 (6.08%) SAP
4 92 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 77 (4.68%) Oracle
6 54 (3.28%) Google
7 39 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.13%) Informatica
9 33 (2.01%) Splunk
10 30 (1.82%) Remedy
11 27 (1.64%) Alteryx
12 23 (1.40%) Workday
13 18 (1.09%) BMC
14 16 (0.97%) Adobe
14 16 (0.97%) Denodo
15 14 (0.85%) Autodesk
15 14 (0.85%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.79%) VMware
17 11 (0.67%) MicroStrategy
17 11 (0.67%) Teradata