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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,660 1,073 1,145
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.60% 3.86% 3.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.09% 21.32% 19.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 718 788
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £668 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 15 20
10th Percentile £17.97 £19.60 £19.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.76 £25.07
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -21.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.63 £57.43
90th Percentile £72.66 £56.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.78% +15.00% -21.05%

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 6,891 5,032 6,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.93% 18.09% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,604 3,464 4,155
10th Percentile £356 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 76 84
10th Percentile £15.61 £21.11 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.21 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.99% +22.07% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £73.08
UK median hourly rate £39.84 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.41% +24.29% -36.36%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +2 871 £500 - 1,025
North of England -8 236 £440 +3.53% 316
South East +4 209 £475 +8.57% 369
Midlands +7 187 £475 +1.06% 237
West Midlands -4 130 £475 -5.00% 162
North West -5 124 £500 +17.65% 181
Yorkshire -17 93 £425 +3.66% 105
South West -16 86 £425 +3.03% 125
East Midlands +15 56 £481 +14.93% 75
East of England -24 36 £576 +0.17% 107
North East -29 23 £363 -23.68% 31
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
1 169 (10.18%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.22%) Confluence
3 31 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.57%) SAS
5 24 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 21 (1.27%) Apache
7 13 (0.78%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.36%) Mendix
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.060%) nginx
13 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 321 (19.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 52 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (3.01%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
6 21 (1.27%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.72%) Navisworks
7 12 (0.72%) Revit
8 8 (0.48%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.48%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.96%) iTrent
5 12 (0.72%) Primavera
6 9 (0.54%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.48%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.36%) Maximo
8 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,660 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 616 (37.11%) Azure
3 199 (11.99%) Power Automate
4 195 (11.75%) AWS
5 171 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
6 169 (10.18%) PowerApps
7 138 (8.31%) Snowflake
8 134 (8.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 116 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
10 113 (6.81%) Dynamics 365
11 104 (6.27%) Microsoft Copilot
12 101 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 75 (4.52%) Serverless
14 73 (4.40%) dbt
15 63 (3.80%) GCP
15 63 (3.80%) GitHub
16 57 (3.43%) Amazon S3
17 54 (3.25%) Entra ID
18 46 (2.77%) Microsoft Purview
19 45 (2.71%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) Firewall
1 11 (0.66%) SSL
2 8 (0.48%) DNS
2 8 (0.48%) VPN
3 7 (0.42%) Broadband
4 2 (0.12%) Internet
4 2 (0.12%) NAS
4 2 (0.12%) Network Security
4 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.12%) SAN
5 1 (0.060%) 4G
5 1 (0.060%) 5G
5 1 (0.060%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.060%) LAN
5 1 (0.060%) Mobile Backhaul
5 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.060%) SSH
5 1 (0.060%) VoIP
5 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (15.54%) Data Warehouse
2 236 (14.22%) Tableau
3 142 (8.55%) Data Lake
4 135 (8.13%) Power Query
5 126 (7.59%) SQL Server
6 81 (4.88%) Metadata
7 67 (4.04%) Star Schema
8 56 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.07%) Relational Database
10 49 (2.95%) Looker
11 48 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
12 42 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 37 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 37 (2.23%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 31 (1.87%) BigQuery
16 27 (1.63%) NoSQL
16 27 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
17 24 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 22 (1.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 148 (8.92%) JIRA
2 64 (3.86%) Git
3 28 (1.69%) GitLab
4 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.30%) ERwin
5 5 (0.30%) MLflow
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.24%) JMeter
6 4 (0.24%) JUnit
6 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) Postman
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 567 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 486 (29.28%) Finance
3 431 (25.96%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 118 (7.11%) Banking
6 76 (4.58%) Retail
7 65 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.19%) Manufacturing
9 52 (3.13%) Marketing
10 50 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 41 (2.47%) Local Government
13 40 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
13 40 (2.41%) Law
14 24 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.45%) Legal
15 22 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.08%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.02%) Investment Banking
17 17 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 424 (25.54%) Analyst
2 245 (14.76%) Developer
3 207 (12.47%) Data Engineer
4 204 (12.29%) Data Analyst
5 190 (11.45%) Senior
6 175 (10.54%) Architect
7 138 (8.31%) Lead
8 116 (6.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 95 (5.72%) Power BI Developer
10 92 (5.54%) Business Analyst
11 78 (4.70%) Data Architect
12 75 (4.52%) Consultant
13 55 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
14 52 (3.13%) Project Manager
15 49 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
16 47 (2.83%) Power Platform Developer
17 38 (2.29%) Performance Analyst
18 36 (2.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 34 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
20 32 (1.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.42%) PySpark
2 67 (4.04%) Terraform
3 66 (3.98%) .NET
4 64 (3.86%) REST
5 25 (1.51%) Kafka
6 23 (1.39%) React
7 20 (1.20%) HTML
7 20 (1.20%) JSON
7 20 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (1.02%) Middleware
9 15 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (0.84%) CSS
11 9 (0.54%) Pandas
11 9 (0.54%) SOAP
12 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.48%) ADO
12 8 (0.48%) EDI
13 7 (0.42%) JDO
13 7 (0.42%) RESTful
13 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.82%) Data Structures
2 77 (4.64%) Management Information System
3 63 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.55%) Cloud Native
4 59 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 41 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 30 (1.81%) Clustering
7 26 (1.57%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.33%) Low-Code
9 20 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.20%) FMCG
10 19 (1.14%) CMDB
11 17 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.96%) NHS
13 15 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 13 (0.78%) Life Science
14 13 (0.78%) Reference Data
15 12 (0.72%) Replication
15 12 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.07%) Windows
2 24 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 16 (0.96%) Linux
4 10 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.60%) Unix
5 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.12%) VMS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,559 (93.92%) Business Intelligence
2 670 (40.36%) Analytics
3 510 (30.72%) Data Modelling
4 415 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 412 (24.82%) Agile
6 367 (22.11%) Decision-Making
7 331 (19.94%) AI
7 331 (19.94%) Visualisation
8 316 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
9 309 (18.61%) ETL
10 299 (18.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 288 (17.35%) DevOps
12 274 (16.51%) CI/CD
13 272 (16.39%) Migration
14 264 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 257 (15.48%) Data Governance
16 246 (14.82%) Data Engineering
17 244 (14.70%) Data Pipeline
18 243 (14.64%) Validation
19 217 (13.07%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 777 (46.81%) SQL
2 372 (22.41%) Python
3 185 (11.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 94 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 86 (5.18%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.34%) C#
7 64 (3.86%) T-SQL
8 42 (2.53%) R
9 38 (2.29%) Java
10 23 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.27%) VBA
12 13 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.54%) Bash
14 8 (0.48%) Bicep
14 8 (0.48%) Scala
14 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.30%) Korn
15 5 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.30%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 305 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 235 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 157 (9.46%) Degree
4 51 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (2.71%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.63%) DBS Check
8 26 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 23 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.33%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.96%) PMP
12 15 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (0.66%) ACCA
13 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.54%) CIMA
15 9 (0.54%) CISSP
16 8 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 402 (24.22%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.76%) QA
3 78 (4.70%) GDPR
3 78 (4.70%) PMO
4 35 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.90%) GRC
6 14 (0.84%) ISO 19650
7 11 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.54%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.30%) GMP
11 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.18%) NIST
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
13 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 47 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.90%) Docker
3 13 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.060%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.14%) Grafana
3 17 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.90%) SCOM
5 12 (0.72%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) Control-M
8 6 (0.36%) SCCM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 672 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 208 (12.53%) Databricks
3 111 (6.69%) SAP
4 100 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 80 (4.82%) Oracle
6 47 (2.83%) Google
7 41 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 37 (2.23%) Informatica
9 33 (1.99%) Splunk
10 27 (1.63%) Alteryx
10 27 (1.63%) Remedy
11 22 (1.33%) Workday
12 20 (1.20%) BMC
13 17 (1.02%) Adobe
14 16 (0.96%) Denodo
15 15 (0.90%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.78%) Autodesk
16 13 (0.78%) VMware
17 11 (0.66%) Teradata
18 10 (0.60%) MicroStrategy