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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 61 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,502 902 1,210
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.71% 3.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.09% 19.51% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 602 867
10th Percentile £319 £313 £307
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £583
90th Percentile £649 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.58% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 25 27
10th Percentile £15.51 £18.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £24.75 £18.33
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +25.22% -55.78%
75th Percentile £38.25 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.12 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £23.12 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -26.93% +29.51% -52.13%

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 6,236 4,624 6,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.17% 19.04% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,279 3,227 4,502
10th Percentile £350 £363 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £527
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
75th Percentile £600 £653 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 88 134
10th Percentile £14.51 £20.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.73 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.43 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +38.76% -19.18% -30.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £58.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £47.27 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.72% -13.56% -31.73%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +2 759 £500 - 276
South East +12 210 £500 +6.67% 206
Midlands -3 190 £450 -10.00% 93
North of England -24 154 £455 +1.18% 131
West Midlands -15 128 £450 -10.00% 63
South West +1 92 £450 +5.88% 51
North West -6 87 £463 -7.50% 74
East Midlands +13 61 £450 -7.69% 30
Yorkshire -49 54 £440 +3.53% 42
East of England -19 40 £413 -17.50% 46
North East -17 14 £475 +5.56% 18
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 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.59%) Confluence
3 51 (3.40%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.00%) Apache
5 23 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.07%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.87%) SAS
8 12 (0.80%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.27%) IIS
13 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.20%) CMS
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
15 1 (0.067%) Appian
15 1 (0.067%) Camunda
15 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 291 (19.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.93%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (2.00%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.27%) Revit
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.067%) CATIA
10 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.067%) InDesign
10 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 18 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (1.00%) iTrent
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.33%) Primavera
6 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.067%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1,502 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 548 (36.48%) Azure
3 192 (12.78%) AWS
4 167 (11.12%) Power Automate
5 153 (10.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 138 (9.19%) PowerApps
7 136 (9.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 133 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
9 118 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
10 94 (6.26%) Snowflake
11 91 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
12 88 (5.86%) GCP
13 69 (4.59%) Serverless
14 64 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
15 61 (4.06%) GitHub
16 51 (3.40%) Amazon S3
17 44 (2.93%) Copilot Studio
17 44 (2.93%) dbt
18 41 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
19 38 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.87%) Firewall
2 11 (0.73%) VPN
3 8 (0.53%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) Network Security
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) Internet
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) LTE
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (17.31%) Tableau
2 230 (15.31%) Data Warehouse
3 145 (9.65%) Data Lake
4 117 (7.79%) SQL Server
5 99 (6.59%) Power Query
6 72 (4.79%) Metadata
7 55 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 52 (3.46%) Looker
10 48 (3.20%) BigQuery
11 45 (3.00%) Star Schema
12 43 (2.86%) Relational Database
13 39 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
14 37 (2.46%) Snowflake Schema
15 35 (2.33%) Spark SQL
16 33 (2.20%) Delta Lake
17 30 (2.00%) NoSQL
18 29 (1.93%) Mixpanel
19 26 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
20 24 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 133 (8.85%) JIRA
2 68 (4.53%) Git
3 24 (1.60%) GitLab
4 14 (0.93%) ERwin
5 9 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
6 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.067%) GCC
10 1 (0.067%) Hudson
10 1 (0.067%) NeoLoad
General
1 461 (30.69%) Finance
2 459 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 355 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.99%) Banking
6 51 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.20%) Law
8 46 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (3.00%) Marketing
9 45 (3.00%) Retail
10 27 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.26%) Legal
13 19 (1.26%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.13%) Local Government
16 14 (0.93%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.87%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 399 (26.56%) Analyst
2 248 (16.51%) Data Engineer
3 195 (12.98%) Developer
4 185 (12.32%) Data Analyst
5 183 (12.18%) Senior
6 155 (10.32%) Architect
7 141 (9.39%) Lead
8 95 (6.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 92 (6.13%) Business Analyst
10 73 (4.86%) Power BI Developer
11 70 (4.66%) Consultant
12 62 (4.13%) Senior Data Engineer
13 54 (3.60%) Data Architect
14 44 (2.93%) Project Manager
15 43 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 39 (2.60%) Power Platform Developer
16 39 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
17 36 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
17 36 (2.40%) Lead Architect
18 33 (2.20%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.99%) PySpark
2 47 (3.13%) REST
3 42 (2.80%) Kafka
4 31 (2.06%) .NET
5 24 (1.60%) Pandas
6 20 (1.33%) React
7 19 (1.26%) JSON
8 18 (1.20%) Great Expectations
9 16 (1.07%) HTML
10 14 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (0.87%) ADO
11 13 (0.87%) Middleware
11 13 (0.87%) YAML
12 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (0.73%) XML
14 10 (0.67%) CSS
14 10 (0.67%) scikit-learn
14 10 (0.67%) Spark Streaming
15 9 (0.60%) PyTorch
15 9 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 67 (4.46%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.79%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 28 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.73%) Low-Code
9 21 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.20%) CMDB
11 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 14 (0.93%) Clustering
12 14 (0.93%) PMI
12 14 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.67%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.67%) NHS
16 9 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.66%) Windows
2 15 (1.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.33%) Unix
5 4 (0.27%) Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.067%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,400 (93.21%) Business Intelligence
2 607 (40.41%) Analytics
3 497 (33.09%) Data Modelling
4 348 (23.17%) Agile
5 330 (21.97%) ETL
6 317 (21.11%) Decision-Making
7 302 (20.11%) Visualisation
8 273 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 267 (17.78%) Data Governance
10 247 (16.44%) Data Engineering
11 244 (16.25%) DevOps
12 239 (15.91%) Data Pipeline
13 234 (15.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 229 (15.25%) AI
15 219 (14.58%) Migration
16 217 (14.45%) CI/CD
17 206 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
18 196 (13.05%) Actionable Insight
19 195 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
20 187 (12.45%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 702 (46.74%) SQL
2 380 (25.30%) Python
3 169 (11.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 63 (4.19%) PowerShell
5 62 (4.13%) C#
6 60 (3.99%) R
7 54 (3.60%) JavaScript
8 48 (3.20%) T-SQL
9 38 (2.53%) Java
10 29 (1.93%) VBA
11 20 (1.33%) Bicep
12 19 (1.26%) Scala
13 12 (0.80%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.67%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.67%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.27%) C
17 4 (0.27%) Korn
18 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 256 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 198 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 141 (9.39%) Degree
4 36 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (1.73%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.53%) PMP
8 22 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 14 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.67%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 9 (0.60%) MBA
13 7 (0.47%) CBAP
13 7 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.40%) ACCA
15 5 (0.33%) CISSP
15 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (24.43%) Data Quality
2 111 (7.39%) GDPR
3 89 (5.93%) PMO
4 81 (5.39%) QA
5 34 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.07%) SLA
7 14 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.73%) GRC
10 10 (0.67%) Basel III
11 7 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
14 4 (0.27%) P3O
14 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.20%) GAAP
15 3 (0.20%) IFRS
15 3 (0.20%) NCSC
16 2 (0.13%) PERC
System Software
1 36 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.86%) Docker
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.067%) RACF
5 1 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.93%) Terraform
2 34 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.13%) Grafana
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.47%) SCCM
5 5 (0.33%) Ansible
6 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.20%) Control-M
7 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
9 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.067%) Kibana
9 1 (0.067%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.067%) WSUS
Vendors
1 495 (32.96%) Microsoft
2 205 (13.65%) Databricks
3 88 (5.86%) SAP
4 85 (5.66%) Oracle
5 77 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 58 (3.86%) Google
7 38 (2.53%) Informatica
8 25 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.53%) Workday
10 21 (1.40%) Remedy
11 18 (1.20%) Splunk
12 16 (1.07%) Lotus
13 15 (1.00%) Foundry
13 15 (1.00%) Talend
14 14 (0.93%) IFS
15 12 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.80%) Kofax
16 11 (0.73%) Adobe
16 11 (0.73%) Denodo
16 11 (0.73%) Dynatrace