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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,314 1,020 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.97% 3.84% 3.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.21% 20.71% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 683 900
10th Percentile £313 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 47
10th Percentile £12.91 £24.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.06 £25.26 £20.01
Median hourly rate £20.69 £28.60 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -27.67% +17.07% -60.91%
75th Percentile £36.11 £52.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £51.25 £64.73 £60.60
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £28.60 £23.24
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.06% -61.27%

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 5,427 4,924 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.41% 18.56% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,786 3,256 4,437
10th Percentile £330 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £601 £663 £650
90th Percentile £708 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 81 171
10th Percentile £18.23 £22.27 £15.59
25th Percentile £27.00 £25.00 £21.64
Median hourly rate £45.75 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -9.41% -29.17%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £61.63
90th Percentile £85.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +41.03% -17.65% -27.26%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +2 740 £500 -2.58% 223
North of England -27 151 £425 -5.56% 130
South East -19 128 £475 - 247
Midlands -21 119 £475 -1.25% 138
North West -20 84 £425 -15.00% 76
West Midlands -35 76 £500 +1.01% 82
South West -7 68 £475 +5.56% 51
Yorkshire -26 59 £438 +6.83% 42
East Midlands +3 43 £356 -7.53% 56
East of England -2 42 £625 +38.89% 58
North East -12 8 £475 -8.43% 15
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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
1 129 (9.82%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.50%) Confluence
3 43 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.90%) Apache
5 24 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.22%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.68%) Mendix
9 8 (0.61%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.30%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.076%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.076%) Luigi
13 1 (0.076%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 277 (21.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.30%) Trello
8 3 (0.23%) Notion
9 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.076%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.30%) iTrent
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
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 ERP
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.15%) Primavera
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,314 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 501 (38.13%) Azure
3 199 (15.14%) Power Automate
4 175 (13.32%) PowerApps
5 156 (11.87%) AWS
6 132 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (9.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 119 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
9 104 (7.91%) Dynamics 365
10 102 (7.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 94 (7.15%) GCP
12 87 (6.62%) Snowflake
13 59 (4.49%) Microsoft Copilot
14 51 (3.88%) Serverless
15 50 (3.81%) GitHub
16 42 (3.20%) SaaS
17 41 (3.12%) Copilot Studio
18 38 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
19 36 (2.74%) Azure Functions
19 36 (2.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) HTTP
2 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.23%) VoIP
3 3 (0.23%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) 2G
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) DNS
4 2 (0.15%) Firewall
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.15%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) LTE
4 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.15%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.076%) Skype
5 1 (0.076%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.076%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (15.83%) Tableau
2 151 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (8.22%) Data Lake
4 104 (7.91%) SQL Server
5 82 (6.24%) Power Query
6 57 (4.34%) Metadata
7 53 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 48 (3.65%) BigQuery
9 46 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 41 (3.12%) Looker
10 41 (3.12%) Relational Database
11 40 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 29 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (2.05%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
14 25 (1.90%) Star Schema
15 24 (1.83%) NoSQL
16 23 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (1.60%) Big Data
17 21 (1.60%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 109 (8.30%) JIRA
2 56 (4.26%) Git
3 11 (0.84%) GitLab
4 9 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.61%) ERwin
6 7 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.46%) DBeaver
8 5 (0.38%) NeoLoad
9 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) Postman
10 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.076%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.076%) Maven
11 1 (0.076%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.076%) Selenium
General
1 462 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 412 (31.35%) Finance
3 300 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (10.88%) Public Sector
5 115 (8.75%) Banking
6 47 (3.58%) Marketing
7 35 (2.66%) Retail
8 34 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (1.98%) Manufacturing
10 26 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.60%) Front Office
13 19 (1.45%) Legal
14 18 (1.37%) Local Government
15 17 (1.29%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.29%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.22%) Publishing
17 12 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 359 (27.32%) Analyst
2 209 (15.91%) Developer
3 189 (14.38%) Data Engineer
4 151 (11.49%) Data Analyst
5 134 (10.20%) Senior
6 109 (8.30%) Lead
7 98 (7.46%) Business Analyst
8 89 (6.77%) Architect
9 78 (5.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 67 (5.10%) Consultant
11 60 (4.57%) Power BI Developer
12 44 (3.35%) Data Scientist
12 44 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
13 39 (2.97%) Power Platform Developer
14 38 (2.89%) PMO Analyst
15 37 (2.82%) Data Architect
15 37 (2.82%) Project Manager
16 34 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 33 (2.51%) Senior Data Engineer
18 32 (2.44%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.87%) PySpark
2 41 (3.12%) .NET
3 39 (2.97%) REST
4 31 (2.36%) Kafka
5 28 (2.13%) Pandas
6 25 (1.90%) scikit-learn
7 24 (1.83%) HTML
8 18 (1.37%) JSON
9 17 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
9 17 (1.29%) React
10 14 (1.07%) NumPy
10 14 (1.07%) PyTorch
10 14 (1.07%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.99%) Great Expectations
12 11 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (0.76%) CSS
13 10 (0.76%) Plotly
13 10 (0.76%) XML
14 9 (0.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.58%) Product Ownership
2 37 (2.82%) Data Structures
3 34 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 33 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 32 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.21%) Low-Code
7 27 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 25 (1.90%) Onboarding
10 23 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.29%) PMI
12 16 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.84%) Derivative
14 11 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.84%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.76%) FMCG
15 10 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (0.76%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.91%) Windows
2 5 (0.38%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.30%) Linux
4 3 (0.23%) Unix
4 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.076%) Android
5 1 (0.076%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.076%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,205 (91.70%) Business Intelligence
2 479 (36.45%) Analytics
3 369 (28.08%) Data Modelling
4 335 (25.49%) Visualisation
5 300 (22.83%) Agile
6 268 (20.40%) Decision-Making
7 254 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
8 235 (17.88%) ETL
9 220 (16.74%) Data Governance
10 218 (16.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 204 (15.53%) DevOps
12 203 (15.45%) Actionable Insight
13 200 (15.22%) Data Visualisation
14 195 (14.84%) Data Analysis
15 176 (13.39%) AI
16 168 (12.79%) Data Engineering
17 165 (12.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 153 (11.64%) CI/CD
18 153 (11.64%) Data Pipeline
19 144 (10.96%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 596 (45.36%) SQL
2 333 (25.34%) Python
3 110 (8.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 63 (4.79%) C#
5 54 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 50 (3.81%) R
7 40 (3.04%) PowerShell
8 32 (2.44%) VBA
9 28 (2.13%) Java
9 28 (2.13%) T-SQL
10 27 (2.05%) Scala
11 16 (1.22%) Bicep
12 14 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.76%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.76%) LotusScript
14 6 (0.46%) Korn
14 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.38%) X++
16 4 (0.30%) LookML
16 4 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 194 (14.76%) Security Cleared
2 154 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.51%) Degree
4 32 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 29 (2.21%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (1.98%) PMP
8 22 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.84%) CIMA
10 11 (0.84%) MBA
11 10 (0.76%) ACCA
12 9 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.61%) CBAP
13 8 (0.61%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.53%) CFA
14 7 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
15 4 (0.30%) IIBA
16 3 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (18.42%) Data Quality
2 83 (6.32%) GDPR
3 76 (5.78%) PMO
4 71 (5.40%) QA
5 52 (3.96%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.91%) GRC
7 12 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.76%) Basel III
9 9 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.53%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.53%) SLA
11 6 (0.46%) NIST
12 5 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.38%) P3O
13 4 (0.30%) WCAG
14 3 (0.23%) GAAP
14 3 (0.23%) IFRS
15 2 (0.15%) IFRS 9
15 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (2.44%) Docker
2 27 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.076%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.076%) HDFS
4 1 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.076%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (4.79%) Terraform
2 37 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.53%) SCCM
5 6 (0.46%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.23%) Ansible
7 2 (0.15%) Control-M
7 2 (0.15%) Kibana
7 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.076%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.076%) Puppet
8 1 (0.076%) SCOM
8 1 (0.076%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.076%) WSUS
Vendors
1 431 (32.80%) Microsoft
2 163 (12.40%) Databricks
3 91 (6.93%) Oracle
4 68 (5.18%) Google
4 68 (5.18%) SAP
5 46 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.42%) ServiceNow
7 25 (1.90%) Informatica
8 16 (1.22%) Lotus
9 15 (1.14%) Foundry
10 14 (1.07%) Alteryx
10 14 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.91%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.91%) Planview
11 12 (0.91%) Splunk
12 11 (0.84%) Cognos
13 9 (0.68%) Kofax
14 8 (0.61%) MicroStrategy
14 8 (0.61%) Talend
14 8 (0.61%) Workday