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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 65 60
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,612 970 1,256
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 3.72% 3.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.10% 20.20% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 622 908
10th Percentile £331 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.58% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 31 26
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.00 £15.91
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £22.86
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +27.18% -38.22%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.57 £41.30
90th Percentile £72.63 £53.75 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -8.34% +32.82% -34.73%

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 6,690 4,803 6,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 18.41% 17.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,500 3,325 4,727
10th Percentile £352 £357 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £675
90th Percentile £710 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 90 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £23.88 £20.62
Median hourly rate £38.25 £33.94 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% -15.15% -30.43%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.75 £71.70
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £34.99 £39.25
% change year-on-year +10.03% -10.85% -31.08%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +7 814 £500 - 306
South East +11 219 £475 +5.56% 178
Midlands +8 199 £451 -3.12% 106
North of England -19 197 £461 +3.05% 134
West Midlands -8 140 £450 -7.22% 57
North West 0 117 £463 -2.63% 75
South West +3 94 £450 +10.02% 58
Yorkshire -44 64 £445 +4.71% 45
East Midlands +20 58 £470 +1.62% 49
East of England -15 39 £400 -20.00% 45
North East -28 17 £425 -5.56% 16
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
1 137 (8.50%) SharePoint
2 66 (4.09%) Confluence
3 39 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.74%) Apache
6 19 (1.18%) SAS
7 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Superset
9 7 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.37%) HCL Notes
11 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.31%) CMS
11 5 (0.31%) Mendix
12 4 (0.25%) IIS
13 3 (0.19%) Kentico
14 1 (0.062%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.062%) Appian
14 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 316 (19.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.99%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.062%) CATIA
10 1 (0.062%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.062%) InDesign
10 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 18 (1.12%) iTrent
5 9 (0.56%) Primavera
6 6 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) Maximo
9 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
10 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,612 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 592 (36.72%) Azure
3 214 (13.28%) AWS
4 169 (10.48%) Power Automate
5 150 (9.31%) PowerApps
6 141 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (8.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 120 (7.44%) Snowflake
9 115 (7.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 113 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
11 99 (6.14%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (4.90%) Serverless
13 77 (4.78%) Microsoft Copilot
14 76 (4.71%) GCP
15 63 (3.91%) dbt
16 59 (3.66%) Amazon S3
17 55 (3.41%) GitHub
18 48 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
19 47 (2.92%) Entra ID
20 44 (2.73%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.05%) Firewall
2 13 (0.81%) VPN
3 10 (0.62%) DNS
4 5 (0.31%) SSL
5 4 (0.25%) Network Security
6 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
7 2 (0.12%) Microwave Backhaul
7 2 (0.12%) MPLS
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
7 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (16.25%) Tableau
2 260 (16.13%) Data Warehouse
3 134 (8.31%) Data Lake
4 119 (7.38%) Power Query
5 115 (7.13%) SQL Server
6 73 (4.53%) Metadata
7 59 (3.66%) Star Schema
8 53 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.16%) Looker
10 48 (2.98%) Relational Database
11 47 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
13 39 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
14 36 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (2.17%) BigQuery
16 30 (1.86%) Semantic Layer
17 29 (1.80%) BusinessObjects
18 28 (1.74%) Delta Lake
18 28 (1.74%) NoSQL
19 26 (1.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 134 (8.31%) JIRA
2 69 (4.28%) Git
3 26 (1.61%) GitLab
4 14 (0.87%) ERwin
5 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.31%) MLflow
7 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.25%) JUnit
8 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) JMeter
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.062%) Hudson
General
1 504 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 489 (30.33%) Finance
3 382 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 109 (6.76%) Banking
6 61 (3.78%) Retail
7 55 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 49 (3.04%) Law
10 48 (2.98%) Manufacturing
11 40 (2.48%) Marketing
12 34 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.43%) Investment Banking
14 22 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (1.30%) Local Government
16 19 (1.18%) Legal
17 17 (1.05%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 417 (25.87%) Analyst
2 248 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 233 (14.45%) Developer
4 200 (12.41%) Data Analyst
5 187 (11.60%) Senior
6 179 (11.10%) Architect
7 155 (9.62%) Lead
8 117 (7.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 95 (5.89%) Power BI Developer
10 92 (5.71%) Business Analyst
11 68 (4.22%) Data Architect
12 64 (3.97%) Consultant
13 60 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
14 48 (2.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 46 (2.85%) Power Platform Developer
16 44 (2.73%) Project Manager
17 39 (2.42%) Lead Architect
18 38 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
20 34 (2.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (5.83%) PySpark
2 52 (3.23%) REST
3 47 (2.92%) .NET
4 33 (2.05%) Kafka
5 25 (1.55%) JSON
6 20 (1.24%) Pandas
7 19 (1.18%) React
8 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
8 18 (1.12%) Middleware
9 15 (0.93%) HTML
10 13 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (0.81%) YAML
11 12 (0.74%) CSS
11 12 (0.74%) Great Expectations
11 12 (0.74%) XML
12 11 (0.68%) ADO
13 8 (0.50%) JDO
13 8 (0.50%) RESTful
14 7 (0.43%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 72 (4.47%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.40%) Data Structures
3 44 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
3 44 (2.73%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 38 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (1.49%) CMDB
8 22 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.24%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.12%) Clustering
12 15 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.87%) FMCG
14 13 (0.81%) IoT
14 13 (0.81%) NHS
15 12 (0.74%) PKI
15 12 (0.74%) Reference Data
16 11 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 10 (0.62%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.23%) Windows
2 20 (1.24%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.56%) Unix
4 7 (0.43%) Linux
5 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.25%) Android
6 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,494 (92.68%) Business Intelligence
2 663 (41.13%) Analytics
3 525 (32.57%) Data Modelling
4 378 (23.45%) Agile
5 344 (21.34%) Visualisation
6 341 (21.15%) Decision-Making
7 340 (21.09%) ETL
8 297 (18.42%) AI
9 296 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
10 278 (17.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 266 (16.50%) Data Pipeline
12 264 (16.38%) DevOps
13 262 (16.25%) Data Engineering
14 258 (16.00%) Data Governance
15 254 (15.76%) Migration
16 250 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
17 241 (14.95%) CI/CD
18 231 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 216 (13.40%) Validation
20 213 (13.21%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 754 (46.77%) SQL
2 391 (24.26%) Python
3 191 (11.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 72 (4.47%) PowerShell
5 68 (4.22%) JavaScript
6 66 (4.09%) C#
7 61 (3.78%) T-SQL
8 52 (3.23%) R
9 40 (2.48%) Java
10 24 (1.49%) VBA
11 18 (1.12%) Bicep
12 16 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 15 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.74%) Scala
15 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.31%) C
18 4 (0.25%) Korn
18 4 (0.25%) X++
19 3 (0.19%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 285 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 220 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 160 (9.93%) Degree
4 41 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 20 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 12 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (0.68%) PMP
13 8 (0.50%) ACCA
14 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.43%) CISSP
15 6 (0.37%) CIMA
15 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
16 5 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (23.95%) Data Quality
2 109 (6.76%) GDPR
3 84 (5.21%) PMO
4 72 (4.47%) QA
5 32 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.99%) SLA
7 11 (0.68%) GRC
8 10 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.19%) NCSC
12 3 (0.19%) P3O
13 2 (0.12%) COBIT
13 2 (0.12%) NIST
13 2 (0.12%) PSD2
14 1 (0.062%) MiFID
System Software
1 49 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.93%) Docker
3 10 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.062%) RACF
6 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (4.65%) Terraform
2 20 (1.24%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.18%) Grafana
4 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.62%) SCCM
6 7 (0.43%) Ansible
7 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) SCOM
9 4 (0.25%) Control-M
9 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.062%) Kibana
11 1 (0.062%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.062%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.062%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.062%) WSUS
Vendors
1 569 (35.30%) Microsoft
2 201 (12.47%) Databricks
3 105 (6.51%) SAP
4 91 (5.65%) ServiceNow
5 72 (4.47%) Oracle
6 46 (2.85%) Google
7 42 (2.61%) Informatica
8 30 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.55%) Alteryx
10 24 (1.49%) Remedy
11 23 (1.43%) Splunk
12 20 (1.24%) Workday
13 15 (0.93%) Adobe
14 14 (0.87%) IFS
14 14 (0.87%) Talend
15 13 (0.81%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.81%) Foundry
16 11 (0.68%) BMC
16 11 (0.68%) Denodo
17 10 (0.62%) Palantir