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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 54 64
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,387 975 1,215
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 3.87% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.90% 20.49% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 972 668 859
10th Percentile £322 £313 £286
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% - -
75th Percentile £584 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 37
10th Percentile £13.54 £19.63 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.06 £15.59
Median hourly rate £23.03 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +18.46% -61.31%
75th Percentile £42.88 £32.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £59.05 £62.70
UK median hourly rate £24.22 £27.43 £23.22
% change year-on-year -11.68% +18.13% -59.63%

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 5,803 4,759 6,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.14% 18.91% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,044 3,274 4,323
10th Percentile £343 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £662
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 85 152
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.62
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.75 £21.48
Median hourly rate £50.00 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.20% -10.33% -24.95%
75th Percentile £74.84 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £70.00 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.81 £42.50
% change year-on-year +60.01% -22.80% -23.70%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +2 767 £500 -0.99% 289
South East -15 146 £500 +8.11% 192
North of England -41 145 £450 -9.65% 171
Midlands -21 144 £450 -5.66% 138
West Midlands -30 94 £475 -3.06% 101
North West -29 82 £425 -19.05% 90
South West -2 72 £475 +5.56% 74
East of England -8 52 £513 +10.81% 45
Yorkshire -48 52 £450 +9.76% 56
East Midlands +1 50 £375 -16.67% 36
North East -6 11 £500 +11.11% 30
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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 (8.94%) SharePoint
2 47 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 47 (3.39%) Confluence
3 29 (2.09%) Apache
4 22 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.01%) HCL Notes
6 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.65%) Mendix
8 6 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.36%) SAS
10 4 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.22%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.072%) Kentico
13 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.072%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 276 (19.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.04%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.22%) Notion
7 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.072%) CATIA
9 1 (0.072%) InDesign
9 1 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 47 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.29%) Primavera
7 3 (0.22%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.22%) iTrent
7 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FS
8 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,387 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 539 (38.86%) Azure
3 196 (14.13%) Power Automate
4 171 (12.33%) PowerApps
5 166 (11.97%) AWS
6 152 (10.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 125 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
8 123 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
9 122 (8.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 99 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
10 99 (7.14%) GCP
11 94 (6.78%) Snowflake
12 68 (4.90%) Microsoft Copilot
13 61 (4.40%) Serverless
14 52 (3.75%) GitHub
15 46 (3.32%) Copilot Studio
16 44 (3.17%) SaaS
17 40 (2.88%) dbt
18 39 (2.81%) Entra ID
19 37 (2.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.43%) VPN
2 5 (0.36%) HTTP
3 4 (0.29%) Firewall
3 4 (0.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.22%) 5G
4 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.22%) LTE
4 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.14%) 2G
5 2 (0.14%) DNS
5 2 (0.14%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.14%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.14%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 2 (0.14%) Wireless
6 1 (0.072%) 4G
6 1 (0.072%) Modbus
6 1 (0.072%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.072%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (15.86%) Tableau
2 183 (13.19%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (8.72%) Data Lake
4 107 (7.71%) SQL Server
5 81 (5.84%) Power Query
6 64 (4.61%) Metadata
7 57 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (3.60%) BigQuery
10 48 (3.46%) Looker
11 44 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 40 (2.88%) Relational Database
13 35 (2.52%) Delta Lake
14 30 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
15 27 (1.95%) Star Schema
16 26 (1.87%) Mixpanel
16 26 (1.87%) NoSQL
17 25 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
17 25 (1.80%) Spark SQL
18 21 (1.51%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 111 (8.00%) JIRA
2 72 (5.19%) Git
3 17 (1.23%) GitLab
4 13 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.65%) ERwin
6 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.36%) NeoLoad
8 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.29%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.29%) Postman
8 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.14%) MLflow
10 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.072%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.072%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 472 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 435 (31.36%) Finance
3 327 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (11.75%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.71%) Banking
6 44 (3.17%) Marketing
7 38 (2.74%) Retail
8 37 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (2.31%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.15%) Legal
13 16 (1.15%) Local Government
14 15 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.08%) Publishing
15 14 (1.01%) Front Office
15 14 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 367 (26.46%) Analyst
2 218 (15.72%) Developer
3 213 (15.36%) Data Engineer
4 160 (11.54%) Senior
5 157 (11.32%) Data Analyst
6 127 (9.16%) Lead
7 106 (7.64%) Architect
8 96 (6.92%) Business Analyst
9 85 (6.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 68 (4.90%) Consultant
11 62 (4.47%) Power BI Developer
12 44 (3.17%) Data Architect
12 44 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
13 43 (3.10%) PMO Analyst
14 41 (2.96%) Project Manager
15 40 (2.88%) Power Platform Developer
15 40 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
16 38 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 35 (2.52%) Data Scientist
18 29 (2.09%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (5.26%) PySpark
2 42 (3.03%) REST
3 35 (2.52%) .NET
4 33 (2.38%) Kafka
5 29 (2.09%) Pandas
6 25 (1.80%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.59%) JSON
8 21 (1.51%) HTML
9 17 (1.23%) Great Expectations
9 17 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
9 17 (1.23%) React
10 15 (1.08%) NumPy
10 15 (1.08%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.08%) TensorFlow
11 14 (1.01%) XML
11 14 (1.01%) YAML
12 12 (0.87%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (0.72%) Plotly
14 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 52 (3.75%) Product Ownership
2 45 (3.24%) Cloud Native
3 43 (3.10%) Data Structures
4 35 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 35 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.09%) Low-Code
5 29 (2.09%) Management Information System
6 27 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 20 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.15%) PMI
9 14 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 13 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.72%) CMDB
11 10 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (0.65%) FMCG
12 9 (0.65%) SCADA
13 8 (0.58%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.01%) Windows
2 6 (0.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.36%) Unix
3 5 (0.36%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,290 (93.01%) Business Intelligence
2 556 (40.09%) Analytics
3 428 (30.86%) Data Modelling
4 340 (24.51%) Visualisation
5 315 (22.71%) Agile
6 296 (21.34%) Decision-Making
7 282 (20.33%) ETL
8 268 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
9 252 (18.17%) Data Governance
10 216 (15.57%) DevOps
10 216 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 209 (15.07%) Data Engineering
12 205 (14.78%) Actionable Insight
13 201 (14.49%) Data Visualisation
14 196 (14.13%) AI
14 196 (14.13%) Data Analysis
15 185 (13.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 180 (12.98%) CI/CD
16 180 (12.98%) Data Pipeline
17 159 (11.46%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 644 (46.43%) SQL
2 357 (25.74%) Python
3 133 (9.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (4.97%) C#
5 54 (3.89%) R
6 53 (3.82%) JavaScript
7 51 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 37 (2.67%) VBA
9 32 (2.31%) T-SQL
10 26 (1.87%) Java
11 21 (1.51%) Bicep
12 18 (1.30%) Scala
13 12 (0.87%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.72%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.72%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.36%) Korn
16 5 (0.36%) X++
17 4 (0.29%) VB
18 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 227 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 180 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 123 (8.87%) Degree
4 33 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 31 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (2.02%) PMI Certification
7 27 (1.95%) PMP
8 25 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.51%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.87%) MBA
12 11 (0.79%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.65%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.65%) CIMA
14 8 (0.58%) ACCA
14 8 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.50%) CBAP
16 4 (0.29%) CFA
16 4 (0.29%) IIBA
17 3 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (21.77%) Data Quality
2 93 (6.71%) GDPR
3 90 (6.49%) PMO
4 76 (5.48%) QA
5 53 (3.82%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.94%) SLA
8 11 (0.79%) Basel III
8 11 (0.79%) GRC
9 9 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.36%) NIST
11 5 (0.36%) P3O
12 4 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.29%) NCSC
12 4 (0.29%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.22%) GAAP
13 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.16%) Docker
3 4 (0.29%) HDFS
4 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.072%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 72 (5.19%) Terraform
2 36 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.65%) SCCM
5 6 (0.43%) Ansible
6 5 (0.36%) RSA Archer
7 4 (0.29%) Grafana
7 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.22%) Kibana
9 2 (0.14%) Control-M
10 1 (0.072%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.072%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.072%) SCOM
10 1 (0.072%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.072%) WSUS
Vendors
1 453 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 187 (13.48%) Databricks
3 88 (6.34%) Oracle
4 67 (4.83%) Google
5 64 (4.61%) SAP
6 55 (3.97%) ServiceNow
7 38 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 30 (2.16%) Informatica
9 19 (1.37%) Foundry
10 14 (1.01%) Lotus
10 14 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 13 (0.94%) Sage
12 12 (0.87%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.79%) Alteryx
13 11 (0.79%) Planview
13 11 (0.79%) Talend
14 10 (0.72%) Cognos
15 9 (0.65%) Kofax
15 9 (0.65%) Workday
16 8 (0.58%) Amplitude