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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,444 944 1,210
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 3.85% 3.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.17% 20.26% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 660 855
10th Percentile £325 £313 £303
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 37
10th Percentile £14.52 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £25.13 £15.59
Median hourly rate £23.03 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +25.22% -59.24%
75th Percentile £42.88 £34.57 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.12 £56.55 £70.61
UK median hourly rate £22.52 £28.60 £23.22
% change year-on-year -21.28% +23.20% -58.84%

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 5,975 4,660 6,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.96% 19.03% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,156 3,259 4,403
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 92 156
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.25 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.81 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.91% -16.01% -26.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.79 £54.66
90th Percentile £85.25 £70.00 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.25
% change year-on-year +61.19% -21.39% -26.82%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +2 787 £500 - 279
South East -5 168 £500 +8.11% 226
Midlands -11 151 £450 -5.66% 115
North of England -40 146 £450 -7.69% 179
West Midlands -28 99 £455 -6.77% 73
North West -23 83 £438 -16.67% 93
South West +2 71 £475 +5.56% 69
East of England -7 52 £500 +5.26% 56
Yorkshire -41 52 £450 +9.76% 67
East Midlands -1 51 £393 -15.03% 42
North East -9 11 £500 +11.11% 24
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
1 129 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.74%) Confluence
3 51 (3.53%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.29%) Apache
5 28 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.04%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.69%) Mendix
9 6 (0.42%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.35%) SAS
11 4 (0.28%) CMS
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.069%) IIS
13 1 (0.069%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.069%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 290 (20.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.95%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.94%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.21%) Notion
6 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.069%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.069%) CATIA
7 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.069%) InDesign
7 1 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 40 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.35%) Primavera
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.21%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.21%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.21%) iTrent
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,444 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 559 (38.71%) Azure
3 191 (13.23%) Power Automate
4 189 (13.09%) AWS
5 167 (11.57%) PowerApps
6 155 (10.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 129 (8.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 128 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
9 127 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (7.27%) Snowflake
11 104 (7.20%) GCP
12 103 (7.13%) Dynamics 365
13 71 (4.92%) Microsoft Copilot
14 68 (4.71%) Serverless
15 57 (3.95%) GitHub
16 47 (3.25%) Copilot Studio
17 45 (3.12%) Amazon S3
18 43 (2.98%) dbt
19 42 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
20 41 (2.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.62%) Firewall
2 8 (0.55%) VPN
3 5 (0.35%) Network Security
4 4 (0.28%) 5G
4 4 (0.28%) DNS
4 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 4 (0.28%) LTE
5 3 (0.21%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.14%) 2G
6 2 (0.14%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.14%) 4G
6 2 (0.14%) Intranet
6 2 (0.14%) MPLS
6 2 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.14%) SMTP
6 2 (0.14%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.14%) VoIP
6 2 (0.14%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (16.90%) Tableau
2 198 (13.71%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (8.73%) Data Lake
4 108 (7.48%) SQL Server
5 82 (5.68%) Power Query
6 73 (5.06%) Metadata
7 57 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 56 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (3.74%) BigQuery
10 49 (3.39%) Looker
11 41 (2.84%) Relational Database
12 39 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
12 39 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 38 (2.63%) Delta Lake
14 36 (2.49%) Star Schema
15 29 (2.01%) Mixpanel
15 29 (2.01%) NoSQL
16 26 (1.80%) Spark SQL
17 24 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (1.66%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 121 (8.38%) JIRA
2 72 (4.99%) Git
3 17 (1.18%) GitLab
4 13 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.76%) ERwin
6 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.35%) MLflow
7 5 (0.35%) NeoLoad
8 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.28%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.28%) Postman
9 3 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.069%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.069%) GCC
11 1 (0.069%) Metasploit
General
1 465 (32.20%) Finance
1 465 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 340 (23.55%) Analytical Skills
3 170 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 111 (7.69%) Banking
5 42 (2.91%) Marketing
6 41 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (2.84%) Retail
7 32 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 31 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (2.08%) Law
10 27 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.11%) Legal
13 16 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.04%) Publishing
15 14 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.97%) Front Office
16 13 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 386 (26.73%) Analyst
2 224 (15.51%) Data Engineer
3 212 (14.68%) Developer
4 174 (12.05%) Senior
5 166 (11.50%) Data Analyst
6 153 (10.60%) Lead
7 125 (8.66%) Architect
8 98 (6.79%) Business Analyst
9 88 (6.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 70 (4.85%) Consultant
11 61 (4.22%) Power BI Developer
12 49 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
13 46 (3.19%) Data Architect
14 43 (2.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 42 (2.91%) Project Manager
15 42 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
16 40 (2.77%) PMO Analyst
16 40 (2.77%) Power Platform Developer
17 32 (2.22%) Data Scientist
18 29 (2.01%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (5.19%) PySpark
2 43 (2.98%) Kafka
3 42 (2.91%) REST
4 30 (2.08%) .NET
4 30 (2.08%) Pandas
5 23 (1.59%) scikit-learn
6 21 (1.45%) JSON
7 20 (1.39%) Great Expectations
8 18 (1.25%) HTML
8 18 (1.25%) React
9 17 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
10 16 (1.11%) NumPy
10 16 (1.11%) PyTorch
10 16 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 15 (1.04%) XML
12 14 (0.97%) YAML
13 13 (0.90%) Spark Streaming
14 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (0.69%) Middleware
15 10 (0.69%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 56 (3.88%) Cloud Native
2 52 (3.60%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.12%) Data Structures
4 39 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 36 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.94%) Low-Code
7 28 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.18%) PMI
11 16 (1.11%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.83%) CMDB
14 11 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.76%) IoT
14 11 (0.76%) SCADA
15 10 (0.69%) Clustering
15 10 (0.69%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.11%) Windows
2 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,349 (93.42%) Business Intelligence
2 579 (40.10%) Analytics
3 458 (31.72%) Data Modelling
4 332 (22.99%) Visualisation
5 318 (22.02%) Agile
6 312 (21.61%) ETL
7 303 (20.98%) Decision-Making
8 271 (18.77%) Data Governance
9 267 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
10 231 (16.00%) Data Engineering
11 225 (15.58%) DevOps
12 217 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 216 (14.96%) AI
14 209 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 204 (14.13%) Actionable Insight
16 201 (13.92%) Data Analysis
17 200 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
18 198 (13.71%) CI/CD
19 196 (13.57%) Data Visualisation
20 173 (11.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 676 (46.81%) SQL
2 375 (25.97%) Python
3 143 (9.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (4.78%) C#
5 55 (3.81%) PowerShell
5 55 (3.81%) R
6 45 (3.12%) JavaScript
7 36 (2.49%) VBA
8 33 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 27 (1.87%) Java
10 23 (1.59%) Bicep
11 16 (1.11%) Scala
12 11 (0.76%) Formula Language
12 11 (0.76%) LotusScript
13 10 (0.69%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.35%) Korn
15 5 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.35%) X++
16 3 (0.21%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 242 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 185 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 130 (9.00%) Degree
4 31 (2.15%) Azure Certification
4 31 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.87%) PMI Certification
7 25 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.66%) PMP
9 12 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.76%) MBA
11 8 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.48%) ACCA
12 7 (0.48%) CBAP
12 7 (0.48%) CIMA
13 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.28%) IIBA
13 4 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (23.13%) Data Quality
2 109 (7.55%) GDPR
3 92 (6.37%) PMO
4 79 (5.47%) QA
5 47 (3.25%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.11%) SLA
7 15 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.83%) GRC
10 11 (0.76%) Basel III
11 10 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.35%) P3O
14 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.28%) NCSC
14 4 (0.28%) NIST
14 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.21%) GAAP
15 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (2.29%) Docker
2 32 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.21%) HDFS
4 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.069%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.069%) RACF
Systems Management
1 74 (5.12%) Terraform
2 40 (2.77%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.62%) SCCM
5 6 (0.42%) Ansible
5 6 (0.42%) Grafana
6 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.28%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.21%) Kibana
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.14%) Control-M
9 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.14%) Nessus
9 2 (0.14%) WSUS
10 1 (0.069%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.069%) SCOM
10 1 (0.069%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.069%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 479 (33.17%) Microsoft
2 202 (13.99%) Databricks
3 84 (5.82%) Oracle
4 71 (4.92%) Google
5 63 (4.36%) ServiceNow
6 61 (4.22%) SAP
7 37 (2.56%) Informatica
7 37 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.32%) Foundry
9 15 (1.04%) Lotus
9 15 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 14 (0.97%) Workday
11 13 (0.90%) MuleSoft
11 13 (0.90%) Sage
12 12 (0.83%) Talend
13 11 (0.76%) Alteryx
14 10 (0.69%) Kofax
14 10 (0.69%) Planview
15 9 (0.62%) Remedy
16 8 (0.55%) MicroStrategy