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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,637 1,034 1,194
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.79% 3.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.82% 20.71% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 667 865
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £588
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.11% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 29 15
10th Percentile £16.77 £18.36 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.19 £23.00 £17.99
Median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -18.92%
75th Percentile £45.19 £34.68 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £53.75 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -17.81%

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 6,872 4,992 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 18.32% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,587 3,450 4,579
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £701 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 85 107
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.94 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -13.38% -27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £53.45
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.50 £70.45
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% -2.60% -30.00%

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 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 21 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 21 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 +11 837 £500 - 311
South East -4 215 £475 +5.56% 158
Midlands +12 204 £459 +8.00% 117
North of England -13 199 £460 +2.86% 143
West Midlands -8 145 £450 +5.88% 62
North West -9 113 £475 - 64
South West -12 94 £450 +11.25% 61
Yorkshire -42 69 £450 +3.45% 56
East Midlands +20 58 £475 +7.04% 55
East of England -14 41 £400 -20.00% 38
North East -28 21 £413 -8.33% 25
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
1 146 (8.92%) SharePoint
2 65 (3.97%) Confluence
3 37 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.71%) Apache
6 18 (1.10%) SAS
7 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.55%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.49%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.31%) CMS
12 4 (0.24%) IIS
13 3 (0.18%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 3 (0.18%) Mendix
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.061%) Appian
15 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 310 (18.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Navisworks
7 5 (0.31%) Revit
8 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.061%) CATIA
10 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.061%) InDesign
10 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.061%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 36 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.98%) iTrent
5 9 (0.55%) Primavera
6 8 (0.49%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,637 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 615 (37.57%) Azure
3 207 (12.65%) AWS
4 179 (10.93%) Power Automate
5 158 (9.65%) PowerApps
6 143 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (8.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 131 (8.00%) Snowflake
9 114 (6.96%) Dynamics 365
10 112 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
11 111 (6.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 83 (5.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 76 (4.64%) Serverless
14 72 (4.40%) GCP
15 68 (4.15%) dbt
16 57 (3.48%) Amazon S3
17 56 (3.42%) GitHub
18 48 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
19 46 (2.81%) Copilot Studio
19 46 (2.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.10%) Firewall
2 14 (0.86%) VPN
3 11 (0.67%) DNS
4 5 (0.31%) SSL
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
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%) SMTP
7 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
7 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (16.43%) Tableau
2 266 (16.25%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (8.31%) Data Lake
4 116 (7.09%) Power Query
5 112 (6.84%) SQL Server
6 73 (4.46%) Metadata
7 59 (3.60%) Star Schema
8 56 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.24%) Looker
10 47 (2.87%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 42 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (2.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 36 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (2.20%) BigQuery
15 32 (1.95%) Semantic Layer
16 28 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 26 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
18 25 (1.53%) Delta Lake
18 25 (1.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 141 (8.61%) JIRA
2 69 (4.22%) Git
3 26 (1.59%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) ERwin
4 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.31%) MLflow
6 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.24%) JUnit
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.061%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.061%) TestRail
General
1 510 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 489 (29.87%) Finance
3 395 (24.13%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 108 (6.60%) Banking
6 62 (3.79%) Retail
7 55 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (3.18%) Law
9 51 (3.12%) Manufacturing
10 49 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (2.69%) Marketing
12 35 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.41%) Local Government
14 22 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.28%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.22%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.10%) Legal
19 15 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 434 (26.51%) Analyst
2 242 (14.78%) Developer
3 239 (14.60%) Data Engineer
4 212 (12.95%) Data Analyst
5 189 (11.55%) Senior
6 183 (11.18%) Architect
7 156 (9.53%) Lead
8 117 (7.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 93 (5.68%) Power BI Developer
10 92 (5.62%) Business Analyst
11 71 (4.34%) Data Architect
12 67 (4.09%) Consultant
13 57 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
14 51 (3.12%) Power Platform Developer
15 49 (2.99%) Project Manager
16 48 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 39 (2.38%) Lead Architect
18 38 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
19 37 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
20 36 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.31%) PySpark
2 54 (3.30%) REST
3 52 (3.18%) .NET
4 31 (1.89%) Kafka
5 25 (1.53%) JSON
6 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (1.10%) Middleware
8 17 (1.04%) Pandas
9 16 (0.98%) React
10 14 (0.86%) HTML
11 12 (0.73%) CSS
11 12 (0.73%) Great Expectations
12 11 (0.67%) ADO
12 11 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (0.67%) XML
13 10 (0.61%) YAML
14 8 (0.49%) JDO
15 7 (0.43%) jQuery
15 7 (0.43%) RESTful
15 7 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.70%) Data Structures
2 70 (4.28%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (1.47%) CMDB
8 23 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.22%) Clustering
10 18 (1.10%) Low-Code
11 16 (0.98%) FMCG
12 15 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.86%) PKI
14 13 (0.79%) IoT
14 13 (0.79%) NHS
14 13 (0.79%) Reference Data
15 12 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.32%) Windows
2 22 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.55%) Unix
4 8 (0.49%) Linux
5 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.24%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,523 (93.04%) Business Intelligence
2 674 (41.17%) Analytics
3 532 (32.50%) Data Modelling
4 401 (24.50%) Agile
5 344 (21.01%) ETL
6 340 (20.77%) Visualisation
7 339 (20.71%) Decision-Making
8 294 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
9 293 (17.90%) AI
10 286 (17.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 275 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 270 (16.49%) Data Pipeline
13 269 (16.43%) DevOps
14 266 (16.25%) Migration
15 263 (16.07%) Data Governance
16 257 (15.70%) Data Engineering
17 248 (15.15%) CI/CD
18 233 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
19 230 (14.05%) Validation
20 204 (12.46%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 766 (46.79%) SQL
2 391 (23.89%) Python
3 188 (11.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 75 (4.58%) PowerShell
5 69 (4.22%) JavaScript
6 65 (3.97%) C#
7 60 (3.67%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.05%) R
9 41 (2.50%) Java
10 23 (1.41%) VBA
11 15 (0.92%) Bicep
11 15 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.67%) Scala
14 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.31%) C
16 4 (0.24%) Korn
16 4 (0.24%) X++
17 3 (0.18%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 302 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 231 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 164 (10.02%) Degree
4 43 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.02%) Azure Certification
5 33 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 22 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 13 (0.79%) PMP
14 8 (0.49%) ACCA
15 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.43%) CISSP
16 6 (0.37%) CIMA
16 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
17 5 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 390 (23.82%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.48%) GDPR
3 85 (5.19%) PMO
4 76 (4.64%) QA
5 33 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.10%) SLA
7 15 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.61%) GRC
9 9 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.37%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) Basel III
13 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
13 3 (0.18%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
14 2 (0.12%) NIST
15 1 (0.061%) IFRS
System Software
1 51 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.73%) Docker
3 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) RACF
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (4.22%) Terraform
2 20 (1.22%) Grafana
3 17 (1.04%) Kubernetes
4 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.49%) Ansible
7 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) SCOM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Kibana
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 1 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.061%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.061%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 585 (35.74%) Microsoft
2 199 (12.16%) Databricks
3 113 (6.90%) SAP
4 92 (5.62%) ServiceNow
5 71 (4.34%) Oracle
6 43 (2.63%) Informatica
7 42 (2.57%) Google
8 33 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.59%) Alteryx
9 26 (1.59%) Remedy
10 24 (1.47%) Splunk
11 22 (1.34%) Workday
12 15 (0.92%) Adobe
13 14 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.86%) IFS
14 13 (0.79%) BMC
14 13 (0.79%) Talend
15 11 (0.67%) Denodo
15 11 (0.67%) Foundry
16 9 (0.55%) Atlassian