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

 6 months to
14 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,286 1,008 1,160
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.06% 3.76% 3.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.12% 20.48% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 680 823
10th Percentile £313 £313 £310
25th Percentile £400 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £661 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 39
10th Percentile £16.84 £24.68 £15.34
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £20.89
Median hourly rate £24.02 £30.30 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% -0.67% -49.17%
75th Percentile £36.11 £56.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £59.60 £64.73 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £24.02 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -14.23% -8.20% -40.20%

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 5,332 4,921 5,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.85% 18.37% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,721 3,269 4,246
10th Percentile £325 £351 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £656
90th Percentile £708 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 69 139
10th Percentile £18.93 £20.97 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £51.36 £41.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +23.76% -10.13% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.45
90th Percentile £84.70 £74.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +4 727 £500 -2.44% 201
North of England -20 154 £425 -8.11% 114
South East -20 118 £484 +1.89% 237
Midlands -22 116 £456 -6.41% 103
West Midlands -33 75 £500 - 64
Yorkshire -10 74 £420 +2.44% 37
North West -19 74 £419 -15.92% 59
South West -8 64 £475 +5.56% 51
East of England +8 45 £625 +38.89% 54
East Midlands -2 41 £354 -12.59% 38
North East -10 6 £475 +5.56% 20
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
1 139 (10.81%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.50%) Confluence
3 38 (2.95%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.79%) Apache
5 22 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (1.48%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.70%) Mendix
9 8 (0.62%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.23%) CMS
12 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 2 (0.16%) SAS
13 1 (0.078%) Kentico
13 1 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.078%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 279 (21.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (3.42%) Microsoft Project
4 40 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (2.18%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.31%) Trello
9 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.23%) Notion
10 1 (0.078%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.078%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 55 (4.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.31%) Primavera
5 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.23%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.23%) iTrent
6 3 (0.23%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.16%) Actimize
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,286 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 490 (38.10%) Azure
3 198 (15.40%) Power Automate
4 182 (14.15%) PowerApps
5 141 (10.96%) AWS
6 128 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 109 (8.48%) Dynamics 365
8 109 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
9 99 (7.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 85 (6.61%) GCP
11 82 (6.38%) Snowflake
12 54 (4.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 48 (3.73%) Serverless
14 45 (3.50%) GitHub
15 41 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
16 40 (3.11%) SaaS
17 36 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
18 34 (2.64%) Azure Functions
19 32 (2.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) HTTP
2 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.23%) VoIP
2 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.16%) 2G
3 2 (0.16%) 5G
3 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.16%) LAN
3 2 (0.16%) LTE
3 2 (0.16%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.16%) Network Security
3 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.16%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.16%) VPN
3 2 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.078%) DNS
4 1 (0.078%) NAS
4 1 (0.078%) SAN
4 1 (0.078%) Skype
4 1 (0.078%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (15.40%) Tableau
2 149 (11.59%) Data Warehouse
3 106 (8.24%) Data Lake
3 106 (8.24%) SQL Server
4 83 (6.45%) Power Query
5 56 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 49 (3.81%) Metadata
7 48 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 46 (3.58%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.42%) BigQuery
10 41 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 37 (2.88%) Looker
12 28 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (1.94%) Data Mining
13 25 (1.94%) Delta Lake
14 22 (1.71%) Big Data
14 22 (1.71%) NoSQL
15 21 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
15 21 (1.63%) Star Schema
16 20 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 112 (8.71%) JIRA
2 55 (4.28%) Git
3 11 (0.86%) GitLab
4 9 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.62%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.47%) DBeaver
8 5 (0.39%) NeoLoad
9 4 (0.31%) ERwin
10 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.16%) MLflow
11 2 (0.16%) Postman
11 2 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.078%) Browser DevTools
12 1 (0.078%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.078%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.078%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.078%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 452 (35.15%) Social Skills
2 429 (33.36%) Finance
3 295 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 123 (9.56%) Banking
6 45 (3.50%) Marketing
7 39 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 39 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (2.64%) Retail
9 32 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.63%) Front Office
12 21 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 21 (1.63%) Legal
13 20 (1.56%) Local Government
14 19 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 356 (27.68%) Analyst
2 208 (16.17%) Developer
3 164 (12.75%) Data Engineer
4 150 (11.66%) Data Analyst
5 124 (9.64%) Senior
6 102 (7.93%) Lead
7 96 (7.47%) Business Analyst
8 87 (6.77%) Architect
9 75 (5.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 65 (5.05%) Consultant
11 56 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
12 45 (3.50%) Data Scientist
13 44 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
14 42 (3.27%) Project Manager
15 40 (3.11%) Data Architect
16 39 (3.03%) Power Platform Developer
17 35 (2.72%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 33 (2.57%) PMO Analyst
18 33 (2.57%) Power BI Analyst
19 29 (2.26%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (4.59%) PySpark
2 44 (3.42%) .NET
3 40 (3.11%) REST
4 26 (2.02%) HTML
5 25 (1.94%) Kafka
6 24 (1.87%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.71%) Pandas
8 20 (1.56%) JSON
9 18 (1.40%) HTML5 Canvas
10 17 (1.32%) React
11 14 (1.09%) PyTorch
11 14 (1.09%) TensorFlow
12 12 (0.93%) NumPy
13 11 (0.86%) Spark Streaming
14 10 (0.78%) CSS
15 9 (0.70%) Great Expectations
15 9 (0.70%) OAuth
15 9 (0.70%) Plotly
15 9 (0.70%) XML
16 8 (0.62%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.65%) Product Ownership
2 36 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (2.64%) Data Structures
4 29 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.18%) Low-Code
5 28 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 27 (2.10%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.02%) Algorithms
7 26 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.17%) PMI
11 14 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.01%) Derivative
12 13 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.93%) Life Science
13 12 (0.93%) Reinsurance
14 11 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.86%) FMCG
15 10 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.93%) Windows
2 4 (0.31%) Linux
2 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.23%) Unix
3 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.078%) Android
4 1 (0.078%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.078%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (91.14%) Business Intelligence
2 472 (36.70%) Analytics
3 338 (26.28%) Data Modelling
4 320 (24.88%) Visualisation
5 299 (23.25%) Agile
6 255 (19.83%) Decision-Making
7 234 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
8 210 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 209 (16.25%) ETL
10 201 (15.63%) Data Governance
11 196 (15.24%) DevOps
12 193 (15.01%) Actionable Insight
13 186 (14.46%) Data Visualisation
14 185 (14.39%) Data Analysis
15 157 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 147 (11.43%) AI
17 146 (11.35%) CI/CD
17 146 (11.35%) Data Engineering
18 138 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
19 135 (10.50%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 580 (45.10%) SQL
2 329 (25.58%) Python
3 100 (7.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 65 (5.05%) C#
5 58 (4.51%) JavaScript
6 57 (4.43%) R
7 39 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.41%) VBA
9 29 (2.26%) Java
9 29 (2.26%) T-SQL
10 24 (1.87%) Scala
11 16 (1.24%) Bicep
12 15 (1.17%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.78%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.78%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.54%) Korn
16 5 (0.39%) C++
16 5 (0.39%) X++
17 4 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 177 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 137 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 117 (9.10%) Degree
4 29 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 25 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 24 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.63%) PMP
9 16 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.86%) ACCA
10 11 (0.86%) CIMA
10 11 (0.86%) MBA
11 8 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.62%) CFA
12 7 (0.54%) CBAP
12 7 (0.54%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
13 5 (0.39%) IIBA
14 3 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (16.64%) Data Quality
2 73 (5.68%) GDPR
3 71 (5.52%) PMO
4 65 (5.05%) QA
5 52 (4.04%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.86%) GRC
8 10 (0.78%) Basel III
9 9 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.54%) SLA
11 6 (0.47%) GxP
11 6 (0.47%) NIST
12 5 (0.39%) IFRS
12 5 (0.39%) P3O
13 4 (0.31%) WCAG
14 3 (0.23%) IFRS 9
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (2.33%) Docker
2 26 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.078%) HDFS
4 1 (0.078%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (3.81%) Terraform
2 35 (2.72%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.47%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.47%) SCCM
5 3 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.16%) Ansible
6 2 (0.16%) Kibana
7 1 (0.078%) Control-M
7 1 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.078%) Puppet
7 1 (0.078%) SCOM
7 1 (0.078%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.078%) WSUS
Vendors
1 422 (32.81%) Microsoft
2 151 (11.74%) Databricks
3 97 (7.54%) Oracle
4 78 (6.07%) SAP
5 65 (5.05%) Google
6 43 (3.34%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.34%) ServiceNow
7 24 (1.87%) Informatica
8 19 (1.48%) Lotus
9 18 (1.40%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.01%) Foundry
10 13 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.93%) Planview
11 12 (0.93%) Splunk
12 10 (0.78%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.70%) Cognos
13 9 (0.70%) Kofax
14 8 (0.62%) Workday
15 7 (0.54%) UiPath
15 7 (0.54%) Virgin Media
646 Power BI jobs in England