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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 63 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,608 943 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 3.77% 3.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.30% 20.18% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 614 895
10th Percentile £331 £307 £300
25th Percentile £405 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 30 28
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.50 £15.96
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +25.22% -40.09%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.40 £53.75 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -8.34% +32.82% -35.61%

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 6,618 4,672 6,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 18.65% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,483 3,250 4,660
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 84 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.63 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £33.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% -16.26% -30.43%
75th Percentile £71.13 £62.44 £52.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.25 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £34.99 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.89% -12.53% -30.43%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +4 813 £500 - 191
South East +21 231 £500 +11.11% 169
Midlands +6 191 £461 -4.01% 93
North of England -32 182 £455 +1.46% 122
West Midlands -12 134 £450 -10.00% 54
North West -14 105 £463 -2.63% 75
South West +6 99 £450 +10.02% 53
Yorkshire -42 62 £438 +3.06% 37
East Midlands +23 56 £470 +7.43% 39
East of England -17 40 £413 -17.50% 37
North East -27 16 £438 -2.78% 13
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
1 132 (8.21%) SharePoint
2 73 (4.54%) Confluence
3 41 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.74%) Apache
6 19 (1.18%) SAS
7 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Superset
8 8 (0.50%) HCL Notes
9 7 (0.44%) Mendix
9 7 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.31%) CMS
11 4 (0.25%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.19%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.062%) Appian
14 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 319 (19.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Notion
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.062%) CATIA
9 1 (0.062%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.062%) InDesign
9 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 17 (1.06%) iTrent
5 9 (0.56%) Primavera
6 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,608 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 595 (37.00%) Azure
3 214 (13.31%) AWS
4 167 (10.39%) Power Automate
5 145 (9.02%) PowerApps
6 144 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 144 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (7.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 115 (7.15%) Snowflake
9 110 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
10 95 (5.91%) Dynamics 365
11 83 (5.16%) Serverless
12 78 (4.85%) GCP
13 76 (4.73%) Microsoft Copilot
14 61 (3.79%) dbt
14 61 (3.79%) GitHub
15 59 (3.67%) Amazon S3
16 47 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
17 45 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
18 44 (2.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.00%) Firewall
2 13 (0.81%) VPN
3 10 (0.62%) DNS
4 4 (0.25%) Network Security
5 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.12%) 4G
6 2 (0.12%) 5G
6 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
6 2 (0.12%) Intranet
6 2 (0.12%) LTE
6 2 (0.12%) Microwave Backhaul
6 2 (0.12%) MPLS
6 2 (0.12%) NAS
6 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.12%) SAN
6 2 (0.12%) SMTP
6 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (16.29%) Data Warehouse
2 257 (15.98%) Tableau
3 150 (9.33%) Data Lake
4 120 (7.46%) Power Query
5 117 (7.28%) SQL Server
6 74 (4.60%) Metadata
7 55 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (3.36%) Star Schema
9 52 (3.23%) Relational Database
10 50 (3.11%) Looker
11 46 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (2.11%) BigQuery
14 34 (2.11%) Spark SQL
15 30 (1.87%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.80%) NoSQL
17 28 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
18 27 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 144 (8.96%) JIRA
2 73 (4.54%) Git
3 30 (1.87%) GitLab
4 14 (0.87%) ERwin
5 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.31%) MLflow
6 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.25%) JUnit
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.19%) 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%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.062%) SoapUI
General
1 503 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 492 (30.60%) Finance
3 371 (23.07%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.03%) Banking
6 64 (3.98%) Retail
7 51 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.11%) Law
9 48 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 41 (2.55%) Marketing
12 33 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.31%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.24%) Local Government
17 19 (1.18%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.18%) Legal
18 18 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 15 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 418 (26.00%) Analyst
2 258 (16.04%) Data Engineer
3 224 (13.93%) Developer
4 199 (12.38%) Data Analyst
5 191 (11.88%) Senior
6 176 (10.95%) Architect
7 149 (9.27%) Lead
8 112 (6.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 90 (5.60%) Power BI Developer
10 87 (5.41%) Business Analyst
11 68 (4.23%) Consultant
12 67 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
13 65 (4.04%) Data Architect
14 48 (2.99%) Project Manager
15 46 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 42 (2.61%) Power Platform Developer
17 39 (2.43%) Lead Architect
18 36 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
19 34 (2.11%) PMO Analyst
19 34 (2.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (6.28%) PySpark
2 54 (3.36%) REST
3 40 (2.49%) .NET
4 34 (2.11%) Kafka
5 23 (1.43%) JSON
6 22 (1.37%) Pandas
7 20 (1.24%) React
8 19 (1.18%) HTML
8 19 (1.18%) Middleware
9 15 (0.93%) CSS
10 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (0.81%) XML
11 13 (0.81%) YAML
12 12 (0.75%) ADO
12 12 (0.75%) Great Expectations
13 8 (0.50%) JDO
13 8 (0.50%) RESTful
14 7 (0.44%) Spark Streaming
14 7 (0.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.42%) Cloud Native
1 71 (4.42%) Data Structures
2 46 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 44 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (1.49%) CMDB
7 24 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.37%) Low-Code
9 18 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 15 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (0.87%) Clustering
11 14 (0.87%) FMCG
12 13 (0.81%) NHS
13 12 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.75%) IoT
13 12 (0.75%) PKI
13 12 (0.75%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.99%) Windows
2 17 (1.06%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.56%) Unix
4 8 (0.50%) 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 1,498 (93.16%) Business Intelligence
2 676 (42.04%) Analytics
3 528 (32.84%) Data Modelling
4 383 (23.82%) Agile
5 351 (21.83%) ETL
6 339 (21.08%) Decision-Making
7 335 (20.83%) Visualisation
8 292 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
9 289 (17.97%) AI
10 269 (16.73%) Data Engineering
11 268 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 267 (16.60%) Data Pipeline
13 262 (16.29%) DevOps
14 258 (16.04%) Data Governance
15 247 (15.36%) Migration
15 247 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
16 241 (14.99%) CI/CD
17 229 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
18 209 (13.00%) Validation
19 208 (12.94%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 757 (47.08%) SQL
2 396 (24.63%) Python
3 188 (11.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 68 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 65 (4.04%) C#
7 57 (3.54%) T-SQL
8 49 (3.05%) R
9 43 (2.67%) Java
10 26 (1.62%) VBA
11 21 (1.31%) Bicep
12 16 (1.00%) TypeScript
13 15 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.75%) Scala
15 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.31%) C
17 5 (0.31%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.31%) LotusScript
18 4 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 277 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 215 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 152 (9.45%) Degree
4 40 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.68%) DBS Check
8 21 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.24%) PMI Certification
10 19 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.18%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.06%) PMP
12 12 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) CISSP
14 6 (0.37%) ACCA
14 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.31%) MBA
15 5 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (23.94%) Data Quality
2 111 (6.90%) GDPR
3 94 (5.85%) PMO
4 73 (4.54%) QA
5 30 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.87%) SLA
9 12 (0.75%) GRC
10 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 7 (0.44%) Basel III
12 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.31%) ISO 19650
13 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.25%) P3O
15 3 (0.19%) GAAP
15 3 (0.19%) IFRS
15 3 (0.19%) NCSC
16 2 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.31%) Docker
3 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.062%) RACF
5 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (4.85%) Terraform
2 26 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.18%) Grafana
4 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.56%) SCCM
6 7 (0.44%) Ansible
7 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) 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
1 560 (34.83%) Microsoft
2 202 (12.56%) Databricks
3 105 (6.53%) SAP
4 84 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.73%) Oracle
6 48 (2.99%) Google
7 43 (2.67%) Informatica
8 31 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.43%) Workday
10 22 (1.37%) Remedy
11 21 (1.31%) Splunk
12 20 (1.24%) Alteryx
13 15 (0.93%) Adobe
13 15 (0.93%) Foundry
14 14 (0.87%) IFS
14 14 (0.87%) Talend
15 13 (0.81%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.68%) BMC
16 11 (0.68%) Denodo
17 10 (0.62%) OpenAI