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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 53 65
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,428 940 1,212
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.87% 3.84% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.09% 20.12% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 996 656 856
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £495 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +1.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £489 £475
% change year-on-year +0.20% +2.95% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 26 36
10th Percentile £14.52 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £25.06 £15.28
Median hourly rate £23.03 £28.60 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -19.48% +23.20% -59.24%
75th Percentile £42.88 £33.52 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.12 £52.25 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £22.52 £28.05 £23.22
% change year-on-year -19.73% +20.83% -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 5,929 4,673 6,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.05% 19.07% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 3,268 4,435
10th Percentile £349 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £661
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 120 90 155
10th Percentile £18.23 £20.69 £14.14
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £49.36 £32.23 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.17% -19.94% -30.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £55.19
90th Percentile £85.33 £70.38 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.21 £40.25
% change year-on-year +65.51% -24.94% -29.32%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +4 776 £500 - 283
South East -6 167 £500 +8.11% 232
Midlands -12 149 £450 -6.44% 121
North of England -31 148 £450 -8.40% 169
West Midlands -22 99 £455 -7.24% 80
North West -28 84 £438 -16.67% 86
South West 0 70 £475 +5.56% 68
Yorkshire -42 53 £450 +12.50% 67
East of England -10 50 £500 +8.11% 54
East Midlands -6 49 £393 -15.14% 41
North East -5 11 £500 +11.11% 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
1 125 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.78%) Confluence
3 51 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.31%) Apache
5 28 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.05%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.70%) Mendix
9 6 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.35%) Apache Superset
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 (0.070%) IIS
13 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 287 (20.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
4 27 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.21%) Notion
7 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.070%) CATIA
9 1 (0.070%) InDesign
9 1 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.35%) Primavera
6 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.21%) iTrent
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.14%) SAP FS
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,428 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 555 (38.87%) Azure
3 188 (13.17%) Power Automate
4 184 (12.89%) AWS
5 167 (11.69%) PowerApps
6 154 (10.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 127 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 126 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
9 125 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
10 104 (7.28%) GCP
11 100 (7.00%) Snowflake
12 98 (6.86%) Dynamics 365
13 71 (4.97%) Microsoft Copilot
14 64 (4.48%) Serverless
15 54 (3.78%) GitHub
16 47 (3.29%) Copilot Studio
17 43 (3.01%) Amazon S3
18 42 (2.94%) dbt
19 41 (2.87%) Microsoft Purview
19 41 (2.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.63%) Firewall
2 8 (0.56%) 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
1 240 (16.81%) Tableau
2 198 (13.87%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (8.68%) Data Lake
4 108 (7.56%) SQL Server
5 82 (5.74%) Power Query
6 71 (4.97%) Metadata
7 57 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 56 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.71%) BigQuery
10 50 (3.50%) Looker
11 41 (2.87%) Relational Database
12 38 (2.66%) Delta Lake
12 38 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 37 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
14 35 (2.45%) Star Schema
15 30 (2.10%) NoSQL
16 29 (2.03%) Mixpanel
17 26 (1.82%) Spark SQL
18 24 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (1.68%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 119 (8.33%) JIRA
2 74 (5.18%) Git
3 17 (1.19%) GitLab
4 13 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.70%) ERwin
6 8 (0.56%) 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 (0.070%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.070%) GCC
11 1 (0.070%) Metasploit
General
1 464 (32.49%) Social Skills
2 459 (32.14%) Finance
3 341 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.91%) Banking
6 41 (2.87%) Marketing
6 41 (2.87%) Retail
7 39 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.75%) Law
12 24 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.12%) Legal
14 16 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.05%) Publishing
16 14 (0.98%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.98%) Front Office
17 13 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 385 (26.96%) Analyst
2 218 (15.27%) Data Engineer
3 213 (14.92%) Developer
4 172 (12.04%) Senior
5 167 (11.69%) Data Analyst
6 146 (10.22%) Lead
7 120 (8.40%) Architect
8 99 (6.93%) Business Analyst
9 89 (6.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 70 (4.90%) Consultant
11 65 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
12 49 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
13 45 (3.15%) Data Architect
14 42 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 42 (2.94%) Project Manager
14 42 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
15 40 (2.80%) PMO Analyst
15 40 (2.80%) Power Platform Developer
16 32 (2.24%) Data Scientist
17 29 (2.03%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (5.11%) PySpark
2 41 (2.87%) Kafka
3 40 (2.80%) REST
4 31 (2.17%) .NET
5 29 (2.03%) Pandas
6 23 (1.61%) scikit-learn
7 20 (1.40%) Great Expectations
7 20 (1.40%) JSON
8 18 (1.26%) HTML
8 18 (1.26%) React
9 17 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
10 16 (1.12%) NumPy
10 16 (1.12%) PyTorch
10 16 (1.12%) TensorFlow
11 15 (1.05%) XML
12 14 (0.98%) YAML
13 13 (0.91%) Spark Streaming
14 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (0.70%) Plotly
15 9 (0.63%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 53 (3.71%) Cloud Native
2 52 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 46 (3.22%) Data Structures
4 38 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 35 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.96%) Low-Code
9 24 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.12%) AI Agents
11 16 (1.12%) PMI
12 14 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.84%) CMDB
15 11 (0.77%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (0.77%) SCADA
16 10 (0.70%) IoT
17 9 (0.63%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.12%) Windows
2 8 (0.56%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,335 (93.49%) Business Intelligence
2 572 (40.06%) Analytics
3 451 (31.58%) Data Modelling
4 330 (23.11%) Visualisation
5 317 (22.20%) Agile
6 305 (21.36%) ETL
7 295 (20.66%) Decision-Making
8 270 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
9 268 (18.77%) Data Governance
10 223 (15.62%) Data Engineering
11 221 (15.48%) DevOps
12 218 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 209 (14.64%) AI
14 205 (14.36%) Data Analysis
15 203 (14.22%) Actionable Insight
16 202 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 195 (13.66%) Data Visualisation
18 193 (13.52%) CI/CD
19 192 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
20 169 (11.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 674 (47.20%) SQL
2 369 (25.84%) Python
3 142 (9.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (4.90%) C#
5 55 (3.85%) R
6 53 (3.71%) PowerShell
7 48 (3.36%) JavaScript
8 36 (2.52%) VBA
9 33 (2.31%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.75%) Java
11 23 (1.61%) Bicep
12 16 (1.12%) Scala
13 11 (0.77%) Formula Language
13 11 (0.77%) LotusScript
14 10 (0.70%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.35%) Korn
16 5 (0.35%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.35%) X++
17 3 (0.21%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 244 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 186 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 131 (9.17%) Degree
4 31 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 31 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.82%) PMI Certification
7 25 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.68%) PMP
9 12 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.77%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.77%) MBA
11 8 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.49%) CBAP
12 7 (0.49%) CIMA
13 6 (0.42%) ACCA
14 4 (0.28%) CFA
14 4 (0.28%) IIBA
14 4 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (23.25%) Data Quality
2 106 (7.42%) GDPR
3 88 (6.16%) PMO
4 79 (5.53%) QA
5 47 (3.29%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.12%) SLA
7 15 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.84%) GRC
9 11 (0.77%) Basel III
10 10 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.35%) NIST
12 5 (0.35%) P3O
13 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.28%) NCSC
13 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.21%) GAAP
14 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (2.31%) Docker
2 31 (2.17%) 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 (0.070%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.070%) RACF
Systems Management
1 73 (5.11%) Terraform
2 40 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.63%) SCCM
5 6 (0.42%) Ansible
6 5 (0.35%) Grafana
6 5 (0.35%) RSA Archer
6 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.21%) Kibana
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.14%) Control-M
8 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.14%) Nessus
8 2 (0.14%) WSUS
9 1 (0.070%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.070%) SCOM
9 1 (0.070%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 470 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 200 (14.01%) Databricks
3 83 (5.81%) Oracle
4 70 (4.90%) Google
5 65 (4.55%) SAP
6 62 (4.34%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 34 (2.38%) Informatica
9 20 (1.40%) Foundry
10 15 (1.05%) Lotus
10 15 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 13 (0.91%) Sage
11 13 (0.91%) Workday
12 12 (0.84%) Alteryx
12 12 (0.84%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.77%) Talend
14 10 (0.70%) Kofax
15 9 (0.63%) Palantir
15 9 (0.63%) Remedy
16 8 (0.56%) MicroStrategy