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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,496 924 1,159
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 3.77% 3.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.04% 19.68% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 629 830
10th Percentile £313 £313 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -2.31% -2.75%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £588
90th Percentile £641 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 29
10th Percentile £16.14 £18.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.72 £24.81 £14.36
Median hourly rate £31.50 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% +25.22% -57.79%
75th Percentile £49.38 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £44.21 £56.30
UK median hourly rate £29.88 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year +2.77% +25.22% -57.79%

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 6,222 4,695 6,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 19.15% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,302 3,294 4,395
10th Percentile £350 £358 £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 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 95 133
10th Percentile £16.77 £19.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.04 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.52% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.58 £65.31 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.51% -13.56% -34.69%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +5 785 £500 +2.25% 281
South East +5 192 £488 +5.41% 177
Midlands -10 168 £450 -6.44% 136
North of England -30 151 £450 -1.37% 172
West Midlands -30 103 £459 -5.36% 82
South West +3 85 £450 +2.86% 58
North West -30 78 £463 -11.90% 99
East Midlands +9 64 £414 -15.18% 54
Yorkshire -47 61 £438 +3.06% 53
East of England -17 46 £475 -5.00% 62
North East -8 12 £475 +5.56% 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
1 134 (8.96%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.88%) Confluence
3 53 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.21%) Apache
5 28 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.07%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.74%) Mendix
8 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
8 8 (0.53%) SAS
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.067%) IIS
13 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.067%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 310 (20.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.21%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.20%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.20%) Notion
7 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.20%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.067%) CATIA
9 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.067%) InDesign
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 37 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.87%) iTrent
3 13 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.27%) Primavera
6 4 (0.27%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.13%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,496 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 551 (36.83%) Azure
3 198 (13.24%) AWS
4 180 (12.03%) Power Automate
5 157 (10.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 147 (9.83%) PowerApps
7 141 (9.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
9 126 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
11 97 (6.48%) GCP
12 91 (6.08%) Snowflake
13 75 (5.01%) Serverless
14 73 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
15 60 (4.01%) GitHub
16 52 (3.48%) Amazon S3
17 49 (3.28%) Copilot Studio
18 44 (2.94%) dbt
19 39 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
20 37 (2.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.60%) Firewall
1 9 (0.60%) VPN
2 4 (0.27%) DNS
2 4 (0.27%) HTTP
3 3 (0.20%) 5G
3 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.20%) LTE
3 3 (0.20%) Network Security
3 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.13%) Intranet
4 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (0.13%) MPLS
4 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.13%) SMTP
4 2 (0.13%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (17.71%) Tableau
2 222 (14.84%) Data Warehouse
3 141 (9.43%) Data Lake
4 110 (7.35%) SQL Server
5 94 (6.28%) Power Query
6 78 (5.21%) Metadata
7 60 (4.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 56 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 49 (3.28%) Looker
10 48 (3.21%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.81%) Snowflake Schema
11 42 (2.81%) Star Schema
12 36 (2.41%) Delta Lake
12 36 (2.41%) Relational Database
13 35 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
14 32 (2.14%) NoSQL
15 31 (2.07%) Spark SQL
16 30 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 29 (1.94%) Mixpanel
18 26 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 120 (8.02%) JIRA
2 73 (4.88%) Git
3 16 (1.07%) GitLab
4 13 (0.87%) ERwin
5 12 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.40%) MLflow
7 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.27%) Postman
8 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.13%) Selenium
10 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.067%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.067%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.067%) JMeter
11 1 (0.067%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 480 (32.09%) Finance
2 476 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 369 (24.67%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.62%) Banking
6 51 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.21%) Law
7 48 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (3.07%) Retail
9 43 (2.87%) Marketing
10 31 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.34%) Legal
13 20 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.07%) Local Government
16 15 (1.00%) Front Office
17 14 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 402 (26.87%) Analyst
2 242 (16.18%) Data Engineer
3 202 (13.50%) Developer
4 177 (11.83%) Data Analyst
4 177 (11.83%) Senior
5 147 (9.83%) Lead
6 138 (9.22%) Architect
7 97 (6.48%) Business Analyst
8 86 (5.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 73 (4.88%) Consultant
10 65 (4.34%) Power BI Developer
11 50 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
12 47 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 42 (2.81%) Data Architect
15 41 (2.74%) Project Manager
16 40 (2.67%) Power Platform Developer
17 39 (2.61%) PMO Analyst
18 36 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
18 36 (2.41%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.75%) PySpark
2 44 (2.94%) Kafka
3 39 (2.61%) REST
4 33 (2.21%) .NET
5 27 (1.80%) Pandas
6 22 (1.47%) JSON
7 20 (1.34%) Great Expectations
8 19 (1.27%) HTML
8 19 (1.27%) scikit-learn
9 18 (1.20%) React
10 15 (1.00%) ADO
10 15 (1.00%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.00%) TensorFlow
10 15 (1.00%) XML
11 14 (0.94%) YAML
12 13 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.87%) Spark Streaming
13 12 (0.80%) CSS
13 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
13 12 (0.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (3.68%) Cloud Native
2 54 (3.61%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 29 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 26 (1.74%) Low-Code
8 23 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.20%) CMDB
10 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.00%) PMI
11 15 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.80%) Clustering
14 11 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.67%) NHS
16 9 (0.60%) IoT
17 8 (0.53%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.27%) Windows
2 10 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.067%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,392 (93.05%) Business Intelligence
2 596 (39.84%) Analytics
3 481 (32.15%) Data Modelling
4 325 (21.72%) Agile
5 322 (21.52%) ETL
6 321 (21.46%) Visualisation
7 313 (20.92%) Decision-Making
8 281 (18.78%) Data Governance
9 275 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
10 245 (16.38%) Data Engineering
11 231 (15.44%) DevOps
12 228 (15.24%) Data Pipeline
13 222 (14.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 221 (14.77%) AI
15 212 (14.17%) CI/CD
15 212 (14.17%) Migration
16 211 (14.10%) Actionable Insight
17 200 (13.37%) Data Analysis
18 199 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
19 198 (13.24%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 715 (47.79%) SQL
2 395 (26.40%) Python
3 153 (10.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (4.55%) C#
5 62 (4.14%) R
6 53 (3.54%) JavaScript
7 52 (3.48%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.61%) T-SQL
8 39 (2.61%) VBA
9 35 (2.34%) Java
10 24 (1.60%) Bicep
11 21 (1.40%) Scala
12 11 (0.74%) Formula Language
12 11 (0.74%) LotusScript
12 11 (0.74%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.27%) C
16 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
16 3 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 246 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 193 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 144 (9.63%) Degree
4 33 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 31 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.60%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.54%) PMP
9 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.67%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.67%) MBA
11 8 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 8 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.47%) ACCA
12 7 (0.47%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.40%) CBAP
13 6 (0.40%) CIMA
13 6 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (23.66%) Data Quality
2 119 (7.95%) GDPR
3 94 (6.28%) PMO
4 84 (5.61%) QA
5 34 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.14%) SLA
7 15 (1.00%) GRC
7 15 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.74%) Basel III
10 10 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.27%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.27%) NCSC
12 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS
13 3 (0.20%) P3O
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 32 (2.14%) Docker
2 31 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.067%) RACF
Systems Management
1 76 (5.08%) Terraform
2 39 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.53%) Grafana
5 7 (0.47%) SCCM
6 5 (0.33%) Ansible
6 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Kibana
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
8 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.067%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.067%) SCOM
9 1 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.067%) WSUS
Vendors
1 502 (33.56%) Microsoft
2 204 (13.64%) Databricks
3 80 (5.35%) SAP
4 78 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 76 (5.08%) Oracle
6 62 (4.14%) Google
7 38 (2.54%) Salesforce
8 33 (2.21%) Informatica
9 23 (1.54%) Workday
10 19 (1.27%) Foundry
11 16 (1.07%) Lotus
12 14 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.94%) Sage
13 13 (0.87%) Remedy
14 12 (0.80%) IFS
15 11 (0.74%) Alteryx
15 11 (0.74%) Kofax
15 11 (0.74%) Talend
16 10 (0.67%) Adobe
17 9 (0.60%) MuleSoft