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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 58 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,526 911 1,218
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 3.78% 3.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.17% 19.84% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 595 869
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £575
90th Percentile £645 £654 £688
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 30 27
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £23.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £28.78 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +25.22% -55.78%
75th Percentile £38.06 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.64 £53.75 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £25.78 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -18.54% +29.51% -52.33%

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 6,314 4,591 6,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.15% 19.07% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,293 3,189 4,518
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £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 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 91 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.80 £22.94 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.36 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -19.88% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.36% -17.23% -33.33%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +5 770 £500 - 331
South East +16 209 £500 +8.11% 186
Midlands -3 194 £461 -3.00% 102
North of England -35 160 £463 +2.78% 159
West Midlands -17 132 £455 -7.72% 64
South West +9 94 £450 +5.88% 62
North West -10 89 £480 -3.25% 93
East Midlands +16 61 £463 - 38
Yorkshire -54 56 £439 +3.29% 48
East of England -19 43 £400 -20.00% 36
North East -18 16 £450 - 21
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
1 121 (7.93%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.39%) Confluence
3 48 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.03%) Apache
5 28 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.92%) SAS
7 12 (0.79%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.66%) Mendix
9 8 (0.52%) Apache Superset
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.33%) CMS
10 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.26%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) Kentico
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 297 (19.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Notion
7 4 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.066%) CATIA
9 1 (0.066%) InDesign
9 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.98%) iTrent
5 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.39%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
10 1 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,526 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 554 (36.30%) Azure
3 193 (12.65%) AWS
4 153 (10.03%) Power Automate
5 152 (9.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 135 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
7 131 (8.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 129 (8.45%) PowerApps
9 107 (7.01%) Snowflake
10 105 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
11 83 (5.44%) Dynamics 365
12 81 (5.31%) GCP
13 71 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
14 67 (4.39%) Serverless
15 62 (4.06%) GitHub
16 52 (3.41%) dbt
17 51 (3.34%) Amazon S3
18 43 (2.82%) Copilot Studio
19 39 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
20 36 (2.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.92%) Firewall
2 11 (0.72%) VPN
3 8 (0.52%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.20%) Network Security
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) LTE
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) NAS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SAN
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (16.58%) Tableau
2 250 (16.38%) Data Warehouse
3 148 (9.70%) Data Lake
4 126 (8.26%) SQL Server
5 103 (6.75%) Power Query
6 71 (4.65%) Metadata
7 57 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 50 (3.28%) Looker
9 47 (3.08%) Relational Database
10 46 (3.01%) Star Schema
11 40 (2.62%) BigQuery
12 39 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (2.49%) Spark SQL
14 37 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
15 33 (2.16%) Delta Lake
16 30 (1.97%) NoSQL
17 27 (1.77%) Mixpanel
17 27 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 26 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 135 (8.85%) JIRA
2 65 (4.26%) Git
3 25 (1.64%) GitLab
4 14 (0.92%) ERwin
5 7 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
6 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 3 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.066%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.066%) Hudson
10 1 (0.066%) SoapUI
General
1 463 (30.34%) Finance
2 456 (29.88%) Social Skills
3 354 (23.20%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.55%) Banking
6 54 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.28%) Law
8 46 (3.01%) Retail
9 44 (2.88%) Marketing
9 44 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.25%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.25%) Local Government
14 18 (1.18%) Legal
14 18 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.05%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.98%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 409 (26.80%) Analyst
2 258 (16.91%) Data Engineer
3 198 (12.98%) Developer
4 189 (12.39%) Data Analyst
5 184 (12.06%) Senior
6 158 (10.35%) Architect
7 143 (9.37%) Lead
8 101 (6.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 90 (5.90%) Business Analyst
10 75 (4.91%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.52%) Consultant
12 68 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
13 57 (3.74%) Data Architect
14 46 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 45 (2.95%) Project Manager
16 37 (2.42%) Lead Architect
17 35 (2.29%) Power Platform Developer
17 35 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
18 33 (2.16%) PMO Analyst
18 33 (2.16%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.96%) PySpark
2 51 (3.34%) REST
3 40 (2.62%) Kafka
4 33 (2.16%) .NET
5 24 (1.57%) Pandas
6 19 (1.25%) JSON
6 19 (1.25%) React
7 16 (1.05%) Great Expectations
7 16 (1.05%) HTML
8 14 (0.92%) YAML
9 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
9 13 (0.85%) Middleware
10 12 (0.79%) ADO
10 12 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (0.79%) XML
11 11 (0.72%) CSS
12 9 (0.59%) Spark Streaming
13 8 (0.52%) JDO
13 8 (0.52%) PyTorch
13 8 (0.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.74%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (1.57%) Low-Code
8 23 (1.51%) CMDB
8 23 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (0.85%) Clustering
12 12 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (0.79%) PKI
12 12 (0.79%) PMI
12 12 (0.79%) Reference Data
13 11 (0.72%) NHS
14 10 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.90%) Windows
2 17 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.52%) Linux
5 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.39%) Unix
6 4 (0.26%) Android
7 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,417 (92.86%) Business Intelligence
2 627 (41.09%) Analytics
3 508 (33.29%) Data Modelling
4 352 (23.07%) Agile
5 349 (22.87%) ETL
6 318 (20.84%) Decision-Making
7 316 (20.71%) Visualisation
8 277 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
9 258 (16.91%) Data Engineering
10 252 (16.51%) Data Governance
11 249 (16.32%) Data Pipeline
12 248 (16.25%) AI
13 246 (16.12%) DevOps
14 244 (15.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 220 (14.42%) CI/CD
16 219 (14.35%) Migration
17 217 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 204 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
19 198 (12.98%) Data Visualisation
20 192 (12.58%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 730 (47.84%) SQL
2 377 (24.71%) Python
3 170 (11.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 57 (3.74%) C#
6 54 (3.54%) T-SQL
7 51 (3.34%) JavaScript
7 51 (3.34%) R
8 39 (2.56%) Java
9 26 (1.70%) VBA
10 20 (1.31%) Bicep
11 15 (0.98%) Scala
12 12 (0.79%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.52%) Formula Language
14 8 (0.52%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.33%) C
17 4 (0.26%) Korn
18 3 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 254 (16.64%) Security Cleared
2 196 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 135 (8.85%) Degree
4 37 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (1.77%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.44%) PMP
10 20 (1.31%) DBS Check
10 20 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.79%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.39%) ACCA
14 6 (0.39%) CBAP
14 6 (0.39%) CISSP
14 6 (0.39%) MBA
14 6 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
15 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (23.79%) Data Quality
2 107 (7.01%) GDPR
3 84 (5.50%) PMO
4 77 (5.05%) QA
5 34 (2.23%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.05%) SLA
7 14 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.72%) GRC
9 9 (0.59%) Basel III
10 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) P3O
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 40 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.64%) Docker
3 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.066%) RACF
6 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.85%) Terraform
2 29 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.11%) Grafana
4 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.59%) SCCM
5 6 (0.39%) Ansible
6 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.20%) Control-M
7 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
9 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.066%) Kibana
9 1 (0.066%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.066%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 503 (32.96%) Microsoft
2 208 (13.63%) Databricks
3 92 (6.03%) SAP
4 79 (5.18%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.98%) Oracle
6 50 (3.28%) Google
7 37 (2.42%) Informatica
8 26 (1.70%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.57%) Workday
10 22 (1.44%) Remedy
11 19 (1.25%) Splunk
12 14 (0.92%) Alteryx
12 14 (0.92%) Foundry
12 14 (0.92%) IFS
13 13 (0.85%) Talend
14 12 (0.79%) Lotus
15 11 (0.72%) Adobe
15 11 (0.72%) Denodo
15 11 (0.72%) Dynatrace
16 10 (0.66%) Amplitude