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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 56 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,307 1,009 1,156
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 3.69% 3.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.38% 20.18% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 676 827
10th Percentile £313 £313 £311
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £613
90th Percentile £668 £700 £689
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 36
10th Percentile - £24.68 £16.11
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.02 £30.30 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% -3.55% -43.41%
75th Percentile £35.26 £56.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £64.73 £72.14
UK median hourly rate £24.02 £28.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year -14.23% -10.86% -37.18%

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 5,361 5,001 5,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.03% 18.31% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,747 3,320 4,271
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £411 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 70 126
10th Percentile £20.66 £19.78 £18.91
25th Percentile £29.56 £24.25 £25.20
Median hourly rate £54.70 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.93 £64.48
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.00 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +48.57% -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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +9 735 £500 -2.91% 302
North of England -9 154 £425 -8.11% 134
South East -16 119 £480 +0.95% 210
Midlands -16 118 £456 -5.64% 130
West Midlands -32 79 £500 - 87
Yorkshire -8 75 £420 -1.18% 50
North West -24 73 £425 -14.67% 65
South West +3 70 £475 +5.56% 51
East of England +8 47 £625 +38.89% 56
East Midlands -6 39 £354 -8.05% 42
North East -10 6 £475 +5.56% 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
1 141 (10.79%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.52%) Confluence
3 38 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (1.68%) Apache
6 17 (1.30%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.61%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.61%) Mendix
9 6 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) Moodle
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
12 1 (0.077%) Kentico
12 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.077%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 290 (22.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (2.14%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.38%) Trello
8 4 (0.31%) Notion
9 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.077%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 61 (4.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.31%) Primavera
6 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.23%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) Actimize
8 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.15%) Endur
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,307 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 493 (37.72%) Azure
3 202 (15.46%) Power Automate
4 187 (14.31%) PowerApps
5 142 (10.86%) AWS
6 131 (10.02%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 114 (8.72%) Dynamics 365
9 108 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
10 100 (7.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 87 (6.66%) GCP
12 83 (6.35%) Snowflake
13 54 (4.13%) Microsoft Copilot
14 47 (3.60%) Serverless
15 43 (3.29%) GitHub
16 41 (3.14%) SaaS
17 40 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
18 34 (2.60%) Copilot Studio
18 34 (2.60%) Entra ID
19 33 (2.52%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) HTTP
2 4 (0.31%) VoIP
2 4 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.23%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) 2G
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) DNS
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.15%) LTE
4 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.15%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.15%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.077%) Firewall
5 1 (0.077%) NAS
5 1 (0.077%) Skype
5 1 (0.077%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (15.23%) Tableau
2 153 (11.71%) Data Warehouse
3 105 (8.03%) Data Lake
4 100 (7.65%) SQL Server
5 87 (6.66%) Power Query
6 56 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (3.83%) Metadata
7 50 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 47 (3.60%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 43 (3.29%) BigQuery
11 37 (2.83%) Looker
12 28 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (1.91%) Data Mining
13 25 (1.91%) Delta Lake
14 22 (1.68%) Big Data
14 22 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
15 21 (1.61%) Star Schema
16 20 (1.53%) NoSQL
16 20 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 116 (8.88%) JIRA
2 57 (4.36%) Git
3 11 (0.84%) GitLab
4 9 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.46%) DBeaver
8 5 (0.38%) NeoLoad
9 3 (0.23%) ERwin
9 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) Postman
10 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.077%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.077%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.077%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.077%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 461 (35.27%) Social Skills
2 439 (33.59%) Finance
3 301 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 126 (9.64%) Banking
6 48 (3.67%) Marketing
7 40 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
8 39 (2.98%) Manufacturing
9 35 (2.68%) Retail
10 33 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.76%) Front Office
13 23 (1.76%) Legal
13 23 (1.76%) Local Government
14 22 (1.68%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 366 (28.00%) Analyst
2 206 (15.76%) Developer
3 161 (12.32%) Data Engineer
4 155 (11.86%) Data Analyst
5 127 (9.72%) Senior
6 102 (7.80%) Lead
7 98 (7.50%) Business Analyst
8 88 (6.73%) Architect
9 74 (5.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 69 (5.28%) Consultant
11 55 (4.21%) Power BI Developer
12 46 (3.52%) Data Scientist
13 45 (3.44%) Project Manager
13 45 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
14 42 (3.21%) Data Architect
15 38 (2.91%) Power Platform Developer
16 35 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 34 (2.60%) Power BI Analyst
18 32 (2.45%) PMO Analyst
19 29 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (4.51%) PySpark
2 43 (3.29%) .NET
3 39 (2.98%) REST
4 27 (2.07%) HTML
5 25 (1.91%) Kafka
6 23 (1.76%) Pandas
6 23 (1.76%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.61%) JSON
8 18 (1.38%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (1.15%) React
10 14 (1.07%) NumPy
11 12 (0.92%) PyTorch
11 12 (0.92%) TensorFlow
12 11 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (0.77%) CSS
13 10 (0.77%) Plotly
14 9 (0.69%) OAuth
15 8 (0.61%) ADO
15 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
15 8 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (3.67%) Product Ownership
2 36 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (2.68%) Data Structures
4 30 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.14%) Low-Code
7 26 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 25 (1.91%) Cloud Native
9 22 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.22%) PMI
11 15 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.07%) Derivative
12 14 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.99%) Reinsurance
14 12 (0.92%) Life Science
15 11 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (0.84%) FMCG
16 10 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.99%) Windows
2 4 (0.31%) Linux
3 3 (0.23%) Unix
3 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.15%) Android
4 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,194 (91.35%) Business Intelligence
2 469 (35.88%) Analytics
3 349 (26.70%) Data Modelling
4 327 (25.02%) Visualisation
5 303 (23.18%) Agile
6 264 (20.20%) Decision-Making
7 239 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
8 215 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 212 (16.22%) ETL
10 210 (16.07%) Data Governance
11 201 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
12 198 (15.15%) DevOps
13 194 (14.84%) Data Analysis
14 190 (14.54%) Data Visualisation
15 158 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 144 (11.02%) Data Engineering
17 143 (10.94%) CI/CD
18 139 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
19 138 (10.56%) AI
20 135 (10.33%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 590 (45.14%) SQL
2 335 (25.63%) Python
3 102 (7.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 63 (4.82%) C#
5 60 (4.59%) R
6 58 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 39 (2.98%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.37%) Java
8 31 (2.37%) VBA
9 29 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.91%) Scala
11 14 (1.07%) Bicep
11 14 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.69%) Formula Language
12 9 (0.69%) LotusScript
12 9 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.54%) Korn
14 5 (0.38%) C++
14 5 (0.38%) X++
15 4 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 182 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 142 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 118 (9.03%) Degree
4 29 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 26 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (1.99%) PMI Certification
6 23 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.61%) PMP
8 17 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.84%) ACCA
9 11 (0.84%) CIMA
9 11 (0.84%) MBA
10 8 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.61%) CFA
11 7 (0.54%) CBAP
11 7 (0.54%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
12 5 (0.38%) IIBA
13 4 (0.31%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (16.76%) Data Quality
2 75 (5.74%) GDPR
3 72 (5.51%) PMO
4 66 (5.05%) QA
5 53 (4.06%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.84%) GRC
9 10 (0.77%) Basel III
10 9 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.54%) IFRS
11 7 (0.54%) NIST
11 7 (0.54%) SLA
12 6 (0.46%) GxP
13 5 (0.38%) P3O
14 4 (0.31%) WCAG
15 3 (0.23%) IFRS 9
16 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 28 (2.14%) Active Directory
1 28 (2.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.077%) HDFS
3 1 (0.077%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (3.52%) Terraform
2 33 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.46%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.46%) SCCM
5 4 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.15%) Ansible
6 2 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.077%) Control-M
7 1 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.077%) Puppet
7 1 (0.077%) SCOM
7 1 (0.077%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.077%) WSUS
Vendors
1 433 (33.13%) Microsoft
2 148 (11.32%) Databricks
3 98 (7.50%) Oracle
4 78 (5.97%) SAP
5 64 (4.90%) Google
6 44 (3.37%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.84%) Informatica
9 18 (1.38%) Alteryx
10 17 (1.30%) Lotus
11 12 (0.92%) Foundry
11 12 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.92%) Planview
11 12 (0.92%) Splunk
12 11 (0.84%) Adobe
12 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.69%) Cognos
14 8 (0.61%) Kofax
14 8 (0.61%) Workday
15 7 (0.54%) IFS