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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 62 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,677 1,051 1,102
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 3.86% 3.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.14% 21.55% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 692 777
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £409 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £589 £575 £588
90th Percentile £668 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 20 18
10th Percentile £17.90 £20.98 £19.95
25th Percentile £22.68 £28.06 £25.25
Median hourly rate £29.96 £32.05 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +5.79% -6.27%
75th Percentile £38.25 £38.88 £62.29
90th Percentile £70.80 £54.13 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £33.11 £30.59
% change year-on-year -9.51% +8.24% -5.35%

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 6,948 4,878 5,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.92% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,646 3,352 4,194
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 80 84
10th Percentile £15.17 £21.18 £15.29
25th Percentile £23.35 £30.55 £19.96
Median hourly rate £38.38 £40.25 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +16.77% -37.34%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.00 £60.36
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
% change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +1 881 £500 - 877
North of England -8 235 £440 +1.15% 251
South East +2 213 £475 +4.11% 274
Midlands +13 189 £475 +2.70% 202
West Midlands -1 130 £473 -3.08% 138
North West +12 128 £495 +10.31% 160
Yorkshire -22 93 £425 +6.25% 66
South West -20 88 £425 +6.25% 127
East Midlands +14 57 £470 +12.24% 64
East of England -14 36 £571 +1.42% 98
North East -26 18 £375 -18.92% 26
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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
1 168 (10.02%) SharePoint
2 64 (3.82%) Confluence
3 33 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.49%) Apache
6 23 (1.37%) SAS
7 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.72%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.42%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.36%) Mendix
10 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.24%) CMS
12 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) IIS
13 3 (0.18%) Kentico
14 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
14 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 324 (19.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (2.98%) Microsoft Project
4 49 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
5 24 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 21 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.60%) Navisworks
7 10 (0.60%) Revit
8 6 (0.36%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.36%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 39 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.95%) iTrent
5 12 (0.72%) Primavera
6 8 (0.48%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.42%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.30%) Maximo
9 5 (0.30%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
12 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,677 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 632 (37.69%) Azure
3 202 (12.05%) AWS
4 195 (11.63%) Power Automate
5 177 (10.55%) Azure DevOps
6 169 (10.08%) PowerApps
7 140 (8.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 134 (7.99%) Snowflake
9 123 (7.33%) Dynamics 365
10 119 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
11 110 (6.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 98 (5.84%) Microsoft Copilot
13 80 (4.77%) Serverless
14 73 (4.35%) dbt
15 68 (4.05%) GitHub
16 63 (3.76%) GCP
17 54 (3.22%) Entra ID
18 53 (3.16%) Amazon S3
19 51 (3.04%) Microsoft Purview
20 47 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.95%) Firewall
2 11 (0.66%) SSL
3 10 (0.60%) DNS
4 8 (0.48%) VPN
5 6 (0.36%) Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) Network Security
7 2 (0.12%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) SMTP
8 1 (0.060%) 4G
8 1 (0.060%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.060%) LAN
8 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
8 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.060%) SSH
8 1 (0.060%) VoIP
8 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (15.68%) Data Warehouse
2 239 (14.25%) Tableau
3 143 (8.53%) Data Lake
4 133 (7.93%) SQL Server
5 128 (7.63%) Power Query
6 82 (4.89%) Metadata
7 66 (3.94%) Star Schema
8 55 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 50 (2.98%) Relational Database
10 47 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 47 (2.80%) Looker
11 40 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
12 37 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (1.97%) Snowflake Schema
15 32 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 31 (1.85%) BigQuery
17 30 (1.79%) NoSQL
18 25 (1.49%) Delta Lake
19 23 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 140 (8.35%) JIRA
2 66 (3.94%) Git
3 29 (1.73%) GitLab
4 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.42%) ERwin
5 7 (0.42%) MLflow
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.24%) JUnit
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.18%) JMeter
8 3 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.18%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.060%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.060%) TestRail
General
1 551 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 496 (29.58%) Finance
3 424 (25.28%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 120 (7.16%) Banking
6 78 (4.65%) Retail
7 63 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (3.22%) Law
9 51 (3.04%) Manufacturing
10 49 (2.92%) Marketing
11 45 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 39 (2.33%) Local Government
13 32 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (1.37%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.07%) Investment Banking
17 17 (1.01%) Publishing
18 16 (0.95%) Front Office
18 16 (0.95%) Legal
Job Titles
1 431 (25.70%) Analyst
2 241 (14.37%) Developer
3 217 (12.94%) Data Engineer
4 215 (12.82%) Data Analyst
5 192 (11.45%) Senior
6 182 (10.85%) Architect
7 156 (9.30%) Lead
8 113 (6.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 91 (5.43%) Power BI Developer
10 90 (5.37%) Business Analyst
11 79 (4.71%) Data Architect
12 74 (4.41%) Consultant
13 55 (3.28%) Project Manager
14 54 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
15 47 (2.80%) Power Platform Developer
16 46 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
17 39 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 38 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
19 37 (2.21%) Lead Architect
20 35 (2.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (5.49%) PySpark
2 72 (4.29%) Terraform
3 66 (3.94%) .NET
4 63 (3.76%) REST
5 32 (1.91%) Kafka
6 24 (1.43%) React
7 22 (1.31%) Microsoft Graph
8 21 (1.25%) JSON
9 20 (1.19%) HTML
10 19 (1.13%) Middleware
11 15 (0.89%) HTML5 Canvas
12 14 (0.83%) CSS
13 12 (0.72%) Pandas
14 10 (0.60%) ADO
15 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.48%) EDI
16 7 (0.42%) Great Expectations
16 7 (0.42%) JDO
16 7 (0.42%) jQuery
16 7 (0.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.89%) Data Structures
2 72 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 59 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 42 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.91%) Clustering
8 31 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 22 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 21 (1.25%) CMDB
12 20 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.19%) FMCG
13 18 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.89%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.89%) NHS
15 14 (0.83%) Reference Data
16 12 (0.72%) IoT
16 12 (0.72%) PKI
16 12 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.16%) Windows
2 26 (1.55%) Windows Server
3 14 (0.83%) Linux
4 10 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.54%) Unix
6 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.30%) Android
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.12%) VMS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,566 (93.38%) Business Intelligence
2 668 (39.83%) Analytics
3 520 (31.01%) Data Modelling
4 410 (24.45%) Agile
5 379 (22.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 357 (21.29%) Decision-Making
7 331 (19.74%) AI
8 329 (19.62%) Visualisation
9 323 (19.26%) ETL
10 313 (18.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 310 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
12 297 (17.71%) DevOps
13 289 (17.23%) Migration
14 282 (16.82%) CI/CD
15 266 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 266 (15.86%) Data Governance
16 258 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
17 257 (15.32%) Data Engineering
18 236 (14.07%) Validation
19 207 (12.34%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 781 (46.57%) SQL
2 381 (22.72%) Python
3 192 (11.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 92 (5.49%) JavaScript
4 92 (5.49%) PowerShell
5 74 (4.41%) C#
6 65 (3.88%) T-SQL
7 45 (2.68%) R
8 38 (2.27%) Java
9 22 (1.31%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.31%) VBA
10 13 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 11 (0.66%) Bicep
12 9 (0.54%) Bash
12 9 (0.54%) Scala
13 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.30%) Korn
14 5 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.30%) X++
15 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 311 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 235 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 161 (9.60%) Degree
4 51 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 22 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.13%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 14 (0.83%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.72%) PMP
15 11 (0.66%) ACCA
16 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.54%) CIMA
16 9 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.42%) CISSP
17 7 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (23.20%) Data Quality
2 87 (5.19%) GDPR
3 78 (4.65%) QA
4 75 (4.47%) PMO
5 35 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.95%) GRC
7 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.66%) ISO 19650
9 10 (0.60%) SLA
10 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.30%) GMP
13 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.18%) NIST
14 3 (0.18%) P3O
15 2 (0.12%) Basel III
15 2 (0.12%) COBIT
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.89%) Docker
3 13 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.25%) Grafana
3 18 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.89%) SCOM
5 12 (0.72%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) Control-M
7 7 (0.42%) SCCM
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Nessus
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 678 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 210 (12.52%) Databricks
3 111 (6.62%) SAP
4 105 (6.26%) ServiceNow
5 83 (4.95%) Oracle
6 45 (2.68%) Google
7 39 (2.33%) Informatica
8 38 (2.27%) Salesforce
9 30 (1.79%) Remedy
10 28 (1.67%) Splunk
11 26 (1.55%) Alteryx
12 21 (1.25%) BMC
12 21 (1.25%) Workday
13 15 (0.89%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.83%) Adobe
15 13 (0.78%) Denodo
15 13 (0.78%) VMware
16 11 (0.66%) IFS
17 10 (0.60%) Autodesk
17 10 (0.60%) MicroStrategy