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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 56 64
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,436 937 1,213
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 3.86% 3.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.03% 20.23% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 653 861
10th Percentile £325 £313 £306
25th Percentile £404 £393 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 34
10th Percentile £14.28 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.06 £25.13 £14.67
Median hourly rate £24.22 £29.07 £22.86
Median % change year-on-year -16.68% +27.18% -59.86%
75th Percentile £39.94 £34.57 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.14 £56.55 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £23.03 £29.07 £22.86
% change year-on-year -20.78% +27.18% -59.47%

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 5,975 4,632 6,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.91% 19.09% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,145 3,253 4,427
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £663 £669
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 125 91 150
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.85 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +51.01% -17.48% -28.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.61 £54.78
90th Percentile £85.15 £70.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +61.19% -20.90% -29.08%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +4 779 £500 - 258
South East -8 168 £500 +8.11% 212
Midlands -11 154 £450 -7.22% 126
North of England -33 146 £450 -5.26% 176
West Midlands -29 101 £450 -8.16% 72
North West -25 80 £434 -17.38% 90
South West +3 70 £475 +5.56% 70
Yorkshire -37 55 £450 +9.76% 63
East Midlands +1 52 £398 -16.32% 54
East of England -15 49 £500 +5.26% 57
North East -6 11 £500 +11.11% 29
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
1 124 (8.64%) SharePoint
2 56 (3.90%) Confluence
3 52 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.30%) Apache
5 27 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.04%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.70%) Mendix
8 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.42%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.35%) SAS
11 4 (0.28%) CMS
11 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.070%) IIS
14 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
14 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 287 (19.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (4.11%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.95%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.21%) Notion
7 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.070%) CATIA
8 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.070%) InDesign
8 1 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 40 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.35%) iTrent
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.28%) Primavera
8 3 (0.21%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.21%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,436 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 555 (38.65%) Azure
3 186 (12.95%) AWS
4 185 (12.88%) Power Automate
5 159 (11.07%) PowerApps
6 153 (10.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 128 (8.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 125 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
9 123 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
10 108 (7.52%) Dynamics 365
11 104 (7.24%) GCP
12 99 (6.89%) Snowflake
13 69 (4.81%) Microsoft Copilot
14 67 (4.67%) Serverless
15 55 (3.83%) GitHub
16 46 (3.20%) Copilot Studio
17 44 (3.06%) Amazon S3
18 42 (2.92%) dbt
19 41 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
20 37 (2.58%) Azure Functions
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
1 247 (17.20%) Tableau
2 201 (14.00%) Data Warehouse
3 129 (8.98%) Data Lake
4 107 (7.45%) SQL Server
5 83 (5.78%) Power Query
6 72 (5.01%) Metadata
7 57 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (3.76%) BigQuery
9 49 (3.41%) Looker
10 39 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
11 38 (2.65%) Delta Lake
11 38 (2.65%) Relational Database
12 35 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 35 (2.44%) Star Schema
13 29 (2.02%) Mixpanel
13 29 (2.02%) NoSQL
14 26 (1.81%) Spark SQL
15 24 (1.67%) OLAP
16 23 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 124 (8.64%) JIRA
2 70 (4.87%) Git
3 17 (1.18%) GitLab
4 13 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.77%) 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%) 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%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.14%) DBeaver
10 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.070%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.070%) Metasploit
General
1 470 (32.73%) Finance
2 462 (32.17%) Social Skills
3 343 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (11.42%) Public Sector
5 112 (7.80%) Banking
6 44 (3.06%) Marketing
7 43 (2.99%) Retail
8 41 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 38 (2.65%) Law
10 34 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.11%) Legal
15 16 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.97%) Front Office
17 13 (0.91%) Publishing
18 12 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 384 (26.74%) Analyst
2 220 (15.32%) Data Engineer
3 209 (14.55%) Developer
4 175 (12.19%) Senior
5 165 (11.49%) Data Analyst
6 157 (10.93%) Lead
7 130 (9.05%) Architect
8 96 (6.69%) Business Analyst
9 86 (5.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 71 (4.94%) Consultant
11 60 (4.18%) Power BI Developer
12 51 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
13 46 (3.20%) Data Architect
14 44 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 42 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
16 41 (2.86%) Project Manager
17 39 (2.72%) PMO Analyst
17 39 (2.72%) Power Platform Developer
18 31 (2.16%) Data Scientist
19 29 (2.02%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (5.15%) PySpark
2 43 (2.99%) Kafka
3 42 (2.92%) REST
4 30 (2.09%) .NET
4 30 (2.09%) Pandas
5 23 (1.60%) JSON
5 23 (1.60%) scikit-learn
6 20 (1.39%) Great Expectations
6 20 (1.39%) HTML
7 18 (1.25%) React
8 17 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
9 16 (1.11%) NumPy
9 16 (1.11%) PyTorch
9 16 (1.11%) TensorFlow
10 15 (1.04%) XML
11 14 (0.97%) YAML
12 13 (0.91%) Spark Streaming
13 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.77%) Middleware
15 10 (0.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (3.90%) Cloud Native
2 54 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.27%) Data Structures
4 37 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 32 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.02%) Low-Code
8 27 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.25%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.18%) PMI
12 15 (1.04%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.91%) CMDB
13 13 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.77%) Clustering
14 11 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.77%) FMCG
14 11 (0.77%) SCADA
15 10 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.18%) Windows
2 9 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.070%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,341 (93.38%) Business Intelligence
2 576 (40.11%) Analytics
3 453 (31.55%) Data Modelling
4 326 (22.70%) Visualisation
5 312 (21.73%) Agile
6 311 (21.66%) ETL
7 302 (21.03%) Decision-Making
8 267 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (18.52%) Data Governance
10 232 (16.16%) Data Engineering
11 223 (15.53%) DevOps
12 214 (14.90%) AI
13 213 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 213 (14.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 206 (14.35%) Actionable Insight
15 201 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
16 198 (13.79%) CI/CD
17 197 (13.72%) Data Visualisation
18 195 (13.58%) Data Analysis
19 182 (12.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 677 (47.14%) SQL
2 368 (25.63%) Python
3 143 (9.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (4.87%) C#
5 56 (3.90%) R
6 49 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 49 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 37 (2.58%) VBA
8 31 (2.16%) T-SQL
9 27 (1.88%) Java
10 23 (1.60%) Bicep
11 17 (1.18%) Scala
12 11 (0.77%) Formula Language
12 11 (0.77%) LotusScript
13 10 (0.70%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.35%) X++
16 4 (0.28%) C
16 4 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 230 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 173 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 131 (9.12%) Degree
4 32 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 25 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.67%) PMP
10 11 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.77%) MBA
11 9 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.49%) CBAP
14 5 (0.35%) ACCA
14 5 (0.35%) CIMA
15 4 (0.28%) CFA
15 4 (0.28%) IIBA
15 4 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (23.19%) Data Quality
2 110 (7.66%) GDPR
3 95 (6.62%) PMO
4 82 (5.71%) QA
5 42 (2.92%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.11%) SLA
7 15 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.97%) GRC
9 12 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.77%) Basel III
11 10 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.35%) P3O
14 4 (0.28%) NCSC
14 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.21%) IFRS
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
15 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (2.30%) Docker
2 30 (2.09%) 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 (5.08%) Terraform
2 40 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.56%) SCCM
5 6 (0.42%) Ansible
5 6 (0.42%) Grafana
6 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.28%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.14%) Control-M
8 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.14%) Kibana
8 2 (0.14%) Nessus
8 2 (0.14%) WSUS
9 1 (0.070%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.070%) SCOM
9 1 (0.070%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.070%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 474 (33.01%) Microsoft
2 203 (14.14%) Databricks
3 75 (5.22%) Oracle
4 70 (4.87%) Google
5 68 (4.74%) ServiceNow
6 66 (4.60%) SAP
7 36 (2.51%) Informatica
7 36 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.32%) Foundry
9 15 (1.04%) Lotus
9 15 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 14 (0.97%) Sage
10 14 (0.97%) Workday
11 12 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.84%) Talend
12 11 (0.77%) Alteryx
13 10 (0.70%) Kofax
13 10 (0.70%) Planview
13 10 (0.70%) Remedy
14 8 (0.56%) MicroStrategy