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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 65 60
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,639 1,018 1,232
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 3.75% 3.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.92% 20.44% 18.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 656 897
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £481
% change year-on-year +1.05% -1.25% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 31 22
10th Percentile £16.81 £18.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.00 £15.91
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.47
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +23.89% -36.58%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.57 £41.30
90th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £53.88
UK median hourly rate £29.48 £31.64 £27.22
% change year-on-year -6.83% +16.26% -25.44%

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 6,852 4,981 6,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.31% 18.32% 17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,590 3,445 4,671
10th Percentile £354 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 89 127
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.65 £25.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.49% -10.39% -33.04%
75th Percentile £72.25 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £79.66 £77.50 £69.15
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.14% -6.67% -31.82%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +12 836 £500 - 190
South East +3 220 £475 +5.56% 154
Midlands +10 203 £455 +2.48% 101
North of England -20 199 £461 +3.05% 130
West Midlands -8 144 £450 +5.88% 56
North West -12 114 £475 - 63
South West -7 92 £450 +11.25% 56
Yorkshire -43 69 £450 +4.65% 46
East Midlands +22 58 £470 +1.62% 45
East of England -14 41 £400 -20.79% 32
North East -25 20 £425 -5.56% 23
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
1 144 (8.79%) SharePoint
2 65 (3.97%) Confluence
3 38 (2.32%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.77%) Apache
4 29 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.10%) SAS
6 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.49%) Apache Superset
8 7 (0.43%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.31%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) HCL Notes
10 4 (0.24%) IIS
10 4 (0.24%) Mendix
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.061%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 314 (19.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Navisworks
7 5 (0.31%) Revit
8 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.061%) CATIA
10 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.061%) InDesign
10 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.061%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 23 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.98%) iTrent
4 9 (0.55%) Primavera
5 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.18%) Maximo
9 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
10 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,639 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 614 (37.46%) Azure
3 209 (12.75%) AWS
4 180 (10.98%) Power Automate
5 157 (9.58%) PowerApps
6 142 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
7 135 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 126 (7.69%) Snowflake
9 115 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 113 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
11 109 (6.65%) Dynamics 365
12 81 (4.94%) Microsoft Copilot
13 79 (4.82%) Serverless
14 74 (4.51%) GCP
15 66 (4.03%) dbt
16 58 (3.54%) Amazon S3
17 57 (3.48%) GitHub
18 48 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
19 45 (2.75%) Copilot Studio
19 45 (2.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.10%) Firewall
2 14 (0.85%) VPN
3 11 (0.67%) DNS
4 5 (0.31%) SSL
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
7 2 (0.12%) Microwave Backhaul
7 2 (0.12%) MPLS
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) SMTP
7 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (16.29%) Data Warehouse
2 266 (16.23%) Tableau
3 138 (8.42%) Data Lake
4 118 (7.20%) Power Query
5 114 (6.96%) SQL Server
6 74 (4.51%) Metadata
7 61 (3.72%) Star Schema
8 57 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 52 (3.17%) Looker
10 47 (2.87%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (2.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.26%) BigQuery
15 36 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
16 32 (1.95%) Semantic Layer
17 27 (1.65%) BusinessObjects
17 27 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 26 (1.59%) NoSQL
19 25 (1.53%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 139 (8.48%) JIRA
2 70 (4.27%) Git
3 26 (1.59%) GitLab
4 12 (0.73%) ERwin
5 9 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.31%) MLflow
7 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.24%) JUnit
8 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) JMeter
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.061%) GCC
10 1 (0.061%) Hudson
General
1 507 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 486 (29.65%) Finance
3 392 (23.92%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 107 (6.53%) Banking
6 63 (3.84%) Retail
7 55 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (3.11%) Law
9 50 (3.05%) Manufacturing
10 49 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (2.68%) Marketing
12 34 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.34%) Local Government
13 22 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.28%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.16%) Legal
16 18 (1.10%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 430 (26.24%) Analyst
2 245 (14.95%) Data Engineer
3 242 (14.77%) Developer
4 211 (12.87%) Data Analyst
5 191 (11.65%) Senior
6 182 (11.10%) Architect
7 156 (9.52%) Lead
8 118 (7.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 93 (5.67%) Business Analyst
9 93 (5.67%) Power BI Developer
10 71 (4.33%) Data Architect
11 66 (4.03%) Consultant
12 58 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
13 52 (3.17%) Power Platform Developer
14 49 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 47 (2.87%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.38%) Lead Architect
17 38 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
19 35 (2.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.55%) PySpark
2 54 (3.29%) REST
3 51 (3.11%) .NET
4 32 (1.95%) Kafka
5 25 (1.53%) JSON
6 18 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
6 18 (1.10%) Middleware
6 18 (1.10%) Pandas
6 18 (1.10%) React
7 14 (0.85%) HTML
8 12 (0.73%) CSS
8 12 (0.73%) Great Expectations
8 12 (0.73%) HTML5 Canvas
8 12 (0.73%) XML
9 11 (0.67%) ADO
9 11 (0.67%) YAML
10 8 (0.49%) JDO
11 7 (0.43%) jQuery
11 7 (0.43%) RESTful
11 7 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.70%) Data Structures
2 73 (4.45%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.87%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 43 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 37 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 24 (1.46%) CMDB
9 23 (1.40%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.22%) Clustering
11 19 (1.16%) Low-Code
12 16 (0.98%) FMCG
13 15 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (0.85%) PKI
15 13 (0.79%) IoT
15 13 (0.79%) NHS
15 13 (0.79%) Reference Data
16 12 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (0.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.32%) Windows
2 22 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.55%) Unix
4 8 (0.49%) Linux
5 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.24%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,523 (92.92%) Business Intelligence
2 675 (41.18%) Analytics
3 536 (32.70%) Data Modelling
4 390 (23.79%) Agile
5 346 (21.11%) Decision-Making
5 346 (21.11%) ETL
6 345 (21.05%) Visualisation
7 298 (18.18%) AI
7 298 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (17.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 270 (16.47%) Data Pipeline
10 269 (16.41%) DevOps
10 269 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 266 (16.23%) Migration
12 265 (16.17%) Data Governance
13 258 (15.74%) Data Engineering
14 246 (15.01%) CI/CD
15 233 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 224 (13.67%) Validation
17 210 (12.81%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 768 (46.86%) SQL
2 390 (23.79%) Python
3 191 (11.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 77 (4.70%) PowerShell
5 70 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 66 (4.03%) C#
7 60 (3.66%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.05%) R
9 40 (2.44%) Java
10 24 (1.46%) VBA
11 15 (0.92%) Bicep
11 15 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.92%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.67%) Scala
13 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.31%) C
15 4 (0.24%) Korn
15 4 (0.24%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 298 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 228 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 163 (9.95%) Degree
4 44 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.65%) DBS Check
9 22 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 13 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 11 (0.67%) PMP
15 8 (0.49%) ACCA
16 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.43%) CISSP
17 6 (0.37%) CIMA
17 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
18 5 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 393 (23.98%) Data Quality
2 109 (6.65%) GDPR
3 85 (5.19%) PMO
4 72 (4.39%) QA
5 33 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.10%) SLA
7 16 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.61%) GRC
8 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.37%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
14 2 (0.12%) Basel III
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
14 2 (0.12%) NIST
15 1 (0.061%) MiFID
System Software
1 50 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.67%) Docker
3 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) RACF
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (4.33%) Terraform
2 20 (1.22%) Grafana
3 17 (1.04%) Kubernetes
4 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.49%) Ansible
7 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) SCOM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Kibana
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 1 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.061%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.061%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 584 (35.63%) Microsoft
2 201 (12.26%) Databricks
3 110 (6.71%) SAP
4 92 (5.61%) ServiceNow
5 74 (4.51%) Oracle
6 46 (2.81%) Google
7 43 (2.62%) Informatica
8 32 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.59%) Alteryx
9 26 (1.59%) Remedy
10 24 (1.46%) Splunk
11 21 (1.28%) Workday
12 15 (0.92%) Adobe
13 14 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.85%) IFS
14 13 (0.79%) BMC
14 13 (0.79%) Talend
15 12 (0.73%) Foundry
16 11 (0.67%) Denodo
17 10 (0.61%) Palantir