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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 61 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,501 915 1,210
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 3.76% 3.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.09% 19.72% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 612 867
10th Percentile £314 £313 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £583
90th Percentile £645 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 25 27
10th Percentile £15.51 £18.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £24.75 £18.33
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +25.22% -55.78%
75th Percentile £38.25 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.12 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £23.21 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -26.64% +29.51% -52.13%

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 6,230 4,641 6,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 19.08% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,279 3,242 4,505
10th Percentile £350 £363 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £653 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 87 134
10th Percentile £14.58 £20.21 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.97 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.05 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +40.41% -20.12% -30.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £58.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £47.54 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +40.63% -15.49% -31.73%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -2 758 £500 +1.32% 303
South East +12 211 £500 +5.26% 208
Midlands -2 188 £450 -10.00% 98
North of England -32 154 £450 - 149
West Midlands -19 126 £450 -10.00% 62
South West +9 92 £450 +5.88% 55
North West -6 86 £463 -7.50% 90
East Midlands +12 61 £450 -7.69% 36
Yorkshire -44 55 £439 +3.29% 46
East of England -19 40 £413 -17.50% 50
North East -15 14 £475 +5.56% 15
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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
1 126 (8.39%) SharePoint
2 68 (4.53%) Confluence
3 50 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.00%) Apache
5 23 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.07%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.87%) SAS
8 12 (0.80%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.27%) IIS
13 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.20%) CMS
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.067%) Appian
15 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 294 (19.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.80%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (2.00%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.27%) Revit
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.067%) CATIA
10 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.067%) InDesign
10 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 18 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (1.00%) iTrent
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.27%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
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 (0.067%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1,501 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 546 (36.38%) Azure
3 188 (12.52%) AWS
4 167 (11.13%) Power Automate
5 152 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 139 (9.26%) PowerApps
7 134 (8.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 133 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
9 120 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
10 94 (6.26%) Snowflake
11 91 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
12 87 (5.80%) GCP
13 70 (4.66%) Serverless
14 65 (4.33%) Microsoft Copilot
15 61 (4.06%) GitHub
16 50 (3.33%) Amazon S3
17 44 (2.93%) Copilot Studio
17 44 (2.93%) dbt
18 40 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
19 38 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.87%) Firewall
2 12 (0.80%) VPN
3 8 (0.53%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) Network Security
4 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) HTTP
5 2 (0.13%) Internet
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%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (17.26%) Tableau
2 229 (15.26%) Data Warehouse
3 142 (9.46%) Data Lake
4 117 (7.79%) SQL Server
5 98 (6.53%) Power Query
6 71 (4.73%) Metadata
7 55 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (3.46%) Looker
10 48 (3.20%) BigQuery
11 45 (3.00%) Star Schema
12 42 (2.80%) Relational Database
13 38 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
14 37 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
15 35 (2.33%) Spark SQL
16 33 (2.20%) Delta Lake
17 30 (2.00%) NoSQL
18 29 (1.93%) Mixpanel
19 26 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
20 24 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 132 (8.79%) JIRA
2 69 (4.60%) Git
3 24 (1.60%) GitLab
4 14 (0.93%) ERwin
5 9 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
6 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.067%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.067%) GCC
10 1 (0.067%) Hudson
General
1 464 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 459 (30.58%) Finance
3 354 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 91 (6.06%) Banking
6 52 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.26%) Law
8 46 (3.06%) Marketing
8 46 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (3.00%) Retail
10 29 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.27%) Legal
13 19 (1.27%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.13%) Local Government
16 14 (0.93%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.80%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 398 (26.52%) Analyst
2 247 (16.46%) Data Engineer
3 195 (12.99%) Developer
4 186 (12.39%) Data Analyst
5 182 (12.13%) Senior
6 154 (10.26%) Architect
7 141 (9.39%) Lead
8 94 (6.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 91 (6.06%) Business Analyst
10 72 (4.80%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.60%) Consultant
12 62 (4.13%) Senior Data Engineer
13 53 (3.53%) Data Architect
14 45 (3.00%) Project Manager
15 42 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 39 (2.60%) Power Platform Developer
17 38 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
18 36 (2.40%) Lead Architect
19 33 (2.20%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.00%) PySpark
2 47 (3.13%) REST
3 42 (2.80%) Kafka
4 32 (2.13%) .NET
5 24 (1.60%) Pandas
6 20 (1.33%) JSON
6 20 (1.33%) React
7 18 (1.20%) Great Expectations
8 17 (1.13%) HTML
9 14 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (0.87%) ADO
10 13 (0.87%) Middleware
10 13 (0.87%) YAML
11 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
11 11 (0.73%) XML
12 10 (0.67%) CSS
12 10 (0.67%) scikit-learn
12 10 (0.67%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (0.60%) PyTorch
13 9 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 67 (4.46%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.80%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 28 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.73%) Low-Code
9 21 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.20%) CMDB
11 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 14 (0.93%) Clustering
12 14 (0.93%) PMI
12 14 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.67%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.67%) NHS
16 9 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.73%) Windows
2 15 (1.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.33%) Unix
5 4 (0.27%) Linux
5 4 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.067%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,400 (93.27%) Business Intelligence
2 605 (40.31%) Analytics
3 495 (32.98%) Data Modelling
4 349 (23.25%) Agile
5 327 (21.79%) ETL
6 319 (21.25%) Decision-Making
7 302 (20.12%) Visualisation
8 273 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (17.72%) Data Governance
10 247 (16.46%) Data Engineering
11 244 (16.26%) DevOps
12 237 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
13 234 (15.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 227 (15.12%) AI
15 218 (14.52%) Migration
16 217 (14.46%) CI/CD
17 203 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
18 195 (12.99%) Actionable Insight
18 195 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
19 186 (12.39%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 697 (46.44%) SQL
2 383 (25.52%) Python
3 167 (11.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 63 (4.20%) C#
5 62 (4.13%) PowerShell
5 62 (4.13%) R
6 55 (3.66%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.20%) T-SQL
8 38 (2.53%) Java
9 30 (2.00%) VBA
10 20 (1.33%) Bicep
11 19 (1.27%) Scala
12 13 (0.87%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.67%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.67%) LotusScript
14 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.27%) C
16 4 (0.27%) Korn
17 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 257 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 199 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 141 (9.39%) Degree
4 36 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (1.73%) PMI Certification
8 24 (1.60%) PMP
9 22 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 14 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 9 (0.60%) MBA
14 7 (0.47%) CBAP
14 7 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
15 6 (0.40%) ACCA
16 5 (0.33%) CISSP
16 5 (0.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (24.45%) Data Quality
2 111 (7.40%) GDPR
3 88 (5.86%) PMO
4 82 (5.46%) QA
5 34 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.07%) SLA
7 14 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.73%) GRC
10 10 (0.67%) Basel III
11 8 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
14 4 (0.27%) P3O
14 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.20%) GAAP
15 3 (0.20%) IFRS
15 3 (0.20%) NCSC
16 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 37 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.87%) Docker
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.067%) RACF
5 1 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.93%) Terraform
2 34 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.13%) Grafana
4 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.47%) SCCM
6 5 (0.33%) Ansible
7 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.067%) Kibana
10 1 (0.067%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.067%) WSUS
Vendors
1 494 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 205 (13.66%) Databricks
3 88 (5.86%) SAP
4 86 (5.73%) Oracle
5 78 (5.20%) ServiceNow
6 58 (3.86%) Google
7 37 (2.47%) Informatica
8 26 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.53%) Workday
10 20 (1.33%) Remedy
11 17 (1.13%) Splunk
12 16 (1.07%) Lotus
13 15 (1.00%) Foundry
14 14 (0.93%) IFS
14 14 (0.93%) Talend
15 12 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.80%) Kofax
16 11 (0.73%) Adobe
16 11 (0.73%) Denodo
16 11 (0.73%) Dynatrace
770 Power BI jobs in England