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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,466 933 1,197
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.85% 3.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.05% 20.30% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 654 849
10th Percentile £319 £313 £311
25th Percentile £400 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £493 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.68% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 34
10th Percentile £14.52 £18.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £24.94 £14.67
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.84 £22.86
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +26.15% -59.86%
75th Percentile £39.50 £32.27 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.12 £48.03 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £24.22 £28.84 £23.22
% change year-on-year -16.00% +24.21% -58.84%

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 6,095 4,595 6,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.97% 18.95% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,246 3,243 4,420
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 £665
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 89 146
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.53 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.88 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.44% -17.98% -31.91%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £84.80 £71.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -33.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +2 794 £500 - 258
South East -1 174 £500 +8.11% 212
Midlands -18 154 £450 -5.66% 126
North of England -40 146 £450 -4.00% 176
West Midlands -30 99 £450 -7.22% 72
North West -28 80 £438 -16.67% 90
South West +4 76 £475 +5.56% 70
East Midlands +2 54 £393 -17.32% 54
Yorkshire -40 54 £450 +9.76% 63
East of England -10 49 £488 -2.50% 57
North East -5 12 £475 +5.56% 29
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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
1 128 (8.73%) SharePoint
2 60 (4.09%) Confluence
3 53 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 34 (2.32%) Apache
5 28 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.02%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.68%) Mendix
8 8 (0.55%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.34%) SAS
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.068%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 292 (19.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (2.11%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.20%) Notion
7 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.20%) Trello
8 1 (0.068%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.068%) CATIA
8 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.068%) InDesign
8 1 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 40 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.48%) iTrent
6 6 (0.41%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.27%) Primavera
8 4 (0.27%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.20%) BambooHR
9 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
9 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,466 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 559 (38.13%) Azure
3 199 (13.57%) AWS
4 182 (12.41%) Power Automate
5 157 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 154 (10.50%) PowerApps
7 131 (8.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 122 (8.32%) Azure DevOps
8 122 (8.32%) Microsoft 365
9 114 (7.78%) Dynamics 365
10 104 (7.09%) GCP
11 101 (6.89%) Snowflake
12 73 (4.98%) Serverless
13 69 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
14 57 (3.89%) GitHub
15 47 (3.21%) Copilot Studio
16 46 (3.14%) Amazon S3
17 43 (2.93%) dbt
18 40 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
19 38 (2.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.61%) Firewall
1 9 (0.61%) VPN
2 4 (0.27%) 5G
2 4 (0.27%) DNS
2 4 (0.27%) HTTP
2 4 (0.27%) LTE
3 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.20%) Network Security
3 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.14%) 2G
4 2 (0.14%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.14%) 5G NR
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) Intranet
4 2 (0.14%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (0.14%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.14%) MPLS
4 2 (0.14%) SMTP
4 2 (0.14%) VoIP
4 2 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (17.53%) Tableau
2 210 (14.32%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (9.00%) Data Lake
4 111 (7.57%) SQL Server
5 89 (6.07%) Power Query
6 73 (4.98%) Metadata
7 58 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 57 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 54 (3.68%) BigQuery
10 50 (3.41%) Looker
11 40 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
12 39 (2.66%) Delta Lake
12 39 (2.66%) Relational Database
13 38 (2.59%) Star Schema
14 33 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 30 (2.05%) NoSQL
16 29 (1.98%) Mixpanel
17 27 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (1.84%) Spark SQL
18 25 (1.71%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 122 (8.32%) JIRA
2 74 (5.05%) Git
3 17 (1.16%) GitLab
4 13 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.82%) ERwin
6 6 (0.41%) MLflow
6 6 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.27%) Postman
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.14%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.14%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.068%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.068%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.068%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 473 (32.26%) Finance
2 462 (31.51%) Social Skills
3 355 (24.22%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.44%) Banking
6 48 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (3.14%) Law
8 45 (3.07%) Retail
9 44 (3.00%) Marketing
10 37 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.16%) Legal
17 14 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.95%) Front Office
18 13 (0.89%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 388 (26.47%) Analyst
2 232 (15.83%) Data Engineer
3 208 (14.19%) Developer
4 177 (12.07%) Senior
5 168 (11.46%) Data Analyst
6 159 (10.85%) Lead
7 142 (9.69%) Architect
8 99 (6.75%) Business Analyst
9 88 (6.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 73 (4.98%) Consultant
11 64 (4.37%) Power BI Developer
12 50 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
13 45 (3.07%) Data Architect
13 45 (3.07%) Senior Data Engineer
14 44 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 41 (2.80%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.66%) PMO Analyst
17 36 (2.46%) Lead Architect
18 35 (2.39%) Power Platform Developer
19 32 (2.18%) Functional Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (5.39%) PySpark
2 45 (3.07%) Kafka
3 43 (2.93%) REST
4 33 (2.25%) .NET
5 32 (2.18%) Pandas
6 23 (1.57%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.43%) JSON
8 20 (1.36%) Great Expectations
8 20 (1.36%) HTML
9 18 (1.23%) React
10 17 (1.16%) NumPy
11 16 (1.09%) PyTorch
11 16 (1.09%) TensorFlow
12 15 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
12 15 (1.02%) XML
13 14 (0.95%) YAML
14 13 (0.89%) Spark Streaming
15 12 (0.82%) ADO
15 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
15 12 (0.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (4.02%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.62%) Data Structures
2 53 (3.62%) Product Ownership
3 37 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 35 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (2.18%) Onboarding
6 27 (1.84%) Low-Code
7 25 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.16%) CMDB
10 16 (1.09%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.09%) PMI
11 13 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.82%) Clustering
13 11 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
13 11 (0.75%) FMCG
14 10 (0.68%) IoT
15 8 (0.55%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.23%) Windows
2 10 (0.68%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.068%) Linux
5 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,372 (93.59%) Business Intelligence
2 591 (40.31%) Analytics
3 468 (31.92%) Data Modelling
4 331 (22.58%) Visualisation
5 322 (21.96%) ETL
6 311 (21.21%) Agile
7 305 (20.80%) Decision-Making
8 279 (19.03%) Data Governance
9 270 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 238 (16.23%) Data Engineering
11 225 (15.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 220 (15.01%) DevOps
13 215 (14.67%) AI
14 213 (14.53%) Data Pipeline
15 212 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 206 (14.05%) Actionable Insight
17 203 (13.85%) CI/CD
18 202 (13.78%) Data Visualisation
19 196 (13.37%) Data Analysis
20 194 (13.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 697 (47.54%) SQL
2 388 (26.47%) Python
3 150 (10.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (4.77%) C#
5 59 (4.02%) R
6 53 (3.62%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.27%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.66%) VBA
9 33 (2.25%) T-SQL
10 29 (1.98%) Java
11 24 (1.64%) Bicep
12 17 (1.16%) Scala
13 12 (0.82%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.75%) Formula Language
14 11 (0.75%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.27%) C
18 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
18 3 (0.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 231 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 178 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 132 (9.00%) Degree
4 32 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.64%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.50%) PMP
10 11 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.75%) MBA
11 8 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.48%) CBAP
13 5 (0.34%) ACCA
13 5 (0.34%) CIMA
13 5 (0.34%) IIBA
14 4 (0.27%) CFA
14 4 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 342 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 113 (7.71%) GDPR
3 97 (6.62%) PMO
4 85 (5.80%) QA
5 38 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.16%) GRC
7 15 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.02%) SLA
8 11 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.75%) Basel III
9 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.27%) NCSC
11 4 (0.27%) P3O
11 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (2.25%) Docker
2 30 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.068%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (5.12%) Terraform
2 40 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.48%) Grafana
5 6 (0.41%) SCCM
6 5 (0.34%) Ansible
6 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.27%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.20%) Control-M
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.14%) Kibana
9 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 1 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.068%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.068%) SCOM
10 1 (0.068%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.068%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.068%) WSUS
Vendors
1 483 (32.95%) Microsoft
2 210 (14.32%) Databricks
3 77 (5.25%) Oracle
4 75 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 72 (4.91%) SAP
6 69 (4.71%) Google
7 38 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.39%) Informatica
9 20 (1.36%) Foundry
10 15 (1.02%) Lotus
10 15 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 14 (0.95%) Sage
11 14 (0.95%) Workday
12 12 (0.82%) Alteryx
12 12 (0.82%) Remedy
12 12 (0.82%) Talend
13 11 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.68%) Kofax
15 9 (0.61%) Planview
16 8 (0.55%) Palantir
815 Power BI jobs in England