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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,530 914 1,211
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.80% 3.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.09% 19.89% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 595 863
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £405 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 30 27
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £23.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -53.17%
75th Percentile £38.06 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.64 £53.75 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £25.78 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -18.54% +29.51% -50.72%

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 6,351 4,595 6,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.14% 19.08% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,319 3,181 4,506
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 91 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.88 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.15% -14.53% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +3 780 £500 - 316
South East +15 215 £475 +2.70% 186
Midlands +1 188 £463 -3.65% 110
North of England -33 159 £462 +2.57% 163
West Midlands -19 127 £459 -8.20% 68
South West +9 94 £450 +5.88% 64
North West -3 87 £475 -2.56% 98
East Midlands +14 60 £463 +5.71% 42
Yorkshire -45 57 £438 +3.06% 49
East of England -16 40 £413 -17.50% 38
North East -20 16 £450 - 19
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
1 118 (7.71%) SharePoint
2 66 (4.31%) Confluence
3 46 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.96%) Apache
5 27 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (1.18%) SAS
7 12 (0.78%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.65%) Mendix
9 8 (0.52%) Apache Superset
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.39%) CMS
11 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.26%) IIS
13 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.20%) Kentico
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.065%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 293 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.86%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.065%) CATIA
9 1 (0.065%) InDesign
9 1 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.98%) iTrent
5 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.39%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
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 (0.065%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,530 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 556 (36.34%) Azure
3 195 (12.75%) AWS
4 148 (9.67%) Power Automate
5 147 (9.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 137 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (8.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (8.30%) PowerApps
9 107 (6.99%) Snowflake
10 105 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
11 84 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
12 82 (5.36%) GCP
13 71 (4.64%) Serverless
14 70 (4.58%) Microsoft Copilot
15 63 (4.12%) GitHub
16 53 (3.46%) dbt
17 52 (3.40%) Amazon S3
18 43 (2.81%) Copilot Studio
19 39 (2.55%) Entra ID
19 39 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.98%) Firewall
2 12 (0.78%) VPN
3 9 (0.59%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.20%) Network Security
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
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%) NAS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SAN
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (16.34%) Data Warehouse
2 247 (16.14%) Tableau
3 152 (9.93%) Data Lake
4 121 (7.91%) SQL Server
5 105 (6.86%) Power Query
6 69 (4.51%) Metadata
7 56 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 48 (3.14%) Star Schema
10 47 (3.07%) Looker
10 47 (3.07%) Relational Database
11 41 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
12 37 (2.42%) BigQuery
12 37 (2.42%) Spark SQL
13 35 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
14 33 (2.16%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.96%) NoSQL
16 29 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (1.57%) Mixpanel
18 22 (1.44%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 133 (8.69%) JIRA
2 68 (4.44%) Git
3 26 (1.70%) GitLab
4 14 (0.92%) ERwin
5 10 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
6 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) JUnit
7 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 3 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.065%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.065%) SoapUI
General
1 470 (30.72%) Finance
2 453 (29.61%) Social Skills
3 349 (22.81%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 103 (6.73%) Banking
6 56 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.27%) Retail
8 48 (3.14%) Law
9 44 (2.88%) Marketing
10 43 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.18%) Legal
16 18 (1.18%) Local Government
17 17 (1.11%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.98%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 406 (26.54%) Analyst
2 255 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 201 (13.14%) Developer
4 188 (12.29%) Senior
5 187 (12.22%) Data Analyst
6 162 (10.59%) Architect
7 147 (9.61%) Lead
8 102 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 86 (5.62%) Business Analyst
10 77 (5.03%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.51%) Consultant
12 67 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
13 57 (3.73%) Data Architect
14 47 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 46 (3.01%) Project Manager
16 40 (2.61%) Lead Architect
17 36 (2.35%) Power Platform Developer
17 36 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
18 35 (2.29%) Senior Developer
19 33 (2.16%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.95%) PySpark
2 51 (3.33%) REST
3 39 (2.55%) Kafka
4 36 (2.35%) .NET
5 24 (1.57%) Pandas
6 21 (1.37%) React
7 20 (1.31%) HTML
8 19 (1.24%) JSON
9 17 (1.11%) Middleware
10 15 (0.98%) CSS
10 15 (0.98%) Great Expectations
10 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (0.85%) YAML
12 12 (0.78%) ADO
12 12 (0.78%) XML
13 8 (0.52%) JDO
13 8 (0.52%) PyTorch
13 8 (0.52%) Spark Streaming
13 8 (0.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.90%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.46%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 31 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 22 (1.44%) CMDB
9 18 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (0.85%) Clustering
12 12 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (0.78%) IoT
12 12 (0.78%) PKI
13 11 (0.72%) NHS
13 11 (0.72%) PMI
13 11 (0.72%) Reference Data
14 10 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.96%) Windows
2 17 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 10 (0.65%) Unix
4 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.52%) Linux
6 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.26%) Android
7 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,419 (92.75%) Business Intelligence
2 626 (40.92%) Analytics
3 503 (32.88%) Data Modelling
4 353 (23.07%) Agile
5 342 (22.35%) ETL
6 312 (20.39%) Decision-Making
7 310 (20.26%) Visualisation
8 272 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 255 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 255 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 251 (16.41%) AI
10 251 (16.41%) DevOps
11 250 (16.34%) Data Governance
12 245 (16.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 230 (15.03%) CI/CD
14 219 (14.31%) Migration
15 213 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 212 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 193 (12.61%) Data Visualisation
18 191 (12.48%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 724 (47.32%) SQL
2 376 (24.58%) Python
3 169 (11.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (4.44%) PowerShell
5 58 (3.79%) C#
6 57 (3.73%) JavaScript
7 52 (3.40%) T-SQL
8 49 (3.20%) R
9 41 (2.68%) Java
10 25 (1.63%) VBA
11 20 (1.31%) Bicep
12 14 (0.92%) Scala
13 13 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.85%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.52%) Formula Language
14 8 (0.52%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.46%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.33%) C
18 4 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 258 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 199 (13.01%) SC Cleared
3 133 (8.69%) Degree
4 37 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 21 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.31%) PMP
10 19 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.39%) ACCA
14 6 (0.39%) CISSP
14 6 (0.39%) MBA
14 6 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
15 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (23.46%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.86%) GDPR
3 84 (5.49%) PMO
4 75 (4.90%) QA
5 31 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.05%) SLA
7 14 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.72%) GRC
9 9 (0.59%) Basel III
10 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) P3O
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 43 (2.81%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.57%) Docker
3 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.065%) RACF
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.84%) Terraform
2 28 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.18%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.59%) SCCM
6 6 (0.39%) Ansible
7 5 (0.33%) Control-M
7 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.065%) Kibana
10 1 (0.065%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.065%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.065%) WSUS
Vendors
1 508 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 200 (13.07%) Databricks
3 92 (6.01%) SAP
4 79 (5.16%) Oracle
5 77 (5.03%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.40%) Google
7 38 (2.48%) Informatica
8 27 (1.76%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.57%) Workday
10 22 (1.44%) Remedy
11 20 (1.31%) Splunk
12 14 (0.92%) Alteryx
12 14 (0.92%) Foundry
12 14 (0.92%) IFS
13 13 (0.85%) Talend
14 12 (0.78%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.78%) Lotus
15 11 (0.72%) Adobe
15 11 (0.72%) Denodo
16 10 (0.65%) BMC