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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,675 1,055 1,094
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.68% 3.79% 3.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.00% 20.89% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 690 791
10th Percentile £331 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +2.63% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 25 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.08 £20.08
25th Percentile £21.79 £23.00 £25.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -10.60%
75th Percentile £46.00 £34.68 £39.20
90th Percentile £77.62 £51.25 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -10.60%

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 6,979 5,051 6,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.32% 18.15% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,672 3,507 4,358
10th Percentile £358 £343 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £703 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 79 93
10th Percentile £15.28 £18.69 £14.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.65 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.60% -31.82%
75th Percentile £67.47 £62.88 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.74 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +8 862 £500 - 445
Midlands +12 215 £464 +9.12% 138
North of England -12 213 £450 +0.67% 182
South East -16 210 £488 +6.85% 215
West Midlands -2 153 £459 +8.00% 82
North West -4 117 £485 +2.11% 100
South West -10 94 £450 +12.50% 73
Yorkshire -26 79 £440 +10.00% 63
East Midlands +25 61 £464 +9.12% 56
East of England -14 38 £500 -13.79% 43
North East -27 21 £390 -13.33% 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
1 156 (9.31%) SharePoint
2 66 (3.94%) Confluence
3 31 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.49%) Apache
6 23 (1.37%) SAS
7 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.66%) ArcGIS
9 9 (0.54%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.30%) Mendix
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.24%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.24%) CMS
12 4 (0.24%) IIS
13 3 (0.18%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.18%) Kentico
14 1 (0.060%) Appian
14 1 (0.060%) Camunda
14 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 312 (18.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.40%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.54%) Navisworks
6 9 (0.54%) Revit
7 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.30%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.30%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.060%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.060%) InDesign
10 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 41 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.96%) iTrent
5 13 (0.78%) Primavera
6 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.42%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
10 4 (0.24%) Maximo
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
12 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
12 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,675 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 638 (38.09%) Azure
3 208 (12.42%) AWS
4 196 (11.70%) Power Automate
5 169 (10.09%) PowerApps
6 157 (9.37%) Azure DevOps
7 138 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 132 (7.88%) Snowflake
9 124 (7.40%) Dynamics 365
10 115 (6.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 111 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
12 89 (5.31%) Microsoft Copilot
13 78 (4.66%) Serverless
14 70 (4.18%) dbt
15 68 (4.06%) GCP
16 63 (3.76%) GitHub
17 55 (3.28%) Amazon S3
18 48 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
18 48 (2.87%) Entra ID
19 46 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.01%) Firewall
2 13 (0.78%) VPN
3 10 (0.60%) DNS
4 7 (0.42%) SSL
5 4 (0.24%) Broadband
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G
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%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) SMTP
7 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
7 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (16.48%) Data Warehouse
2 257 (15.34%) Tableau
3 144 (8.60%) Data Lake
4 130 (7.76%) SQL Server
5 124 (7.40%) Power Query
6 78 (4.66%) Metadata
7 69 (4.12%) Star Schema
8 66 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.16%) Looker
10 51 (3.04%) Relational Database
11 47 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 39 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
12 39 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.15%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (1.97%) BigQuery
14 33 (1.97%) NoSQL
14 33 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 32 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
16 26 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
17 24 (1.43%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 141 (8.42%) JIRA
2 69 (4.12%) Git
3 30 (1.79%) GitLab
4 12 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.48%) ERwin
6 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.30%) MLflow
8 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.24%) JUnit
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.18%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.12%) JMeter
10 2 (0.12%) Postman
10 2 (0.12%) Selenium
10 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 534 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 498 (29.73%) Finance
3 412 (24.60%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 109 (6.51%) Banking
6 68 (4.06%) Retail
7 55 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 55 (3.28%) Law
8 54 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 46 (2.75%) Marketing
11 43 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.55%) Local Government
14 23 (1.37%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.19%) Telecoms
17 16 (0.96%) Front Office
17 16 (0.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 431 (25.73%) Analyst
2 249 (14.87%) Developer
3 230 (13.73%) Data Engineer
4 216 (12.90%) Data Analyst
5 203 (12.12%) Senior
6 188 (11.22%) Architect
7 161 (9.61%) Lead
8 123 (7.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 96 (5.73%) Power BI Developer
10 90 (5.37%) Business Analyst
11 76 (4.54%) Data Architect
12 74 (4.42%) Consultant
13 56 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
14 51 (3.04%) Power Platform Developer
15 50 (2.99%) Project Manager
16 48 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 45 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
18 39 (2.33%) Lead Architect
18 39 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
19 38 (2.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (5.31%) PySpark
2 62 (3.70%) .NET
2 62 (3.70%) REST
3 29 (1.73%) Kafka
4 24 (1.43%) JSON
5 22 (1.31%) React
6 20 (1.19%) Middleware
7 19 (1.13%) HTML
8 18 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
9 16 (0.96%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (0.84%) CSS
10 14 (0.84%) Pandas
11 11 (0.66%) ADO
12 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.48%) Great Expectations
12 8 (0.48%) XML
12 8 (0.48%) YAML
13 7 (0.42%) EDI
13 7 (0.42%) JDO
13 7 (0.42%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.48%) Data Structures
2 72 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 56 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 53 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 49 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (1.67%) Clustering
9 22 (1.31%) CMDB
9 22 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.19%) AI Agents
10 20 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 18 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.07%) FMCG
12 14 (0.84%) PKI
13 13 (0.78%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.78%) NHS
13 13 (0.78%) Reference Data
13 13 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.93%) Windows
2 25 (1.49%) Windows Server
3 12 (0.72%) Linux
4 10 (0.60%) Unix
5 9 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.24%) Android
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.12%) VMS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,564 (93.37%) Business Intelligence
2 689 (41.13%) Analytics
3 544 (32.48%) Data Modelling
4 415 (24.78%) Agile
5 366 (21.85%) Decision-Making
6 354 (21.13%) ETL
7 337 (20.12%) Visualisation
8 320 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 318 (18.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 311 (18.57%) AI
11 304 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
12 297 (17.73%) Migration
13 292 (17.43%) DevOps
14 280 (16.72%) Data Pipeline
15 275 (16.42%) CI/CD
16 269 (16.06%) Data Governance
17 267 (15.94%) Data Engineering
18 251 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
19 238 (14.21%) Validation
20 202 (12.06%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 795 (47.46%) SQL
2 398 (23.76%) Python
3 199 (11.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 88 (5.25%) JavaScript
5 87 (5.19%) PowerShell
6 73 (4.36%) C#
7 62 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 46 (2.75%) Java
9 45 (2.69%) R
10 23 (1.37%) VBA
11 19 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 16 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.78%) Bicep
14 9 (0.54%) Scala
15 6 (0.36%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.30%) Korn
16 5 (0.30%) X++
17 4 (0.24%) Bash
17 4 (0.24%) C
Qualifications
1 320 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 245 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 163 (9.73%) Degree
4 42 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 39 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.19%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.90%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 10 (0.60%) PMP
14 9 (0.54%) ACCA
15 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.42%) CIMA
15 7 (0.42%) CISSP
16 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (23.58%) Data Quality
2 101 (6.03%) GDPR
3 80 (4.78%) PMO
4 77 (4.60%) QA
5 33 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.78%) GRC
6 13 (0.78%) SLA
7 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.60%) ISO 19650
9 9 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) P3O
12 3 (0.18%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.12%) Basel III
13 2 (0.12%) COBIT
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.84%) Docker
3 13 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.060%) RACF
7 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 66 (3.94%) Terraform
2 21 (1.25%) Grafana
3 20 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.66%) Ansible
5 11 (0.66%) SCOM
6 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.42%) SCCM
7 4 (0.24%) Control-M
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Kibana
9 2 (0.12%) Nessus
10 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 635 (37.91%) Microsoft
2 213 (12.72%) Databricks
3 113 (6.75%) SAP
4 98 (5.85%) ServiceNow
5 81 (4.84%) Oracle
6 44 (2.63%) Google
7 43 (2.57%) Informatica
8 32 (1.91%) Remedy
9 31 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 27 (1.61%) Alteryx
11 23 (1.37%) Splunk
12 22 (1.31%) Workday
13 20 (1.19%) BMC
14 16 (0.96%) Adobe
14 16 (0.96%) Denodo
15 14 (0.84%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.84%) IFS
16 13 (0.78%) VMware
17 11 (0.66%) Foundry
18 10 (0.60%) Talend