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

 6 months to
19 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 64 60
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,594 939 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 3.78% 3.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.29% 20.12% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 615 899
10th Percentile £331 £308 £300
25th Percentile £405 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £575
90th Percentile £650 £659 £688
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.58% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 30 29
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.50 £15.98
Median hourly rate £29.98 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +25.22% -40.09%
75th Percentile £43.31 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.98 £53.75 £56.30
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -8.34% +29.51% -36.95%

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 6,562 4,667 6,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.22% 18.76% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,446 3,251 4,673
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £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 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 145
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £25.01 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.49% -13.75% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.56 £65.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.98 £72.10
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.17% -12.50% -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 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 19 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 19 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 +4 809 £500 - 245
South East +14 229 £500 +9.59% 186
Midlands +7 191 £463 -6.09% 118
North of England -27 177 £450 +0.28% 133
West Midlands -12 132 £450 -10.00% 66
North West -3 101 £463 -2.63% 80
South West +14 99 £450 +10.02% 68
Yorkshire -47 61 £438 +3.06% 40
East Midlands +20 58 £470 +7.43% 51
East of England -20 39 £400 -20.00% 47
North East -27 16 £438 -2.78% 15
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
1 127 (7.97%) SharePoint
2 73 (4.58%) Confluence
3 41 (2.57%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.69%) Apache
6 19 (1.19%) SAS
7 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Superset
8 8 (0.50%) HCL Notes
9 7 (0.44%) Mendix
9 7 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.31%) CMS
11 4 (0.25%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.19%) Kentico
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.063%) Appian
14 1 (0.063%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 311 (19.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (4.14%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.063%) CATIA
9 1 (0.063%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.063%) InDesign
9 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (1.00%) iTrent
5 8 (0.50%) Primavera
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.38%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,594 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 590 (37.01%) Azure
3 212 (13.30%) AWS
4 160 (10.04%) Power Automate
5 144 (9.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 139 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
6 139 (8.72%) PowerApps
7 124 (7.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 112 (7.03%) Snowflake
9 107 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
10 94 (5.90%) Dynamics 365
11 79 (4.96%) GCP
11 79 (4.96%) Serverless
12 75 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
13 60 (3.76%) GitHub
14 58 (3.64%) dbt
15 57 (3.58%) Amazon S3
16 45 (2.82%) Copilot Studio
17 44 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
18 43 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.94%) Firewall
2 12 (0.75%) VPN
3 9 (0.56%) DNS
4 4 (0.25%) Network Security
5 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.13%) 4G
6 2 (0.13%) 5G
6 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 2 (0.13%) Intranet
6 2 (0.13%) LTE
6 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
6 2 (0.13%) MPLS
6 2 (0.13%) NAS
6 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.13%) SAN
6 2 (0.13%) SMTP
6 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (16.25%) Data Warehouse
2 256 (16.06%) Tableau
3 154 (9.66%) Data Lake
4 119 (7.47%) Power Query
4 119 (7.47%) SQL Server
5 74 (4.64%) Metadata
6 56 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 55 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (3.39%) Star Schema
9 52 (3.26%) Relational Database
10 50 (3.14%) Looker
11 45 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 35 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (2.20%) BigQuery
14 34 (2.13%) Spark SQL
15 29 (1.82%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.82%) NoSQL
15 29 (1.82%) Semantic Layer
16 26 (1.63%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 139 (8.72%) JIRA
2 70 (4.39%) Git
3 29 (1.82%) GitLab
4 14 (0.88%) ERwin
5 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.31%) MLflow
6 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.25%) JUnit
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Postman
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.063%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.063%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 489 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 487 (30.55%) Finance
3 365 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 108 (6.78%) Banking
6 61 (3.83%) Retail
7 52 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.07%) Law
9 46 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (2.51%) Marketing
11 37 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 31 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.32%) Local Government
16 20 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.13%) Legal
18 17 (1.07%) Financial Institution
19 15 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 418 (26.22%) Analyst
2 262 (16.44%) Data Engineer
3 221 (13.86%) Developer
4 199 (12.48%) Data Analyst
5 194 (12.17%) Senior
6 175 (10.98%) Architect
7 145 (9.10%) Lead
8 114 (7.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 90 (5.65%) Power BI Developer
10 84 (5.27%) Business Analyst
11 72 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
12 68 (4.27%) Consultant
13 63 (3.95%) Data Architect
14 47 (2.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 47 (2.95%) Project Manager
15 39 (2.45%) Lead Architect
15 39 (2.45%) Power Platform Developer
16 36 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
17 35 (2.20%) Senior Developer
18 34 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (6.09%) PySpark
2 54 (3.39%) REST
3 37 (2.32%) .NET
4 35 (2.20%) Kafka
5 22 (1.38%) JSON
5 22 (1.38%) Pandas
6 20 (1.25%) React
7 19 (1.19%) HTML
7 19 (1.19%) Middleware
8 15 (0.94%) CSS
9 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
10 13 (0.82%) Great Expectations
10 13 (0.82%) XML
10 13 (0.82%) YAML
11 12 (0.75%) ADO
11 12 (0.75%) HTML5 Canvas
12 8 (0.50%) JDO
13 7 (0.44%) RESTful
13 7 (0.44%) Spark Streaming
13 7 (0.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 72 (4.52%) Cloud Native
2 67 (4.20%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 43 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (1.44%) CMDB
9 21 (1.32%) Low-Code
10 18 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 16 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.88%) Clustering
13 12 (0.75%) FMCG
13 12 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.75%) IoT
13 12 (0.75%) NHS
13 12 (0.75%) PKI
14 11 (0.69%) Reference Data
15 10 (0.63%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.01%) Windows
2 17 (1.07%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.56%) Unix
4 8 (0.50%) Linux
5 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.25%) Android
6 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,484 (93.10%) Business Intelligence
2 671 (42.10%) Analytics
3 526 (33.00%) Data Modelling
4 370 (23.21%) Agile
5 353 (22.15%) ETL
6 334 (20.95%) Decision-Making
7 333 (20.89%) Visualisation
8 289 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
9 285 (17.88%) AI
10 263 (16.50%) Data Engineering
11 262 (16.44%) Data Pipeline
11 262 (16.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 258 (16.19%) Data Governance
13 253 (15.87%) DevOps
14 238 (14.93%) Migration
15 237 (14.87%) Stakeholder Management
16 235 (14.74%) CI/CD
17 223 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 208 (13.05%) Data Visualisation
19 202 (12.67%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 751 (47.11%) SQL
2 391 (24.53%) Python
3 187 (11.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 67 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 64 (4.02%) C#
7 57 (3.58%) T-SQL
8 51 (3.20%) R
9 43 (2.70%) Java
10 26 (1.63%) VBA
11 20 (1.25%) Bicep
12 15 (0.94%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.75%) Scala
14 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.31%) C
16 5 (0.31%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.31%) LotusScript
17 4 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 275 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 215 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 146 (9.16%) Degree
4 39 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.69%) DBS Check
8 21 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.19%) PMI Certification
10 18 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.07%) PMP
12 12 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.38%) ACCA
14 6 (0.38%) CISSP
15 5 (0.31%) MBA
15 5 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
15 5 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (23.78%) Data Quality
2 113 (7.09%) GDPR
3 92 (5.77%) PMO
4 72 (4.52%) QA
5 30 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (1.00%) SLA
7 14 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.69%) GRC
9 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.44%) Basel III
11 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.31%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.25%) P3O
14 3 (0.19%) GAAP
14 3 (0.19%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) NCSC
15 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.32%) Docker
3 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.063%) RACF
5 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (4.77%) Terraform
2 25 (1.57%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.13%) Grafana
4 13 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.56%) SCCM
6 7 (0.44%) Ansible
7 5 (0.31%) Control-M
7 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.063%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.063%) Kibana
10 1 (0.063%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.063%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.063%) WSUS
Vendors
1 546 (34.25%) Microsoft
2 201 (12.61%) Databricks
3 100 (6.27%) SAP
4 84 (5.27%) ServiceNow
5 75 (4.71%) Oracle
6 49 (3.07%) Google
7 43 (2.70%) Informatica
8 29 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.57%) Workday
10 22 (1.38%) Remedy
11 20 (1.25%) Splunk
12 18 (1.13%) Alteryx
13 15 (0.94%) Adobe
13 15 (0.94%) Foundry
14 14 (0.88%) IFS
14 14 (0.88%) Talend
15 12 (0.75%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.69%) Denodo
17 10 (0.63%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.63%) Palantir
688 Power BI jobs in England