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

 6 months to
1 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 62 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,532 915 1,218
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 3.77% 3.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.18% 19.81% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 598 869
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
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 £562 £575
90th Percentile £645 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -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 £28.78 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +25.22% -55.78%
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% -52.33%

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 6,335 4,618 6,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.15% 19.05% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,318 3,206 4,515
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £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 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.14% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 92 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £22.96 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.85 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% -20.39% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £62.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.63 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +27.75% -17.60% -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 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 1 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 1 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 +7 776 £500 - 371
South East +19 208 £500 +8.11% 185
Midlands -2 195 £459 -3.37% 106
North of England -28 159 £462 +2.57% 171
West Midlands -17 133 £450 -8.63% 68
South West +11 94 £450 +5.88% 63
North West -12 88 £480 -3.25% 95
East Midlands +17 61 £463 - 38
Yorkshire -54 56 £439 +3.29% 55
East of England -17 43 £400 -20.00% 38
North East -18 16 £450 - 24
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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
1 124 (8.09%) SharePoint
2 66 (4.31%) Confluence
3 48 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.02%) Apache
5 28 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.98%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.85%) SAS
8 12 (0.78%) Mendix
9 8 (0.52%) Apache Superset
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.33%) CMS
10 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.26%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) Kentico
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.065%) Appian
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 300 (19.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.72%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Notion
7 4 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
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 32 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 20 (1.31%) 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%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1,532 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 555 (36.23%) Azure
3 194 (12.66%) AWS
4 157 (10.25%) Power Automate
5 152 (9.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 137 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (8.68%) PowerApps
8 131 (8.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 108 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
9 108 (7.05%) Snowflake
10 82 (5.35%) Dynamics 365
10 82 (5.35%) GCP
11 71 (4.63%) Microsoft Copilot
12 68 (4.44%) Serverless
13 62 (4.05%) GitHub
14 52 (3.39%) dbt
15 50 (3.26%) Amazon S3
16 44 (2.87%) Copilot Studio
17 39 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
18 36 (2.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.91%) Firewall
2 11 (0.72%) VPN
3 8 (0.52%) 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
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
1 257 (16.78%) Tableau
2 249 (16.25%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (9.60%) Data Lake
4 126 (8.22%) SQL Server
5 104 (6.79%) Power Query
6 71 (4.63%) Metadata
7 57 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 51 (3.33%) Looker
9 48 (3.13%) Relational Database
10 46 (3.00%) Star Schema
11 41 (2.68%) BigQuery
12 38 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (2.48%) Spark SQL
13 37 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
14 33 (2.15%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.96%) NoSQL
16 27 (1.76%) Mixpanel
16 27 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 26 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 134 (8.75%) JIRA
2 65 (4.24%) Git
3 24 (1.57%) GitLab
4 14 (0.91%) ERwin
5 7 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
6 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
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%) GCC
10 1 (0.065%) Hudson
10 1 (0.065%) SoapUI
General
1 467 (30.48%) Finance
2 460 (30.03%) Social Skills
3 354 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 101 (6.59%) Banking
6 54 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.26%) Law
8 46 (3.00%) Retail
9 44 (2.87%) Marketing
9 44 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.37%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.24%) Local Government
16 18 (1.17%) Legal
16 18 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.04%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.98%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 414 (27.02%) Analyst
2 257 (16.78%) Data Engineer
3 202 (13.19%) Developer
4 193 (12.60%) Data Analyst
5 183 (11.95%) Senior
6 157 (10.25%) Architect
7 142 (9.27%) Lead
8 102 (6.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 90 (5.87%) Business Analyst
10 76 (4.96%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.50%) Consultant
12 67 (4.37%) Senior Data Engineer
13 57 (3.72%) Data Architect
14 46 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 45 (2.94%) Project Manager
16 38 (2.48%) Power Platform Developer
17 36 (2.35%) Lead Architect
18 35 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
19 33 (2.15%) PMO Analyst
19 33 (2.15%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.87%) PySpark
2 51 (3.33%) REST
3 40 (2.61%) Kafka
4 35 (2.28%) .NET
5 25 (1.63%) Pandas
6 21 (1.37%) React
7 19 (1.24%) JSON
8 16 (1.04%) Great Expectations
8 16 (1.04%) HTML
9 14 (0.91%) HTML5 Canvas
9 14 (0.91%) YAML
10 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (0.78%) ADO
11 12 (0.78%) Middleware
11 12 (0.78%) XML
12 11 (0.72%) CSS
13 9 (0.59%) Spark Streaming
14 8 (0.52%) PyTorch
14 8 (0.52%) scikit-learn
14 8 (0.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.57%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.79%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 32 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 27 (1.76%) Low-Code
7 23 (1.50%) CMDB
7 23 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (1.17%) AI Agents
9 15 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (0.85%) Clustering
11 12 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (0.78%) PKI
11 12 (0.78%) PMI
11 12 (0.78%) Reference Data
12 11 (0.72%) NHS
13 10 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.89%) Windows
2 17 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.52%) Linux
5 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.39%) Unix
6 4 (0.26%) Android
7 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,422 (92.82%) Business Intelligence
2 629 (41.06%) Analytics
3 509 (33.22%) Data Modelling
4 352 (22.98%) Agile
5 348 (22.72%) ETL
6 321 (20.95%) Decision-Making
7 320 (20.89%) Visualisation
8 279 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
9 258 (16.84%) Data Engineering
10 254 (16.58%) Data Governance
11 248 (16.19%) AI
12 247 (16.12%) Data Pipeline
12 247 (16.12%) DevOps
13 243 (15.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 222 (14.49%) CI/CD
15 219 (14.30%) Migration
16 216 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 205 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 201 (13.12%) Data Visualisation
19 194 (12.66%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 736 (48.04%) SQL
2 382 (24.93%) Python
3 172 (11.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (4.37%) PowerShell
5 60 (3.92%) C#
6 54 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 53 (3.46%) R
7 53 (3.46%) T-SQL
8 39 (2.55%) Java
9 27 (1.76%) VBA
10 20 (1.31%) Bicep
11 15 (0.98%) Scala
12 12 (0.78%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.65%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.65%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.33%) C
17 4 (0.26%) Korn
18 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 253 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 194 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 135 (8.81%) Degree
4 36 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.44%) PMP
10 20 (1.31%) DBS Check
10 20 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 17 (1.11%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.72%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.39%) ACCA
14 6 (0.39%) CBAP
14 6 (0.39%) CISSP
14 6 (0.39%) MBA
14 6 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
15 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (23.83%) Data Quality
2 108 (7.05%) GDPR
3 84 (5.48%) PMO
4 77 (5.03%) QA
5 34 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.04%) SLA
7 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.91%) 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 40 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.63%) Docker
3 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.065%) RACF
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 73 (4.77%) Terraform
2 29 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.11%) Grafana
4 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.59%) SCCM
5 6 (0.39%) Ansible
6 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.20%) Control-M
7 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
9 1 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.065%) Kibana
9 1 (0.065%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.065%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.065%) WSUS
Vendors
1 506 (33.03%) Microsoft
2 208 (13.58%) Databricks
3 93 (6.07%) SAP
4 79 (5.16%) Oracle
4 79 (5.16%) ServiceNow
5 52 (3.39%) Google
6 37 (2.42%) Informatica
7 26 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.57%) Workday
9 22 (1.44%) Remedy
10 19 (1.24%) Splunk
11 15 (0.98%) Alteryx
11 15 (0.98%) Lotus
12 14 (0.91%) Foundry
12 14 (0.91%) IFS
13 13 (0.85%) Talend
14 12 (0.78%) Kofax
15 11 (0.72%) Adobe
15 11 (0.72%) Denodo
15 11 (0.72%) Dynatrace
865 Power BI jobs in England