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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,520 910 1,207
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 3.79% 3.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.03% 19.83% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 594 860
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £404 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £575
90th Percentile £650 £654 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 30 27
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £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 £38.25 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.84 £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 6,325 4,590 6,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.14% 19.13% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,304 3,183 4,494
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 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 91 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £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 £73.75 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £33.88 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.44% -15.30% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +3 776 £500 - 333
South East +22 214 £475 +2.70% 187
Midlands -4 187 £463 -3.65% 104
North of England -37 155 £463 +2.78% 170
West Midlands -22 126 £459 -8.20% 62
South West +5 93 £450 +5.88% 66
North West 0 85 £478 -3.29% 96
East Midlands +17 60 £463 - 42
Yorkshire -59 55 £438 +3.06% 54
East of England -20 41 £400 -20.00% 42
North East -20 16 £450 - 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
1 118 (7.76%) SharePoint
2 66 (4.34%) Confluence
3 46 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.97%) Apache
5 27 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (1.18%) SAS
7 12 (0.79%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.66%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
9 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.39%) CMS
11 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.26%) IIS
13 3 (0.20%) Kentico
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 291 (19.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.78%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.26%) Revit
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) Notion
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.066%) CATIA
8 1 (0.066%) InDesign
8 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.99%) 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 (0.066%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,520 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 555 (36.51%) Azure
3 194 (12.76%) AWS
4 148 (9.74%) Power Automate
5 147 (9.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 136 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (8.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (8.36%) PowerApps
9 107 (7.04%) Snowflake
10 105 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
11 84 (5.53%) Dynamics 365
12 81 (5.33%) GCP
13 71 (4.67%) Serverless
14 70 (4.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 62 (4.08%) GitHub
16 53 (3.49%) dbt
17 52 (3.42%) Amazon S3
18 43 (2.83%) Copilot Studio
19 40 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
20 39 (2.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.99%) Firewall
2 12 (0.79%) 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
1 249 (16.38%) Data Warehouse
2 247 (16.25%) Tableau
3 152 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 120 (7.89%) SQL Server
5 103 (6.78%) Power Query
6 69 (4.54%) Metadata
7 56 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 47 (3.09%) Looker
9 47 (3.09%) Star Schema
10 46 (3.03%) Relational Database
11 41 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
12 37 (2.43%) BigQuery
12 37 (2.43%) Spark SQL
13 35 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
14 33 (2.17%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.97%) NoSQL
16 29 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (1.58%) Mixpanel
18 22 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 133 (8.75%) JIRA
2 67 (4.41%) Git
3 25 (1.64%) GitLab
4 14 (0.92%) ERwin
5 9 (0.59%) 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%) JUnit
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 (0.066%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.066%) SoapUI
General
1 461 (30.33%) Finance
2 450 (29.61%) Social Skills
3 347 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.58%) Banking
6 56 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.22%) Retail
8 48 (3.16%) Law
9 44 (2.89%) Marketing
10 43 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.32%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.25%) Local Government
15 19 (1.25%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.18%) Legal
17 16 (1.05%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.99%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 406 (26.71%) Analyst
2 255 (16.78%) Data Engineer
3 196 (12.89%) Developer
4 187 (12.30%) Data Analyst
5 184 (12.11%) Senior
6 162 (10.66%) Architect
7 147 (9.67%) Lead
8 99 (6.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 86 (5.66%) Business Analyst
10 74 (4.87%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.54%) Consultant
12 67 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
13 57 (3.75%) Data Architect
14 46 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 45 (2.96%) Project Manager
16 40 (2.63%) Lead Architect
17 36 (2.37%) Power Platform Developer
17 36 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
18 33 (2.17%) Power BI Analyst
18 33 (2.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.92%) PySpark
2 50 (3.29%) REST
3 38 (2.50%) Kafka
4 34 (2.24%) .NET
5 24 (1.58%) Pandas
6 19 (1.25%) HTML
6 19 (1.25%) JSON
6 19 (1.25%) React
7 16 (1.05%) Middleware
8 15 (0.99%) Great Expectations
8 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
9 14 (0.92%) CSS
10 13 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (0.86%) YAML
11 12 (0.79%) ADO
11 12 (0.79%) XML
12 8 (0.53%) JDO
12 8 (0.53%) PyTorch
12 8 (0.53%) Spark Streaming
12 8 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.49%) Data Structures
3 49 (3.22%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.43%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (1.51%) Low-Code
9 22 (1.45%) CMDB
10 18 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.86%) Clustering
13 12 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.79%) IoT
13 12 (0.79%) PKI
14 11 (0.72%) NHS
14 11 (0.72%) PMI
14 11 (0.72%) Reference Data
15 10 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.97%) Windows
2 17 (1.12%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.59%) Unix
4 8 (0.53%) Linux
5 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.26%) Android
6 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,409 (92.70%) Business Intelligence
2 623 (40.99%) Analytics
3 500 (32.89%) Data Modelling
4 353 (23.22%) Agile
5 342 (22.50%) ETL
6 310 (20.39%) Decision-Making
7 308 (20.26%) Visualisation
8 271 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
9 254 (16.71%) Data Engineering
9 254 (16.71%) Data Pipeline
10 252 (16.58%) Data Governance
11 251 (16.51%) AI
12 250 (16.45%) DevOps
13 245 (16.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 227 (14.93%) CI/CD
15 218 (14.34%) Migration
16 212 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 210 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
18 191 (12.57%) Actionable Insight
18 191 (12.57%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 722 (47.50%) SQL
2 374 (24.61%) Python
3 166 (10.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (4.47%) PowerShell
5 56 (3.68%) C#
6 54 (3.55%) JavaScript
7 52 (3.42%) T-SQL
8 49 (3.22%) R
9 40 (2.63%) Java
10 25 (1.64%) VBA
11 20 (1.32%) Bicep
12 14 (0.92%) Scala
13 12 (0.79%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.72%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.53%) Formula Language
15 8 (0.53%) LotusScript
16 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.39%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.33%) C
18 4 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 258 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 199 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 133 (8.75%) Degree
4 37 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 22 (1.45%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.38%) PMP
10 19 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.66%) 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 (23.62%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.91%) GDPR
3 83 (5.46%) PMO
4 76 (5.00%) QA
5 31 (2.04%) 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 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.51%) 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 (0.066%) RACF
5 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.87%) Terraform
2 27 (1.78%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.18%) Grafana
4 10 (0.66%) 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 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.066%) Kibana
10 1 (0.066%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.066%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 505 (33.22%) Microsoft
2 201 (13.22%) Databricks
3 93 (6.12%) SAP
4 78 (5.13%) Oracle
5 77 (5.07%) ServiceNow
6 51 (3.36%) Google
7 38 (2.50%) Informatica
8 25 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.58%) Workday
10 22 (1.45%) Remedy
11 20 (1.32%) Splunk
12 14 (0.92%) Alteryx
12 14 (0.92%) Foundry
12 14 (0.92%) IFS
13 13 (0.86%) Talend
14 12 (0.79%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.79%) Lotus
15 11 (0.72%) Adobe
15 11 (0.72%) Denodo
16 10 (0.66%) BMC