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

 6 months to
22 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,344 984 1,234
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 3.81% 3.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.97% 20.42% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 662 879
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £689
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 24 39
10th Percentile £13.29 £24.58 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £15.74
Median hourly rate £23.03 £28.60 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -19.48% +23.20% -61.31%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.04 £64.73 £62.10
UK median hourly rate £24.22 £28.30 £23.22
% change year-on-year -14.41% +21.90% -60.49%

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 5,606 4,819 6,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 18.64% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,901 3,259 4,385
10th Percentile £342 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £660
90th Percentile £700 £776 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 85 156
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.75 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.25 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.66% -10.33% -24.01%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +4 747 £500 -2.44% 230
North of England -35 150 £438 -7.79% 128
South East -13 143 £500 +5.26% 211
Midlands -18 127 £450 -7.22% 131
North West -18 85 £425 -19.05% 80
West Midlands -45 82 £475 -4.04% 84
South West -12 68 £475 +5.56% 49
Yorkshire -44 56 £450 +9.76% 34
East of England -8 47 £525 +20.00% 30
East Midlands 0 45 £356 -14.73% 47
North East -14 9 £475 -1.30% 19
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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
1 125 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.35%) Confluence
3 44 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.08%) Apache
5 21 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.04%) HCL Notes
7 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.67%) Mendix
9 6 (0.45%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.30%) Apache Pig
10 4 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.22%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.074%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 274 (20.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.86%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Notion
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.074%) CATIA
9 1 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.074%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.22%) iTrent
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.22%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,344 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 514 (38.24%) Azure
3 197 (14.66%) Power Automate
4 173 (12.87%) PowerApps
5 164 (12.20%) AWS
6 142 (10.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 120 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
8 110 (8.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 100 (7.44%) Dynamics 365
10 99 (7.37%) GCP
11 88 (6.55%) Snowflake
12 63 (4.69%) Microsoft Copilot
13 59 (4.39%) Serverless
14 49 (3.65%) GitHub
15 44 (3.27%) Copilot Studio
15 44 (3.27%) SaaS
16 37 (2.75%) Azure Functions
16 37 (2.75%) dbt
17 36 (2.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) HTTP
2 4 (0.30%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.22%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
3 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.15%) 2G
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.15%) LTE
4 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.15%) VoIP
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.074%) DHCP
5 1 (0.074%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.074%) LAN
5 1 (0.074%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.074%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.074%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (16.37%) Tableau
2 163 (12.13%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (8.63%) Data Lake
4 103 (7.66%) SQL Server
5 76 (5.65%) Power Query
6 60 (4.46%) Metadata
7 53 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 53 (3.94%) BigQuery
8 52 (3.87%) Looker
9 46 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 41 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 40 (2.98%) Relational Database
12 35 (2.60%) Delta Lake
13 27 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
14 25 (1.86%) Mixpanel
15 24 (1.79%) NoSQL
16 23 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (1.71%) Spark SQL
16 23 (1.71%) Star Schema
17 21 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 107 (7.96%) JIRA
2 69 (5.13%) Git
3 14 (1.04%) GitLab
4 10 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.67%) ERwin
6 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.37%) NeoLoad
8 4 (0.30%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.30%) Postman
8 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.074%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.074%) Selenium
11 1 (0.074%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 459 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 425 (31.62%) Finance
3 328 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 109 (8.11%) Banking
6 44 (3.27%) Marketing
7 37 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (2.75%) Retail
8 30 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (2.23%) Manufacturing
8 30 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.26%) Legal
12 16 (1.19%) Local Government
13 15 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 15 (1.12%) Publishing
14 14 (1.04%) Telecoms
15 13 (0.97%) Front Office
16 12 (0.89%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 370 (27.53%) Analyst
2 202 (15.03%) Data Engineer
3 201 (14.96%) Developer
4 157 (11.68%) Data Analyst
5 147 (10.94%) Senior
6 119 (8.85%) Lead
7 99 (7.37%) Business Analyst
8 91 (6.77%) Architect
9 71 (5.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 67 (4.99%) Consultant
11 53 (3.94%) Power BI Developer
12 44 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
13 42 (3.13%) PMO Analyst
14 41 (3.05%) Project Manager
15 40 (2.98%) Data Scientist
16 39 (2.90%) Data Architect
16 39 (2.90%) Power Platform Developer
17 38 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 37 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
19 29 (2.16%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (5.21%) PySpark
2 39 (2.90%) REST
3 34 (2.53%) .NET
4 31 (2.31%) Kafka
5 27 (2.01%) Pandas
6 25 (1.86%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.64%) HTML
8 21 (1.56%) JSON
9 18 (1.34%) React
10 16 (1.19%) Great Expectations
10 16 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
11 15 (1.12%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.12%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.04%) NumPy
12 14 (1.04%) XML
12 14 (1.04%) YAML
13 10 (0.74%) Plotly
13 10 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (0.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (3.65%) Product Ownership
2 44 (3.27%) Data Structures
3 38 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 37 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 32 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.31%) Low-Code
7 29 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 25 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.34%) PMI
12 15 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.04%) Data Centre
14 13 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
16 9 (0.67%) FMCG
16 9 (0.67%) NHS
16 9 (0.67%) Reinsurance
17 8 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.82%) Windows
2 5 (0.37%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.15%) Linux
4 2 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,245 (92.63%) Business Intelligence
2 531 (39.51%) Analytics
3 401 (29.84%) Data Modelling
4 342 (25.45%) Visualisation
5 307 (22.84%) Agile
6 282 (20.98%) Decision-Making
7 265 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
8 251 (18.68%) ETL
9 236 (17.56%) Data Governance
10 214 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 209 (15.55%) Data Visualisation
12 202 (15.03%) Actionable Insight
13 201 (14.96%) DevOps
14 200 (14.88%) Data Engineering
15 196 (14.58%) Data Analysis
16 187 (13.91%) AI
17 173 (12.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 166 (12.35%) Data Pipeline
19 164 (12.20%) CI/CD
20 161 (11.98%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 619 (46.06%) SQL
2 344 (25.60%) Python
3 119 (8.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (4.99%) C#
5 54 (4.02%) JavaScript
6 53 (3.94%) R
7 47 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 33 (2.46%) VBA
9 30 (2.23%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.71%) Java
11 21 (1.56%) Bicep
12 20 (1.49%) Scala
13 12 (0.89%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.74%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.74%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.45%) Korn
17 5 (0.37%) X++
18 4 (0.30%) LookML
18 4 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 213 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 168 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 120 (8.93%) Degree
4 30 (2.23%) Azure Certification
4 30 (2.23%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (2.01%) PMP
6 24 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 22 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.89%) MBA
9 11 (0.82%) CIMA
10 10 (0.74%) ACCA
11 9 (0.67%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.67%) CBAP
11 9 (0.67%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
13 4 (0.30%) CFA
13 4 (0.30%) IIBA
14 3 (0.22%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (20.46%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.62%) GDPR
3 88 (6.55%) PMO
4 76 (5.65%) QA
5 54 (4.02%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.82%) Basel III
8 11 (0.82%) GRC
8 11 (0.82%) SLA
9 10 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.37%) NIST
11 5 (0.37%) P3O
12 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.22%) GAAP
13 3 (0.22%) IFRS
13 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.22%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (2.23%) Docker
2 25 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.074%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.074%) HDFS
5 1 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (5.28%) Terraform
2 37 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.67%) SCCM
5 5 (0.37%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.22%) Ansible
7 3 (0.22%) Kibana
8 2 (0.15%) Control-M
9 1 (0.074%) Grafana
9 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.074%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.074%) SCOM
9 1 (0.074%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.074%) WSUS
Vendors
1 434 (32.29%) Microsoft
2 177 (13.17%) Databricks
3 86 (6.40%) Oracle
4 67 (4.99%) Google
5 66 (4.91%) SAP
6 48 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.79%) Informatica
9 16 (1.19%) Foundry
10 14 (1.04%) Lotus
10 14 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.89%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.89%) Planview
12 11 (0.82%) Alteryx
13 10 (0.74%) Cognos
13 10 (0.74%) Sage
14 9 (0.67%) Kofax
14 9 (0.67%) Workday
15 8 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
15 8 (0.60%) Talend
645 Power BI jobs in England