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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,641 1,013 1,264
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 3.75% 3.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.03% 20.50% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 653 919
10th Percentile £331 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £482
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -1.45% -3.60%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £482
% change year-on-year +2.11% -1.45% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 31 24
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.00 £15.42
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.47
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +23.89% -39.45%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.57 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £51.63
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £27.22
% change year-on-year -8.34% +16.26% -26.45%

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 6,829 4,941 6,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.27% 18.31% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,587 3,421 4,746
10th Percentile £353 £355 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £527
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
75th Percentile £602 £650 £675
90th Percentile £709 £775 £815
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 91 137
10th Percentile £14.96 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £24.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.33% -36.00%
75th Percentile £71.13 £62.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £69.85
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -35.39%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +3 839 £500 - 347
South East +7 221 £488 +8.33% 189
North of England -21 201 £460 +3.44% 155
Midlands +2 200 £451 -3.12% 118
West Midlands -10 141 £450 -7.22% 62
North West -2 115 £469 -1.32% 77
South West -7 92 £450 +10.02% 92
Yorkshire -40 69 £450 +5.88% 55
East Midlands +23 58 £465 +0.54% 56
East of England -17 39 £400 -20.00% 45
North East -21 19 £425 -5.56% 25
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
1 142 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 66 (4.02%) Confluence
3 39 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.71%) Apache
6 19 (1.16%) SAS
7 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.49%) Apache Superset
9 7 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 5 (0.30%) HCL Notes
11 4 (0.24%) IIS
11 4 (0.24%) Mendix
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 1 (0.061%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.061%) Appian
13 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 318 (19.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.95%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.24%) Revit
8 2 (0.12%) Notion
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.061%) CATIA
9 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.061%) InDesign
9 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 22 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (1.04%) iTrent
4 9 (0.55%) Primavera
5 6 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.18%) Maximo
8 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
9 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,641 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 610 (37.17%) Azure
3 214 (13.04%) AWS
4 177 (10.79%) Power Automate
5 157 (9.57%) PowerApps
6 140 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (8.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 123 (7.50%) Snowflake
9 115 (7.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 112 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
11 107 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
12 82 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 78 (4.75%) Serverless
14 77 (4.69%) GCP
15 65 (3.96%) dbt
16 59 (3.60%) Amazon S3
17 56 (3.41%) GitHub
18 48 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
19 47 (2.86%) Entra ID
20 46 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.10%) Firewall
2 14 (0.85%) VPN
3 11 (0.67%) DNS
4 5 (0.30%) SSL
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%) 5G NR
7 2 (0.12%) Broadband
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%) VoLTE
7 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (16.27%) Tableau
2 265 (16.15%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (8.29%) Data Lake
4 119 (7.25%) Power Query
5 116 (7.07%) SQL Server
6 75 (4.57%) Metadata
7 62 (3.78%) Star Schema
8 54 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 52 (3.17%) Looker
10 48 (2.93%) Relational Database
11 47 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
13 39 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.25%) BigQuery
15 36 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
16 31 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
17 28 (1.71%) BusinessObjects
18 27 (1.65%) NoSQL
19 26 (1.58%) Delta Lake
19 26 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 138 (8.41%) JIRA
2 70 (4.27%) Git
3 26 (1.58%) GitLab
4 13 (0.79%) ERwin
5 9 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.30%) MLflow
7 5 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.24%) JUnit
8 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) JMeter
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.061%) Hudson
General
1 509 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 492 (29.98%) Finance
3 387 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 108 (6.58%) Banking
6 62 (3.78%) Retail
7 57 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (3.11%) Law
9 49 (2.99%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 42 (2.56%) Marketing
11 35 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.40%) Investment Banking
13 22 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.28%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.28%) Local Government
15 20 (1.22%) Legal
16 18 (1.10%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 429 (26.14%) Analyst
2 250 (15.23%) Data Engineer
3 241 (14.69%) Developer
4 208 (12.68%) Data Analyst
5 191 (11.64%) Senior
6 180 (10.97%) Architect
7 155 (9.45%) Lead
8 119 (7.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 95 (5.79%) Business Analyst
9 95 (5.79%) Power BI Developer
10 69 (4.20%) Data Architect
11 66 (4.02%) Consultant
12 60 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
13 50 (3.05%) Power Platform Developer
14 49 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 44 (2.68%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.38%) Lead Architect
16 39 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
17 36 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
18 34 (2.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (5.61%) PySpark
2 52 (3.17%) REST
3 50 (3.05%) .NET
4 33 (2.01%) Kafka
5 26 (1.58%) JSON
6 19 (1.16%) Pandas
7 18 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (1.10%) Middleware
7 18 (1.10%) React
8 14 (0.85%) HTML
9 12 (0.73%) CSS
9 12 (0.73%) Great Expectations
9 12 (0.73%) HTML5 Canvas
9 12 (0.73%) YAML
10 11 (0.67%) ADO
10 11 (0.67%) XML
11 8 (0.49%) JDO
11 8 (0.49%) RESTful
12 7 (0.43%) jQuery
12 7 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.63%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 49 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 43 (2.62%) Product Ownership
6 37 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (1.46%) CMDB
8 22 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 20 (1.22%) Low-Code
10 19 (1.16%) Clustering
11 15 (0.91%) FMCG
11 15 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.79%) IoT
12 13 (0.79%) NHS
12 13 (0.79%) PKI
13 12 (0.73%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.25%) Windows
2 21 (1.28%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.55%) Unix
4 7 (0.43%) Linux
5 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.24%) Android
6 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,523 (92.81%) Business Intelligence
2 673 (41.01%) Analytics
3 537 (32.72%) Data Modelling
4 388 (23.64%) Agile
5 349 (21.27%) Visualisation
6 348 (21.21%) Decision-Making
7 343 (20.90%) ETL
8 301 (18.34%) AI
9 294 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
10 284 (17.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 272 (16.58%) Data Pipeline
12 271 (16.51%) DevOps
13 262 (15.97%) Data Engineering
14 261 (15.90%) Migration
15 260 (15.84%) Data Governance
15 260 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 248 (15.11%) CI/CD
17 232 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 224 (13.65%) Validation
19 214 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 767 (46.74%) SQL
2 395 (24.07%) Python
3 194 (11.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 73 (4.45%) PowerShell
5 68 (4.14%) JavaScript
6 65 (3.96%) C#
7 60 (3.66%) T-SQL
8 52 (3.17%) R
9 40 (2.44%) Java
10 26 (1.58%) VBA
11 16 (0.98%) Bicep
11 16 (0.98%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.73%) Scala
14 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.30%) C
17 4 (0.24%) Korn
17 4 (0.24%) X++
18 3 (0.18%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 296 (18.04%) Security Cleared
2 230 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 162 (9.87%) Degree
4 42 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.85%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 10 (0.61%) PMP
14 8 (0.49%) ACCA
15 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.43%) CISSP
16 6 (0.37%) CIMA
16 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
17 5 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (24.01%) Data Quality
2 110 (6.70%) GDPR
3 83 (5.06%) PMO
4 73 (4.45%) QA
5 33 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.04%) SLA
7 16 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.67%) GRC
9 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
11 7 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.30%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.18%) NCSC
14 2 (0.12%) Basel III
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
14 2 (0.12%) NIST
14 2 (0.12%) P3O
14 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 50 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.85%) Docker
3 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) RACF
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (4.57%) Terraform
2 20 (1.22%) Grafana
2 20 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.61%) SCCM
5 7 (0.43%) Ansible
5 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) SCOM
7 4 (0.24%) Control-M
7 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.12%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) Nessus
9 1 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.061%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.061%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 582 (35.47%) Microsoft
2 204 (12.43%) Databricks
3 106 (6.46%) SAP
4 93 (5.67%) ServiceNow
5 73 (4.45%) Oracle
6 47 (2.86%) Google
7 42 (2.56%) Informatica
8 31 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.52%) Alteryx
9 25 (1.52%) Remedy
10 24 (1.46%) Splunk
11 21 (1.28%) Workday
12 15 (0.91%) Adobe
13 14 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.85%) IFS
13 14 (0.85%) Talend
14 13 (0.79%) Foundry
15 12 (0.73%) BMC
16 11 (0.67%) Denodo
17 10 (0.61%) Palantir