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

 6 months to
18 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 66
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,286 1,005 1,167
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.04% 3.74% 3.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.33% 20.39% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 682 824
10th Percentile £313 £313 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.74%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £600
90th Percentile £652 £690 £693
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 42
10th Percentile £13.90 £24.70 £14.48
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £20.83
Median hourly rate £22.52 £30.00 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year -24.95% +5.75% -52.72%
75th Percentile £36.11 £52.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £55.83 £64.73 £64.20
UK median hourly rate £22.94 £28.00 £28.37
% change year-on-year -18.09% -1.30% -44.37%

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 5,285 4,928 6,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.62% 18.34% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 3,268 4,302
10th Percentile £329 £354 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £710 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 72 145
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.71
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.61
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £72.98 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -22.22% -18.18%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +7 733 £500 -2.44% 211
North of England -17 153 £425 -5.56% 137
South East -9 118 £492 +4.96% 265
Midlands -26 115 £463 -6.57% 116
North West -17 77 £425 -15.00% 74
West Midlands -37 73 £500 - 67
Yorkshire -13 70 £420 +2.44% 41
South West +3 63 £475 +5.56% 57
East of England +6 44 £625 +42.86% 66
East Midlands +1 42 £356 -7.53% 47
North East -13 6 £475 +5.56% 24
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
1 133 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 47 (3.65%) Confluence
3 38 (2.95%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.71%) Apache
4 22 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.40%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.78%) Mendix
6 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.62%) Apache Pig
8 6 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.23%) CMS
9 3 (0.23%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.16%) Moodle
11 1 (0.078%) Kentico
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.078%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 277 (21.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (3.58%) Microsoft Project
4 40 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (2.18%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 3 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.23%) Notion
8 3 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.078%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.078%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 53 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.31%) iTrent
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.31%) Primavera
5 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.23%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.23%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.23%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.16%) Actimize
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,286 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 491 (38.18%) Azure
3 197 (15.32%) Power Automate
4 179 (13.92%) PowerApps
5 142 (11.04%) AWS
6 131 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 112 (8.71%) Microsoft 365
9 107 (8.32%) Dynamics 365
10 99 (7.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 85 (6.61%) GCP
12 80 (6.22%) Snowflake
13 54 (4.20%) Microsoft Copilot
14 49 (3.81%) Serverless
15 48 (3.73%) GitHub
16 42 (3.27%) SaaS
17 41 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
18 36 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
19 35 (2.72%) Azure Functions
20 34 (2.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) HTTP
2 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.23%) VoIP
2 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.16%) 2G
3 2 (0.16%) 5G
3 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.16%) LAN
3 2 (0.16%) LTE
3 2 (0.16%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.16%) Network Security
3 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.16%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.16%) VPN
3 2 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.078%) DNS
4 1 (0.078%) Internet
4 1 (0.078%) SAN
4 1 (0.078%) Skype
4 1 (0.078%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (15.09%) Tableau
2 147 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
3 106 (8.24%) SQL Server
4 104 (8.09%) Data Lake
5 81 (6.30%) Power Query
6 54 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 52 (4.04%) Metadata
8 46 (3.58%) Relational Database
9 45 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 43 (3.34%) BigQuery
11 39 (3.03%) Looker
11 39 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 29 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (1.94%) Delta Lake
14 24 (1.87%) Data Mining
15 23 (1.79%) NoSQL
16 22 (1.71%) Star Schema
17 21 (1.63%) Big Data
17 21 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
18 20 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 111 (8.63%) JIRA
2 56 (4.35%) Git
3 11 (0.86%) GitLab
4 9 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.47%) DBeaver
6 6 (0.47%) ERwin
7 5 (0.39%) NeoLoad
8 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.16%) MLflow
9 2 (0.16%) Postman
9 2 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.078%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.078%) Maven
10 1 (0.078%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.078%) Selenium
10 1 (0.078%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 446 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 426 (33.13%) Finance
3 299 (23.25%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 118 (9.18%) Banking
6 47 (3.65%) Marketing
7 39 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 37 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.64%) Retail
10 33 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.71%) Front Office
14 21 (1.63%) Legal
15 20 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (1.56%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.56%) Local Government
16 19 (1.48%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (1.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 353 (27.45%) Analyst
2 205 (15.94%) Developer
3 169 (13.14%) Data Engineer
4 150 (11.66%) Data Analyst
5 128 (9.95%) Senior
6 102 (7.93%) Lead
7 97 (7.54%) Business Analyst
8 83 (6.45%) Architect
9 75 (5.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 65 (5.05%) Consultant
11 56 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
12 47 (3.65%) Data Scientist
13 45 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
14 42 (3.27%) Project Manager
15 39 (3.03%) Power Platform Developer
16 37 (2.88%) Data Architect
17 34 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 34 (2.64%) Power BI Analyst
18 33 (2.57%) PMO Analyst
19 30 (2.33%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (4.90%) PySpark
2 44 (3.42%) .NET
3 40 (3.11%) REST
4 26 (2.02%) Kafka
5 25 (1.94%) HTML
6 24 (1.87%) scikit-learn
7 23 (1.79%) Pandas
8 20 (1.56%) JSON
9 19 (1.48%) React
10 18 (1.40%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (1.09%) PyTorch
11 14 (1.09%) TensorFlow
12 13 (1.01%) NumPy
13 11 (0.86%) Spark Streaming
14 10 (0.78%) CSS
14 10 (0.78%) Plotly
15 9 (0.70%) Great Expectations
15 9 (0.70%) OAuth
15 9 (0.70%) XML
15 9 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.65%) Product Ownership
2 34 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 34 (2.64%) Data Structures
3 31 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 29 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.26%) Low-Code
4 29 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 26 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (1.71%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.24%) PMI
9 13 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 12 (0.93%) Derivative
10 12 (0.93%) Life Science
11 11 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
11 11 (0.86%) FMCG
11 11 (0.86%) Reinsurance
12 10 (0.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.86%) Windows
2 4 (0.31%) Linux
2 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.23%) Unix
3 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.078%) Android
4 1 (0.078%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.078%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (91.14%) Business Intelligence
2 467 (36.31%) Analytics
3 347 (26.98%) Data Modelling
4 332 (25.82%) Visualisation
5 300 (23.33%) Agile
6 262 (20.37%) Decision-Making
7 247 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 211 (16.41%) ETL
10 204 (15.86%) Data Governance
11 200 (15.55%) DevOps
12 196 (15.24%) Actionable Insight
13 195 (15.16%) Data Visualisation
14 188 (14.62%) Data Analysis
15 160 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 155 (12.05%) Data Engineering
17 153 (11.90%) AI
18 148 (11.51%) CI/CD
19 143 (11.12%) Data Pipeline
20 135 (10.50%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 579 (45.02%) SQL
2 333 (25.89%) Python
3 104 (8.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 64 (4.98%) C#
5 59 (4.59%) JavaScript
6 57 (4.43%) R
7 38 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 32 (2.49%) VBA
9 29 (2.26%) Java
10 27 (2.10%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.94%) Scala
12 16 (1.24%) Bicep
12 16 (1.24%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.86%) Formula Language
13 11 (0.86%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.54%) Korn
16 5 (0.39%) C++
16 5 (0.39%) X++
17 4 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 180 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 141 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.33%) Degree
4 31 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.10%) PMI Certification
6 26 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.71%) PMP
9 18 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.86%) ACCA
10 11 (0.86%) CIMA
10 11 (0.86%) MBA
11 8 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.62%) CFA
12 7 (0.54%) CBAP
12 7 (0.54%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
13 5 (0.39%) IIBA
14 3 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 75 (5.83%) GDPR
3 72 (5.60%) PMO
4 65 (5.05%) QA
5 53 (4.12%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.93%) GRC
8 10 (0.78%) Basel III
9 9 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.47%) GxP
11 6 (0.47%) NIST
11 6 (0.47%) SLA
12 5 (0.39%) IFRS
12 5 (0.39%) P3O
13 4 (0.31%) WCAG
14 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) IFRS 9
15 2 (0.16%) PERC
System Software
1 31 (2.41%) Docker
2 27 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.078%) HDFS
4 1 (0.078%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (4.12%) Terraform
2 36 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.47%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.47%) SCCM
5 2 (0.16%) Ansible
5 2 (0.16%) Control-M
5 2 (0.16%) Kibana
5 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.078%) Puppet
6 1 (0.078%) SCOM
6 1 (0.078%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.078%) WSUS
Vendors
1 421 (32.74%) Microsoft
2 153 (11.90%) Databricks
3 99 (7.70%) Oracle
4 75 (5.83%) SAP
5 65 (5.05%) Google
6 44 (3.42%) ServiceNow
7 43 (3.34%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.87%) Informatica
9 18 (1.40%) Lotus
10 15 (1.17%) Alteryx
11 14 (1.09%) Foundry
12 13 (1.01%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.93%) Planview
13 12 (0.93%) Splunk
14 10 (0.78%) Kofax
14 10 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.70%) Cognos
16 8 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
16 8 (0.62%) Workday
17 7 (0.54%) Virgin Media
733 Power BI jobs in England