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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,394 980 1,217
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 3.84% 3.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.76% 20.30% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 670 863
10th Percentile £322 £312 £290
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £579 £575 £588
90th Percentile £639 £685 £699
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -4.63% +4.86% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 37
10th Percentile £13.54 £19.63 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.06 £15.59
Median hourly rate £23.03 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +18.46% -61.31%
75th Percentile £42.88 £32.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £59.05 £62.70
UK median hourly rate £23.03 £27.43 £23.22
% change year-on-year -16.03% +18.13% -59.63%

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 5,866 4,828 6,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 18.89% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 3,325 4,344
10th Percentile £344 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 85 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.54
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.75 £21.15
Median hourly rate £51.25 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -10.33% -24.95%
75th Percentile £74.92 £65.00 £61.69
90th Percentile £85.03 £70.00 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.81 £42.50
% change year-on-year +60.01% -22.80% -23.70%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +1 766 £500 -0.74% 295
Midlands -11 149 £450 -6.44% 138
South East -18 149 £500 +8.11% 224
North of England -46 143 £444 -10.51% 168
West Midlands -22 99 £475 -4.04% 101
North West -18 82 £425 -19.05% 89
South West 0 73 £475 +5.56% 70
Yorkshire -48 51 £450 +9.76% 57
East Midlands +7 50 £375 -16.67% 36
East of England -10 50 £500 +8.11% 49
North East -7 10 £500 +11.11% 27
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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
1 124 (8.90%) SharePoint
2 48 (3.44%) Confluence
3 47 (3.37%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.08%) Apache
5 25 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.08%) HCL Notes
7 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.72%) Mendix
9 6 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.36%) SAS
11 4 (0.29%) CMS
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.072%) Kentico
14 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.072%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 278 (19.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.22%) Notion
7 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.072%) CATIA
9 1 (0.072%) InDesign
9 1 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.29%) Primavera
7 3 (0.22%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.22%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.22%) iTrent
7 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,394 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 543 (38.95%) Azure
3 195 (13.99%) Power Automate
4 173 (12.41%) PowerApps
5 168 (12.05%) AWS
6 153 (10.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 125 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
8 122 (8.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 122 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
9 99 (7.10%) GCP
10 97 (6.96%) Dynamics 365
11 96 (6.89%) Snowflake
12 67 (4.81%) Microsoft Copilot
13 62 (4.45%) Serverless
14 51 (3.66%) GitHub
15 46 (3.30%) Copilot Studio
16 44 (3.16%) SaaS
17 42 (3.01%) dbt
18 39 (2.80%) Entra ID
19 38 (2.73%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.43%) VPN
2 5 (0.36%) HTTP
3 4 (0.29%) 5G
3 4 (0.29%) Firewall
3 4 (0.29%) LTE
3 4 (0.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.22%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.14%) 2G
5 2 (0.14%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.14%) 4G
5 2 (0.14%) DNS
5 2 (0.14%) MPLS
5 2 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.14%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 2 (0.14%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.14%) Wireless
5 2 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (16.28%) Tableau
2 189 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (8.68%) Data Lake
4 107 (7.68%) SQL Server
5 82 (5.88%) Power Query
6 66 (4.73%) Metadata
7 58 (4.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (3.80%) BigQuery
10 51 (3.66%) Looker
11 43 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 40 (2.87%) Relational Database
13 35 (2.51%) Delta Lake
14 32 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (2.15%) Star Schema
16 27 (1.94%) Mixpanel
17 26 (1.87%) NoSQL
18 25 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
19 24 (1.72%) Spark SQL
20 22 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 111 (7.96%) JIRA
2 72 (5.16%) Git
3 17 (1.22%) GitLab
4 13 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.65%) ERwin
6 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.36%) NeoLoad
8 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.29%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.29%) Postman
8 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.14%) MLflow
10 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.072%) Maven
11 1 (0.072%) Selenium
General
1 471 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 441 (31.64%) Finance
3 326 (23.39%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.82%) Banking
6 44 (3.16%) Marketing
7 39 (2.80%) Retail
8 37 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 30 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.29%) Legal
14 16 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.08%) Local Government
15 15 (1.08%) Publishing
16 14 (1.00%) Front Office
17 13 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 372 (26.69%) Analyst
2 220 (15.78%) Developer
3 215 (15.42%) Data Engineer
4 163 (11.69%) Senior
5 157 (11.26%) Data Analyst
6 128 (9.18%) Lead
7 107 (7.68%) Architect
8 98 (7.03%) Business Analyst
9 87 (6.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 66 (4.73%) Consultant
11 63 (4.52%) Power BI Developer
12 45 (3.23%) Data Architect
12 45 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
13 43 (3.08%) PMO Analyst
14 42 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
15 41 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
16 40 (2.87%) Project Manager
17 39 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 35 (2.51%) Data Scientist
19 29 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (5.24%) PySpark
2 43 (3.08%) REST
3 36 (2.58%) .NET
4 33 (2.37%) Kafka
5 29 (2.08%) Pandas
6 25 (1.79%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.51%) HTML
7 21 (1.51%) JSON
8 18 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
8 18 (1.29%) React
9 17 (1.22%) Great Expectations
10 15 (1.08%) NumPy
10 15 (1.08%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.08%) TensorFlow
11 14 (1.00%) XML
11 14 (1.00%) YAML
12 12 (0.86%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (0.72%) OAuth
13 10 (0.72%) Plotly
14 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 50 (3.59%) Product Ownership
2 47 (3.37%) Cloud Native
3 41 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 36 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 35 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.15%) Low-Code
7 29 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 29 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.15%) PMI
11 15 (1.08%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.00%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (0.79%) CMDB
16 10 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
17 9 (0.65%) FMCG
17 9 (0.65%) SCADA
18 8 (0.57%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.00%) Windows
2 6 (0.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.36%) Unix
3 5 (0.36%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,297 (93.04%) Business Intelligence
2 558 (40.03%) Analytics
3 433 (31.06%) Data Modelling
4 339 (24.32%) Visualisation
5 314 (22.53%) Agile
6 299 (21.45%) Decision-Making
7 290 (20.80%) ETL
8 268 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 255 (18.29%) Data Governance
10 217 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 215 (15.42%) DevOps
12 212 (15.21%) Data Engineering
13 204 (14.63%) Actionable Insight
14 201 (14.42%) Data Visualisation
15 199 (14.28%) Data Analysis
16 197 (14.13%) AI
17 187 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 183 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
19 181 (12.98%) CI/CD
20 156 (11.19%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 654 (46.92%) SQL
2 365 (26.18%) Python
3 136 (9.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (5.02%) C#
5 54 (3.87%) R
6 53 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 52 (3.73%) PowerShell
8 36 (2.58%) VBA
9 33 (2.37%) T-SQL
10 26 (1.87%) Java
11 20 (1.43%) Bicep
12 18 (1.29%) Scala
13 12 (0.86%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.79%) Formula Language
14 11 (0.79%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.43%) Korn
17 5 (0.36%) X++
18 3 (0.22%) C
18 3 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 226 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 178 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 125 (8.97%) Degree
4 33 (2.37%) Azure Certification
5 32 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (2.01%) PMI Certification
7 27 (1.94%) PMP
8 25 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.86%) MBA
11 11 (0.79%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.72%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.57%) CIMA
13 8 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.50%) ACCA
14 7 (0.50%) CBAP
15 4 (0.29%) CFA
15 4 (0.29%) IIBA
16 3 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (22.09%) Data Quality
2 97 (6.96%) GDPR
3 90 (6.46%) PMO
4 76 (5.45%) QA
5 52 (3.73%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.08%) SLA
8 13 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.79%) Basel III
9 11 (0.79%) GRC
10 9 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.36%) NIST
12 5 (0.36%) P3O
13 4 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.29%) NCSC
13 4 (0.29%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.22%) GAAP
14 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.15%) Docker
3 4 (0.29%) HDFS
3 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.072%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.072%) RACF
Systems Management
1 71 (5.09%) Terraform
2 36 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.65%) SCCM
5 6 (0.43%) Ansible
6 5 (0.36%) RSA Archer
7 4 (0.29%) Grafana
7 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.22%) Kibana
9 2 (0.14%) Control-M
10 1 (0.072%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.072%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.072%) Nessus
10 1 (0.072%) SCOM
10 1 (0.072%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.072%) WSUS
Vendors
1 452 (32.42%) Microsoft
2 192 (13.77%) Databricks
3 89 (6.38%) Oracle
4 67 (4.81%) Google
5 59 (4.23%) SAP
6 58 (4.16%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.22%) Informatica
9 19 (1.36%) Foundry
10 15 (1.08%) Lotus
11 14 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.93%) Sage
13 12 (0.86%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.86%) Workday
14 11 (0.79%) Alteryx
14 11 (0.79%) Planview
14 11 (0.79%) Talend
15 10 (0.72%) Cognos
15 10 (0.72%) Kofax
16 8 (0.57%) MicroStrategy