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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 60 64
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,487 915 1,191
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 3.74% 3.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.81% 19.59% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 619 851
10th Percentile £313 £313 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £574 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 25 33
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.94 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £31.50 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% +25.22% -58.32%
75th Percentile £45.00 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.12 £60.20
UK median hourly rate £29.88 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year +2.77% +25.22% -57.79%

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 6,245 4,670 6,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.87% 19.11% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,340 3,267 4,431
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 95 137
10th Percentile £17.55 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.85 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.31 £52.50
90th Percentile £83.55 £70.00 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +55.30% -15.49% -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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +3 784 £500 +2.41% 276
South East +5 188 £500 +5.26% 194
Midlands -16 166 £450 -7.22% 144
North of England -37 148 £450 -1.37% 189
West Midlands -30 102 £459 -5.85% 90
South West +5 84 £450 - 69
North West -19 78 £463 -11.90% 105
East Midlands +11 63 £414 -15.18% 54
Yorkshire -41 58 £439 +3.29% 61
East of England -13 47 £488 -2.50% 65
North East -12 12 £475 +5.56% 28
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
1 134 (9.01%) SharePoint
2 59 (3.97%) Confluence
3 53 (3.56%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.22%) Apache
5 28 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.01%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.67%) Mendix
8 8 (0.54%) Apache Superset
8 8 (0.54%) SAS
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.067%) Appian
14 1 (0.067%) Camunda
14 1 (0.067%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 303 (20.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (2.35%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.20%) Notion
7 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.13%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.13%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.067%) CATIA
9 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.067%) InDesign
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 39 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.87%) iTrent
3 13 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.27%) Primavera
6 4 (0.27%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,487 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 553 (37.19%) Azure
3 202 (13.58%) AWS
4 177 (11.90%) Power Automate
5 156 (10.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 146 (9.82%) PowerApps
7 141 (9.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 125 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
9 124 (8.34%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
11 97 (6.52%) GCP
12 93 (6.25%) Snowflake
13 75 (5.04%) Serverless
14 70 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
15 60 (4.03%) GitHub
16 52 (3.50%) Amazon S3
17 48 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
18 44 (2.96%) dbt
19 39 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
20 38 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.61%) Firewall
1 9 (0.61%) VPN
2 4 (0.27%) DNS
2 4 (0.27%) HTTP
3 3 (0.20%) 5G
3 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.20%) LTE
3 3 (0.20%) Network Security
3 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.13%) Intranet
4 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (0.13%) MPLS
4 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.13%) SMTP
4 2 (0.13%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
4 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (17.48%) Tableau
2 220 (14.79%) Data Warehouse
3 138 (9.28%) Data Lake
4 110 (7.40%) SQL Server
5 92 (6.19%) Power Query
6 77 (5.18%) Metadata
7 59 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 56 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 49 (3.30%) Looker
10 48 (3.23%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.82%) Star Schema
12 41 (2.76%) Relational Database
12 41 (2.76%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (2.42%) Delta Lake
14 35 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (2.15%) NoSQL
16 30 (2.02%) Spark SQL
16 30 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 29 (1.95%) Mixpanel
18 26 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 122 (8.20%) JIRA
2 76 (5.11%) Git
3 16 (1.08%) GitLab
4 13 (0.87%) ERwin
5 12 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.40%) MLflow
7 5 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.27%) Postman
8 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.13%) Selenium
10 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.067%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.067%) GCC
11 1 (0.067%) Hudson
11 1 (0.067%) WebDriver
General
1 477 (32.08%) Finance
2 472 (31.74%) Social Skills
3 369 (24.82%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 102 (6.86%) Banking
6 50 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.23%) Law
8 47 (3.16%) Retail
9 43 (2.89%) Marketing
9 43 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.55%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.34%) Legal
13 20 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.01%) Front Office
16 14 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.94%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 398 (26.77%) Analyst
2 239 (16.07%) Data Engineer
3 202 (13.58%) Developer
4 177 (11.90%) Senior
5 175 (11.77%) Data Analyst
6 151 (10.15%) Lead
7 139 (9.35%) Architect
8 100 (6.72%) Business Analyst
9 86 (5.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 72 (4.84%) Consultant
11 65 (4.37%) Power BI Developer
12 49 (3.30%) Senior Data Engineer
13 47 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
14 43 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 42 (2.82%) Data Architect
16 41 (2.76%) Project Manager
17 39 (2.62%) PMO Analyst
18 36 (2.42%) Lead Architect
19 35 (2.35%) Power Platform Developer
20 34 (2.29%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.72%) PySpark
2 44 (2.96%) Kafka
3 43 (2.89%) REST
4 33 (2.22%) .NET
5 31 (2.08%) Pandas
6 22 (1.48%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.41%) JSON
8 20 (1.34%) Great Expectations
9 19 (1.28%) HTML
10 18 (1.21%) React
11 15 (1.01%) ADO
11 15 (1.01%) NumPy
11 15 (1.01%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.01%) TensorFlow
11 15 (1.01%) XML
12 14 (0.94%) YAML
13 13 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
13 13 (0.87%) Spark Streaming
14 12 (0.81%) CSS
14 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 55 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.56%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 31 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.88%) Management Information System
8 25 (1.68%) Low-Code
9 22 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.21%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.14%) CMDB
12 16 (1.08%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.08%) PMI
13 14 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.81%) Clustering
15 11 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (0.67%) NHS
17 9 (0.61%) IoT
18 8 (0.54%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.28%) Windows
2 10 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.34%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.067%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,387 (93.28%) Business Intelligence
2 599 (40.28%) Analytics
3 478 (32.15%) Data Modelling
4 325 (21.86%) Agile
5 321 (21.59%) ETL
5 321 (21.59%) Visualisation
6 313 (21.05%) Decision-Making
7 277 (18.63%) Data Governance
7 277 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
8 243 (16.34%) Data Engineering
9 229 (15.40%) DevOps
10 226 (15.20%) Data Pipeline
11 221 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 219 (14.73%) AI
13 209 (14.06%) CI/CD
13 209 (14.06%) Migration
14 204 (13.72%) Actionable Insight
15 203 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
16 200 (13.45%) Data Visualisation
17 197 (13.25%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 710 (47.75%) SQL
2 398 (26.77%) Python
3 151 (10.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (4.57%) C#
5 60 (4.03%) R
6 53 (3.56%) JavaScript
7 51 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.62%) T-SQL
8 39 (2.62%) VBA
9 34 (2.29%) Java
10 24 (1.61%) Bicep
11 21 (1.41%) Scala
12 11 (0.74%) Formula Language
12 11 (0.74%) LotusScript
12 11 (0.74%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.27%) C
16 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
16 3 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 242 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 188 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 142 (9.55%) Degree
4 33 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.68%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.55%) PMP
10 12 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.74%) MBA
12 10 (0.67%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.47%) ACCA
14 7 (0.47%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.40%) CBAP
15 6 (0.40%) CIMA
15 6 (0.40%) IIBA
15 6 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (23.54%) Data Quality
2 118 (7.94%) GDPR
3 96 (6.46%) PMO
4 84 (5.65%) QA
5 34 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.08%) SLA
7 15 (1.01%) GRC
7 15 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.74%) Basel III
10 10 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.27%) NCSC
12 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 19650
13 3 (0.20%) P3O
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 32 (2.15%) Docker
2 31 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.067%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (5.04%) Terraform
2 39 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.54%) Grafana
5 6 (0.40%) SCCM
6 5 (0.34%) Ansible
6 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Kibana
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
8 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.067%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.067%) SCOM
9 1 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.067%) WSUS
Vendors
1 497 (33.42%) Microsoft
2 204 (13.72%) Databricks
3 78 (5.25%) SAP
4 76 (5.11%) Oracle
5 75 (5.04%) ServiceNow
6 62 (4.17%) Google
7 38 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 33 (2.22%) Informatica
9 23 (1.55%) Workday
10 19 (1.28%) Foundry
11 15 (1.01%) Lotus
12 14 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.94%) Sage
13 13 (0.87%) Remedy
14 11 (0.74%) Alteryx
14 11 (0.74%) IFS
14 11 (0.74%) Talend
15 10 (0.67%) Adobe
15 10 (0.67%) Kofax
16 9 (0.61%) Splunk