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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,542 919 1,239
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.76% 3.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.02% 19.87% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 595 883
10th Percentile £329 £310 £300
25th Percentile £405 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £654 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 30 28
10th Percentile £16.28 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.22 £23.50 £15.96
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -48.45%
75th Percentile £41.63 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.43 £53.75 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -9.77% +32.82% -47.10%

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 6,419 4,626 6,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.20% 18.91% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,368 3,202 4,603
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £793
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 92 144
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.91 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -18.93% -32.54%
75th Percentile £73.75 £64.78 £54.34
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.38 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -13.56% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +6 792 £500 - 267
South East +15 216 £488 +5.41% 176
Midlands -5 186 £463 -7.50% 105
North of England -33 163 £461 +2.36% 149
West Midlands -18 129 £459 -8.20% 67
South West +15 94 £450 +10.02% 60
North West -10 89 £469 -2.60% 93
Yorkshire -48 59 £439 +3.29% 45
East Midlands +13 56 £464 +6.00% 38
East of England -12 40 £400 -20.00% 39
North East -15 16 £438 -2.78% 13
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
1 116 (7.52%) SharePoint
2 66 (4.28%) Confluence
3 46 (2.98%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.95%) Apache
5 27 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (1.17%) SAS
7 9 (0.58%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.52%) Apache Superset
8 8 (0.52%) Mendix
8 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.26%) CMS
10 4 (0.26%) IIS
11 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.19%) Kentico
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.065%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 294 (19.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.96%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.065%) CATIA
9 1 (0.065%) InDesign
9 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.97%) iTrent
5 6 (0.39%) Primavera
5 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.39%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
10 1 (0.065%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,542 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 563 (36.51%) Azure
3 195 (12.65%) AWS
4 150 (9.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 148 (9.60%) Power Automate
6 139 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (8.30%) PowerApps
8 127 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 105 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
9 105 (6.81%) Snowflake
10 88 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
11 79 (5.12%) GCP
12 72 (4.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 72 (4.67%) Serverless
13 63 (4.09%) GitHub
14 54 (3.50%) dbt
15 52 (3.37%) Amazon S3
16 45 (2.92%) Copilot Studio
17 40 (2.59%) Entra ID
17 40 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.97%) Firewall
2 12 (0.78%) VPN
3 9 (0.58%) DNS
4 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.19%) Network Security
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) LTE
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) NAS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SAN
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
2 247 (16.02%) Tableau
3 155 (10.05%) Data Lake
4 122 (7.91%) SQL Server
5 109 (7.07%) Power Query
6 70 (4.54%) Metadata
7 56 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 50 (3.24%) Star Schema
10 49 (3.18%) Relational Database
11 48 (3.11%) Looker
12 42 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (2.33%) BigQuery
13 36 (2.33%) Spark SQL
14 35 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 33 (2.14%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.88%) NoSQL
17 28 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
18 24 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 132 (8.56%) JIRA
2 71 (4.60%) Git
3 25 (1.62%) GitLab
4 13 (0.84%) ERwin
5 10 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.32%) MLflow
6 5 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) JUnit
7 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.19%) Postman
8 3 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.065%) SoapUI
General
1 471 (30.54%) Finance
2 463 (30.03%) Social Skills
3 350 (22.70%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 107 (6.94%) Banking
6 54 (3.50%) Retail
7 53 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.11%) Law
9 44 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 42 (2.72%) Marketing
11 28 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 27 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.17%) Legal
16 18 (1.17%) Local Government
17 15 (0.97%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 406 (26.33%) Analyst
2 259 (16.80%) Data Engineer
3 206 (13.36%) Developer
4 188 (12.19%) Senior
5 183 (11.87%) Data Analyst
6 164 (10.64%) Architect
7 150 (9.73%) Lead
8 108 (7.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 85 (5.51%) Business Analyst
10 82 (5.32%) Power BI Developer
11 68 (4.41%) Consultant
12 67 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
13 59 (3.83%) Data Architect
14 48 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 46 (2.98%) Project Manager
16 40 (2.59%) Lead Architect
17 37 (2.40%) Power Platform Developer
18 35 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
18 35 (2.27%) Senior Developer
19 33 (2.14%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (5.97%) PySpark
2 51 (3.31%) REST
3 39 (2.53%) Kafka
4 35 (2.27%) .NET
5 24 (1.56%) Pandas
6 21 (1.36%) JSON
7 20 (1.30%) HTML
8 19 (1.23%) React
9 17 (1.10%) Middleware
10 15 (0.97%) CSS
10 15 (0.97%) Great Expectations
11 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.84%) YAML
13 12 (0.78%) ADO
13 12 (0.78%) XML
14 11 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
15 8 (0.52%) JDO
16 7 (0.45%) RESTful
16 7 (0.45%) Spark Streaming
16 7 (0.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (1.49%) CMDB
9 21 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 18 (1.17%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.91%) NHS
13 13 (0.84%) Clustering
14 12 (0.78%) IoT
14 12 (0.78%) PKI
15 10 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.65%) PMI
15 10 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.01%) Windows
2 17 (1.10%) Windows Server
3 10 (0.65%) Unix
4 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.52%) Linux
6 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.26%) Android
7 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,431 (92.80%) Business Intelligence
2 644 (41.76%) Analytics
3 510 (33.07%) Data Modelling
4 355 (23.02%) Agile
5 344 (22.31%) ETL
6 319 (20.69%) Decision-Making
6 319 (20.69%) Visualisation
7 277 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
8 266 (17.25%) AI
9 261 (16.93%) Data Engineering
10 257 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
11 251 (16.28%) Data Governance
11 251 (16.28%) DevOps
12 250 (16.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 228 (14.79%) CI/CD
14 221 (14.33%) Migration
15 219 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 212 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 198 (12.84%) Data Visualisation
18 193 (12.52%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 733 (47.54%) SQL
2 378 (24.51%) Python
3 176 (11.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (4.47%) PowerShell
5 62 (4.02%) C#
6 60 (3.89%) JavaScript
7 56 (3.63%) T-SQL
8 49 (3.18%) R
9 41 (2.66%) Java
10 25 (1.62%) VBA
11 20 (1.30%) Bicep
12 14 (0.91%) Scala
13 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.39%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.39%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.32%) C
17 4 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 262 (16.99%) Security Cleared
2 204 (13.23%) SC Cleared
3 136 (8.82%) Degree
4 38 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.56%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.30%) PMI Certification
10 19 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.17%) PMP
12 16 (1.04%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.39%) ACCA
15 6 (0.39%) CISSP
16 5 (0.32%) MBA
16 5 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
16 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (23.54%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.81%) GDPR
3 88 (5.71%) PMO
4 74 (4.80%) QA
5 30 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.04%) SLA
7 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.71%) GRC
10 8 (0.52%) Basel III
11 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.39%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.32%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.26%) P3O
14 3 (0.19%) GAAP
14 3 (0.19%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) NCSC
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 45 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.43%) Docker
3 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.065%) RACF
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (4.86%) Terraform
2 26 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.17%) Grafana
4 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 7 (0.45%) Ansible
7 5 (0.32%) Control-M
7 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.065%) Kibana
10 1 (0.065%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.065%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.065%) WSUS
Vendors
1 519 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 204 (13.23%) Databricks
3 93 (6.03%) SAP
4 80 (5.19%) ServiceNow
5 77 (4.99%) Oracle
6 51 (3.31%) Google
7 37 (2.40%) Informatica
8 26 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.56%) Workday
10 22 (1.43%) Remedy
11 20 (1.30%) Splunk
12 15 (0.97%) Foundry
13 14 (0.91%) Adobe
13 14 (0.91%) Alteryx
13 14 (0.91%) IFS
14 13 (0.84%) Talend
15 12 (0.78%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.71%) Denodo
17 10 (0.65%) BMC
17 10 (0.65%) Sage