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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 57 68
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,312 1,038 1,162
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.14% 3.69% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.16% 20.21% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 701 829
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% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £670 £703 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 38
10th Percentile - £23.60 £16.30
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.02 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% -7.18% -41.77%
75th Percentile £35.26 £52.25 £52.44
90th Percentile £61.00 £64.73 £79.06
UK median hourly rate £24.02 £27.75 £32.32
% change year-on-year -13.46% -14.14% -35.36%

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 5,431 5,136 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.13% 18.27% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 3,411 4,307
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £660
90th Percentile £716 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 74 131
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.74 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.25 £23.10 £25.32
Median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.80 £72.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +7 741 £500 -3.66% 475
North of England -19 157 £425 -8.11% 164
Midlands -25 118 £463 -3.04% 145
South East -18 117 £475 - 254
West Midlands -33 80 £500 - 88
Yorkshire -12 76 £420 -1.18% 57
North West -27 75 £419 -15.92% 89
South West +1 69 £475 +5.56% 77
East of England +5 47 £613 +36.11% 71
East Midlands -1 38 £371 -3.70% 54
North East -6 6 £475 +5.56% 20
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
1 144 (10.98%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.28%) Confluence
3 38 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (1.68%) Apache
6 19 (1.45%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.61%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.53%) Mendix
10 6 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.23%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
13 1 (0.076%) Kentico
13 1 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.076%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 296 (22.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 46 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (2.21%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.38%) Trello
7 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.30%) Notion
8 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.076%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 60 (4.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.30%) Primavera
6 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.23%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) Actimize
8 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,312 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 489 (37.27%) Azure
3 204 (15.55%) Power Automate
4 189 (14.41%) PowerApps
5 144 (10.98%) AWS
6 125 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (9.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 115 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
9 112 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
10 97 (7.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 88 (6.71%) GCP
12 85 (6.48%) Snowflake
13 51 (3.89%) Microsoft Copilot
14 45 (3.43%) Serverless
15 42 (3.20%) SaaS
16 41 (3.13%) GitHub
17 38 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
18 34 (2.59%) dbt
18 34 (2.59%) Entra ID
19 31 (2.36%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) HTTP
2 4 (0.30%) VoIP
2 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.23%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) 2G
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) DNS
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.15%) LTE
4 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.15%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.15%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.076%) Firewall
5 1 (0.076%) NAS
5 1 (0.076%) Skype
5 1 (0.076%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (15.32%) Tableau
2 154 (11.74%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (7.93%) Data Lake
4 98 (7.47%) SQL Server
5 86 (6.55%) Power Query
6 53 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 52 (3.96%) Metadata
8 49 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 46 (3.51%) Relational Database
10 44 (3.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 43 (3.28%) BigQuery
12 37 (2.82%) Looker
13 28 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
14 25 (1.91%) Data Mining
15 23 (1.75%) Delta Lake
16 22 (1.68%) Big Data
16 22 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
17 21 (1.60%) Star Schema
18 20 (1.52%) NoSQL
18 20 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 112 (8.54%) JIRA
2 56 (4.27%) Git
3 10 (0.76%) GitLab
4 9 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.46%) DBeaver
8 5 (0.38%) NeoLoad
9 3 (0.23%) ERwin
9 3 (0.23%) Postman
9 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.076%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.076%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.076%) Maven
11 1 (0.076%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.076%) Selenium
General
1 462 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 446 (33.99%) Finance
3 306 (23.32%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 128 (9.76%) Banking
6 48 (3.66%) Marketing
7 42 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
8 39 (2.97%) Manufacturing
9 35 (2.67%) Retail
10 32 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.91%) Front Office
14 24 (1.83%) Investment Banking
14 24 (1.83%) Legal
14 24 (1.83%) Local Government
15 19 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.30%) Financial Institution
18 15 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 366 (27.90%) Analyst
2 209 (15.93%) Developer
3 158 (12.04%) Data Engineer
4 156 (11.89%) Data Analyst
5 127 (9.68%) Senior
6 105 (8.00%) Lead
7 98 (7.47%) Business Analyst
8 86 (6.55%) Architect
9 75 (5.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 69 (5.26%) Consultant
11 56 (4.27%) Power BI Developer
12 46 (3.51%) Data Scientist
13 45 (3.43%) Project Manager
13 45 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (3.35%) Data Architect
15 40 (3.05%) Power Platform Developer
16 34 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 33 (2.52%) Power BI Analyst
18 30 (2.29%) Azure Engineer
19 29 (2.21%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (4.27%) PySpark
2 42 (3.20%) .NET
3 37 (2.82%) REST
4 26 (1.98%) HTML
5 25 (1.91%) Kafka
6 23 (1.75%) JSON
7 22 (1.68%) Pandas
7 22 (1.68%) scikit-learn
8 20 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (1.14%) React
10 14 (1.07%) NumPy
11 11 (0.84%) PyTorch
11 11 (0.84%) TensorFlow
12 10 (0.76%) CSS
12 10 (0.76%) Plotly
12 10 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (0.69%) OAuth
13 9 (0.69%) XML
14 8 (0.61%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 46 (3.51%) Product Ownership
2 36 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 33 (2.52%) Low-Code
5 31 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 25 (1.91%) Cloud Native
10 21 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.22%) Derivative
11 16 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.14%) PMI
13 14 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.99%) Reinsurance
15 12 (0.91%) Life Science
16 11 (0.84%) FMCG
17 10 (0.76%) IoT
17 10 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.14%) Windows
2 5 (0.38%) Linux
2 5 (0.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (91.16%) Business Intelligence
2 465 (35.44%) Analytics
3 348 (26.52%) Data Modelling
4 331 (25.23%) Visualisation
5 305 (23.25%) Agile
6 265 (20.20%) Decision-Making
7 242 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
8 212 (16.16%) Data Governance
8 212 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 209 (15.93%) ETL
10 198 (15.09%) Actionable Insight
11 196 (14.94%) Data Analysis
12 192 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
13 191 (14.56%) DevOps
14 157 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 140 (10.67%) Data Engineering
16 138 (10.52%) AI
17 137 (10.44%) CI/CD
17 137 (10.44%) Dashboard Development
17 137 (10.44%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 593 (45.20%) SQL
2 337 (25.69%) Python
3 98 (7.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 65 (4.95%) C#
5 60 (4.57%) JavaScript
5 60 (4.57%) R
6 38 (2.90%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.52%) VBA
8 30 (2.29%) Java
9 26 (1.98%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.91%) Scala
11 15 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.91%) Bicep
13 11 (0.84%) Formula Language
13 11 (0.84%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.53%) Korn
16 5 (0.38%) C++
16 5 (0.38%) X++
17 4 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 179 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 141 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 118 (8.99%) Degree
4 28 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.91%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.60%) PMP
9 15 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.91%) ACCA
11 11 (0.84%) CIMA
12 10 (0.76%) MBA
13 9 (0.69%) CFA
14 8 (0.61%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.53%) CBAP
15 7 (0.53%) DV Cleared
16 6 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
17 5 (0.38%) IIBA
18 4 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (16.69%) Data Quality
2 77 (5.87%) GDPR
3 69 (5.26%) PMO
4 66 (5.03%) QA
5 53 (4.04%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.84%) GRC
9 10 (0.76%) Basel III
10 9 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.53%) IFRS
12 7 (0.53%) NIST
12 7 (0.53%) SLA
13 6 (0.46%) GxP
14 4 (0.30%) P3O
14 4 (0.30%) WCAG
15 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.23%) IFRS 9
15 3 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 28 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.91%) Docker
3 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.076%) HDFS
4 1 (0.076%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (3.35%) Terraform
2 30 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.46%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.46%) SCCM
5 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.15%) Ansible
6 2 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.076%) Control-M
7 1 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.076%) Puppet
7 1 (0.076%) SCOM
7 1 (0.076%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.076%) WSUS
Vendors
1 435 (33.16%) Microsoft
2 149 (11.36%) Databricks
3 101 (7.70%) Oracle
4 79 (6.02%) SAP
5 64 (4.88%) Google
6 43 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 24 (1.83%) Informatica
8 19 (1.45%) Lotus
9 18 (1.37%) Alteryx
10 12 (0.91%) Splunk
11 11 (0.84%) Adobe
11 11 (0.84%) Foundry
11 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.84%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.84%) Planview
12 9 (0.69%) Cognos
13 8 (0.61%) IFS
13 8 (0.61%) Workday
14 7 (0.53%) Virgin Media