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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,679 1,071 1,136
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.62% 3.86% 3.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.13% 21.39% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 713 783
10th Percentile £320 £310 £300
25th Percentile £403 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 19 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £20.70 £19.97
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.04 £25.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -13.78%
75th Percentile £53.75 £41.75 £59.86
90th Percentile £72.66 £54.50 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £33.03 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.89% +10.08% -13.78%

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 6,958 5,007 5,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.99% 18.03% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,651 3,442 4,132
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -6.91% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 80 80
10th Percentile £15.72 £21.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.40 £30.55 £21.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £42.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +15.85% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 0 885 £500 - 1,106
North of England -12 233 £440 +3.53% 328
South East +7 213 £475 +8.57% 382
Midlands +8 189 £475 +2.15% 247
West Midlands -6 130 £475 -3.85% 169
North West +2 124 £500 +17.65% 185
Yorkshire -28 90 £425 +1.19% 108
South West -18 87 £425 +3.03% 132
East Midlands +24 58 £470 +12.24% 78
East of England -27 36 £576 +0.17% 120
North East -24 23 £363 -23.68% 36
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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
1 168 (10.01%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.11%) Confluence
3 31 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.55%) SAS
5 24 (1.43%) Apache Spark
6 21 (1.25%) Apache
7 13 (0.77%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.36%) Mendix
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.060%) Appian
13 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 325 (19.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (2.98%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (1.37%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.66%) Navisworks
7 11 (0.66%) Revit
8 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.42%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.42%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.12%) Notion
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.95%) iTrent
5 12 (0.71%) Primavera
6 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.48%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 6 (0.36%) Maximo
8 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,679 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 622 (37.05%) Azure
3 203 (12.09%) Power Automate
4 200 (11.91%) AWS
5 172 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
6 170 (10.13%) PowerApps
7 137 (8.16%) Snowflake
8 134 (7.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 117 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
10 115 (6.85%) Dynamics 365
11 101 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 101 (6.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 77 (4.59%) Serverless
13 74 (4.41%) dbt
14 63 (3.75%) GCP
15 62 (3.69%) GitHub
16 58 (3.45%) Amazon S3
17 54 (3.22%) Entra ID
18 47 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
19 45 (2.68%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) Firewall
1 11 (0.66%) SSL
2 8 (0.48%) DNS
2 8 (0.48%) VPN
3 7 (0.42%) Broadband
4 2 (0.12%) Internet
4 2 (0.12%) NAS
4 2 (0.12%) Network Security
4 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.12%) SAN
5 1 (0.060%) 4G
5 1 (0.060%) 5G
5 1 (0.060%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.060%) LAN
5 1 (0.060%) Mobile Backhaul
5 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.060%) SSH
5 1 (0.060%) VoIP
5 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (15.60%) Data Warehouse
2 240 (14.29%) Tableau
3 143 (8.52%) Data Lake
4 135 (8.04%) Power Query
5 128 (7.62%) SQL Server
6 82 (4.88%) Metadata
7 66 (3.93%) Star Schema
8 56 (3.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.04%) Relational Database
10 49 (2.92%) Looker
11 48 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
12 42 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 37 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
15 33 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 31 (1.85%) BigQuery
17 27 (1.61%) NoSQL
17 27 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
18 24 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 22 (1.31%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 145 (8.64%) JIRA
2 67 (3.99%) Git
3 28 (1.67%) GitLab
4 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.36%) ERwin
6 5 (0.30%) MLflow
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.24%) JUnit
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.18%) JMeter
8 3 (0.18%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.060%) Claude Code
General
1 569 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 495 (29.48%) Finance
3 433 (25.79%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 120 (7.15%) Banking
6 76 (4.53%) Retail
7 64 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.22%) Marketing
9 53 (3.16%) Manufacturing
10 51 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 42 (2.50%) Law
13 40 (2.38%) Local Government
14 39 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.43%) Legal
16 23 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.07%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.01%) Investment Banking
18 17 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 435 (25.91%) Analyst
2 248 (14.77%) Developer
3 214 (12.75%) Data Engineer
4 212 (12.63%) Data Analyst
5 192 (11.44%) Senior
6 176 (10.48%) Architect
7 138 (8.22%) Lead
8 118 (7.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 95 (5.66%) Power BI Developer
10 94 (5.60%) Business Analyst
11 79 (4.71%) Data Architect
12 76 (4.53%) Consultant
13 55 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
14 52 (3.10%) Project Manager
15 49 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
16 47 (2.80%) Power Platform Developer
17 38 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 38 (2.26%) Performance Analyst
18 35 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
19 34 (2.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.42%) PySpark
2 67 (3.99%) Terraform
3 66 (3.93%) .NET
4 64 (3.81%) REST
5 25 (1.49%) Kafka
6 24 (1.43%) React
7 21 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
8 20 (1.19%) HTML
8 20 (1.19%) JSON
9 18 (1.07%) Middleware
10 15 (0.89%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (0.83%) CSS
12 10 (0.60%) ADO
12 10 (0.60%) Pandas
13 9 (0.54%) SOAP
14 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.48%) EDI
14 8 (0.48%) Web Services
15 7 (0.42%) jQuery
15 7 (0.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 75 (4.47%) Management Information System
3 62 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 59 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 30 (1.79%) Clustering
8 25 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.19%) FMCG
11 19 (1.13%) CMDB
12 18 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.95%) NHS
14 15 (0.89%) Data Centre
15 14 (0.83%) Reference Data
16 13 (0.77%) Life Science
17 12 (0.71%) Replication
17 12 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.04%) Windows
2 24 (1.43%) Windows Server
3 16 (0.95%) Linux
4 10 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.60%) Unix
5 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.12%) VMS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,574 (93.75%) Business Intelligence
2 683 (40.68%) Analytics
3 519 (30.91%) Data Modelling
4 414 (24.66%) Agile
5 412 (24.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 375 (22.33%) Decision-Making
7 337 (20.07%) Visualisation
8 330 (19.65%) AI
9 318 (18.94%) ETL
10 317 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
11 302 (17.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 289 (17.21%) DevOps
13 276 (16.44%) Migration
14 275 (16.38%) CI/CD
15 267 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 261 (15.54%) Data Governance
17 254 (15.13%) Data Pipeline
18 251 (14.95%) Data Engineering
19 242 (14.41%) Validation
20 218 (12.98%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 786 (46.81%) SQL
2 378 (22.51%) Python
3 189 (11.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 93 (5.54%) JavaScript
5 88 (5.24%) PowerShell
6 71 (4.23%) C#
7 65 (3.87%) T-SQL
8 43 (2.56%) R
9 39 (2.32%) Java
10 22 (1.31%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.25%) VBA
12 13 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.54%) Bash
14 8 (0.48%) Bicep
14 8 (0.48%) Scala
14 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.30%) Korn
15 5 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.30%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 306 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 236 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 157 (9.35%) Degree
4 51 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 23 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.95%) PMP
11 15 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (0.66%) ACCA
12 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.54%) CIMA
14 9 (0.54%) CISSP
15 8 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 402 (23.94%) Data Quality
2 82 (4.88%) QA
3 78 (4.65%) PMO
4 77 (4.59%) GDPR
5 34 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.89%) GRC
7 13 (0.77%) ISO 19650
8 10 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.54%) SLA
10 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.30%) GMP
12 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
13 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.18%) NIST
14 3 (0.18%) P3O
14 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.89%) Docker
3 13 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.060%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.19%) Grafana
3 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.89%) SCOM
5 12 (0.71%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) Control-M
7 7 (0.42%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.060%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 680 (40.50%) Microsoft
2 208 (12.39%) Databricks
3 112 (6.67%) SAP
4 102 (6.08%) ServiceNow
5 80 (4.76%) Oracle
6 47 (2.80%) Google
7 41 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 37 (2.20%) Informatica
9 33 (1.97%) Splunk
10 28 (1.67%) Alteryx
11 27 (1.61%) Remedy
12 21 (1.25%) Workday
13 20 (1.19%) BMC
14 17 (1.01%) Adobe
15 16 (0.95%) Denodo
16 15 (0.89%) Dynatrace
17 13 (0.77%) VMware
18 12 (0.71%) Autodesk
19 11 (0.66%) Teradata
20 10 (0.60%) MicroStrategy