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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 63 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,605 940 1,256
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.71% 3.77% 3.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.34% 20.17% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 614 896
10th Percentile £331 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 30 28
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.50 £15.96
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +25.22% -40.09%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £75.04 £53.75 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -8.34% +32.82% -38.52%

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 6,594 4,661 6,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.25% 18.69% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,467 3,235 4,669
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £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 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 86 144
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -14.53% -29.76%
75th Percentile £73.00 £64.31 £53.84
90th Percentile £81.43 £78.10 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -30.43%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +5 815 £500 +0.50% 209
South East +17 231 £500 +9.59% 183
Midlands +2 190 £463 -4.64% 104
North of England -23 181 £450 +0.28% 117
West Midlands -15 133 £450 -10.00% 57
North West -4 104 £463 -2.63% 73
South West +5 99 £450 +10.02% 55
Yorkshire -48 62 £438 +3.06% 32
East Midlands +20 56 £470 +7.43% 46
East of England -18 39 £400 -20.00% 42
North East -28 16 £438 -2.78% 15
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
1 129 (8.04%) SharePoint
2 73 (4.55%) Confluence
3 42 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.74%) Apache
4 28 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (1.18%) SAS
6 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.50%) Apache Superset
7 8 (0.50%) HCL Notes
8 7 (0.44%) Mendix
8 7 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.31%) CMS
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
11 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.19%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.062%) Appian
13 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 317 (19.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Notion
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.062%) CATIA
9 1 (0.062%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.062%) InDesign
9 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (1.00%) iTrent
5 9 (0.56%) Primavera
6 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.12%) Maximo
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,605 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 595 (37.07%) Azure
3 216 (13.46%) AWS
4 163 (10.16%) Power Automate
5 146 (9.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 142 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (8.79%) PowerApps
8 125 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 113 (7.04%) Snowflake
10 106 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
11 93 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
12 82 (5.11%) Serverless
13 79 (4.92%) GCP
14 75 (4.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 62 (3.86%) GitHub
16 60 (3.74%) Amazon S3
16 60 (3.74%) dbt
17 47 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
18 44 (2.74%) Copilot Studio
19 43 (2.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.00%) Firewall
2 13 (0.81%) VPN
3 10 (0.62%) DNS
4 4 (0.25%) Network Security
5 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.12%) 4G
6 2 (0.12%) 5G
6 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
6 2 (0.12%) Intranet
6 2 (0.12%) LTE
6 2 (0.12%) Microwave Backhaul
6 2 (0.12%) MPLS
6 2 (0.12%) NAS
6 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.12%) SAN
6 2 (0.12%) SMTP
6 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (16.39%) Data Warehouse
2 258 (16.07%) Tableau
3 154 (9.60%) Data Lake
4 120 (7.48%) Power Query
4 120 (7.48%) SQL Server
5 75 (4.67%) Metadata
6 56 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 55 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (3.36%) Star Schema
9 52 (3.24%) Relational Database
10 50 (3.12%) Looker
11 47 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
12 39 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (2.18%) BigQuery
15 34 (2.12%) Spark SQL
16 29 (1.81%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.81%) NoSQL
17 28 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
18 26 (1.62%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 143 (8.91%) JIRA
2 72 (4.49%) Git
3 30 (1.87%) GitLab
4 14 (0.87%) ERwin
5 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.31%) MLflow
6 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.25%) JUnit
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) JMeter
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.062%) GCC
10 1 (0.062%) Hudson
General
1 495 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 491 (30.59%) Finance
3 368 (22.93%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 110 (6.85%) Banking
6 63 (3.93%) Retail
7 51 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.05%) Law
9 47 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 40 (2.49%) Marketing
12 31 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.31%) Investment Banking
15 21 (1.31%) Local Government
16 20 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.12%) Legal
18 15 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 416 (25.92%) Analyst
2 264 (16.45%) Data Engineer
3 223 (13.89%) Developer
4 200 (12.46%) Data Analyst
5 195 (12.15%) Senior
6 174 (10.84%) Architect
7 146 (9.10%) Lead
8 115 (7.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 91 (5.67%) Power BI Developer
10 84 (5.23%) Business Analyst
11 72 (4.49%) Senior Data Engineer
12 69 (4.30%) Consultant
13 63 (3.93%) Data Architect
14 47 (2.93%) Project Manager
15 46 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 40 (2.49%) Power Platform Developer
17 39 (2.43%) Lead Architect
18 36 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
19 35 (2.18%) Senior Developer
20 34 (2.12%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (6.17%) PySpark
2 54 (3.36%) REST
3 37 (2.31%) .NET
4 35 (2.18%) Kafka
5 23 (1.43%) JSON
6 22 (1.37%) Pandas
7 20 (1.25%) React
8 19 (1.18%) HTML
8 19 (1.18%) Middleware
9 15 (0.93%) CSS
10 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (0.81%) Great Expectations
11 13 (0.81%) XML
11 13 (0.81%) YAML
12 12 (0.75%) ADO
12 12 (0.75%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.50%) JDO
14 7 (0.44%) RESTful
14 7 (0.44%) Spark Streaming
14 7 (0.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 72 (4.49%) Cloud Native
2 67 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 47 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 43 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.43%) CMDB
7 23 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.37%) Low-Code
9 18 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (0.87%) Clustering
12 13 (0.81%) NHS
13 12 (0.75%) FMCG
13 12 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.75%) IoT
13 12 (0.75%) PKI
13 12 (0.75%) Reference Data
14 10 (0.62%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.99%) Windows
2 17 (1.06%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.56%) Unix
4 8 (0.50%) Linux
5 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.25%) Android
6 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,494 (93.08%) Business Intelligence
2 676 (42.12%) Analytics
3 529 (32.96%) Data Modelling
4 377 (23.49%) Agile
5 357 (22.24%) ETL
6 337 (21.00%) Decision-Making
7 336 (20.93%) Visualisation
8 291 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
9 287 (17.88%) AI
10 266 (16.57%) Data Engineering
10 266 (16.57%) Data Pipeline
11 262 (16.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 258 (16.07%) Data Governance
12 258 (16.07%) DevOps
13 240 (14.95%) CI/CD
14 239 (14.89%) Migration
15 237 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 226 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 208 (12.96%) Data Visualisation
18 204 (12.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 759 (47.29%) SQL
2 397 (24.74%) Python
3 188 (11.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 70 (4.36%) PowerShell
5 66 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 63 (3.93%) C#
7 57 (3.55%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.12%) R
9 43 (2.68%) Java
10 26 (1.62%) VBA
11 20 (1.25%) Bicep
12 15 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.75%) Scala
14 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.31%) C
16 5 (0.31%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.31%) LotusScript
17 4 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 279 (17.38%) Security Cleared
2 218 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 149 (9.28%) Degree
4 39 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.68%) DBS Check
9 21 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.18%) PMI Certification
11 17 (1.06%) PMP
12 12 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) CISSP
14 6 (0.37%) ACCA
15 5 (0.31%) MBA
15 5 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
15 5 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (23.93%) Data Quality
2 113 (7.04%) GDPR
3 94 (5.86%) PMO
4 72 (4.49%) QA
5 31 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (1.00%) SLA
7 15 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.69%) GRC
9 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.44%) Basel III
11 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.31%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.25%) P3O
14 3 (0.19%) GAAP
14 3 (0.19%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) NCSC
15 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.31%) Docker
3 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.062%) RACF
5 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (4.86%) Terraform
2 26 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.18%) Grafana
4 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.56%) SCCM
6 7 (0.44%) Ansible
7 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) Control-M
9 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.062%) Kibana
11 1 (0.062%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.062%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.062%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.062%) WSUS
Vendors
1 550 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 203 (12.65%) Databricks
3 101 (6.29%) SAP
4 84 (5.23%) ServiceNow
5 75 (4.67%) Oracle
6 49 (3.05%) Google
7 44 (2.74%) Informatica
8 30 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.56%) Workday
10 22 (1.37%) Remedy
11 21 (1.31%) Splunk
12 19 (1.18%) Alteryx
13 15 (0.93%) Adobe
13 15 (0.93%) Foundry
14 14 (0.87%) IFS
14 14 (0.87%) Talend
15 13 (0.81%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.69%) BMC
16 11 (0.69%) Denodo
17 10 (0.62%) OpenAI