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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 55 63
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,376 988 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.88% 3.84% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.92% 20.48% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 667 863
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £489
% change year-on-year -4.04% +1.28% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 37
10th Percentile £13.54 £25.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.38 £15.59
Median hourly rate £23.03 £28.84 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% +24.21% -61.31%
75th Percentile £42.88 £56.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £62.70
UK median hourly rate £24.22 £28.60 £23.22
% change year-on-year -15.31% +23.20% -60.49%

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 5,752 4,825 6,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.23% 18.77% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,003 3,281 4,337
10th Percentile £342 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.84% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 85 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.68
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £53.25 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% -4.71% -24.01%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.25 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.73% -10.33% -22.73%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +4 761 £500 -2.44% 151
South East -14 147 £500 +6.67% 109
North of England -36 147 £438 -7.79% 98
Midlands -14 137 £450 -6.44% 87
West Midlands -28 90 £475 -4.04% 61
North West -17 84 £425 -19.05% 59
South West -2 72 £475 +5.56% 46
Yorkshire -50 54 £450 +9.76% 29
East of England -10 51 £545 +22.82% 19
East Midlands +5 47 £367 -18.56% 25
North East -10 9 £475 -1.30% 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
1 128 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.56%) Confluence
3 46 (3.34%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.03%) Apache
5 21 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.02%) HCL Notes
7 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.65%) Mendix
9 6 (0.44%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.36%) SAS
11 4 (0.29%) CMS
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Pig
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.073%) IIS
14 1 (0.073%) SharePoint Server
14 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
Applications
1 279 (20.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.22%) Notion
7 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.073%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.073%) CATIA
9 1 (0.073%) InDesign
9 1 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.073%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (3.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
4 6 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.22%) iTrent
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.22%) Primavera
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,376 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 524 (38.08%) Azure
3 200 (14.53%) Power Automate
4 174 (12.65%) PowerApps
5 161 (11.70%) AWS
6 145 (10.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 123 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
9 115 (8.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 99 (7.19%) Dynamics 365
11 96 (6.98%) GCP
12 91 (6.61%) Snowflake
13 65 (4.72%) Microsoft Copilot
14 60 (4.36%) Serverless
15 51 (3.71%) GitHub
16 45 (3.27%) Copilot Studio
17 44 (3.20%) SaaS
18 39 (2.83%) dbt
19 37 (2.69%) Azure Functions
19 37 (2.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) HTTP
2 4 (0.29%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) 5G
3 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.22%) LTE
3 3 (0.22%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
3 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.15%) 2G
4 2 (0.15%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.15%) VoIP
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.073%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.073%) DHCP
5 1 (0.073%) DNS
5 1 (0.073%) LAN
5 1 (0.073%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (16.13%) Tableau
2 172 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (8.72%) Data Lake
4 106 (7.70%) SQL Server
5 80 (5.81%) Power Query
6 63 (4.58%) Metadata
7 55 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 52 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (3.71%) BigQuery
9 51 (3.71%) Looker
10 44 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 40 (2.91%) Relational Database
12 35 (2.54%) Delta Lake
13 28 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (1.89%) NoSQL
15 25 (1.82%) Mixpanel
15 25 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
15 25 (1.82%) Spark SQL
16 24 (1.74%) Star Schema
17 20 (1.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 114 (8.28%) JIRA
2 72 (5.23%) Git
3 17 (1.24%) GitLab
4 13 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.65%) ERwin
6 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.36%) NeoLoad
8 4 (0.29%) DBeaver
8 4 (0.29%) Postman
8 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.073%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.073%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 469 (34.08%) Social Skills
2 436 (31.69%) Finance
3 331 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.92%) Banking
6 44 (3.20%) Marketing
7 38 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (2.76%) Retail
8 32 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.16%) Legal
13 16 (1.16%) Local Government
14 15 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.09%) Publishing
15 14 (1.02%) Front Office
15 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 372 (27.03%) Analyst
2 213 (15.48%) Developer
3 208 (15.12%) Data Engineer
4 160 (11.63%) Data Analyst
5 154 (11.19%) Senior
6 121 (8.79%) Lead
7 98 (7.12%) Business Analyst
8 96 (6.98%) Architect
9 82 (5.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 69 (5.01%) Consultant
11 59 (4.29%) Power BI Developer
12 44 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
13 43 (3.13%) Data Architect
13 43 (3.13%) PMO Analyst
14 42 (3.05%) Project Manager
15 40 (2.91%) Power Platform Developer
16 39 (2.83%) Senior Data Engineer
17 38 (2.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 37 (2.69%) Data Scientist
19 29 (2.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.23%) PySpark
2 42 (3.05%) REST
3 33 (2.40%) .NET
4 31 (2.25%) Kafka
5 29 (2.11%) Pandas
6 25 (1.82%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.60%) JSON
8 21 (1.53%) HTML
9 17 (1.24%) HTML5 Canvas
9 17 (1.24%) React
10 16 (1.16%) Great Expectations
11 15 (1.09%) NumPy
11 15 (1.09%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.09%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.02%) XML
12 14 (1.02%) YAML
13 12 (0.87%) Spark Streaming
14 10 (0.73%) Plotly
15 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
15 9 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (3.56%) Product Ownership
2 44 (3.20%) Data Structures
3 41 (2.98%) Cloud Native
4 37 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 34 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.33%) Low-Code
7 30 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 25 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.31%) PMI
12 16 (1.16%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.02%) Data Centre
14 13 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
16 9 (0.65%) CMDB
16 9 (0.65%) FMCG
16 9 (0.65%) SCADA
17 8 (0.58%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.02%) Windows
2 6 (0.44%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.36%) Unix
3 5 (0.36%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,277 (92.81%) Business Intelligence
2 551 (40.04%) Analytics
3 421 (30.60%) Data Modelling
4 347 (25.22%) Visualisation
5 318 (23.11%) Agile
6 290 (21.08%) Decision-Making
7 270 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
8 265 (19.26%) ETL
9 247 (17.95%) Data Governance
10 216 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 209 (15.19%) Data Visualisation
12 207 (15.04%) DevOps
13 205 (14.90%) Actionable Insight
14 202 (14.68%) Data Engineering
15 197 (14.32%) Data Analysis
16 194 (14.10%) AI
17 177 (12.86%) Data Pipeline
18 176 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 173 (12.57%) CI/CD
20 160 (11.63%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 640 (46.51%) SQL
2 356 (25.87%) Python
3 125 (9.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (4.94%) C#
5 55 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 53 (3.85%) R
7 49 (3.56%) PowerShell
8 35 (2.54%) VBA
9 31 (2.25%) T-SQL
10 24 (1.74%) Java
11 21 (1.53%) Bicep
12 19 (1.38%) Scala
13 12 (0.87%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.73%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.73%) LotusScript
14 10 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.36%) Korn
15 5 (0.36%) X++
16 4 (0.29%) LookML
16 4 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 217 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 170 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.08%) Degree
4 31 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (2.18%) Azure Certification
5 30 (2.18%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.96%) PMP
7 24 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.87%) MBA
10 11 (0.80%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.65%) CBAP
11 9 (0.65%) CIMA
12 8 (0.58%) ACCA
12 8 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
13 4 (0.29%) CFA
13 4 (0.29%) IIBA
14 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (21.15%) Data Quality
2 93 (6.76%) PMO
3 91 (6.61%) GDPR
4 75 (5.45%) QA
5 53 (3.85%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.87%) SLA
8 11 (0.80%) Basel III
8 11 (0.80%) GRC
9 10 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.36%) NIST
11 5 (0.36%) P3O
12 4 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.22%) GAAP
13 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.22%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
14 2 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 29 (2.11%) Active Directory
1 29 (2.11%) Docker
2 4 (0.29%) HDFS
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 71 (5.16%) Terraform
2 36 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.65%) SCCM
5 6 (0.44%) Ansible
6 5 (0.36%) RSA Archer
7 4 (0.29%) Grafana
7 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.22%) Kibana
9 2 (0.15%) Control-M
10 1 (0.073%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.073%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.073%) SCOM
10 1 (0.073%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 447 (32.49%) Microsoft
2 183 (13.30%) Databricks
3 89 (6.47%) Oracle
4 68 (4.94%) SAP
5 65 (4.72%) Google
6 54 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 41 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.11%) Informatica
9 19 (1.38%) Foundry
10 14 (1.02%) Lotus
10 14 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.87%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.87%) Planview
12 11 (0.80%) Alteryx
12 11 (0.80%) Sage
12 11 (0.80%) Talend
13 10 (0.73%) Cognos
14 9 (0.65%) Kofax
14 9 (0.65%) Workday
15 8 (0.58%) Amplitude