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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 61 58
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,642 1,113 1,153
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 3.95% 3.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.07% 21.82% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 759 774
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £578 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 15 23
10th Percentile £17.97 £18.25 £20.15
25th Percentile £20.92 £18.38 £25.26
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.01 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.95% -16.63% -23.57%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £60.20 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -21.05%

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 6,821 5,100 5,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.56% 18.12% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,518 3,505 3,939
10th Percentile £353 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £663
90th Percentile £717 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 72 83
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.17 £29.00 £22.20
Median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.13 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.15
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £33.93
% change year-on-year +1.77% +16.36% -33.54%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -8 859 £500 - 655
North of England -6 246 £440 +3.53% 238
South East -6 194 £500 +14.29% 197
Midlands +10 186 £473 -3.13% 159
West Midlands -5 136 £471 -5.90% 108
North West -5 134 £475 +10.14% 144
Yorkshire -18 91 £425 +6.31% 67
South West -34 75 £438 +2.94% 78
East Midlands +16 49 £475 +11.76% 51
East of England -20 46 £600 +3.90% 102
North East -16 25 £350 -28.21% 28
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
1 160 (9.74%) SharePoint
2 74 (4.51%) Confluence
3 31 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.58%) SAS
5 25 (1.52%) Apache
6 23 (1.40%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.73%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.37%) Mendix
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.24%) CMS
12 3 (0.18%) IIS
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.12%) nginx
13 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.061%) Appian
Applications
1 312 (19.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 40 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.61%) Navisworks
6 10 (0.61%) Revit
7 8 (0.49%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.49%) ProjectWise
8 3 (0.18%) Productboard
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
10 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 39 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 21 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.91%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 12 (0.73%) Primavera
6 11 (0.67%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.37%) iTrent
7 6 (0.37%) Maximo
7 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
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%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.12%) SAP EWM
11 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,642 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 614 (37.39%) Azure
3 194 (11.81%) Power Automate
4 174 (10.60%) AWS
5 173 (10.54%) PowerApps
6 171 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
7 137 (8.34%) Snowflake
8 136 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 114 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
10 107 (6.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 97 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 91 (5.54%) Dynamics 365
13 73 (4.45%) dbt
14 65 (3.96%) Serverless
15 64 (3.90%) GCP
16 63 (3.84%) GitHub
17 55 (3.35%) Entra ID
18 53 (3.23%) Amazon S3
19 50 (3.05%) Copilot Studio
19 50 (3.05%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.73%) Firewall
2 11 (0.67%) SSL
3 9 (0.55%) DNS
4 7 (0.43%) Broadband
4 7 (0.43%) VPN
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 2 (0.12%) Internet
6 2 (0.12%) NAS
6 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.12%) SAN
6 2 (0.12%) VoIP
7 1 (0.061%) 5G
7 1 (0.061%) CTI
7 1 (0.061%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.061%) Mobile Backhaul
7 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.061%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.061%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.061%) SSH
7 1 (0.061%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (15.16%) Data Warehouse
2 226 (13.76%) Tableau
3 142 (8.65%) Data Lake
4 134 (8.16%) Power Query
5 133 (8.10%) SQL Server
6 85 (5.18%) Metadata
7 63 (3.84%) Star Schema
8 59 (3.59%) Looker
9 54 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 48 (2.92%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 38 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (2.31%) Semantic Layer
13 35 (2.13%) BigQuery
14 34 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 29 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (1.40%) BusinessObjects
16 23 (1.40%) NoSQL
17 22 (1.34%) MySQL
17 22 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 145 (8.83%) JIRA
2 64 (3.90%) Git
3 31 (1.89%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.37%) JMeter
5 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.30%) Postman
6 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.24%) JUnit
7 4 (0.24%) MLflow
7 4 (0.24%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.18%) Applitools
8 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.18%) Newman
8 3 (0.18%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) ERwin
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 565 (34.41%) Social Skills
2 462 (28.14%) Finance
3 419 (25.52%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (9.87%) Public Sector
5 126 (7.67%) Banking
6 72 (4.38%) Retail
7 60 (3.65%) Manufacturing
8 53 (3.23%) Marketing
9 52 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 46 (2.80%) Local Government
11 45 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 45 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.89%) Legal
14 24 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.40%) Law
16 21 (1.28%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 424 (25.82%) Analyst
2 265 (16.14%) Developer
3 201 (12.24%) Data Analyst
4 188 (11.45%) Data Engineer
5 184 (11.21%) Senior
6 152 (9.26%) Architect
7 126 (7.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 124 (7.55%) Lead
9 96 (5.85%) Power BI Developer
10 95 (5.79%) Business Analyst
11 78 (4.75%) Data Architect
12 74 (4.51%) Consultant
13 53 (3.23%) Project Manager
14 52 (3.17%) Power Platform Developer
15 49 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
16 48 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
17 38 (2.31%) Performance Analyst
18 37 (2.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 33 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
20 31 (1.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (4.81%) PySpark
2 69 (4.20%) REST
3 67 (4.08%) Terraform
4 65 (3.96%) .NET
5 23 (1.40%) React
6 22 (1.34%) JSON
6 22 (1.34%) Kafka
7 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
8 16 (0.97%) HTML
9 15 (0.91%) Middleware
10 14 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (0.55%) ADO
11 9 (0.55%) CSS
11 9 (0.55%) EDI
11 9 (0.55%) SOAP
11 9 (0.55%) YAML
12 8 (0.49%) .NET Core
13 7 (0.43%) jQuery
13 7 (0.43%) OAuth
13 7 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.12%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.87%) Data Structures
3 69 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.35%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.01%) Clustering
8 31 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 28 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.71%) Low-Code
10 26 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.28%) CMDB
12 19 (1.16%) FMCG
13 17 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.04%) NHS
14 16 (0.97%) Data Centre
15 15 (0.91%) Life Science
15 15 (0.91%) Reference Data
16 13 (0.79%) Replication
17 12 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.05%) Windows
2 22 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.04%) Linux
4 10 (0.61%) Unix
5 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.30%) Android
6 5 (0.30%) macOS
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 1,556 (94.76%) Business Intelligence
2 679 (41.35%) Analytics
3 523 (31.85%) Data Modelling
4 467 (28.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 406 (24.73%) Agile
6 398 (24.24%) Decision-Making
7 353 (21.50%) AI
8 332 (20.22%) Visualisation
9 300 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
10 293 (17.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 289 (17.60%) ETL
12 287 (17.48%) DevOps
13 274 (16.69%) Data Governance
14 262 (15.96%) CI/CD
15 253 (15.41%) Data Engineering
16 249 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 249 (15.16%) Migration
17 248 (15.10%) Validation
18 230 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
19 220 (13.40%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 780 (47.50%) SQL
2 353 (21.50%) Python
3 186 (11.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 98 (5.97%) JavaScript
5 84 (5.12%) PowerShell
6 76 (4.63%) C#
7 60 (3.65%) T-SQL
8 39 (2.38%) R
9 36 (2.19%) Java
10 24 (1.46%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.10%) VBA
12 13 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.61%) Bash
14 9 (0.55%) Bicep
15 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.24%) Korn
17 4 (0.24%) X++
18 3 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 304 (18.51%) Security Cleared
2 236 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 143 (8.71%) Degree
4 52 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 44 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 24 (1.46%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.22%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.10%) PMP
13 11 (0.67%) ACCA
13 11 (0.67%) CIMA
13 11 (0.67%) CISSP
13 11 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 7 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 431 (26.25%) Data Quality
2 76 (4.63%) QA
3 74 (4.51%) PMO
4 58 (3.53%) GDPR
5 34 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (0.91%) SLA
8 14 (0.85%) GRC
8 14 (0.85%) ISO 19650
9 8 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.49%) NIST
10 6 (0.37%) COBIT
10 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.30%) GMP
11 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.18%) P3O
12 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.97%) Docker
3 13 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.061%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.40%) Grafana
3 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.91%) SCOM
5 13 (0.79%) Ansible
6 12 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.37%) Control-M
8 6 (0.37%) SCCM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.061%) Kibana
11 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 671 (40.86%) Microsoft
2 213 (12.97%) Databricks
3 94 (5.72%) SAP
4 88 (5.36%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.63%) Oracle
6 55 (3.35%) Google
7 40 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 37 (2.25%) Informatica
9 30 (1.83%) Remedy
10 28 (1.71%) Alteryx
10 28 (1.71%) Splunk
11 18 (1.10%) BMC
12 15 (0.91%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.91%) Workday
13 14 (0.85%) Denodo
14 13 (0.79%) Adobe
14 13 (0.79%) Autodesk
14 13 (0.79%) VMware
15 11 (0.67%) Teradata
15 11 (0.67%) UiPath