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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 57 59
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,638 1,107 1,154
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 3.95% 3.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.22% 21.75% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 750 776
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 £579 £594
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 90 15 23
10th Percentile £17.97 £18.25 £20.15
25th Percentile £21.08 £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 6,764 5,090 5,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.62% 18.15% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,491 3,480 3,992
10th Percentile £351 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -6.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £715 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 72 85
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.24% +11.31% -33.33%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -5 858 £500 - 1,315
North of England -12 240 £440 +3.53% 438
South East -5 197 £500 +14.29% 427
Midlands +11 186 £475 -1.86% 308
West Midlands +3 135 £475 -5.00% 201
North West -8 130 £475 +8.57% 270
Yorkshire -12 89 £425 +6.25% 126
South West -30 76 £438 +2.94% 179
East Midlands +15 50 £525 +23.53% 107
East of England -24 46 £600 +3.90% 181
North East -23 25 £350 -26.32% 43
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 (9.77%) SharePoint
2 73 (4.46%) Confluence
3 30 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.59%) SAS
5 24 (1.47%) 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 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.31%) 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%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 312 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 41 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (1.10%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.67%) Navisworks
7 11 (0.67%) Revit
8 8 (0.49%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.49%) ProjectWise
9 3 (0.18%) Productboard
10 2 (0.12%) Notion
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
3 20 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.92%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 12 (0.73%) Primavera
6 10 (0.61%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.49%) iTrent
8 6 (0.37%) Maximo
8 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.24%) 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%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.12%) SAP EWM
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,638 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 603 (36.81%) Azure
3 195 (11.90%) Power Automate
4 174 (10.62%) AWS
5 173 (10.56%) PowerApps
6 169 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
7 137 (8.36%) Snowflake
8 136 (8.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 112 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
10 106 (6.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 98 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 93 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
13 73 (4.46%) dbt
14 65 (3.97%) Serverless
15 63 (3.85%) GCP
16 62 (3.79%) GitHub
17 54 (3.30%) Amazon S3
18 53 (3.24%) Entra ID
19 51 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
20 49 (2.99%) Copilot Studio
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%) 4G
7 1 (0.061%) CTI
7 1 (0.061%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.061%) LAN
7 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.061%) PBX
7 1 (0.061%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.061%) SSH
7 1 (0.061%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 229 (13.98%) Tableau
3 142 (8.67%) Data Lake
4 136 (8.30%) Power Query
5 131 (8.00%) SQL Server
6 91 (5.56%) Metadata
7 65 (3.97%) Star Schema
8 57 (3.48%) Looker
9 55 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 47 (2.87%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 39 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
13 35 (2.14%) BigQuery
13 35 (2.14%) Semantic Layer
13 35 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 29 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.53%) NoSQL
16 23 (1.40%) BusinessObjects
17 22 (1.34%) MySQL
17 22 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 143 (8.73%) JIRA
2 64 (3.91%) Git
3 31 (1.89%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.31%) JMeter
5 5 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.31%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.24%) ERwin
6 4 (0.24%) JUnit
6 4 (0.24%) MLflow
6 4 (0.24%) Postman
6 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.18%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Applitools
8 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.12%) Newman
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 567 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 465 (28.39%) Finance
3 417 (25.46%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 126 (7.69%) Banking
6 74 (4.52%) Retail
7 58 (3.54%) Manufacturing
8 54 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 53 (3.24%) Marketing
10 46 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (2.69%) Local Government
12 43 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (1.89%) Legal
15 24 (1.47%) Financial Institution
16 22 (1.34%) Law
17 21 (1.28%) Aerospace
18 20 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (1.10%) Publishing
20 17 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 423 (25.82%) Analyst
2 267 (16.30%) Developer
3 198 (12.09%) Data Analyst
4 188 (11.48%) Data Engineer
5 183 (11.17%) Senior
6 154 (9.40%) Architect
7 127 (7.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 123 (7.51%) Lead
9 97 (5.92%) Power BI Developer
10 94 (5.74%) Business Analyst
11 80 (4.88%) Data Architect
12 74 (4.52%) Consultant
13 54 (3.30%) Power Platform Developer
14 52 (3.17%) Project Manager
15 49 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
15 49 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
16 38 (2.32%) Performance Analyst
17 36 (2.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 33 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
19 31 (1.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (5.01%) PySpark
2 67 (4.09%) REST
2 67 (4.09%) Terraform
3 63 (3.85%) .NET
4 23 (1.40%) React
5 22 (1.34%) Kafka
6 21 (1.28%) JSON
6 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (0.98%) HTML
7 16 (0.98%) Middleware
8 14 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
9 9 (0.55%) CSS
9 9 (0.55%) EDI
9 9 (0.55%) SOAP
9 9 (0.55%) YAML
10 8 (0.49%) .NET Core
10 8 (0.49%) ADO
11 7 (0.43%) jQuery
11 7 (0.43%) OAuth
11 7 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 79 (4.82%) Data Structures
3 69 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.36%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.95%) Clustering
8 29 (1.77%) AI Agents
9 28 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.65%) Low-Code
11 23 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.28%) CMDB
13 18 (1.10%) FMCG
14 16 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.98%) NHS
15 15 (0.92%) Data Centre
15 15 (0.92%) Reference Data
16 13 (0.79%) Life Science
16 13 (0.79%) Replication
16 13 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.99%) 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 (0.31%) Android
6 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
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 1,550 (94.63%) Business Intelligence
2 671 (40.96%) Analytics
3 524 (31.99%) Data Modelling
4 454 (27.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 405 (24.73%) Agile
6 393 (23.99%) Decision-Making
7 351 (21.43%) AI
8 333 (20.33%) Visualisation
9 303 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
10 289 (17.64%) ETL
10 289 (17.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 288 (17.58%) DevOps
12 274 (16.73%) Data Governance
13 264 (16.12%) CI/CD
14 250 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 250 (15.26%) Migration
15 249 (15.20%) Data Engineering
16 244 (14.90%) Validation
17 231 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
18 223 (13.61%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 778 (47.50%) SQL
2 349 (21.31%) Python
3 186 (11.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 96 (5.86%) JavaScript
5 83 (5.07%) PowerShell
6 74 (4.52%) C#
7 62 (3.79%) T-SQL
8 39 (2.38%) R
9 37 (2.26%) Java
10 22 (1.34%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.04%) 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%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 304 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 235 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 142 (8.67%) Degree
4 51 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 44 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.59%) DBS Check
8 24 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.34%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.22%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.98%) 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
14 10 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 424 (25.89%) Data Quality
2 78 (4.76%) QA
3 73 (4.46%) PMO
4 62 (3.79%) GDPR
5 33 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (0.92%) ISO 19650
7 15 (0.92%) SLA
8 14 (0.85%) GRC
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 (0.31%) GMP
11 5 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.18%) P3O
12 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 44 (2.69%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.92%) 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 (1.65%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.34%) Grafana
3 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.92%) 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
1 668 (40.78%) Microsoft
2 211 (12.88%) Databricks
3 98 (5.98%) SAP
4 90 (5.49%) ServiceNow
5 78 (4.76%) Oracle
6 55 (3.36%) Google
7 39 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.14%) Informatica
9 30 (1.83%) Remedy
10 28 (1.71%) Splunk
11 27 (1.65%) Alteryx
12 18 (1.10%) BMC
13 17 (1.04%) Workday
14 16 (0.98%) Denodo
15 15 (0.92%) Dynatrace
16 14 (0.85%) Autodesk
17 13 (0.79%) Adobe
17 13 (0.79%) VMware
18 11 (0.67%) Teradata
19 10 (0.61%) MicroStrategy