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

 6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 64 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,513 877 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 3.68% 3.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.06% 19.44% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 583 872
10th Percentile £323 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £580
90th Percentile £650 £659 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 27 27
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.64 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.59 £24.88 £18.33
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +25.22% -53.17%
75th Percentile £37.88 £34.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £50.00 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £24.31 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -23.16% +29.51% -50.72%

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 6,289 4,512 6,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.15% 18.96% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,308 3,145 4,505
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £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 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 84 135
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.73 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £23.38 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.85 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.46% -20.39% -30.43%
75th Percentile £73.94 £64.78 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.38 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.53% -17.60% -31.73%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +4 766 £500 - 323
South East +19 210 £500 +6.67% 192
Midlands -2 198 £455 -7.72% 92
North of England -33 148 £461 +2.36% 158
West Midlands -22 133 £450 -10.00% 63
South West +5 94 £450 +5.88% 56
North West -4 84 £471 -4.18% 91
East Midlands +16 64 £463 -1.33% 29
Yorkshire -53 50 £439 +2.09% 50
East of England -23 40 £400 -20.00% 49
North East -15 15 £463 +2.78% 20
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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 (8.53%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.56%) Confluence
3 50 (3.30%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.05%) Apache
5 26 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.06%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.86%) SAS
8 12 (0.79%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.26%) CMS
12 4 (0.26%) IIS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) Kentico
14 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 296 (19.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.26%) Revit
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.066%) CATIA
10 1 (0.066%) InDesign
10 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.99%) iTrent
4 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.26%) Primavera
7 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,513 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 553 (36.55%) Azure
3 192 (12.69%) AWS
4 162 (10.71%) Power Automate
5 154 (10.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 138 (9.12%) PowerApps
7 136 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
7 136 (8.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 112 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
9 99 (6.54%) Snowflake
10 86 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
11 84 (5.55%) GCP
12 68 (4.49%) Serverless
13 67 (4.43%) Microsoft Copilot
14 63 (4.16%) GitHub
15 52 (3.44%) Amazon S3
16 45 (2.97%) dbt
17 44 (2.91%) Copilot Studio
18 39 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
19 38 (2.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.93%) Firewall
2 11 (0.73%) VPN
3 8 (0.53%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.20%) Network Security
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) LTE
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) NAS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SAN
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (17.18%) Tableau
2 233 (15.40%) Data Warehouse
3 148 (9.78%) Data Lake
4 121 (8.00%) SQL Server
5 103 (6.81%) Power Query
6 69 (4.56%) Metadata
7 57 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 49 (3.24%) Looker
10 46 (3.04%) Relational Database
11 45 (2.97%) BigQuery
11 45 (2.97%) Star Schema
12 39 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 35 (2.31%) Spark SQL
15 33 (2.18%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.92%) Mixpanel
16 29 (1.92%) NoSQL
17 26 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
18 25 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 137 (9.05%) JIRA
2 68 (4.49%) Git
3 24 (1.59%) GitLab
4 14 (0.93%) ERwin
5 8 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
6 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.066%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.066%) GCC
10 1 (0.066%) Hudson
General
1 460 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 456 (30.14%) Finance
3 352 (23.27%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.15%) Banking
6 53 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.17%) Law
8 46 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
9 44 (2.91%) Marketing
9 44 (2.91%) Retail
10 26 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.26%) Legal
13 19 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.12%) Local Government
16 16 (1.06%) Investment Banking
17 14 (0.93%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 406 (26.83%) Analyst
2 252 (16.66%) Data Engineer
3 199 (13.15%) Developer
4 192 (12.69%) Data Analyst
5 180 (11.90%) Senior
6 155 (10.24%) Architect
7 143 (9.45%) Lead
8 97 (6.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 90 (5.95%) Business Analyst
10 74 (4.89%) Power BI Developer
11 66 (4.36%) Consultant
12 63 (4.16%) Senior Data Engineer
13 55 (3.64%) Data Architect
14 48 (3.17%) Project Manager
15 44 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 39 (2.58%) Power Platform Developer
17 37 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (2.38%) Lead Architect
19 35 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
19 35 (2.31%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (6.01%) PySpark
2 48 (3.17%) REST
3 42 (2.78%) Kafka
4 35 (2.31%) .NET
5 25 (1.65%) Pandas
6 20 (1.32%) JSON
6 20 (1.32%) React
7 18 (1.19%) Great Expectations
8 17 (1.12%) HTML
9 14 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
9 14 (0.93%) YAML
10 13 (0.86%) ADO
10 13 (0.86%) Middleware
11 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (0.79%) XML
12 11 (0.73%) CSS
13 10 (0.66%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.59%) scikit-learn
15 8 (0.53%) JDO
15 8 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.63%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 53 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 34 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 28 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 26 (1.72%) Low-Code
8 21 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.26%) CMDB
10 18 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.93%) PMI
13 12 (0.79%) Clustering
13 12 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.73%) NHS
15 10 (0.66%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.72%) Windows
2 15 (0.99%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.40%) Linux
5 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.33%) Unix
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.13%) Android
7 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,407 (92.99%) Business Intelligence
2 618 (40.85%) Analytics
3 497 (32.85%) Data Modelling
4 350 (23.13%) Agile
5 339 (22.41%) ETL
6 316 (20.89%) Decision-Making
6 316 (20.89%) Visualisation
7 276 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
8 262 (17.32%) Data Governance
9 255 (16.85%) Data Engineering
10 248 (16.39%) DevOps
11 243 (16.06%) AI
12 242 (15.99%) Data Pipeline
13 239 (15.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 219 (14.47%) CI/CD
15 215 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 213 (14.08%) Migration
17 198 (13.09%) Data Visualisation
17 198 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
18 196 (12.95%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 720 (47.59%) SQL
2 384 (25.38%) Python
3 173 (11.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 64 (4.23%) PowerShell
5 62 (4.10%) C#
6 59 (3.90%) R
7 54 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 49 (3.24%) T-SQL
9 38 (2.51%) Java
10 28 (1.85%) VBA
11 20 (1.32%) Bicep
12 18 (1.19%) Scala
13 12 (0.79%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.66%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.66%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.33%) C
18 4 (0.26%) Korn
19 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 253 (16.72%) Security Cleared
2 194 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 134 (8.86%) Degree
4 36 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 28 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.52%) PMP
8 21 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 16 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.46%) CBAP
12 7 (0.46%) MBA
12 7 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.40%) ACCA
13 6 (0.40%) CISSP
14 5 (0.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (24.12%) Data Quality
2 112 (7.40%) GDPR
3 89 (5.88%) PMO
4 80 (5.29%) QA
5 34 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.06%) SLA
7 14 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.73%) GRC
9 10 (0.66%) Basel III
10 6 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.26%) P3O
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS
13 3 (0.20%) NCSC
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 36 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.72%) Docker
3 6 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.066%) RACF
5 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (5.02%) Terraform
2 32 (2.12%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.12%) Grafana
4 8 (0.53%) SCCM
5 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.40%) Ansible
7 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.066%) Kibana
10 1 (0.066%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.066%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 502 (33.18%) Microsoft
2 208 (13.75%) Databricks
3 89 (5.88%) SAP
4 82 (5.42%) Oracle
5 76 (5.02%) ServiceNow
6 55 (3.64%) Google
7 36 (2.38%) Informatica
8 25 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.59%) Workday
10 21 (1.39%) Remedy
11 18 (1.19%) Splunk
12 16 (1.06%) Alteryx
12 16 (1.06%) Lotus
13 14 (0.93%) Foundry
13 14 (0.93%) IFS
14 13 (0.86%) Talend
15 12 (0.79%) Adobe
15 12 (0.79%) Kofax
16 11 (0.73%) Denodo
16 11 (0.73%) Dynatrace
792 Power BI jobs in England