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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 63
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,347 980 1,235
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.89% 3.80% 3.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.99% 20.47% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 936 664 881
10th Percentile £318 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% - -
75th Percentile £578 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £483 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% -0.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 40
10th Percentile £13.04 £24.53 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £25.26 £15.82
Median hourly rate £22.00 £28.30 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% +18.80% -60.30%
75th Percentile £38.88 £56.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £56.45 £64.73 £61.80
UK median hourly rate £22.52 £27.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -18.86% +19.53% -59.63%

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 5,615 4,788 6,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.24% 18.55% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 3,219 4,361
10th Percentile £338 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £656
90th Percentile £700 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 82 161
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.89
25th Percentile £26.50 £25.06 £21.73
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -3.53% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £85.70 £73.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +37.06% -9.87% -25.26%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +4 762 £500 -2.44% 223
North of England -32 148 £438 -2.67% 124
South East -9 138 £500 +8.11% 225
Midlands -22 125 £450 -6.44% 132
North West -22 84 £425 -15.00% 72
West Midlands -38 81 £475 -3.06% 82
South West -12 67 £488 +8.33% 46
Yorkshire -38 55 £450 +9.76% 37
East of England -8 46 £525 +18.31% 37
East Midlands +4 44 £354 -15.21% 50
North East -6 9 £475 -1.30% 18
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 (9.58%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.64%) Confluence
3 44 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.15%) Apache
5 21 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.11%) HCL Notes
7 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.67%) Mendix
9 7 (0.52%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.45%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.30%) CMS
13 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.15%) Apache Superset
14 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.15%) SAS
15 1 (0.074%) Camunda
15 1 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
15 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 281 (20.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.01%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Notion
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.074%) CATIA
9 1 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.074%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
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%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FS
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,347 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 515 (38.23%) Azure
3 200 (14.85%) Power Automate
4 175 (12.99%) PowerApps
5 163 (12.10%) AWS
6 143 (10.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 126 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
8 122 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
9 110 (8.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 102 (7.57%) Dynamics 365
11 95 (7.05%) GCP
12 90 (6.68%) Snowflake
13 63 (4.68%) Microsoft Copilot
14 58 (4.31%) Serverless
15 50 (3.71%) GitHub
16 45 (3.34%) Copilot Studio
16 45 (3.34%) SaaS
17 38 (2.82%) Entra ID
18 37 (2.75%) Azure Functions
19 34 (2.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) HTTP
2 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.22%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) VoIP
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) 2G
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) DNS
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.15%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) LTE
4 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.074%) SAN
5 1 (0.074%) Skype
5 1 (0.074%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.074%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (16.41%) Tableau
2 162 (12.03%) Data Warehouse
3 114 (8.46%) Data Lake
4 107 (7.94%) SQL Server
5 78 (5.79%) Power Query
6 60 (4.45%) Metadata
7 53 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 52 (3.86%) BigQuery
9 47 (3.49%) Looker
10 46 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 39 (2.90%) Relational Database
13 32 (2.38%) Delta Lake
14 27 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
15 25 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (1.78%) Mixpanel
16 24 (1.78%) NoSQL
17 23 (1.71%) Spark SQL
17 23 (1.71%) Star Schema
18 21 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 113 (8.39%) JIRA
2 67 (4.97%) Git
3 14 (1.04%) GitLab
4 9 (0.67%) ERwin
4 9 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.37%) DBeaver
6 5 (0.37%) NeoLoad
6 5 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.30%) Postman
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.15%) MLflow
9 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.074%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.074%) Maven
10 1 (0.074%) Selenium
General
1 466 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 429 (31.85%) Finance
3 330 (24.50%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 115 (8.54%) Banking
6 45 (3.34%) Marketing
7 38 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.67%) Retail
9 32 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.34%) Legal
14 17 (1.26%) Front Office
14 17 (1.26%) Local Government
15 16 (1.19%) Publishing
16 15 (1.11%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.11%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.89%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 371 (27.54%) Analyst
2 205 (15.22%) Data Engineer
3 202 (15.00%) Developer
4 158 (11.73%) Data Analyst
5 148 (10.99%) Senior
6 114 (8.46%) Lead
7 101 (7.50%) Business Analyst
8 92 (6.83%) Architect
9 69 (5.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 66 (4.90%) Consultant
11 52 (3.86%) Power BI Developer
12 44 (3.27%) Data Scientist
13 42 (3.12%) PMO Analyst
13 42 (3.12%) Project Manager
13 42 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
14 40 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 40 (2.97%) Data Architect
14 40 (2.97%) Power Platform Developer
15 37 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
16 32 (2.38%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (5.27%) PySpark
2 39 (2.90%) REST
3 36 (2.67%) .NET
4 30 (2.23%) Kafka
5 28 (2.08%) Pandas
6 25 (1.86%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.63%) HTML
8 21 (1.56%) JSON
9 17 (1.26%) React
10 16 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
11 15 (1.11%) Great Expectations
12 14 (1.04%) NumPy
12 14 (1.04%) PyTorch
12 14 (1.04%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.04%) XML
12 14 (1.04%) YAML
13 10 (0.74%) Plotly
13 10 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.67%) CSS
14 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.49%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.19%) Data Structures
3 37 (2.75%) Cloud Native
4 35 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 33 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.30%) Low-Code
7 29 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.78%) Algorithms
9 24 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.34%) PMI
11 15 (1.11%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.04%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (0.67%) FMCG
15 9 (0.67%) NHS
15 9 (0.67%) Reinsurance
16 8 (0.59%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.89%) Windows
2 5 (0.37%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.15%) Linux
4 2 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.074%) Android
5 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,246 (92.50%) Business Intelligence
2 515 (38.23%) Analytics
3 391 (29.03%) Data Modelling
4 345 (25.61%) Visualisation
5 307 (22.79%) Agile
6 282 (20.94%) Decision-Making
7 270 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
8 250 (18.56%) ETL
9 228 (16.93%) Data Governance
10 217 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 211 (15.66%) Data Visualisation
12 202 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
12 202 (15.00%) Data Analysis
12 202 (15.00%) DevOps
13 188 (13.96%) AI
13 188 (13.96%) Data Engineering
14 169 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 161 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
16 159 (11.80%) CI/CD
17 158 (11.73%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 616 (45.73%) SQL
2 344 (25.54%) Python
3 117 (8.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (5.05%) C#
5 54 (4.01%) R
6 53 (3.93%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.56%) PowerShell
8 32 (2.38%) T-SQL
8 32 (2.38%) VBA
9 25 (1.86%) Java
10 23 (1.71%) Scala
11 21 (1.56%) Bicep
12 14 (1.04%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.74%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.74%) LotusScript
14 6 (0.45%) Korn
14 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.37%) X++
16 4 (0.30%) LookML
16 4 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 209 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 165 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.28%) Degree
4 31 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 30 (2.23%) PMI Certification
6 27 (2.00%) PMP
7 26 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.89%) MBA
11 11 (0.82%) CIMA
12 10 (0.74%) ACCA
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.67%) CBAP
13 9 (0.67%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.52%) CFA
16 4 (0.30%) IIBA
17 3 (0.22%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (20.42%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.61%) GDPR
3 87 (6.46%) PMO
4 78 (5.79%) QA
5 54 (4.01%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.82%) Basel III
8 11 (0.82%) GRC
8 11 (0.82%) SLA
9 7 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.37%) NIST
10 5 (0.37%) P3O
11 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.22%) GAAP
12 3 (0.22%) IFRS
12 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.22%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (2.23%) Docker
2 27 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.074%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.074%) HDFS
5 1 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (5.20%) Terraform
2 37 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.67%) SCCM
5 5 (0.37%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.22%) Ansible
7 3 (0.22%) Kibana
8 2 (0.15%) Control-M
9 1 (0.074%) Grafana
9 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.074%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.074%) SCOM
9 1 (0.074%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.074%) WSUS
Vendors
1 441 (32.74%) Microsoft
2 168 (12.47%) Databricks
3 89 (6.61%) Oracle
4 69 (5.12%) SAP
5 67 (4.97%) Google
6 48 (3.56%) ServiceNow
7 44 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.78%) Informatica
9 16 (1.19%) Foundry
10 15 (1.11%) Lotus
10 15 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 13 (0.97%) Alteryx
12 12 (0.89%) MuleSoft
12 12 (0.89%) Planview
13 11 (0.82%) Cognos
13 11 (0.82%) Splunk
14 9 (0.67%) Kofax
14 9 (0.67%) Sage
14 9 (0.67%) Workday
15 8 (0.59%) Talend