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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 63 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,630 1,035 1,193
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.63% 3.79% 3.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.69% 20.71% 18.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 668 865
10th Percentile £331 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £577 £563 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.63% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 27 14
10th Percentile £16.72 £18.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £22.13 £16.99
Median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -18.92%
75th Percentile £43.88 £34.84 £41.30
90th Percentile £74.40 £53.75 £71.63
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year -6.52% +6.83% -17.81%

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 6,880 4,998 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.34% 18.31% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,601 3,458 4,580
10th Percentile £354 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 83 106
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.98 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% -10.88% -28.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.13 £54.23
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.00 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £38.11 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.45% +0.29% -30.91%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +8 833 £500 - 318
South East -4 216 £475 +5.56% 156
Midlands +8 206 £463 +8.82% 110
North of England -21 197 £460 +2.85% 139
West Midlands -12 147 £451 +6.00% 59
North West -11 112 £475 - 64
South West -17 90 £450 +11.25% 69
Yorkshire -39 69 £450 +4.65% 51
East Midlands +20 58 £475 +7.04% 51
East of England -12 41 £400 -20.00% 33
North East -23 20 £400 -11.11% 26
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
1 147 (9.02%) SharePoint
2 64 (3.93%) Confluence
3 37 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.72%) Apache
4 28 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.10%) SAS
6 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.49%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.31%) CMS
11 4 (0.25%) IIS
12 3 (0.18%) HCL Notes
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 3 (0.18%) Mendix
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.061%) Appian
14 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 310 (19.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (1.66%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Navisworks
7 5 (0.31%) Revit
8 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.061%) CATIA
10 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.061%) InDesign
10 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.061%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 37 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.98%) iTrent
5 12 (0.74%) Primavera
6 8 (0.49%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
9 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,630 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 612 (37.55%) Azure
3 206 (12.64%) AWS
4 180 (11.04%) Power Automate
5 159 (9.75%) PowerApps
6 143 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 128 (7.85%) Snowflake
9 115 (7.06%) Dynamics 365
10 111 (6.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 110 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
12 83 (5.09%) Microsoft Copilot
13 76 (4.66%) Serverless
14 71 (4.36%) GCP
15 67 (4.11%) dbt
16 58 (3.56%) Amazon S3
17 56 (3.44%) GitHub
18 48 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
19 46 (2.82%) Copilot Studio
19 46 (2.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.10%) Firewall
2 14 (0.86%) VPN
3 11 (0.67%) DNS
4 6 (0.37%) SSL
5 4 (0.25%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
7 2 (0.12%) MPLS
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) SMTP
7 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
7 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (16.26%) Data Warehouse
1 265 (16.26%) Tableau
2 136 (8.34%) Data Lake
3 115 (7.06%) Power Query
4 114 (6.99%) SQL Server
5 71 (4.36%) Metadata
6 58 (3.56%) Star Schema
7 57 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 53 (3.25%) Looker
9 48 (2.94%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
12 37 (2.27%) BigQuery
12 37 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 33 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
15 28 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 26 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
17 25 (1.53%) Delta Lake
17 25 (1.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 138 (8.47%) JIRA
2 68 (4.17%) Git
3 26 (1.60%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) ERwin
4 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.31%) MLflow
6 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.25%) JUnit
7 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.061%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.061%) TestRail
General
1 509 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 488 (29.94%) Finance
3 397 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 107 (6.56%) Banking
6 62 (3.80%) Retail
7 56 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (3.19%) Law
9 51 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 50 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (2.70%) Marketing
12 35 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.47%) Local Government
14 22 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.29%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.23%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.10%) Legal
19 15 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 431 (26.44%) Analyst
2 242 (14.85%) Developer
3 232 (14.23%) Data Engineer
4 210 (12.88%) Data Analyst
5 193 (11.84%) Senior
6 182 (11.17%) Architect
7 156 (9.57%) Lead
8 116 (7.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 93 (5.71%) Business Analyst
10 92 (5.64%) Power BI Developer
11 70 (4.29%) Data Architect
12 68 (4.17%) Consultant
13 57 (3.50%) Senior Data Engineer
14 52 (3.19%) Power Platform Developer
15 50 (3.07%) Project Manager
16 46 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 41 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
18 39 (2.39%) Lead Architect
19 37 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
20 36 (2.21%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.34%) PySpark
2 54 (3.31%) REST
3 53 (3.25%) .NET
4 31 (1.90%) Kafka
5 25 (1.53%) JSON
6 21 (1.29%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (1.10%) Middleware
8 17 (1.04%) React
9 16 (0.98%) Pandas
10 15 (0.92%) HTML
11 12 (0.74%) CSS
11 12 (0.74%) Great Expectations
12 11 (0.67%) ADO
12 11 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (0.67%) XML
13 10 (0.61%) YAML
14 8 (0.49%) JDO
15 7 (0.43%) EDI
15 7 (0.43%) RESTful
15 7 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.72%) Data Structures
2 70 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
3 50 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.76%) Management Information System
4 45 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 25 (1.53%) CMDB
7 23 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 20 (1.23%) Clustering
10 17 (1.04%) Low-Code
11 16 (0.98%) FMCG
11 16 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.86%) PKI
13 13 (0.80%) IoT
13 13 (0.80%) NHS
13 13 (0.80%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.45%) Windows
2 23 (1.41%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.55%) Linux
3 9 (0.55%) Unix
4 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.25%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,515 (92.94%) Business Intelligence
2 669 (41.04%) Analytics
3 525 (32.21%) Data Modelling
4 399 (24.48%) Agile
5 338 (20.74%) Decision-Making
6 337 (20.67%) ETL
6 337 (20.67%) Visualisation
7 295 (18.10%) AI
8 292 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
9 289 (17.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 275 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 271 (16.63%) Data Pipeline
12 268 (16.44%) DevOps
13 265 (16.26%) Migration
14 261 (16.01%) Data Governance
15 259 (15.89%) Data Engineering
16 246 (15.09%) CI/CD
17 234 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
18 230 (14.11%) Validation
19 202 (12.39%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 762 (46.75%) SQL
2 390 (23.93%) Python
3 187 (11.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 77 (4.72%) PowerShell
5 71 (4.36%) JavaScript
6 66 (4.05%) C#
7 61 (3.74%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.07%) R
9 41 (2.52%) Java
10 23 (1.41%) VBA
11 15 (0.92%) Bicep
11 15 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.61%) Scala
14 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.31%) C
16 4 (0.25%) Korn
16 4 (0.25%) X++
17 3 (0.18%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 298 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 227 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 165 (10.12%) Degree
4 43 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.02%) Azure Certification
5 33 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (1.72%) DBS Check
8 22 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 14 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 12 (0.74%) PMP
13 8 (0.49%) ACCA
14 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.43%) CISSP
15 6 (0.37%) CIMA
15 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
16 5 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (23.62%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.44%) GDPR
3 85 (5.21%) PMO
4 75 (4.60%) QA
5 33 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.10%) SLA
7 15 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.67%) GRC
9 9 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.37%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) Basel III
13 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
13 3 (0.18%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
14 2 (0.12%) NIST
15 1 (0.061%) IFRS
System Software
1 51 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.67%) Docker
3 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) RACF
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (4.17%) Terraform
2 20 (1.23%) Grafana
3 16 (0.98%) Kubernetes
4 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.49%) Ansible
7 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.37%) SCOM
9 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Kibana
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 1 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.061%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 588 (36.07%) Microsoft
2 200 (12.27%) Databricks
3 113 (6.93%) SAP
4 94 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 73 (4.48%) Oracle
6 43 (2.64%) Google
6 43 (2.64%) Informatica
7 31 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.60%) Remedy
9 25 (1.53%) Alteryx
10 24 (1.47%) Splunk
11 22 (1.35%) Workday
12 15 (0.92%) Adobe
13 14 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.86%) IFS
14 13 (0.80%) BMC
14 13 (0.80%) Talend
15 11 (0.67%) Denodo
15 11 (0.67%) Foundry
16 9 (0.55%) Palantir