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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 62 59
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,600 952 1,258
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.69% 3.78% 3.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.11% 20.27% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,072 617 902
10th Percentile £331 £309 £300
25th Percentile £405 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 30 27
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +25.22% -40.09%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.40 £53.75 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -8.34% +29.51% -33.97%

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 6,635 4,697 6,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.29% 18.63% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,490 3,264 4,696
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £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 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 86 141
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -14.53% -31.09%
75th Percentile £71.13 £63.31 £51.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -31.09%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +11 809 £500 - 207
South East +20 230 £475 +5.56% 160
Midlands 0 190 £463 -1.60% 91
North of England -23 183 £455 +1.46% 127
West Midlands -12 135 £450 -8.63% 50
North West -10 107 £463 -2.63% 76
South West +3 98 £450 +10.02% 53
Yorkshire -42 61 £438 +3.06% 39
East Midlands +24 54 £481 +4.05% 41
East of England -22 39 £400 -20.00% 37
North East -23 16 £438 -2.78% 15
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
1 133 (8.31%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.38%) Confluence
3 40 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.75%) Apache
6 19 (1.19%) SAS
7 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Superset
9 7 (0.44%) HCL Notes
9 7 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.38%) Mendix
11 5 (0.31%) CMS
12 4 (0.25%) IIS
13 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.19%) Kentico
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.063%) Appian
15 1 (0.063%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 316 (19.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (4.06%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.94%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.063%) CATIA
9 1 (0.063%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.063%) InDesign
9 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 17 (1.06%) iTrent
5 9 (0.56%) Primavera
6 6 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.38%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,600 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 588 (36.75%) Azure
3 214 (13.38%) AWS
4 166 (10.38%) Power Automate
5 145 (9.06%) PowerApps
6 141 (8.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 140 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 117 (7.31%) Snowflake
10 110 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
11 97 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
12 81 (5.06%) Serverless
13 77 (4.81%) GCP
14 76 (4.75%) Microsoft Copilot
15 63 (3.94%) dbt
16 59 (3.69%) Amazon S3
17 58 (3.63%) GitHub
18 47 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
19 44 (2.75%) Copilot Studio
19 44 (2.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.00%) Firewall
2 13 (0.81%) VPN
3 10 (0.63%) DNS
4 4 (0.25%) Network Security
5 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.13%) 4G
6 2 (0.13%) 5G
6 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 2 (0.13%) Intranet
6 2 (0.13%) LTE
6 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
6 2 (0.13%) MPLS
6 2 (0.13%) NAS
6 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.13%) SAN
6 2 (0.13%) SMTP
6 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (16.19%) Data Warehouse
1 259 (16.19%) Tableau
2 143 (8.94%) Data Lake
3 119 (7.44%) Power Query
4 115 (7.19%) SQL Server
5 73 (4.56%) Metadata
6 55 (3.44%) Star Schema
7 53 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 52 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.19%) Looker
10 50 (3.13%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
12 41 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.88%) Spark SQL
16 29 (1.81%) Semantic Layer
17 28 (1.75%) Delta Lake
17 28 (1.75%) NoSQL
18 27 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 139 (8.69%) JIRA
2 71 (4.44%) Git
3 28 (1.75%) GitLab
4 14 (0.88%) ERwin
5 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.31%) MLflow
6 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.25%) JUnit
7 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Postman
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.063%) Hudson
General
1 502 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 486 (30.38%) Finance
3 367 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 112 (7.00%) Banking
6 64 (4.00%) Retail
7 50 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.13%) Law
8 48 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 41 (2.56%) Marketing
11 33 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.44%) Investment Banking
12 23 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.25%) Legal
13 20 (1.25%) Local Government
14 18 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 414 (25.88%) Analyst
2 255 (15.94%) Data Engineer
3 226 (14.13%) Developer
4 200 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 190 (11.88%) Senior
6 177 (11.06%) Architect
7 149 (9.31%) Lead
8 113 (7.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 92 (5.75%) Power BI Developer
10 87 (5.44%) Business Analyst
11 66 (4.13%) Consultant
12 65 (4.06%) Data Architect
12 65 (4.06%) Senior Data Engineer
13 47 (2.94%) Project Manager
14 46 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 43 (2.69%) Power Platform Developer
16 39 (2.44%) Lead Architect
17 36 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
18 34 (2.13%) Senior Developer
18 34 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (6.13%) PySpark
2 53 (3.31%) REST
3 42 (2.63%) .NET
4 33 (2.06%) Kafka
5 23 (1.44%) JSON
6 21 (1.31%) Pandas
7 19 (1.19%) Middleware
7 19 (1.19%) React
8 18 (1.13%) HTML
9 15 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
10 14 (0.88%) CSS
11 13 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (0.81%) XML
11 13 (0.81%) YAML
12 12 (0.75%) Great Expectations
13 11 (0.69%) ADO
14 8 (0.50%) JDO
14 8 (0.50%) RESTful
15 7 (0.44%) .NET Core
15 7 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.44%) Cloud Native
1 71 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 45 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
3 44 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 43 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 36 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (1.50%) CMDB
7 24 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 18 (1.13%) AI Agents
10 15 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (0.88%) Clustering
11 14 (0.88%) FMCG
12 13 (0.81%) NHS
13 12 (0.75%) IoT
13 12 (0.75%) PKI
13 12 (0.75%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.00%) Windows
2 17 (1.06%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.56%) Unix
4 8 (0.50%) Linux
5 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.25%) Android
6 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,489 (93.06%) Business Intelligence
2 670 (41.88%) Analytics
3 523 (32.69%) Data Modelling
4 379 (23.69%) Agile
5 346 (21.63%) ETL
6 337 (21.06%) Decision-Making
7 334 (20.88%) Visualisation
8 293 (18.31%) AI
9 291 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
10 268 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 265 (16.56%) Data Engineering
11 265 (16.56%) Data Pipeline
12 257 (16.06%) Data Governance
12 257 (16.06%) DevOps
13 248 (15.50%) Migration
14 243 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 239 (14.94%) CI/CD
16 226 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 210 (13.13%) Validation
18 207 (12.94%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 749 (46.81%) SQL
2 391 (24.44%) Python
3 188 (11.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (4.31%) JavaScript
4 69 (4.31%) PowerShell
5 66 (4.13%) C#
6 58 (3.63%) T-SQL
7 49 (3.06%) R
8 41 (2.56%) Java
9 25 (1.56%) VBA
10 19 (1.19%) Bicep
11 16 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 14 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.75%) Scala
14 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.31%) C
17 4 (0.25%) Formula Language
17 4 (0.25%) Korn
17 4 (0.25%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 275 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 215 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 150 (9.38%) Degree
4 39 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.69%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 14 (0.88%) PMP
12 12 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.44%) CISSP
14 6 (0.38%) ACCA
14 6 (0.38%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.25%) CBAP
15 4 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (23.88%) Data Quality
2 109 (6.81%) GDPR
3 91 (5.69%) PMO
4 72 (4.50%) QA
5 31 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.88%) SLA
8 13 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.75%) GRC
10 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.38%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.25%) Basel III
13 4 (0.25%) P3O
14 3 (0.19%) NCSC
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS
15 2 (0.13%) NIST
15 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.13%) Docker
3 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.063%) RACF
5 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.81%) Terraform
2 23 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.19%) Grafana
4 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.56%) SCCM
6 7 (0.44%) Ansible
7 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) Control-M
9 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
10 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 1 (0.063%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.063%) Kibana
11 1 (0.063%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.063%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.063%) WSUS
Vendors
1 557 (34.81%) Microsoft
2 201 (12.56%) Databricks
3 104 (6.50%) SAP
4 84 (5.25%) ServiceNow
5 74 (4.63%) Oracle
6 47 (2.94%) Google
7 42 (2.63%) Informatica
8 30 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.44%) Remedy
10 22 (1.38%) Splunk
10 22 (1.38%) Workday
11 20 (1.25%) Alteryx
12 15 (0.94%) Adobe
13 14 (0.88%) Foundry
13 14 (0.88%) IFS
13 14 (0.88%) Talend
14 13 (0.81%) Dynatrace
15 11 (0.69%) BMC
15 11 (0.69%) Denodo
16 10 (0.63%) Palantir