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

 6 months to
30 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 63 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,547 906 1,221
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.68% 3.77% 3.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.24% 19.79% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 593 872
10th Percentile £325 £313 £301
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 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £667 £686
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 30 26
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.23 £23.50 £15.91
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +25.22% -55.78%
75th Percentile £37.69 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.23 £53.75 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £26.36 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -16.70% +32.82% -52.36%

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 6,382 4,578 6,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.19% 19.05% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,351 3,179 4,523
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £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 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 91 136
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.94 £20.70
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -20.90% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.19 £60.38 £55.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £32.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.33% -17.98% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +6 785 £500 - 253
South East +14 211 £500 +6.67% 169
Midlands -4 199 £459 -3.37% 77
North of England -37 157 £462 +2.57% 121
West Midlands -20 134 £450 -8.63% 51
South West +6 94 £450 +5.88% 46
North West -16 87 £480 -3.25% 70
East Midlands +18 64 £463 - 26
Yorkshire -59 55 £439 +3.29% 36
East of England -16 43 £400 -20.00% 26
North East -16 16 £450 - 18
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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
1 130 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 68 (4.40%) Confluence
3 49 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 32 (2.07%) Apache
5 28 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.03%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.84%) SAS
8 12 (0.78%) Mendix
9 8 (0.52%) Apache Superset
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.32%) CMS
10 5 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.26%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) Kentico
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.065%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 302 (19.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.87%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) 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 (0.065%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.065%) CATIA
10 1 (0.065%) InDesign
10 1 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 21 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.97%) iTrent
4 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
4 6 (0.39%) SAP EWM
5 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.26%) Primavera
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
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%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.065%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,547 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 562 (36.33%) Azure
3 195 (12.61%) AWS
4 163 (10.54%) Power Automate
5 152 (9.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 140 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
7 139 (8.99%) PowerApps
8 132 (8.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 111 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
10 108 (6.98%) Snowflake
11 85 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
12 83 (5.37%) GCP
13 71 (4.59%) Microsoft Copilot
14 68 (4.40%) Serverless
15 62 (4.01%) GitHub
16 52 (3.36%) dbt
17 51 (3.30%) Amazon S3
18 45 (2.91%) Copilot Studio
19 39 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
20 37 (2.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.90%) Firewall
2 11 (0.71%) VPN
3 8 (0.52%) DNS
4 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.19%) Network Security
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
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
1 261 (16.87%) Tableau
2 249 (16.10%) Data Warehouse
3 148 (9.57%) Data Lake
4 126 (8.14%) SQL Server
5 105 (6.79%) Power Query
6 71 (4.59%) Metadata
7 57 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 50 (3.23%) Looker
9 48 (3.10%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.97%) Star Schema
11 42 (2.71%) BigQuery
12 39 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (2.46%) Spark SQL
14 37 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 33 (2.13%) Delta Lake
16 30 (1.94%) NoSQL
17 28 (1.81%) Mixpanel
18 27 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 26 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 137 (8.86%) JIRA
2 66 (4.27%) Git
3 24 (1.55%) GitLab
4 14 (0.90%) ERwin
5 7 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.32%) MLflow
6 5 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.19%) Postman
8 3 (0.19%) Selenium
8 3 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.065%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.065%) GCC
10 1 (0.065%) SoapUI
General
1 472 (30.51%) Finance
2 469 (30.32%) Social Skills
3 356 (23.01%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 103 (6.66%) Banking
6 54 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.23%) Law
8 47 (3.04%) Retail
9 45 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (2.84%) Marketing
11 26 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.42%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.16%) Legal
14 18 (1.16%) Local Government
14 18 (1.16%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.03%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.97%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 417 (26.96%) Analyst
2 258 (16.68%) Data Engineer
3 205 (13.25%) Developer
4 194 (12.54%) Data Analyst
5 184 (11.89%) Senior
6 158 (10.21%) Architect
7 142 (9.18%) Lead
8 103 (6.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 92 (5.95%) Business Analyst
10 77 (4.98%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.46%) Consultant
12 67 (4.33%) Senior Data Engineer
13 57 (3.68%) Data Architect
14 47 (3.04%) Project Manager
15 46 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 39 (2.52%) Power Platform Developer
17 36 (2.33%) Lead Architect
17 36 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
18 34 (2.20%) PMO Analyst
19 33 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.82%) PySpark
2 51 (3.30%) REST
3 41 (2.65%) Kafka
4 35 (2.26%) .NET
5 25 (1.62%) Pandas
6 21 (1.36%) React
7 19 (1.23%) JSON
8 17 (1.10%) Great Expectations
9 16 (1.03%) HTML
10 14 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (0.90%) YAML
11 13 (0.84%) ADO
11 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.78%) Middleware
12 12 (0.78%) XML
13 11 (0.71%) CSS
14 9 (0.58%) Spark Streaming
15 8 (0.52%) JDO
15 8 (0.52%) scikit-learn
15 8 (0.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.59%) Cloud Native
2 59 (3.81%) Data Structures
3 51 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 31 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 27 (1.75%) Low-Code
9 23 (1.49%) CMDB
9 23 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.16%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.84%) Clustering
12 13 (0.84%) PMI
13 12 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.78%) PKI
13 12 (0.78%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.71%) NHS
15 10 (0.65%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.87%) Windows
2 17 (1.10%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.52%) Linux
5 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.39%) Unix
6 4 (0.26%) Android
7 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,437 (92.89%) Business Intelligence
2 639 (41.31%) Analytics
3 512 (33.10%) Data Modelling
4 358 (23.14%) Agile
5 349 (22.56%) ETL
6 324 (20.94%) Visualisation
7 323 (20.88%) Decision-Making
8 281 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
9 259 (16.74%) Data Engineering
10 256 (16.55%) Data Governance
11 251 (16.22%) DevOps
12 250 (16.16%) AI
13 247 (15.97%) Data Pipeline
13 247 (15.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 224 (14.48%) CI/CD
15 221 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 221 (14.29%) Migration
16 207 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
17 205 (13.25%) Data Visualisation
18 198 (12.80%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 741 (47.90%) SQL
2 387 (25.02%) Python
3 174 (11.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (4.33%) PowerShell
5 62 (4.01%) C#
6 56 (3.62%) R
7 55 (3.56%) JavaScript
8 53 (3.43%) T-SQL
9 39 (2.52%) Java
10 28 (1.81%) VBA
11 20 (1.29%) Bicep
12 15 (0.97%) Scala
13 12 (0.78%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.65%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.65%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.58%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.32%) C
18 4 (0.26%) Korn
19 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 253 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 194 (12.54%) SC Cleared
3 138 (8.92%) Degree
4 36 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.62%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.49%) PMP
10 21 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.29%) DBS Check
12 17 (1.10%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.71%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 7 (0.45%) CBAP
15 7 (0.45%) MBA
15 7 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
16 6 (0.39%) ACCA
16 6 (0.39%) CISSP
17 5 (0.32%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (23.66%) Data Quality
2 109 (7.05%) GDPR
3 86 (5.56%) PMO
4 77 (4.98%) QA
5 34 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.03%) SLA
7 14 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.71%) GRC
9 10 (0.65%) Basel III
10 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.32%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.32%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.19%) GAAP
12 3 (0.19%) IFRS
12 3 (0.19%) NCSC
12 3 (0.19%) P3O
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 40 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.62%) Docker
3 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.065%) RACF
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.78%) Terraform
2 29 (1.87%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.10%) Grafana
4 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.58%) SCCM
5 6 (0.39%) Ansible
6 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.19%) Control-M
7 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
9 1 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.065%) Kibana
9 1 (0.065%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.065%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.065%) WSUS
Vendors
1 513 (33.16%) Microsoft
2 209 (13.51%) Databricks
3 94 (6.08%) SAP
4 81 (5.24%) Oracle
5 79 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 53 (3.43%) Google
7 38 (2.46%) Informatica
8 25 (1.62%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.55%) Workday
10 22 (1.42%) Remedy
11 19 (1.23%) Splunk
12 16 (1.03%) Alteryx
12 16 (1.03%) Lotus
13 14 (0.90%) Foundry
13 14 (0.90%) IFS
14 13 (0.84%) Talend
15 12 (0.78%) Kofax
16 11 (0.71%) Adobe
16 11 (0.71%) Denodo
16 11 (0.71%) Dynatrace
604 Power BI jobs in England