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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 63 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,522 909 1,218
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.80% 3.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.07% 19.90% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 595 869
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £575
90th Percentile £650 £654 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 30 27
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £23.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £28.78 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +25.22% -53.17%
75th Percentile £38.06 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.64 £53.75 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £24.25 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -23.36% +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 6,322 4,567 6,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.16% 19.08% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,306 3,174 4,520
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £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 200 90 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.80 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.36 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -19.88% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.38 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £33.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.71% -16.26% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +3 772 £500 - 331
South East +19 211 £500 +8.11% 187
Midlands -1 190 £463 -2.63% 99
North of England -35 158 £463 +2.78% 172
West Midlands -21 128 £459 -6.80% 61
South West +6 93 £450 +5.88% 59
North West -5 87 £480 -3.25% 97
East Midlands +15 61 £463 - 38
Yorkshire -54 56 £439 +3.29% 55
East of England -16 42 £400 -20.00% 41
North East -22 16 £450 - 23
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
1 120 (7.88%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.40%) Confluence
3 46 (3.02%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.97%) Apache
5 28 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (1.18%) SAS
7 12 (0.79%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.66%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
9 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.33%) CMS
10 5 (0.33%) 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 (0.066%) Appian
13 1 (0.066%) Camunda
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 294 (19.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.26%) Revit
7 3 (0.20%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.066%) CATIA
9 1 (0.066%) InDesign
9 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.99%) iTrent
5 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.39%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
10 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1,522 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 557 (36.60%) Azure
3 196 (12.88%) AWS
4 150 (9.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 149 (9.79%) Power Automate
6 134 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (8.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 126 (8.28%) PowerApps
9 106 (6.96%) Snowflake
10 105 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
11 83 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (5.19%) GCP
13 71 (4.66%) Serverless
14 70 (4.60%) Microsoft Copilot
15 62 (4.07%) GitHub
16 54 (3.55%) dbt
17 53 (3.48%) Amazon S3
18 43 (2.83%) Copilot Studio
19 40 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
20 38 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.92%) Firewall
2 11 (0.72%) 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%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (16.43%) Tableau
2 249 (16.36%) Data Warehouse
3 149 (9.79%) Data Lake
4 121 (7.95%) SQL Server
5 103 (6.77%) Power Query
6 71 (4.66%) Metadata
7 56 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 56 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 47 (3.09%) Looker
8 47 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.09%) Star Schema
9 41 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (2.50%) BigQuery
11 37 (2.43%) Spark SQL
12 36 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
13 33 (2.17%) Delta Lake
14 30 (1.97%) NoSQL
15 29 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (1.58%) Mixpanel
17 22 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 135 (8.87%) JIRA
2 65 (4.27%) Git
3 25 (1.64%) GitLab
4 14 (0.92%) ERwin
5 6 (0.39%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.066%) GCC
10 1 (0.066%) Hudson
10 1 (0.066%) Oracle Forms
General
1 458 (30.09%) Finance
2 452 (29.70%) Social Skills
3 349 (22.93%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 98 (6.44%) Banking
6 55 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.15%) Law
8 47 (3.09%) Retail
9 44 (2.89%) Marketing
10 43 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.25%) Local Government
16 18 (1.18%) Legal
16 18 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.05%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.99%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 408 (26.81%) Analyst
2 258 (16.95%) Data Engineer
3 195 (12.81%) Developer
4 189 (12.42%) Data Analyst
5 181 (11.89%) Senior
6 163 (10.71%) Architect
7 147 (9.66%) Lead
8 99 (6.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 87 (5.72%) Business Analyst
10 74 (4.86%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.53%) Consultant
12 68 (4.47%) Senior Data Engineer
13 57 (3.75%) Data Architect
14 46 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 45 (2.96%) Project Manager
16 40 (2.63%) Lead Architect
17 36 (2.37%) Power Platform Developer
18 35 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
19 33 (2.17%) PMO Analyst
19 33 (2.17%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.98%) PySpark
2 50 (3.29%) REST
3 38 (2.50%) Kafka
4 33 (2.17%) .NET
5 24 (1.58%) Pandas
6 19 (1.25%) JSON
6 19 (1.25%) React
7 16 (1.05%) HTML
7 16 (1.05%) Middleware
8 15 (0.99%) Great Expectations
9 14 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
9 14 (0.92%) YAML
10 12 (0.79%) ADO
10 12 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (0.79%) XML
11 11 (0.72%) CSS
12 8 (0.53%) JDO
12 8 (0.53%) PyTorch
12 8 (0.53%) Spark Streaming
12 8 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 50 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.43%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.51%) CMDB
7 23 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.51%) Low-Code
8 18 (1.18%) AI Agents
9 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (0.85%) Clustering
11 12 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (0.79%) IoT
11 12 (0.79%) PKI
11 12 (0.79%) Reference Data
12 11 (0.72%) NHS
12 11 (0.72%) PMI
13 10 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.97%) Windows
2 17 (1.12%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.53%) Linux
5 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.39%) Unix
6 4 (0.26%) Android
6 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,411 (92.71%) Business Intelligence
2 621 (40.80%) Analytics
3 503 (33.05%) Data Modelling
4 353 (23.19%) Agile
5 347 (22.80%) ETL
6 311 (20.43%) Decision-Making
7 309 (20.30%) Visualisation
8 273 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
9 256 (16.82%) Data Engineering
9 256 (16.82%) Data Pipeline
10 251 (16.49%) Data Governance
11 249 (16.36%) AI
12 248 (16.29%) DevOps
13 244 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 224 (14.72%) CI/CD
15 217 (14.26%) Migration
16 216 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 207 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
18 192 (12.61%) Data Visualisation
19 189 (12.42%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 724 (47.57%) SQL
2 377 (24.77%) Python
3 168 (11.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (4.47%) PowerShell
5 55 (3.61%) C#
6 53 (3.48%) T-SQL
7 50 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.29%) R
8 38 (2.50%) Java
9 25 (1.64%) VBA
10 20 (1.31%) Bicep
11 14 (0.92%) Scala
12 11 (0.72%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.53%) Formula Language
14 8 (0.53%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.33%) C
17 4 (0.26%) Korn
18 3 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 257 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 199 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 135 (8.87%) Degree
4 37 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 23 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.45%) PMP
10 20 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.39%) ACCA
14 6 (0.39%) CISSP
14 6 (0.39%) MBA
14 6 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
15 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.26%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (23.65%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.90%) GDPR
3 84 (5.52%) PMO
4 76 (4.99%) QA
5 32 (2.10%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.05%) SLA
7 14 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.72%) GRC
9 9 (0.59%) Basel III
10 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.20%) GAAP
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) P3O
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 42 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.51%) Docker
3 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.066%) RACF
5 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.86%) Terraform
2 27 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.12%) Grafana
4 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.59%) SCCM
6 6 (0.39%) Ansible
7 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.26%) 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 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 204 (13.40%) Databricks
3 93 (6.11%) SAP
4 80 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.99%) Oracle
6 48 (3.15%) Google
7 39 (2.56%) Informatica
8 27 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.58%) Workday
10 22 (1.45%) Remedy
11 19 (1.25%) Splunk
12 14 (0.92%) Alteryx
12 14 (0.92%) Foundry
12 14 (0.92%) IFS
13 13 (0.85%) Talend
14 12 (0.79%) Lotus
15 11 (0.72%) Adobe
15 11 (0.72%) Denodo
15 11 (0.72%) Dynatrace
16 10 (0.66%) BMC