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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 62 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,519 903 1,192
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.76% 3.70% 3.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.34% 19.50% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 611 856
10th Percentile £313 £313 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £698
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 27
10th Percentile £16.28 £18.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £24.81 £15.13
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -55.14%
75th Percentile £46.25 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £44.21 £48.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -5.40% +25.22% -54.48%

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 6,242 4,631 6,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.45% 18.98% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 3,254 4,477
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 91 131
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.63 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% -19.88% -27.27%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £56.74
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -31.73%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +3 777 £500 +2.04% 313
South East +9 206 £475 +2.70% 228
Midlands -4 181 £450 -8.63% 137
North of England -16 158 £450 - 172
West Midlands -22 116 £450 -10.00% 86
South West 0 86 £450 +5.88% 61
North West -6 85 £463 -7.50% 102
East Midlands +8 64 £431 -11.54% 51
Yorkshire -38 61 £438 +3.06% 55
East of England -22 43 £425 -15.00% 66
North East -12 13 £475 +5.56% 17
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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
1 131 (8.62%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.41%) Confluence
3 52 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.04%) Apache
5 23 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.12%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.86%) SAS
8 12 (0.79%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.20%) IIS
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.066%) Appian
14 1 (0.066%) Camunda
14 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 314 (20.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.95%) Microsoft Project
3 53 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
4 45 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.17%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.33%) 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 (0.066%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.066%) CATIA
10 1 (0.066%) InDesign
10 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.86%) iTrent
5 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
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
Cloud Services
1 1,519 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 559 (36.80%) Azure
3 194 (12.77%) AWS
4 177 (11.65%) Power Automate
5 159 (10.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 145 (9.55%) PowerApps
7 141 (9.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 130 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
10 99 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
11 95 (6.25%) GCP
12 92 (6.06%) Snowflake
13 72 (4.74%) Serverless
14 69 (4.54%) Microsoft Copilot
15 62 (4.08%) GitHub
16 50 (3.29%) Amazon S3
17 45 (2.96%) Copilot Studio
18 41 (2.70%) dbt
19 39 (2.57%) Microsoft Purview
20 37 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.79%) Firewall
2 11 (0.72%) VPN
3 7 (0.46%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) 5G
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) HTTP
4 3 (0.20%) LTE
4 3 (0.20%) Network Security
4 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (17.38%) Tableau
2 229 (15.08%) Data Warehouse
3 150 (9.87%) Data Lake
4 113 (7.44%) SQL Server
5 96 (6.32%) Power Query
6 78 (5.13%) Metadata
7 58 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 56 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 48 (3.16%) BigQuery
9 48 (3.16%) Looker
10 43 (2.83%) Relational Database
10 43 (2.83%) Star Schema
11 38 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
11 38 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 34 (2.24%) Delta Lake
13 33 (2.17%) NoSQL
13 33 (2.17%) Spark SQL
14 28 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 27 (1.78%) Mixpanel
16 26 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 133 (8.76%) JIRA
2 72 (4.74%) Git
3 23 (1.51%) GitLab
4 13 (0.86%) ERwin
5 11 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
6 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) Postman
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.066%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.066%) GCC
10 1 (0.066%) Hudson
General
1 484 (31.86%) Finance
2 479 (31.53%) Social Skills
3 367 (24.16%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.25%) Banking
6 53 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
6 53 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (3.16%) Law
8 44 (2.90%) Marketing
8 44 (2.90%) Retail
9 28 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.32%) Legal
13 19 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.12%) Local Government
15 13 (0.86%) Military
16 12 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 407 (26.79%) Analyst
2 249 (16.39%) Data Engineer
3 201 (13.23%) Developer
4 190 (12.51%) Senior
5 183 (12.05%) Data Analyst
6 150 (9.87%) Architect
7 141 (9.28%) Lead
8 94 (6.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 93 (6.12%) Business Analyst
10 71 (4.67%) Power BI Developer
11 70 (4.61%) Consultant
12 58 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
13 49 (3.23%) Data Architect
14 47 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
15 46 (3.03%) Project Manager
16 40 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 39 (2.57%) Power Platform Developer
18 37 (2.44%) PMO Analyst
19 36 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
19 36 (2.37%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.79%) PySpark
2 44 (2.90%) REST
3 42 (2.76%) Kafka
4 36 (2.37%) .NET
5 27 (1.78%) Pandas
6 23 (1.51%) JSON
7 19 (1.25%) React
8 18 (1.18%) Great Expectations
8 18 (1.18%) scikit-learn
9 16 (1.05%) HTML
10 15 (0.99%) ADO
10 15 (0.99%) XML
11 14 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (0.92%) PyTorch
11 14 (0.92%) TensorFlow
11 14 (0.92%) YAML
12 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.79%) Middleware
13 11 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
14 10 (0.66%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 64 (4.21%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.42%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 31 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 28 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.65%) Low-Code
9 23 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.18%) CMDB
11 15 (0.99%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 14 (0.92%) Clustering
12 14 (0.92%) PMI
12 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.66%) NHS
16 9 (0.59%) Data Fabric
16 9 (0.59%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.38%) Windows
2 13 (0.86%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.13%) Android
6 2 (0.13%) Linux
7 1 (0.066%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,412 (92.96%) Business Intelligence
2 614 (40.42%) Analytics
3 495 (32.59%) Data Modelling
4 346 (22.78%) Agile
5 331 (21.79%) ETL
6 317 (20.87%) Visualisation
7 315 (20.74%) Decision-Making
8 280 (18.43%) Data Governance
8 280 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
9 248 (16.33%) Data Engineering
10 243 (16.00%) DevOps
11 241 (15.87%) Data Pipeline
12 235 (15.47%) AI
13 229 (15.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 220 (14.48%) Migration
15 219 (14.42%) CI/CD
16 209 (13.76%) Actionable Insight
17 206 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 206 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 195 (12.84%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 719 (47.33%) SQL
2 403 (26.53%) Python
3 161 (10.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (4.41%) C#
4 67 (4.41%) R
5 55 (3.62%) PowerShell
6 52 (3.42%) JavaScript
7 40 (2.63%) T-SQL
8 39 (2.57%) Java
9 34 (2.24%) VBA
10 21 (1.38%) Bicep
10 21 (1.38%) Scala
11 12 (0.79%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.72%) Formula Language
12 11 (0.72%) LotusScript
13 7 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.26%) C
16 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
16 3 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 261 (17.18%) Security Cleared
2 203 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 144 (9.48%) Degree
4 34 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (1.91%) Azure Certification
5 29 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.58%) PMP
8 12 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.66%) MBA
10 9 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 8 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.39%) ACCA
12 6 (0.39%) CBAP
13 5 (0.33%) IIBA
13 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (23.77%) Data Quality
2 114 (7.50%) GDPR
3 96 (6.32%) PMO
4 86 (5.66%) QA
5 36 (2.37%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.05%) SLA
7 15 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.92%) GRC
8 14 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.72%) Basel III
10 9 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
13 4 (0.26%) P3O
13 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
14 3 (0.20%) IFRS
14 3 (0.20%) NCSC
15 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 34 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.97%) Docker
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
4 3 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.066%) RACF
5 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (5.20%) Terraform
2 37 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.05%) Grafana
4 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.39%) SCCM
6 5 (0.33%) Ansible
7 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
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%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.066%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 504 (33.18%) Microsoft
2 205 (13.50%) Databricks
3 89 (5.86%) SAP
4 85 (5.60%) Oracle
5 77 (5.07%) ServiceNow
6 59 (3.88%) Google
7 39 (2.57%) Informatica
8 35 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.45%) Workday
10 18 (1.18%) Foundry
11 17 (1.12%) Lotus
11 17 (1.12%) Remedy
12 14 (0.92%) Talend
13 13 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.86%) Sage
13 13 (0.86%) Splunk
14 12 (0.79%) IFS
14 12 (0.79%) Kofax
15 11 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 11 (0.72%) Denodo