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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 60 64
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,519 906 1,196
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.74% 3.71% 3.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.35% 19.56% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 611 862
10th Percentile £313 £313 £310
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 £700
UK median daily rate £484 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.84% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 26 26
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.20 £24.81 £17.11
Median hourly rate £28.78 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +25.22% -54.48%
75th Percentile £45.94 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £44.21 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £25.42 £29.07 £23.82
% change year-on-year -12.57% +22.03% -52.63%

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 6,239 4,632 6,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.35% 18.99% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,299 3,258 4,468
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 £776 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 90 130
10th Percentile £16.71 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.57 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% -20.12% -30.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £58.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.63 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £32.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +52.39% -17.98% -32.54%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +5 773 £500 +2.15% 311
South East +16 209 £475 +1.33% 261
Midlands -7 181 £450 -10.00% 139
North of England -16 161 £455 +1.18% 187
West Midlands -20 117 £450 -10.00% 87
South West +1 90 £450 +5.88% 66
North West -6 87 £463 -7.50% 106
East Midlands +11 63 £438 -10.26% 52
Yorkshire -44 62 £439 +3.29% 61
East of England -26 40 £425 -15.00% 81
North East -12 13 £475 +5.56% 22
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
1 129 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.54%) Confluence
3 53 (3.49%) 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%) IIS
11 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
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
1 317 (20.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.88%) Microsoft Project
3 51 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (2.11%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.79%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.99%) iTrent
4 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.26%) Primavera
7 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.13%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,519 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 560 (36.87%) Azure
3 194 (12.77%) AWS
4 176 (11.59%) Power Automate
5 160 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 143 (9.41%) PowerApps
7 142 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 130 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
9 123 (8.10%) Microsoft 365
10 99 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
11 92 (6.06%) GCP
12 91 (5.99%) Snowflake
13 73 (4.81%) Serverless
14 69 (4.54%) Microsoft Copilot
15 63 (4.15%) GitHub
16 51 (3.36%) Amazon S3
17 44 (2.90%) Copilot Studio
18 42 (2.76%) 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
1 261 (17.18%) Tableau
2 228 (15.01%) Data Warehouse
3 151 (9.94%) Data Lake
4 112 (7.37%) SQL Server
5 96 (6.32%) Power Query
6 78 (5.13%) Metadata
7 57 (3.75%) 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%) Star Schema
11 42 (2.76%) Relational Database
12 38 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
13 34 (2.24%) Delta Lake
13 34 (2.24%) Spark SQL
14 31 (2.04%) NoSQL
15 28 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 27 (1.78%) Mixpanel
17 26 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 136 (8.95%) JIRA
2 71 (4.67%) 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%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.066%) GCC
10 1 (0.066%) Hudson
General
1 484 (31.86%) Finance
1 484 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 372 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
3 145 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 97 (6.39%) Banking
5 52 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
6 51 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.16%) Law
8 46 (3.03%) Marketing
8 46 (3.03%) Retail
9 29 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.32%) Legal
12 20 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.12%) Local Government
15 14 (0.92%) Military
16 13 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 406 (26.73%) Analyst
2 246 (16.19%) Data Engineer
3 200 (13.17%) Developer
4 188 (12.38%) Senior
5 183 (12.05%) Data Analyst
6 152 (10.01%) Architect
7 142 (9.35%) Lead
8 94 (6.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 92 (6.06%) Business Analyst
10 71 (4.67%) Power BI Developer
11 70 (4.61%) Consultant
12 58 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
13 50 (3.29%) Data Architect
14 47 (3.09%) Project Manager
15 46 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
16 40 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 40 (2.63%) Power Platform Developer
17 37 (2.44%) PMO Analyst
18 36 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
18 36 (2.37%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (5.86%) PySpark
2 43 (2.83%) REST
3 42 (2.76%) Kafka
4 35 (2.30%) .NET
5 26 (1.71%) Pandas
6 23 (1.51%) JSON
7 19 (1.25%) React
8 18 (1.18%) Great Expectations
9 17 (1.12%) HTML
10 15 (0.99%) ADO
10 15 (0.99%) scikit-learn
10 15 (0.99%) XML
11 14 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (0.92%) YAML
12 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.79%) Middleware
12 12 (0.79%) PyTorch
12 12 (0.79%) TensorFlow
13 11 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.59%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.28%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.82%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.42%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 32 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.65%) Low-Code
9 22 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.18%) CMDB
11 16 (1.05%) AI Agents
12 15 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 15 (0.99%) PMI
13 14 (0.92%) Clustering
13 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (0.66%) NHS
17 9 (0.59%) Data Fabric
17 9 (0.59%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.51%) Windows
2 14 (0.92%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.13%) Android
5 2 (0.13%) Linux
6 1 (0.066%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,412 (92.96%) Business Intelligence
2 612 (40.29%) Analytics
3 494 (32.52%) Data Modelling
4 347 (22.84%) Agile
5 328 (21.59%) ETL
6 317 (20.87%) Decision-Making
7 316 (20.80%) Visualisation
8 283 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
9 279 (18.37%) Data Governance
10 247 (16.26%) Data Engineering
11 242 (15.93%) DevOps
12 241 (15.87%) Data Pipeline
13 237 (15.60%) AI
14 229 (15.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 223 (14.68%) Migration
16 218 (14.35%) CI/CD
17 207 (13.63%) Actionable Insight
17 207 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 205 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
19 196 (12.90%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 716 (47.14%) SQL
2 399 (26.27%) Python
3 160 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 66 (4.34%) C#
4 66 (4.34%) R
5 58 (3.82%) PowerShell
6 53 (3.49%) JavaScript
7 40 (2.63%) T-SQL
8 38 (2.50%) 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
1 262 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 145 (9.55%) Degree
4 34 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (1.91%) Azure Certification
5 29 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (1.65%) PMI Certification
8 24 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.58%) PMP
9 13 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.66%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.66%) MBA
10 10 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 9 (0.59%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.46%) CBAP
14 6 (0.39%) ACCA
15 5 (0.33%) IIBA
15 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 364 (23.96%) Data Quality
2 116 (7.64%) GDPR
3 94 (6.19%) PMO
4 84 (5.53%) QA
5 35 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.05%) SLA
7 15 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.86%) GRC
10 11 (0.72%) Basel III
11 9 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
14 4 (0.26%) P3O
14 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.20%) GAAP
15 3 (0.20%) IFRS
15 3 (0.20%) NCSC
16 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 35 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.84%) Docker
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) HDFS
6 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.066%) RACF
6 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (5.20%) Terraform
2 35 (2.30%) 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
1 501 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 206 (13.56%) Databricks
3 91 (5.99%) SAP
4 89 (5.86%) Oracle
5 78 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 57 (3.75%) Google
7 39 (2.57%) Informatica
8 35 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.58%) Workday
10 18 (1.18%) Remedy
11 17 (1.12%) Lotus
12 15 (0.99%) Foundry
12 15 (0.99%) Splunk
13 14 (0.92%) Talend
14 13 (0.86%) IFS
15 12 (0.79%) Kofax
15 12 (0.79%) Sage
16 11 (0.72%) Adobe
16 11 (0.72%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.72%) OpenAI