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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 63 63
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,658 1,079 1,140
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 3.88% 3.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.04% 21.38% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 718 779
10th Percentile £320 £310 £300
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £593
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 15 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £19.60 £19.97
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.76 £24.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -21.05%
75th Percentile £53.56 £50.63 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.39 £56.00 £67.53
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -21.05%

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 6,898 5,046 5,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 18.17% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,613 3,465 4,141
10th Percentile £356 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 76 82
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.11 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.16 £29.21 £21.44
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.99% +22.07% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.63% +24.29% -36.36%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -1 867 £500 - 1,079
North of England -13 236 £440 +3.53% 309
South East +7 210 £475 +11.76% 380
Midlands +6 187 £475 +2.15% 240
West Midlands -6 131 £475 -5.00% 166
North West -3 125 £500 +17.65% 178
Yorkshire -25 92 £425 +6.25% 102
South West -18 86 £425 +6.25% 135
East Midlands +11 55 £475 +11.76% 74
East of England -22 36 £576 +0.17% 111
North East -25 23 £363 -23.68% 30
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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
1 167 (10.07%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.22%) Confluence
3 30 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.57%) SAS
5 24 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.21%) Apache
7 13 (0.78%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.36%) Mendix
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.24%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.060%) nginx
13 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 320 (19.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (1.15%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.72%) Navisworks
7 12 (0.72%) Revit
8 8 (0.48%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.48%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.97%) iTrent
5 12 (0.72%) Primavera
6 9 (0.54%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.48%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.36%) Maximo
8 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,658 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 614 (37.03%) Azure
3 199 (12.00%) Power Automate
4 191 (11.52%) AWS
5 171 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
6 168 (10.13%) PowerApps
7 135 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 133 (8.02%) Snowflake
9 115 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
10 112 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
11 104 (6.27%) Microsoft Copilot
12 102 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 73 (4.40%) Serverless
14 72 (4.34%) dbt
15 64 (3.86%) GCP
16 60 (3.62%) GitHub
17 55 (3.32%) Amazon S3
18 53 (3.20%) Entra ID
19 46 (2.77%) Microsoft Purview
20 45 (2.71%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) Firewall
1 11 (0.66%) SSL
2 8 (0.48%) DNS
2 8 (0.48%) VPN
3 7 (0.42%) Broadband
4 2 (0.12%) Internet
4 2 (0.12%) NAS
4 2 (0.12%) Network Security
4 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.12%) SAN
5 1 (0.060%) 4G
5 1 (0.060%) 5G
5 1 (0.060%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.060%) LAN
5 1 (0.060%) Mobile Backhaul
5 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.060%) SSH
5 1 (0.060%) VoIP
5 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (15.62%) Data Warehouse
2 233 (14.05%) Tableau
3 141 (8.50%) Data Lake
4 135 (8.14%) Power Query
5 126 (7.60%) SQL Server
6 80 (4.83%) Metadata
7 66 (3.98%) Star Schema
8 56 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.20%) Looker
10 51 (3.08%) Relational Database
11 48 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
12 43 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (1.99%) BigQuery
14 33 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 27 (1.63%) NoSQL
16 26 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
17 24 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 22 (1.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 146 (8.81%) JIRA
2 64 (3.86%) Git
3 27 (1.63%) GitLab
4 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.30%) ERwin
5 5 (0.30%) MLflow
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.24%) JMeter
6 4 (0.24%) JUnit
6 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) Postman
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 571 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 481 (29.01%) Finance
3 430 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 117 (7.06%) Banking
6 76 (4.58%) Retail
7 64 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.20%) Manufacturing
9 52 (3.14%) Marketing
10 49 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
11 46 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 41 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (2.47%) Local Government
13 40 (2.41%) Law
14 24 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.45%) Legal
15 22 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.15%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.03%) Investment Banking
17 17 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 423 (25.51%) Analyst
2 250 (15.08%) Developer
3 203 (12.24%) Data Analyst
3 203 (12.24%) Data Engineer
4 189 (11.40%) Senior
5 175 (10.55%) Architect
6 134 (8.08%) Lead
7 118 (7.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 96 (5.79%) Power BI Developer
9 92 (5.55%) Business Analyst
10 78 (4.70%) Data Architect
11 74 (4.46%) Consultant
12 55 (3.32%) Senior Data Engineer
13 52 (3.14%) Project Manager
14 48 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
15 47 (2.83%) Power Platform Developer
16 39 (2.35%) Performance Analyst
17 36 (2.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 34 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
19 32 (1.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.31%) PySpark
2 67 (4.04%) Terraform
3 66 (3.98%) .NET
4 64 (3.86%) REST
5 23 (1.39%) Kafka
5 23 (1.39%) React
6 20 (1.21%) HTML
7 19 (1.15%) JSON
7 19 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (1.03%) Middleware
9 15 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (0.84%) CSS
11 9 (0.54%) Pandas
11 9 (0.54%) SOAP
12 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.48%) ADO
12 8 (0.48%) EDI
13 7 (0.42%) JDO
13 7 (0.42%) RESTful
13 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.83%) Data Structures
2 78 (4.70%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 57 (3.44%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 30 (1.81%) Clustering
9 26 (1.57%) AI Agents
10 22 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 21 (1.27%) CMDB
12 20 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.21%) FMCG
13 17 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.97%) NHS
15 15 (0.90%) Data Centre
16 13 (0.78%) Life Science
16 13 (0.78%) Reference Data
17 12 (0.72%) Replication
17 12 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.08%) Windows
2 24 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 16 (0.97%) Linux
4 10 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.60%) Unix
5 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.12%) VMS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,558 (93.97%) Business Intelligence
2 669 (40.35%) Analytics
3 509 (30.70%) Data Modelling
4 420 (25.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 414 (24.97%) Agile
6 367 (22.14%) Decision-Making
7 331 (19.96%) AI
8 329 (19.84%) Visualisation
9 318 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
10 309 (18.64%) ETL
11 297 (17.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 287 (17.31%) DevOps
13 272 (16.41%) CI/CD
13 272 (16.41%) Migration
14 262 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 257 (15.50%) Data Governance
16 244 (14.72%) Data Engineering
16 244 (14.72%) Validation
17 240 (14.48%) Data Pipeline
18 217 (13.09%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 780 (47.04%) SQL
2 369 (22.26%) Python
3 186 (11.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 96 (5.79%) JavaScript
5 85 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.34%) C#
7 64 (3.86%) T-SQL
8 41 (2.47%) R
9 37 (2.23%) Java
10 23 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.21%) VBA
12 13 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.54%) Bash
14 8 (0.48%) Bicep
14 8 (0.48%) Scala
14 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.30%) Korn
15 5 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.30%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 305 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 235 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 157 (9.47%) Degree
4 51 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (2.71%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 23 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 16 (0.97%) PMP
11 15 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (0.66%) ACCA
12 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.54%) CIMA
14 9 (0.54%) CISSP
15 8 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 399 (24.07%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.76%) QA
3 75 (4.52%) GDPR
3 75 (4.52%) PMO
4 35 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.90%) GRC
5 15 (0.90%) ISO 19650
6 11 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (0.66%) SLA
7 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.30%) GMP
9 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.18%) NIST
11 3 (0.18%) P3O
11 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 47 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.90%) Docker
3 13 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.060%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.15%) Grafana
3 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.90%) SCOM
5 12 (0.72%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) Control-M
8 6 (0.36%) SCCM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 672 (40.53%) Microsoft
2 208 (12.55%) Databricks
3 110 (6.63%) SAP
4 100 (6.03%) ServiceNow
5 78 (4.70%) Oracle
6 50 (3.02%) Google
7 41 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.11%) Informatica
9 33 (1.99%) Splunk
10 29 (1.75%) Remedy
11 27 (1.63%) Alteryx
12 21 (1.27%) Workday
13 20 (1.21%) BMC
14 17 (1.03%) Adobe
15 16 (0.97%) Denodo
16 15 (0.90%) Dynatrace
17 14 (0.84%) Autodesk
18 13 (0.78%) VMware
19 11 (0.66%) Teradata
20 10 (0.60%) MicroStrategy