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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 64 62
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,680 1,055 1,127
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.63% 3.86% 3.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.19% 21.43% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 701 780
10th Percentile £320 £310 £300
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £597 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 19 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £20.70 £19.97
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.04 £25.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -7.18%
75th Percentile £53.19 £41.75 £59.86
90th Percentile £74.60 £54.50 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £30.38 £33.03 £30.00
% change year-on-year -8.02% +10.08% -7.18%

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 6,944 4,924 5,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.02% 18.00% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,642 3,377 4,123
10th Percentile £358 £333 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £622 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 79 80
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.24 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.72 £31.29 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +20.00% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.10 £80.00 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £39.84 £40.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.01% +14.99% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +2 884 £500 - 1,333
North of England -8 236 £440 +3.53% 377
South East +6 212 £475 +5.56% 392
Midlands +14 192 £475 +2.70% 269
West Midlands -5 133 £475 -3.06% 189
North West +3 129 £500 +14.29% 209
Yorkshire -16 91 £425 +3.66% 130
South West -22 86 £425 +3.03% 155
East Midlands +20 58 £470 +12.24% 80
East of England -29 34 £571 -0.78% 143
North East -24 20 £369 -22.37% 39
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 (9.94%) SharePoint
2 67 (3.99%) Confluence
3 34 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.49%) SAS
6 24 (1.43%) Apache
7 13 (0.77%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.36%) Mendix
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
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
1 326 (19.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.65%) Navisworks
7 11 (0.65%) Revit
8 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.42%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.42%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.12%) Notion
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.95%) iTrent
5 11 (0.65%) Primavera
6 8 (0.48%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.48%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 6 (0.36%) Maximo
7 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,680 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 629 (37.44%) Azure
3 201 (11.96%) AWS
4 200 (11.90%) Power Automate
5 172 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
6 169 (10.06%) PowerApps
7 138 (8.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 138 (8.21%) Snowflake
8 118 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
9 117 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
10 106 (6.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 101 (6.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 78 (4.64%) Serverless
13 74 (4.40%) dbt
14 64 (3.81%) GCP
15 63 (3.75%) GitHub
16 56 (3.33%) Amazon S3
17 54 (3.21%) Entra ID
18 49 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
19 46 (2.74%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.71%) Firewall
2 11 (0.65%) SSL
3 8 (0.48%) DNS
3 8 (0.48%) VPN
4 7 (0.42%) Broadband
5 2 (0.12%) Internet
5 2 (0.12%) NAS
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
5 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.12%) SAN
6 1 (0.060%) 4G
6 1 (0.060%) 5G
6 1 (0.060%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.060%) LAN
6 1 (0.060%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.060%) SSH
6 1 (0.060%) VoIP
6 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (15.71%) Data Warehouse
2 239 (14.23%) Tableau
3 145 (8.63%) Data Lake
4 133 (7.92%) Power Query
5 131 (7.80%) SQL Server
6 83 (4.94%) Metadata
7 68 (4.05%) Star Schema
8 55 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.04%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.98%) Looker
11 45 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
12 44 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
15 33 (1.96%) BigQuery
16 32 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 29 (1.73%) NoSQL
17 29 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
18 24 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 23 (1.37%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 146 (8.69%) JIRA
2 68 (4.05%) Git
3 28 (1.67%) GitLab
4 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.36%) ERwin
5 6 (0.36%) MLflow
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.24%) JUnit
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.18%) JMeter
8 3 (0.18%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.060%) REST Assured
General
1 568 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 494 (29.40%) Finance
3 432 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 120 (7.14%) Banking
6 76 (4.52%) Retail
7 64 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 52 (3.10%) Marketing
10 45 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 45 (2.68%) Law
11 40 (2.38%) Local Government
12 36 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.25%) Legal
16 17 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 17 (1.01%) Investment Banking
16 17 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 433 (25.77%) Analyst
2 247 (14.70%) Developer
3 212 (12.62%) Data Engineer
4 211 (12.56%) Data Analyst
5 191 (11.37%) Senior
6 182 (10.83%) Architect
7 145 (8.63%) Lead
8 117 (6.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 95 (5.65%) Power BI Developer
10 94 (5.60%) Business Analyst
11 82 (4.88%) Data Architect
12 75 (4.46%) Consultant
13 54 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
14 51 (3.04%) Project Manager
15 48 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
16 47 (2.80%) Power Platform Developer
17 38 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 37 (2.20%) Performance Analyst
19 36 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
20 34 (2.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.36%) PySpark
2 69 (4.11%) Terraform
3 66 (3.93%) .NET
4 64 (3.81%) REST
5 28 (1.67%) Kafka
6 24 (1.43%) React
7 21 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
8 20 (1.19%) HTML
8 20 (1.19%) JSON
9 18 (1.07%) Middleware
10 15 (0.89%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (0.83%) CSS
12 10 (0.60%) ADO
12 10 (0.60%) Pandas
13 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.48%) EDI
14 7 (0.42%) JDO
14 7 (0.42%) jQuery
14 7 (0.42%) RESTful
15 6 (0.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 75 (4.46%) Management Information System
3 61 (3.63%) Cloud Native
3 61 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 41 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 31 (1.85%) Clustering
7 26 (1.55%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 20 (1.19%) CMDB
9 20 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.19%) FMCG
10 18 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (0.95%) NHS
12 15 (0.89%) Data Centre
13 14 (0.83%) Reference Data
14 13 (0.77%) Life Science
15 12 (0.71%) Replication
15 12 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.04%) Windows
2 24 (1.43%) Windows Server
3 14 (0.83%) Linux
4 10 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.54%) Unix
6 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.30%) Android
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.12%) VMS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,573 (93.63%) Business Intelligence
2 681 (40.54%) Analytics
3 515 (30.65%) Data Modelling
4 413 (24.58%) Agile
5 408 (24.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 375 (22.32%) Decision-Making
7 335 (19.94%) AI
7 335 (19.94%) Visualisation
8 320 (19.05%) ETL
9 319 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
10 306 (18.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 291 (17.32%) DevOps
12 281 (16.73%) CI/CD
13 279 (16.61%) Migration
14 267 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 265 (15.77%) Data Governance
16 254 (15.12%) Data Pipeline
17 250 (14.88%) Data Engineering
18 239 (14.23%) Validation
19 218 (12.98%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 781 (46.49%) SQL
2 380 (22.62%) Python
3 191 (11.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 93 (5.54%) JavaScript
5 88 (5.24%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.29%) C#
7 65 (3.87%) T-SQL
8 44 (2.62%) R
9 39 (2.32%) Java
10 22 (1.31%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.25%) VBA
12 13 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.54%) Bash
13 9 (0.54%) Bicep
14 8 (0.48%) Scala
15 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.30%) Korn
16 5 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.30%) X++
17 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 306 (18.21%) Security Cleared
2 236 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 156 (9.29%) Degree
4 52 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 22 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.19%) PMI Certification
11 15 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 13 (0.77%) PMP
13 12 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.65%) ACCA
15 10 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.54%) CIMA
16 9 (0.54%) CISSP
17 8 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (23.87%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.76%) GDPR
3 79 (4.70%) QA
4 77 (4.58%) PMO
5 34 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.95%) GRC
7 13 (0.77%) ISO 19650
8 10 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.54%) SLA
10 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.30%) GMP
11 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.18%) NIST
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
13 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.12%) Basel III
14 2 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.95%) Docker
3 13 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.19%) Grafana
3 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.89%) SCOM
5 12 (0.71%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) Control-M
7 7 (0.42%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 687 (40.89%) Microsoft
2 206 (12.26%) Databricks
3 112 (6.67%) SAP
4 103 (6.13%) ServiceNow
5 82 (4.88%) Oracle
6 47 (2.80%) Google
7 39 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 37 (2.20%) Informatica
9 32 (1.90%) Splunk
10 27 (1.61%) Alteryx
10 27 (1.61%) Remedy
11 21 (1.25%) Workday
12 20 (1.19%) BMC
13 15 (0.89%) Adobe
13 15 (0.89%) Denodo
13 15 (0.89%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.77%) VMware
15 12 (0.71%) Autodesk
16 10 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
16 10 (0.60%) Teradata