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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 63 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,636 1,038 1,204
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 3.78% 3.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.80% 20.62% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 669 874
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £588
90th Percentile £650 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.11% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 30 16
10th Percentile £16.77 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.19 £23.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £29.96 £30.36 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +1.18% -22.58%
75th Percentile £45.19 £34.62 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £53.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -18.92%

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 6,873 5,033 6,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.31% 18.35% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,600 3,482 4,616
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 88 111
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.63 £20.38
Median hourly rate £40.25 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.41% -13.56% -27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.94 £51.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £36.25 £39.25
% change year-on-year +16.15% -7.64% -28.64%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +8 839 £500 - 200
South East -5 214 £475 +5.56% 150
Midlands +11 203 £459 +8.00% 100
North of England -16 199 £460 +2.86% 126
West Midlands -13 144 £450 +5.88% 55
North West -12 113 £475 - 57
South West -11 93 £450 +11.25% 51
Yorkshire -43 69 £450 +3.45% 48
East Midlands +19 58 £475 +7.04% 45
East of England -8 41 £400 -20.79% 29
North East -22 21 £413 -8.33% 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
1 146 (8.92%) SharePoint
2 65 (3.97%) Confluence
3 37 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.71%) Apache
6 18 (1.10%) SAS
7 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.49%) Apache Superset
8 8 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) CMS
9 5 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.24%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) HCL Notes
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
11 3 (0.18%) Mendix
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.061%) Appian
13 1 (0.061%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 311 (19.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.61%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.77%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Navisworks
7 5 (0.31%) Revit
8 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.061%) CATIA
10 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.061%) InDesign
10 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.061%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 36 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.98%) iTrent
5 9 (0.55%) Primavera
6 8 (0.49%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,636 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 615 (37.59%) Azure
3 207 (12.65%) AWS
4 180 (11.00%) Power Automate
5 158 (9.66%) PowerApps
6 143 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
7 135 (8.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 131 (8.01%) Snowflake
9 114 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
10 113 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
11 112 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 83 (5.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 77 (4.71%) Serverless
14 73 (4.46%) GCP
15 68 (4.16%) dbt
16 57 (3.48%) Amazon S3
16 57 (3.48%) GitHub
17 48 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
18 47 (2.87%) Entra ID
19 46 (2.81%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.10%) Firewall
2 14 (0.86%) VPN
3 11 (0.67%) DNS
4 5 (0.31%) SSL
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
7 2 (0.12%) MPLS
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) SMTP
7 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
7 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (16.38%) Tableau
2 267 (16.32%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (8.25%) Data Lake
4 116 (7.09%) Power Query
5 113 (6.91%) SQL Server
6 72 (4.40%) Metadata
7 60 (3.67%) Star Schema
8 57 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.24%) Looker
10 47 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 47 (2.87%) Relational Database
11 42 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (2.32%) Snowflake Schema
13 36 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.20%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
15 28 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 27 (1.65%) BusinessObjects
17 25 (1.53%) Delta Lake
17 25 (1.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 141 (8.62%) JIRA
2 69 (4.22%) Git
3 26 (1.59%) GitLab
4 11 (0.67%) ERwin
5 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.31%) MLflow
7 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.24%) JUnit
8 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) JMeter
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.061%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.061%) TestRail
General
1 512 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 490 (29.95%) Finance
3 394 (24.08%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 109 (6.66%) Banking
6 62 (3.79%) Retail
7 56 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (3.18%) Law
9 50 (3.06%) Manufacturing
10 49 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (2.69%) Marketing
12 35 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.34%) Local Government
13 22 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.16%) Legal
16 19 (1.16%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 435 (26.59%) Analyst
2 244 (14.91%) Developer
3 239 (14.61%) Data Engineer
4 211 (12.90%) Data Analyst
5 188 (11.49%) Senior
6 184 (11.25%) Architect
7 155 (9.47%) Lead
8 118 (7.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 94 (5.75%) Business Analyst
10 93 (5.68%) Power BI Developer
11 71 (4.34%) Data Architect
12 66 (4.03%) Consultant
13 57 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
14 51 (3.12%) Power Platform Developer
15 49 (3.00%) Project Manager
16 47 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 39 (2.38%) Lead Architect
18 37 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
18 37 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
19 36 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.32%) PySpark
2 53 (3.24%) REST
3 52 (3.18%) .NET
4 31 (1.89%) Kafka
5 25 (1.53%) JSON
6 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (1.10%) Middleware
8 17 (1.04%) Pandas
9 16 (0.98%) React
10 14 (0.86%) HTML
11 12 (0.73%) CSS
11 12 (0.73%) Great Expectations
12 11 (0.67%) ADO
12 11 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (0.67%) XML
13 10 (0.61%) YAML
14 8 (0.49%) JDO
15 7 (0.43%) jQuery
15 7 (0.43%) RESTful
15 7 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.71%) Data Structures
2 70 (4.28%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 46 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 45 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 37 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 24 (1.47%) CMDB
9 23 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.22%) Clustering
12 18 (1.10%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.98%) FMCG
14 15 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (0.86%) PKI
16 13 (0.79%) IoT
16 13 (0.79%) NHS
16 13 (0.79%) Reference Data
17 12 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
18 11 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.32%) Windows
2 22 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.55%) Unix
4 8 (0.49%) Linux
5 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.24%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,522 (93.03%) Business Intelligence
2 671 (41.01%) Analytics
3 532 (32.52%) Data Modelling
4 399 (24.39%) Agile
5 344 (21.03%) ETL
6 341 (20.84%) Visualisation
7 340 (20.78%) Decision-Making
8 296 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
9 291 (17.79%) AI
10 289 (17.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 274 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 269 (16.44%) DevOps
13 268 (16.38%) Data Pipeline
14 266 (16.26%) Migration
15 264 (16.14%) Data Governance
16 253 (15.46%) Data Engineering
17 247 (15.10%) CI/CD
18 231 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
19 228 (13.94%) Validation
20 205 (12.53%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 765 (46.76%) SQL
2 390 (23.84%) Python
3 188 (11.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 77 (4.71%) PowerShell
5 69 (4.22%) JavaScript
6 64 (3.91%) C#
7 60 (3.67%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.06%) R
9 40 (2.44%) Java
10 24 (1.47%) VBA
11 15 (0.92%) Bicep
11 15 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.67%) Scala
14 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.31%) C
16 4 (0.24%) Korn
16 4 (0.24%) X++
17 3 (0.18%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 300 (18.34%) Security Cleared
2 230 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 164 (10.02%) Degree
4 44 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.65%) DBS Check
9 22 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 16 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 13 (0.79%) PMP
15 8 (0.49%) ACCA
16 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.43%) CISSP
17 6 (0.37%) CIMA
17 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
18 5 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (23.78%) Data Quality
2 107 (6.54%) GDPR
3 84 (5.13%) PMO
4 77 (4.71%) QA
5 33 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.10%) SLA
7 16 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.61%) GRC
8 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.37%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.18%) Basel III
11 3 (0.18%) NCSC
11 3 (0.18%) P3O
11 3 (0.18%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.12%) COBIT
12 2 (0.12%) NIST
13 1 (0.061%) IFRS
System Software
1 52 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.67%) Docker
3 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) RACF
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (4.22%) Terraform
2 20 (1.22%) Grafana
3 17 (1.04%) Kubernetes
4 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.49%) Ansible
7 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) SCOM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Kibana
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 1 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.061%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.061%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 589 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 197 (12.04%) Databricks
3 112 (6.85%) SAP
4 92 (5.62%) ServiceNow
5 73 (4.46%) Oracle
6 43 (2.63%) Google
6 43 (2.63%) Informatica
7 33 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.59%) Alteryx
8 26 (1.59%) Remedy
9 24 (1.47%) Splunk
10 22 (1.34%) Workday
11 15 (0.92%) Adobe
12 14 (0.86%) Dynatrace
12 14 (0.86%) IFS
13 13 (0.79%) BMC
13 13 (0.79%) Talend
14 11 (0.67%) Denodo
15 10 (0.61%) Foundry
16 9 (0.55%) Atlassian