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

 6 months to
10 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,497 930 1,186
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 3.82% 3.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.97% 20.06% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 644 843
10th Percentile £318 £313 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £645 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 33
10th Percentile £15.75 £18.94 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £31.13 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% +25.22% -58.32%
75th Percentile £41.81 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.12 £60.20
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -57.79%

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 6,246 4,637 6,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.92% 19.04% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 3,266 4,415
10th Percentile £350 £357 £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 £670
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 95 138
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.84 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £50.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.52% -17.23% -28.19%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £51.75
90th Percentile £83.50 £73.75 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +6 798 £500 - 258
South East +4 185 £500 +6.67% 212
Midlands -15 162 £450 -6.44% 126
North of England -42 148 £450 -2.70% 176
West Midlands -34 100 £450 -7.22% 72
South West +6 84 £450 - 70
North West -17 79 £438 -16.67% 90
East Midlands +9 61 £402 -17.54% 54
Yorkshire -40 57 £445 +6.59% 63
East of England -21 48 £475 -5.00% 57
North East -10 12 £475 +5.56% 29
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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
1 136 (9.08%) SharePoint
2 60 (4.01%) Confluence
3 54 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.20%) Apache
5 29 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.00%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.67%) Mendix
8 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.33%) SAS
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.067%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 302 (20.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (4.14%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.20%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.20%) Notion
7 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.20%) Trello
8 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.067%) CATIA
8 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.067%) InDesign
8 1 (0.067%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.067%) Revit
8 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 39 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.67%) iTrent
5 9 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.27%) Primavera
8 4 (0.27%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
9 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.13%) Loan IQ
10 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,497 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 567 (37.88%) Azure
3 209 (13.96%) AWS
4 181 (12.09%) Power Automate
5 157 (10.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 153 (10.22%) PowerApps
7 137 (9.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 126 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
8 126 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
9 109 (7.28%) Dynamics 365
10 104 (6.95%) GCP
11 102 (6.81%) Snowflake
12 74 (4.94%) Serverless
13 69 (4.61%) Microsoft Copilot
14 59 (3.94%) GitHub
15 49 (3.27%) Amazon S3
16 46 (3.07%) Copilot Studio
17 45 (3.01%) dbt
18 39 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
19 38 (2.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.60%) Firewall
1 9 (0.60%) VPN
2 4 (0.27%) 5G
2 4 (0.27%) DNS
2 4 (0.27%) HTTP
2 4 (0.27%) LTE
3 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.20%) Network Security
3 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.13%) 2G
4 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) Intranet
4 2 (0.13%) MPLS
4 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.13%) SMTP
4 2 (0.13%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.13%) VoIP
4 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
4 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (17.43%) Tableau
2 223 (14.90%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (9.02%) Data Lake
4 114 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 89 (5.95%) Power Query
6 75 (5.01%) Metadata
7 58 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 58 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 52 (3.47%) BigQuery
9 51 (3.41%) Looker
10 42 (2.81%) Snowflake Schema
11 41 (2.74%) Relational Database
12 39 (2.61%) Star Schema
13 38 (2.54%) Delta Lake
14 34 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
15 31 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 30 (2.00%) NoSQL
17 29 (1.94%) Mixpanel
17 29 (1.94%) Spark SQL
18 26 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 124 (8.28%) JIRA
2 73 (4.88%) Git
3 17 (1.14%) GitLab
4 13 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.80%) ERwin
6 6 (0.40%) MLflow
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.27%) Postman
7 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.067%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.067%) GCC
10 1 (0.067%) Hudson
General
1 477 (31.86%) Finance
2 474 (31.66%) Social Skills
3 365 (24.38%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.15%) Banking
6 49 (3.27%) Law
7 48 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.07%) Retail
9 44 (2.94%) Marketing
10 42 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.54%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.34%) Legal
15 20 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.94%) Front Office
17 14 (0.94%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 397 (26.52%) Analyst
2 241 (16.10%) Data Engineer
3 207 (13.83%) Developer
4 179 (11.96%) Senior
5 177 (11.82%) Data Analyst
6 155 (10.35%) Lead
7 143 (9.55%) Architect
8 100 (6.68%) Business Analyst
9 88 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 72 (4.81%) Consultant
11 66 (4.41%) Power BI Developer
12 49 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
13 48 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
14 43 (2.87%) Data Architect
15 42 (2.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 42 (2.81%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.61%) PMO Analyst
17 36 (2.40%) Lead Architect
18 34 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
19 33 (2.20%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.54%) PySpark
2 45 (3.01%) REST
3 44 (2.94%) Kafka
4 34 (2.27%) .NET
5 33 (2.20%) Pandas
6 22 (1.47%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.40%) HTML
7 21 (1.40%) JSON
8 20 (1.34%) Great Expectations
9 18 (1.20%) React
10 17 (1.14%) NumPy
11 16 (1.07%) HTML5 Canvas
12 15 (1.00%) ADO
12 15 (1.00%) PyTorch
12 15 (1.00%) TensorFlow
12 15 (1.00%) XML
13 14 (0.94%) YAML
14 13 (0.87%) CSS
14 13 (0.87%) Spark Streaming
15 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 55 (3.67%) Cloud Native
2 54 (3.61%) Data Structures
2 54 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 35 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 34 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 34 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 27 (1.80%) Low-Code
6 26 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 24 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.14%) CMDB
10 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.07%) PMI
11 14 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.80%) Clustering
14 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.67%) IoT
15 10 (0.67%) NHS
16 8 (0.53%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.27%) Windows
2 10 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.067%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,397 (93.32%) Business Intelligence
2 610 (40.75%) Analytics
3 477 (31.86%) Data Modelling
4 331 (22.11%) Visualisation
5 328 (21.91%) Agile
5 328 (21.91%) ETL
6 309 (20.64%) Decision-Making
7 277 (18.50%) Data Governance
8 274 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
9 241 (16.10%) Data Engineering
10 229 (15.30%) DevOps
11 226 (15.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 224 (14.96%) Data Pipeline
13 221 (14.76%) AI
14 212 (14.16%) Actionable Insight
15 210 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
16 209 (13.96%) Data Visualisation
17 208 (13.89%) CI/CD
18 204 (13.63%) Migration
19 203 (13.56%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 715 (47.76%) SQL
2 395 (26.39%) Python
3 153 (10.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 69 (4.61%) C#
5 59 (3.94%) R
6 54 (3.61%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.34%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.61%) VBA
9 35 (2.34%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.07%) Java
11 24 (1.60%) Bicep
12 21 (1.40%) Scala
13 13 (0.87%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.73%) Formula Language
14 11 (0.73%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.27%) C
18 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
18 3 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 248 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 192 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 139 (9.29%) Degree
4 34 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.07%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 24 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.54%) PMP
11 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.73%) MBA
13 8 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.40%) CBAP
15 5 (0.33%) ACCA
15 5 (0.33%) IIBA
15 5 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 4 (0.27%) CIMA
16 4 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (23.58%) Data Quality
2 116 (7.75%) GDPR
3 96 (6.41%) PMO
4 82 (5.48%) QA
5 36 (2.40%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.07%) GRC
6 16 (1.07%) SLA
7 15 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.73%) Basel III
9 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.27%) NCSC
10 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.20%) GAAP
11 3 (0.20%) IFRS
11 3 (0.20%) P3O
11 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (2.14%) Docker
2 31 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.067%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (5.01%) Terraform
2 39 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.53%) Grafana
5 6 (0.40%) SCCM
6 5 (0.33%) Ansible
6 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.27%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.20%) Control-M
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Kibana
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.067%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.067%) SCOM
10 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.067%) WSUS
Vendors
1 501 (33.47%) Microsoft
2 208 (13.89%) Databricks
3 79 (5.28%) Oracle
3 79 (5.28%) ServiceNow
4 75 (5.01%) SAP
5 64 (4.28%) Google
6 41 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 34 (2.27%) Informatica
8 20 (1.34%) Workday
9 19 (1.27%) Foundry
10 15 (1.00%) Lotus
11 14 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 14 (0.94%) Sage
12 13 (0.87%) Remedy
13 12 (0.80%) Alteryx
14 11 (0.73%) Talend
15 10 (0.67%) Adobe
15 10 (0.67%) IFS
15 10 (0.67%) Kofax
16 9 (0.60%) MuleSoft
815 Power BI jobs in England