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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 57 63
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,514 913 1,200
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.72% 3.77% 3.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.38% 19.76% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 608 859
10th Percentile £319 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £583
90th Percentile £645 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.58% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 25 27
10th Percentile £15.51 £18.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £24.75 £18.33
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +25.22% -53.17%
75th Percentile £38.25 £32.05 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.12 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £23.21 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -26.64% +29.51% -47.50%

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 6,211 4,620 6,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.25% 19.09% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,260 3,221 4,467
10th Percentile £350 £363 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 86 130
10th Percentile £16.07 £21.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.92 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £45.90 £32.43 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -19.18% -30.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.46 £58.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.54 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +37.80% -13.75% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +1 767 £500 +1.83% 297
South East +12 212 £475 - 191
Midlands -6 187 £455 -9.10% 80
North of England -27 158 £450 - 137
West Midlands -25 124 £455 -9.10% 52
South West +10 91 £450 +5.88% 45
North West 0 88 £471 -5.75% 83
East Midlands +14 62 £450 -7.69% 28
Yorkshire -46 57 £438 +3.06% 40
East of England -22 40 £413 -17.50% 45
North East -13 14 £475 +5.56% 16
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
1 127 (8.39%) SharePoint
2 68 (4.49%) Confluence
3 49 (3.24%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.92%) Apache
5 22 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.06%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.86%) SAS
8 12 (0.79%) Mendix
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.26%) IIS
12 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) Appian
14 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 305 (20.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.76%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (1.98%) 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%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.066%) CATIA
10 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.066%) InDesign
10 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 18 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.99%) iTrent
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.13%) Loan IQ
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,514 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 550 (36.33%) Azure
3 189 (12.48%) AWS
4 168 (11.10%) Power Automate
5 154 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 139 (9.18%) PowerApps
7 137 (9.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 133 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
9 119 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
10 93 (6.14%) Snowflake
11 92 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
12 88 (5.81%) GCP
13 69 (4.56%) Serverless
14 67 (4.43%) Microsoft Copilot
15 64 (4.23%) GitHub
16 50 (3.30%) Amazon S3
17 44 (2.91%) dbt
18 43 (2.84%) Copilot Studio
19 41 (2.71%) Microsoft Purview
20 38 (2.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.86%) Firewall
2 12 (0.79%) VPN
3 8 (0.53%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
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
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) HTTP
5 2 (0.13%) Internet
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) LTE
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
1 258 (17.04%) Tableau
2 228 (15.06%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (9.71%) Data Lake
4 118 (7.79%) SQL Server
5 97 (6.41%) Power Query
6 72 (4.76%) Metadata
7 56 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (3.50%) Looker
10 49 (3.24%) BigQuery
11 45 (2.97%) Star Schema
12 44 (2.91%) Relational Database
13 38 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
14 37 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
15 34 (2.25%) Spark SQL
16 32 (2.11%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.92%) Mixpanel
17 29 (1.92%) NoSQL
18 26 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
19 25 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 134 (8.85%) JIRA
2 69 (4.56%) Git
3 24 (1.59%) GitLab
4 14 (0.92%) ERwin
5 10 (0.66%) 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
1 475 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 469 (30.98%) Finance
3 361 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.27%) Banking
6 53 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.17%) Law
8 47 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (3.04%) Retail
10 45 (2.97%) Marketing
11 29 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.32%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.25%) Legal
16 18 (1.19%) Local Government
16 18 (1.19%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.12%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.92%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 408 (26.95%) Analyst
2 249 (16.45%) Data Engineer
3 197 (13.01%) Developer
4 187 (12.35%) Senior
5 185 (12.22%) Data Analyst
6 154 (10.17%) Architect
7 141 (9.31%) Lead
8 97 (6.41%) Business Analyst
9 95 (6.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 73 (4.82%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.56%) Consultant
12 62 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
13 53 (3.50%) Data Architect
14 45 (2.97%) Project Manager
15 42 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 39 (2.58%) Power Platform Developer
18 37 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
19 36 (2.38%) Lead Architect
19 36 (2.38%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (5.88%) PySpark
2 47 (3.10%) REST
3 41 (2.71%) Kafka
4 34 (2.25%) .NET
5 24 (1.59%) Pandas
6 21 (1.39%) JSON
7 19 (1.25%) React
8 18 (1.19%) Great Expectations
9 17 (1.12%) HTML
10 15 (0.99%) ADO
11 14 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.86%) Middleware
12 13 (0.86%) YAML
13 12 (0.79%) XML
14 10 (0.66%) CSS
14 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (0.66%) scikit-learn
14 10 (0.66%) Spark Streaming
15 9 (0.59%) PyTorch
15 9 (0.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 67 (4.43%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.83%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 33 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 27 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 26 (1.72%) Low-Code
8 23 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.19%) CMDB
10 16 (1.06%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.92%) Clustering
12 14 (0.92%) PMI
13 12 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.66%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.66%) NHS
16 9 (0.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.72%) Windows
2 15 (0.99%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.33%) Unix
5 4 (0.26%) Linux
5 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.066%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,412 (93.26%) Business Intelligence
2 610 (40.29%) Analytics
3 494 (32.63%) Data Modelling
4 354 (23.38%) Agile
5 325 (21.47%) ETL
6 322 (21.27%) Decision-Making
7 308 (20.34%) Visualisation
8 275 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (17.57%) Data Governance
10 247 (16.31%) Data Engineering
11 245 (16.18%) DevOps
12 239 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 234 (15.46%) Data Pipeline
14 227 (14.99%) AI
15 220 (14.53%) CI/CD
16 219 (14.46%) Migration
17 201 (13.28%) Actionable Insight
18 200 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 200 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
19 190 (12.55%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 709 (46.83%) SQL
2 388 (25.63%) Python
3 165 (10.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 65 (4.29%) C#
5 64 (4.23%) R
6 62 (4.10%) PowerShell
7 54 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 47 (3.10%) T-SQL
9 38 (2.51%) Java
10 32 (2.11%) VBA
11 21 (1.39%) Bicep
12 19 (1.25%) Scala
13 12 (0.79%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.66%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.66%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.26%) C
17 4 (0.26%) Korn
18 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 258 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 202 (13.34%) SC Cleared
3 141 (9.31%) Degree
4 36 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (1.72%) PMI Certification
8 24 (1.59%) PMP
9 22 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.99%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.66%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 9 (0.59%) MBA
14 7 (0.46%) CBAP
14 7 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
15 6 (0.40%) ACCA
16 5 (0.33%) CISSP
16 5 (0.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (24.24%) Data Quality
2 112 (7.40%) GDPR
3 91 (6.01%) PMO
4 84 (5.55%) QA
5 34 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.06%) SLA
7 14 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.73%) GRC
10 10 (0.66%) Basel III
11 8 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.40%) 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%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 36 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.92%) Docker
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.066%) RACF
5 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (5.09%) Terraform
2 36 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.12%) Grafana
4 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.46%) SCCM
6 6 (0.40%) Ansible
7 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
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%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.066%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 497 (32.83%) Microsoft
2 206 (13.61%) Databricks
3 91 (6.01%) SAP
4 87 (5.75%) Oracle
5 78 (5.15%) ServiceNow
6 59 (3.90%) Google
7 37 (2.44%) Informatica
8 26 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.52%) Workday
10 20 (1.32%) Remedy
11 17 (1.12%) Splunk
12 16 (1.06%) Lotus
13 15 (0.99%) Foundry
14 14 (0.92%) IFS
14 14 (0.92%) Talend
15 12 (0.79%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.79%) Kofax
16 11 (0.73%) Adobe
16 11 (0.73%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.73%) Sage