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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 63 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,695 1,062 1,119
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 3.85% 3.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.10% 21.44% 18.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 703 776
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £406 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £593 £575 £588
90th Percentile £668 £686 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 20 19
10th Percentile £17.90 £20.98 £19.97
25th Percentile £22.68 £28.06 £25.38
Median hourly rate £29.96 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +6.83% -7.18%
75th Percentile £38.25 £38.88 £59.86
90th Percentile £70.80 £54.13 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £33.11 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.51% +10.37% -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 7,033 4,954 5,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 17.95% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,700 3,400 4,140
10th Percentile £358 £332 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £526
% change year-on-year - -4.90% -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 80 79
10th Percentile £15.61 £21.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £31.45 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.38 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +19.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.31 £65.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £39.48 £33.93
% change year-on-year +0.05% +16.36% -36.58%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +5 891 £500 - 835
North of England -8 238 £440 +1.15% 246
South East +5 217 £500 +9.59% 285
Midlands +11 190 £475 +2.70% 204
West Midlands -1 131 £475 -0.52% 132
North West +6 130 £498 +10.86% 150
Yorkshire -17 93 £425 +6.25% 69
South West -22 88 £425 +7.94% 120
East Midlands +19 57 £475 +13.43% 72
East of England -21 36 £571 -0.78% 92
North East -34 19 £375 -18.92% 27
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
1 170 (10.03%) SharePoint
2 64 (3.78%) Confluence
3 33 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.47%) Apache
6 23 (1.36%) SAS
7 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.71%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.41%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.35%) Mendix
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.29%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.24%) CMS
12 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) IIS
13 3 (0.18%) Kentico
14 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
14 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.059%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.059%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 330 (19.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.95%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.59%) Navisworks
6 10 (0.59%) Revit
7 8 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.35%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.35%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 39 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.94%) iTrent
5 12 (0.71%) Primavera
6 8 (0.47%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.41%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 6 (0.35%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.29%) Maximo
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
12 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,695 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 638 (37.64%) Azure
3 204 (12.04%) AWS
4 197 (11.62%) Power Automate
5 178 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
6 171 (10.09%) PowerApps
7 141 (8.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 135 (7.96%) Snowflake
9 123 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
10 121 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
11 111 (6.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 101 (5.96%) Microsoft Copilot
13 80 (4.72%) Serverless
14 73 (4.31%) dbt
15 68 (4.01%) GitHub
16 65 (3.83%) GCP
17 55 (3.24%) Entra ID
18 53 (3.13%) Amazon S3
19 51 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
20 47 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.94%) Firewall
2 11 (0.65%) SSL
3 10 (0.59%) DNS
4 8 (0.47%) VPN
5 7 (0.41%) Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) Network Security
7 2 (0.12%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) SMTP
8 1 (0.059%) 4G
8 1 (0.059%) 5G
8 1 (0.059%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.059%) LAN
8 1 (0.059%) OpenFlow
8 1 (0.059%) SSH
8 1 (0.059%) VoIP
8 1 (0.059%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
2 244 (14.40%) Tableau
3 144 (8.50%) Data Lake
4 134 (7.91%) SQL Server
5 131 (7.73%) Power Query
6 83 (4.90%) Metadata
7 67 (3.95%) Star Schema
8 55 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.01%) Relational Database
10 48 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (2.77%) Looker
12 40 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
13 37 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (2.06%) Semantic Layer
15 33 (1.95%) Snowflake Schema
16 32 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 31 (1.83%) BigQuery
18 30 (1.77%) NoSQL
19 25 (1.47%) Delta Lake
20 24 (1.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 141 (8.32%) JIRA
2 68 (4.01%) Git
3 29 (1.71%) GitLab
4 10 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.41%) ERwin
5 7 (0.41%) MLflow
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.29%) 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%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.18%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.059%) REST Assured
General
1 560 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 502 (29.62%) Finance
3 430 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 120 (7.08%) Banking
6 78 (4.60%) Retail
7 65 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (3.19%) Law
9 52 (3.07%) Manufacturing
10 50 (2.95%) Marketing
11 45 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (2.36%) Local Government
13 32 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (1.36%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.06%) Investment Banking
17 17 (1.00%) Legal
17 17 (1.00%) Publishing
18 16 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 435 (25.66%) Analyst
2 244 (14.40%) Developer
3 217 (12.80%) Data Engineer
4 216 (12.74%) Data Analyst
5 193 (11.39%) Senior
6 183 (10.80%) Architect
7 156 (9.20%) Lead
8 115 (6.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 93 (5.49%) Power BI Developer
10 90 (5.31%) Business Analyst
11 80 (4.72%) Data Architect
12 78 (4.60%) Consultant
13 55 (3.24%) Project Manager
14 54 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
15 47 (2.77%) Power Platform Developer
16 46 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
17 39 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 38 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
19 37 (2.18%) Lead Architect
20 35 (2.06%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (5.49%) PySpark
2 72 (4.25%) Terraform
3 66 (3.89%) .NET
4 65 (3.83%) REST
5 32 (1.89%) Kafka
6 24 (1.42%) React
7 22 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
8 21 (1.24%) JSON
9 20 (1.18%) HTML
10 19 (1.12%) Middleware
11 15 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
12 14 (0.83%) CSS
13 12 (0.71%) Pandas
14 10 (0.59%) ADO
15 8 (0.47%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.47%) EDI
16 7 (0.41%) Great Expectations
16 7 (0.41%) JDO
16 7 (0.41%) jQuery
16 7 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.90%) Data Structures
2 72 (4.25%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 61 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 42 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 32 (1.89%) Clustering
8 25 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 21 (1.24%) CMDB
11 20 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.18%) FMCG
12 18 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.88%) Data Centre
13 15 (0.88%) NHS
14 14 (0.83%) Reference Data
15 12 (0.71%) IoT
15 12 (0.71%) Life Science
15 12 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.13%) Windows
2 26 (1.53%) Windows Server
3 14 (0.83%) Linux
4 10 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.53%) Unix
6 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.29%) 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 1,583 (93.39%) Business Intelligence
2 675 (39.82%) Analytics
3 522 (30.80%) Data Modelling
4 411 (24.25%) Agile
5 387 (22.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 364 (21.47%) Decision-Making
7 336 (19.82%) AI
8 335 (19.76%) Visualisation
9 324 (19.12%) ETL
10 314 (18.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 313 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
12 298 (17.58%) DevOps
13 289 (17.05%) Migration
14 283 (16.70%) CI/CD
15 272 (16.05%) Data Governance
16 268 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 259 (15.28%) Data Pipeline
18 258 (15.22%) Data Engineering
19 237 (13.98%) Validation
20 212 (12.51%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 788 (46.49%) SQL
2 387 (22.83%) Python
3 193 (11.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 94 (5.55%) JavaScript
5 92 (5.43%) PowerShell
6 74 (4.37%) C#
7 65 (3.83%) T-SQL
8 46 (2.71%) R
9 38 (2.24%) Java
10 22 (1.30%) TypeScript
10 22 (1.30%) VBA
11 13 (0.77%) PL/SQL
12 11 (0.65%) Bicep
13 9 (0.53%) Bash
13 9 (0.53%) Scala
14 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.29%) Korn
15 5 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.29%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 314 (18.53%) Security Cleared
2 238 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 162 (9.56%) Degree
4 51 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.59%) DBS Check
9 22 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.12%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 14 (0.83%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.71%) PMP
15 11 (0.65%) ACCA
16 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.53%) CIMA
16 9 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.41%) CISSP
17 7 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (23.30%) Data Quality
2 89 (5.25%) GDPR
3 80 (4.72%) QA
4 76 (4.48%) PMO
5 35 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.94%) GRC
7 12 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.65%) ISO 19650
9 10 (0.59%) SLA
10 8 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.35%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.29%) GMP
13 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.18%) NIST
14 3 (0.18%) P3O
14 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.12%) Basel III
15 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.88%) Docker
3 13 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.24%) Grafana
3 18 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.88%) SCOM
5 12 (0.71%) Ansible
6 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.41%) Control-M
7 7 (0.41%) SCCM
8 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.059%) Kibana
10 1 (0.059%) Nessus
10 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.059%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.059%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.059%) WSUS
Vendors
1 689 (40.65%) Microsoft
2 211 (12.45%) Databricks
3 113 (6.67%) SAP
4 105 (6.19%) ServiceNow
5 83 (4.90%) Oracle
6 46 (2.71%) Google
7 39 (2.30%) Informatica
7 39 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 30 (1.77%) Remedy
9 29 (1.71%) Splunk
10 26 (1.53%) Alteryx
11 21 (1.24%) BMC
11 21 (1.24%) Workday
12 15 (0.88%) Adobe
12 15 (0.88%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.77%) Denodo
13 13 (0.77%) VMware
14 11 (0.65%) IFS
15 10 (0.59%) Autodesk
15 10 (0.59%) MicroStrategy