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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 62 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,547 887 1,221
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 3.72% 3.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.33% 19.58% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 585 876
10th Percentile £325 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £580
90th Percentile £650 £673 £688
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 29 27
10th Percentile £16.21 £18.36 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.20 £25.00 £18.33
Median hourly rate £28.28 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +25.22% -54.51%
75th Percentile £37.50 £34.46 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.64 £53.75 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £25.42 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -19.67% +29.51% -50.93%

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 6,359 4,530 6,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 19.01% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,347 3,149 4,518
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 86 137
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.36 £31.85 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.86% -20.39% -31.09%
75th Percentile £73.19 £63.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.13 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.46% -17.60% -31.73%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +5 785 £500 - 319
South East +20 214 £500 +3.36% 181
Midlands -2 200 £455 -5.31% 79
North of England -35 154 £462 +2.57% 136
West Midlands -19 135 £450 -8.63% 56
South West +11 95 £450 +5.88% 49
North West -6 86 £480 -4.00% 82
East Midlands +20 64 £463 -1.33% 23
Yorkshire -54 53 £439 +3.29% 43
East of England -16 42 £400 -20.00% 33
North East -20 16 £450 - 14
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
1 130 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.33%) Confluence
3 51 (3.30%) Apache Spark
4 32 (2.07%) Apache
5 28 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.03%) HCL Notes
7 13 (0.84%) SAS
8 12 (0.78%) Mendix
9 8 (0.52%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.32%) CMS
11 5 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.26%) IIS
13 2 (0.13%) Kentico
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.065%) Appian
14 1 (0.065%) Camunda
14 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 303 (19.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.87%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) Notion
8 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.26%) Revit
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.065%) CATIA
10 1 (0.065%) InDesign
10 1 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 21 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.97%) iTrent
4 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.32%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.26%) Primavera
7 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.065%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 1,547 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 566 (36.59%) Azure
3 194 (12.54%) AWS
4 165 (10.67%) Power Automate
5 155 (10.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 142 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (9.11%) PowerApps
8 135 (8.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 112 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
10 107 (6.92%) Snowflake
11 87 (5.62%) Dynamics 365
12 84 (5.43%) GCP
13 68 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
14 67 (4.33%) Serverless
15 63 (4.07%) GitHub
16 51 (3.30%) Amazon S3
16 51 (3.30%) dbt
17 45 (2.91%) Copilot Studio
18 40 (2.59%) SaaS
19 39 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.90%) Firewall
2 11 (0.71%) VPN
3 8 (0.52%) DNS
4 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.19%) Network Security
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%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) LTE
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) NAS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SAN
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (17.13%) Tableau
2 246 (15.90%) Data Warehouse
3 149 (9.63%) Data Lake
4 125 (8.08%) SQL Server
5 105 (6.79%) Power Query
6 70 (4.52%) Metadata
7 59 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 52 (3.36%) Looker
10 48 (3.10%) Relational Database
11 47 (3.04%) Star Schema
12 44 (2.84%) BigQuery
13 38 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
14 37 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.39%) Spark SQL
15 33 (2.13%) Delta Lake
16 31 (2.00%) NoSQL
17 28 (1.81%) Mixpanel
18 26 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 135 (8.73%) JIRA
2 68 (4.40%) Git
3 24 (1.55%) GitLab
4 14 (0.90%) ERwin
5 8 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.32%) MLflow
6 5 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.19%) Postman
8 3 (0.19%) Selenium
8 3 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.065%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.065%) Hudson
10 1 (0.065%) NeoLoad
General
1 471 (30.45%) Social Skills
2 470 (30.38%) Finance
3 357 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.46%) Banking
6 54 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.17%) Law
8 46 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (2.91%) Marketing
9 45 (2.91%) Retail
10 27 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.55%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.36%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.23%) Legal
15 19 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.16%) Local Government
17 16 (1.03%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.97%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 418 (27.02%) Analyst
2 258 (16.68%) Data Engineer
3 205 (13.25%) Developer
4 194 (12.54%) Data Analyst
5 185 (11.96%) Senior
6 157 (10.15%) Architect
7 142 (9.18%) Lead
8 103 (6.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 92 (5.95%) Business Analyst
10 77 (4.98%) Power BI Developer
11 69 (4.46%) Consultant
12 66 (4.27%) Senior Data Engineer
13 57 (3.68%) Data Architect
14 48 (3.10%) Project Manager
15 44 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 39 (2.52%) Power Platform Developer
17 38 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (2.33%) Lead Architect
19 35 (2.26%) PMO Analyst
20 34 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.88%) PySpark
2 50 (3.23%) REST
3 41 (2.65%) Kafka
4 35 (2.26%) .NET
5 25 (1.62%) Pandas
6 20 (1.29%) React
7 19 (1.23%) JSON
8 17 (1.10%) Great Expectations
9 16 (1.03%) HTML
10 14 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (0.90%) YAML
11 13 (0.84%) ADO
12 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.78%) Middleware
12 12 (0.78%) XML
13 11 (0.71%) CSS
14 9 (0.58%) Spark Streaming
15 8 (0.52%) PyTorch
15 8 (0.52%) scikit-learn
15 8 (0.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.52%) Cloud Native
2 59 (3.81%) Data Structures
3 53 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 30 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 27 (1.75%) Low-Code
9 22 (1.42%) CMDB
9 22 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.16%) AI Agents
11 14 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.84%) Clustering
12 13 (0.84%) PMI
13 12 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.78%) PKI
13 12 (0.78%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.71%) NHS
15 10 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.87%) Windows
2 17 (1.10%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 8 (0.52%) Linux
4 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.39%) Unix
5 3 (0.19%) Android
5 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,439 (93.02%) Business Intelligence
2 637 (41.18%) Analytics
3 513 (33.16%) Data Modelling
4 361 (23.34%) Agile
5 347 (22.43%) ETL
6 328 (21.20%) Visualisation
7 326 (21.07%) Decision-Making
8 281 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
9 262 (16.94%) Data Governance
10 260 (16.81%) Data Engineering
11 253 (16.35%) DevOps
12 250 (16.16%) Data Pipeline
13 248 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 244 (15.77%) AI
15 227 (14.67%) CI/CD
16 221 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 219 (14.16%) Migration
18 206 (13.32%) Data Visualisation
18 206 (13.32%) Stakeholder Management
19 197 (12.73%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 741 (47.90%) SQL
2 387 (25.02%) Python
3 177 (11.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 66 (4.27%) PowerShell
5 62 (4.01%) C#
6 58 (3.75%) R
7 55 (3.56%) JavaScript
8 52 (3.36%) T-SQL
9 39 (2.52%) Java
10 28 (1.81%) VBA
11 20 (1.29%) Bicep
12 17 (1.10%) Scala
13 11 (0.71%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.65%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.65%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.58%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.32%) C
18 4 (0.26%) Korn
19 3 (0.19%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 256 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 197 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 139 (8.99%) Degree
4 36 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (1.81%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.62%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.49%) PMP
9 21 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 17 (1.10%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.65%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.45%) CBAP
13 7 (0.45%) MBA
13 7 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.39%) ACCA
14 6 (0.39%) CISSP
15 5 (0.32%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 371 (23.98%) Data Quality
2 111 (7.18%) GDPR
3 87 (5.62%) PMO
4 79 (5.11%) QA
5 34 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.03%) SLA
7 14 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.71%) GRC
9 10 (0.65%) Basel III
10 6 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.32%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.32%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.19%) GAAP
12 3 (0.19%) IFRS
12 3 (0.19%) NCSC
12 3 (0.19%) P3O
13 2 (0.13%) COBIT
System Software
1 39 (2.52%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.68%) Docker
3 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.065%) RACF
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (4.85%) Terraform
2 31 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.10%) Grafana
4 9 (0.58%) SCCM
5 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.39%) Ansible
7 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.19%) Control-M
8 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.065%) Kibana
10 1 (0.065%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.065%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.065%) WSUS
Vendors
1 510 (32.97%) Microsoft
2 211 (13.64%) Databricks
3 93 (6.01%) SAP
4 83 (5.37%) Oracle
5 79 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 54 (3.49%) Google
7 38 (2.46%) Informatica
8 26 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.55%) Workday
10 22 (1.42%) Remedy
11 19 (1.23%) Splunk
12 16 (1.03%) Alteryx
12 16 (1.03%) Lotus
13 14 (0.90%) Foundry
13 14 (0.90%) IFS
14 13 (0.84%) Talend
15 12 (0.78%) Adobe
15 12 (0.78%) Kofax
16 11 (0.71%) Denodo
16 11 (0.71%) Dynatrace