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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,651 1,071 1,138
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 3.88% 3.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.07% 21.33% 19.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 712 778
10th Percentile £320 £310 £300
25th Percentile £400 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £668 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 14 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £19.33 £19.97
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.63 £24.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -21.05%
75th Percentile £53.56 £44.63 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.39 £56.38 £67.53
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.56% +13.33% -21.05%

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 6,859 5,020 5,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.88% 18.20% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,587 3,449 4,128
10th Percentile £356 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £712 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 73 82
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.06 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.16 £29.07 £21.44
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.00% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.16% +14.99% -36.36%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +1 861 £500 - 1,292
North of England -10 237 £440 +3.53% 369
South East +4 209 £475 +11.76% 416
Midlands +3 187 £475 +2.15% 264
West Midlands -6 131 £475 -5.00% 183
North West -1 125 £500 +17.65% 213
Yorkshire -18 93 £425 +6.25% 124
South West -21 85 £425 +6.25% 165
East Midlands +12 55 £475 +11.76% 81
East of England -22 36 £576 +0.17% 129
North East -23 23 £363 -23.68% 33
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
1 166 (10.05%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.24%) Confluence
3 30 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.57%) SAS
5 24 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.21%) Apache
7 13 (0.79%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.36%) Mendix
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.24%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.061%) nginx
13 1 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 319 (19.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
5 19 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.73%) Navisworks
6 12 (0.73%) Revit
7 8 (0.48%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.48%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.12%) Notion
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.97%) iTrent
5 12 (0.73%) Primavera
6 9 (0.55%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 8 (0.48%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.36%) Maximo
8 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,651 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 612 (37.07%) Azure
3 198 (11.99%) Power Automate
4 191 (11.57%) AWS
5 170 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
6 167 (10.12%) PowerApps
7 135 (8.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 132 (8.00%) Snowflake
9 114 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
10 109 (6.60%) Dynamics 365
11 104 (6.30%) Microsoft Copilot
12 101 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 72 (4.36%) dbt
13 72 (4.36%) Serverless
14 64 (3.88%) GCP
15 60 (3.63%) GitHub
16 55 (3.33%) Amazon S3
17 52 (3.15%) Entra ID
18 46 (2.79%) Microsoft Purview
19 45 (2.73%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.67%) Firewall
1 11 (0.67%) SSL
2 8 (0.48%) DNS
2 8 (0.48%) VPN
3 7 (0.42%) Broadband
4 2 (0.12%) Internet
4 2 (0.12%) NAS
4 2 (0.12%) Network Security
4 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.12%) SAN
5 1 (0.061%) 4G
5 1 (0.061%) 5G
5 1 (0.061%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.061%) LAN
5 1 (0.061%) Mobile Backhaul
5 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.061%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.061%) SSH
5 1 (0.061%) VoIP
5 1 (0.061%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
2 233 (14.11%) Tableau
3 141 (8.54%) Data Lake
4 135 (8.18%) Power Query
5 126 (7.63%) SQL Server
6 80 (4.85%) Metadata
7 66 (4.00%) Star Schema
8 55 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (3.21%) Looker
10 50 (3.03%) Relational Database
11 48 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
12 43 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
13 35 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (2.12%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (2.00%) BigQuery
15 32 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 27 (1.64%) NoSQL
17 25 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
18 23 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 22 (1.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 147 (8.90%) JIRA
2 64 (3.88%) Git
3 27 (1.64%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.30%) ERwin
5 5 (0.30%) MLflow
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.24%) JMeter
6 4 (0.24%) JUnit
6 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) Postman
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 569 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 477 (28.89%) Finance
3 431 (26.11%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 117 (7.09%) Banking
6 76 (4.60%) Retail
7 64 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.21%) Manufacturing
9 52 (3.15%) Marketing
10 49 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
11 46 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 41 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (2.48%) Local Government
13 37 (2.24%) Law
14 24 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.45%) Legal
15 22 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.15%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.03%) Investment Banking
17 17 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 424 (25.68%) Analyst
2 250 (15.14%) Developer
3 204 (12.36%) Data Engineer
4 203 (12.30%) Data Analyst
5 188 (11.39%) Senior
6 172 (10.42%) Architect
7 131 (7.93%) Lead
8 118 (7.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 96 (5.81%) Power BI Developer
10 92 (5.57%) Business Analyst
11 78 (4.72%) Data Architect
12 73 (4.42%) Consultant
13 55 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
14 52 (3.15%) Project Manager
15 48 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
16 47 (2.85%) Power Platform Developer
17 39 (2.36%) Performance Analyst
18 37 (2.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 34 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
20 32 (1.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.33%) PySpark
2 67 (4.06%) Terraform
3 66 (4.00%) .NET
4 64 (3.88%) REST
5 23 (1.39%) Kafka
5 23 (1.39%) React
6 20 (1.21%) HTML
7 19 (1.15%) JSON
7 19 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (1.03%) Middleware
9 15 (0.91%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (0.85%) CSS
11 9 (0.55%) Pandas
11 9 (0.55%) SOAP
12 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.48%) ADO
12 8 (0.48%) EDI
13 7 (0.42%) jQuery
13 7 (0.42%) RESTful
13 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.85%) Data Structures
2 78 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 57 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 30 (1.82%) Clustering
9 26 (1.57%) AI Agents
10 22 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 21 (1.27%) CMDB
12 20 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.15%) FMCG
14 17 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.97%) NHS
16 15 (0.91%) Data Centre
17 13 (0.79%) Life Science
17 13 (0.79%) Reference Data
18 12 (0.73%) Replication
18 12 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.09%) Windows
2 24 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 16 (0.97%) Linux
4 10 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.61%) Unix
5 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.12%) VMS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,552 (94.00%) Business Intelligence
2 667 (40.40%) Analytics
3 508 (30.77%) Data Modelling
4 420 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 414 (25.08%) Agile
6 366 (22.17%) Decision-Making
7 331 (20.05%) AI
8 328 (19.87%) Visualisation
9 318 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
10 308 (18.66%) ETL
11 295 (17.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 286 (17.32%) DevOps
13 272 (16.47%) CI/CD
14 270 (16.35%) Migration
15 259 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 258 (15.63%) Data Governance
17 244 (14.78%) Validation
18 243 (14.72%) Data Engineering
19 240 (14.54%) Data Pipeline
20 218 (13.20%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 780 (47.24%) SQL
2 370 (22.41%) Python
3 185 (11.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 96 (5.81%) JavaScript
5 85 (5.15%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.36%) C#
7 64 (3.88%) T-SQL
8 41 (2.48%) R
9 37 (2.24%) Java
10 23 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.21%) VBA
12 13 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.55%) Bash
14 8 (0.48%) Bicep
14 8 (0.48%) Scala
14 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.30%) Korn
15 5 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.30%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 305 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 235 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 155 (9.39%) Degree
4 51 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 25 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.33%) PMI Certification
11 16 (0.97%) PMP
12 15 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.61%) ACCA
14 10 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.55%) CIMA
15 9 (0.55%) CISSP
16 8 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 399 (24.17%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.78%) QA
3 76 (4.60%) GDPR
4 75 (4.54%) PMO
5 34 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.91%) GRC
6 15 (0.91%) ISO 19650
7 11 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.67%) SLA
8 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.30%) GMP
10 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.18%) NIST
12 3 (0.18%) P3O
12 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 46 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.91%) Docker
3 13 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.061%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.15%) Grafana
3 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.91%) SCOM
5 12 (0.73%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) Control-M
8 6 (0.36%) SCCM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.061%) Kibana
10 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 668 (40.46%) Microsoft
2 208 (12.60%) Databricks
3 110 (6.66%) SAP
4 100 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 78 (4.72%) Oracle
6 50 (3.03%) Google
7 41 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 34 (2.06%) Informatica
9 33 (2.00%) Splunk
10 29 (1.76%) Remedy
11 27 (1.64%) Alteryx
12 21 (1.27%) Workday
13 20 (1.21%) BMC
14 17 (1.03%) Adobe
15 16 (0.97%) Denodo
16 15 (0.91%) Dynatrace
17 14 (0.85%) Autodesk
18 13 (0.79%) VMware
19 11 (0.67%) Teradata
20 10 (0.61%) MicroStrategy