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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 61 59
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,649 1,107 1,143
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 3.94% 3.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.12% 21.68% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 756 766
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £402 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £576 £599
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 15 23
10th Percentile £17.97 £18.25 £20.15
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.38 £25.26
Median hourly rate £29.98 £25.01 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.87% -16.63% -23.57%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £60.20 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 6,836 5,105 5,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.60% 18.15% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,536 3,508 3,918
10th Percentile £353 £337 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £663
90th Percentile £713 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 72 83
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £22.20
Median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £59.25 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.15
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £39.48 £33.93
% change year-on-year +3.85% +16.36% -33.54%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -4 862 £500 - 641
North of England -6 246 £440 +3.53% 234
South East 0 199 £500 +14.29% 187
Midlands +7 185 £475 -1.86% 158
North West -2 136 £475 +10.14% 144
West Midlands -3 135 £475 -5.00% 105
Yorkshire -17 89 £425 +6.25% 65
South West -33 76 £438 +2.94% 76
East Midlands +10 49 £475 +11.76% 53
East of England -21 46 £600 +3.90% 102
North East -21 25 £350 -28.21% 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
1 161 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 73 (4.43%) Confluence
3 30 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.58%) SAS
5 24 (1.46%) Apache
6 23 (1.39%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.73%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.36%) Mendix
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.24%) CMS
12 3 (0.18%) IIS
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.12%) nginx
13 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 311 (18.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 40 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (1.03%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.61%) Navisworks
7 10 (0.61%) Revit
8 8 (0.49%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.49%) ProjectWise
9 3 (0.18%) Productboard
10 2 (0.12%) Notion
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 21 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.91%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 12 (0.73%) Primavera
6 11 (0.67%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.49%) iTrent
8 6 (0.36%) Maximo
8 6 (0.36%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
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%) Sage 200
12 2 (0.12%) SAP EWM
12 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,649 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 612 (37.11%) Azure
3 194 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 175 (10.61%) AWS
5 173 (10.49%) PowerApps
6 171 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
7 138 (8.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 137 (8.31%) Snowflake
9 113 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
10 107 (6.49%) Microsoft Copilot
11 99 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 93 (5.64%) Dynamics 365
13 73 (4.43%) dbt
14 65 (3.94%) Serverless
15 63 (3.82%) GCP
16 61 (3.70%) GitHub
17 54 (3.27%) Amazon S3
17 54 (3.27%) Entra ID
18 51 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
19 50 (3.03%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.73%) Firewall
2 11 (0.67%) SSL
3 9 (0.55%) DNS
4 7 (0.42%) Broadband
4 7 (0.42%) VPN
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 2 (0.12%) Internet
6 2 (0.12%) NAS
6 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.12%) SAN
6 2 (0.12%) VoIP
7 1 (0.061%) 5G
7 1 (0.061%) CTI
7 1 (0.061%) LAN
7 1 (0.061%) Mobile Backhaul
7 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.061%) PBX
7 1 (0.061%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.061%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.061%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
2 230 (13.95%) Tableau
3 143 (8.67%) Data Lake
4 136 (8.25%) Power Query
5 133 (8.07%) SQL Server
6 91 (5.52%) Metadata
7 64 (3.88%) Star Schema
8 58 (3.52%) Looker
9 55 (3.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 48 (2.91%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 39 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (2.30%) Semantic Layer
14 35 (2.12%) BigQuery
14 35 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 29 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.52%) NoSQL
17 23 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
18 22 (1.33%) MySQL
18 22 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 143 (8.67%) JIRA
2 64 (3.88%) Git
3 31 (1.88%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.30%) JMeter
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.24%) ERwin
6 4 (0.24%) JUnit
6 4 (0.24%) MLflow
6 4 (0.24%) Postman
6 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.18%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Applitools
8 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.12%) Newman
8 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
General
1 568 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 464 (28.14%) Finance
3 422 (25.59%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 126 (7.64%) Banking
6 72 (4.37%) Retail
7 58 (3.52%) Manufacturing
8 53 (3.21%) Marketing
9 52 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 46 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
10 46 (2.79%) Local Government
11 44 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 41 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.88%) Legal
14 24 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.39%) Law
16 21 (1.27%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (1.09%) Publishing
19 17 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 427 (25.89%) Analyst
2 267 (16.19%) Developer
3 202 (12.25%) Data Analyst
4 189 (11.46%) Data Engineer
5 183 (11.10%) Senior
6 154 (9.34%) Architect
7 127 (7.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 124 (7.52%) Lead
9 97 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
10 96 (5.82%) Business Analyst
11 81 (4.91%) Data Architect
12 75 (4.55%) Consultant
13 53 (3.21%) Power Platform Developer
13 53 (3.21%) Project Manager
14 49 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
14 49 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
15 38 (2.30%) Performance Analyst
16 37 (2.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 33 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
18 31 (1.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (4.97%) PySpark
2 67 (4.06%) REST
2 67 (4.06%) Terraform
3 64 (3.88%) .NET
4 23 (1.39%) React
5 22 (1.33%) Kafka
6 21 (1.27%) JSON
6 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (0.97%) HTML
7 16 (0.97%) Middleware
8 14 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
9 9 (0.55%) ADO
9 9 (0.55%) CSS
9 9 (0.55%) EDI
9 9 (0.55%) SOAP
9 9 (0.55%) YAML
10 8 (0.49%) .NET Core
11 7 (0.42%) jQuery
11 7 (0.42%) OAuth
11 7 (0.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.09%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.85%) Data Structures
3 69 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 56 (3.40%) Cloud Native
6 47 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.00%) Clustering
8 30 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 28 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.70%) Low-Code
10 24 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.27%) CMDB
12 18 (1.09%) FMCG
13 17 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.03%) NHS
14 15 (0.91%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.91%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.79%) Life Science
15 13 (0.79%) Replication
16 12 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.03%) Windows
2 22 (1.33%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.03%) Linux
4 10 (0.61%) Unix
5 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.30%) Android
6 5 (0.30%) macOS
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 1,562 (94.72%) Business Intelligence
2 677 (41.06%) Analytics
3 531 (32.20%) Data Modelling
4 462 (28.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 409 (24.80%) Agile
6 396 (24.01%) Decision-Making
7 352 (21.35%) AI
8 333 (20.19%) Visualisation
9 307 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
10 292 (17.71%) ETL
10 292 (17.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 289 (17.53%) DevOps
12 279 (16.92%) Data Governance
13 263 (15.95%) CI/CD
14 253 (15.34%) Data Engineering
14 253 (15.34%) Migration
15 251 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 247 (14.98%) Validation
17 233 (14.13%) Data Pipeline
18 224 (13.58%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 783 (47.48%) SQL
2 351 (21.29%) Python
3 188 (11.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 96 (5.82%) JavaScript
5 84 (5.09%) PowerShell
6 74 (4.49%) C#
7 62 (3.76%) T-SQL
8 39 (2.37%) R
9 38 (2.30%) Java
10 22 (1.33%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.09%) VBA
12 13 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.61%) Bash
14 9 (0.55%) Bicep
15 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.24%) Korn
17 4 (0.24%) X++
18 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 307 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 238 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 141 (8.55%) Degree
4 52 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 44 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 24 (1.46%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.21%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.09%) PMP
13 11 (0.67%) ACCA
13 11 (0.67%) CIMA
13 11 (0.67%) CISSP
13 11 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 7 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (26.08%) Data Quality
2 78 (4.73%) QA
3 74 (4.49%) PMO
4 62 (3.76%) GDPR
5 32 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (0.91%) SLA
8 14 (0.85%) GRC
8 14 (0.85%) ISO 19650
9 8 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.49%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) COBIT
10 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.30%) GMP
11 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.18%) P3O
12 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (2.67%) 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 27 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.39%) Grafana
3 17 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.91%) SCOM
5 13 (0.79%) Ansible
6 12 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.36%) Control-M
8 6 (0.36%) SCCM
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.061%) Kibana
11 1 (0.061%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.061%) WSUS
Vendors
1 674 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 214 (12.98%) Databricks
3 96 (5.82%) SAP
4 87 (5.28%) ServiceNow
5 78 (4.73%) Oracle
6 55 (3.34%) Google
7 41 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 37 (2.24%) Informatica
9 30 (1.82%) Remedy
10 28 (1.70%) Splunk
11 27 (1.64%) Alteryx
12 18 (1.09%) BMC
13 17 (1.03%) Workday
14 16 (0.97%) Denodo
15 15 (0.91%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.79%) Adobe
16 13 (0.79%) Autodesk
16 13 (0.79%) VMware
17 11 (0.67%) Teradata
17 11 (0.67%) UiPath