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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,355 1,002 1,243
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.97% 3.84% 3.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.28% 20.68% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 681 890
10th Percentile £314 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% - -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £691
UK median daily rate £481 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -2.89% -0.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 23 41
10th Percentile £13.04 £24.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £25.26 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.00 £28.60 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +17.07% -59.28%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £56.45 £64.73 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £22.52 £28.00 £23.82
% change year-on-year -19.59% +17.54% -59.45%

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 5,581 4,845 6,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.35% 18.59% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,865 3,247 4,421
10th Percentile £337 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 82 161
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.59
25th Percentile £27.41 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.25 £41.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.32% -3.53% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.63 £73.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +41.63% -9.87% -25.26%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +4 764 £500 -2.44% 210
North of England -36 147 £438 -2.72% 128
South East -18 139 £492 +4.96% 219
Midlands -23 124 £450 -5.66% 132
North West -25 82 £425 -15.00% 72
West Midlands -36 80 £480 -2.04% 86
South West -6 69 £488 +8.33% 48
Yorkshire -48 56 £450 +9.76% 42
East of England -5 46 £553 +22.78% 32
East Midlands -2 44 £354 -8.05% 46
North East -9 9 £475 -8.43% 17
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 (9.59%) SharePoint
2 48 (3.54%) Confluence
3 44 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.14%) Apache
5 22 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.11%) HCL Notes
7 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.66%) Mendix
9 8 (0.59%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.44%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.30%) CMS
12 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.15%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.15%) SAS
14 1 (0.074%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
14 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 287 (21.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.13%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Notion
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.074%) CATIA
9 1 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.074%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (3.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.30%) iTrent
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.15%) Primavera
7 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FS
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,355 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 516 (38.08%) Azure
3 202 (14.91%) Power Automate
4 178 (13.14%) PowerApps
5 164 (12.10%) AWS
6 141 (10.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 129 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 123 (9.08%) Microsoft 365
9 109 (8.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 106 (7.82%) Dynamics 365
11 95 (7.01%) GCP
12 88 (6.49%) Snowflake
13 62 (4.58%) Microsoft Copilot
14 58 (4.28%) Serverless
15 49 (3.62%) GitHub
16 45 (3.32%) Copilot Studio
17 44 (3.25%) SaaS
18 38 (2.80%) Azure Functions
18 38 (2.80%) Entra ID
19 35 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) HTTP
2 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.22%) VoIP
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) 2G
4 2 (0.15%) 5G
4 2 (0.15%) DNS
4 2 (0.15%) Firewall
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.15%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) LTE
4 2 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.15%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.074%) SAN
5 1 (0.074%) Skype
5 1 (0.074%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.074%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (16.24%) Tableau
2 158 (11.66%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (8.27%) Data Lake
4 104 (7.68%) SQL Server
5 79 (5.83%) Power Query
6 59 (4.35%) Metadata
7 53 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 52 (3.84%) BigQuery
9 46 (3.39%) Looker
10 45 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 39 (2.88%) Relational Database
13 31 (2.29%) Delta Lake
14 28 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
15 27 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (1.77%) Star Schema
17 23 (1.70%) Mixpanel
17 23 (1.70%) NoSQL
18 22 (1.62%) Spark SQL
19 21 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 114 (8.41%) JIRA
2 66 (4.87%) Git
3 13 (0.96%) GitLab
4 9 (0.66%) ERwin
4 9 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.44%) DBeaver
8 5 (0.37%) NeoLoad
9 3 (0.22%) Postman
9 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.074%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.074%) Maven
11 1 (0.074%) Selenium
General
1 468 (34.54%) Social Skills
2 430 (31.73%) Finance
3 329 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 118 (8.71%) Banking
6 46 (3.39%) Marketing
7 38 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (2.73%) Retail
9 33 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.33%) Front Office
12 18 (1.33%) Legal
12 18 (1.33%) Local Government
13 16 (1.18%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.18%) Publishing
14 15 (1.11%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 371 (27.38%) Analyst
2 207 (15.28%) Data Engineer
3 202 (14.91%) Developer
4 154 (11.37%) Data Analyst
5 143 (10.55%) Senior
6 118 (8.71%) Lead
7 101 (7.45%) Business Analyst
8 92 (6.79%) Architect
9 68 (5.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 66 (4.87%) Consultant
11 51 (3.76%) Power BI Developer
12 46 (3.39%) Data Scientist
13 43 (3.17%) PMO Analyst
14 41 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
15 39 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 39 (2.88%) Data Architect
15 39 (2.88%) Power Platform Developer
15 39 (2.88%) Project Manager
16 36 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
17 32 (2.36%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (5.17%) PySpark
2 40 (2.95%) REST
3 38 (2.80%) .NET
4 30 (2.21%) Kafka
5 28 (2.07%) Pandas
6 25 (1.85%) scikit-learn
7 22 (1.62%) HTML
8 21 (1.55%) JSON
9 17 (1.25%) HTML5 Canvas
9 17 (1.25%) React
10 15 (1.11%) Great Expectations
11 14 (1.03%) NumPy
11 14 (1.03%) PyTorch
11 14 (1.03%) TensorFlow
11 14 (1.03%) XML
11 14 (1.03%) YAML
12 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (0.74%) Plotly
12 10 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (0.66%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (3.62%) Product Ownership
2 42 (3.10%) Data Structures
3 36 (2.66%) Cloud Native
4 35 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 33 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.29%) Low-Code
7 29 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 27 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.92%) Algorithms
10 23 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.33%) PMI
12 14 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.89%) AI Agents
13 12 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (0.66%) FMCG
15 9 (0.66%) Reinsurance
15 9 (0.66%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.59%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.89%) Windows
2 5 (0.37%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.15%) Linux
4 2 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.074%) Android
5 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,248 (92.10%) Business Intelligence
2 513 (37.86%) Analytics
3 386 (28.49%) Data Modelling
4 343 (25.31%) Visualisation
5 310 (22.88%) Agile
6 285 (21.03%) Decision-Making
7 270 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
8 247 (18.23%) ETL
9 227 (16.75%) Data Governance
10 216 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 207 (15.28%) Data Visualisation
12 206 (15.20%) Actionable Insight
13 205 (15.13%) DevOps
14 202 (14.91%) Data Analysis
15 187 (13.80%) Data Engineering
16 185 (13.65%) AI
17 171 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 158 (11.66%) CI/CD
19 157 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
20 155 (11.44%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 617 (45.54%) SQL
2 348 (25.68%) Python
3 117 (8.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (5.02%) C#
5 54 (3.99%) JavaScript
5 54 (3.99%) R
6 48 (3.54%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.44%) VBA
8 31 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 26 (1.92%) Java
10 25 (1.85%) Scala
11 21 (1.55%) Bicep
12 14 (1.03%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.74%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.74%) LotusScript
14 6 (0.44%) Korn
14 6 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.37%) X++
16 4 (0.30%) LookML
16 4 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 207 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 163 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 127 (9.37%) Degree
4 31 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 30 (2.21%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.99%) PMP
7 26 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.89%) MBA
10 11 (0.81%) CIMA
11 10 (0.74%) ACCA
12 9 (0.66%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.66%) CBAP
12 9 (0.66%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.52%) CFA
15 4 (0.30%) IIBA
16 3 (0.22%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (19.93%) Data Quality
2 88 (6.49%) GDPR
2 88 (6.49%) PMO
3 79 (5.83%) QA
4 54 (3.99%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.89%) GRC
8 11 (0.81%) Basel III
8 11 (0.81%) SLA
9 9 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.44%) NIST
12 5 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.37%) P3O
13 3 (0.22%) GAAP
13 3 (0.22%) IFRS
13 3 (0.22%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
14 2 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 30 (2.21%) Docker
2 28 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.074%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.074%) HDFS
5 1 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (5.09%) Terraform
2 36 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.66%) SCCM
5 6 (0.44%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.22%) Ansible
6 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.15%) Control-M
7 2 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.074%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.074%) SCOM
8 1 (0.074%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.074%) WSUS
Vendors
1 439 (32.40%) Microsoft
2 169 (12.47%) Databricks
3 90 (6.64%) Oracle
4 68 (5.02%) SAP
5 67 (4.94%) Google
6 48 (3.54%) ServiceNow
7 45 (3.32%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.85%) Informatica
9 16 (1.18%) Foundry
10 15 (1.11%) Lotus
11 14 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.96%) Alteryx
13 12 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.89%) Planview
13 12 (0.89%) Splunk
14 11 (0.81%) Cognos
15 9 (0.66%) Kofax
15 9 (0.66%) Workday
16 8 (0.59%) MicroStrategy
16 8 (0.59%) Talend