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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 56 64
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,498 927 1,164
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.76% 3.77% 3.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.00% 19.80% 18.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 632 837
10th Percentile £313 £313 £309
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 28
10th Percentile £16.21 £18.64 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.23 £24.88 £15.51
Median hourly rate £31.13 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% +25.22% -56.81%
75th Percentile £47.81 £33.10 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £28.78 £29.07 £23.82
% change year-on-year -1.01% +22.03% -54.62%

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 6,241 4,681 6,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.65% 19.04% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,322 3,287 4,445
10th Percentile £349 £358 £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 £658 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 95 131
10th Percentile £16.71 £19.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.41 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.58% -17.23% -32.54%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £54.56
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +6 782 £500 +1.01% 177
South East +5 196 £475 +2.70% 163
Midlands -5 169 £450 -8.63% 98
North of England -35 153 £450 -2.70% 120
West Midlands -24 104 £450 -10.00% 66
South West -5 86 £450 +5.88% 46
North West -26 79 £463 -11.90% 70
East Midlands +7 64 £425 -12.82% 32
Yorkshire -43 61 £438 +3.06% 34
East of England -28 44 £425 -15.00% 38
North East -11 13 £475 +5.56% 20
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
1 134 (8.95%) SharePoint
2 59 (3.94%) Confluence
3 49 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.07%) Apache
5 28 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.13%) HCL Notes
7 12 (0.80%) Mendix
8 10 (0.67%) SAS
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.20%) IIS
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.067%) Appian
14 1 (0.067%) Camunda
14 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 309 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.20%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.27%) Revit
8 3 (0.20%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.13%) Trello
10 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.067%) CATIA
10 1 (0.067%) InDesign
10 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 37 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.87%) iTrent
5 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.27%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,498 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 553 (36.92%) Azure
3 194 (12.95%) AWS
4 185 (12.35%) Power Automate
5 157 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 151 (10.08%) PowerApps
7 142 (9.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (8.34%) Microsoft 365
10 105 (7.01%) Dynamics 365
11 94 (6.28%) GCP
12 91 (6.07%) Snowflake
13 75 (5.01%) Serverless
14 73 (4.87%) Microsoft Copilot
15 59 (3.94%) GitHub
16 51 (3.40%) Amazon S3
17 48 (3.20%) Copilot Studio
18 44 (2.94%) dbt
19 39 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
20 36 (2.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.67%) Firewall
1 10 (0.67%) VPN
2 5 (0.33%) DNS
3 4 (0.27%) HTTP
4 3 (0.20%) 5G
4 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.20%) LTE
4 3 (0.20%) Network Security
4 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) 4G
5 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.13%) Intranet
5 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
5 2 (0.13%) MPLS
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) SMTP
5 2 (0.13%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (17.76%) Tableau
2 227 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
3 142 (9.48%) Data Lake
4 112 (7.48%) SQL Server
5 92 (6.14%) Power Query
6 77 (5.14%) Metadata
7 62 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 57 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 48 (3.20%) Looker
10 46 (3.07%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.80%) Star Schema
12 40 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
13 37 (2.47%) Relational Database
14 36 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (2.27%) Delta Lake
16 31 (2.07%) NoSQL
16 31 (2.07%) Spark SQL
17 30 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 28 (1.87%) Mixpanel
19 27 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 124 (8.28%) JIRA
2 71 (4.74%) Git
3 18 (1.20%) GitLab
4 13 (0.87%) ERwin
5 11 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.40%) MLflow
7 5 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.27%) Postman
8 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.20%) Selenium
9 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.13%) JMeter
10 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.067%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.067%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 481 (32.11%) Finance
2 474 (31.64%) Social Skills
3 367 (24.50%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.21%) Banking
6 50 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.20%) Law
9 46 (3.07%) Retail
10 41 (2.74%) Marketing
11 28 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.47%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.34%) Legal
15 19 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.13%) Local Government
17 16 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.87%) Front Office
18 13 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 401 (26.77%) Analyst
2 242 (16.15%) Data Engineer
3 202 (13.48%) Developer
4 181 (12.08%) Data Analyst
5 179 (11.95%) Senior
6 144 (9.61%) Architect
7 143 (9.55%) Lead
8 90 (6.01%) Business Analyst
9 88 (5.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 73 (4.87%) Consultant
11 65 (4.34%) Power BI Developer
12 52 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
13 45 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (2.94%) Data Architect
15 43 (2.87%) Project Manager
16 42 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 41 (2.74%) Power Platform Developer
18 37 (2.47%) PMO Analyst
19 36 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
19 36 (2.40%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (5.61%) PySpark
2 42 (2.80%) Kafka
3 39 (2.60%) REST
4 33 (2.20%) .NET
5 26 (1.74%) Pandas
6 22 (1.47%) JSON
7 19 (1.27%) Great Expectations
7 19 (1.27%) HTML
8 18 (1.20%) scikit-learn
9 17 (1.13%) React
10 15 (1.00%) ADO
10 15 (1.00%) XML
11 14 (0.93%) PyTorch
11 14 (0.93%) TensorFlow
11 14 (0.93%) YAML
12 13 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.87%) Spark Streaming
13 12 (0.80%) CSS
13 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
13 12 (0.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (3.87%) Data Structures
2 55 (3.67%) Cloud Native
3 53 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 29 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 28 (1.87%) Low-Code
8 27 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.20%) CMDB
11 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.00%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (0.93%) PMI
14 13 (0.87%) Clustering
15 11 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (0.67%) NHS
17 9 (0.60%) IoT
18 8 (0.53%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.34%) Windows
2 12 (0.80%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.13%) Linux
5 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.067%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,394 (93.06%) Business Intelligence
2 600 (40.05%) Analytics
3 483 (32.24%) Data Modelling
4 332 (22.16%) Agile
5 318 (21.23%) ETL
5 318 (21.23%) Visualisation
6 316 (21.09%) Decision-Making
7 282 (18.83%) Data Governance
8 277 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
9 240 (16.02%) Data Engineering
10 235 (15.69%) DevOps
11 232 (15.49%) Data Pipeline
12 229 (15.29%) AI
13 216 (14.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 214 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
14 214 (14.29%) Migration
15 213 (14.22%) CI/CD
16 202 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 199 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 195 (13.02%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 712 (47.53%) SQL
2 392 (26.17%) Python
3 153 (10.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (4.47%) C#
5 65 (4.34%) R
6 54 (3.60%) PowerShell
7 53 (3.54%) JavaScript
8 39 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 36 (2.40%) Java
9 36 (2.40%) VBA
10 24 (1.60%) Bicep
11 19 (1.27%) Scala
12 11 (0.73%) Formula Language
12 11 (0.73%) LotusScript
12 11 (0.73%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.27%) C
16 3 (0.20%) HiveQL
17 2 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 250 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 195 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 148 (9.88%) Degree
4 33 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.54%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.54%) PMP
10 13 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.73%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.67%) MBA
13 8 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 8 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.47%) ACCA
15 6 (0.40%) CBAP
15 6 (0.40%) CIMA
15 6 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (23.50%) Data Quality
2 119 (7.94%) GDPR
3 93 (6.21%) PMO
4 84 (5.61%) QA
5 31 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.07%) SLA
7 15 (1.00%) GRC
7 15 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.73%) Basel III
10 9 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.33%) ISO 19650
13 4 (0.27%) NCSC
13 4 (0.27%) P3O
13 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
14 3 (0.20%) IFRS
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 33 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.07%) Docker
3 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) HDFS
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.067%) RACF
Systems Management
1 77 (5.14%) Terraform
2 38 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.73%) Grafana
4 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.47%) SCCM
6 5 (0.33%) Ansible
6 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.20%) Control-M
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.13%) Nessus
8 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.067%) Kibana
9 1 (0.067%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.067%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.067%) SCOM
9 1 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.067%) WSUS
Vendors
1 511 (34.11%) Microsoft
2 203 (13.55%) Databricks
3 87 (5.81%) SAP
4 82 (5.47%) Oracle
5 75 (5.01%) ServiceNow
6 60 (4.01%) Google
7 36 (2.40%) Informatica
7 36 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.54%) Workday
9 18 (1.20%) Foundry
10 17 (1.13%) Lotus
11 14 (0.93%) Remedy
11 14 (0.93%) Sage
12 13 (0.87%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.80%) IFS
13 12 (0.80%) Kofax
14 11 (0.73%) Talend
15 10 (0.67%) Adobe
15 10 (0.67%) Splunk
16 9 (0.60%) Alteryx