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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 56 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,275 996 1,161
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.11% 3.73% 3.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.35% 20.34% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 669 820
10th Percentile £313 £313 £310
25th Percentile £400 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £655 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 39
10th Percentile £16.84 £24.68 £15.34
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £20.89
Median hourly rate £24.02 £30.30 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% -0.67% -49.17%
75th Percentile £36.11 £56.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £59.60 £64.73 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £24.02 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -14.23% -8.20% -39.60%

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 5,236 4,897 5,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.88% 18.33% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,645 3,248 4,274
10th Percentile £326 £351 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £707 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 139
10th Percentile £18.93 £20.82 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.79 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.70 £74.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +5 717 £500 -2.58% 208
North of England -14 152 £425 -10.53% 129
South East -15 119 £480 +0.95% 249
Midlands -25 115 £463 -4.64% 114
Yorkshire +1 74 £423 +1.20% 47
West Midlands -34 74 £500 - 68
North West -26 72 £425 -14.67% 60
South West -5 65 £475 +5.56% 61
East of England +2 44 £625 +38.89% 72
East Midlands +1 41 £354 -12.59% 45
North East -6 6 £475 +5.56% 24
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
1 139 (10.90%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.53%) Confluence
3 37 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.73%) Apache
4 22 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.41%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.71%) Mendix
8 8 (0.63%) Apache Pig
9 6 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
11 2 (0.16%) SAS
12 1 (0.078%) Kentico
12 1 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.078%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 280 (21.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (2.20%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.24%) Notion
9 1 (0.078%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.078%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 55 (4.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.31%) Primavera
5 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.24%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.24%) iTrent
6 3 (0.24%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.16%) Actimize
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,275 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 484 (37.96%) Azure
3 198 (15.53%) Power Automate
4 183 (14.35%) PowerApps
5 138 (10.82%) AWS
6 128 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (9.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 109 (8.55%) Dynamics 365
9 108 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
10 96 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 83 (6.51%) GCP
12 81 (6.35%) Snowflake
13 53 (4.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 48 (3.76%) Serverless
15 44 (3.45%) GitHub
16 41 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (3.14%) SaaS
18 35 (2.75%) Copilot Studio
19 34 (2.67%) Azure Functions
20 31 (2.43%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) HTTP
2 3 (0.24%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.24%) VoIP
2 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.16%) 2G
3 2 (0.16%) 5G
3 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.16%) LAN
3 2 (0.16%) LTE
3 2 (0.16%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.16%) Network Security
3 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.16%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.16%) VPN
3 2 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.078%) DNS
4 1 (0.078%) NAS
4 1 (0.078%) SAN
4 1 (0.078%) Skype
4 1 (0.078%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (15.14%) Tableau
2 147 (11.53%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 101 (7.92%) SQL Server
5 82 (6.43%) Power Query
6 54 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 49 (3.84%) Metadata
8 48 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 46 (3.61%) Relational Database
10 43 (3.37%) BigQuery
11 41 (3.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 37 (2.90%) Looker
13 28 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
14 25 (1.96%) Data Mining
14 25 (1.96%) Delta Lake
15 22 (1.73%) Big Data
16 21 (1.65%) NoSQL
16 21 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
16 21 (1.65%) Star Schema
17 20 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 112 (8.78%) JIRA
2 54 (4.24%) Git
3 11 (0.86%) GitLab
4 9 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.55%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.47%) DBeaver
8 5 (0.39%) NeoLoad
9 4 (0.31%) ERwin
10 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.16%) MLflow
11 2 (0.16%) Postman
11 2 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.078%) Browser DevTools
12 1 (0.078%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.078%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.078%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.078%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 447 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 427 (33.49%) Finance
3 292 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 122 (9.57%) Banking
6 45 (3.53%) Marketing
7 39 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 39 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (2.67%) Retail
9 30 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.65%) Front Office
12 21 (1.65%) Investment Banking
12 21 (1.65%) Local Government
13 20 (1.57%) Legal
14 19 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 354 (27.76%) Analyst
2 207 (16.24%) Developer
3 159 (12.47%) Data Engineer
4 150 (11.76%) Data Analyst
5 124 (9.73%) Senior
6 100 (7.84%) Lead
7 97 (7.61%) Business Analyst
8 87 (6.82%) Architect
9 75 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 63 (4.94%) Consultant
11 56 (4.39%) Power BI Developer
12 44 (3.45%) Data Scientist
12 44 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
13 42 (3.29%) Project Manager
14 40 (3.14%) Data Architect
15 38 (2.98%) Power Platform Developer
16 34 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 33 (2.59%) PMO Analyst
17 33 (2.59%) Power BI Analyst
18 29 (2.27%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (4.55%) PySpark
2 44 (3.45%) .NET
3 39 (3.06%) REST
4 27 (2.12%) HTML
5 24 (1.88%) Kafka
6 22 (1.73%) Pandas
6 22 (1.73%) scikit-learn
7 21 (1.65%) JSON
8 19 (1.49%) HTML5 Canvas
9 16 (1.25%) React
10 12 (0.94%) NumPy
10 12 (0.94%) PyTorch
10 12 (0.94%) TensorFlow
11 11 (0.86%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (0.78%) CSS
13 9 (0.71%) OAuth
13 9 (0.71%) Plotly
13 9 (0.71%) XML
14 8 (0.63%) ADO
14 8 (0.63%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.69%) Product Ownership
2 36 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 30 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.20%) Low-Code
5 28 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 26 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 25 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 24 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.73%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.18%) PMI
11 14 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.02%) Derivative
12 13 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.94%) Life Science
13 12 (0.94%) Reinsurance
14 11 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (0.86%) FMCG
15 10 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.86%) Windows
2 4 (0.31%) Linux
3 3 (0.24%) Unix
3 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.078%) Android
4 1 (0.078%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.078%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,162 (91.14%) Business Intelligence
2 460 (36.08%) Analytics
3 334 (26.20%) Data Modelling
4 315 (24.71%) Visualisation
5 297 (23.29%) Agile
6 255 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 235 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
8 209 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 204 (16.00%) ETL
10 200 (15.69%) Data Governance
11 194 (15.22%) DevOps
12 190 (14.90%) Actionable Insight
13 184 (14.43%) Data Visualisation
14 183 (14.35%) Data Analysis
15 156 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 142 (11.14%) Data Engineering
17 141 (11.06%) CI/CD
18 140 (10.98%) AI
19 134 (10.51%) Data Pipeline
20 133 (10.43%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 572 (44.86%) SQL
2 321 (25.18%) Python
3 97 (7.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 64 (5.02%) C#
5 58 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 56 (4.39%) R
7 39 (3.06%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.43%) VBA
9 29 (2.27%) Java
10 28 (2.20%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.88%) Scala
12 15 (1.18%) Bicep
13 14 (1.10%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.78%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.78%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.71%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.55%) Korn
17 5 (0.39%) C++
17 5 (0.39%) X++
18 4 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 176 (13.80%) Security Cleared
2 136 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 116 (9.10%) Degree
4 29 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 25 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 24 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.65%) PMP
10 16 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.86%) ACCA
11 11 (0.86%) CIMA
11 11 (0.86%) MBA
12 8 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.63%) CFA
13 7 (0.55%) CBAP
13 7 (0.55%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
14 5 (0.39%) IIBA
15 3 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (16.55%) Data Quality
2 72 (5.65%) PMO
3 71 (5.57%) GDPR
4 64 (5.02%) QA
5 52 (4.08%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.86%) GRC
8 10 (0.78%) Basel III
9 9 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.55%) SLA
11 6 (0.47%) GxP
11 6 (0.47%) NIST
12 5 (0.39%) IFRS
12 5 (0.39%) P3O
13 4 (0.31%) WCAG
14 3 (0.24%) IFRS 9
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 28 (2.20%) Docker
2 25 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.078%) HDFS
4 1 (0.078%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (3.69%) Terraform
2 33 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.47%) RSA Archer
4 6 (0.47%) SCCM
5 3 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.16%) Ansible
6 2 (0.16%) Kibana
7 1 (0.078%) Control-M
7 1 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.078%) Puppet
7 1 (0.078%) SCOM
7 1 (0.078%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.078%) WSUS
Vendors
1 418 (32.78%) Microsoft
2 145 (11.37%) Databricks
3 97 (7.61%) Oracle
4 78 (6.12%) SAP
5 63 (4.94%) Google
6 43 (3.37%) Salesforce
7 42 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.88%) Informatica
9 18 (1.41%) Alteryx
9 18 (1.41%) Lotus
10 12 (0.94%) Foundry
10 12 (0.94%) OpenAI
10 12 (0.94%) Planview
10 12 (0.94%) Splunk
11 10 (0.78%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.71%) Cognos
12 9 (0.71%) Kofax
13 8 (0.63%) Workday
14 7 (0.55%) UiPath
14 7 (0.55%) Virgin Media