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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 63 64
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,654 1,039 1,134
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 3.79% 3.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.83% 20.74% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 675 820
10th Percentile £331 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -1.25% -3.80%
75th Percentile £588 £568 £578
90th Percentile £650 £673 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +2.63% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 26 12
10th Percentile £17.82 £18.15 £20.08
25th Percentile £21.44 £21.69 £25.81
Median hourly rate £29.98 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +5.47% -22.58%
75th Percentile £46.13 £34.92 £46.56
90th Percentile £72.63 £53.75 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £31.97
% change year-on-year -5.31% -1.02% -17.51%

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 6,941 5,009 6,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.40% 18.26% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,649 3,470 4,478
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 80 95
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.72 £13.91
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.82 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -9.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £65.63 £64.06 £58.73
90th Percentile £76.90 £77.62 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +14.08% -3.33% -31.82%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +9 853 £500 - 255
South East -6 215 £500 +11.11% 186
Midlands +10 209 £461 +8.41% 119
North of England -18 199 £450 +1.12% 136
West Midlands -4 149 £451 +6.00% 67
North West -9 110 £485 +2.11% 69
South West -8 92 £450 +11.25% 67
Yorkshire -35 73 £445 +4.71% 46
East Midlands +19 59 £470 +10.59% 52
East of England -12 41 £400 -30.43% 29
North East -28 20 £390 -13.33% 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
1 152 (9.19%) SharePoint
2 65 (3.93%) Confluence
3 36 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.63%) Apache
4 27 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.27%) SAS
6 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.48%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) IIS
10 4 (0.24%) Mendix
11 3 (0.18%) HCL Notes
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.060%) Appian
13 1 (0.060%) Camunda
13 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 315 (19.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.69%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (1.63%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.36%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.36%) Revit
8 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.060%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.060%) CATIA
10 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.060%) InDesign
10 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.060%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 38 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 25 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.97%) iTrent
5 13 (0.79%) Primavera
6 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.36%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,654 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 626 (37.85%) Azure
3 208 (12.58%) AWS
4 186 (11.25%) Power Automate
5 164 (9.92%) PowerApps
6 148 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
7 135 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 131 (7.92%) Snowflake
9 119 (7.19%) Dynamics 365
10 111 (6.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 111 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
11 84 (5.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 80 (4.84%) Serverless
13 70 (4.23%) GCP
14 67 (4.05%) dbt
15 59 (3.57%) GitHub
16 58 (3.51%) Amazon S3
17 49 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
18 48 (2.90%) Entra ID
19 46 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.09%) Firewall
2 14 (0.85%) VPN
3 11 (0.67%) DNS
4 6 (0.36%) SSL
5 4 (0.24%) Network Security
6 3 (0.18%) Broadband
6 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
7 2 (0.12%) MPLS
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 2 (0.12%) SMTP
7 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
7 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (16.26%) Data Warehouse
2 263 (15.90%) Tableau
3 140 (8.46%) Data Lake
4 120 (7.26%) SQL Server
5 118 (7.13%) Power Query
6 75 (4.53%) Metadata
7 63 (3.81%) Star Schema
8 60 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 54 (3.26%) Looker
10 49 (2.96%) Relational Database
11 45 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 41 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.18%) Snowflake Schema
14 34 (2.06%) Semantic Layer
15 33 (2.00%) BigQuery
16 31 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 29 (1.75%) NoSQL
18 26 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
19 25 (1.51%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 141 (8.52%) JIRA
2 69 (4.17%) Git
3 27 (1.63%) GitLab
4 10 (0.60%) ERwin
4 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.30%) MLflow
6 5 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.24%) JUnit
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.060%) Hudson
9 1 (0.060%) Moq
General
1 515 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 494 (29.87%) Finance
3 404 (24.43%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 107 (6.47%) Banking
6 60 (3.63%) Retail
7 56 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (3.20%) Law
9 52 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 51 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (2.84%) Marketing
12 38 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.45%) Local Government
15 22 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.27%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.27%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.09%) Legal
19 15 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 429 (25.94%) Analyst
2 246 (14.87%) Developer
3 234 (14.15%) Data Engineer
4 213 (12.88%) Data Analyst
5 196 (11.85%) Senior
6 184 (11.12%) Architect
7 153 (9.25%) Lead
8 115 (6.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 93 (5.62%) Business Analyst
10 91 (5.50%) Power BI Developer
11 73 (4.41%) Data Architect
12 68 (4.11%) Consultant
13 56 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
14 53 (3.20%) Power Platform Developer
15 51 (3.08%) Project Manager
16 46 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 41 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
18 39 (2.36%) Lead Architect
19 38 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
20 36 (2.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (5.38%) PySpark
2 58 (3.51%) .NET
2 58 (3.51%) REST
3 29 (1.75%) Kafka
4 25 (1.51%) JSON
5 20 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
5 20 (1.21%) Middleware
6 18 (1.09%) React
7 16 (0.97%) HTML
7 16 (0.97%) Pandas
8 14 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
9 13 (0.79%) CSS
10 11 (0.67%) ADO
10 11 (0.67%) XML
11 10 (0.60%) YAML
12 9 (0.54%) Great Expectations
13 7 (0.42%) .NET Core
13 7 (0.42%) EDI
13 7 (0.42%) jQuery
13 7 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.59%) Data Structures
2 70 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 52 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 47 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 25 (1.51%) CMDB
8 23 (1.39%) Clustering
8 23 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 18 (1.09%) FMCG
12 16 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.91%) PKI
14 14 (0.85%) NHS
14 14 (0.85%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.79%) IoT
16 11 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.66%) Windows
2 24 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.54%) Linux
3 9 (0.54%) Unix
4 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.24%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.060%) VMS
8 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,541 (93.17%) Business Intelligence
2 679 (41.05%) Analytics
3 532 (32.16%) Data Modelling
4 411 (24.85%) Agile
5 345 (20.86%) Decision-Making
6 340 (20.56%) ETL
7 339 (20.50%) Visualisation
8 303 (18.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 298 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
10 297 (17.96%) AI
11 285 (17.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 283 (17.11%) Migration
13 278 (16.81%) Data Pipeline
14 276 (16.69%) DevOps
15 269 (16.26%) Data Governance
16 264 (15.96%) Data Engineering
17 256 (15.48%) CI/CD
18 246 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
19 234 (14.15%) Validation
20 202 (12.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 779 (47.10%) SQL
2 394 (23.82%) Python
3 188 (11.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 81 (4.90%) PowerShell
5 79 (4.78%) JavaScript
6 70 (4.23%) C#
7 61 (3.69%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.02%) R
9 43 (2.60%) Java
10 22 (1.33%) VBA
11 16 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 16 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.91%) Bicep
13 10 (0.60%) Scala
14 6 (0.36%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.30%) C
15 5 (0.30%) Korn
15 5 (0.30%) X++
16 3 (0.18%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 316 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 242 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 166 (10.04%) Degree
4 43 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.63%) DBS Check
9 25 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 16 (0.97%) PMI Certification
13 15 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 11 (0.67%) PMP
15 7 (0.42%) ACCA
15 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.42%) CISSP
16 5 (0.30%) CIMA
16 5 (0.30%) SnowPro
16 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 393 (23.76%) Data Quality
2 103 (6.23%) GDPR
3 85 (5.14%) PMO
4 79 (4.78%) QA
5 34 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.09%) SLA
7 15 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.67%) GRC
9 9 (0.54%) Solvency II
10 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.42%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) Basel III
13 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
13 3 (0.18%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
14 2 (0.12%) NIST
15 1 (0.060%) IFRS
System Software
1 54 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.67%) Docker
3 10 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (3.99%) Terraform
2 20 (1.21%) Grafana
3 16 (0.97%) Kubernetes
4 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.60%) SCCM
6 8 (0.48%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) SCOM
7 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
9 3 (0.18%) Control-M
9 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.12%) Kibana
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 600 (36.28%) Microsoft
2 205 (12.39%) Databricks
3 115 (6.95%) SAP
4 96 (5.80%) ServiceNow
5 74 (4.47%) Oracle
6 44 (2.66%) Informatica
7 42 (2.54%) Google
8 33 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 30 (1.81%) Remedy
10 25 (1.51%) Alteryx
11 23 (1.39%) Splunk
11 23 (1.39%) Workday
12 17 (1.03%) BMC
13 15 (0.91%) Adobe
14 14 (0.85%) Denodo
14 14 (0.85%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.85%) IFS
15 12 (0.73%) Talend
16 11 (0.67%) Foundry
17 10 (0.60%) Sage