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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 62 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,573 927 1,238
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.68% 3.77% 3.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.17% 20.02% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 606 886
10th Percentile £331 £308 £300
25th Percentile £407 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 30 28
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.50 £15.96
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +25.22% -40.09%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £80.20 £53.75 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -8.34% +32.82% -38.52%

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 6,508 4,630 6,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.82% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,418 3,211 4,613
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 91 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.88 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -15.30% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £65.62 £52.83
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.14% -12.50% -31.73%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +9 808 £500 - 286
South East +15 219 £488 +6.85% 186
Midlands -2 185 £463 -7.50% 114
North of England -22 173 £463 +2.78% 139
West Midlands -16 128 £459 -8.20% 71
South West +11 97 £450 +7.91% 71
North West -7 96 £475 - 89
Yorkshire -43 61 £439 +3.29% 39
East Midlands +18 56 £464 +6.00% 43
East of England -18 40 £400 -20.00% 42
North East -25 17 £450 - 12
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
1 122 (7.76%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.45%) Confluence
3 44 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.78%) Apache
4 28 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.14%) SAS
6 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.57%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.51%) Apache Superset
8 8 (0.51%) Mendix
9 7 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.25%) CMS
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
11 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.19%) Kentico
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.064%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 303 (19.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (4.07%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.064%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.064%) CATIA
9 1 (0.064%) InDesign
9 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.064%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.95%) iTrent
5 8 (0.51%) Primavera
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.38%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,573 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 579 (36.81%) Azure
3 200 (12.71%) AWS
4 154 (9.79%) Power Automate
5 150 (9.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 141 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (8.46%) PowerApps
8 127 (8.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 109 (6.93%) Snowflake
10 106 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
11 92 (5.85%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (5.02%) Serverless
13 75 (4.77%) GCP
14 74 (4.70%) Microsoft Copilot
15 63 (4.01%) GitHub
16 57 (3.62%) dbt
17 55 (3.50%) Amazon S3
18 45 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
19 42 (2.67%) Entra ID
19 42 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.02%) Firewall
2 12 (0.76%) VPN
3 9 (0.57%) DNS
4 4 (0.25%) Network Security
5 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.13%) 4G
6 2 (0.13%) 5G
6 2 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 2 (0.13%) Intranet
6 2 (0.13%) LTE
6 2 (0.13%) Microwave Backhaul
6 2 (0.13%) MPLS
6 2 (0.13%) NAS
6 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.13%) SAN
6 2 (0.13%) SMTP
6 2 (0.13%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (16.59%) Data Warehouse
2 250 (15.89%) Tableau
3 160 (10.17%) Data Lake
4 123 (7.82%) SQL Server
5 116 (7.37%) Power Query
6 72 (4.58%) Metadata
7 56 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 54 (3.43%) Star Schema
10 52 (3.31%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.92%) Looker
12 45 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (2.35%) Spark SQL
15 34 (2.16%) BigQuery
16 33 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (2.10%) Delta Lake
17 30 (1.91%) NoSQL
18 26 (1.65%) Semantic Layer
19 24 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 135 (8.58%) JIRA
2 73 (4.64%) Git
3 28 (1.78%) GitLab
4 13 (0.83%) ERwin
5 10 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.32%) MLflow
6 5 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.25%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.25%) JUnit
8 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) Postman
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.064%) RStudio
General
1 481 (30.58%) Finance
2 472 (30.01%) Social Skills
3 356 (22.63%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 108 (6.87%) Banking
6 55 (3.50%) Retail
7 53 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.05%) Law
9 44 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (2.54%) Marketing
11 32 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.27%) Local Government
15 20 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.14%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.14%) Legal
17 14 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 416 (26.45%) Analyst
2 265 (16.85%) Data Engineer
3 215 (13.67%) Developer
4 193 (12.27%) Senior
5 192 (12.21%) Data Analyst
6 170 (10.81%) Architect
7 147 (9.35%) Lead
8 112 (7.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 87 (5.53%) Business Analyst
9 87 (5.53%) Power BI Developer
10 71 (4.51%) Senior Data Engineer
11 66 (4.20%) Consultant
12 62 (3.94%) Data Architect
13 49 (3.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 46 (2.92%) Project Manager
15 40 (2.54%) Lead Architect
16 37 (2.35%) Power Platform Developer
17 36 (2.29%) Senior Developer
18 35 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
19 34 (2.16%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.04%) PySpark
2 51 (3.24%) REST
3 38 (2.42%) .NET
3 38 (2.42%) Kafka
4 23 (1.46%) Pandas
5 21 (1.34%) JSON
6 20 (1.27%) HTML
6 20 (1.27%) React
7 19 (1.21%) Middleware
8 15 (0.95%) CSS
9 14 (0.89%) Great Expectations
10 13 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
10 13 (0.83%) YAML
11 12 (0.76%) ADO
11 12 (0.76%) XML
12 11 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.51%) JDO
14 7 (0.45%) RESTful
14 7 (0.45%) Spark Streaming
14 7 (0.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.70%) Cloud Native
2 63 (4.01%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (1.46%) CMDB
8 23 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 18 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.89%) Clustering
12 14 (0.89%) NHS
13 13 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.76%) IoT
14 12 (0.76%) PKI
15 11 (0.70%) Reference Data
16 10 (0.64%) FMCG
16 10 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.97%) Windows
2 17 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 10 (0.64%) Unix
4 9 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.51%) Linux
6 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.25%) Android
7 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,464 (93.07%) Business Intelligence
2 655 (41.64%) Analytics
3 518 (32.93%) Data Modelling
4 364 (23.14%) Agile
5 355 (22.57%) ETL
6 327 (20.79%) Decision-Making
7 323 (20.53%) Visualisation
8 284 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
9 279 (17.74%) AI
10 264 (16.78%) Data Engineering
11 262 (16.66%) Data Pipeline
12 257 (16.34%) Data Governance
13 255 (16.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 254 (16.15%) DevOps
15 234 (14.88%) CI/CD
16 233 (14.81%) Migration
17 228 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
18 215 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 201 (12.78%) Data Visualisation
20 195 (12.40%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 748 (47.55%) SQL
2 383 (24.35%) Python
3 185 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 71 (4.51%) PowerShell
5 64 (4.07%) C#
5 64 (4.07%) JavaScript
6 57 (3.62%) T-SQL
7 51 (3.24%) R
8 41 (2.61%) Java
9 25 (1.59%) VBA
10 21 (1.34%) Bicep
11 14 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 14 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 13 (0.83%) Scala
13 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.38%) Formula Language
14 6 (0.38%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.38%) LotusScript
15 5 (0.32%) C
16 4 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 269 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 212 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 142 (9.03%) Degree
4 40 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.59%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.27%) PMI Certification
10 18 (1.14%) PMP
11 17 (1.08%) AWS Certification
12 16 (1.02%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.38%) ACCA
14 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.38%) CISSP
15 5 (0.32%) MBA
15 5 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
15 5 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 371 (23.59%) Data Quality
2 110 (6.99%) GDPR
3 89 (5.66%) PMO
4 73 (4.64%) QA
5 29 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (1.02%) SLA
7 14 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.70%) GRC
9 8 (0.51%) Basel III
9 8 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.32%) ISO 19650
11 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.25%) P3O
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) NCSC
14 2 (0.13%) COBIT
System Software
1 47 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.40%) Docker
3 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.064%) RACF
5 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (5.02%) Terraform
2 26 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.14%) Grafana
4 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.57%) SCCM
6 7 (0.45%) Ansible
7 5 (0.32%) Control-M
7 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 1 (0.064%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.064%) Kibana
10 1 (0.064%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.064%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.064%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.064%) WSUS
Vendors
1 536 (34.08%) Microsoft
2 205 (13.03%) Databricks
3 97 (6.17%) SAP
4 83 (5.28%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.83%) Oracle
6 49 (3.12%) Google
7 40 (2.54%) Informatica
8 29 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.53%) Workday
10 22 (1.40%) Remedy
11 20 (1.27%) Splunk
12 18 (1.14%) Alteryx
13 15 (0.95%) Foundry
14 14 (0.89%) Adobe
14 14 (0.89%) IFS
15 13 (0.83%) Talend
16 12 (0.76%) Dynatrace
17 11 (0.70%) Denodo
18 10 (0.64%) BMC
18 10 (0.64%) Sage