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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,678 1,072 1,134
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.63% 3.86% 3.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.18% 21.49% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,084 711 786
10th Percentile £320 £310 £300
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £575 £588
90th Percentile £671 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 20 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £20.98 £19.97
25th Percentile £25.25 £28.06 £25.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.83% -7.18%
75th Percentile £50.81 £38.88 £59.86
90th Percentile £76.30 £54.13 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.11 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.39% +10.37% -7.18%

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 6,939 4,989 5,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.02% 17.98% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,631 3,423 4,177
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -6.91% -
75th Percentile £620 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 79 80
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.24 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.72 £31.29 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £40.49 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +11.70% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £60.36
90th Percentile £75.10 £80.00 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £39.84 £39.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.91% +12.80% -36.36%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -1 886 £500 - 718
North of England -4 237 £445 +4.71% 234
South East +4 210 £475 +5.56% 310
Midlands +15 191 £475 +2.70% 186
West Midlands -1 132 £475 -1.04% 118
North West -1 130 £500 +14.29% 120
Yorkshire -19 92 £425 +3.66% 86
South West -22 84 £425 +6.25% 118
East Midlands +18 58 £470 +12.24% 68
East of England -21 34 £571 -0.78% 102
North East -28 19 £369 -22.37% 29
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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
1 168 (10.01%) SharePoint
2 66 (3.93%) Confluence
3 34 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 24 (1.43%) Apache
5 24 (1.43%) SAS
6 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.77%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.36%) Mendix
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.24%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.060%) nginx
13 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 325 (19.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.66%) Navisworks
6 11 (0.66%) Revit
7 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.42%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.42%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.95%) iTrent
5 11 (0.66%) Primavera
6 8 (0.48%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.48%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 6 (0.36%) Maximo
7 6 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,678 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 628 (37.43%) Azure
3 198 (11.80%) AWS
3 198 (11.80%) Power Automate
4 171 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
5 168 (10.01%) PowerApps
6 139 (8.28%) Snowflake
7 138 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 121 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
9 119 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
10 106 (6.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 101 (6.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 78 (4.65%) Serverless
13 74 (4.41%) dbt
14 64 (3.81%) GCP
15 63 (3.75%) GitHub
16 55 (3.28%) Entra ID
17 53 (3.16%) Amazon S3
18 49 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
19 46 (2.74%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.77%) Firewall
2 11 (0.66%) SSL
3 9 (0.54%) DNS
4 8 (0.48%) VPN
5 7 (0.42%) Broadband
6 2 (0.12%) Internet
6 2 (0.12%) NAS
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 2 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.12%) SAN
7 1 (0.060%) 4G
7 1 (0.060%) 5G
7 1 (0.060%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.060%) LAN
7 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.060%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.060%) SMTP
7 1 (0.060%) SSH
7 1 (0.060%) VoIP
7 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (15.61%) Data Warehouse
2 237 (14.12%) Tableau
3 144 (8.58%) Data Lake
4 132 (7.87%) Power Query
4 132 (7.87%) SQL Server
5 81 (4.83%) Metadata
6 68 (4.05%) Star Schema
7 55 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 51 (3.04%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.98%) Looker
10 44 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (2.09%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (1.97%) BigQuery
15 32 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 30 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
17 28 (1.67%) NoSQL
18 24 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 23 (1.37%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 144 (8.58%) JIRA
2 68 (4.05%) Git
3 28 (1.67%) GitLab
4 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.36%) ERwin
5 6 (0.36%) MLflow
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.24%) JUnit
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.18%) JMeter
8 3 (0.18%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.060%) REST Assured
General
1 564 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 493 (29.38%) Finance
3 428 (25.51%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 120 (7.15%) Banking
6 76 (4.53%) Retail
7 65 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 52 (3.10%) Marketing
10 49 (2.92%) Law
11 45 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 39 (2.32%) Local Government
13 34 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.07%) Legal
17 17 (1.01%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.01%) Investment Banking
17 17 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 431 (25.69%) Analyst
2 246 (14.66%) Developer
3 212 (12.63%) Data Engineer
4 210 (12.51%) Data Analyst
5 192 (11.44%) Senior
6 184 (10.97%) Architect
7 147 (8.76%) Lead
8 116 (6.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 93 (5.54%) Business Analyst
9 93 (5.54%) Power BI Developer
10 81 (4.83%) Data Architect
11 75 (4.47%) Consultant
12 54 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
13 52 (3.10%) Project Manager
14 48 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
15 47 (2.80%) Power Platform Developer
16 38 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 38 (2.26%) Performance Analyst
17 36 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
18 34 (2.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.36%) PySpark
2 69 (4.11%) Terraform
3 66 (3.93%) .NET
4 65 (3.87%) REST
5 28 (1.67%) Kafka
6 24 (1.43%) React
7 22 (1.31%) Microsoft Graph
8 20 (1.19%) HTML
8 20 (1.19%) JSON
9 18 (1.07%) Middleware
10 15 (0.89%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (0.83%) CSS
12 10 (0.60%) ADO
12 10 (0.60%) Pandas
13 8 (0.48%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.48%) EDI
14 7 (0.42%) JDO
14 7 (0.42%) jQuery
14 7 (0.42%) RESTful
15 6 (0.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.77%) Data Structures
2 74 (4.41%) Management Information System
3 61 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.58%) Cloud Native
4 60 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 40 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 31 (1.85%) Clustering
8 26 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.19%) CMDB
10 20 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.19%) FMCG
11 18 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.01%) NHS
13 15 (0.89%) Data Centre
14 14 (0.83%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.77%) Life Science
16 12 (0.72%) PKI
16 12 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.16%) Windows
2 26 (1.55%) Windows Server
3 14 (0.83%) Linux
4 10 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.54%) Unix
6 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.30%) Android
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.12%) VMS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,571 (93.62%) Business Intelligence
2 678 (40.41%) Analytics
3 515 (30.69%) Data Modelling
4 413 (24.61%) Agile
5 403 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 371 (22.11%) Decision-Making
7 334 (19.90%) AI
8 332 (19.79%) Visualisation
9 319 (19.01%) ETL
10 318 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
11 307 (18.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 288 (17.16%) DevOps
13 281 (16.75%) Migration
14 279 (16.63%) CI/CD
15 268 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 264 (15.73%) Data Governance
17 253 (15.08%) Data Pipeline
18 250 (14.90%) Data Engineering
19 235 (14.00%) Validation
20 214 (12.75%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 781 (46.54%) SQL
2 380 (22.65%) Python
3 191 (11.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 94 (5.60%) JavaScript
5 90 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 73 (4.35%) C#
7 65 (3.87%) T-SQL
8 44 (2.62%) R
9 38 (2.26%) Java
10 22 (1.31%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.25%) VBA
12 13 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.54%) Bash
13 9 (0.54%) Bicep
14 8 (0.48%) Scala
15 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.30%) Korn
16 5 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.30%) X++
17 3 (0.18%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 304 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 232 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 156 (9.30%) Degree
4 52 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 20 (1.19%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 13 (0.77%) PMP
14 12 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.66%) ACCA
16 10 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.54%) CIMA
17 9 (0.54%) CISSP
18 8 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (23.48%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.77%) GDPR
3 79 (4.71%) QA
4 74 (4.41%) PMO
5 34 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.95%) GRC
7 13 (0.77%) ISO 19650
8 9 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.54%) SLA
9 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.30%) GMP
10 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.18%) NIST
12 3 (0.18%) P3O
12 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.12%) Basel III
13 2 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.95%) Docker
3 13 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.19%) Grafana
3 19 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.89%) SCOM
5 12 (0.72%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) Control-M
7 7 (0.42%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.060%) WSUS
Vendors
1 689 (41.06%) Microsoft
2 206 (12.28%) Databricks
3 111 (6.62%) SAP
4 104 (6.20%) ServiceNow
5 82 (4.89%) Oracle
6 47 (2.80%) Google
7 39 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 37 (2.21%) Informatica
9 32 (1.91%) Splunk
10 28 (1.67%) Remedy
11 27 (1.61%) Alteryx
12 21 (1.25%) BMC
13 20 (1.19%) Workday
14 15 (0.89%) Adobe
14 15 (0.89%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.83%) Denodo
16 13 (0.77%) VMware
17 12 (0.72%) Autodesk
18 10 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
18 10 (0.60%) Teradata