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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 66 59
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,616 952 1,251
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.69% 3.73% 3.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.13% 20.29% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 614 905
10th Percentile £331 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £486 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.37% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 31 25
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £29.96 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +25.22% -37.26%
75th Percentile £38.25 £34.57 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £50.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -8.34% +29.51% -33.07%

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 6,696 4,693 6,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.30% 18.40% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,510 3,250 4,681
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £418 £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% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 87 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £25.01 £20.76
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -29.76%
75th Percentile £69.86 £62.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.00 £71.70
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -29.08%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +8 819 £500 - 200
South East +10 224 £500 +11.11% 161
Midlands +6 195 £459 -1.29% 94
North of England -16 195 £461 +2.99% 123
West Midlands -10 134 £450 -7.22% 54
North West -2 116 £463 -2.63% 65
South West +3 95 £450 +10.02% 52
Yorkshire -44 64 £440 +3.53% 44
East Midlands +20 60 £464 +0.27% 40
East of England -19 39 £400 -20.00% 41
North East -26 16 £438 -2.78% 16
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
1 137 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.27%) Confluence
3 40 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.73%) Apache
6 19 (1.18%) SAS
7 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Superset
9 7 (0.43%) HCL Notes
9 7 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.37%) Mendix
11 5 (0.31%) CMS
12 4 (0.25%) IIS
13 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.19%) Kentico
14 1 (0.062%) Appian
14 1 (0.062%) Camunda
14 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 313 (19.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.84%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Notion
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.062%) CATIA
9 1 (0.062%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.062%) InDesign
9 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 18 (1.11%) iTrent
5 9 (0.56%) Primavera
6 6 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.37%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) Maximo
9 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
10 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,616 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 596 (36.88%) Azure
3 218 (13.49%) AWS
4 168 (10.40%) Power Automate
5 149 (9.22%) PowerApps
6 145 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
7 139 (8.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 119 (7.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 118 (7.30%) Snowflake
10 112 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
11 99 (6.13%) Dynamics 365
12 81 (5.01%) Serverless
13 77 (4.76%) GCP
14 76 (4.70%) Microsoft Copilot
15 63 (3.90%) dbt
16 59 (3.65%) Amazon S3
17 58 (3.59%) GitHub
18 47 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
19 45 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
19 45 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.99%) Firewall
2 13 (0.80%) VPN
3 10 (0.62%) DNS
4 5 (0.31%) SSL
5 4 (0.25%) Network Security
6 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.12%) 4G
7 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
7 2 (0.12%) Intranet
7 2 (0.12%) LTE
7 2 (0.12%) Microwave Backhaul
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
1 262 (16.21%) Data Warehouse
2 259 (16.03%) Tableau
3 142 (8.79%) Data Lake
4 122 (7.55%) SQL Server
5 117 (7.24%) Power Query
6 73 (4.52%) Metadata
7 58 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 58 (3.59%) Star Schema
8 51 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 50 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (3.09%) Looker
10 46 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
12 36 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (2.17%) BigQuery
14 30 (1.86%) Spark SQL
15 29 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
15 29 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
16 28 (1.73%) Delta Lake
16 28 (1.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 138 (8.54%) JIRA
2 71 (4.39%) Git
3 28 (1.73%) GitLab
4 14 (0.87%) ERwin
5 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.31%) MLflow
7 5 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.25%) JUnit
8 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.19%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.12%) JMeter
10 2 (0.12%) Postman
10 2 (0.12%) Selenium
10 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Forms
General
1 499 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 487 (30.14%) Finance
3 377 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 111 (6.87%) Banking
6 61 (3.77%) Retail
7 51 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.09%) Law
8 50 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 40 (2.48%) Marketing
11 33 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 22 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.24%) Local Government
15 19 (1.18%) Legal
16 18 (1.11%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 416 (25.74%) Analyst
2 253 (15.66%) Data Engineer
3 233 (14.42%) Developer
4 200 (12.38%) Data Analyst
5 191 (11.82%) Senior
6 177 (10.95%) Architect
7 151 (9.34%) Lead
8 114 (7.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 93 (5.75%) Power BI Developer
10 90 (5.57%) Business Analyst
11 67 (4.15%) Data Architect
12 66 (4.08%) Consultant
13 65 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
14 47 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 47 (2.91%) Project Manager
15 46 (2.85%) Power Platform Developer
16 39 (2.41%) Lead Architect
17 37 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
18 34 (2.10%) Senior Developer
18 34 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.88%) PySpark
2 53 (3.28%) REST
3 46 (2.85%) .NET
4 33 (2.04%) Kafka
5 23 (1.42%) JSON
6 21 (1.30%) Pandas
7 20 (1.24%) React
8 18 (1.11%) Middleware
9 17 (1.05%) HTML
10 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
11 14 (0.87%) CSS
12 13 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.80%) YAML
13 12 (0.74%) ADO
13 12 (0.74%) Great Expectations
13 12 (0.74%) XML
14 8 (0.50%) JDO
14 8 (0.50%) RESTful
15 7 (0.43%) jQuery
15 7 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (4.52%) Data Structures
2 71 (4.39%) Cloud Native
3 45 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 45 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 45 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 24 (1.49%) CMDB
7 22 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (1.36%) Low-Code
8 18 (1.11%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.11%) Clustering
9 15 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (0.87%) FMCG
11 13 (0.80%) NHS
12 12 (0.74%) IoT
12 12 (0.74%) PKI
12 12 (0.74%) Reference Data
13 10 (0.62%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.17%) Windows
2 20 (1.24%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.56%) Unix
4 7 (0.43%) Linux
5 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.25%) Android
6 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,499 (92.76%) Business Intelligence
2 667 (41.27%) Analytics
3 528 (32.67%) Data Modelling
4 379 (23.45%) Agile
5 348 (21.53%) ETL
6 340 (21.04%) Visualisation
7 337 (20.85%) Decision-Making
8 297 (18.38%) AI
8 297 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
9 272 (16.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 268 (16.58%) DevOps
11 267 (16.52%) Data Engineering
12 264 (16.34%) Data Pipeline
13 259 (16.03%) Data Governance
14 251 (15.53%) Migration
15 243 (15.04%) CI/CD
15 243 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 229 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 213 (13.18%) Data Visualisation
18 211 (13.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 757 (46.84%) SQL
2 389 (24.07%) Python
3 187 (11.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 73 (4.52%) PowerShell
5 70 (4.33%) JavaScript
6 67 (4.15%) C#
7 62 (3.84%) T-SQL
8 51 (3.16%) R
9 42 (2.60%) Java
10 25 (1.55%) VBA
11 19 (1.18%) Bicep
12 16 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 15 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.74%) Scala
15 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.37%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.31%) C
18 4 (0.25%) Formula Language
18 4 (0.25%) Korn
18 4 (0.25%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 287 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 222 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 157 (9.72%) Degree
4 40 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 16 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.74%) PMP
12 12 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 8 (0.50%) ACCA
14 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.43%) CISSP
15 6 (0.37%) CIMA
15 6 (0.37%) SnowPro
16 4 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (23.76%) Data Quality
2 112 (6.93%) GDPR
3 87 (5.38%) PMO
4 74 (4.58%) QA
5 32 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.87%) SLA
8 12 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.68%) GRC
10 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.31%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.19%) Basel III
13 3 (0.19%) NCSC
13 3 (0.19%) P3O
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
14 2 (0.12%) NIST
14 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.11%) Docker
3 10 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.062%) RACF
6 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.76%) Terraform
2 23 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.18%) Grafana
4 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.56%) SCCM
6 7 (0.43%) Ansible
7 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) SCOM
9 4 (0.25%) Control-M
9 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.062%) Kibana
11 1 (0.062%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.062%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.062%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.062%) WSUS
Vendors
1 570 (35.27%) Microsoft
2 199 (12.31%) Databricks
3 105 (6.50%) SAP
4 90 (5.57%) ServiceNow
5 75 (4.64%) Oracle
6 47 (2.91%) Google
7 42 (2.60%) Informatica
8 31 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.49%) Remedy
10 23 (1.42%) Alteryx
10 23 (1.42%) Splunk
11 21 (1.30%) Workday
12 15 (0.93%) Adobe
13 14 (0.87%) Foundry
13 14 (0.87%) IFS
13 14 (0.87%) Talend
14 13 (0.80%) Dynatrace
15 11 (0.68%) BMC
15 11 (0.68%) Denodo
16 10 (0.62%) Sage