Power BI Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power BI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 61 74
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 566 500 554
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 3.09% 3.44% 2.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.86% 22.54% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 304 403
10th Percentile £300 £313 £265
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £548 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 25
10th Percentile £13.31 £22.63 £14.85
25th Percentile £21.09 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.22 £27.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% -14.91% -50.28%
75th Percentile £32.81 £43.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.05 £64.73 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £24.02 £27.75 £32.32
% change year-on-year -13.46% -14.14% -35.36%

All Database & BI Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,589 2,218 2,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.13% 15.24% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,810 1,403 1,971
10th Percentile £311 £318 £305
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £497 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 51 96
10th Percentile £21.17 £18.50 £15.42
25th Percentile £31.25 £22.60 £20.70
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +118.18% -40.45% -7.64%
75th Percentile £76.63 £64.73 £67.50
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Power BI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Power BI
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Power BI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Power BI

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the UK excluding London

Power BI
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Power BI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Power BI

Power BI
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power BI in the UK excluding London

Power BI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England -19 157 £425 -8.11% 109
Midlands -25 118 £463 -3.04% 106
South East -18 117 £475 - 203
West Midlands -33 80 £500 - 69
Yorkshire -12 76 £420 -1.18% 36
North West -27 75 £419 -15.92% 60
South West +1 69 £475 +5.56% 48
Scotland +4 49 £500 +25.00% 28
East of England +5 47 £613 +36.11% 34
East Midlands -1 38 £371 -3.70% 36
Wales -12 11 £316 +5.42% 18
North East -6 6 £475 +5.56% 15
Channel Islands +3 1 - -
Northern Ireland -10 1 - - 3
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Power BI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 80 (14.13%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.83%) Confluence
3 13 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.77%) Apache
6 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.24%) Apache Pig
8 5 (0.88%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 170 (30.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (5.12%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (2.30%) MS Visio
6 8 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.88%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.71%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (5.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.71%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.53%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.53%) Primavera
6 2 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.35%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.18%) iTrent
7 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.18%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 566 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 172 (30.39%) Azure
3 70 (12.37%) Power Automate
4 69 (12.19%) PowerApps
5 56 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (8.48%) AWS
6 48 (8.48%) Dynamics 365
7 45 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (7.95%) GCP
8 35 (6.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 28 (4.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (4.95%) Snowflake
10 27 (4.77%) SaaS
11 24 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (2.83%) Copilot Studio
13 15 (2.65%) Entra ID
14 14 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (1.94%) Google Analytics
15 11 (1.94%) Google Tag Manager
16 9 (1.59%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.71%) VoIP
2 3 (0.53%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.35%) 2G
3 2 (0.35%) 5G
3 2 (0.35%) DNS
3 2 (0.35%) LAN
3 2 (0.35%) LTE
3 2 (0.35%) Mobile Backhaul
3 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.35%) Wireless
4 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (14.13%) Tableau
2 69 (12.19%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (6.54%) Power Query
4 26 (4.59%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.89%) Data Lake
5 22 (3.89%) Data Mining
6 21 (3.71%) BigQuery
6 21 (3.71%) Hadoop
7 20 (3.53%) Big Data
7 20 (3.53%) Metadata
8 17 (3.00%) Looker
9 15 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (2.47%) Relational Database
11 13 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (2.12%) NoSQL
12 12 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (1.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 9 (1.59%) Apache Hive
14 9 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (9.89%) JIRA
2 20 (3.53%) Git
3 5 (0.88%) DBeaver
3 5 (0.88%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.35%) Postman
5 1 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.18%) GitLab
5 1 (0.18%) Maven
5 1 (0.18%) MLflow
5 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 235 (41.52%) Social Skills
2 182 (32.16%) Finance
3 136 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (14.31%) Public Sector
5 60 (10.60%) Banking
6 34 (6.01%) Manufacturing
7 27 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.47%) Retail
12 12 (2.12%) Marketing
12 12 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.59%) Billing
13 9 (1.59%) Legal
13 9 (1.59%) Local Government
13 9 (1.59%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.41%) Law
15 7 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
15 7 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 186 (32.86%) Analyst
2 82 (14.49%) Data Analyst
3 73 (12.90%) Developer
4 50 (8.83%) Data Engineer
5 48 (8.48%) Senior
6 44 (7.77%) Lead
7 40 (7.07%) Business Analyst
8 39 (6.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 32 (5.65%) Architect
10 25 (4.42%) Power BI Developer
11 24 (4.24%) Project Manager
12 22 (3.89%) Consultant
12 22 (3.89%) Data Scientist
12 22 (3.89%) Senior Analyst
13 20 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 18 (3.18%) Data Architect
15 17 (3.00%) PMO Analyst
16 15 (2.65%) Report Analyst
17 14 (2.47%) Performance Analyst
18 12 (2.12%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.30%) REST
2 11 (1.94%) HTML
3 10 (1.77%) .NET
3 10 (1.77%) PySpark
4 9 (1.59%) JSON
5 8 (1.41%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.41%) scikit-learn
5 8 (1.41%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.06%) ADO
7 5 (0.88%) CSS
7 5 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 5 (0.88%) RESTful
8 4 (0.71%) JDO
8 4 (0.71%) OAuth
8 4 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.71%) Pandas
8 4 (0.71%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.53%) LDAP
9 3 (0.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (3.00%) Low-Code
3 16 (2.83%) Algorithms
3 16 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 15 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.94%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.59%) Life Science
8 9 (1.59%) Mainframe
9 8 (1.41%) NHS
9 8 (1.41%) SCADA
10 7 (1.24%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.06%) IoT
11 6 (1.06%) PMI
11 6 (1.06%) Replication
12 5 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.41%) Linux
2 7 (1.24%) Windows
3 2 (0.35%) Android
3 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (89.05%) Business Intelligence
2 194 (34.28%) Analytics
3 141 (24.91%) Agile
4 123 (21.73%) Visualisation
5 121 (21.38%) Data Modelling
6 120 (21.20%) Decision-Making
7 118 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (17.31%) Actionable Insight
9 95 (16.78%) Data Analysis
10 82 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 80 (14.13%) Data Visualisation
12 76 (13.43%) Data Governance
13 68 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 67 (11.84%) ETL
15 64 (11.31%) DevOps
16 56 (9.89%) Migration
17 52 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 50 (8.83%) Data Science
19 48 (8.48%) Project Management
20 46 (8.13%) AI
Programming Languages
1 223 (39.40%) SQL
2 134 (23.67%) Python
3 35 (6.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 32 (5.65%) R
5 23 (4.06%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.53%) PowerShell
7 17 (3.00%) C#
8 16 (2.83%) VBA
9 14 (2.47%) Java
10 11 (1.94%) Scala
11 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.24%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.53%) Bicep
13 2 (0.35%) ABAP
13 2 (0.35%) Groovy
14 1 (0.18%) Bash
14 1 (0.18%) C++
14 1 (0.18%) VB
14 1 (0.18%) VBScript
14 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 66 (11.66%) Degree
2 62 (10.95%) Security Cleared
3 44 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.47%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.59%) PMP
7 8 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.24%) ACCA
8 7 (1.24%) CIMA
8 7 (1.24%) MBA
8 7 (1.24%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
10 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.53%) CCAB
11 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.54%) PMO
3 31 (5.48%) QA
4 28 (4.95%) Accessibility
5 21 (3.71%) GDPR
6 9 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.06%) Basel III
7 6 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.88%) GxP
9 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.71%) GRC
10 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.53%) NIST
11 2 (0.35%) COBIT
11 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.35%) P3O
11 2 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (1.77%) Active Directory
1 10 (1.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.24%) Terraform
3 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.71%) SCCM
4 4 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.35%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 192 (33.92%) Microsoft
2 51 (9.01%) Oracle
3 46 (8.13%) Databricks
4 37 (6.54%) SAP
5 32 (5.65%) Google
6 19 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.00%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.94%) Informatica
9 10 (1.77%) Foundry
9 10 (1.77%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.59%) Splunk
11 8 (1.41%) IFS
12 5 (0.88%) Blue Prism
12 5 (0.88%) UiPath
13 4 (0.71%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.71%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.71%) Pega
14 3 (0.53%) Genesys
14 3 (0.53%) Sage
14 3 (0.53%) Talend