Power BI Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Power BI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 59 64
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,706 1,086 1,394
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 3.72% 3.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.57% 19.58% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 735 980
10th Percentile £320 £308 £313
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £580
90th Percentile £638 £659 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 30 37
10th Percentile £13.03 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £25.25 £15.59
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.07 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +25.22% -57.79%
75th Percentile £39.50 £34.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.84 £42.28 £57.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.88 £27.13 £22.07
% change year-on-year +10.14% +22.90% -66.05%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,238 5,546 7,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.81% 18.98% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,972 3,838 5,166
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £487 £488
% change year-on-year -2.41% -0.15% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 109 152
10th Percentile £18.10 £21.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.77 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -29.76%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.55 £76.50 £71.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -9.60% -36.36%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in the UK

Power BI
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Power BI
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 April 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
England -5 1,491 £492 +3.58% 815
London +5 792 £500 +1.01% 258
UK excluding London -4 715 £450 - 673
Work from Home +9 527 £488 -0.31% 366
South East +2 185 £500 +5.26% 212
Midlands -14 165 £450 -6.44% 126
North of England -37 147 £450 -2.70% 176
West Midlands -33 101 £450 -7.22% 72
South West +3 84 £450 - 70
North West -16 78 £449 -14.46% 90
Scotland +22 72 £413 +10.00% 27
East Midlands +5 63 £414 -15.18% 54
Yorkshire -36 57 £440 +5.39% 63
East of England -17 46 £475 -5.00% 57
Wales -1 19 £400 +52.38% 11
North East -9 12 £475 +5.56% 29
Northern Ireland -2 2 £410 +17.14% 4

Power BI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 162 (9.50%) SharePoint
2 64 (3.75%) Confluence
3 59 (3.46%) Apache Spark
4 37 (2.17%) Apache
5 33 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.88%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.59%) Mendix
8 9 (0.53%) Apache Superset
8 9 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.35%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) CMS
10 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.059%) Orchard CMS
13 1 (0.059%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 343 (20.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.63%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (2.05%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.18%) Notion
7 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.059%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.059%) CATIA
9 1 (0.059%) InDesign
9 1 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 57 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.70%) iTrent
5 9 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.35%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Primavera
8 4 (0.23%) ResourceLink
8 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
9 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,706 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 645 (37.81%) Azure
3 235 (13.77%) Power Automate
4 218 (12.78%) AWS
5 193 (11.31%) PowerApps
6 170 (9.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 152 (8.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 147 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
9 141 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
10 132 (7.74%) Dynamics 365
11 119 (6.98%) Snowflake
12 115 (6.74%) GCP
13 80 (4.69%) Microsoft Copilot
14 79 (4.63%) Serverless
15 69 (4.04%) GitHub
16 51 (2.99%) Amazon S3
17 49 (2.87%) Copilot Studio
18 48 (2.81%) dbt
19 46 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
20 43 (2.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.59%) VPN
2 9 (0.53%) Firewall
3 5 (0.29%) HTTP
4 4 (0.23%) 5G
4 4 (0.23%) DNS
4 4 (0.23%) LTE
4 4 (0.23%) WebEx
5 3 (0.18%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.18%) Intranet
5 3 (0.18%) Network Security
5 3 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.12%) 2G
6 2 (0.12%) 4G
6 2 (0.12%) 5G NR
6 2 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.12%) Microwave Backhaul
6 2 (0.12%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.12%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.12%) VoLTE
6 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (16.94%) Tableau
2 245 (14.36%) Data Warehouse
3 152 (8.91%) Data Lake
4 130 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 103 (6.04%) Power Query
6 86 (5.04%) Metadata
7 62 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 60 (3.52%) BigQuery
8 60 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 55 (3.22%) Looker
10 49 (2.87%) Star Schema
11 48 (2.81%) Relational Database
12 45 (2.64%) Delta Lake
13 44 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
14 35 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 31 (1.82%) Spark SQL
17 30 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
18 29 (1.70%) Mixpanel
18 29 (1.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 131 (7.68%) JIRA
2 94 (5.51%) Git
3 19 (1.11%) GitLab
4 17 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.82%) ERwin
6 6 (0.35%) MLflow
7 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.23%) MSTest
8 4 (0.23%) NUnit
8 4 (0.23%) Postman
8 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.18%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.12%) Subversion
10 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.059%) NeoLoad
General
1 529 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 528 (30.95%) Finance
3 401 (23.51%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 114 (6.68%) Banking
6 65 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (2.99%) Marketing
9 50 (2.93%) Retail
10 49 (2.87%) Law
11 39 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (1.58%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.35%) Legal
14 23 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 16 (0.94%) Front Office
16 16 (0.94%) Investment Banking
16 16 (0.94%) Local Government
17 14 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 451 (26.44%) Analyst
2 261 (15.30%) Data Engineer
3 257 (15.06%) Developer
4 199 (11.66%) Data Analyst
5 188 (11.02%) Senior
6 167 (9.79%) Lead
7 159 (9.32%) Architect
8 116 (6.80%) Business Analyst
9 98 (5.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 88 (5.16%) Consultant
11 74 (4.34%) Power BI Developer
12 53 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
13 51 (2.99%) Data Architect
14 49 (2.87%) Senior Data Engineer
15 46 (2.70%) Power Platform Developer
16 44 (2.58%) Project Manager
17 43 (2.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 40 (2.34%) PMO Analyst
19 39 (2.29%) Lead Architect
20 37 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (5.51%) PySpark
2 71 (4.16%) REST
3 48 (2.81%) .NET
4 47 (2.75%) Kafka
5 37 (2.17%) Pandas
6 32 (1.88%) React
7 31 (1.82%) HTML
8 27 (1.58%) JSON
9 23 (1.35%) CSS
9 23 (1.35%) scikit-learn
10 20 (1.17%) Great Expectations
10 20 (1.17%) NumPy
11 18 (1.06%) XML
12 17 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
13 16 (0.94%) ADO
14 15 (0.88%) PyTorch
14 15 (0.88%) TensorFlow
15 14 (0.82%) YAML
16 13 (0.76%) OAuth
16 13 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.40%) Data Structures
2 61 (3.58%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 38 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (2.23%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 37 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 30 (1.76%) Low-Code
7 25 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.29%) CMDB
9 20 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.00%) AI Agents
11 16 (0.94%) PMI
12 15 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.70%) Clustering
14 12 (0.70%) NHS
15 11 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (0.59%) IoT
17 9 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.17%) Windows
2 11 (0.64%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.53%) Unix
4 8 (0.47%) Linux
5 6 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,584 (92.85%) Business Intelligence
2 691 (40.50%) Analytics
3 531 (31.13%) Data Modelling
4 374 (21.92%) Agile
5 369 (21.63%) Visualisation
6 361 (21.16%) ETL
7 333 (19.52%) Decision-Making
8 320 (18.76%) Data Governance
9 313 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
10 260 (15.24%) Data Engineering
11 259 (15.18%) DevOps
12 249 (14.60%) CI/CD
13 247 (14.48%) Data Pipeline
14 243 (14.24%) AI
15 242 (14.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 235 (13.77%) Stakeholder Management
17 230 (13.48%) Actionable Insight
18 227 (13.31%) Data Visualisation
18 227 (13.31%) Migration
19 219 (12.84%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 784 (45.96%) SQL
2 439 (25.73%) Python
3 170 (9.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 89 (5.22%) C#
5 83 (4.87%) JavaScript
6 63 (3.69%) R
7 61 (3.58%) PowerShell
8 41 (2.40%) VBA
9 38 (2.23%) T-SQL
10 32 (1.88%) Java
11 30 (1.76%) TypeScript
12 24 (1.41%) Bicep
13 21 (1.23%) Scala
14 11 (0.64%) Formula Language
14 11 (0.64%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.41%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.29%) C
18 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
19 3 (0.18%) LookML
Qualifications
1 282 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 223 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 167 (9.79%) Degree
4 53 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.47%) PMI Certification
9 24 (1.41%) PMP
10 14 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.70%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.64%) MBA
13 8 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.35%) ACCA
14 6 (0.35%) CBAP
14 6 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.35%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.29%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (22.63%) Data Quality
2 132 (7.74%) GDPR
3 102 (5.98%) PMO
4 90 (5.28%) QA
5 43 (2.52%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.06%) SLA
7 15 (0.88%) GRC
7 15 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.70%) Basel III
10 8 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.35%) WCAG
12 5 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) GAAP
13 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.23%) IFRS
13 4 (0.23%) NCSC
13 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.88%) Docker
3 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.059%) RACF
Systems Management
1 86 (5.04%) Terraform
2 39 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.59%) Grafana
3 10 (0.59%) SCCM
4 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.29%) Ansible
5 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.18%) Control-M
7 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.12%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) Nessus
9 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.059%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.059%) SCOM
9 1 (0.059%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.059%) WSUS
Vendors
1 586 (34.35%) Microsoft
2 234 (13.72%) Databricks
3 91 (5.33%) SAP
4 90 (5.28%) Oracle
5 87 (5.10%) ServiceNow
6 76 (4.45%) Google
7 45 (2.64%) Salesforce
8 36 (2.11%) Informatica
9 21 (1.23%) Workday
10 19 (1.11%) Foundry
11 15 (0.88%) Alteryx
11 15 (0.88%) Lotus
11 15 (0.88%) Talend
12 14 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.82%) Sage
13 13 (0.76%) Remedy
14 12 (0.70%) Adobe
15 11 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
15 11 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.59%) IFS