Power BI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power BI
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Power BI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power BI over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 71 88
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 617 739 891
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.00% 3.21% 2.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.10% 21.50% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 517 678
10th Percentile £281 £257 £300
25th Percentile £370 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £549
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 34
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.38 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £26.17 £18.39
Median hourly rate £22.86 £52.50 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year -56.46% +125.81% +20.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £75.75 £57.60
UK median hourly rate £24.43 £49.79 £26.00
% change year-on-year -50.93% +91.48% +20.93%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Power BI is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,560 3,438 5,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.45% 14.94% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,817 2,453 3,850
10th Percentile £313 £338 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 106 130
10th Percentile £13.58 £21.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.54% +62.71% +43.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £61.61
90th Percentile £74.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +69.81%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the UK excluding London

Power BI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the UK excluding London

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 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the UK excluding London

Power BI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the UK excluding London

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 27 May 2024.

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 27 May 2024. 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 +7 158 £450 -2.70% 170
South East +6 127 £450 -6.74% 283
Midlands +19 125 £425 -11.46% 108
North West +3 105 £450 -2.70% 107
South West +11 102 £469 +4.17% 75
West Midlands +12 93 £425 -11.46% 65
Scotland +26 70 £450 -5.26% 33
Yorkshire +13 46 £463 +5.35% 41
East of England -26 34 £410 +2.50% 56
East Midlands +18 31 £388 +19.23% 41
Wales +16 11 £500 +74.67% 10
North East +9 7 £663 +10.42% 22
Northern Ireland -4 2 £338 -28.95% 6
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Power BI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.08%) Confluence
3 17 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.94%) SAS
5 5 (0.81%) Apache
6 4 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.16%) Jadu
Applications
1 101 (16.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 15 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 15 (2.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.65%) Maximo
3 4 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.32%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.16%) Epicor Tropos
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.16%) Relativity
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 617 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 198 (32.09%) Azure
3 82 (13.29%) Power Automate
3 82 (13.29%) PowerApps
4 63 (10.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 45 (7.29%) Dynamics 365
6 33 (5.35%) Snowflake
7 31 (5.02%) AWS
8 30 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (3.40%) Entra ID
12 16 (2.59%) Serverless
13 14 (2.27%) Azure Functions
13 14 (2.27%) GCP
14 13 (2.11%) Collibra
15 11 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.78%) OneDrive
16 10 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (1.46%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.13%) Firewall
2 6 (0.97%) Unified Communications
3 4 (0.65%) MegaStream
4 3 (0.49%) Skype
5 2 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.32%) XCAP
6 1 (0.16%) FTP
6 1 (0.16%) Internet
6 1 (0.16%) SNMP
6 1 (0.16%) VLAN
6 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (14.59%) Data Warehouse
2 80 (12.97%) SQL Server
2 80 (12.97%) Tableau
3 59 (9.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 50 (8.10%) Data Lake
5 46 (7.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (5.19%) Relational Database
7 30 (4.86%) Power Query
8 29 (4.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 24 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (3.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 18 (2.92%) BusinessObjects
12 15 (2.43%) MySQL
13 14 (2.27%) Big Data
13 14 (2.27%) Data Mining
14 12 (1.94%) Qlik Sense
15 9 (1.46%) GIS
15 9 (1.46%) Star Schema
16 8 (1.30%) NoSQL
16 8 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (5.67%) JIRA
2 11 (1.78%) Visual Studio
3 8 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.97%) Eclipse
4 6 (0.97%) PyCharm
5 5 (0.81%) Hudson
6 4 (0.65%) Git
7 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.49%) GitLab
7 3 (0.49%) Postman
8 1 (0.16%) Gatling
8 1 (0.16%) Gradle
8 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.16%) JUnit
General
1 175 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 168 (27.23%) Analytical Skills
3 118 (19.12%) Finance
4 52 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.19%) Retail
6 24 (3.89%) Manufacturing
7 23 (3.73%) Legal
8 21 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (3.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 17 (2.76%) Marketing
11 15 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.94%) Local Government
14 10 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.13%) Banking
15 7 (1.13%) Billing
15 7 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.97%) Law
17 5 (0.81%) Back Office
17 5 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 184 (29.82%) Analyst
2 139 (22.53%) Developer
3 99 (16.05%) Data Analyst
4 84 (13.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 72 (11.67%) Power BI Developer
6 61 (9.89%) Data Engineer
7 58 (9.40%) Senior
8 37 (6.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 37 (6.00%) Consultant
9 35 (5.67%) Senior Analyst
10 34 (5.51%) Lead
11 29 (4.70%) Business Analyst
12 26 (4.21%) Architect
13 23 (3.73%) Power BI Analyst
14 21 (3.40%) Power Platform Developer
15 17 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
15 17 (2.76%) Project Manager
15 17 (2.76%) Report Analyst
16 16 (2.59%) Data Architect
17 15 (2.43%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.08%) .NET
2 12 (1.94%) CSS
2 12 (1.94%) HTML
3 9 (1.46%) XML
4 8 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (1.30%) Web Services
5 7 (1.13%) PySpark
6 5 (0.81%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.81%) ADO
6 5 (0.81%) Pandas
7 4 (0.65%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.65%) Entity Framework
7 4 (0.65%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (0.65%) React
7 4 (0.65%) REST
7 4 (0.65%) RESTful
7 4 (0.65%) SOAP
7 4 (0.65%) XSLT
8 3 (0.49%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.35%) Management Information System
2 17 (2.76%) Data Structures
3 15 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 10 (1.62%) Life Science
4 10 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.46%) CMDB
5 9 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.46%) NHS
5 9 (1.46%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (0.97%) Digital Signage
7 6 (0.97%) PKI
7 6 (0.97%) Smart Meter
8 5 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (0.81%) DTCC
8 5 (0.81%) Market Risk
8 5 (0.81%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.65%) e-Health
10 3 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.05%) Windows
2 11 (1.78%) Linux
2 11 (1.78%) Unix
3 8 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.13%) VMS
5 6 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (86.22%) Business Intelligence
2 136 (22.04%) Analytics
3 133 (21.56%) Visualisation
4 108 (17.50%) ETL
5 101 (16.37%) Data Analysis
6 100 (16.21%) Data Modelling
7 91 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (12.97%) Agile
8 80 (12.97%) Data Visualisation
9 64 (10.37%) Migration
10 55 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 49 (7.94%) DevOps
11 49 (7.94%) Project Management
12 47 (7.62%) Decision-Making
13 45 (7.29%) Data Management
14 44 (7.13%) Data Analytics
15 43 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (5.83%) ITIL
17 35 (5.67%) Data Governance
18 32 (5.19%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 265 (42.95%) SQL
2 79 (12.80%) Python
3 49 (7.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 36 (5.83%) T-SQL
5 28 (4.54%) PowerShell
6 22 (3.57%) C#
7 20 (3.24%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.11%) Java
9 7 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.97%) Groovy
10 6 (0.97%) VBA
11 4 (0.65%) VB
12 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.32%) PHP
13 2 (0.32%) R
13 2 (0.32%) Scala
14 1 (0.16%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (8.59%) Security Cleared
2 44 (7.13%) Degree
3 43 (6.97%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.97%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.81%) PMP
8 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.49%) HNC
9 3 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.49%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.16%) ACCA
10 1 (0.16%) CIMA
10 1 (0.16%) CISM
10 1 (0.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.16%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.86%) QA
3 20 (3.24%) PMO
4 14 (2.27%) GDPR
4 14 (2.27%) GxP
5 9 (1.46%) SLA
6 7 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.97%) Good Clinical Practice
8 5 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.81%) GAMP
9 3 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 19 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.49%) Docker
4 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) HDFS
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 16 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.81%) SysTrack
4 4 (0.65%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.49%) Terraform
6 2 (0.32%) Kibana
7 1 (0.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 186 (30.15%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.48%) Oracle
3 39 (6.32%) Databricks
4 33 (5.35%) SAP
5 26 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.76%) Remedy
8 14 (2.27%) Google
9 13 (2.11%) Alteryx
10 11 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.62%) CA
12 8 (1.30%) Informatica
13 7 (1.13%) Ab Initio
13 7 (1.13%) Dataiku
13 7 (1.13%) Trillium
14 6 (0.97%) Anaplan
14 6 (0.97%) Citrix
15 5 (0.81%) Autodesk
15 5 (0.81%) New Relic
15 5 (0.81%) Sophos