Power BI Developer Contracts

Microsoft Power BI Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Power BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 548 576
Rank change year-on-year +83 +28 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Developer 121 174 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.31% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 133 207
10th Percentile £325 £356 £350
25th Percentile £388 £406 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £525
90th Percentile £620 £635 £587
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £450 £413
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% +3.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Power BI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Power BI Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI Developer.

Daily rate trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI Developer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +76 98 £460 -3.16% 40
UK excluding London +78 68 £420 -6.67% 22
Work from Home +102 55 £450 - 10
London +61 44 £520 +4.00% 21
North of England +33 18 £400 -11.11% 1
North West +17 13 £400 -5.88% 1
South East +17 13 £450 -5.26% 9
Midlands +24 9 £350 -22.22% 8
South West +22 9 £500 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +25 8 £363 -19.44% 8
Scotland +21 8 £444 -6.58%
Wales - 8 £550 -
Yorkshire +25 4 £400 -28.89%
East of England +12 4 £300 -55.56% 2
North East +19 1 - -

Power BI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Power BI Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Power BI Developer in the job title.

1 121 (100.00%) Power BI
1 121 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 120 (99.17%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (55.37%) SQL
4 42 (34.71%) Visualisation
4 42 (34.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 37 (30.58%) Finance
6 36 (29.75%) Azure
7 30 (24.79%) Data Visualisation
7 30 (24.79%) Microsoft
8 29 (23.97%) Data Modelling
9 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
10 25 (20.66%) ETL
11 22 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (17.36%) Analytics
12 21 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (17.36%) Power Automate
13 20 (16.53%) Power Query
14 19 (15.70%) Databricks
14 19 (15.70%) SQL Server
15 17 (14.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 17 (14.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (13.22%) Data Analysis
17 15 (12.40%) Data Warehouse
18 13 (10.74%) Agile
18 13 (10.74%) Azure Data Factory
19 12 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
19 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
19 12 (9.92%) SharePoint
19 12 (9.92%) T-SQL

Power BI Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (9.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 36 (29.75%) Azure
3 21 (17.36%) Power Automate
4 13 (10.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (8.26%) PowerApps
6 7 (5.79%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.96%) AWS
8 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.48%) Serverless
10 2 (1.65%) Apigee
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.65%) GCP
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.83%) dbt
11 1 (0.83%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (100.00%) Power BI
2 20 (16.53%) Power Query
3 19 (15.70%) SQL Server
4 17 (14.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (14.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (12.40%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.96%) Metadata
7 4 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.31%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.31%) Tableau
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.83%) Biml
10 1 (0.83%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 37 (30.58%) Finance
2 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.26%) Banking
5 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.31%) Local Government
5 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.31%) Retail
6 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.65%) Billing
7 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Back Office
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.48%) .NET
2 2 (1.65%) HTML
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.48%) Tandem
2 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
2 1 (0.83%) CMDB
2 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (0.83%) FMCG
2 1 (0.83%) Housing Association
2 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.83%) NHS
2 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (99.17%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (34.71%) Visualisation
3 30 (24.79%) Data Visualisation
4 29 (23.97%) Data Modelling
5 25 (20.66%) ETL
6 21 (17.36%) Analytics
6 21 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.22%) Data Analysis
8 13 (10.74%) Agile
9 12 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (8.26%) Dashboard Development
11 6 (4.96%) Decision-Making
11 6 (4.96%) DevOps
12 5 (4.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (4.13%) Data Governance
12 5 (4.13%) Data Integration
12 5 (4.13%) Mentoring
12 5 (4.13%) Scorecard
12 5 (4.13%) Translating Business Requirements
13 4 (3.31%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (55.37%) SQL
2 42 (34.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (9.92%) T-SQL
4 10 (8.26%) Python
5 4 (3.31%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.65%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.83%) Degree
2 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.65%) PMO
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
Vendors
1 30 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.70%) Databricks
3 4 (3.31%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.83%) Civica
4 1 (0.83%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle
4 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.83%) SAP
4 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow