Power BI Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Power BI Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Power BI Engineer daily rate in the UK is £531 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 692 816
Rank change year-on-year +118 +124 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Engineer 24 20 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.034% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.036% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 28
10th Percentile £456 £374 £449
25th Percentile £460 £431 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £475 £568
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -16.30% +19.47%
75th Percentile £594 £694 £656
90th Percentile £650 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £578
% change year-on-year +1.32% -17.86% +28.51%

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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

Power BI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Engineer in the UK

Power BI Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Power BI Engineer in the UK

Power BI Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Engineer in the UK

Power BI Engineer
Top 9 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +133 20 £531 +11.84% 3
Work from Home +129 13 £466 -1.84% 3
London +96 10 £588 +12.98% 2
UK excluding London +50 8 £481 +1.32% 2
South East +20 3 £463 -24.49%
South West +17 3 £538 +13.16%
North of England +29 1 - -
North West +26 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Power BI Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Power BI
1 24 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 17 (70.83%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 11 (45.83%) SQL
5 9 (37.50%) Azure
6 8 (33.33%) Tableau
6 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 7 (29.17%) Analytics
8 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 6 (25.00%) Finance
9 5 (20.83%) ETL
9 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
10 4 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
10 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
10 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (12.50%) Banking
11 3 (12.50%) SAS
11 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
11 3 (12.50%) Oracle
11 3 (12.50%) SAP
11 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
11 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
11 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (12.50%) AWS
11 3 (12.50%) Marketing
11 3 (12.50%) QA

Power BI Engineer 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 3 (12.50%) SAS
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.50%) AWS
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) Collibra
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (100.00%) Power BI
2 12 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (33.33%) Tableau
4 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.33%) Sisense
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (4.17%) Metadata
7 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (4.17%) Power Query
7 1 (4.17%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) Electronics
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (29.17%) Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (20.83%) ETL
5 4 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (8.33%) Agile
7 2 (8.33%) Customer Experience
7 2 (8.33%) Data Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (8.33%) Programme Management
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.33%) Visualisation
8 1 (4.17%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (4.17%) Data Architecture
8 1 (4.17%) Data Protection
8 1 (4.17%) Statistics
8 1 (4.17%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) Nexthink
4 1 (4.17%) Snow
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk