Power BI Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft Power BI
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 22 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Power BI 9 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 4.35% 2.48% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.14% 28.57% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £387 - £470
25th Percentile £420 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -18.52%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £600
90th Percentile £645 - £630
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £469 £550
% change year-on-year +6.67% -14.77% +4.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 28 14 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 13.53% 8.70% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile £383 £389 £404
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £659 £538 £590
90th Percentile £763 £575 £675
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £492 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.56% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £32.38 - £15.51
25th Percentile £34.06 - £29.77
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.06% -76.00% -
75th Percentile £47.53 - £77.50
90th Percentile £52.52 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £39.25 £18.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +118.06% -67.27% +86.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Power BI

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Cambridge over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Cambridge

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (11.11%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) Tableau
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
2 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) IFRS
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) IFS
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Virgin Media