Power BI Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Power BI
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Power BI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power BI over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 49 31
Rank change year-on-year -14 -18 +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Power BI 13 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.04% 1.38% 4.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.13% 9.21% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 13
10th Percentile £366 £334 £340
25th Percentile £409 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.43% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £525 £488
90th Percentile £632 £533 -
North West median daily rate £475 £431 £450
% change year-on-year +10.14% -4.17% +2.86%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 92 76 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.44% 14.99% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 59 39
10th Percentile £305 £361 £325
25th Percentile £340 £411 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% -2.63% -12.04%
75th Percentile £452 £585 £558
90th Percentile £580 £626 £589
North West median daily rate £445 £453 £480
% change year-on-year -1.66% -5.63% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
North West median hourly rate £30.64 £41.25 £49.57
% change year-on-year -25.73% -16.78% +16.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Cheshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Power BI

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Macclesfield +6 5 £580 -
Crewe - 2 £355 - 1
Knutsford - 2 £428 -
Power BI
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Snowflake
3 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Data Lake
1 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Power Query
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
3 5 (38.46%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Analyst
1 6 (46.15%) Data Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) SAP Financial Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) Inventory Management
3 4 (30.77%) Logistics
4 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Community of Practice
5 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Profit Centre Accounting
5 2 (15.38%) Quality Management
5 2 (15.38%) Record to Report
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Validation
6 1 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
6 1 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (7.69%) Network Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
2 4 (30.77%) Ariba
3 2 (15.38%) Anaplan
3 2 (15.38%) Hyperion
4 1 (7.69%) Cognos
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow