Power BI Contract Job Trends in Essex

Microsoft Power BI
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Power BI skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +22
Contract jobs citing Power BI 3 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 2.54% 3.85% 7.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.43% 35.71% 46.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 14
10th Percentile - £127 £236
25th Percentile - £141 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £163 £494
Median % change year-on-year +145.70% -67.03% +9.72%
75th Percentile - £169 £558
90th Percentile - £173 £575
East of England median daily rate £575 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +35.29% -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.99 -
East of England median hourly rate - £17.99 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 14 14 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 11.86% 10.77% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 28
10th Percentile £361 £154 £250
25th Percentile £400 £175 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £225 £500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -55.00% -
75th Percentile £508 £238 £564
90th Percentile £571 £550 £580
East of England median daily rate £501 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.22% -10.00% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £16.38 -
25th Percentile - £16.99 £76.50
Median hourly rate - £17.99 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -76.94% +9.27%
75th Percentile - £19.00 £79.50
90th Percentile - £19.60 -
East of England median hourly rate £24.45 £15.98 £73.75
% change year-on-year +53.00% -78.33% +81.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in Essex

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Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basildon - 2 £400 -
Power BI
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Power Query
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Report Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Document Management
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft