Power BI Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Power BI
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 39 52
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +21
Contract jobs citing Power BI 31 51 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.06% 4.27% 3.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.90% 26.15% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 45
10th Percentile £243 £375 £230
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £525 £504 £575
90th Percentile £536 £575 £648
North West median daily rate £475 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +8.57% -7.89% +6.74%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 164 195 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.17% 16.35% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 131 232
10th Percentile £323 £375 £325
25th Percentile £400 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £545 £534 £611
90th Percentile £591 £600 £675
North West median daily rate £445 £463 £490
% change year-on-year -3.78% -5.61% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £28.50 £33.50
25th Percentile £76.25 £37.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £82.50 £57.00 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% +43.22% -43.14%
75th Percentile £88.75 £69.50 £57.75
90th Percentile - £71.13 £69.45
North West median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £40.30
% change year-on-year -47.37% +17.88% -5.19%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Power BI in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport 0 5 £400 -3.03%
Salford +1 2 £400 -15.79% 3
Bolton -10 2 - - 1
Oldham - 2 - -
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North West

Power BI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (25.81%) IBM Domino
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Elite 3E
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.45%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) Boomi
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Tableau
2 3 (9.68%) Data Lake
2 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.45%) Big Data
3 2 (6.45%) Dremio
3 2 (6.45%) Power Query
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.23%) Metadata
4 1 (3.23%) SAP BW
4 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 14 (45.16%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Data Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.23%) Analytics Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Lead
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Power BI Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Power BI Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Scientist
7 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
1 1 (3.23%) Matplotlib
1 1 (3.23%) Pandas
1 1 (3.23%) PySpark
1 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
1 1 (3.23%) Spark Streaming
1 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.23%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (87.10%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (45.16%) Analytics
3 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (29.03%) E-Commerce
5 8 (25.81%) A/B Testing
5 8 (25.81%) Customer Engagement
6 7 (22.58%) Visualisation
7 6 (19.35%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
7 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (19.35%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (16.13%) Data Transformation
8 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
9 4 (12.90%) Data Analytics
9 4 (12.90%) Data Governance
9 4 (12.90%) ETL
9 4 (12.90%) Machine Learning
10 3 (9.68%) Data Engineering
10 3 (9.68%) Data Science
10 3 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.23%) R
4 1 (3.23%) Scala
4 1 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
3 2 (6.45%) Veeam
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Intapp
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow