Power BI Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Power BI
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 56 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +19
Contract jobs citing Power BI 105 154 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.19% 3.23% 3.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.07% 22.06% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 113 138
10th Percentile £309 £340 £313
25th Percentile £394 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £469
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +5.93%
75th Percentile £529 £504 £575
90th Percentile £580 £585 £650
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £31.50 - £52.30
25th Percentile £31.54 £20.77 £60.70
Median hourly rate £32.96 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -34.62% +217.07%
75th Percentile £34.38 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +25.22% -57.79% +145.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the North of England

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the North of England

Power BI
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West -22 52 £500 +11.11% 196
Yorkshire +13 48 £425 -5.56% 108
North East -3 5 £438 -33.96% 33
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England

Power BI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.81%) Confluence
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.86%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.95%) Revit
4 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.86%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.90%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.95%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 43 (40.95%) Azure
3 18 (17.14%) PowerApps
4 14 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (9.52%) Power Automate
7 9 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (8.57%) Snowflake
8 7 (6.67%) AWS
9 6 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (2.86%) GCP
12 2 (1.90%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.90%) Cloud Composer
12 2 (1.90%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.90%) Lucidchart
12 2 (1.90%) Serverless
13 1 (0.95%) dbt
13 1 (0.95%) Stitch
13 1 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.86%) Tableau
2 19 (18.10%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (8.57%) Data Lake
4 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.71%) Power Query
6 5 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.81%) MySQL
8 3 (2.86%) Dremio
8 3 (2.86%) QlikView
9 2 (1.90%) Looker
9 2 (1.90%) Metadata
9 2 (1.90%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.90%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (1.90%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.95%) Parquet
10 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (10.48%) JIRA
2 6 (5.71%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.90%) Hudson
5 1 (0.95%) Flyway
5 1 (0.95%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 26 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Finance
3 17 (16.19%) Public Sector
4 16 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.71%) Marketing
6 6 (5.71%) Retail
7 4 (3.81%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.86%) Banking
9 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.95%) Legal
10 1 (0.95%) Military
10 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (36.19%) Analyst
2 20 (19.05%) Data Analyst
3 16 (15.24%) Developer
4 10 (9.52%) Business Analyst
4 10 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 9 (8.57%) Power BI Developer
6 8 (7.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (7.62%) Senior
7 6 (5.71%) Performance Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Architect
8 4 (3.81%) Consultant
8 4 (3.81%) Data Analytics Specialist
8 4 (3.81%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
9 3 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM Specialist
9 3 (2.86%) Lead
9 3 (2.86%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.86%) .NET
2 2 (1.90%) Pandas
3 1 (0.95%) ADO
3 1 (0.95%) D3.js
3 1 (0.95%) JSON
3 1 (0.95%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.95%) React
3 1 (0.95%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.95%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.95%) Shiny
3 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.71%) NHS
2 4 (3.81%) Life Science
3 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.86%) FMCG
4 2 (1.90%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.95%) IoT
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.95%) PMI
5 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (88.57%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (31.43%) Visualisation
3 27 (25.71%) Data Modelling
4 26 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (23.81%) Analytics
5 25 (23.81%) Data Analysis
6 23 (21.90%) Agile
7 22 (20.95%) Data Visualisation
8 21 (20.00%) ETL
9 19 (18.10%) Decision-Making
10 13 (12.38%) Data Governance
11 11 (10.48%) Migration
12 10 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
13 9 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (8.57%) Data Science
13 9 (8.57%) DevOps
14 8 (7.62%) Customer Insight
14 8 (7.62%) Data Analytics
14 8 (7.62%) Data Engineering
14 8 (7.62%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (46.67%) SQL
2 13 (12.38%) Python
3 10 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (7.62%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.86%) R
6 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.90%) VB
7 1 (0.95%) C#
7 1 (0.95%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (11.43%) Degree
2 7 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.90%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (0.95%) CBAP
5 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.95%) MCT
5 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.95%) RIBA
5 1 (0.95%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.19%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.71%) PMO
3 5 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.90%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.95%) Ansible
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (32.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Databricks
3 9 (8.57%) SAP
4 5 (4.76%) Google
5 4 (3.81%) Ariba
6 2 (1.90%) Anaplan
6 2 (1.90%) Brio
6 2 (1.90%) Dell
6 2 (1.90%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.90%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.90%) Sage
6 2 (1.90%) Veritas
6 2 (1.90%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.95%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.95%) Intapp
7 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.95%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.95%) Workday