Power BI Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Power BI
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 69 47 45
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Power BI 52 103 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.64% 3.74% 4.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.38% 24.64% 27.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 78 94
10th Percentile £306 £350 £306
25th Percentile £414 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% +5.11%
75th Percentile £579 £506 £566
90th Percentile £629 £583 £656
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - £31.75 £52.30
25th Percentile - £41.25 £60.70
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.62% +237.75%
75th Percentile - £43.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 338 418 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.17% 15.17% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 318 374
10th Percentile £354 £346 £338
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £635 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 18
10th Percentile £22.72 £26.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £22.92 £39.44 £39.70
Median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%
75th Percentile £29.85 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £69.50 £65.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -4 34 £488 +8.33% 150
Cheshire -16 13 £580 +22.11% 62
Lancashire +1 2 £475 +35.71% 64
Merseyside -1 1 £500 +33.33% 32
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.92%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (9.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (5.77%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.92%) Elite 3E
4 1 (1.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 29 (55.77%) Azure
3 14 (26.92%) PowerApps
4 12 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (17.31%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (13.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (11.54%) Power Automate
8 5 (9.62%) Snowflake
9 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.85%) AWS
10 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.85%) Serverless
11 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.92%) Boomi
11 1 (1.92%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (19.23%) Tableau
3 6 (11.54%) Data Lake
4 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.69%) MySQL
5 4 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (5.77%) Dremio
6 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.92%) Big Data
7 1 (1.92%) Power Query
7 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.92%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (3.85%) Hudson
3 2 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Flyway
4 1 (1.92%) Liquibase
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 9 (17.31%) Finance
4 7 (13.46%) Manufacturing
5 6 (11.54%) Marketing
6 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (7.69%) Retail
8 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.92%) Legal
8 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Analyst
2 8 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Data Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Power BI Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Data Analytics Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) CRM Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Dynamics CRM Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Lead
7 2 (3.85%) Administrator
7 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.85%) Migration Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Power BI Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) SAP Financial Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) ADO
1 1 (1.92%) Matplotlib
1 1 (1.92%) Pandas
1 1 (1.92%) SailPoint
1 1 (1.92%) scikit-learn
1 1 (1.92%) Shiny
1 1 (1.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Life Science
2 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.92%) IoT
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (80.77%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (32.69%) Data Modelling
3 15 (28.85%) Analytics
4 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (23.08%) ETL
5 12 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 11 (21.15%) Agile
7 10 (19.23%) Data Visualisation
8 8 (15.38%) Data Governance
9 7 (13.46%) CRM
9 7 (13.46%) Customer Insight
9 7 (13.46%) Data Analytics
9 7 (13.46%) Data Loss Prevention
9 7 (13.46%) Migration
10 6 (11.54%) Data Engineering
10 6 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (11.54%) Decision-Making
10 6 (11.54%) DevOps
11 5 (9.62%) Actionable Insight
11 5 (9.62%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) SQL
2 5 (9.62%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.77%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 5 (9.62%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) MCT
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.92%) RIBA
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.69%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Databricks
3 5 (9.62%) SAP
4 4 (7.69%) Ariba
5 2 (3.85%) Anaplan
5 2 (3.85%) Brio
5 2 (3.85%) Hyperion
5 2 (3.85%) Sage
6 1 (1.92%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.92%) Intapp
6 1 (1.92%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow