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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 48 51
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 +29
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Power BI 65 85 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.91% 3.48% 3.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.29% 25.76% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 57 75
10th Percentile £363 £313 £268
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £535 £500 £500
90th Percentile £580 £575 £583
England median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £23.66
25th Percentile - - £27.10
Median hourly rate - - £49.57
75th Percentile - - £56.40
90th Percentile - - £60.36
England median hourly rate £31.64 £30.00 £33.56
% change year-on-year +5.47% -10.60% +49.14%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 337 330 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.09% 13.50% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 221 338
10th Percentile £313 £356 £325
25th Percentile £363 £401 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -4.74% -6.86%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £585
90th Percentile £599 £610 £675
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 13
10th Percentile - £25.00 £27.68
25th Percentile £21.02 £29.75 £39.60
Median hourly rate £25.00 £41.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +0.61% -4.05%
75th Percentile £40.00 £63.75 £56.40
90th Percentile £69.25 £69.25 £65.40
England median hourly rate £34.99 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.03% -36.36% +35.04%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power BI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power BI

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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 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power BI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power BI

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DemandTrendContract 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 23 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
Manchester -22 30 £460 +5.14% 110
Cheshire -20 13 £514 +17.43% 36
Lancashire -4 10 £475 - 65
Merseyside +1 8 £500 +30.72% 25
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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 8 (12.31%) IBM Domino
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.54%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 22 (33.85%) Azure
3 9 (13.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (12.31%) Snowflake
5 5 (7.69%) AWS
5 5 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.69%) PowerApps
6 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (3.08%) GCP
9 1 (1.54%) Boomi
9 1 (1.54%) dbt
9 1 (1.54%) Firebase
9 1 (1.54%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) Tableau
2 10 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (13.85%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.69%) Power Query
4 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.62%) Dremio
6 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.08%) Big Data
7 2 (3.08%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.54%) Looker
8 1 (1.54%) Metadata
8 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.54%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.08%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) Git
General
1 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.31%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (26.15%) Finance
4 6 (9.23%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (6.15%) Banking
7 3 (4.62%) Local Government
7 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.62%) Retail
8 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.08%) Law
9 1 (1.54%) Automotive
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Legal
9 1 (1.54%) Marketing
9 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Analyst
2 13 (20.00%) Developer
3 12 (18.46%) Data Analyst
4 9 (13.85%) Power BI Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Data Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Consultant
8 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Consultant
8 4 (6.15%) Data Analytics Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Power BI Consultant
9 3 (4.62%) Business Data Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Power Platform Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 2 (3.08%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Lead
10 2 (3.08%) Lead Consultant
10 2 (3.08%) Power BI Analyst
10 2 (3.08%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) .NET
1 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.54%) D3.js
1 1 (1.54%) Flask
1 1 (1.54%) Flutter
1 1 (1.54%) JSON
1 1 (1.54%) Kafka
1 1 (1.54%) Material-UI
1 1 (1.54%) Matplotlib
1 1 (1.54%) Next.js
1 1 (1.54%) Node.js
1 1 (1.54%) Pandas
1 1 (1.54%) PySpark
1 1 (1.54%) React
1 1 (1.54%) React Native
1 1 (1.54%) RESTful
1 1 (1.54%) scikit-learn
1 1 (1.54%) Spark Streaming
1 1 (1.54%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (1.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Life Science
1 4 (6.15%) Low-Code
2 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.62%) Shadow IT
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.08%) NHS
3 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (81.54%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (41.54%) Analytics
3 18 (27.69%) Data Modelling
4 17 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 12 (18.46%) Actionable Insight
6 12 (18.46%) Data Governance
7 10 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (13.85%) E-Commerce
9 8 (12.31%) A/B Testing
9 8 (12.31%) Customer Engagement
9 8 (12.31%) Decision-Making
10 7 (10.77%) Data Engineering
10 7 (10.77%) Data Transformation
10 7 (10.77%) ETL
10 7 (10.77%) Machine Learning
11 6 (9.23%) Data Analysis
11 6 (9.23%) Data Science
11 6 (9.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.38%) SQL
2 11 (16.92%) Python
3 5 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.15%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.08%) R
5 2 (3.08%) VBA
6 1 (1.54%) Korn
6 1 (1.54%) Scala
6 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) MCSA
5 1 (1.54%) MCSE
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.54%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.62%) PMO
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Ansible
1 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Databricks
3 6 (9.23%) SAP
4 4 (6.15%) Ariba
5 2 (3.08%) Anaplan
5 2 (3.08%) Capita
5 2 (3.08%) Hyperion
5 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.08%) Veeam
5 2 (3.08%) VMware
6 1 (1.54%) Cognos
6 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.54%) Intapp
6 1 (1.54%) Netlify
6 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.54%) Virgin Media