Power BI Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Power BI
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 71 86 90
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing Power BI 92 129 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.06% 2.32% 2.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.38% 21.22% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 87 98
10th Percentile £301 £296 £246
25th Percentile £361 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £544 £575
90th Percentile £598 £675 £638
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 14
10th Percentile - - £22.41
25th Percentile - £22.61 £27.64
Median hourly rate £32.05 £23.82 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year +34.54% -40.07% +76.67%
75th Percentile - £33.70 £71.50
90th Percentile - £50.38 £79.19
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +9 42 £459 +1.94% 86
Berkshire +16 32 £428 -9.04% 46
Surrey +9 22 £450 -1.37% 39
Hampshire +39 20 £494 +6.76% 70
West Sussex +9 6 £444 +4.41% 11
Oxfordshire +4 5 £356 -20.83% 28
Buckinghamshire -3 5 £563 +25.00% 23
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 17
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (19.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.17%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Maximo
1 2 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.09%) FastStats
2 1 (1.09%) FastStats PeopleStage
2 1 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 30 (32.61%) Azure
3 13 (14.13%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (11.96%) Snowflake
5 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.52%) Adobe Analytics
6 6 (6.52%) AWS
7 4 (4.35%) GCP
8 3 (3.26%) Azure Storage
8 3 (3.26%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.26%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.17%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.17%) Azure Table
9 2 (2.17%) Google Ads
9 2 (2.17%) Google Data Studio
9 2 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.61%) Firewall
1 7 (7.61%) Internet
1 7 (7.61%) VPN
2 6 (6.52%) Network Security
3 3 (3.26%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (20.65%) Tableau
3 8 (8.70%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (6.52%) Power Query
5 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.17%) Big Data
8 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.17%) Impala
8 2 (2.17%) Looker
8 2 (2.17%) Metadata
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.09%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.09%) HBase
9 1 (1.09%) OLAP
9 1 (1.09%) QlikView
9 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.35%) ERwin
2 2 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.09%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) Postman
General
1 21 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Finance
4 10 (10.87%) Marketing
5 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.26%) Military
7 3 (3.26%) Publishing
7 3 (3.26%) Retail
8 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Automotive
9 1 (1.09%) Electronics
9 1 (1.09%) Games
9 1 (1.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) Analyst
2 15 (16.30%) Data Analyst
3 12 (13.04%) Senior
4 11 (11.96%) Developer
5 7 (7.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 7 (7.61%) IT Manager
5 7 (7.61%) IT Services Manager
5 7 (7.61%) Service Manager
6 6 (6.52%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 6 (6.52%) Power BI Analyst
6 6 (6.52%) Security Analyst
7 5 (5.43%) Data Business Analyst
7 5 (5.43%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Senior IT Manager
7 5 (5.43%) Senior Manager
7 5 (5.43%) Senior Service Manager
8 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.52%) ADO
2 3 (3.26%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.26%) Web Services
3 2 (2.17%) .NET
3 2 (2.17%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.17%) Kafka
4 1 (1.09%) PySpark
4 1 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Self-Motivation
1 7 (7.61%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.26%) IoT
3 3 (3.26%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.17%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Life Science
4 2 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.09%) FMCG
5 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (92.39%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (47.83%) Analytics
3 23 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 20 (21.74%) Data Analysis
5 15 (16.30%) Actionable Insight
6 14 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.22%) Visualisation
7 13 (14.13%) Decision-Making
7 13 (14.13%) ETL
8 11 (11.96%) Agile
9 9 (9.78%) Data Analytics
9 9 (9.78%) DevOps
9 9 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.78%) Validation
10 8 (8.70%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (7.61%) Asset Management
11 7 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (7.61%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (46.74%) SQL
2 17 (18.48%) Python
3 4 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (4.35%) R
3 4 (4.35%) VBA
4 3 (3.26%) C#
4 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.17%) Bash
5 2 (2.17%) Bicep
6 1 (1.09%) ABAP
6 1 (1.09%) Perl
6 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.09%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) Degree
4 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.17%) PMP
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) MBA
6 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (1.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (1.09%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) QA
2 7 (7.61%) PMO
3 6 (6.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) GDPR
5 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.09%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.17%) Grafana
2 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (35.87%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.78%) Databricks
3 6 (6.52%) Adobe
4 5 (5.43%) Oracle
5 4 (4.35%) Alteryx
5 4 (4.35%) Google
5 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.35%) SAP
6 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.17%) Sparx
7 2 (2.17%) TikTok
7 2 (2.17%) Workday
8 1 (1.09%) Apteco
8 1 (1.09%) Capita
8 1 (1.09%) Cognos
8 1 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.09%) Splunk
8 1 (1.09%) StreamSets