Power BI Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Power BI
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 58 78
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing Power BI 56 109 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.15% 3.31% 2.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.93% 31.14% 23.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 93 75
10th Percentile £237 £353 £321
25th Percentile £325 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £473 £549 £513
90th Percentile £564 £600 £620
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £22.00 £17.30 £38.05
25th Percentile £23.13 £19.42 £46.54
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.95 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.96% -57.31% -
75th Percentile £26.13 £26.47 £55.00
90th Percentile £26.80 £28.59 -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £38.75
% change year-on-year +25.22% -40.09% +72.61%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 216 350 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.16% 10.64% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 245 290
10th Percentile £319 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £621 £600 £624
90th Percentile £676 £675 £714
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 26
10th Percentile £25.15 - £19.38
25th Percentile £66.25 £17.50 £36.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -39.39% +3.77%
75th Percentile - £47.88 £78.00
90th Percentile £78.46 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -16.26% -31.73% +37.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the South West over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Bristol -2 19 £438 +1.25% 132
Wiltshire +24 10 £465 +3.33% 70
Gloucestershire +19 9 £409 -9.11% 105
Dorset +9 6 £425 - 50
Somerset -1 6 £170 -69.78% 80
Devon +1 4 £310 -43.64% 98
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 11 (19.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (16.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Misys Midas
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.79%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (16.07%) PowerApps
3 8 (14.29%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 7 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.93%) AWS
6 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.57%) Matillion
7 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.79%) dbt
8 1 (1.79%) Figma
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.93%) Tableau
3 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.36%) Power Query
4 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.57%) Metadata
5 2 (3.57%) MySQL
5 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.79%) Looker
6 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Finance
3 10 (17.86%) Local Government
4 3 (5.36%) Marketing
4 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.79%) Military
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Analyst
2 18 (32.14%) Data Analyst
3 13 (23.21%) Developer
4 9 (16.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 9 (16.07%) Power BI Developer
5 5 (8.93%) SAP Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) SAP Data Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead
8 2 (3.57%) Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (3.57%) Procurement Manager
8 2 (3.57%) Procurement Project Manager
9 1 (1.79%) Business Analyst
9 1 (1.79%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 1 (1.79%) Data Migration Engineer
9 1 (1.79%) Oracle Project Manager
9 1 (1.79%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.79%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 14 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 11 (19.64%) Data Visualisation
5 8 (14.29%) ETL
5 8 (14.29%) Migration
6 7 (12.50%) Analytics
6 7 (12.50%) Data Integration
7 6 (10.71%) Data Management
7 6 (10.71%) Data Migration
7 6 (10.71%) Data Modelling
8 5 (8.93%) Agile
8 5 (8.93%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (8.93%) EAM
8 5 (8.93%) ERP
8 5 (8.93%) Programme Delivery
9 4 (7.14%) Data Entry
9 4 (7.14%) DataOps
9 4 (7.14%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 21 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (8.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 5 (8.93%) Python
3 1 (1.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (5.36%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) Ariba
2 7 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Databricks
4 1 (1.79%) Foundry
4 1 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (1.79%) Palantir