Power BI Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Power BI
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 60 69 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 42 77 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.78% 2.87% 3.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.10% 22.58% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 47 58
10th Percentile £293 £255 £252
25th Percentile £359 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £517 £572
90th Percentile £616 £588 £625
South East median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - - £22.45
25th Percentile - £22.61 £27.64
Median hourly rate £32.05 £23.82 £43.65
Median % change year-on-year +34.54% -45.42% +94.00%
75th Percentile - £33.70 £78.33
90th Percentile - £50.38 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £23.82 £39.75
% change year-on-year +34.54% -40.07% +76.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 341 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 12.70% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 195 300
10th Percentile £325 £316 £331
25th Percentile £412 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £22.97 £19.59 £22.90
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.08
Median hourly rate £32.05 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +7.27% +266.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £65.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +16 32 £428 -9.04% 68
Oxfordshire +4 5 £356 -20.83% 39
Buckinghamshire -3 5 £563 +25.00% 45
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (26.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 15 (35.71%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.90%) AWS
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Storage
5 3 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 3 (7.14%) PowerApps
5 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Table
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.38%) GCP
7 1 (2.38%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Tableau
2 5 (11.90%) Power Query
3 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.76%) Big Data
5 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.76%) Impala
6 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.38%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.38%) HBase
6 1 (2.38%) HDInsight
6 1 (2.38%) Metadata
6 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) ERwin
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.14%) Publishing
6 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.76%) Retail
7 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Electronics
7 1 (2.38%) Games
7 1 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Data Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Administrator
4 4 (9.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (9.52%) PMO Administrator
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Report Developer
5 3 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) ADO
2 3 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (2.38%) PySpark
4 1 (2.38%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) Learning Management System
3 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Life Science
3 2 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) IoT
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (92.86%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (33.33%) Analytics
3 11 (26.19%) Data Analysis
4 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 8 (19.05%) DevOps
6 7 (16.67%) Agile
6 7 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 6 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (11.90%) ERP
8 5 (11.90%) ETL
9 4 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (9.52%) Change Management
9 4 (9.52%) Data Management
9 4 (9.52%) Project Management
9 4 (9.52%) Time Management
9 4 (9.52%) Visualisation
9 4 (9.52%) Workflow
9 4 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) SQL
2 6 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) C#
3 3 (7.14%) VBA
4 2 (4.76%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) Bicep
4 2 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.76%) R
5 1 (2.38%) ABAP
5 1 (2.38%) Perl
5 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.38%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
1 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) MBA
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.38%) PMP
4 1 (2.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (2.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (2.38%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) PMO
2 4 (9.52%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Grafana
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
1 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) SAP
4 2 (4.76%) Sparx
4 2 (4.76%) Workday
5 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.38%) Capita
5 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.38%) StreamSets