Power BI Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power BI Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Power BI Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 382 441
Rank change year-on-year +48 +59 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Specialist 3 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.029% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.032% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £376 - £319
25th Percentile £397 £308 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £315 £475
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -33.68% -17.39%
75th Percentile £472 £493 £524
90th Percentile £489 £596 £558
UK median daily rate £475 £388 £469
% change year-on-year +22.58% -17.33% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,687 19,029 22,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.56% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,486 11,618 15,791
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.97% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 2,244 1,158
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.58 £15.75 £17.92
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +90.68%

Power BI Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Power BI Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Specialist in the UK excluding London

Power BI Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Power BI Specialist in the UK excluding London

Power BI Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Specialist in the UK excluding London

Power BI Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Midlands - 2 £500 -
South East +43 1 £375 -41.63% 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Power BI Specialist
UK

Power BI Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Power BI Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Power BI Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Power Query
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills

Power BI Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Power Query
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP