Power BI Developer Contracts

Microsoft Power BI Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Power BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £460 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 523 602
Rank change year-on-year +65 +79 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Developer 121 177 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.31% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 137 207
10th Percentile £324 £356 £350
25th Percentile £384 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £525
90th Percentile £623 £630 £587
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £450 £409
% change year-on-year -7.78% +10.09% +2.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Power BI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Power BI Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI Developer.

Daily rate trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
England +68 99 £473 -0.53% 41
UK excluding London +75 66 £415 -7.78% 22
Work from Home +95 53 £438 -2.78% 10
London +64 46 £520 +4.00% 21
North of England +27 18 £400 -11.11% 1
North West +21 13 £400 -5.88% 1
South East +29 12 £460 -3.16% 9
Midlands +26 9 £350 -22.22% 8
South West +23 9 £500 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +28 8 £363 -19.44% 8
Wales - 8 £550 -
Scotland +28 7 £438 -7.89%
Yorkshire +19 4 £400 -27.27%
East of England +14 4 £300 -55.56% 2
North East +20 1 - -

Power BI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Power BI Developer 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 featuring Power BI Developer in the job title.

1 121 (100.00%) Power BI
1 121 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 120 (99.17%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (55.37%) SQL
4 43 (35.54%) Visualisation
5 41 (33.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 39 (32.23%) Finance
7 35 (28.93%) Azure
8 31 (25.62%) Data Visualisation
9 29 (23.97%) Microsoft
10 27 (22.31%) Data Modelling
10 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
11 25 (20.66%) ETL
12 22 (18.18%) Power Automate
12 22 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
13 21 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (17.36%) SQL Server
13 21 (17.36%) Analytics
14 20 (16.53%) Power Query
15 19 (15.70%) Databricks
16 18 (14.88%) Data Analysis
17 17 (14.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 17 (14.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 14 (11.57%) Data Warehouse
19 13 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
20 12 (9.92%) SharePoint
20 12 (9.92%) T-SQL
20 12 (9.92%) Agile
20 12 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
20 12 (9.92%) Azure Data Factory

Power BI Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (9.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 35 (28.93%) Azure
3 22 (18.18%) Power Automate
4 12 (9.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (9.09%) PowerApps
6 7 (5.79%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.96%) AWS
8 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.48%) Serverless
11 2 (1.65%) Apigee
11 2 (1.65%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.65%) GCP
12 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.83%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.83%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (100.00%) Power BI
2 21 (17.36%) SQL Server
3 20 (16.53%) Power Query
4 17 (14.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (14.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (11.57%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (6.61%) Metadata
7 4 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.31%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.31%) Tableau
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.83%) Big Data
10 1 (0.83%) Biml
10 1 (0.83%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 39 (32.23%) Finance
2 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.09%) Banking
5 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.31%) Local Government
5 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.31%) Retail
6 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.65%) Billing
7 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Back Office
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.48%) .NET
2 2 (1.65%) HTML
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.48%) Tandem
2 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
2 1 (0.83%) CMDB
2 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
2 1 (0.83%) FMCG
2 1 (0.83%) Housing Association
2 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.83%) NHS
2 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (99.17%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (35.54%) Visualisation
3 31 (25.62%) Data Visualisation
4 27 (22.31%) Data Modelling
5 25 (20.66%) ETL
6 21 (17.36%) Analytics
6 21 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (14.88%) Data Analysis
8 12 (9.92%) Agile
8 12 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (8.26%) Dashboard Development
10 6 (4.96%) Data Governance
10 6 (4.96%) Decision-Making
11 5 (4.13%) Actionable Insight
11 5 (4.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (4.13%) Data Integration
11 5 (4.13%) DevOps
11 5 (4.13%) Mentoring
11 5 (4.13%) Translating Business Requirements
12 4 (3.31%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (55.37%) SQL
2 41 (33.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (9.92%) T-SQL
4 11 (9.09%) Python
5 5 (4.13%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.65%) C#
8 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.83%) Degree
2 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.65%) PMO
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) QA
Vendors
1 29 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.70%) Databricks
3 4 (3.31%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.83%) Civica
4 1 (0.83%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle
4 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.83%) SAP
4 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow