Power BI Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Power BI Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Power BI Engineer daily rate in the UK is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 558 698
Rank change year-on-year +44 +140 +121
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Engineer 6 24 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.055% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.059% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 18
10th Percentile £414 £456 £374
25th Percentile £416 £460 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £531 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +11.84% -16.30%
75th Percentile £466 £594 £694
90th Percentile £471 £650 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.32% -17.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Power BI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Engineer in the UK

Power BI Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Power BI Engineer in the UK

Power BI Engineer
Top 9 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 Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London +60 5 £438 -9.09% 3
England +42 5 £438 -17.65% 3
Work from Home +32 4 £450 -3.49% 1
North of England +20 2 £425 -
North West +18 2 £425 -
South West +44 1 - - 1
London +29 1 - -
Scotland +13 1 - -
East of England - 1 £450 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Power BI Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Power BI
1 6 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) PySpark
5 1 (16.67%) Line Management
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management

Power BI Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mart
2 1 (16.67%) OLAP
2 1 (16.67%) Power Query
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft