Power BI Engineer Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Power BI Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Power BI Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 540 580
Rank change year-on-year -37 +40 +190
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Engineer 10 12 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.035% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.038% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 17
10th Percentile £350 £448 £389
25th Percentile £425 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £550
90th Percentile £620 £630 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £481

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 33,474 31,919 40,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.77% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,646 27,547
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,966 1,020 1,459
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

Power BI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Power BI Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Power BI Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Power BI Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Power BI Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Power BI Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Power BI Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI Engineer over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Engineer in the UK

Power BI Engineer
Top 7 Contract Job 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 17 December 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
England -37 10 £500 -8.05% 3
London -10 5 £525 -8.70% 2
Work from Home -2 4 £425 -26.09% 1
UK excluding London -52 4 £425 - 2
North of England - 3 £425 -
North West - 3 £425 -
South East - 1 - - 1

Power BI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Power BI Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Power BI Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Power BI
1 10 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) ETL
5 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (30.00%) Python
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (20.00%) AWS
7 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 2 (20.00%) DataOps
7 2 (20.00%) dbt
7 2 (20.00%) DevOps
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (20.00%) Virgin Media
8 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
8 1 (10.00%) Agile
8 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
8 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow

Power BI Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) dbt
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Power Query
3 1 (10.00%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) MDX
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (20.00%) DataOps
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle