Power BI Specialist Contracts

Microsoft Power BI Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Power BI Specialist daily rate in the UK is £388 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 696 839
Rank change year-on-year +111 +143 -168
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Specialist 13 23 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.038% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.041% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 7
10th Percentile £308 £340 £409
25th Percentile £344 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £441 £556 £650
90th Percentile £558 £588 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £315 £475 £575
% change year-on-year -33.68% -17.39% +37.31%

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Power BI Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Specialist in the UK

Power BI Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Power BI Specialist in the UK

Power BI Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI Specialist over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Specialist in the UK

Power BI Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +118 11 £388 -16.22% 3
UK excluding London +62 6 £315 -33.68%
Work from Home +120 5 £388 -16.22% 2
North of England +35 3 - -
South West +22 2 £315 -37.00%
Yorkshire - 2 - -
London +94 1 - - 3
South East +24 1 £643 +55.76%
North West +16 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 featuring Power BI Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Power BI
1 13 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 12 (92.31%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Data Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 3 (23.08%) ERP
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Azure
6 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (15.38%) WhatsApp
7 1 (7.69%) Databricks
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (7.69%) Power Query
7 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Power BI Specialist 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 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) WhatsApp
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Power Query
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Local Government
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) Data Analysis
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) ERP
5 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
6 1 (7.69%) Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Business Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.69%) CRM
6 1 (7.69%) Data Extraction
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) ETL
6 1 (7.69%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Databricks
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft